For more information about the conference whose programme follows, please contact Dr Laura Martin, [log in to unmask], or Mrs Martha McCorkindale, [log in to unmask] GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW PROGRAMME FRIDAY, 7 MAY from 11:00 a.m. Arrival, Registration in Staff Common Room, Modern Languages Building, 16 University Gardens, University of Glasgow 1:00-3 :00 MLB 111 Dr Ruth Whittle (Birmingham) Paradigms of Emancipation: Travelling Women in Nineteenth-Century German Literature Elisabeth Krimmer (Mt Holyoke) A Garden of Her Own: Noble Savages and Superior Europeans in Sophie von La Roche's "Erscheinungen am See Oneida" (1798). Dr Christina Ujma (Loughborough) Briefe aus der römischen Freiheit--Dorothea Schlegel in Italien 3:00-3:30 MLB 3 tea/coffee 3:30-5:00 MLB 111 Dr Ouida Taaffe (Birkbeck) "Die meisternde Vernunft": Karoline Pichler's "Frauenwürde". Christine Möller-Sahling (Ohio State) "wahrlich in den geliebten Zirkel liegt doch meine SeelenHeymath": Ein Beitrag zur Bedeutung des Emkendorfer Musenhofes (1789-1816) in der deutschen Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte. 5:00-6:00 MLB 111 Dr Susanne Kord (Georgetown) Conceptualizing "Kunst": Peasant Poets, Women Writers, and Bourgeois Art. SATURDAY, 8TH MAY 9:00-10:30 MLB 111 Janet Bertsch (UCL) Tea with Ogenbugoquay and Ottilie: Anna Brownell Jameson and the Aestheticisation of the Wilderness. Dr Carol Tully (Bangor) Droste on the Costa? Cecilia Böhl von Faber: A Parallel Life. OR MLB 112 Dr Anthony J Harper (Strathclyde) The Life and Works of Sophie Mereau as a Paradigm of the Problems and Possibilities for Women Writers around 1800. Anke Gillier (Leuven) Tailored for the Observance of Plurality: A Reading of the Work of Therese Huber and Johanna Schopenhauer. 10:30-11:00 MLB 3 tea/coffee 11:00-1:00 MLB 111 Dr Margaret Ives (Lancaster) From "Briefe" to "Briefroman": Some Reflections on the Autobiographical Writings of Anna Luise Karsch (1722- 1791) and Bettine von Arnim (1785-1859). Anne Thiel (Georgetown) From Woman to Woman: Benedikte Naubert's "Der kurze Mantel". Dr Eva Reichmann (Bielefeld) Women and the "Wiener Vorstadttheater" 1:00-2:00 lunch 2:00-4:00 MLB 111 Dr Paola Bozzi (Milan) "Heldin der Gelehrsamkeit" und Dichterin: Zu L.A.V. Kulmus Gottscheds Die Pietisterey im Fischbein-Rocke; oder die doctormäßige Frau. Lisa Rainwater (Madison, Wisconsin) Women's Voices of Reason among Chattering Hypocrites: Binary Oppositions in Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched's Didactic Comedies. Dr Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh) Bitter Comedy: Luise Gottsched and Charlotte von Stein 4:00-4:30 MLB 3 tea/coffee 4:30-6:00 MLB 111 Dr Nikolaus Gatter (Bonn) "meine Spezialkenntnis jener Vergangenheit!": Ludmilla Assing -- Rahels Nichte und Herausgeberin ihrer Briefe. Dr Andrew Webber (Cambridge) Die Judenbuche: An Open or Closed Case? **************************************************************************** Dr Laura Martin Lecturer (German Department) and Acting Advisor to Postgraduates (Faculty of Arts) Department of German Language and Literature University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QL G.B. Tel 0141/330-6407 Fax: o141/330-3512 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%