Dear colleagues,



Registration is now open for the conference IMPACT: German-Language  
Culture and its Reception



Date: 23-25 July 2008



Venue: Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool,



Deadline for registration: 1 July 2008



Registration form available on the conference website:  
http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/IMPACT/index.htm



For further details please contact the organisers, Dr Lyn Marven  
([log in to unmask]) and Dr Rebecca Braun  
([log in to unmask])



WIGS open conference: all colleagues, all disciplines welcome



DRAFT PROGRAMME





Wed, 23 July 2008



12:00-13:00 Registration. Buffet lunch available

13:00-13:30 Official Welcome



THEORIZING CULTURAL IMPACT



13:30-14:30 KEYNOTE



Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin), ?Dresden Discourses and the  
Impact of Cultural Memory?



14:30-16:00 PANEL: Impact in language and literature



Katrin Kohl (Oxford), ?The cultural impact of metaphor?



Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), ?Kafka?s artist stories: artist, artwork,  
impresario and public?



Sara Colvin (Edinburgh), ?Zero impact: the case of the unknown writer?





16:00-16:30 TEA / COFFEE





16:30-18:30 PANEL: Translation and cultural impact



Peter Davies (Edinburgh), ?The obligatory horrors: Translating Tadeusz  
Borowski?s Holocaust narratives into German and English?



Anne Boden (Trinity College Dublin), ?Translated Memory? The Polish  
framing and GDR reception of Paul Peikert?s Chronik über die  
Belagerung Breslaus 1945?



Lina Glede (East Anglia), ?The effect of gender on the translation and  
reception of Sarah Kirsch and Ingeborg Bachmann?



David Barnett (Sussex), ??I?ve been told [...] that the play is far  
too German?: The interplay of institution and dramaturgy in the failed  
reception of German theatre in the UK?





18:30-19:30 KEYNOTE



Andrew Webber (Cambridge), ?Berlin: Cultural Capital of the Twentieth Century?





Thurs, 24 July 2008



Exhibitions, festivals and popular culture



9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE



  Jürgen Luh (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten), ?Friedrich300  
in 2012 - Coordinating the tercentennial of Frederic the Great's  
birthday?





10:30-11:00 COFFEE





11:00-12:30 PANEL A: Public exhibitions and festivals



Clare I. Rogan (Wesleyan),? ?Nicht gerade was für die  
Volksbildereien?: Fantasies of lesbian desire in Max Klinger?s  
Pavilion, 1916?



Jane Wilkinson (Leeds), ?Discrepant narratives: The (non)-impact of  
transborder theatre festivals on audiences as the German-Polish border?



Chloe Paver (Exeter), ?The role of museum displays in mediating an  
understanding of the National Socialist era?



PANEL B: Transmission and reception in popular culture



Anselm Weyer (Cologne), ?The impact of music?



David Robb (Belfast), ?The Songs of the 1848 Revolution: History of  
reception from the 19th to the 21st Century?



Christiane Schönefeld (Galway), ??Niemand ist an nichts unschuldig?:  
Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Süss, and the Nazi film industry?





12:30-13:30 LUNCH





CULTIVATING CULTURE



13:30-14:30 KEYNOTE



Gunther Nickel (Mainz / Deutscher Literaturfonds), ?"Die Kunst geht  
nach Brot": Anspruch, Wirklichkeit und Probleme der Literaturförderung  
in Deutschland?



14:30-16:00 PANEL A: Creating authors



Rebecca Braun (Liverpool), ?1967-2007: The Gruppe 47 as a literary ?Heimat??



Karen Leeder (Oxford), ?Reading posterity, reading Bachmann?



Jenny McKay (Leeds), ?Cultural feudalism and the East German author:  
the case of Ingo Schulze?





PANEL B: Shaping the public sphere



Katrin Henzel (Leipzig), ?The impact of anthologies of quotations on  
literary reception in the late 18th century?



Matthew Philpotts (Manchester), ?Closing the circle of belief: The  
Sinn und Form legend and the post-Wende cultural field?



Ana-Maria P?limariu (Jassy), ?Vielfältige Kulturen in einer  
deutschsprachigen Literatur: das Feuilleton des Czernowitzer  
Morgenblattes?





17:00-19:00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: The Impact of German-Language  
Culture in the UK

With select industry specialists





19:30 Conference dinner





Friday, 25 July 2008



THE POLITICS OF CULTURE



9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE



Helen Watanabe-O?Kelly (Oxford), ?The Warrior Woman on the Loose: The  
Wider Impact of German Tropes of the Warrior Woman after 1800?





10:30-11:00 COFFEE





11:00-12:30 PANEL A: Cultural icons



Joanne Sayner (Birmingham), ? ?Sie gehörte zu den Aktivisten der  
ersten Stunde?: Greta Kuckhoff?s political engagement in the immediate  
post-war period?



Karina Berger (Leeds), ? ?Ein großes Mißverständnis?: Walter Kempowski  
and the literary establishment?



Laura Bradley (Edinburgh), ?Nach dem Biermann-Debakel las jeder die  
Geschichte anders?: Michael Kohlhaas at the Deutsches Theater, 1976-7?



PANEL B: Culture and spectatorship



Lara Elder (Oxford), ?A German in Paris: Heinrich Heine?s art of  
spectatorship on the revolutionary street?



Ben Morgan (Oxford), ?What is coming to terms with the past?: German  
film revisited?



Deborah Holmes (Vienna), ?Brinkmanns Zorn ? Recreating the creative  
process in literary film biography?





13:00-14:00 Lunch





14:00-15:30 WIGS AGM





Dr Lyn Marven

Lecturer in German, Director of Postgraduate Teaching

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

University of Liverpool

Chatham Street

Liverpool L69 7ZR

Tel: +44 151 794 2754

www.liv.ac.uk/soclas


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