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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
www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A569567