Dear All,

In case some of you didn't get this on the German Studies list.

All best wishes,

Debbie

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Date: 24 January 2011 13:44 +0000
From: Karen Leeder <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Symposium  'RE-READING EAST GERMANY': 24-25 March 2011

Apologies for x-posting

Dear Colleagues

The website is now live at http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/gdrculture

Registrations are being accepted for

A SYMPOSIUM, at NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD, 24-25 March 2011

‘RE-READING EAST GERMANY’:
THE LITERATURE AND FILM OF THE GDR

Speakers: Seán Allan, Gerrit-Jan Berendse; Stephen Brockmann, Carol Anne
Costabile-Heming; Wolfgang Emmerich; Karen Leeder; Alison Lewis; Georgina
Paul; Dennis Tate; Holger Teschke; Jill Twark .

The symposium will include a bilingual reading by Durs Grünbein and Michael
Eskin to launch Grünbein’s new volume The Vocation of Poetry (Upper West
Side Philosophers’ Press, 2011) and the first showing outside Germany of
Oktoberfilm (Balancefilm 2009) introduced by Durs Grünbein.

There will be two part bursaries for graduates working on related themes.

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Professor K.J. Leeder,
Professor of Modern German Literature,
Director of Graduate Studies in Modern Languages,
Fellow and Tutor in German,
New College, Oxford

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Dr Debbie Pinfold
Senior Lecturer in German
School of Modern Languages
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Bristol BS8 ITE
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