Dear All,
herewith final details - with venue - of the Gustloff workshop at NTU.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Best wishes
Bill
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"The Sinking of the 'Wilhelm Gustloff' in History and Memory"
Supported by the British Academy
Date: 27 June 2009
Location: Nottingham Trent University, Chaucer Building (City Campus), CHR 236
11.00 Introduction
11.15 Sascha Howind (Hannover), "A Ship without Classes? The Wilhelm Gustloff and the Social Propaganda of the Third Reich"
11.45 Bill Niven (Nottingham), "Hubris, Peripeteia or just a Soviet Torpedo? Who, or what, sank the Wilhelm Gustloff?"
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Rüdiger Stutz (Jena), "The National Socialist Industrial Foundation Wilhelm Gustloff in the Post-War Memory of Weimar and Jena" [in German]
14.00 Michael Ennis (Cincinnati), "Victims and Perpetrators: Frank Wisbar's Film Night Fell Over Gdynia"
14.30 Christian Lotz (Leipzig), "Memory of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Cap Arcona in West and East Germany"
15.15 Tea Break
15.45 Karina Berger (Aberystwyth), The Portrayal of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the Work of Walter Kempowski"
16.15 Axel Bangert (Cambridge), "A German Titanic? The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in Contemporary German Film"
16.45 Stephen Brockmann (Pittsburgh), "The Politics of German Suffering: Günter Grass's Crabwalk"
17.15 Eric Langenbacher (Washington), "Remnants of Loss: The Resurgence of the Memory of German Suffering and the Wilhelm Gustloff"
18.30 Dinner
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