Events
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Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 September
Hybrids, Monsters, Aliens and Other Creatures in 20th and 21st Century Writing -
In the last two decades, growing emphasis has been given to the vital role of the non human in literary and cultural studies. The emergent disciplines of ecocriticism and animal studies are aiming to redeploy our human-centre discourses towards a poetics of diversity based on more awareness of non human lives and perspectives. These new fields of criticism have primarily focused on human-animal relations, on the presence or absence of ecologically-sound values in texts and on the role of the environment in various forms of creative expression.
This conference proposes to evaluate the significance of hybrid beings and monsters in literature since the beginning of the 20th century. To what degree do they still perpetuate the images of destruction established since Greek mythologies? Are 19th century Darwinian ideas of a survival creature as a successful monster still prevalent in contemporary literature? In what ways do they reflect our contemporary attitudes to both the non human and the inhuman. Are "promising monsters", as Donna Haraway called them in one of her earlier works, visible in contemporary texts?
More Information
Speakers include Kate Soper, Dominique Lestel and Tom Tyler
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 16 - Friday 17 September
Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Garde - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organised by the Carl Einstein-Gesellschaft/Société Carl Einstein in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Co-Ordinators: Nicola Creighton (Belfast) and Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths, London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 20 September, 15:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group: Translation as Comment, Critique and Utopia - The 125th Birthday of Ernst Bloch - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Ernst Bloch, expressionist, utopian thinker, metaphysical Marxist, was born 125 years ago. In three workshop sessions, organised jointly with the Ernst-Block-Gesellschaft, the Ernest Bloch Study Centre (University of Sheffield), and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), his work and ideas will be presented and discussed from the point of view of translation.
Bloch's writing is widely recognised as among the lastings examples of German expressionism, but he has been notiously difficult to translate into English. Why is this? Is all translation a betrayal? If so, what makes these texts so difficult to betray? Or, can his philosophy of the not-yet shed light on what happens in translation? What is the relation between the text and its utopian spirit; can translation itself perhaps be seen as comment or critique and as habouring a possibility, a utopia itself - as part of what Bloch himself called the experimentum mundi, the world as experiment? What is the relation between between translation and philosophy? What is truth, and truthfulness, in translation?
In the three workshop sessions we we create and explore the building blocks of a philosophy of translation which takes its inspiration from Bloch.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 September, 11:30
Conference: Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War & Study Day: Cold War Cities - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Twenty years ago the world witnessed the most momentous geo-political changes since the end of the Second World War: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the USA as the global superpower. The period of the Cold War (c.1948-89) was one of ideological struggle and profound cultural crisis, no less so than for the discipline of Art History, rooted in the ideals and aspirations of the European Enlightenment. But the crucible of the Cold War also witnessed the re-definition of Art History, the birth of the New Left and a nascent tradition of Cultural Studies.
More Information
Keynote Speaker: Miranda Carter (author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, 2001)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 27 September, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)tbc
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 30 September - Friday 1 October
Beyond Glittter and Doom: New Perspectives of the Weimar Republic - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Call for Papers
Co-Ordinators: Jochen Hung (IGRS, London), Katherine Tubb (Glasgow) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS, London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 2 October, 09:30 - 19:00
Elizabeth Fallaize: and Academic and Personal Tribute - The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)
This day will be held in memory of and as a tribute to Elizabeth Fallaize. The first part of the day, lasting from 9.30 to 3.30, will be an academic tribute composed of three panels devoted to the three principal fields of Elizabeth’s research. The second, opening with tea at 3.30, will be a personal tribute to Elizabeth, attended by Elizabeth's family as well as friends, colleagues and current and former students. All are welcome to attend both parts of the day – or to join us from 3.30 for the ‘Remembering Elizabeth’ session.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 8 October
Libris Celebration -
Marking the closure of the independent publishing house, Libris.
Two world wars and twelve years of national socialism took their toll on the reception of German culture in Britain, particularly literature (German music survived unscathed). Libris’s principle aim was to contribute to the restoration of that literature to its rightful place in the English-speaking world.
More details to follow.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 12 October, 18:00 - 21:00
GHosting Workshop - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
GHosting is led by Ricarda Vidal and the artist-curator Sarah Sparkes and aims to analyse the theme of the ephemeral and the ghostly More Information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 October
A Decade of Women’s Writing in France: Trends and Horizons 2000-2010 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More details
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 October, 19:00 - 20:15
Shakespeare - A German Writer -Acclaimed German actor Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, The Black Book) is joined by Globe actor Philip Cumbus (Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth) in an evening celebrating Shakespeare's impact on German culture.
