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INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE at the INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Polemical Austria The Rhetorics of National Identity Friday, 21 May 2010 Co-Ordinators: Anthony Bushell (Bangor) and Martin Liebscher (IGRS, London) Venue: Room ST 274/275 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (Access via 32 Russell Square) Programme 10.00 Anthony Bushell (Bangor): Welcome and Introduction 10.05 R.J.W. Evans (Oxford): Polemics about Austria: the 18th and 19th Centuries 10.40 Coffee 11.10 Rudolf de Cillia (Vienna): Die diskursive Konstruktion österreichischer Identität/en in den Gedenkjahren 1995 und 2005 11.45 Geoff Howes (Bowling Green): 'In this land where such ailments are rampant': Madness and Austrian Identities 12.20 Lunch (own arrangements) 14.00 Jürgen Weber (Venice): Austrian Communism and the Concept of 'Austria' 14.35 Anthony Bushell (Bangor): Austrian Identity and the Art of Retrospective Justification 15.10 Tea 15.40 Heide Kunzelmann (London): Polemik als ästhetisches Wertungsinstrument in der österreichischen Nachkriegszeit 16.15 Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster): Performing and Protesting Austria in the Wake of the 1999 Elections 16.50 Concluding Discussion Further Information and Registration Details To attend, please register by Friday, 7 May: Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 7862 8966 For further information on the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, please contact: Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 7862 8959 or visit the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/centres-societies/ingeborg-bachmann-research-centre.html> website This event is sponsored by Bangor University and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London Jane Lewin Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London School of Advanced Study Room ST 272, Senate House Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk