From: Cultural History [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Smale, Catherine
Sent: 24 April 2012 09:05
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Subject: The Politics of the Home: A One-Day Colloquium at King's College London
Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting),
You are warmly invited to attend a one-day colloquium hosted by the Department of German at King's College London.
Participation is free. Please e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Friday 4th May if you are interested in attending.
With best wishes,
Catherine Smale
THE POLITICS OF THE HOME: DOMESTIC CULTURE IN POST-WAR GERMANY AND AUSTRIA Friday 11th May 2012 The Council Room, First Floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London, WC2R 2LS
9.30-9.45 Introduction
9.45-10.45 Keynote Presentation
Paul Betts (University of Sussex), 'Domestic Space and the Challenge of German History'
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Constructing Identities
Camillo de Vivanco (University of Oxford), '"Eine Hochburg des Nationalsozialismus": Thomas Bernhard's Critique of the Politics of Domestic Life in Post-War Austria'
Martin Brady (King's College London), '"Das beiläufig Metaphysische, in der Alltäglichkeit": Food and Cooking in Peter Handke's Play Warum eine Küche?'
Helen Hughes (University of Surrey), 'The Everyday between Heaven and Earth in Michael Pilz's Himmel und Erde (Austria, 1979-82)'
12.30-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00-15.00 Keynote Presentation
Jan Palmowski (King's College London), 'Everyday Life in History and Historiography'
15.00-16.00 Private Spaces, Political Legacies
Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge), 'Hitting Home: Domesticity and Destruction in German Trümmerfilm'
Elizabeth Ward (University of Leeds), '"Ist eine tolle Rolle, nicht?" Reviewing the Role of the Female in East German Holocaust Cinema: Siegfried Kühn's Die Schauspielerin (1988)'
16.00-16.30 Tea Break
16.30-17.30 Narrating the Domestic Sphere
Katie Stone (University of Cambridge), '"Das Private ist das Politische": Re-politicizing Family and the Home in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel' (1976) Catherine Smale (King's College London), '"Wenn das Haus fertig ist, da kommt der Tod": Memory and Domestic Space in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung (2008)'
17.30-18.00 Concluding Discussion
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Dr Catherine Smale
Department of German,
King's College London,
Strand,
London WC2R 2LS.
Tel. 020 7848 2125
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