Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to a colloquium in memory of Professor John White (Emeritus), former Head of the Department of German at King’s College London and renowned scholar of literary modernism, who passed away in January 2015.
The colloquium will take place in the Weston Room at King’s College London on Thursday, 11th February 2016 and will be followed by an evening reception.
The Department of German is honoured to be hosting this event commemorating John’s life and scholarship. Please see the programme below for further details.
If you would like to attend, please contact Franziska Noessig at [log in to unmask] no later than Monday, 1st February 2016.
We very much look forward to seeing you in February.
Best wishes,
Ben Schofield
Dr Benedict Schofield
Head of Department of German
King’s College London
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**** Programme****
THE MODERNIST ADVENTURE
A COLLOQUIUM IN MEMORY OF JOHN JAMES WHITE
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
Thursday 11th February 2016
Weston Room, Maughan Library, 77-78 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AE
09.00 Registration
09.30 Benedict Schofield (KCL): Welcome
09.45 Jeremy Adler (KCL): “John J. White: A Brief Appreciation of his Scholarship.”
10.00 Jonathan White (LSE): “Rhythm and its Absence in Modern Music and Politics.”
10.30 Chris Thornhill (Manchester): “Modernism and Law in the Weimar Republic.”
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Ronald Speirs (Birmingham): “‘Äußerst beweglich und nicht zu fangen.‘ Some Aspects of Movement in Kafka.”
12.00 Michael Minden (Cambridge): “Kafka’s 'Die Verwandlung' and the Condition of Subjectivity.”
12.30 Robert Vilain (Bristol): “Rilke’s 'Spanische Tänzerin': A Modernist Icon.”
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Martin Swales (UCL): “Günter Grass's 'Im Krebsgang' and the Novelle.”
14.30 Charmian Brinson (IC): “The Free German League of Culture's 'Kleine Sammlung', 1946: Last Words in Exile, First Words to the 'Heimat'.”
15.00 Martin Brady (KCL): “Die Hauptsache ist, plump denken lernen.” Brecht’s 'Herrnburger Bericht' as a GDR Learning Play.
15.30 Tea
16.00 Erica Carter (KCL): “Gender, Film and Modernism: Finding the New Woman.”
16.30 Robert Gillett (QMUL): “Making a Modernist Text: An Editor’s View of 'Mutmaßungen über Jakob'.”
17.00 Leonard Olschner (QMUL): “Adorno reading the Contradictions of Poetry.”
17.30 Reception
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