Subject: Conference: Kennst du das Land? Cultural Exchange in German
Literature/ Kulturaustausch in der deutschen Literature, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK ( 14.12.2006 – 15.12.2006)
A conference organised by the German Section, the University of Edinburgh
and the Department of German, Royal Holloway, University of London.
14th-15th December 2006
The conviction that German culture and the German spirit is 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’.
Programme,
Thursday, 14th December 2006
The Wolfson Suite in the Main Library of Edinburgh University
9.00-9.30 Registration and Coffee
9.30-9.45 Welcome
9.45-10.45 Keynote paper and discussion
Susanne Kord (London – UCL): Defining Cultural Exchange: Of Gender, the
Power of Definition, and the Long Road Home.
10.45-11.15 Break for refreshments
Panel 1: EAST MEETS WEST (11.15-12.45)
11.15-11.40
Birgit Tautz (Bowdoin): From Text to Body: The Changing Image of “Chinese
Teachers” in Eighteenth-Century German Literature.
11.40-12.05
Hub Nijissen (Nijmegen): Strategien beim Übersetzen aus dem Chinesischen
durch Hans Bethge, Klabund und Günter Eich.
12.05-12.30
Silvia Horsch (Berlin – ZfL): “Was findest Du darinne, das nicht mit der
allerstrengsten Vernunft übereinkomme?” Islam as a Vehicle of criticism in
Lessing’s Writings.
12.30-12.50
Discussion
12.50-14.00 Lunch
Panel 2: TRAVEL BETWEEN CULTURES (14.00-15.30)
14.00-14.25
Eleoma Joshua (Edinburgh): Cultural Exchange in the Travel Writing of
Friedrich Stolberg.
14.25-14.50
Sabine Wilke (Washington): “Indigenous Laughter”: The Voice of the Other
in Tales from the “South Seas“.
14.50-15.15
Discussion
15.15-15.30 Break for refreshments
Panel 3: CULTURAL TITANS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD (15.30-18.00)
15.30-15.55
John Williams (Greenwich): Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Wordsworth, and
the Translation of British Romantic Poetry into the Conflicts of
Nineteenth Century German Nationalism.
15.55-16.20
Roman Lach (Berlin – TU): Walter Scott und die Aus¬ein¬ander¬setzung um
den Realismus in Deutschland.
16.20-16.50 Discussion
16.50-17.15
Uwe Seja (Cambridge): Adam Smith and German Culture 1836-1874.
17.15-17.40
Hugh Ridley (Dublin - UCD): Nietzsche and Emerson: Identity and
Identification.
17.40-18.00
Discussion
19.30 Conference Dinner
Friday 15th December 2006
The Wolfson Suite in the Edinburgh University Main Library
Panel 4: BETWEEN CULTURES: INTEGRATION – ASSIMILATION – MULTI¬CULTURALISM
(9.00-10.30)
9.00-9.25
Silke Horstkotte (Leipzig): Feridun Zaimuglu’s Leyla and the Debate on
Multiculturalism and Failed Integration.
9.25-9.50
Lyn Marven (Liverpool): ‘Kanacke her, Almanci hin. “Ich war ein
Kreuzberger”. Berlin as a Site of Turkish-German Cultural Exchange.
9.50-10.15
Margaret Littler (Manchester): ‘Anatolian Childhoods’. Emine Segvi
Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei and Feridun Zaimuglu’s Leyla.
10.15-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Break for refreshments
Panel 5: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE PROCESSES OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE (11.00-
12.30)
11.00-11.25
Christian Moser (Bonn): Aneignung vs. Zirkulation: Johann Gottfried
Herders Konzeption des interkulturellen Austauschs.
11.25-11.50
Thomas Markwart (Berlin – TU): Karl Emil Franzos und das Phantom der
deutschen Kultur in Osteuropa.
11.50-12.15
Regina Hartmann (Stettin): Alfred Döblin: “Reise in Polen” (1926) – Reise
zu ostjüdischer Identität und Erzähltradition.
12.15-12.30
Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Panel 6: NORTH AND SOUTH (14.00-16.00)
14.00-14.25
Gauti Kristmannsson (Iceland): The Nordic Turn in German Literature.
14.25-14.50
Christian Benne (Odense): The Nordic Connection: Culture, Civil¬is¬ation,
and the Case of Felix Dahn.
14.50-15.00
Discussion
15.00-15.25
Arno Gimber (Madrid): Spanien in der Weimarer Republik. Literarische
Konstruktionen als Antwort auf eine Gesellschaftskrise.
15.25-15.50
Gerald Bär (Lisbon): Portuguese Themes and Motifs in German Literature:
From Kudrun to Tieck’s Der Tod des Dichters.
15.50-16.00
Discussion
16.00-16.30 Break for Refreshments
Panel 7: AMERICA (16.30-18.30)
16.30-16.55
Daniela Kremer (Durham): Cultural Confrontation in 19th Century German
Literature of the Americas: Trappers and Other Hybrid Characters.
16.55-17.20
Jon Hughes (London - Royal Holloway): ‘Sprechen wir wie in Texas’:
American Influence in the Weimar Republic.
17.20-17.45
Thomas Martinec (Regensburg): ‘Amerika in Deutschland. Stars and Stripes
in Europe.’ Cultural Blending in Wolfgang Koeppen’s “Tauben im Gras”.
17.45-18.00
Discussion
18.00-19.00 Conclusion and Vin d’honneur
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION PROCESS
Cultural Exchange in German Literature
14th-15th December, 2006
Conference Registration for Delegates
Step- by- step guide
1. Please could all delegates use this webpage to pay the conference fee:
http://www.finance.ed.ac.uk/ePayment/erafrontpage.htm
2. Click on the phrase: "Click here to make a payment"
3. Type in your email address and create a password, confirm it and
proceed.
4. Enter your personal details and proceed. Only UoE staff need to enter
their Staff ID
number.
5. For “Select Department”, enter Division of European Languages and
Cultures.
6. For “Category”, enter Conference.
7. For “Product”, enter Cultural Exchange German Lit
8. Note that a special tariff has been set up for the delegates.
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Please note that the conference fee does not include accommodation.
Delegates are requested to arrange their own overnight stay in Edinburgh.
The following website can be used for booking rooms in hotels and bed &
breakfast accommodation: http://www.visitscotland.com
A late fee will be charged from 1st December 2006.
Please contact the conference organiser Dr Eleoma Joshua or the Secretary
for German Ms Alison McCracken, if you have any queries:
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