Events
Friday 3 February, 14:00 - 16:00
Impact Agenda - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk
Friday 3 February, 16:00 - 18:00
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS)
What are disorders of rationality?
(Postponed from 27 January 2012)
Contact: christine.lopes@sas.ac.uk
Friday 3 February, 18:00 - 20:00
The Machiavelli Nights - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and language
Contact: gianluigi.sassu@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 February, 17:30 - 19:30
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Manuel Baumbach (Zurich):
Obeying the Law: Leonidas and the Reception of the Persian War
in German Postwar Literature
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 10 February, 16:00 - 18:00
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS)
Franz Brentano: the notions of self-evident experience and intentionality
Contact: christine.lopes@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 11 February, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Visual Languages - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Monday 13 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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
Monday 13 February, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Reading Group: Mayombe - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)Pepetela: Mayombe
[translation by Michael Wolfers]
Contact: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 22 February, 17:00 - 19:00
AUT of the Box: Austrian Literature Received in China - Room 274 (Stewart House)Arnhilt Höfle (IGRS, London) discusses the reception of Austrian Writers in China
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 25 February, 11:00 - 16:00
Screen Media and Memory (Cutural Memory Seminar) - Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)Marlène Monteiro (Birkbeck, University of London): Topography of Memory
Jill Daniels (University of East London): The Border Crossing: Autobiography, Memory and Documentary
Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck, University of London): The 'Moving' Image: Empathy and Projection in the International Slavery Musum, Liverpool, and the IWM (North), Manchester
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 27 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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
Tuesday 28 February, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)Giconda Belli, El infinito en la palma de la mano
Presented by Cristina Sánchez
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 February, 18:00 - 21:00
Absence - The Haunted Landscape (GHost Hostings 6) - 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
Further details
Contact: sarah.sparkes@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Narratives and Ageing: A Reading by Martin Walser and Jane Gardam - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Martin Walser (Ein liebender Mann [2008]) is joined by Whitbread Novel prize-winner Jane Gardam (Old Filth [2004], The Man in the Wooden Hat [2009]) in a reading from their recent and unpublished works on the theme of ageing.
Further details and registration (advance booking essential)
Organised in conjunction with the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham and the University of Leeds
Sponsored by the Keith Spalding Trust (IGRS, London)
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 2 March, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 2 March, 16:00 - 18:00
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS)
Ernst Cassirer: the notion of symbolic form
Contact: christine.lopes@sas.ac.uk
Monday 5 March, 10:00 - 16:00
Research Training Workshop: Skills Training Day - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Organised in conjunction with and held at the Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 5 March, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Reading Group: The Elephant's Journey - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)José Saramago: A viagem do elefante
(The Elephant's Journey [translation by Margaret Jull Costa])
Contact: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 March, 18:00 - 20:15
Coffin Trust Screening / Discussion - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Sarah Miles in conversation with Dr Lucy Reynolds (University of the Arts, London)
following a film screening of 2001 - A Family Odyssey: Ophelia's Vision (2002)
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 March, 18:00 - 19:30
Family Ties: Recollection and Representation - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)An interdisciplinary conference organised under the auspices of the
Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the IGRSby Sally Waterman and Katia Pizzi (IGRS)
Keynote speakers: Sarah Miles, Marsha Meskimmon, Rosy Martin
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 9 March, 18:00 - 20:00
The Machiavelli Nights - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and language
Contact: gianluigi.sassu@sas.ac.uk
Friday 9 March, 18:30 - 19:30
Coffin Trust Lecture - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Rosy Martin:
On Looking Back: Photography, Memory and Forgetting
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)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 14 March, 18:00 - 21:00
Presence - Manifesting Ghosts (GHost Hostings 7) - 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
Further details
Contact: sarah.sparkes@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 - Friday 16 March, 09:45 - 16:30
Familie und Moderne / Family and Modernity (1880-1945) - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)An international conference organised under the auspices of the IGRS in conjunction with the University of Ghent and Goldsmiths, University of London
Co-Ordinators: Christine Kanz (Ghent), Frank Krause (Goldsmiths, London) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS, London)Programme and registration details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 16 March, 16:00 - 18:00
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS)
Karl Jaspers: the notion of psychopathology
Contact: christine.lopes@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 17 March, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Historic and Memorial Methods - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 20 March, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir
Presented by Maria-José Blanco (KCL)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)The 2012 Ida Herz Lecture
Hans Rudolf Vaget (Massachusetts):
Vansittartism Revisited: German Exiles and Vansittart's Black Record
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 March, 09:30 - 19:30
Peripheral Modernisms - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)An interdisciplinary international conference exploring the contributions made by so-called peripheral modernisms to a global aesthetic of modernism that accounts for its geographical variety and cultural diversity.
