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Dear all, May I draw colleagues' attention to a 'Humboldt-Kolleg' that will take place at the University of Kent 23-24 June 2014? Anyone wishing to attend can register via the university's online store: http://store.kent.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=26&catid=94&prodvarid=56 Best wishes, Deborah Kurze Rede, Langer Sinn: The Nineteenth- Century German Short Prose Narrative This symposium seeks to reappraise the contribution of the nineteenth-century German-language short prose narrative to European literature, culture and thought. At a time when the realist novel was emerging in other European traditions as the defining genre of the century, the short narrative remained the dominant prose fiction form in German. The possibilities it offered attracted an astonishing range of authors. Against the background of the Romantic Kunstmärchen, the stories of Kleist, and above all Goethe's shorter prose works, the short narrative was practised by most major names of the nineteenth-century German-language canon from around 1830 onward: Büchner, Droste, Keller, Mörike, Grillparzer, Stifter, Storm and Hauptmann are among the most significant, while other, less widely discussed figures such as Hebbel, Raabe, Ebner-Eschenbach, Saar and Andreas-Salomé populate the margins in intriguing ways. The significance of the form is also demonstrated by its successors in a later era, notably in the earlier work of Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler. Monday, 23 June 09.30-10.00 Registration 10.00-11.00 Welcome and opening remarks 11.00-12.00 Daniel Weidner (Berlin) '"Es ward mein Herz zur Eisenbahn". Umschriften des Wunderbaren in Ludwig Tiecks späten Novellen' 13.30-15.00 Ben Hutchinson (Kent) '"Epigonen" or "Progonen"? Short Prose and Young Germans' Robert Gillett (Queen Mary) 'Brief Encounter: The Novellas of Elsa Bernstein / Ernst Rosmer' 15.15-16.45 Nina Rolland (Kent) '"Weil mein Herz so voller Klang war": Music and the Feminine in Eichendorff's Prose Writings' Deborah Holmes (Kent) 'Prometheus Bound? Nietzsche in the Early Novellas of Lou Andreas-Salomé' 17.00-18.30 Judith Ryan (Harvard), keynote address: 'Shifting Grounds: Reality Effects in Stifter, Raabe and Sebald' Tuesday, 24 June 09.30-11.00 John Walker (Birkbeck) 'Poetic Realism, the German Novelle, and the Critique of German Idealist Aesthetics' Claudia Nitschke (Durham) 'Medium und Form in Stifters Bunte Steine' 11.15-12.00 Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen) 'Stifter und Kafka' 13.30-15.00 Charlotte Lee (Cambridge) 'Johann Peter Hebel and the Dynamics of Hope' Kai Sina (Göttingen) 'Ein "alter Geschichtenerzähler" am Ende seiner Epoche. Selbsthistorisierung in Wilhelm Raabes Alterhausen' 15.15-16.45 Seán Williams (Oxford) 'Provincial Prefaces and Short Story Collections around 1850' Ian Cooper (Kent) 'Theodor Storm and Disenchantment' Dr Deborah Holmes Head of German Department of German School of European Culture and Languages Cornwallis North West (Office: CNW155) University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7NF UK Tel: +44 (0)1227 827459 Please save our trees! Please don't print out this e-mail unless absolutely necessary.