Dear Colleagues:
Herewith the programme for the July 2002 conference on 'difference' here at
NTU. There follows a file containing a registration form. We hope very much
that the conference will be of interest.
The programme and registration form will also be available on our
departmental website in a week or so; I will send out the precise address
then.
Best wishes
Bill Niven
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'Ich will anders sein': Difference in Contemporary Germany
Conference
At the
The Nottingham Trent University
4th-6th July 2002
PROGRAMME
4th July
11.00-12.15 Arrival and Registration
12.30 Lunch
2.00-2.15 Opening of Conference
2.15 Plenary Session and discussion:
William Donahue (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
'The Graying of the Red.' The repudiation of
'68er activism in (and beyond) Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser
15.00 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Intercultural Literature
15.00-15.30: Petra Gropp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz)
'Kanak-Attack.' Film und Literatur als Medien der
Identitätskonstruktionen einer jungen deutsch-türkischen
Generation
15.30-16.00: Charles Hammond (University of California,
Irvine)
Narrative strategies of representing
alterity: Ganz Unten and Kanak Sprak, a comparative approach
Session Two: Contemporary Literature
15.00-15.30: Alan Corkhill (University of Queensland,
Brisbane)
Self-imposed difference. The writer as
outsider in Wolfgang Hilbig's novel Das Provisorium
15.30-16.00: Henk Harbers (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Perspektivierung und Relativierung in Josef
Haslingers Roman Das Vaterspiel
16.30 Tea
17.00 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Intercultural Literature
17.00-17.30: Anna Campanile (Universität Köln)
'Stimme und Sprachkörper.' Figurationen der
Differenz im Werk Yoko Tawadas
17.30-18.00: Sabine Fischer (University of
Wales Lampeter)
'Opium für Ovid.' Die Verwandlungsgeschichten der Yoko
Tawada
18.00-18.30: Antje Mansbrügge (Ain Shams University, Cairo)
Attacken vom Rand? Strategische
Differenzkonzepte und erzählte Identitäten (Tawada und Zaimoglu)
Session Two: Contemporary Literature
17.00-17.30: Ruth Wittlinger (University of Durham)
Representations of east and west in the 'Wenderoman'
17.30-18.00: Andrew Plowman (University of Liverpool)
'Westalgie': Nostalgia for the 'old'West and
national difference in recent German prose
18.00-18.30: Alison Lewis (University of Melbourne)
Gender, marriage and German re-unification
in recent German literature
19.00 Wine Reception
19.45 DINNER
20.45 Guest Speaker: Alec Hargreaves (Florida State University,
Tallahassee): Title of Paper not yet fixed
5th July
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Plenary Session and discussion:
Jennifer E. Michaels (Grinnell College, Iowa)
Afro-German and African women's voices in
contemporary German literature
9.45 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Intercultural Literature
9.45-10.15: Paola Bozzi (Universita' degli Studi di Milano)
Differenz und DissimeniNation: Zum Werk
Herta Müllers und Libuse Moníkovás
10.15-10.45: Maike Ahrends (Ohio University)
Turkish, German, and Beyond: Searching for 'Speaking Bodies'
Session Two: Contemporary Literature
9.45-10.15: Torsten Liesegang (Karlsruhe)
Subjektkonstitution und Generationsdifferenz
in der 'Neuen deutschen Popliteratur'
10.15-10.45: Katrien Vloeberghs
(Universiteit Antwerpen)
Normality, deviation and difference in
contemporary German children's literature
11.15 Tea and Coffee
11.45 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Drama
11.45-12.15: David Barnett (University of Huddersfield)
'Da draußen sind Hunderte von solchen wie
Sie einer sind'. The elimination of 'anders sein' in Urs Widmer's Top Dogs
12.15-12.45: Jale Tümay (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
Prejudice in the Works of Max Frisch
Session Two: Issues of GDR Identity
11.45-12.15: Martin Blum (Okanagan
University College, British Columbia)
Made in GDR: (Product) biographies,
identity and East German consumer culture
12.15-12.45: Paul Cooke (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Surfing for eastern difference. 'Ostalgie',
Identity and Cyberspace
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Plenary Session and discussion:
Chris Szejnmann (University of Leicester)
German unification and involuntary marginalization of East Germans
15.00 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Drama
15.00-15.30: Birgit Haas (University of Bristol)
'Schon riecht der Fremde, wie ich, Gas.'
