Dear colleagues,
I'm delighted to announce that registration is now open for WIGS
2011, to be held at the University of Leeds and the nearby Heart
Centre in Headingley. Registration is available for WIGS members
only, but any woman who is currently teaching, studying, or working
in any area of German Studies, or who has done so in the past, can
join and come to this conference. Details are available on http://
www.wigs.ac.uk/join.html
The full programme and registration form can be downloaded from the
WIGS website at http://www.wigs.ac.uk/wigsconference.html. The
programme is also is pasted below.
With best wishes,
Helen Finch
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Friday, 11 November
prior to 1400: Postgraduate Training and Registration
1600-1730 (LHRI): Panel 1, Memory and Politics
Nicole Sparwasser (Leeds), ‘British press representation of dissident
activities in the GDR’.
Jen Grogan (Nottingham), ‘The lost Heimat in East German expellee
monuments’.
Karina Berger (Leeds), ‘Questioning the notion of division: blurred
boundaries between public and private memories of German wartime
suffering during the 1970s and 1980s’.
1830 (Heart Centre, Headingley): Public Reading by Sabine Deitmer and
Gisa Kloenne.
Talking about feminism and the detective novel are Sabine Deitmer,
author of Bye Bye Bruno, Auch Brave Mädchen tun's and a series of
detective novels featuring Beate Stein; and Gisa Kloenne, author of
Der Wald ist Schweigen, Unter dem Eis and Farben Der Schuld, which
feature Judith Krieger.
2030: (Headingley): Dinner
Saturday, 12 November
0830 (Heart Centre, Headingley): Registration
0900-1030: Panel 2, Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies
Sarah Bowden (Oxford), ‘The vâlandinne and the mort grime wip –
Kriemhild as a model for Salme’.
Anne Simon, ‘Writing the World from Inside: the Letters of Katerina
Lemmel’.
Jocelyn Edmonds (Bristol), ‘Seeing the sacred: visual and ekphrastic
windows to the Holy Selpulchre in late Medieval German Pilgrimage
literature’.
1030-1100: Coffee
1100-1230: Parallel Panels: Hybridities in German Culture
Panel 3
Silke Schwaiger (Southampton), ‘Challenging the Literary Canon?
Authors of the Second Migrant Generation in Austria’.
Áine McMurtry (Durham), ‘Voicing Displacement in German-Language
Writings by Yoko Tawada’.
Kate Roy, ‘Making Space: Innenräume and a Politics of the Private in
German popular literature by “Muslim” women writers’.
Panel 4
Bettina Codrai (Southampton), ‘A hybrid love story in Germany:
Rethinking German identity through Maxim Biller’s Turkish-Jewish
novel Ezra’.
Leila Mukhida (IGS, University of Birmingham), ‘An Examination of
Subversive Laughter in Angelina Maccarone’s Alles Wird Gut’.
Annette Seidel Arpaci (Columbia), ‘Sincerity and Sisterhood? Hip-Hop,
Gender and 'Islam' in Germany’.
1230-1400: Lunch and WIGS AGM
1400-1530: Parallel Panels: Contemporary Theatre and Literature
Panel 5
Nóra de Buiteléir (Galway), ‘Theatre as a Site of Interethnic
Reconciliation: The Case of Südtirol/Alto Adige’.
Sinéad Crowe (Limerick), ‘Old Age in Contemporary German Theatre’.
Simone Schroth (UCD), ‘"Wie ich es schaffte, keinen Mann zu kriegen":
The E-Mail Novel as 'Frauenliteratur'?’.
Panel 6
Claudia Gremler (Aston), ‘”Ich habe zu viele Geschichten in mir, die
machen mir das Leben schwer”: Analysing the “intertextual depth” in
Judith Hermann’s Sommerhaus, später’.
Cathy Gelbin (Manchester), ‘Poetics versus Genetics: German and
Austrian Jewish Narratives of Contemporary Israel’.
Gillian Pye (UCD), ‘Belongings: materiality and identity in recent
German women’s writing’.
Emily Jeremiah (Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘The Case of
Helene Hegemann: The Girl in German Literary Culture’
1600-1630: Coffee
1630-1800: Panel 7: Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth
Century
Jutta Kling (St. Andrews, Tübingen), ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy:
Re-reading Theodor Fontane’.
Dagmar Paulus (Nottingham), ‘Remembering Two Mad Women: Adalbert
Stifter’s Turmalin (1852) and Wilhelm Raabe’s Im Siegeskranze (1866)’.
Caroline Summers (Manchester), ‘”An East German Virginia Woolf?” The
Appropriation of Christa Wolf by Feminist Narratives in Translation’.
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Dr. Helen Finch,
Academic Fellow in German,
School of Modern Languages,
University of Leeds,
LS2 9JT
U.K.
tel: 0113 343 33510
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20054/german/person/750/helen_finch
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