10th Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Postgraduate Conference
on Current Research in Austrian Literature
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 June 2013 in Room S261, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
Monday, 3 June 2013
9.15 Registration
9.45 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 Keynote Lecture
Àine McMurtry (London): ‘Die Geschichte im Ich’: Rereading Biography in Texts from Ingeborg Bachmann’s Literary Estate (2000-2010)
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Dominik Baumgarten (Cologne): A Case Study on Product Placement as Reality-Marketing Unit in Daniel Glattauer’s Fiction
12.15 Alice Hattenville (Rouen): The Perception of Proustian Onomatology in the ‘Theory of Names’ by Ingeborg Bachmann
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Katherine Stone (Cambridge): The Trope of Victimhood as Aesthetic Strategy in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina (1971)
14.45 Lina Užukauskaitė (Kaunas/Salzburg): Ingeborg Bachmanns Konzeption des Schönen als Widerstand
15.30 Alexandra Hills (London): Hinterwelten, Worlds without History: Historical Consciousness, Humanism, and the Reverberations of
the Second World War in Thomas Bernhard’s Frost (1963) and Carlo Levi’s Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ stopped at Eboli, 1945)
16.15 Tea
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
9.15 Coffee
10.00 Marlo Alexandra Burks (Toronto): ‘Ein nicht zu Nennendes’: Strange Encounters in Hofmannsthal’s Augenblicke in Griechenland
10.45 Tobias Haberkorn (Paris/Berlin): Der Mann zu vieler Eigenschaften: ein Roman übt sich in Eindämmung
11.30 Silke Schwaiger (Southampton): Myth and Identity in Julya Rabinowich’s Spaltkopf
12.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
15.45-17.30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Translating Gender and Austrian Literature: A Special Case?
Experts in the field of Austrian literature and translation discuss the problems and potential of translating gender in texts by Austrian Writers from Robert Musil to Elfriede Jelinek
Organisers: Heide Kunzelmann (IBC, London), Birgit Friedrich (Nottingham) and Marcela Pozarkova (QMUL)
Reading by ARNO GEIGER
IBC Writer-in-Residence 2013
19.00 at the Austrian Cultural Forum,
28 Rutland Gate, London SW7
Jane Lewin
Institute Administrator/Consortium Publications Manager
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST 277a (new), Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
Please note that there is no longer a through-route
from Stewart House to Senate House
The IGRS is part of the IGRS/IMR/IP Administrative Consortium
