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WIGS POSTGRADUATE TRAINING DAY
University of Birmingham
Friday 7 November 2009
Postdoctoral Funding: Dr Sara Jones
Post-PhD / Current Research Climate: Dr Joanne Sayner
WIGS 21st ANNUAL MEETING
University of Birmingham
Saturday 7 November 2009
Programme:
| 10.00 | Registration |
| 10.30-11.30 | Wini Davies (Aberystwyth): 'The Role of (Lay) Linguistic Myths in the Reproduction of Linguistic Norms' |
Hilary Brown (Swansea): 'Luise Gottsched the Translator' |
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| 11.30-12.00 | Refreshments |
| 12.00-13.00 | Claudia Sandberg (Southhampton): 'On the National Screen: Readings of Peter Lilienthal’s Es herrscht Ruhe im Land (1976) in West and East Germany' |
| Elizabeth Catling: 'Between Alpine Arcadia and Tourist Trap: The Sattler Panorama as a Key Towards an Understanding of Contemporary Salzburg' | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15.30 | Tara Windsor (Birmingham): '"Außerordentlicher Gesandter des deutschen Geistes": Thomas Mann’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Weimar Years' |
| Diana Beech (Cambridge): 'Between Defiance and Compliance: Reconceptualising the Kirchenkampf via the three German “state” bishops of Hanover, Bavaria and Württemberg' | |
| Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský (Aberystwyth): '"Indoctrinated, but not incurable"? Klaus Mann's Return to Europe and his Interrogation of German Prisoners of War' | |
| 15.30-16.30 | Business Meeting with Sekt |