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READING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A Workshop at the INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP on Friday, 22 November 2002 Co-Ordinators: Anja Hill-Zenk and Karin Sousa (Institute of Germanic Studies, London) The first of this series of workshops will concentrate on the social and political aspects of reading. Professional and non-professional approaches to texts will be contrasted, the history of reading in twentieth-century Germany explored in terms of censored and uncensored reading, and male/female practices of reading examined. The workshop will include a video presentation of the work of Stiftung Lesen and will close with a contribution and discussion on the future of reading in the 'electronic age'. PROGRAMME 10.00 Welcome 10.15 SANDRA POTT (Hamburg/Paris): 'Professionelle Lesekompetenz. Wie sollen Germanisten lesen?' 11.00 THOMAS RATHNOW (Econ-Ullstein Verlag, Berlin/Munich): '"Lector semper incertus est" - Auf der Suche nach dem Leser. Überlegungen aus verlagspraktischer Perspektive' 11.45 OLGA ZITZELSBERGER (Darmstadt): 'Lesen in der Mediengesellschaft? Leseerfahrungen und -hürden von jungen Frauen und Männern mit niedrigem Bildungsabschluss' 12.30 Lunch (own arrangements) 14.00 ANJA HILL-ZENK and KARIN SOUSA (London): 'Leseförderung und Zensur in der DDR und der Kanon in der Bundesrepublik' 14.30 GABY HOHM (Stiftung Lesen, Mainz): 'Leseland Deutschland? Lesen nach der Wiedervereinigung' 15.45 Tea break 16.15 WALTER GROND (Bachmann Centre Writer-in-Residence, London): 'Von Büchern, Computerspielen und anderen Lese-Versäumnissen' THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY THE FRITZ THYSSEN STIFTUNG A L L W E L C O M E ****************************************************** INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES University of London School of Advanced Study 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP Tel: +44 (0)20- 7862 8965/6 Fax: +44 (0)20- 7862 8970 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/igs/