Dear All:
Following the positive reaction to the postgraduate symposium held at Nottingham Trent in November 2003, the German section at NTU plans to hold a second postgraduate symposium on 12 May 2005. Although it is initially envisaged that this be a one-day symposium, we would be open to turning it into a two-day one depending on the response to this call for papers.
The theme of the coming symposium is:
“Making Sense of the Past: Chronicles of the Family in Film, Literature, Biography and Autobiography”
The idea for this symposium owes much to the fact that, since 1990, many literary and (auto)biographical works have been published in Germany which (purport to) reconstruct the history of individual families or family members. Often these works trace this history back to the 19th century or even earlier; often they span several generations; often they examine how family members lived through democracy and (two) dictatorship(s). While there have always been such family chronicles, the post-unification variety may differ in that there is a post-totalitarian, post-Cold War, perhaps even “millennial” stocktaking at work, as well as an attempt to underpin or, by contrast, call into question notions of generational continuity in the wake of what some see as the “renationalisation” of Germany since 1990.
We would welcome papers from postgraduates on any aspect of such post-1990 family histories, be these fictional, semi-fictional, biographical or autobiographical.
However, we would also welcome papers covering the pre-1990 period, not least for comparative purposes.
We plan to publish the papers, or a selection thereof.
I would be grateful if those interested in participating could email a title and short abstract to [log in to unmask] by 31st January 2005.
With best wishes
Bill Niven
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