Events
Monday 14 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room G37 (Senate House, Ground 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 14 May, 13:00 - 14:30
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Roger Cook (IGRS):
Jean Genet, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and 'la courtoisie des choses'
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 May, 18:00 - 20:00
The Machiavelli Nights - Room 264 (Senate 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 11 May, 09:30 - 18:00
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing
AHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' Network
Workshop 1
Contact: victoria.browne@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 261 (Senate 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
Tuesday 8 May, 09:30 - 18:30
Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Interruption - Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies
Contact: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 May, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Before, During and After the PhD - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Friday 4 May, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: d.lapenna@reading.ac.uk
Thursday 3 May, 18:00 - 19:30
IGRS Graduate Forum - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: igrsforum.igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 2 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS - Annual Meeting - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)Benedict Schofield (King's College, London):
Bestsellers, 'Worstsellers', and the Question of Canonicity:
Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen and Theodor Fontane's Vor dem SturmBy invitation
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 April, 17:30 - 20:00
Reception Group for German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)Joyce P. Crick (London):
A Hunger Artist and Other Stories. Translating Franz Kafka (title to be confirmed)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 25 April, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room G26 (Senate House, Ground 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
Monday 23 April, 13:00 - 14:30
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Arnhilt Höfle (IGRS):
Stefan Zweig in China
Contact: johan.siebers@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 - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First 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: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 April, 13:00 - 14:30
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Details to be announced
Contact: johan.siebers@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
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 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
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
Monday 26 March, 13:00 - 14:30
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Details to be announced
Contact: johan.siebers@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
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.
Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and the Threat of World War III
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@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
Saturday 17 March, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar - OtherContemporary French Women's Writing and the Historical Novel
Venue: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of LeedsTexts for discussion:
Chantal Thomas, Les Adieux à la Reine [2002] - introduced by Alison Fell
Nina Bouraoui, Mes mauvaises Pensées [2005] - introduced by Hannah PerlinOrganisers: Alison Fell, Diana Holmes, Hannah Perlin (Leeds)
Contact: gill.rye@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
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
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
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
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
Monday 12 March, 13:00 - 14:30
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Johan Siebers (IGRS, London/UCLAN):
Communication and Value
Contact: johan.siebers@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
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
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
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
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
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
Friday 2 March, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: igrs@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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saturday 11 February, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Visual Languages - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@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
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 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
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, 14:00 - 16:00
Impact Agenda - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 31 January, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)Rosa Montero, La loca de la casa
Presented by Mazal Oaknin (UCL)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Monday 30 January, 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
Saturday 28 January, 13:00 - 17:30
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Carl Thompson, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Jackie Mulhallen
Chair: Lois Chaber
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 27 January, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
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 TO 3 FEBRUARY 2012 (Room ST 270)
Contact: christine.lopes@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 274 (Stewart House)Robert Vilain (Bristol):
‘An excess of savage force'? Eugène Delacroix, Albert Stapfer and Goethe’s Faust in FranceMore about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 23 January, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Reading Group: The Bewitching Braid - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)Henrique Senna Fernandes: A trança feiticeira
(The Bewitching Braid [translation by David Brookshaw])
Rogério Puga (Lisbon): 'Representing Eurasians, Gender and Race Relations in Lusophone Macau: Henrique de Senna Fernandes's The Bewitching Braid (1993)'
Contact: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 January, 12:30 - 14:00
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic: Cold War Trieste on Screen - Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)to be given by Katia Pizzi (IGRS, London)
School of Advanced Study Dean's Seminar Series
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 January, 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
