Women in German Studies
Site for female Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland, supporting them in all aspects of their professional life.
16th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Selwyn College, Cambridge
13 November 2004
| 9.45 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE |
| 10.00-11.30 | PANEL A: Goethezeit Jo Tudor (Durham): 'Structured sound and structured sense: Music as an aspect of Goethe's thought' Margot Paterson (formerly UEA): 'Die geliebte Doppengängerin in Lebensläufe in aufsteigender Linie (1778)' Anna Richards (Birkbeck): 'Sentimentality and mourning in German culture, 1950-1800' PANEL B: GDR Elizabeth Catling (Exeter/Salzburg): 'Altes Handwerk gegen neue Kunst': The Ernst Busch Theatre School as a site of East German distinctiveness in the United Republic' Laura Bradley (Oxford): 'GDR theatre censorship: a system in denial' Beate Muller (Newcastle): "Aktenkundig: Wissen, Macht und Ohnmacht in MfS-Diskursen über Jurek Becker" / 'Aktenkundig': Stasi-Discourses about Jurek Becker |
| 11.45-12.45 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| 12.45-13.45 | LUNCH |
| 13.50-15.30 | PANEL A: Twenty-first-century literature Birgit Lang (Oxford): 'Krieg und Kitsch: Politics and intertextuality in Juli Zeh's fiction' Rebecca Beard (Oxford): 'What's in a name? Ideas of authorship in Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld and Im Krebsgang' Deirdre Byrnes (NUI, Galway): '"Versteckte Botschaften": Biographers and Biographies in Monika Maron's novel Endmoränen' PANEL B: Women in art Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge): 'Criticising the reader: aristocratic wives, daughters and mistresses in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbacn's fiction' Christiane Schönfeld (NUI, Galway): 'Lotte Reininger and the art of animation' Michi Gigerl (Bristol): 'Frauengeschichte "von unten" in den Fernsehserien Lebenslinien (Käthe Kratz, 1983-4) und Alpensaga (Peter Turrini/Wilhelm Pevny/Dieter Berner, 1976-80)' |
| 15.30-16.00 | TEA |
| 16.00-17.30 | PANEL A: Identity Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford): 'Snapshots of Power: Photography, Politics and Identity in Kafka's Ein Hungerkünstler and Blumfeld ein älterer Jungeselle' Valerie Heffernan (NUI, Maynooth): '"Zeugen einer doppelten Verdrängung"?: Representations of World War II in Swiss Literature' Ursula Ackrill (NUI, Galway): 'Otherness in Günter Grass's Hundejahre and Der Butt' PANEL B: Poetry and song Karen Leeder (Oxford): '"Hieroglyphentänze": the poetry of Brigitte Oleschinski' Annette Blühdorn (Bath): 'Political Confessions in a Post-Political Era: The Political Minnesinger Konstantin Wecker' Inez Templeton (Stirling): 'What's so German about it?: Race and Cultual Identity in Berlin's Hip Hop Community' |
| 17.30 | CLOSE |