Interdisciplinary Conference
"Money Matters – Transactions between Money and Literature"
2nd and 3th May 2013 at Queen Mary, University of London, France House Lounge
For details, see:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/events/index.shtml
Enquiries:
Marcela Pozarkova
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FREE OF CHARGE - ALL WELCOME !!!
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Programme
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/docs/moneymatters.pdf
Thursday 2 May
10am – 12pm
Conference Opening and coffee
Robert Gillett (QMUL): The Miser and the Spendthrifts: Biblical Naturalism in Gerhart Hauptmann’s ‘Fasching’
Alexandra Kleihues (ETH Zürich): „Money-consciousness“ in Uwe Johnson’s life and work
12pm – 2pm
Lunch
2pm – 4pm
Margit Dirscherl (QMUL): Paris or India? Dreams of Luxury in Heinrich Heine’s ‘The White Elephant’
Nigel Dodd (LSE): Nietzsche’s Money
5pm
Keynote:
Jochen Hörisch (Universität Mannheim): Money makes the world(-literature) turnaround. Why are romantic authors fascinated by money?
Friday 3 May
10am - 12pm
Sebastian Kluge (FU Berlin): In Chamisso’s shadow: Translating money in Tawada Yoko’s The Naked Eye
Ben Watson: Slow Down: Literature as the Opposite of Money?
Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck): Money in the Eighties
12pm – 2pm
Lunch
2pm – 4pm
Richard Seaford (University of Exeter): Oedipus as Man of Money
Irini Athanassakis: The Flaw in the Bond. Some thoughts about two Venetian Bond Histories
Eric Heinze (QMUL): ‘… the things themselves’: The hermeneutics of the bargain in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens
5pm
Discussion with Richard Bassett
(banker & writer)
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