Events
Thursday 17 - Friday 18 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Bilderrätsel des gesprungenen Bewusstseins / Modernism and the Beginnings of Visual Culture (1890-1938) -
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 21 May, 10:00 - 17:00
HoGMeet - Annual Meeting of University Heads of German -
Contact: cole@daad.org.uk
Wednesday 23 May, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar -Laure Guilbert (Paris/London):
German and Austrian Dance in Exile in the World 1933-1945
POSTPONED UNTIL 21 NOVEMBER 2012
More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 May, 10:00 - 17:00
9th Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Postgraduate Conference -Postgraduates from the UK and abroad discuss their research on Austrian literature and culture
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 May, 19:00 - 21:00
Doron Rabinovici Reads from his Novel 'Andernorts' -Doron Rabinovici, novelist, essayist, and historian, was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv and has lived in Vienna since 1964. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories as well as important works of non-fiction. He will read from his most recent novel, Andernorts (Elsewhere), which was short-listed for the German Book Prize in 2010. Rabinovici is a prominent and politically-engaged intellectual in Austria. In his writing he takes up central political and sociological issues such as identity politics, victimhood, the moral obligation to remember the Shoah, German and Austrian responsibility, Israel, anti-Semitism, and the inevitable skewing of a message by its medium, and turns them inside out and back upon themselves.
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ
Seats must be reserved in advance (email: office@acflondon.org; tel: 020 7225 7300)More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Friday 25 May, 14:00 - 16:00
Impact Agenda 2 -The second workshop on the Impact dimension of REF 2014, with emphasis on colleagues from different languages and departments speaking on one of their Impact Case Studies, followed by discussion. The speakers and topics will be:
Laurence Grove (French, Glasgow): ‘BD: the New Cinema Studies'
Katharina Hall (German, Swansea): 'Thinking through new ways of creating and measuring impact: the international crime fiction blog “Mrs. Peabody Investigates”’
Luciana Martins (Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck): 'Andean textiles and cultural imagery in a digital age'
David Murphy (French, Stirling): 'Recovering the lost classics of African cinema: new genealogies of African film'All welcome
Contact: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar -Wagner and Philosophy
The German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and discussing classic texts in German philosophy in their original form. The seminar offers an opportunity for close reading and discussion of a selection of seminal texts in the history of German thought and - where relevant - to practise German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate.
Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers
Further details
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 30 May, 17:00 - 19:00
Austrian Literary Documentation of Serving and Deserting the 'Wehrmacht' -Peter Pirker (IGRS Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Visiting Fellow/Vienna) introduces an interdisciplinary literary and historical project
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 31 May, 09:30 - 18:00
Translations - Translating Language, Translating Media, Translating Experience -Postgraduate Conference
Abstracts of not more than 250 words and a brief cv should be sent to forum@igrs.sas.ac.uk by 17 February 2012
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 31 May, 10:00 - 19:00
Translations: Translating Language, Translating Media, Translating Experience -IGRS Graduate Forum Conference
Contact: igrsforum.igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 June, 15:00 - 17:00
Stefan Zweig and Britain -The first major Stefan Zweig Conference since 1981, it is hoped that this event will generate a renaissance in public interest and academic research. Apart from contributions from major Zweig scholars, particular attention will be paid to the extensive Zweig Collection at the British Library with selected items on display, and performances of pieces from the Collection.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 June, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society -Utz Raphael (Jena):
Visiting Goethe: The Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1829-1832More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar -Wagner and Philosophy
The German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and discussing classic texts in German philosophy in their original form. The seminar offers an opportunity for close reading and discussion of a selection of seminal texts in the history of German thought and - where relevant - to practise German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate.
Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers
Further details
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 June, 17:30 - 19:30
Keyboard beats Paper: German Writers and Literary Institutions on the Internet -Jeanine Tuschling (Aston/Birmingham)
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Monday 25 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar -Wagner and Philosophy
The German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and discussing classic texts in German philosophy in their original form. The seminar offers an opportunity for close reading and discussion of a selection of seminal texts in the history of German thought and - where relevant - to practise German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate.
Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers
Further details
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 July, 09:15 - 17:00
Kommerz und Imagination II: Literarische und filmische Beiträge zur Warenhaus-Debatte im frühen 20. Jahrhundert -Tales of Commerce and Imagination II: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early 20th Century
Venue: Literaturhaus Berlin
Co-Ordinators: Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS, London) and Ulrike Zitzlsperger (University of Exeter)
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 July, 18:30 - 20:00
Das Berliner Warenhaus - Kommerz und Imagination -Philip Hensher (London) and Annett Gröschner (Berlin) read from their work
Venue: Literaturhaus Berlin
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 - Friday 21 September, 10:00 - 17:00
Protest and Reform in Wilhelmine German Culture (1871-1918) -This interdisciplinary conference will explore the various discourses of protest, reform and experimentation conducted in the socio-political field. It will also ask how these discourses are taken up and transformed by art and culture. Further objectives are to investigate the literary and artistic strategies employed to engage with socio-political concerns, to examine the relationship between factual and fictional discourses, and to determine the impact made by artistic production on the socio-political debates of the time.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to both Godela Weiss-Sussex and Charlotte Woodford by 31 January 2012.
Detailed Call for Papers
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 October, 10:00 - 18:00
H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald -
Contact: helen.finch@leeds.ac.uk
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November, 10:00 - 17:00
Shifting German Landscapes: East-West Perspectives on Cultural Hybridity and Place -Even though mass migration and social transformations throughout Europe since 1989 have destabilized binaries such as East and West, Orient and Occident, or centre and margin, debates about identity and belonging have continued to construct notions of sameness and difference along geographical, cultural and mental maps that reinscribe such binaries. In Germany as elsewhere in Europe, multiculturalism has sparked heated and politically charged debates over the past decades. Taking migrants from the East who now live and work in Germany and, conversely, people of German descent who have moved to the East as a focus of investigation, this conference seeks to explore hybrid identities in the context of shifting geographies in Europe since 1989 from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be be sent by 16 April 2012 to Renate Rechtien (proposals on aspects relating to culture, literature and film) and to David Galbreath (proposals relating to political studies, sociology and international relations).
Keynote speakers: Deniz Göktürk (Berkeley, CA); Tove H.Molloy (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg)
Detailed Call for Papers
Contact: r.a.rechtien@bath.ac.uk
Monday 19 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre 10th Anniversary Lecture -Konstanze Fliedl (Vienna):
Title to be announced
Contact: heide.kinzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar -Laure Guilbert (Paris/London):
German and Austrian Dance in Exile in the World 1933-1945
More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 16 January, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar -Rose Holmes (Sussex):
Narratives of Reassurance. Quaker Humanitarian Photographs from Basque Children to the KindertransportMore about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November, 10:00 - 18:00
Büchner Today / Büchner Heute -
Closing date: 30 June 2012
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk