Symposium
Translating Cultures
Remembering, Narrating, Translating: GDR and Beyond
Julia Schoch
(DAAD Writer in Residence)
10 December 2011
Department of German Studies, University of Nottingham
Trent Building, Room LG 11, Lower Ground Floor (Main Campus: NG7 2RD)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:50 Reading by Julia Schoch (Potsdam)
9:50-10:10 Karen Leeder (Oxford): Unheimliche Heimat: Gespenster der DDR in Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers
10:10-10:30 Mary Cosgrove (Edinburgh): Erinnerung an ein vergangenes Land: Der weibliche Körper als Memento Mori in Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers
10:30-11:00 Diskussion
11:00-11:20 Emily Jeremiah (London): Eine beschämende Geschichte: Julia Schochs Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers
11:20-11:30 Kaffee/Tee
11:30-11:50 Matthias Uecker (Nottingham): Erinnerung und/oder Gegenwart - Zwei Paradigmen in Julia Schochs Romanen?
11:50-12:30 Abschlussdiskussion
12:30 -13:45 Short Walk & Lunch
13:45-14:15 Julia Schoch’s translations from French into German
14:15-14:45 'New Translations' – Student Presentations
14:45-16:15 Translating: Hands-on Workshop
16:15-16:30 Coffee/Tea
16:30-18:00 Challenges and Perspectives of Translation: Panel Discussion
with Birgit Friedrich (Nottingham), Emily Jeremiah (London), Lyn Marven (Liverpool), Alex Mével (Nottingham), Charlotte Ryland (Oxford), Stefan Tobler (High Wycombe), Margret Vince (Nottingham) et al.; chaired by Heike Bartel (Nottingham)
18:00 Farewell and Departure
Fee: £6 (£3 per half day) Coffee/tea provided; lunch: own arrangements
If you would like to register please contact [log in to unmask] by 5th Dec. 2011
Organised by Heike Bartel and Franziska Meyer
with thanks to the DAAD, the Department of German Studies and
The Centre for Translation Studies, CLAS, University of Nottingham for their support.