Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland
Seventy-First Meeting 26-28 March 2008 was held at:-
The University of Nottingham
and The Nottingham Trent University
The Seventy-First Meeting was hosted by the University of Nottingham and
the Nottingham Trent University, and was held in the Portland Building
on the University of Nottingham campus from Wednesday 26 March to Friday
28 March 2008.
The lead panel at the Seventy-First Meeting was entitled "National Identities, Minority Cultures and Their International Contexts: From Medieval Universalism to Postcolonial Globalisation" and sought to explore the following issues: cross-cultural experience and its impact on domestic culture and identity; minority culture, cross-cultural experience and their international contexts in the development of the German language and its variants; critiques of national and cultural identity in German critical theory and philosophy; interactions between the regional, the national and the international in German, Austrian and Swiss history and culture; minority cultures, transnational experience and the rise of German national identity in the 19th century; diasporic literatures and cultures in the German speaking world (German-Turkish, Oriental, East European, African, etc.), their national and transnational implications; legacies of colonialism and aspects of postcolonialism in German literature, film and culture; globalisation and its impact on the culture of the German speaking countries; German cross-cultural and postcolonial discourses and their relationship to relevant discourses in Anglophone, Francophone etc. culture and theory.
Other panels included Critical Theory, Linguistics, History and panels on 18th Century, 19th Century and 20th Century Studies, Gender and German Studies, and the theme of Flucht und Vertreibung.
Programme
Wednesday, 26 March |
Arriving members will be met by representatives of the Nottingham and Nottingham Trent German Departments, in the Portland Building, Floor C. |
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15.00-15.30 |
Opening Business |
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15.30-17.00 (parallel sessions)
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Lead panel 1 (C11) David Rock (Keele): Cultural versus regional/territorial identity: The case of Romanian-German writer Richard Wagner Raluca Radulescu (Bukarest) Raluca Radulescu (Bukarest): Go between: Die rumniendeutsche Literatur als Minderheitenliteratur. Identitre Selbstsuche und Kanonbildung Katharina Wessely (Brno): Sudetendeutsche Identitten auf der Bhne Ulrich Tiedau (UCL): German-Speaking Identity in Belgiums Eastern Cantons |
History and remembrance 1 (Anna Saunders) (East Concourse) Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol): Images of Childhood in the GDR Ute Hirsekorn (University of Nottingham): The Self-Presentation of GDR Party Officials in Post-Wende Autobiographical Texts Ute Wlfel (University of Reading): Das Leben der Anderen - Bourgeois tradition in the GDR museum |
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17.00-18.30 |
Linguistics 1 (Nils Langer) (C11) Melani Schrter (Reading): Key Words in Debates: A grassroots approach to political discourse. John Bellamy (Manchester): Language attitudes in Austria and the UK |
20th century and contemporary studies 1 (Debbie Pinfold) (East Concourse) Ian Cooper (Selwyn College, Cambridge): Grnbeins Wende: Space, Time, Voice Steve Joy (Selwyn College, Cambridge): The Voice of the Other in Thomas Manns Deutsche Hrer! Sara Jones (Nottingham): Nicht verboten, nur nicht erlaubt: Hermann Kant and the publication of Impressum in the GDR |
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19.00 |
Dinner in Lenton and Wortley Hall of Residence |
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20.30 |
Plenary (C11) Dan Hall (Nottingham): Mrchen, the marvellous and more: the beginnings of the Fantastic in German literature |
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Tuesday 27 March 8.00 |
Breakfast |
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9.00-10.00 |
Plenary (C11) Margaret Littler (Manchester): Cramped creativity: The politics of a minor German literature |
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10.00-10.30
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Reports (C11) Report by DAAD Reports from other organisations |
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10.30-11.00 |
Coffee / Tea (West Concourse) |
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11.00-12.30 (parallel sessions) |
Critical theory (Steve Giles) (C11) Ben Hutchinson (Kent): Jean Amerys Dialog mit dem franzsischen Strukturalismus Angus Nicholls (QMUL): Begriffsgeschichte contra Hermeneutik: notes on a confrontation between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Reinhart Koselleck. |
