Dear all,
Please see below the programme for the next IGS-supported PGR colloquium, the GDR Today V. As the title would suggest, this is the fifth in a series of postgraduate colloquia, which began in Birmingham in 2014. You are all very warmly invited to attend all or some of the day. There is no charge, but for catering purposes, please register at: [log in to unmask] by the 3 September 2019.
Any questions, then please let me or George Gibson know ([log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] ).
Best wishes,
Sara
The GDR Today V
Friday, 13 September 2019
Room 121, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT
Programme
9.30 – 10.00: Registration and Welcome
10.00-11.00: Keynote Lecture
Prof. Jan Palmowski (University of Warwick): Arisen from Ruins – Socialism and ‘National’ Identity in the GDR
Chair: Prof. Anna Saunders (University of Liverpool)
11.00-11.30: Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30: Panel I: Art, Politics and Identity
Matthew Hines (University of Birmingham): A ‘Productive’ Alternative to the Socialist Realist Model: Reapproaching Marxist
Theatre in Heiner Müller’s Der Bau
Kathryn Kelley (City University of New York): ‘Opening Minds and Hearts’: The Extraordinary Role of Classical Ballet in Social
and Political Life in East Germany
Evelyn Preuss (Yale University): No Love Story, but the Legacy of a Legend, or Movies Make a Mind-Set
Discussant: Dr Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol)
12.45-13.45: Lunch
13.45-14.30: Panel 2: The GDR in Transnational Context
George Gibson (University of Birmingham): Briefe ohne Unterschrift: An Analysis of Letters to the West from Citizens of the
GDR
Alistair Somerville (Georgetown University): “Denn Adenauer will Hitlers Werk fortsetzen.” Re-assessing the East German
government’s Attempts to Shape Narratives of Political Scandal in West Germany
Discussant: Dr Joanne Sayner (Newcastle University)
14.30-14.45 Break
14.45-15.45: Panel 3: The GDR after the GDR
Philipp Ebert (University of Cambridge): Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961 – 2005
Susan Wachowski (University of Southhampton): Experiences of the Wende in the GDR Jewish Community
Liz Emery (University of Bristol): ‘Wenn die Zeit endlos wär, so wie Sand am Meer…. Wünsch ich mir ein Stück davon jetzt
zurück’ : Ostalgie in east German Popular Music
Discussant: Prof. Sara Jones (University of Birmingham)
15.45-16.15 Tea and Coffee
16.15-17.00 Roundtable: Life (after) studying the GDR: Pathways after the PhD
Dr Stephan Ehrig (University College Dublin), Dr Joanne Sayner (Newcastle University), Prof. Anna Saunders (University of
Liverpool), Dr Marcel Thomas (University of Oxford), Dr David Zell (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Dr Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol)
17.00-18.00 Douglas Irving (translator): Distant Signs by Anne Richter: Contemporary German/ GDR Fiction in English Translation
Chair: Prof. Sara Jones (University of Birmingham)
Many thanks to the Institute for German Studies for its financial support for the GDR Today series.
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