Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the postgraduate conference
The GDR Today III at Bangor University (North Wales) from 6-7 April.
Please register your interest to attend by emailing us at
[log in to unmask] no later than 26 March. There is a small conference fee for non-speakers of £10, which
includes everything apart from the conference dinner.
Programme:
The GDR Today III
Bangor University, 6-7 April 2017
Cledwyn Room 3 (Teras), Main Arts Building
Thursday 6 April 2017
12:30 – 13:20 Registration
13:20 – 13:35 Welcome & Introduction
13:35 – 15:15 Panel 1:
The Young GDR
Chair: Marcel Thomas (Bristol) / Discussant: Anna Saunders (Bangor) |
Cornelia Bruhn (Jena): Singing for socialism and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany: The FDJ-Singebewegung |
Pia Deutsch (Warwick): Being trapped in “Zwischenzeit”.
The Concept of youth after 1989 |
Mary Frank (Bristol): Can theory help translators? Can translators help theory? Thick and thin approaches to a text from the German Democratic Republic |
Daniel Kubiak (Humboldt, Berlin): “How the Western norm just knows the ‘Others’” |
15:15 – 15:50 Coffee & Tea Break
15:50 – 17:20 Panel 2:
The Counter-cultural GDR
Chair: Stefanie Kreibich (Bangor) / Discussant: Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent) |
Anne Pfautsch (Kingston, London):
GDR Social Documentary Photography as ‘Gegenöffentlichkeit’ – GDR Social Documentary Photography as counter-public |
Alex Brown (Birmingham): Communist-oriented opposition in the GDR? |
Marlene Schrijnders (Birmingham): Endzeitopia: Forever Celebrating The End. Post-punk, goth and avant-garde in East Germany |
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner
Gorad Restauraunt, Pontio (second floor)
Friday 7 April 2017
09:00 – 10:40 Panel 3:
The Post-war GDR
Chair: Marlene Schrijnders (Birmingham) / Discussant: Joanne Sayner (Newcastle) |
Alexander Walther (Jena):
Beyond Anti-Fascism: The Shoah & the GDR |
Anja Thiele (Leipzig): Jewish memory of the Holocaust in GDR fiction |
Katharina Lenski (Jena):
Neue Wege. DDR als Post-War-Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts? Methodologische Aspekte der Erforschung der DDR. |
Marcel Thomas (Bristol): Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany |
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee & Tea Break
11:10 – 12:50 Panel 4:
The Socio-Cultural GDR
Chair: Alex Brown (Birmingham) / Discussant: Debbie Pinfold (Bristol) |
Mary Ikoniadou (Manchester Metropolitan):
Propagating internationalism while funding patriotism. The case study of Pyrsos magazine amongst the GDR’s foreign-language periodical press. |
Constanze Knitter (Mainz): Town twinnings between France and the GDR |
Cormac Ó Callanáin (Edinburg):
Space, Sound and Technology at Rundfunk DDR |
Kate Hiepko (Manchester):
Managing the ‘Pissing Evil’ in a Welfare Dictatorship: the history of diabetes prevention, care and rehabilitation in the former German Democratic Republic
|
12:50 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 15:30 Panel 5:
The Post-Wende GDR
Chair: Pia Deutsch (Warwick) / Discussant: Sara Jones (Birmingham) |
Patrick Wittstock (Berlin): Rightwing-extremism – an east-German problem? |
Philipp Ebert (Cambridge): Transitional Justice and public opinion in reunited Germany, 1989-2004 |
Thomas Carhart (Freiburg): The East Germans and their “Absentee Landlords“ - The myth of the non-resident owner as “Nutznießer“ |
Maria Hetzer (Warwick / Siegen): Memories and practices in changing rural areas |
15:30 – 15:40 Concluding Comments
15:40 End of Conference
Many thanks,
Stefanie Kreibich (Bangor University), Alexander Brown (University of Birmingham), and Marlene Schrijnders (University of Birmingham)
Ms. Stefanie Kreibich
German Tutor
PhD candidate in German Studies
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Bangor University
College Road
LL57 1LB
Bangor, Gwynedd
Tel: 01248 382595
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