German in the World
A Workshop on
Monday, 2 June 2014
At the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
9.30 Registration
10.00 Introduction by the Organisers
Erica Carter (KCL); Robert Gillett (QMUL); Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR)
10.15 Panel 1: Disciplinarity
Aim: to focus on changing understandings of the discipline of German, and to explore selected instances that show how disciplinarity is shaped by local and global contexts
Speakers: Sarah Colvin (Cambridge; panel chair); Sabine Egger (Limerick); Dirk Goettsche (Nottingham)
Respondents: David Schalkwyk (QMUL Global Shakespeare); Daniel Wildmann (Leo Baeck Institute)
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Panel 2: International Pespectives
Round table discussion with Germanists from around the world
Chair: Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR)
Speakers: Anil Bhatti (JNU, New Delhi); Ruth Dawson (Hawaii); Ernst Hess-Lüttich (Berne); Arata Takeda (Paderborn); Kathleen Thorpe (Witwatersrand University)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel 3: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Aim: to focus on the intellectual resources available within the discipline to shape our thinking on what we teach, and how; German as a source of 'pedagogies of the human'
Speakers: Erica Carter (KCL; panel chair); Robert Gillett (QMUL); Howard Hotson (Oxford); Sylvia Jaworska (Reading); Ben Morgan (Oxford)
Respondents: Reeta Chakrabarti (BBC); Mike Neary (Lincoln)
15.15 Panel 4: The Porous Academy
Aim: to focus on relationships beyond the academy; the pros and cons of 'impact'; modes of communication across disciplinary and institutional divides, including the virtual world
Speakers: Ben Schofield (KCL; panel chair); Susan Reed (British Library); Stuart Taberner (Leeds)
Respondent: Madeline Knights (Globe Education)16.30 Tea
16.45 Conclusions and Future Directions
Sarah Colvin (AGS/Cambridge; chair); Erica Carter (KCL); Andreas Hoeschen (DAAD); Elisabeth Kögler (Austrian Cultural Forum); Margaret Littler (UCML/Manchester); Karl Pfeiffer (Goethe Institute); Ben Schofield (KCL); Stefano Weinberger (German Embassy)
17.30 Initiating and Discussing Follow-Up Events
An opportunity to mingle and talk to potential project partners
18.30 Evening Lecture
Anil Bhatti (JNU, New Delhi): Movement and Migration: German and Central European Histories in an Overlapping World
The organisers are grateful to the DAAD London, King's College London, the Bithell Bequest Fund and the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre at the IMLR for their sponsorship of the event.
Advance registration required * Closing date: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Fees (including sandwich lunch):
£25 (standard rate) * £20 (Friends of Germanic Studies at the IMLR) * £15 (students with proof of status)
Closing date: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Please download the registration form at http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15745/German+in+the+World
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Jane Lewin
Institute Administrator/Consortium Publications Manager
Institute of Modern Languages Research (formerly IGRS)
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST 279, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk
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