--- Peter Davies <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:

> Datum:         Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:30:48 +0000
> Von:         Peter Davies
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Betreff: Cultural exchange in German literature
> An:           [log in to unmask]
> 
> Cultural exchange in German literature
> 
> Edinburgh University, 16 December 2006
> 
> Conference Organizers: Prof. Andrew Barker
> (Edinburgh), Dr Eleoma Joshua
> (Edinburgh), Prof. Robert Vilain (Royal Holloway
> University of London)
> 
> The German Department of the University of
> Edinburgh, in conjunction with the
> German Department at Royal Holloway University of
> London, is hosting a major
> international conference to examine the significance
> of cultural exchange in
> determining the nature of German (cultural) identity
> from the medieval period
> to the present.
> The conviction that German culture and the German
> spirit are essentially and
> triumphantly unique has played a notorious and
> dangerous role in that country’s
> history for well over a century. It is nonetheless
> widely acknowledged how
> German cultural production – in both process and
> outcome – has been
> significantly shaped by its interaction with
> non-German sources, and that the
> search for what is unique about Germany and German
> literature must to a large
> extent incorporate its non-German influence.
> This conference aims to offer the forum for a
> wide-ranging, pluralist
> investigation into how German literature from the
> middle ages to the present
> day reflects and articulates some of these
> interactions. Its will encourage the
> identification and tracing of patterns in this area,
> within and across periods,
> as well as the more detailed analysis of individual
> high-points or local
> clusters of significance from the perspective of the
> topic of ‘cultural
> exchange’.
> 
> Areas for examination might include the following
> (although the list is clearly
> not intended to be exhaustive):
> 
> •	German medieval literature and its European
> inspiration
> •	German literature and the Thirty Years War
> •	Germany and the classical cultures of Greece and
> Rome – inspiration or
> tyranny?
> •	German literature and the literature, music and
> art of England, France,
> Ireland, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland and
> Spain
> •	Germany, Switzerland and Austria – distinct
> cultural identities?
> •	Germany and Shakespeare
> •	Germany and the Ostjuden
> •	Germany and the Americanisation of Europe
> •	Orientalism in German literature, the reception of
> Chinese and Japanese
> literature and culture
> •	Germany and Turkey – the impact of the economic
> migrant
> •	Germany’s colonial legacy, postcolonialism in
> German literature
> •	post-war German-Jewish literature and its
> non-German influences
> •	the impact of the translation of German literature
> in Germany itself
> 
> If you would like to take part, please send an
> abstract to Dr. Eleoma Joshua by
> 7 April 2006: Dr. Eleoma Joshua, School of
> Literatures, Languages and Cultures,
> German Section, The University of Edinburgh, David
> Hume Tower, Edinburgh, EH8
> 9JX. Email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> It is anticipated that a volume of essays, edited by
> the organizers, will result
> from the conference.
> 



	

	
		
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