66th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
Venue: University of Durham, Institute of Advanced Study
Date: 1 November 2019
All welcome. A £10 registration fee (payable online in advance) is payable by all.
>> Please register at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20239
Programme (provisional)
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.00 Panel 1: Re-Examining/Unearthing Forgotten Papers
Tomasz Osoiñski (Warsaw/ Ù¸dê): Book Migrations. Interesting Cases from the Ù¸dê University Library
Mathis Gronau (University College London): Becoming the Enemy. German Newspapers in Britain during the July Crisis
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 2: Nature, the Environment and Apocalypse
Philipp Ritzen (Düsseldorf): Stories from the Ashes of Mankind. Narrative Strategies for the Apocalypse in Contemporary German Literature
Nursan Celik (Münster): ‘Erdbeben donnert durch der Städte Schoß’: Das Dynamisch-Erhabene im neopathetischen (Früh-)Expressionismus
Clarisa Novello (Aberdeen): A Critique of Modern Capitalism through the Works of the Contemporary German Author Ilija Troyanow
13.00-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15-15.15 Panel 3: Contemporary Linguistic Identities
Louis Cotgrove (Nottingham): Youth Language Online: A Corpus Linguistic Study of YouTube Comments
Jamie Green (Oxford): A Multilingual Identity? The Languages of South Tyrol and their Influence on Contemporary South Tyrolean Identity
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.30 Panel 4: Constructions of Gender
Rhoslyn Beckwith (Swansea): The Afterlives of Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810)
Denise Henschel (Cambridge): Performative Aesthetics and New Forms of Kinship in Contemporary German Culture
16.30-17.00 Tea
17.00-18:00 Keynote Lecture
Details to be confirmed
19.00 Post-Colloquium Dinner (optional/own expense)
Jane Lewin
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study | University of London
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