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INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH School of Advanced Study • University of London From Sarmatia to Mare Nostrum Borderland Spaces in German-Language Literature and other Media Conference to mark the Centenary of Johannes Bobrwoski's Birth When: Thursday, 27 April and Friday, 28 April 2017 Where: University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Taking Johannes Bobrowski’s ‘Sarmatia’ as a starting point, this conference aims to provide researchers with a forum to discuss how Central and Eastern European borderland narratives and poetics have changed in the course of the 20th to 21st century in German-language literature and other media, and how such processes may be interlinked with national, European or global discourses, structures and contexts. While the main focus is on shifts in narratives and poetics in the context of global migration and displacement of people in the 20th and 21st century, links between these and earlier narratives are taken into account. Keynote speakers: Andreas Degen (Potsdam): Ostgrenzenlos? Bobrowskis sarmatische Utopie Joanna Jablkowska (Lodz): Varianten der 'kresy'-Literatur? Johannes Bobrowskis Levins Mühle und Olga Tokarczuks Ksiegi Jakubowe Vladimir Gilmanov (Kaliningrad): Ein Grenztopos zwischen Thanatologie und Soteriologie der Weltgeschichte Maren Röger (Augsburg): History and television: audiovisual historiography in a transnational setting Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent): German memory of flight and expulsion and the current refugee crisis Programme ─ How to apply/online registration <http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/6985> (advance registration required by 10 April) Jane Lewin IMLR Trusts Administrator/Events Manager Institute of Modern Languages Research University of London School of Advanced Study Room 239, Senate House Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales. We have cut carbon emissions from University buildings by 32% and are committed to cutting emissions by 43% by 2020. Please think before you print.