INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM (MIC)
AND
MASTERCLASSES OF THE
CENTRE FOR IRISH-GERMAN STUDIES (UL)
"The Fall of the Berlin Wall Revisited"
13-14 November 2009
The Department of German Studies, Mary Immaculate College, and the Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, invite you to a postgraduate weekend on 13-14 November 2009.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event which historically signifies the end of the "Cold War" as well as a new beginning for Germany and the rest of Europe. The interdisciplinary colloquium on Saturday, 14 November, in Mary Immaculate College will discuss the profound changes precipitated by the fall of the Wall as well as memories of divided Germany and other former Eastern Bloc countries. It is hoped that the colloquium will bring together postgraduate students from Ireland, Great Britain and Germany to present new insights.
The weekend opens with Masterclass sessions for a restricted number of postgraduate students and a reading by Brigitte Burmeister at the University of Limerick on Friday, 13 November.
All welcome! Please find programme attached.
Jeffrey Weiß, Vera Sebold, Sabine Egger
The Department of German Studies, Mary Immaculate College, and the Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, invite you to a postgraduate weekend on 13-14 November 2009.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event which historically signifies the end of the "Cold War" as well as a new beginning for Germany and the rest of Europe. The interdisciplinary colloquium on Saturday, 14 November, in Mary Immaculate College will discuss the profound changes precipitated by the fall of the Wall and memories of divided Germany and other former Eastern Bloc countries. It is hoped that the colloquium will bring together postgraduate students from Ireland, Great Britain and Germany to present new insights.
INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM (MIC)
AND
MASTERCLASSES OF THE
CENTRE FOR IRISH-GERMAN STUDIES (UL)
"The Fall of the Berlin Wall Revisited"
13-14 November 2009
The weekend opens with Masterclass sessions for a restricted number of postgraduate students and a reading by Brigitte Burmeister at the University of Limerick on Friday, 13 November.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick
14.00-17.40 7th Masterclass for postgraduate students of UL, MIC and NUI Galway
(For further information, please contact Gisela Holfter at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> )
15.00-16.00 Reading by Brigitte Burmeister. Room A1053. All welcome!
17.45-18.45 Workshop for postgraduate students in German with Brigitte Burmeister
All postgraduate students welcome! Room A1050
Followed by supper (sponsored by Centre for Irish-German Studies)
Saturday, 14th November 2009
"The Fall of the Berlin Wall Revisited"
Postgraduate Colloquium, Dept of German Studies,
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
09.00-9.30 Welcome Note (Room G08)
Catherine Kavanagh (Director of Postgraduate Studies, Arts, MIC)
Opening Address (Room G08)
Busso von Alvensleben (German Ambassador)
9.30-10.30 Panel 1 (Room G08)
Alice Mazurek (University of Limerick): A bargain called GDR - The fall of the Berlin Wall in the work of Günter Grass
Shane O'Sullivan (Mary Immaculate College): A spatial analysis of the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall on migratory patterns in Ireland 1989-2009
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.00 Panel 2 (Room G08)
Diane Jane Beech (University of Cambridge): From the NSDAP to the SED: Dealing with the legacy of the East German Protestant Church and its history accommodation
Jeffrey Weiss (Mary Immaculate College): Surveillance, betrayal and the writer Jürgen Fuchs
12.00-13.00 Panel 3 (Room G08)
Juliane Schöneich (University of Osnabrück): Woman and the Wende
Vera Sebold (Mary Immaculate College): The image of women in the work of Brigitte Reimann
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Plenary Lecture (Room G08)
Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol): After the Wall: Reconstructing and Representing the GDR, Presentation of Interdisciplinary Research Network, funded by the AHRC
15.00-15.15 Tea/Coffee
15.15-16.15 Panel 4 (Room G08)
Liliana Kalinowska (Mary Immaculate College): Polish Kindergartens before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Nico Elste (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg): The inevitability of cultural appropriation in Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin
16.15-16.30 Closing Remarks
16.30 Wine Reception (Room G10)
with songs from The Threepenny Opera (Brecht/Weill),
presented by the Bare Space Theatre Co.
All are welcome to attend the colloquium. No registration required.
For further information, please contact [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Colloquium organisers: Jeffrey Weiß, Vera Sebold, Sabine Egger
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