George Tabori and the aesthetic resistance against right-wing extremism in
contemporary Germany
15.30-16.00: Mel Karpinski (Sheffield University)
Marginalisation and the mechanisms of social
ostracism: literary and critical reception of Kroetz's outsider figures and
'Randgruppen'
16.00-16.30: Gillian Pye (University College Dublin)
'Kein Platz für Idioten?' Outsiders,
boundaries and intellectual limitations in the contemporary 'Volksstück'
Session Two: Issues of East German Identity
15.00-15.30: Jonathan Grix (Institute for
German Studies, Birmingham)
The structural and cognitive manifestations of East German
identity
15.30-16.00: Anna Saunders (University of Bristol)
Today's young East Germans: Ossis at heart?
16.00-16.30: Joanne Sayner (Cardiff University)
Bekenntnisse einer Zeitzeugin: Elfriede
Brüning's Und außerdem war es mein Leben
16.50 Tea
17.15 Plenary Sessions followed by discussion:
17.15-17.45: Friederike Eigler (Georgetown University,
Washington)
Beyond nostalgia and vilification: East Germany in recent
literary texts
17.45-18.15: Teresa Ludden (University of Warwick)
'Difference' in the works of Anne Duden
19.30 Conference Dinner
6th July
7.45 Breakfast
8.45 Plenary Session followed by discussion:
Jane Wilkinson (University of Glasgow)
A 'different' theatre landscape? Centre and
periphery in the theatres of Lake Constance
9.30 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Minorities and Cultural Norms
9.30-10.00: Wolf Dieter Otto (Universität Bayreuth)
'Toleranz' und 'Leitkultur' in Deutschland:
Zur Kulturtypik eines aktuellen Diskurses
10.00-10.30: Lerleen Willis (The Nottingham Trent
University)
'Bloß nicht auffallen.' Afro-Germans in the Federal Republic
10.30-11.00: Ulrike Zitzlsperger (University of Exeter)
Aussenseiter in der Metropole: die
alternative Erschließung Berlins seit 1989
Session Two: Women's Writing
9.30-10.00: Helmut Schmitz (University of Warwick)
'Ich zähle als Differenz.' Barbara Köhler's
search for a non-identical subjectivity
10.00-10.30: Dagmar Voith (Rutgers
University, New Jersey)
'Du bist immer und überall ein alien enemy.'
Creating an identity through difference in Barbara Honigmann's novels
10.30-11.00: Alexandra Heberger (University of Manitoba)
'It is not sexuality which haunts society,
but society which haunts the body's sexuality' (Maurice Godelier). Gender
differences as a social-political construct in the work of Elfriede Jelinek
11.25 Tea and Coffee
11.45 Plenary Session and discussion:
Caroline von Oppen (University of Bath)
'Wer will schon nicht gesund oder normal
sein?' Normalization in contemporary Germany.
12.25 Parallel Sessions followed by discussion:
Session One: Language and Linguistics
12.25-12.55: Winifred Davies (University of Wales,
Aberystwyth)
The propagation and production of linguistic norms
12.55-13.25: Michaela Gigerl (University of Bristol)
Differenzierter Landeskundeunterricht ODER: Auf der Suche
nach den
ANDEREN Deutschen in DaF-Lehrwerken.
Session Two: Germans abroad...
12.25-12.55: Emily Jeremiah (University of
Helsinki)
Nomadism, otherness, and the search for a
home: the poetry of Dorothea Grünzweig
12.55-13.25: Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)
Unpacking the Travel bag: Germans on the Isle of Skye
13.45 Lunch and Departure
Further Information
Location: The conference will be held at the Clifton Campus of The
Nottingham Trent University. Accommodation (en-suite) will be on-site, in
Peverell Hall. The campus is set on its own landscaped grounds with
University residences on site and the River Trent running at the back of the
campus. A location map of Clifton Campus is provided on the back page of
this booklet. It can also be found in a .PDF file on the web at:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk; simply click on 'Menu', 'Visitors and Alumni' and then
'The University Campus'.
Cost: Charges will be as follows and are inclusive of conference
registration. It will not be possible to offer individual packages which do
not fit into the following categories:
* Whole conference, including
conference dinner and accommodation
(full rate) £ 165.00
* Postgraduate students £ 135.00
* Day delegate rate 4h July (including
lunch/refreshments) £ 30.00
* Plus evening meal £ 42.50
* * Day delegate rate 5th July (including lunch/refreshments)
£30.00
* Plus conference dinner £45.00
* Day delegate rate 6th July
(including lunch/ refreshments) £25.00