Saturday 14 January, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Theories - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 January, 17:30 - 20:00
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Maike Oergel (Nottingham):
Germania in England: Functions of the 'Germanic' in English Identity Constructions and British Historical Thinking in the 19th Century
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 January, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Jennifer Taylor (London):
Hans Vogel and the SPD Executive:
Connections with the Labour Party and the British Authorities in the Early Years of Exile in London
More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 December, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Cathy Gelbin (Manchester):
Was Frankenstein's Monster Jewish? Uncanny Anthropoids
from British Gothic to Modern German-Jewish Folktale Writing
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 December, 09:45 - 18:15
Making Sense. A Symposium in Honour of Naomi Segal - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)A symposium to honour the scholarly work to date of Professor Naomi Segal, who retired earlier this year as Director of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Speakers will include Roberta Harris, Sharon Kivland, Robin Mackenzie, Mandy Merck, Jean Owen, Victoria Reid, Céline Surprenant, and Colette Wilson
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 3 December, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Digital Languages - Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Friday 2 December, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 - Friday 2 December, 09:45 - 17:00
Realism and Romanticism in German Literature - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Co-Ordinators: Dirk Göttsche (Durham) and Nicholas Saul (Durham)
Programme and registration details
This event is sponsored by the MHRA
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 December, 09:45 - 17:00
First Person Writing, Four-Way Reading - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)This conference, held under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, Birkbeck College, London, and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, brings together scholars from four academic fields – literature, history, medical humanities and ethnography – and from 23 countries - to discuss a common object of research: first-person writing. Four keynote speakers, 16 invited panellists and 45 break-out panellists will present papers and there will be four workshops.
The term ‘writing’ is meant literally: the first-person material on which the project focuses is textual rather than oral, whether published or unpublished. The time-period covered is from the early modern period to the present day. Though the language of the conference will be English, material in any language may be referred to (using originals, translations and/or parallel texts).
The term ‘reading’ is meant primarily in a metaphorical sense: how do scholars from these four fields investigate, interpret or, more broadly, ‘use’ first-person texts, what differences can be found in their methods and applications, and how can they debate these commonalities and differences in fruitful ways? It is hoped that, after the conference, further international and interdisciplinary research collaboration will be developed.
Organisers: Naomi Segal (UK): literature; François-Joseph Ruggiu (FR): history; Petter Aaslestad (NO): medical humanities; Kristin Kuutma (EE): ethnography.
Keynote speakers include: Arianne Baggerman (NL); Rita Charon (USA); Marie Darrieussecq (FR); Brian Hurwitz (UK); Alexander Kiossev (BG); Giorgio Pressburger (IT); Nigel Rapport (UK); Philip Rieder (CH); Michael Sheringham (UK); Amy Shuman (USA); Claudia Ulbrich (DE); Yuri Zaretsky (RU).
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 30 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Lucy Watling (London):
Investigating the Roots of 'Twentieth-Century German Art'
More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 November, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
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
Saturday 26 November, 13:00 - 17:30
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Agnieszka Karch, Louise Curran, Felicity Roberts, Laura Mayer
Chair: Yvonne Noble
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 26 November, 11:00 - 16:00
CANCELLED
Cultural Memory Seminar: Learning Memory's Lessons - Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Co-Ordinators: Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck College, London), Susannah Radstone (University of East London) and Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths', University of London)
Details to be announced
Contact: s.arnold-desimine@bbk.ac.uk
Thursday 24 November, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Martin Vöhler (Berlin/Nicosia):
Correcting Ancient Myths - Brecht's Approach to Antiquity
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 November, 16:00 - 18:00
Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Sherry Simon (Montreal)
Sponsored by the Délégation générale du Québec à Londres
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 November, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
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 14 November, 00:09 - 00:19
The Many Faces of Madness. Representations of Madness in French Literature (London French Postgraduate Conference) - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 12 November, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Rentrée Reading Group
Maria Darrieussecq, Clèves [POL, 2011]
Grisélidis Réal, Mémoires de l'inachevé (1954-1993) [Editions Verticales, 2011]Organiser: Gill Rye (IGRS)
Contact: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 12 November, 10:00 - 13:00
CCWW Spanish Seminar/Study Day - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Getting Unstuck: Negotiating Your Career
Organiser: Maria-José Blanco
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 November, 18:15 - 20:30
Eròtiques i despetinades. A Poetry Recital with Maria Fullana and Encarna Sant-Celoni - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 - Friday 11 November, 10:00 - 17:30
WISPS XII Annual Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Draft programme and registration details
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 November, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Modern Language Archives and Libraries - Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 November, 18:30 - 21:00
Spanish exiles in Great Britain 3 / Los exilios españoles en Gran Bretaña 3: Luis Cernuda (Discussion) - Room 349 (SH)In February 1938 the Seville poet Luis Cernuda arrives in Paris after leaving behind a country bleeding itself to death in a gory civil war. Invited to give some lectures, he soon comes over to England. Endangered by his support for the Republican cause, he will never return to Spain. Luis Cernuda died in Mexico in 1963.
