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Leeds-Swansea symposium on EMPIRE AND THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD, 8-9 July 2010
Invited speakers:
Professor Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham)
Professor Michael Hoffmann (Paderborn)
8 July:
15:00 onwards: Arrival and registration at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/ )
16:00 - 16:30 : Introduction (Frank Finlay/ Julian Preece)
16:30 - 17.15: Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham): "Hans Christoph Buch's "Sansibar Blues" and the Fascination of Cross-Cultural Experience in Contemporary German Historical Novels about Colonialism.
17:15 - 18:00: Monika Albrecht (Limerick): Postcolonial Germany?
19.00: Conference Dinner
9 July:
9:30: Professor Michael Hoffmann (Paderborn) - Empathie und Herrschaft. Die Grenzen des Verstehens in den Indien- und Mekka-Passagen von Trojanows 'Weltensammler'
10.15 Julian Preece (Swansea) - Writing home? Ilija Trojanow in India and Africa"
11:00 Coffee
11:30: Helen Finch (Leeds): Daniel Kehlmann's "Die Vermessung der Welt": Writing Enlightenment, Nation and Empire.
12:15: Nina Berman (Ohio): The German Colonizer in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Novel Paradise
13:00: Buffet Lunch
14.00: Ingo Corils (Leeds): "Into the heart of Darkness. Christian Kracht and Swiss Colonialism."
14:45: Karoline von Oppen (University of Bath): Sarajevo: City of Europe, City of the Orient
15.30: Plenary/ Publication Discussion
16.00: Close
Dr. Helen Finch,
Academic Fellow in German,
Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies,
School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds,
LS2 9JT
tel: 0113 343 33510
Fax: 0113 343 3517
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