Conference 'THE POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CULTURE'
St Andrews, 26-27 April 2019
Organisers: Frauke Matthes (Edinburgh), Dora Osborne (St Andrews), Katya Krylova (Aberdeen)
Registration is now open for the conference 'The Politics of Contemporary German Culture. Please register via this link by 15 April 2019. (The conference fee is £30.)
https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/product-catalogue/event-bookings/modern-languages/the-politics-of-contemporary-german-culture
PROGRAMME
Friday 26 April, Byre Studio (Byre Theatre, Abbey Street)
14.00 Welcome
14.15 The Politics of Europe (Convenor: Katya Krylova, University of Aberdeen)
Áine McMurtry (KCL), "Of Boiled Eggs and Rocket Science - a Fabulation for Germany: Sharon Otoo's Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin (2016)"
Teresa Ludden (Newcastle University), "Thinking pluralised identities and societies with Isolde Charim’s Ich und die Anderen"
Benedict Schofield (KCL), "Bearing 'European Witness'? Authorship, Politics, and the Co-Creation of European Futures in Robert Menasse, Katrin Röggla, Stephen Spender and A.L. Kennedy"
15.45 Coffee
16.00 The Politics of Language (Convenor: Tom Smith, University of St Andrews)
Linda Shortt (University of Warwick), "Die Hungrigen und die Satten: Cultural Responses to the Migrant Crisis"
Myrto Aspioti (University of Oxford), "Saša Stanišić's Vor dem Fest (2014): Undoing 'Identity Politics'"
Allyson Fiddler (University of Lancaster), "Playing Home and Away: Contemporary Political Responses by Elfriede Jelinek and Marlene Streeruwitz"
17.30 Break
18.00 Presentation and Reading: Stephanie Gleißner, Author of Einen solchen Himmel im Kopf (Aufbau, 2012) and Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Philipps Universität Marburg
19.30 Dinner: Forgans* (110 Market Street)
Saturday 27 April, Parliament Hall (South Street)
09.00 The Politics of Memory (Convenor: Dora Osborne, University of St Andrews)
Mary Cosgrove (TCD), "Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the AfD"
Maria Roca Lizarazu (University of Birmingham), "'Nie Wieder Realismus!' – The Ethics and Politics of Subjunctive (Holocaust) Memory in Robert Menasse’s Die Hauptstadt (2017)"
Anna Saunders (Bangor University), "Memorial Activism in Germany: A new Gedenkkultur between Nationalism and Internationalism?"
Evelyn Preuss (Yale University), "Goodbye, Sonnenallee: Andreas Dresen’s 2018 Gundermann Sells the East on the Orientalist Market"
10.30 Coffee
11.00: The Politics of Nationalism (Convenor: Frauke Matthes, University of Edinburgh)
Sarah Pogoda (Bangor University), "Kulturpolitische und strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen performativer Institutionskritik in der deutschen Theaterlandschaft"
Joseph Moser (West Chester University), "Kurt Waldheim as a Cultural Turning Point in Austrian Literature and Film"
Regine Klimpfinger and Elisabeth Koenigshofer (University of Reading), "Matriarchy instead of patriarchy: Burschenschaft Hysteria in social media"
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Roundtable: The Politics of the Cultural Market (Convenor: Lizzie Stewart, KCL)
Discussants: Charlotte Ryland (editor of New Books in German); Katie Hawthorne (University of Edinburgh); Ann-Christine Simke (Goethe-Institut, Glasgow/University of Glasgow)
15.00 Close
The conference is generously supported by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) "Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community", the School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, and the Moray Endowment Fund, University of Edinburgh.
*Dinner to be paid for individually on the night. Delegates wishing to attend the conference dinner should register with [log in to unmask]
We look forward to seeing some of you in St Andrews!
Frauke, Dora and Katya
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