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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