Please find details below of a talk on German-Jewish narratives of the C19th being given by Charlotte Lee next Wednesday lunchtime in the German department at King's. The talk will take place from noon in room 6.32 of the Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, WC2B 6NR. All very welcome! ?ine McMurtry *** Wednesday 26 February 2014, 12-2pm Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge 'The problem of home in German-Jewish narratives of the nineteenth century' The state of 'apartness' in which most Jews in German-speaking territories existed until the late eighteenth century did not yield to its opposite in the nineteenth. For many, processes of acculturation and assimilation led at best to a sense of in-betweenness. I propose to examine the problematic implications of this new position for an individual's sense of home. Galut, or exile, is a perennial theme in Jewish culture; but, in a number of nineteenth-century literary texts by German-speaking Jewish writers, it is the prospect of submersion into Gentile society, especially through religious conversion, which rears the spectre of homelessness for the characters concerned - even when those characters do not have a particularly developed conscious Jewish identity. The paper will focus particularly on texts by Fanny Lewald and Leopold Kompert. 5 March 2014, 12-2pm Lyn Marven, University of Liverpool 'Herta M?ller & Autobiography' 12 March 2014: 6-8pm; Room K-1.56 (King's Building, Strand Campus) With Film Studies Robin Curtis, University of D?sseldorf. 'Vitality and Inertness, the Living and the Dead: The Moving Image and Empathetic Alignment' *** Dr ?ine McMurtry Reviews Editor: Austrian Studies Department of German Level 5 Virginia Woolf Building King's College London 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2167