Reminder - closing date for registration: 14 March 2014
55th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
Venue: Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Thursday, 27 and Friday, 28 March 2014
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 27 March 2014
9.30- 9.55 Registration and Coffee
9.55-10.00 Introduction
Keynote Lecture
10.00-11.00 Robert Gillett (Queen Mary, University of London): Gender and German Studies: An Immodest Proposal
PANEL 1: Traces of the Past
11.00-11.45 Richard McClelland (King's College London): 'Plunder, Prothesen, Projektionen, Perspektiven': Rimini Protokoll's Uraufführung: Der Besuch der alten Dame
11.45-12.30 Nicola Thomas (University of Nottingham): 'Verbracht ins Gelände/mit der unertrüglichen Spur': Excavation, Expansion and Enclosure in Paul Celan and J.H. Prynne
12.30-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
Panel 2: Language and the Unspeakable
14.00-14.45 Grace Lawson Conquer (Somerville College, Oxford): Colour, Space and the Ontology of the Artwork in Rilke's Neue Gedichte
14.45-15.30 Annegret Märten (University of Düsseldorf): Stummes Grauen: Sprachlose Monster als ästhetische Ausdrucksstrategie des Liminalen und Unsagbaren
15.30-16.00 Tea
Panel 3: Modernist Subjects
16.00-16.45 Robert Craig (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): 'Wir wissen, was wir wissen': Re-thinking the Metropolitan Subject in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
16.45-17.30 Caroline Rowan-Olive (University of Reading): Exploring Subjectivity in Christa Wolf's Leibhaftig
17.30-18.00 Sherry
18.00-19.00 The 2014 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Katie Stone (Clare College, Cambridge): A Hidden Idiom of Cultural Memory? Gender and Attempts to Manage the Memory of National Socialism
Friday, 28 March 2014
10.00-10.30 Coffee
Panel 4: The Subject of Contemporary Film
10.30-11.15 Joanna Gilbert (University of Leeds): Emotions and Gender Relations in Alexander Kluge's Die Macht der Gefühle
11.15-12.00 Luke Postlethwaite (University of Leeds): Fighting Tradition: The Contrast between Berlin's Public and Private Spaces in Burhan Qurbani's Shahada (2010) , Feo Aladag's Die Fremde (2010) and Tor Iben's Cibrâil (2011)
12.00-12.45 Sophie Burt (New College, Oxford): Kismet and Coincidence: Engaged Agency in Fatih Akýn's Cinema
12.45-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
Panel 5: National Socialism and its Aftermath
14.15-15.00 Stefanie Hundehege (University of Kent): 'Ich glaubte an Hitler'? (Baldur von Schirach) - New Perspectives on National Socialist Ideology and Pseudo-Religious Manipulation
15.00-15.45 Emilie Oléron Evans (Queen Mary, University of London): No Return: Nikolaus Pevsner in Germany, 1946
15.45-16.30 Edward Greaves (University of Bristol): Shaping National Consciousness: West German Educational Reform before 1968
16.30 End of Colloquium
Registration: £15. Closing date for registration: 14 March 2014
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