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With apologies for cross-posting: you are warmly invited to attend this symposium and translation workshop with Larissa Boehning, DAAD Writer in Residence at the Universities of Lancaster and Liverpool. Deadline for registration is today, 31 March If you are interested in attending, please email: [log in to unmask] Please note: participants will be responsible for organising their own accommodation Full programme details available on: http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Boehning_Symposium_programme.pdf Symposium: Larissa Boehning and Contemporary Literature 9-10 April 2011 Taylor Room, Sydney Jones library, University of Liverpool Saturday 9 April Symposium and Reading 10-10.15 Welcome and introduction 10.15-11.00 Valerie Heffernan (Maynooth) & Gillian Pye (UCD): Transitions: women’s writing in the 21st Century 11-11.30 Tea/coffee 11.30-12.10 Petra Bagley (UCLan): ‘Mein Mallorca: A German-Spanish love affair’ 12.10-12.50 Lyn Marven (Liverpool): ‘“The stories behind the traces”: place, memory, and text in short stories set in Berlin’ [Schwalbensommer/Zaungäste] 12.50-2.00 Lunch 2-2.40 Helen Finch (Leeds): ‘Transnationalism, Memory and Virtual Spaces: Larissa Boehning and the Berlin Generation’ [Lichte Stoffe / Schwalbensommer] 2.40-3.20 Emily Jeremiah (RHUL): ‘Larissa Boehning’s Lichte Stoffe: History, Family, and German Identity’ 3.20-3.50 Tea/coffee 3.50-4.20 Charlotte Ryland (New Books in German): Contemporary German literature and its reception in the UK 4.30-5.30 Larissa Boehning: reading & discussion 6.30 Dinner (own expense) Sunday 10 April Translation workshop 10-5pm Text will be supplied in advance To register, email Lyn Marven: [log in to unmask] by 31 March Fees: £5 per day Dr Lyn Marven Lecturer in German School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Cypress Building, room 208 University of Liverpool Chatham Street Liverpool L69 7ZR Tel: +44 151 794 2754 http://soclas.wordpress.com/ www.liv.ac.uk/soclas<http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas> www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A569567