Events
Thursday, 19 and Friday, 20 November 2009
Co-Ordinators: Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland (Nottingham)
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
9.30 Registration
9.45 Welcome and Introduction
9.50 Keynote Lecture
Roberta Frank (Yale): Arminius and Siegfried: Scenes from a Marriage
10.50 Coffee
11.20 John L. Flood (London): Conrad Celtis (1459-1508), the Pride of German Humanists
11.50 Christopher Krebs (Harvard): Reading and Re-writing Tacitus’ Germania: (Dis)continuities in its Reception from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century
12.20 Ananya Kabir (Leeds): Consecrated Groves: the Imperial Utility of a Tacitean Trope
12.50 Discussion
13.20 Lunch (own arrangements)
Parallel Session A
14.40 Christina Lee (Nottingham): Adam and Edda. Constructions of a Germanic Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century Germany
15.10 Martin Blawid (Leipzig): Malicious Dwarfs, Fair Nymphs, Heroic Gods. Application and Transformation of Germanic Mythology in Richard Wagner’s The Rhinegold
15.40 Maike Oergel (Nottingham): German Freedom - English Liberty: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of a Germanic Legacy
16.10 Discussion
Parallel Session B
14.40 Peter Davies (Edinburgh): ‘Hohe Geltung’ or ‘Herrschaft’? Matriarchy and the Germanic Past
15.10 Martin Findell (Nottingham): The Appropriation of the Norse Poem ‘Hávamál’ in Guido List’s ‘The Secret of the Runes’
15.40 Discussion
16.30 Tea
Parallel Session A
17.00 Martin Hainz (Calgliari): Klopstocks Deutschtum, Gelehrtenrepublik, Europa
17.30 Anselm Heinrich (Glasgow): Germania on Stage - The Nazi ‘Thing’ Theatre
18.00 Discussion
Parallel Session B
17.00 Nicola McLelland (Nottingham): Germanic Ideals and their Linguistic Correlates
17.30 Andreas Musolff (Durham): From ‘Teamchef Arminius’ to ‘Hermann Junior’: Discourses about Hermann der Cherusker as a Model of Regional instead of National Identification
18.00 Discussion
19.00 At the Russell Restaurant, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Conference Dinner (further details)
Friday, 20 November 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
Parallel Session A
10.00 Gernot Wimmer (Szeged): Heinrich von Kleist’s Drama Die Hermannsschlacht
10.30 Tomislav Zelic (Columbia): Heinrich von Kleist’s Germania Myth
11.00 Rachel MagShamhráin (Cork): Kleist’s Die Hermannsschlacht: a Deconstructed National Drama
11.30 Discussion
Parallel Session B
10.00 Judith Beniston (London): Embodying Germania in Friedrich Halm’s Der Fechter von Ravenna
10.30 Martin Brady (London): ‘Germania ortlos’: Arminius and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
11.00 Jason Lieblang (Kwantlen, BC): Arminius, Held des Pauschenpferdes?/Hermann, Hero of the Pommel Horse?
11.30 Discussion
12.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
13.30 Geraldine Horan (London): Germania, Gender, and National Identity: the Role of Germania in Political Discourse in Germany, 1871-1914
14.00 Magnus Brechtken (Nottingham): ‘Hermann the German’ as Cultural Representation of Nationalism in Historical and Historiographical Perspective
14.30 Ray Fleming (Florida): The Politics of Romantic Landscape in Caspar David Friedrich
15.00 Discussion
15.30 Tea
16.00 Keynote Lecture
Alexander Rehding (Harvard): ‘Urklänge’: the Search for the Origins of German Music
17.00 Closing Discussion
17.15 Wine
17.45 End of Conference
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Wednesday, 28 October 2009.
Conference Fees
Both Days
£55.00
£50.00 Reduced Rate
£35.00 Student Rate
1 Day
£35.00
£30.00 Reduced Rate
£25.00 Student Rate
Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only
This conference is sponsored by the Research Strategy Fund and the Institute for Medieval research at
