IMAGES OF HISTORY
GESCHICHTSBILDER
Literary Constructions of Historical Worlds
In Britain and Germany after 1900
Literarische Konstruktionen historischer Welten
In Britannien und Deutschland nach 1900
Seminar Series 2007-2008
Venues:
German Historical Institute (GHI), Bloomsbury
Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR),
Queen Mary, University of London
Fridays, 5:00 – 6:30pm
A collaboration between the CAGCR and the GHI, this seminar shall see
specialists in the field of German literature and history and English
literature presenting short papers on literary works which engage in the
representation of British and German History after 1900. Sessions will
alternate between the GHI in Bloomsbury and the CAGCR at Queen Mary, Mile
End Campus. In most weeks, one German and one English text will be presented.
ALL WELCOME!
SESSIONS
Session 1: 26.10.07, 5:00-6:30pm
German Historical Institute, Bloomsbury
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (Andreas Gestrich, GHI)
Franz Werfel, Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (Asthgik Simonyan, QMUL)
Session 2: 16.11.07, 5:00-6:30pm
Arts 2.17, Queen Mary, Mile End
Virginia Woolf, Orlando or on Histrionics in History (Rüdiger Görner, QMUL)
Ricarda Huch, Wallenstein (Steffan Davies, University of Bristol)
Session 3: 18.01.08, 5:00-6:30pm
German Historical Institute, Bloomsbury
Robert Graves-Ranke, I Claudius (Katie Fleming, QMUL)
Jochen Klepper, Der Vater (Oliver Kohler, Mainz)
Session 4: 14.03.08, 5:00-6:30pm
Lock-Keeper’s Cottage, Queen Mary, Mile End
Differing Constructions of 1980s Britain, The Line of Beauty by Alan
Hollinghurst and GB84 by David Peace (John Morton, UCL)
Christoph Ransmayr, Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (Beate
Muller, University of Newcastle)
Session 5: 25.04.08, 5:00-6:30pm
German Historical Institute, Bloomsbury
“Ironie als Mittel der literarischen Geschichtskonstruktion bei Daniel
Kehlmann," (Johanna Schwarz-Sprondel, Universität Freiburg)
Enquiries to:
Dr. Angus Nicholls: [log in to unmask]
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