CONFERENCE
5th INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
ON CURRENT RESEARCH IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE

Thursday, 5 June - Friday, 6 June 2008
Venue:
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Stewart House/Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Co-Ordinator: Martin Liebscher (IGRS, London)
The conference is sponsored by the
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the IGRS
and the
Austrian Cultural Forum, London

PROGRAMME
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Room ST 273
10.00 Welcome
10.05 Matthias Mansky (Vienna): August Ernst von Steigentesch und die Anfänge des Konversationssttücks in Wien
10.35 Coffee
11.05 Evelyn Bukowksi (Heidelberg): Tod und Erotik in Hofmannsthals Reitergeschichte
11.35 Antonia Eder (Tübingen): 'Nietzsche ist die freudige Klarheit der Zerstörung': Hugo von Hofmannsthals Nietzscherezeption
12.05 Discussion
12.20 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Marcela Požárek (Limerick): Rachephantasien als Erzählstrategien: Rache im Werk von Ingeborg Bachmann
14.45 Krisztina Balázs (Budapest): Das Schweigen als eigenartiges Ausdrucksmittel in den Werken Ingeborg Bachmanns
15.15 Verena Timmerer (Exeter): Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children and the Father-Daughter Relationship in Ingeborg Bachmann's Novel Malina
15.45 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 Katya Krylova (Cambridge): Maleancholic Topography in Thomas Bernhard's Ungenach and Ingeborg Bachmann's Drei Wege zum See
17.00 Philipp Hubmann (Paris): Ästhetik des Vergessens. Figurationen der literarischen Auslöschung bei Nietzsche und Bernhard
17.30 Discussion
Friday, 6 June 2008
Room ST 273
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Horst Waggershauser (Munich): Sumpftanzen: Humour and Absurdity in Selected Plays by Wolfgang Bauer
11.30 Sabine Wilke (Washington at Seattle): Mountains, Forests, Streams, and the Idea of 'Wildernis': Re-Thinking Modern Austrian Literature and Culture in the Age of Eco-Criticism
12.00 Discussion
12.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Marianne Zwicker (Edinburgh): Exploring the 'Threat of Auschwitz' in Stefan Horvath's Katzenstreu
14.30 Caitriona Firth (Durham): 'Mis-en-abyme' as Transmitter of Memory in Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Novel and Film)
15.00 Anna O'Driscoll (Dublin): Constructions of Melancholy in Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Alois Hotschnig's Ludwigs Zimmer
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Break
16.15 David Gallagher (London): Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Transformation of Metamorphosis in Christoph Ransmayr's Novel Die letzte Welt
16.45 Michael Hiltbrunner (Zurich/London): Tragic and Comic Bluebeards in fin-de-siècle Vienna
17.15 Concluding Discussion
17.30 Wine
Further Information/Registration
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INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST272, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966  Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8672
Email: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk  Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk