Wednesday 05 September 2007

 

14:00 Registration (refreshments provided)

 

14:45 Official welcome

 

15:00-16:30 Provenance: situating Grass

 

Volker Neuhaus (University of Cologne, Germany)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nazi: The Importance of Grass’s Provenance

 

Michael Minden (University of Cambridge, UK)

Grass, Guilt and Autobiographical Fiction

 

Herman Beyersdorf (University of New England, Australia)

Günter Grass and the Waffen-SS: Literature and Reality

 

16:30-17:00 Tea

 

17:00-18:00 Transmission: international perspectives in Grass’s work

 

Michal Ben-Horin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Habits of Misunderstanding: Grass in Israel

 

Julian Preece (University of Kent, UK)

‘Nach seiner inneren Geographie floß die Spree in die Rhône’: Ein weites Feld and France

 

18:00 Wine reception

 

 

  

 

Thursday 06 September 2007

 

09:30-11:00 Keynote Address

 

Avi Primor (Israeli Ambassador to Germany, 1993-1999)

Der politische Einfluss von Günter Grass auf die deutsche Jugend

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee

 

11:30-13:00 Transmission: dialogue with world literature

 

Karen Leeder (University of Oxford, UK)

Letzte Tänze: Günter Grass’s Lateness

 

Timothy B. Malchow (Valparaiso University, US)

Indispensable, Inadequate Narratives: The Evolution of Grass’s Oeuvre in Late Modernity

 

Peter Arnds (Kansas State University, US)

Dwelling and Wandering in Grass, Rushdie and Sebald

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

 

14:30-15:00 Working groups

 

15:00-15:30 Tea

 

15:30-17:00 Transmission: writing literature, writing history

 

Krishna Winston (Wesleyan University, US)

Translating Günter Grass

 

Rebecca Braun (University of Liverpool, UK)

A Noble Winner? The Impact of International Acclaim on Grass’s Recent Work

 

Karina von Lindeiner (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

‘Reviving the German Suffering’: Im Krebsgang und die neue deutsche Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der deutschen und britischen Presse

 

19:00 Conference dinner

 

 

 

Friday 07 September 2007

 

10:00-11:30 Reception: literary impact on world literature

 

Patrick O’Neill (Queen’s University, Canada)

Günter Grass International: The North American Reception

 

Sascha Seiler (University of Mainz, Germany)

‘Men Without a Country’: Kurt Vonnegut’s Readings of Günter Grass

 

Pawel C. Wozniak (Queen’s University, Canada)

Weiser Dawidek: Schreitet Mahlkes Doppelgänger in die polnische Wirklichkeit?

 

11:30-12:00 Coffee

 

12:00-12:30 Working groups

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-16:00 Reception: political impact on Germany’s international image

 

Katharina Hall (University of Swansea, UK)

‘Zeugnis ablegen – im Widerspruch zur öffentlichen Geschichtsschreibung’: Günter Grass and the Historiography of National Socialism

 

Siegfried Mews (University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, US)

The Tin Drummer Marches On: The Post-Wende Reception of Günter Grass in the US

 

Alexandra Ludewig (The University of Western Australia)

Vom guten Deutschen zum typischen Nazi: Günter Grass im Spiegel der Kritik in Ozeanien (insbesondere in Australien und Neuseeland)

 

Cesare Giacobazzi (University of Modena, Italy)

Die italienische Rezeption von Grass: Ein drastischer Fall von „Diskulturalität“

 

16:00-16:30 Tea

 

16:30-17:00 Closing discussion