The evening's programme has been devised by Martin Swales and Godela Weiss-Sussex.
Readings in English and German will be complemented by extracts from German films, silent and modern, and introduced by Martin Swales.
This event is organised by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies together with the Globe Theatre, and sponsored by the Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS and the Coffin Trust of the University of LondonVenue: Shakespeare's Globe, London SE1. To obtain tickets visit the Globe online at www.shakespeares-globe.com or ring 020 7401 9919
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 18 October, 15:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group: Translation as Comment, Critique and Utopia - The 125th Birthday of Ernst Bloch - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Ernst Bloch, expressionist, utopian thinker, metaphysical Marxist, was born 125 years ago. In three workshop sessions, organised jointly with the Ernst-Block-Gesellschaft, the Ernest Bloch Study Centre (University of Sheffield), and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), his work and ideas will be presented and discussed from the point of view of translation.
Bloch's writing is widely recognised as among the lastings examples of German expressionism, but he has been notiously difficult to translate into English. Why is this? Is all translation a betrayal? If so, what makes these texts so difficult to betray? Or, can his philosophy of the not-yet shed light on what happens in translation? What is the relation between the text and its utopian spirit; can translation itself perhaps be seen as comment or critique and as habouring a possibility, a utopia itself - as part of what Bloch himself called the experimentum mundi, the world as experiment? What is the relation between between translation and philosophy? What is truth, and truthfulness, in translation?
In the three workshop sessions we we create and explore the building blocks of a philosophy of translation which takes its inspiration from Bloch.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 19 October, 18:30 - 20:00
"De Silbos Cebollas y Yunteros": Concert in Homage of Miguel Hernández - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Presented by Maria-José Blanco, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advance Studies (University of London)
This concert will be performed by the Contemporary Flamenco Company La Típica - an innovative and international collaboration between Jorge Bravo, guitarist, Natalia Garcia, dancer, Ulises Diaz, singer, Demi Garcia, drums and English violinist Meg Hamilton.
This event is free. For more information in English and Spanish click here
Contact: maria-joseblanco@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 October
THE PERSONALITY CULTS OF MODERN DICTATORS: Call for papers - Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Almost all modern dictators are the subject of personality cults that are highly organised even if they often also rest on spontaneous contributions. By creating a narrative of exceptionality around an individual they harness support and help consolidate a regime. The forms cults take depend on national traditions and histories, patterns of gender relations, and the existence or otherwise of an articulated civil society. In this sense, they are cultural as much as political phenomena. The highly specific nature of each cult means that comparative work is rare. The aim of this conference is to compare different aspects of many cults of personality, and, by so doing, raise new hypotheses of research and lay the foundations for new potential interdisciplinary collaborations.More Information
Maria Wyke (UCL) on Julius Caesar and his legacies, Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol College, Oxford) on the legend of Napoleon, and Lucy Riall (Birkbeck College, London) on Garibaldi.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 October
LUCIA ETXEBARRIA STUDY DAY - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
CCWW (Centre for the study of Contemporary Women’s Writing) part of the IGRS (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies - University of London) is organizing a Study Day on the Spanish author Lucía Etxebarría which will take place in October 2010 at the IGRS, Stewart House, London. The aim for this Study Day is to bring together researchers and specialist (students and academics) of any approach on the work of the author.
More details to follow
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 25 October, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)tbc
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 October
Giving People Ideas. Text and Concept: Literary texts as Thought Experiments - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
A conference in honour of Professor Martin W. Swales
Programme available early September
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 October, 19:00 - 21:00
Stefan Zweig - Journeys -Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Book Presentation
The first English translation of Stefan Zweig’s writing on his European travels will be published this year by Hesperus Press. Representing a lifetime’s observations, the volume paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the Second World War. For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal panacea for the depression that set in when he was rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving his way between the countries of central Europe, visiting friends and fellow writers, and exploring the continent in the heyday of international rail travel. Will Stone’s reading from his translation will be introduced and placed in context by Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London).
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, LondonMore about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 30 October
48th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies -
Venue: Swansea University
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 November, 17:30 - 20:00
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Oakville, Ontario):
Coleridge's German Quest:
His Projected Life of Lessing
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 November, 10:00 - 18:00
London French Postgraduate Conference 2010 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)The Other's Others - Othering and Marginalisation in French Feminism and Beyond Programme & Abstracts
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 November, 18:00 - 20:00
2010 Bithell Memorial Lecture - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Matt Frei
Journalist and Broadcaster:
Berlin. A Clash of Histories
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 November, 18:30 - 20:00
‘Carmen Martín Gaite in Foyles’ (in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in London) -
More details to follow
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 16 November, 18:00 - 21:00
GHosting Workshop - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
GHosting is led by Ricarda Vidal and the artist-curator Sarah Sparkes and aims to analyse the theme of the ephemeral and the ghostly More Information
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 November
Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI): Annual Conference 2010 -
Italy and its Pasts: an interdisciplinary conference Details
Call for papers
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 November, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Maria-José Blanco (IGRS) presents Tristana
Book by Benito Pérez Galdós' (1892) and film by Buñuel (1970)
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 November
German Women's Writing in its European Context, 1700-1900 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Call for Papers
Co-Ordinators: Hilary Brown (Swansea) and Caroline Bland (Sheffield)
Keynote Speakers: Norbert Bachleitner (Vienna), Magdalene Heuser (Osnabrück/Berlin), Susanne Kord (London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 29 November, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Dr Claire Lindsay (UCL) will be presenting Claudia Pineiro's Las viudas de los jueves.
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 December
Women’s Filmmaking in France 2000-2010: Call for Papers -
Although French women's filmmaking of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s has received significant critical attention, there has been little work to date on its development in the 2000s in relation to the shift from national to transnational and global contexts of production, distribution and reception. This international conference aims to re-visit and re-evaluate the complex issues at stake in contemporary French women's filmmaking from a variety of critical perspectivesMore Information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 6 December, 15:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group: Translation as Comment, Critique and Utopia - The 125th Birthday of Ernst Bloch - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Ernst Bloch, expressionist, utopian thinker, metaphysical Marxist, was born 125 years ago. In three workshop sessions, organised jointly with the Ernst-Block-Gesellschaft, the Ernest Bloch Study Centre (University of Sheffield), and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), his work and ideas will be presented and discussed from the point of view of translation.
Bloch's writing is widely recognised as among the lastings examples of German expressionism, but he has been notiously difficult to translate into English. Why is this? Is all translation a betrayal? If so, what makes these texts so difficult to betray? Or, can his philosophy of the not-yet shed light on what happens in translation? What is the relation between the text and its utopian spirit; can translation itself perhaps be seen as comment or critique and as habouring a possibility, a utopia itself - as part of what Bloch himself called the experimentum mundi, the world as experiment? What is the relation between between translation and philosophy? What is truth, and truthfulness, in translation?
In the three workshop sessions we we create and explore the building blocks of a philosophy of translation which takes its inspiration from Bloch.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 December
Carmen Martín Gaite 10 years on: revisiting her textual and visual legacy - Call for Papers - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS, Birkbeck) and the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies) are to collaborate on a two day conference hosted by the IGRS, Stewart House, London, focusing on the textual and visual output of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) on the 10th anniversary of her death. More Information
Contact: gaiteconference2010@googlemail.com
Monday 17 January, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 21 January, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Katia Pizzi (IGRS) presents Marianna Ucria
Book La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria by Dacia Maraini (1990) [The Silent Duchess] and film Marianna Ucria by Roberto Faenza (1997)
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 26 January, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Outer Space - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 2011 the Seminar in Visual Culture will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space travel. A call for papers will be issued in September 2010.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 January, 10:30
Creating the Child's Voice -A workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, on Friday, 28 January 2011.
