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Dear Colleagues: Herewith the provisional programme for our conference at NTU in September 2000. Further details with times and a booking form will be sent round to universities in March/April 2000. Thanks to everyone who offered papers - we were very pleased with the response and are looking forward to the conference. With best wishes for Christmas and New Year! Bill Niven INTERSECTIONS - INTERACTIONS - INTERDEPENDENCE CONFERENCE AT THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 6th-8th SEPTEMBER 2000 PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 1. Opening address by guest speaker from Germany (to be arranged) 2. The concept of culture in its development from the 19th to the 20th century (FRITZ WEFELMEYER, Sunderland) 3. The 'Geist und Macht' dichotomy in Germany: just a game of Red Indians? (STUART PARKES, Sunderland) 4. Objectivity, engagement and writing: accounting for political crimes in the early Weimar Republic (JIM JORDAN, Nottingham Trent) 5. In the exile of internment: reflections of German-speaking women interned by the British during the Second World War (CHARMIAN BRINSON, London: Imperial College) 6. The plebiscite of the consumers? Hans Magnus Enzensberger and cultural populism (ALASDAIR KING, London: Royal Holloway) 7. 'Der Schriftsteller als Bürger' ñ Günter Grass and the politics of the seventies (GISELA SCHNEIDER, University College Cork) 8. '"Das habe ich getan", sagt mein Gedächtnis, "Das kann ich nicht getan haben", sagt mein Stolz!"' History and morality in Hochhuth's Effis Nacht (HANS-JOACHIM HAHN, Oxford Brookes) 9. Intersubjectivity, functional coupling, autonomy: Luhmann and Habermas (COLIN GRANT, Heriot-Watt) 10. Cultural and political intersection in the GDR Singebewegung (DAVID ROBB, Belfast) 11. 'Mitläufer, Dissident, PDS-Politiker: GDR cultural politics and Stefan Heym's independent socialism' (REINHARD ZACHAU, University of the South, Sewanee) 12. The GDR and the West: cultural policy and diplomacy in the 1980s (MARIANNE HOWARTH, Nottingham Trent) 13. Fassbinder and the Frankfurt School (PETER THOMPSON, Sheffield) 14. Presentations of Jewish characters in recent German films, with particular reference to Aimée und Jaguar (STUART TABERNER, Bristol) 15. Enlightening 'Nuit et Brouillard': reviewing Alain Resnais' documentary (EWOUT VAN DER KNAAP, Utrecht) 16. Models of the intellectual in contemporary France and Germany (JOHN MARKS, Nottingham Trent) 17. A worm's and a bird's eye view: culture and politics in Berlin after 1989 (ULRIKE ZITZLSPERGER, Exeter) 18. German political culture regarding the 'recent past'. A discourse-analytic view on three public speeches of the 80s and 90s (HANS-JOACHIM HAHN, Berlin) 19. Collective memory and the dialectic of normality in the Berlin Republic (CAROLINE GAY, Birmingham Institute of German Studies) 20. The Holocaust Memorial (MANUEL GULL, Nottingham Trent) 21. "... ein tausendjähriges Unrecht wieder gut machen": women and the German Civil Code (GISELA SHAW, University of the West of England) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%