Please find below details of the WIGS conference to be held on 11 November 2006 at Newcastle University.

This conference is for members only (for membership details see www.wigs.ac.uk). You can download a registration form by visiting the website www.wigs.ac.uk and following the WIGS conferences link.

Please get in touch with me if you require any further information.

Dr Teresa Ludden

School of Modern Languages

Old Library Building

Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 7RU

Email: [log in to unmask]

Phone: 0191 222 5053

PROGRAMME

9.15-9.45 Registration  (Pybus Room, Old Library Building)

9.45-10.50 Panel 1: Nature in Culture (3.18 Old Library Building)

Mererid Puw-Davies (UCL) ‘Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt’

Anke Kramer (Tübingen/Newcastle) ‘Hydraulik des Gedächtnisraums. Fontanes Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg’

10.50 -11.20 Coffee (Pybus room, Old Library Building)

11.20 -13.00 Panel 2: Legendary Constructions: (self-)images of saints and authors (3.18 OLB)

Anne Simon (Bristol)  ‘weiß vnd schon vnd keusch vnd tugentlich: St. Katherine in Late-Mediaeval Nuremberg’

Rebecca Beard (Liverpool) ‘Authorial Construction in Günter Grass’s Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Das Treffen in Telgte’

Georgina Paul (St Hilda’s, Oxford) ‘Ismene at the Crossroads: Gender and Poetic Influence in Contemporary German-Language Poetry by Women’

Lunch and coffee (Pybus room, Old Library Building)

14.00-15.00 Panel 3: Heroes and Counter-Monuments (3.18 OLB)

Sara Jones (Nottingham) ‘Sex and Socialism: the Antifascist Hero in the Life and Works of Elfriede Brüning’

Marie-Louise Wasmeier (Goldsmiths, London) ‘Literature as Counter-Monument: Marcel Beyer’s Spione’

15.00-15.15 Tea (Pybus room, Old Library Building)

15.15-16.15 Panel 4: Thoroughly Modern Women (3.18 OLB)

Deborah Holmes (Ludwig Bolzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna) ‘Literary biography – A Life of Eugenie Schwarzwald’

Nina Sylvester (University of California) ‘Modernism, Consumerism and Motherhood. Irmgard Keun’s Gilgi. Eine von uns revisited’

16.15-17.15 Business Meeting (with Sekt)