INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study * University of London
>>>Registration now open: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17676 (closing date: 31 March 2019)
Thursday, 4 and Friday, 5 April 2019
65th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
Venue: IMLR, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Programme
Thursday, 4 April 2019
10.00-10.30 Registration / Welcome / Coffee
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Individuals, Societies and Systems: Navigating Boundaries
Caitlin Jones (University of Oxford): The Anxious Infection of Normative Boundaries in Adalbert Stifter's Granit
Georgina Edwards (University of Oxford): Building on Bildung - Reconciling the Individual and the Institution through the Work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Hesse
Michael Watzka (Columbia University in the City of New York): Reporting from a Global 'No-Man's-Bay' - Daily Rhythms, Local Time Zones, and Self-Imposed Seclusion in 1980s' Journal Writing
12.00-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00-15.00 Panel 2: Questioning Narrators
Jeremy Points (University of Swansea): 'Soviel Wirklichkeit ermüdet': the Male Narrator's Defensive Narratives in Günter Grass' Die Rättin (1986)
Eike Andre Wermes (Freie Universität Berlin): The Aesthetics of Narcissism in the Early Works of Thomas Mann
Hanna E. Schumacher (University of Warwick): Nach der Langeweile. Boredom, Critical Posthumanism and Kulturkritik
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 Panel 3: Radicalism and the Male Gaze
Joseph Russo (University of Glasgow): Queer Eye for the (secretly not) Straight Guy: Homoeroticism and Queer Male Gaze in John Henry Mackay's Der Schwimmer
Marlyn Steffens (University College Cork): Female Terrorists on Screen: the Reverse Scopophilia of Terror
17.00-17.30 Break
17.30-18.00 Drinks
18.00-19.00 2019 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Doriane Zerka (King's College London): Depictions of Iberia in Medieval German Literature
Friday, 5 April 2019
09.30-10.00 Welcome / Coffee
10.00-11.00 Panel 4: Politics and Womanhood
Clarisa Novello (University of Aberdeen): Climate Change and Misogyny in 21st-Century German Women's Writing
Elizabeth Kajs (University of Bristol): Motherhood as Creative Site: Linking Artistry and Reproduction in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 5: Interpreting and Utilizing Literature
Richelle Whitehead (Queen Mary University of London): On the Self: Nietzsche's Use of Literature
Robert Britten (University of Cambridge): Writing Reality beyond Realism: Brecht's 'Hands-on' Approach to Political Art
Maria Khan (University of Cambridge): Performing Goethe's Faust with Turkish-German Secondary School Students in Berlin
13.00-14.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.30-16.00 Keynote Lecture
Richard McClelland (University of Bristol): title to be confirmed
16.00-16.30 Closing Remarks / Colloquium Ends
Advance online registration required by 31 March 2019.
Registration fee: £15.00 (flat rate for both days); £10 (one day only).
The registration fee covers refreshments, and is payable by all participants and speakers.
Registration: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17676
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