Keynote Speakers: Benita Parry (University of Warwick) and Maria Irene Ramalho (University of Coimbra/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Conference Organisers: Katia Pizzi (IGRS) and Patricia da Silva McNeill (IGRS/University of Cambridge) in collaboration with Maria-José Homem (Instituto Camões-IGRS)
Contact: Katia.Pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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 29 - Friday 30 March, 09:30 - 18:00
51st National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 March, 17:30 - 20:00
2012 Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 - Friday 13 April, 09:00 - 19:00
Debussy: Text and Idea / Debussy: Le Texte et l'Idée - Gresham College
Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 - Thursday 19 April, 09:30 - 18:00
LIT.NET Austria: The Net as Theme, Aesthetic Paradigm and Communicative Tool in Literary Austria - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)A conference on the 'net' in Austria and literary theory combined with a workshop on Communicating Literature through the Internet, with international experts on the topic
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 25 April, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Peter Pirker (Vienna/London):
Networks of Exile, Resistance and Remigration
More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 4 May, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 May, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Before, During and After the PhD - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Eleoma Joshua (Edinburgh):
Writing on the Brocken on the Brocken:
The Poetry of the Brocken Visitors' Books
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 May, 18:00 - 20:00
The Machiavelli Nights - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and language
Contact: gianluigi.sassu@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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 17 - Friday 18 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Bilderrätsel des gesprungenen Bewusstseins / Modernism and the Beginnings of Visual Culture (1890-1938) - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 23 May, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)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 - Friday 25 May, 10:00 - 18:00
9th Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Postgraduate Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)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
Monday 28 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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' - Room 274 (Stewart House)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 - Room 275 (Stewart House)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
Friday 1 June, 18:00 - 20:00
The Machiavelli Nights - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and language
Contact: gianluigi.sassu@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 June, 10:00 - 18:00
Stefan Zweig and Great Britain - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)A three-day conference at which international and national experts discuss Stefan Zweig's relations with Great Britain, his world-wide reception and influence on Austrian and international literature. This event is co-organised with Queen Mary, University of London, the Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft, and the British Library.
Venues: University of London and the British Library
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 June, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)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
Friday 8 June, 17:00 - 19:00
Taking Writing to Court - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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
Monday 25 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)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
Tuesday 10 July, 14:00 - 17:30
Digital Memories - Centre for Media and Cultural ResearchThis joint initiative between the Centre for Media and Culture Research (London South Bank University) and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (IGRS) seeks to address the impact of globalization and digitization on the production of individual and collective memories. The seminar will open with Professor Anna Reading’s conceptualization of the notion of ‘globital memory’, which is changing the epistemology of memory, followed by an exploration of memory work in digitally networked environments. The second part of the seminar will focus on two specific case studies. The seminar is aimed at researchers, research students and those working in the broad memory studies field.
Venue: Centre for Media and Culture Research, London South Bank University, K2 Building (Room VG11), Keyworth Street, SE1 6NG
More about the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the IGRS
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 - Friday 21 September, 10:00 - 17:00
Protest! Reaction and Reform, Tradition and Modernity in German Culture and Society 1871-1918 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)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 8 - Friday 9 November, 10:00 - 17:00
Shifting German Landscapes: East-West Perspectives on Cultural Hybridity and Place - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)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 31 January 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: renate.rechtien@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)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