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Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory
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Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
Queen Mary, University of London
25 - 27 April 2007
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute (London), the Gerda
Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf), the German Embassy, the Austrian Cultural
Forum and the British Museum.
Conference Co-ordinators: Professor Rüdiger Görner and Dr Angus Nicholls
(both QMUL) Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations.
To be held at QMUL (Mile End Campus), the British Museum, the German
Historical Institute (17 Bloomsbury Square), and the German House (34
Belgrave Square).
For further information please contact:
Lisa Stubbings
School of Modern Languages
Queen Mary, University of London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3374
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: [log in to unmask]
Registration for all three days: £15 / £5 (for students)
ALL WELCOME
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PROGRAMME
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*****WEDNESDAY 25th APRIL*****
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
14.30: Welcome and Introduction by Rüdiger Görner, Queen Mary, University of
London: On Mythological Presences
Session on Theories of Myth
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
15:00: Keynote Lecture I: Christoph Jamme (Lüneburg): Mythos zwischen
Sprache und Schrift
15.45: Tea
16.15: Herwig Gottwald (Salzburg): Gegenwärtigkeit des Mythos nach der
Aufklärung? Mythostheoretische Einwände
17.00: Ruth Neubauer-Petzoldt (Regensburg): Mythos - 'Leitmythen' -
Daseinsmetapher und ihr Zusammenspiel im kollektiven Gedächtnis
17.45: Break
18.30: Reception at the German Historical Institute, (17 Bloomsbury Square)
19.30: Keynote Lecture II: Kurt Hübner (Kiel): Rationality in Myth and
Science, at The British Museum, The Sackler Rooms (Bloomsbury)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
*****THURSDAY 26th APRIL*****
Session on Myth, Religion and Ethnology
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Angus Nicholls (QMUL)
10.45: Lucas Marco Gisi (Bern): Kulturvergleich in den
Mythentheorien der Spätaufklärung
11.30: Coffee
12.00: Bernd Hamacher/Myriam Richter (Hamburg): Deutsch-englische
Mythos-Mythen. Oxford 1908 - universelle und nationale Forschungstraditionen
12.45: Lunch (own arrangements)
Parallel Session 1: Mythologies around 1800
(Room 1.01.1, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
14.00: Maike Oergel (Nottingham): The bard-figure around 1800 in English and
German literary thought
14.45: Rüdiger Singer (Göttingen): 'Euphrosyne', Ossian, Shakespeare:
Nordische und klassizistische Mythologeme in Goethes Elegie auf die
Schauspielerin Christiane Becker
15.30: Tea
Parallel Session 2: Mythologies around 1900
(Room 1.02.6, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Angus Nicholls (QMUL)
14.00: Christian Benne (Odense): Dionysos in Deutschland und England -
unterschiedliche Konzeptionen der Moderne
14.45: Maria Thanassa (KCL): In the Embrace of the Swan: The Poetry and
Politics of Corruption in Yeats and Lawrence
15.30: Tea
Session on Mythological (Con-) Figurations
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
16.00: Bernd Blaschke (FU Berlin): Mythische Romane der modernen Stadt:
Joyces Ulysses und Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz
16.45: Ritchie Robertson (Oxford): Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of
Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann
17.30: Break
18.30: Wine Reception at the German House, 34 Belgrave Square, followed by:
19.30: Keynote Lecture III: Wilfried Barner (Göttingen): Britische und
deutsche Mythologeme in der europäischen 'Gestalt' Lord Byrons
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
*****FRIDAY 27th APRIL*****
Parallel Sessions on Twentieth-Century Myth Reception
(Rooms 1.01.1 and 1.02.6, Francis Bancroft Building)
Session 1 (Room 1.01.1)
Chair: Angus Nicholls (QMUL)
10.00: Timo Günther (HU Berlin): Mythos und Irrationalismus. Isaiah Berlins
Blick auf Hamann
10.45: I.D. Cooper (Cambridge): Myth, Genealogy, Deconstruction: Strauss and
Eliot
11.30: Coffee
Session 2 (Room 1.02.6)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL)
10.00: Monika Ritzer (Leipzig): Mythisches Erzählen im Faschismus - die
Romanexperimente der 30er Jahre (Hermann Broch, C.G. Jung und Thomas Mann)
10.45: Petra Rau (Portsmouth): 'The sight of this pale brown naked Flesh!':
Mythical Aryan masculinity and British Travel Writing of 1930s Germany
11.30: Coffee
Session on Visual Mythologies
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Leonard Olschner (QMUL)
12.00: Sibylle Erle (QMUL): The Myth of the lost Original: Blake and
Lavater's search for Divine Likeness
12.45: Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00: Jochen Bedenk (Galway): Mythen des Nichts - Hogarth und Jean Paul
14.45: Ernest Schonfield (Oxford): Myths of Anglo-German Surrealism: Max
Ernst and Leonora Carrington
Session on Contemporary Mythologies
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Astrid Köhler (QMUL)
15.30: Susanne Schmid (Frankfurt/M): Mythomania and Contemporary Women
Writers: Angela Carter and Christa Wolf
16.15: Tea
16.45: Volker Mergenthaler (Tübingen): Coventry und Dresden, Ninive und
Sodom. Durs Grünbeins Koordinaten mythologischer Sinnstiftung nach dem 11.
September 2001
Concluding Keynote Lecture
(CMLT Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building)
Chair: Angus Nicholls (QMUL)
17.30: Keynote Lecture IV: Robert A. Segal (Lancaster/Aberdeen): From
Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorising About Myth in Britain and
Germany
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