19th century studies (Eleoma Joshua) (East Concourse) Susanne Kord (UCL): Strategies of containment: Female vampires in literature Tanja Hagedorn (Limerick): The humourless German in late nineteenth century German literature Peter Davies (Edinburgh): Why are ideas convincing? The career of matriarchal myths in the late nineteenth century |
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| 12.30 | Lunch (West Concourse) | ||
13.45-15.15 |
Linguistics 2 (C11) (Nils Langer) Filippo Nereo (Manchester): Language as a residual marker of identity: the case of the Vy?kov/Wischau speech enclave Jenny Carl (Southampton): Minority policy and identities: a case study in Prague |
History and remembrance 2 (Anna Saunders) (East Concourse) Veronika Tuckerova (Columbia University): Whose Kafka? Reception of Franz Kafka in Czechoslovakia, East- and West Germany Karina Lindeiner-Strsk (Aberystwyth University): Im Urteil ihrer Zeit ? The memory of Gustaf Grndgens and Wilhelm Furtwngler in biographies and memoirs of the 1950s and 1960s Charlotte Ryland (Queens College, Oxford): Re-membering Adorno: Political and cultural agendas in the debate about post-Holocaust art |
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15.15-15.45 |
Tea / Coffee (West Concourse) |
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15.45-17.15 |
Flucht und Vertreibung (Bill Niven) (C11) Elizabeth Boa, Lost Heimat in novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein and Angelika Overath Karina Berger (Leeds): German wartime suffering in Walter Kempowskis Alles umsonst (2006) Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent): Flight and expulsion in GDR novels of the 1950s and 1960s Axel Bangert (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge): Eine integrale Geschichte des Leidens? Flucht und Vertreibung in contemporary German film |
20th century and contemporary studies 2 (Debbie Pinfold) (East Concourse) Martin Brady (Kings College, London): Die Schwmme... Wer das lesen knnt.: Peter Handkes magic mushrooms. Helen Finch (Leeds): Die Vermessung der Weimarer Klassik. Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt and the rehabilitation of Enlightenment. Johannes Birgfeld (Saarbrcken): Engaged with the world?: Contemporary German literatures transgressions of German issues and history |
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17.15-18.15 |
Business Meeting AGENDA
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18.30 |
Reception in Mix Bar, Lenton and Wortley Hall of Residence |
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19.00 |
Conference Dinner in Lenton and Wortley Hall of Residence |
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20.30 |
Lead panel 2 (C11) Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi (Heidelberg): Auxiliary troops in overseas: German colonial identities in the 18th century Axel Dunker (Mainz): Patriotismus und Poesie: Minoritten in Achim von Arnims Novellensammlung von 1812 vor dem Hintergrund der Befreiungskriege Monika Albrecht (Nottingham): Creating difference: Postcolonialism and the German headscarf debate |
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Friday 28 March 8.00 |
Breakfast |
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9.00-10.30 (parallel sessions) |
18th century studies (Dan Wilson) (C11) Steffan Davies (Bristol): Unreliable evidence: historical documents on Schillers stage Yvonne Nilges (Oxford): What is, and to what end do we study, Schiller's narratives? Seelenlehre and criminal aetiology Gert Vonhoff (Exeter): Erzhlgeschichte |
Gender and German Studies (Renate Rechtien) (East Concourse) Lorna Martens (University of Virginia): Gender, psychoanalysis, and childhood autobiography: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster Emily Jeremiah (Royal Holloway, University of London): Strange encounters: Nomadism in contemporary womens writing in German Matthias Uecker (University of Nottingham): Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann? Performances of masculinity in contemporary German cinema |
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10.30-11.00 |
Coffee / Tea |
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11.00-12.30 |
Lead panel 3 (C11) Michaela Wirtz (Aachen): Deutsche Juden und der Erste Weltkrieg: Nationale Identittsbestimmungen zwischen Deutschtum und Judentum, deutschem Nationalismus und Zionismus Katya Krylova (Cambridge): Identity, topography and melancholy in Thomas Bernhards Ungenach and Ingeborg Bachmanns Drei Wege zum See Robert Knight (Loughborough): Cultural exchange in a polarised context? Slovenes and (Austrian) Germans in post-Nazi Carinthia 1945-1958 |
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12.30-13.00 |
Closing Business |
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13.00 |
Lunch (West Concourse) and Departure |
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