*Extended deadline for registration* via the Online Booking Form – if you would like to take part in the conference dinner I would need the registration by Sunday night (I promised our conference manager to give her final numbers on Monday), if you only want to take part in the conference and / or workshops and are happy with the tea&coffee / lunch option, it is still possible to register until 17 June.

 

 

 

The registration for the conference on ‘Reform and Revolt’ is now open – certainly a timely topic not just because of the quincentenary of the German Reformation! Full details are on the WiGS blog post (Registration open: Reform & Revolt, WIGS Open Conference, 22-24 June 2017, St Edmund Hall, Oxford). The conference is open to all, men and women, old members and newcomers. There is a ‘local, no lunch’ rate of 10GBPs available and it would be great to see as many of the colleagues around as possible.

Quick links:  Online Booking Form + Conference Programme 

 

Reform & Revolt

Women in German Studies Open Conference, Oxford 2017

Thursday, 22 June, Taylor Institution

14.00   Postgraduate Workshop: Activism & Visibility with wikimedian Martin Poulter
17.00   Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): What does Reformation mean?
18.00   Opening of the Exhibition ‘Revolutionary Female Voices in Germany’

Friday, 23 June, St Edmund Hall

09.00   Crowdsourcing Translation Workshop

11.00   Print workshop

14.00   Poetic Resistance

       1. Janet Pearson: Revolt and Reform in Hermann Broch's "Mountain Novel", Die Verzauberung
2. Rose Simpson (Aberystwyth): ‚mehr als eine Burg aus Stahl und Stein‘. The Reformation as image of a German soul in Ina Seidel’s novel Lennacker (1938).
3. Alex Lloyd (Oxford): ‘Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh hier und singe’: The Subversive Power of the Voice in German Literature

14.00   Queering and countering as modes of resistance

       1. Emma Watson (London): Revolt and reform: the incorporation of Monika Treut’s work into the German queer film canon
2. Jana Maria Weiss (Oxford): The Middle East writes back – ‘counter-Orientalism’ in contemporary German poetry
3. Alexandra Sattler (Birmingham): Marlene Streeruwitz’ critique of patriarchal use of language

17.00   Subversive Modernism

       1. Ingrid Sharpe (Leeds): Recovering the Role of Women in the 1918 Revolution
2. Corinne Painter (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds): After the Revolution: Representations of and Responses to Violence in the 1920s
3. Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge): Paragraph 218 in women's literary and visual culture - protest for reform of the Weimar abortion laws

17.00   Standing up against the establishment

       1. Katya Krylova (Nottinghamshire): A Figure of Revolt? The Afterlife of Thomas Bernhard in Contemporary Austrian Literature
2. Sophie Payne (Reading): Representations of the #Aufschrei Protest in the German media
3. Clare Bielby (York): 'Reforming the neue Frauenbewegung through revolting women

Saturday, 24 June, St Edmund Hall

9.00     Defining Pre-modern Concepts of Reform

       1. Simone Schultz-Balluff (Bonn/Rostock), Timo Bülters (Bochum): Klosterreform und Reformation in Briefen des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts
2. Joanna Raisbeck (Oxford): Therese Huber’s perception of political reform in Poland
3. Sophie Schünemann (Keele): ‘Das Puppenstift’ | A Fairy-Tale of Revolt

11.00   1968 and the consequences

      1. Mererid Puw Davies (UCL): Women, Writing and Revolt Around 1968: Helke Sander’s Der subjektive Faktor
2. Léa Carresse (London): Gudrun Ensslin’s 1972-1973 Prison Letters: Guerrilla Fighting, RAF Ideology and the Linguistic Effects of Imprisonment.
3. Katharina Karcher (Cambridge): Revolutionary vs. Reformist Feminism? Radical Ideas and Militant Tactics in the Feminist Movement against Violence against Women in West Germany

14.00   Round-table with Karen Leeder (Oxford), Ute Wölfel (Reading) & al.: ‘1989 – a German Revolution?’