MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE 2000
'Myths and Mythmaking'
hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Pollock Halls, Edinburgh, 28-31 July 2000
Programme
Friday 28 July
| 16.00 |
Arrival Edinburgh Pollock Halls; tea |
| 17.00 |
Welcome (Frances Dow, Dean and Provost, University of Edinburgh;
Helen Chambers, St Andrews) |
| 17.30 |
Karen Leeder (Oxford), Angels |
| 18.30 |
Dinner |
| 20.30 |
Bachmann panel |
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Monika Albrecht (Münster), Mythos Ingeborg Bachmann: Eine kritische
Bilanz |
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Sara Lennox (Massachussets), The Woman Who Rode Away: Mexican
mythology and Ingeborg Bachmann |
Saturday 29 July
| 10.00 |
Christa Wolf panel |
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Brigid Haines (Swansea), Paradigm, Perfection, Possibility: The
deconstruction of myth in Christa Wolf's Kassandra project |
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Helen Bridge (Oxford), Christa Wolf's Kassandra and Medea: continuity
and change |
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Ancient myth |
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Heike Bartel (Nottingham Trent), 'Die unerhörte Tat: Zur Rezeption
des Medea-Mythos' |
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Georgina Paul (Warwick), Multiple Refractions, or Winning Movement
out of Myth: Barbara Köhler's poem-cycle 'Elektra. Spiegelungen' |
| PARALLEL |
Fairy-tale and legend |
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Jeannine Blackwell (Kentucky), Founding Mothers v. Supergirls?
Women narrating legendary queens from c. 1800 to 1900 |
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Loreley French (Pacific), Merlin revisited: Dorothea Schlegel's
'Geschichte des Zauberers Merlin' |
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Bluebeard |
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Mererid Puw Davies (UCL), 'Ein furchtbares Spektakelstück': the
tale of Bluebeard on the German stage |
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Meg Mumford (Glasgow), Pina Bausch and Bluebeard |
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 |
Dis/closures |
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Adriana Cavarero, Feminist approaches to mythmaking |
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Karen Seago, The mythic intertext in Grimms' KHM 50: 'Dornröschen' |
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Renate Rechtien (Bath), Christa Wolf's Medea: Stimmen |
| PARALLEL |
Fausts |
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Patricia Herminghouse (Rochester), Taking Back the Myth and Magic:
'The Heroic Testament' of Irmtraud Morgner |
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Agatha Schwartz (Ottawa), Rosa Mayreder's Anda Renata: a female
Faust? |
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Elisabeth Siekhaus (Mills College), Faustina, She-Devil, or Forever
Gretchen: the casting of women in popular culture's Faust stories |
| 16.00 |
Tea |
| 16.30 |
POSTER SESSION: details soon |
| 18.30 |
Dinner |
| 20.00 |
CREATIVE SESSION |
| 21.30 |
Ceilidh |
Sunday 30 July
| 10.00 |
Myths of creativity |
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Susanne Kord (Georgetown), Myths of Poetic Inspiration: eighteenth-century
women peasant poets and the bourgeois literary imagination |
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Ann McGlashan (Baylor), 'Art was made by men for men': the myth
of the non-creative woman in 19th-century Germany |
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Max Leefe (Johns Hopkins), The construction of a myth: Sigmund
Freud's Moses and monotheism and the structural images of support
|
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Laura McLary (Portland), Georg's Grete: the incest myth and creative
genius |
| PARALLEL |
Manipulating myth |
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Gisela Roethke (Dickinson), The Use of Ancient Greek and Christian
Myths in Elisabeth Langgässer's Novels |
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Ann Lawson (Birmingham), The manipulation of myth: a study of
Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder as a work of its time |
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Birgit Haas, Myths in Modern Theatre: George Tabori's late plays
and the Jewish-Christian tradition |
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Undine Weber (Rhodes, SA), Wolfgang Koeppens System im Umgang
mit Mythen |
| Free afternoon |
(no lunch provided) |
| 20.00 |
Dinner in town |
Monday 31 July
| 9.30 |
Myths of Sex and Gender |
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Beth Linklater (Swansea), 'Philomena's Revenge': challenges to
rape in recent writing in German |
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Mihaela Zaharia (Bucharest), Das mythische Bild des Hermaphroditen |
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Elke Liebs (Potsdam), Biblical women |
| PARALLEL |
(Domi)nation |
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Ingrid Sharp (Leeds), Mythmaking and Gender Relations after Two
World Wars |
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Clare Flanagan (Bristol), Political Myth in German Intellectual
Debate in the late 40s |
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Branka Schaller (London), The Adaptation of Greek Mythology in
Postwar Theatre |
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
| 11.15 |
Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), Silencing the Sirens: Odysseus and
the sirens and some motifs in Wedekind and Kafka |
| 12.15 |
WIGS business meeting |
| 13.00 |
Lunch and departure |
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