THIRTY-THIRD NATIONAL POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM IN GERMAN STUDIES
to be held at the
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room 329/330 Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
On
Friday, 11 and Saturday, 12 April 2003
PROGRAMME
Friday, 11 April
10.00-10.30 COFFEE and REGISTRATION
10.30-11.15 NAOMI IRVINE (University of Cambridge): 'Text Messages: The
Fiction of Reinhard Jirgl'
11.15-12.00 SUSANNE SHANKS (Goldsmiths, University of London): 'Local
Identity in F.R. Fries's "Der Weg nach Oobliadooh". Modern East German
Narratives as Regional Literature'
12.00-12.45 BAREND SCHUTTE (Southampton Institute): 'Exploring the
Possible Motivations and Motives behind the Making of the Film
"Nikolaikirche"'
12.45-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00-14.45 LAURA BALOMIRI (University of Exeter): 'Existence beyond
Thresholds. The Openings of Franz Kafka' "The Castle" and Salman Rushdie's
"The Satanic Verses"'
14.45-15.30 HANNES SCHWEIGER (University of Cambridge): 'Thomas
Bernhard, the "Alpen-Beckett"?
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-16.45 GERTA VALENTINE (University College London): 'Widerlich,
wollüstig und boshaft. Three Villains in Thomas Mann's Work'
16.45-17.30 DANA CHAKER (University of Kent): 'A Modern Comparative
Reading of Thomas Mann's "Der Tod in Venedig" and Vladimir Nabokov's
"Lolita" in the Light of Paedophilia and Child Abuse'
Saturday, 12 April
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-11.45 SIMON THOMAS (Institute of Germanic Studies, London):
'"Poetic Dwelling, Alien Measurements": Heidegger and the Fourth Dimension'
11.45-12.30 ANNEMARIE FRANK (Birkbeck College, London): 'English
Education in the 19th Century and the Humboldtian Legacy'
12.30-13.30 LUNCH (own arrangements)
13.30-14.15 CHRISTINE ANHUT (King's College London): 'Schwejk and the
Nazis. Brecht's Recreation of Schwejk and the Use of Humour in his Play
"Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg"'
14.15-15.00 REBECCA TOWNSEND (University College London): "The Language
of the German Far Right"
15.00-15.30 TEA
15.30-16.15 MARK ELLIOTT (University of Oxford/University of Hamburg):
"German Literature 1930-1945: Old Problems - New Perspectives"'
16.15-17.00 ELIZABETH DYE (University of Nottingham): '"Ein
selbstgestelltes Tabu"? The Newspaper Debate surrounding Günter Grass's "Im
Krebsgang"'
REGISTRATION
To attend, please complete and return the registration form below together
with your FEE of £15.00 and a STAMPED SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE to reach the
Organisers, National Postgraduate Colloquium, c/o Institute of Germanic
Studies, 29 Russell Square, GB-London WC1B 5DP BY FRIDAY, 4 APRIL. Cheques
in £-Sterling please, payable to 'University of London IGS' (we regret
Eurocheques cannot be accepted). The fee is payable by SPEAKERS AS WELL as
other participants.
ACCOMMODATION
Bed-and-breakfast student hall accommodation is available close to the
venue. Please make arrangements direct.
COLLEGE HALL
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HZ
Tel: (0)20- 7685 2000 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
£23.00 per night
CONNAUGHT HALL
36-45 Tavistock Square, London WC1E 9EX
Tel: (0)20- 7685 2800 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
£17.00 per night
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Please direct general enquiries to one of the organisers:
Barrie Baker (Reading): <[log in to unmask]>
Florence Cason (London): <[log in to unmask]>
Catherine Kernot (London): <[log in to unmask]> or
Marielle Sutherland (London): <[log in to unmask]>
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Thirty-Third Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
REGISTRATION FORM
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BY FRIDAY, 4 APRIL 2003.
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University of London School of Advanced Study
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