Organised by the Instituto Cervantes London, in conjunction with the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Spanish Embassy in the UK, and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the IGRS.
Antonio Rivero Taravillo, author and literary translator, has written on Cernuda articles in Spanish in Mexican magazines, and a monograph Con otro acento. Divagaciones sobre el Cernuda inglés'. In 2008 he published the first volume of his biography Luis Cernuda. Años españoles (1092-1938), which won the XX Premio Comillas de Historia, Biografía y Memorias, followed in 2011 by Luis Cernuda. Años de exilio (1938-1963).
Martin Murphy, Hispanist and Profesor at Oxford University, is the author of Blanco White: Self-Banished Spaniard (Yale University Press, 1989). He has researched the story of the Spanish republican exiles who were given asylum by Lord Faringdon on his estate at Buscot Park (Eaton Hastings) among whom were Arturo Barea and Luis Cernuda.
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 November, 18:20 - 20:30
Lecture - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Sir Christopher Frayling:
The Nightmare of Bram Stoker
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 November, 18:20 - 20:00
Coffin Trust Lecture - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Sir Christopher Frayling (Cambridge):
The Nightmare of Bram Stoker
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 November, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Simon Goldhill (Cambridge):
The Greek Chorus through German Eyes:
Putting Philosophy on Stage
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 2 - Friday 4 November, 09:15 - 17:55
Vampires: Myths of the Past and the Future - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)An 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.
Programme and registration details
Keynote speakers include Stacey Abbott, Catherine Spooner, Milly Williamson
Contact: vampiremyths1@googlemail.com
Monday 31 October, 18:30 - 21:00
The Shining Path: Santiago Roncagliolo and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera in Conversation - Room 349 (SH)The brutal tactics of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla organization, widely affected the people of Peru. In his essay for Granta 117, Santiago Roncagliolo recalls how his childhood was shaped by the Shining Path and investigates the aftermath of terror on the country – and on the insurgents themselves. Roncagliolo is a Granta Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist and winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the novel Red April.
Chair: Maria-José Blanco (IGRS)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Monday 31 October, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
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
Laurence Hemming (Lancaster):
Beside Myself with Indignation: Hegel, Marz and Heidegger on Alienation
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 October, 17:00 - 19:00
Book Launch: The Legacy of the Italian Resistance - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)In this rich and detailed interdisciplinary study, Philip Cooke explores the enduring and contested legacy of the Italian Resistance movement. This book scrutinizes the ambivalent and shifting attitudes toward the movement held by the major Italian political parties and the State, caught up as they were in an ambitious project to build a new nation out of the ruins of Fascism and the Second World War. Using a wide array of texts, Cooke bridges the gap between historical and cultural studies and shows how Italian politics, history, and culture have interacted over the long term. Fusing historical and cultural analysis, this is a unique contribution to our understanding of modern Italy.
Philip Cooke is a Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Strathclyde, UK. His previous publications include The Italian Resistance: an Anthology (1997); Fenoglio's Binoculars, Johnny's Eyes: History, Language and Narrative Technique in Fenoglio's Il partigiano Johnny (2000); and Luglio 1960: Tambroni e la repressione fallita (2000).
