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Dear All, Some of you may already have seen the following announcement from Karen Leeder on the German Studies list, but those who haven't might like to put it in the diary... All best wishes, Debbie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The website will go up soon but this is *advance warning* for your diaries. A SYMPOSIUM, NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD, 24-25 March 2011 ‘RE-READING EAST GERMANY’: THE LITERATURE AND FILM OF THE GDR Speakers: Seán Allen, Gerrit-Jan Berendse; Stephen Brockmann, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming; Wolfgang Emmerich; Karen Leeder; Alison Lewis; Georgina Paul; Dennis Tate; Holger Teschke; Peter Thompson; Jill Twark . The symposium will include a bilingual reading by Durs Grünbein and Michael Eskin to launch Grünbein’s new volume The Vocation of Poetry (Upper West Side Philosophers’ Press, 2011) and the first showing outside Germany of Oktoberfilm (Balancefilm 2009) introduced by Durs Grünbein. There will be two part bursaries for graduates working on related themes. contact: [log in to unmask] Professor K.J. Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature, Director of Graduate Studies in Modern Languages, Fellow and Tutor in German, New College, Oxford ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- Dr Debbie Pinfold Senior Lecturer in German School of Modern Languages 17 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 ITE 0044 (0)117 92 88797 [log in to unmask]