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> CONFERENCE
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> Bertolt Brecht 
> A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy
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> Wednesday, 8 February - Friday, 10 February 2006
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> Venue: Stewart House/Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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> Co-Ordinators: Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS), Robert Gillett (QMUL) and Hamish Ritchie (Sheffield)
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> Part of the IGRS Performance Core Programme for 2005-2006, the conference will provide a survey of current research on the 50th anniversary of the author's death. Speakers from the UK and Germany will discuss his plays, prose and poetry.
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> PROGRAMME
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> Wednesday, 8 February
> Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
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>  9.15 Registration
>  9.30 Welcome
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> Prose and Drama
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>  9.45 Klaus-Detlef Müller (Tübingen): Der 'antiaristotelische Roman'. Brechts Beitrag zum Roman der klassischen Moderne
> 10.45 Coffee
> 11.15 Frank Krause (London): Von Kaiser zu Brecht: Drama und Prosa 
> 11.45 Michael Patterson (Leicester): Brecht's Debt to Theatrical Expressionism 
> 12.15 Discussion
> 12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
> 14.15 Ernest Schonfield (London): Brecht and the Modern Picaresque
> 14.45 Robert Gillett (London): On the Pre- and Post-History of Epic Theatre from Aristotle and Shakespeare through Brecht to Grass and Us
> 15.15 Discussion
> 15.45 Tea
> 16.15 Hans-Harald Müller (Hamburg): Brechts Leben des Galiliei - Eine Interpretationsskizze zweier Dramen
> 16.45 John White and Ann White (London): Songs and Poems of the Furcht und Elend Complex
> 17.15 Discussion
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> At the Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7
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> 19.30 Straub/Huillet's Geschichtsunterricht [Introduced by Martin Brady (London)]
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> Thursday, 9 February
> Room ST 274/275, Stewart House 
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> Brecht and Photography
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>  9.30 Steve Giles (Nottingham): Making Visible, Making Strange: Photography, Representation and the Post-Modernist Realism in Brecht et al
> 10.00 Tom Kuhn (Oxford): Poetry and Photography: Brecht's Kriegsfibel
> 10.30 Discussion
> 11.00 Coffee
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> Brecht in his Cultural Environment
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> 11.30 Stephen Parker (Manchester): Brecht and Sinn und Form: Use Value and Prestige Value
> 12.00 Erdmut Wizisla (Berlin): Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht: Bericht über eine Konstellation
> 12.30 Discussion
> 13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
> 14.30 Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter): Bertolt Brecht: Von der Großstadt nach Berlin
> 15.00 Andrew Webber (Cambridge): 'Unbewohnbar und doch unverlaßbar': Brecht and Berlin
> 15.30 Discussion
> 16.00 Tea
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> At the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Belgrave Square, London SW1 - by invitation only 
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> 18.30 An Evening with Manfred Krug: Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner
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> Friday, 10 February
> Room ST 274/275, Stewart House 
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> Poetry
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>  9.30 David Midgley (Cambridge): 'Zwei Hände Erde': Brecht and Mortality
> 10.00 Ron Speirs (Birmingham): Brecht's Svendborger Gedichte
> 10.30 Discussion
> 11.00 Coffee
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> Brecht's Legacy
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11.30 Nicolas Whybrow (Warwick): Of Dead B.B.: Some Footnotes
12.00 Karen Leeder (Oxford): 'Des toten Dichters gedenkend': Brecht's Afterlife in Modern German Poetry
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
> 14.30 Godela Weiss-Sussex (London): 'A Ridiculous Thing to Do': Yvonne Kapp as Brecht Translator
> 15.00 Marielle Sutherland (Oxford): Brecht's Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit - A 'Stück' coming Unstuck
> 15.30 Discussion/Wine
> 16.00 Conference Ends
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> Further Information/Registration
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> To obtain further information and register for the conference, please contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is 27 January 2006.
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> Conference Fees
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> All 3 Days: 
> £40.00 Standard Rate
> £30.00 Reduced Rate (Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies/paying members of the IGRS only)> 
> £17.00 Student Rate (with proof of status only)
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> 1 Day only:
> £19.00 Standard Rate
> £14.00 Reduced Rate (Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies/paying members of the IGRS only)
> £ 8.00 Student Rate (with proof of status only)
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> INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
> University of London School of Advanced Study
> Room ST282, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
> Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8970
> E-mail: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk 
> Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk
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