"SHIFTING GERMAN AND CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN LANDSCAPES: CULTURAL
HYBRIDITY AND PLACE"
Date: 14 December 2012
Time 10.15 - 18.00
Place: University of Bath, 8W 2.30
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An Interdisciplinary conference at the University of Bath,
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies. The
conference is part of the 'Norms, Identities, and Representations
Research Cluster' activities.
PROGRAMME:
9.30 – 10.15 Arrival, registration, coffee/tea and welcome: Wessex House
Restaurant
10.15 – 11.15
Jon E. Fox (The University of Bristol): ‘Kin states, external
minorities, and the illusion of national unity’;
David Galbreath (The University of Bath) ‘Place and “other” in an age of
democratic justice’
Tea/coffee
11.45- 12.45
Ada-Charlotte Regelmann (Queen's University Belfast):
‘RussenDiskoPartizani. Ethnic minority participation in the political
process’;
Gaelle Fisher (University College, London): ‘Creating homes and building
myths: the case of Darmstadt's Heimstättesiedlung’
12.45 – 13.15 Panel discussion and conclusions of morning session
(Chair: Anne White, University of Bath)
13.15 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 3.30
William Niven (Nottingham Trent University): ‘Europeanising the memory
of expulsion: the work of Sabrina Janesch’;
Karoline von Oppen (University of Bath): ‘Saving multiculturalism?
Saving the nation?’
3.30 – 4.00 Coffee/tea
4.00 – 5.00
Renate Rechtien (University of Bath): ‘Overcoming nationhood? The
Turkish-German axis in recent German cinema and literature’;
Sabine Egger (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick):’ “The
East“ as a transit space in the new Europe? Transcultural train journeys
in contemporary German literature’
5.30 – 6.00
Panel discussion and conclusions of afternoon session (Chair: Axel
Goodbody, University of Bath)
You will find details about the conference also on this website:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/events/news_0022.html
*N.B. Deadline for registration is 7 December.*
If you want to attend, please contact Renate Rechtien
([log in to unmask]) and David Galbreath ([log in to unmask])as
organisers.
Tea and coffee will be provided. The conference will close with a glass
of wine, to which all are invited. Lunch is available on campus at your
own expense.
Best wishes,
Renate Rechtien (and David Galbreath)
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