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19th ANNUAL MEETING
University of Sussex
10 November 2007
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Programme:
| 9.30 | Registration |
| 9.40-9.50 | Welcome |
| 9.50-11.00 | Susanne Kord (UCL): 'Infanticide as Woman's Nature: Eighteenth-Century Lawmakers, Philosophers and Physicians in Search of a Motive' |
| Elodie Nevin (Birkbeck College, London): 'Sartorial Symbolism in Women's Writing: 1830-1918' | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments |
| 11.30-13.10 | Caroline Boardman (University of Liverpool): 'The Homosexual Male in Selected Works of Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)' |
| Leanne Dawson (University of Manchester): The 'Femme' in Elfriede Jelinek's Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen (1984) | |
| Rachel Ramsay (University of Manchester): 'Inter-generational and Cross-cultural Encounters in Doron Rabinovici's Ohnehin' | |
| 13.10-14.10 | Lunch |
| 14.10-15.20 | Laura Bradley (University of Edinburgh): 'Censorship by the book: Demetrius and Demitri in Schwerin' |
| Karina von Lindeiner (Anglia Ruskin University): '"Wenn Lenin hätte glauben können, die 'Appassionata' für die revolutionäre Sache hören zu müssen..." Kunst und Politik in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks Das Leben der Anderen' | |
| 15.20-15.30 | Break |
| 15.15-15.40 | Anna Saunders (Bangor University): 'The Luxemburg Legacy: Concretising the Remembrance of a Controversial Heroine' |
| 15.40-16.05 | Karen Leeder (New College, Oxford: '"Übungen der Zugewandtheit": Ulrike Draesner's Poetics of Correspondence' |
| 16.40-18.00 | Business Meeting |