CONFERENCE 
The Nameable and the Unnameable:
Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige in Context


Thursday, 22 May - Friday, 23 May 2008 
Venue <file://../../contact/findus.html> :
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Stewart House/Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 
Co-Ordinators: Martin Liebscher (IGRS, London) and Christophe Fricker (Duke University, Durham, NC) 
The conference is sponsored by the
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the IGRS
and the
Austrian Cultural Forum, London 

PROGRAMME 
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Room ST 274/275 
10.00 Welcome and Introduction 
Genre
10.10 Rüdiger Görner (London): Von Schwierigkeiten und Hofmannsthals lustspielhaftem Umgang damit 
10.50 Coffee 
11.20 Stephan Kraft (Bonn): Der Schwierige und die Verweigerung der Anti-Komödie
12.00 Ruth Neubauer-Petzoldt (Regensburg): Die Kunst der Konversation. Hofmannsthals, Fontanes und Dostojevskis panoramatische europäische Literatur 

12.40 Lunch (own arrangements) 
Identity and Community
14.00 Hans Hahn (Oxford): Hans Karls Schwierigkeiten - neu überdacht
14.40 Michael Collel (Trier): 'Sich-Festkrampeln': Der Schwierige im Kontext des Hysteresis-Effekts - Ein neuer Interpretationsansatz?
15.20 Jakob Norberg (Princeton): The Discreet Community in Der Schwierige 
16.00 Tea 
Gender
16.30 Judith Beniston (London): Masculinities - Old and New - in Der Schwierige
17.10 Caitriona Ní Dhúill (Vienna): A Woman Proposes: Embattled Masculinity and Female Desire in Der Schwierige 
At the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7 
20.00 An Evening with Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Alexander Stillmark and his New Translation of Der Schwierige
followed by a Wine Reception 
Friday, 23 May 2008
Room ST 274/275 
Translation and Interpretation
9.50 Ben Hutchinson (Oxford): 'Ah, diese chronischen Mißverständnisse!' The Hermeneutics of 'Understanding' in Der Schwierige
10.30 Jörg Kreienbrock (Evanston): Nuancierte Wörter aus der Fremde. Der Begriff der Nuance in Hofmannsthals Der Schwierige 

11.10 Coffee 
11.40 Robert Vilain (London): Losses in Translation? French and English Versions of Der Schwierige
12.20 Alexander Stillmark (London/Neuötting): Art and Artificiality. Translating Der Schwierige 
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements) 
Philosophy
14.30 Barbara Agnese (Vienna): 'Das Reden basiert auf einer indezenten Selbstüberschätzung': Der Schwierige im Lichte von Wittgensteins Tractatus und von Ingeborg Bachmanns Lektüre
15.10 Lorenzo Bellettini (Cambridge): Der Schwierige und die Jung-Wiener 
15.50 Tea 
Cinema/Performance
16.20 John Warren (Oxford): Der Schwierige on Stage: Critical Responses
17.00 Robert von Dassanowsky (Los Angeles): Post-Chandos, Post-Imperial and Pre-Sound: The Cinematic Influence on Der Schwierige 

17.40 Closing Discussion/Wine
18.00 Conference ends 
Further Information/Registration 
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 9 May 2008.

Conference Fees 
Both days
£45.00 Standard Rate
£40.00 Reduced Rate
£25.00 Student Rate 
One day only
£30.00 Standard Rate
£25.00 Reduced Rate
£20.00 Student Rate 
Note:
The Reduced Rate applies on to fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS and paying members of the IGRS
The Student Rate applies on production of a photocopy of a current university of student identity card 
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