Contact: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 February, 18:00 - 20:00
2011 Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Lecture - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
The first Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Lecture in Exile Studies
Professor Heinz Wolff (Brunel University):
The Making of a Refugee Scientist (working title)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 23 February, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Outer Space - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 2011 the Seminar in Visual Culture will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space travel. A call for papers will be issued in September 2010.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 - Saturday 26 February
The Carnival of Death: Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas - call for papers - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
In the most general terms death is defined as the final and irreversible cessation of the vital functions in an organism, the ending of life. However, the precise definition of death and the exact time of the transition from life to death differ according to culture, religion and legal system. More details
Contact: carnivalofdeath.conf@gmail.com
Tuesday 1 - Wednesday 2 March
(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM - call for papers - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
There has been a general recognition, if not acceptance, of many of feminism’s key concepts. But does this mean that it has ceased to assert itself as a unique movement? Indeed, should feminism be (re)branded in an age when all ideologies are subject to market forces? And what should this rebranding consist of? More information.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 March, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Naomi Segal (IGRS) presents Un secret [Secret]
Book by Philippe Grimbert and film by Claude Miller
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 March
Tales of Commerce and Imagination: The Berlin Department Store 1896-1938 / Das Berliner Warenhaus 1896-1938 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Call for Papers
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 30 March, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Outer Space - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 2011 the Seminar in Visual Culture will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space travel. A call for papers will be issued in September 2010.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 4 April, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 - Wednesday 13 April
Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Call for Papers
Convenors: Lucille Cairns (Durham) and Andrea Reiter (Southampton)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 27 April, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Outer Space - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 2011 the Seminar in Visual Culture will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space travel. A call for papers will be issued in September 2010.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 13 May, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS) presents Die Marquise von O
Novella by Heinrich von Kleist (1810-11) and film by Eric Rohmer (1976)
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 May
8th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)This annual conference , which consistently draws participants from both Europe and America, offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature an opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. In the afternoon of the second day, there will be an open seminar with the writer-in-residence Anna Kim.
Programme available in March.More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 May, 19:00 - 21:00
Reading by Anna Kim -This year’s writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre is the Austrian writer Anna Kim. Born in South Korea, Kim spent her formative years in Germany and Austria. A two-year stay in England complemented the multi-cultural background that comes to the fore in her work. Her experience of, and sensitivity to, different cultures finds expression in her novels Bildspur and Die gefrorene Zeit, the latter of which is set after the conflict in Kosovo and describes attempts to come to terms with the past. The first English translation of Die gefrorene Zeit will be published in 2011. Translator Mike Mitchell will join Anna Kim in readings from the novel. Anna Kim will also give a seminar at the 8th Postgraduate Conference later in the month.
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, LondonMore about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Friday 27 May, 14:30 - 16:00
Anna Kim - Meet the Author - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)An opportunity to meet the author in an informal setting and engage in detailed discussion.
The Austrian writer Anna Kim was born in South Korea, and spent her formative years in Germany and Austria. A two-year stay in England complemented the multi-cultural background that comes to the fore in her work. Her experience of, and sensitivity to, different cultures finds expression in her novels Bildspur and Die gefrorene Zeit, the latter of which is set after the conflict in Kosovo and describes attempts to come to terms with the past. The first English translation of Die gefrorene Zeit will be published in 2011.More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 2 - Friday 3 June
Youth Challenges Traditions? Reconsidering Changes in Austrian and British Society 1960-1989 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)This conference will explore how traditions have been challenged through different forms of culture (applied/fine art, architecture, fashion, film/tv, literature, music, photography, for example) in Austria and Britain during the period 1960-1989. Speakers will explore different initiatives that brought about change – either for a group in society or for society as a whole. The conference aims to foster cross-disciplinary exchange and invites researchers from all disciplines.
Co-Ordinators: Bianca Zaininger and Martin Liebscher (London)
Programme available in March.More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Monday 13 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 June - Friday 1 July
4th international Media for All conference: Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock - Senate House
The 4th International Media for All Conference – Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock aims to bring together professionals, scholars, practitioners and other interested parties to explore audiovisual translation (AVT) in theory and practice, to ascertain the language needs of distributors and broadcasters, to discuss the linguistic and cultural dimensions of AVT, to look into potential synergies between the industry and the academic worlds, and to investigate the relevance and application of translation theory for this very specific and rapidly expanding translational genre. Special attention will be given to the notion of accessibility to information and to the social and economic implications of implementing appropriate quality standards.More information
Contact: j.diaz-cintas@imperial.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 June, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Outer Space - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 2011 the Seminar in Visual Culture will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space travel. A call for papers will be issued in September 2010.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 8 July, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - STB7 (Stewart House, basement)Details to be announced
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 July, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)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 practice German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 September
Postdramatic Theatre as/or Political Theatre: Representation, Mediatisation and Advanced Capitalism - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Callfor Papers
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 28 - Friday 30 September
German-Speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain from 1933 to the Present - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Call for Papers
More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
2011 Conference of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the IGRS
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 2 - Friday 4 November, 09:00 - 00:00
Vampires: Myths of the Past and the Future - Venue to be confirmedAn interdisciplinary conference organised by Simon Bacon, The London Consortium in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.
Keynote speakers include Stacey Abbott, Catherine Spooner, Milly Williamson
Contact: vampiremyths1@googlemail.com