‘Cityscapes in the Former GDR’
A one-day workshop taking place at the University of Bath, in
collaboration with the Centre for East German Studies, the University of
Reading
*Saturday 9th May 2009*
Programme:
10.30 – 11.30 am
Renate Rechtien, Bath: ‘Staging the Self: Images of the City in Christa
Wolf’s Writing before 1989 and since.’
Lyn Marven, Liverpool: ‘”Was bedeutet das alles? Das Verbindungsstück!“
Photos of East Berlin in post-Wende texts by Daniela Dahn, Irina
Liebmann, Sophie Calle.’
Coffee
12.00 – 1.00 pm
Annie Ring, Cambridge: ‘“...als wären die, die fort waren, noch da“.
Sovereignty , Stasis and the Surveyed City in post-GDR fiction.’
David Clarke, Bath: ‘Im Bürgertum der Insel Dresden: Uwe Tellkamp’s
Topography of Dictatorship in Der Turm (2008)’
Lunch
2.30 – 3.30 pm
Simon Ward, Aberdeen: ‘Memory Value and the Materiality of the Cityscape’
Adam Sharr, Cardiff: ‘Selective Memory: Reconstruction and
Reinterpretation at the Site of Potsdam’s Stadtschloß’
Coffee
4.00 – 5.00 pm
Patrick Major Reading: ‘Tunnel Vision: Film Memories of the Berlin Wall’
Josie Mc Lellan, Bristol: ‘Homosex and the City: Gay Men and Lesbians in
Berlin’
Organisers:
Josie Mc Lellan and Renate Rechtien
To book a place on the workshop, please contact Renate Rechtien
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The organisers wish to thank the research clusters ‘Cultural Responses
to Political Conflict and Social Change’ and ‘Memory History and
Identity’ of the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages,
The University of Bath, for the financial support they have kindly
provided for this workshop.
Renate Rechtien
Lecturer in European Studies and German
The University of Bath
Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
Bath BA3 7AY
Tel.: 01225 385664
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