The Legacy of the Italian Resistance is published by Palgrave Macmillan
John Foot (UCL) and Donald Sassoon (QMUL)
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 27 October, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Frank Lamport (Oxford):
'Des Menschen Herz, o Gott! welch Elend kann es stiften!':
The Tragedies of Christian Felix WeisseMore about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 25 October, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)Details to be announced
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 22 October, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Research Projects in the Modern Languages - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 October, 10:00 - 17:00
The Magical Library Presents - The Ghosts of Senate House - Senate HouseCelebrated psychical researcher, amateur conjurer and paper bag salesman, Harry Price left his library of Magical literature to the University of London on his death in 1948. Artist Sarah Sparkes has been researching the Price Bequest and is creating her own 'Magical library for the 21st Century'. Inspired by Price's ghost-hunting activities Sparkes’s Magical library will be showing a number of specially created writings, recordings, artwork, artefacts, and other contributions documenting ghosts and other apocryphal stories emanating from Senate House and its immediate surroundings. These works have been created by Output Arts, Magick Concrète (English Heretic and Mark Pilkington), Peter Suchin, Chris Roberts (One Eye Grey), Sarah Sparkes and others.
Members of the public can visit this ‘Magical Library’, and browse its contents during the Bloomsbury Festival, when it will be displayed against the backdrop of Charles Holden’s impressive Crush Hall at the heart of the iconic Senate House. Opening hours: Saturday, 22 October (10.00 - 18.00); Sunday, 23 October (11.00 - 17.00)More about the Bloomsbury Festival
Contact: sarah.sparkes@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 October, 18:30 - 21:00
Soft Linguistics 3: New Challenges in Bilingual Education / Lingüística Blanda 3: Nuevos retos en la enseñanza bilingüe (Discussion) - Room 349 (SH)Bilingual education is growing everywhere in the world as a way to improve foreign language learning. What is bilingual education? What are the different approaches we have? What do we know about bilingual education in Spain and the United Kingdom? We will explore the past, present and future situation of bilingual education.
Organised in conjunction with the Education Department of the Spanish Embassy in the UK
Dr Alan Dobson, Maria Juan-Garau
Chair: Gilberto Terente Fernández (Education Department, Spanish Embassy in the United Kingdom)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 October, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Erika and Martin Swales (Cambridge):
Inflections of the Claim to Truth:
From Greek Tragedy to Richard Strauss
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 17 October, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
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
Saturday 15 October, 10:00 - 18:00
Generations, Genders and Genres (Society for Pirandello Studies Annual International Conference and AGM) - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: enzadf@hotmail.com
Thursday 13 October, 18:30 - 20:00
Entre Escritoras: Cristina Cerezales Laforet remembers Carmen Laforet - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Organised in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 6 October, 17:30 - 20:00
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Alison Martin (Halle-Wittenberg):
Double Lives: Alexander von Humboldt's Work in Nineteenth-Century English Translation
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 3 October, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
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
Friday 30 September, 14:30 - 16:00
A Conversation with the Author Robert Coover - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Penguin Modern Classics author Robert Coover (Pricksongs & Descants [1969], Ghost Town [1998], NOIR [2010]) will speak about metafiction, electronic literature and the future of writing.
Space is limited, so please reserve seats in advance by emailing Georgia Panteli.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 27 September, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Details to be announced
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 24 September, 13:00 - 17:30
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Caroline Watkinson, Georgina Lock, Andrew Pink, Susan Snell
Chair: Tanis Hinchcliffe
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 September, 18:30 - 20:00
Round-Table Discussion: El arte de la risa en la literatura espanola del Siglo de Oro - Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)Organised in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 September, 10:00 - 16:00
Postdramatic Theatre as/or Political Theatre: Representation, Mediatisation and Advanced Capitalism - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Co-Ordinators: Jerome Carroll and Steve Giles (Nottingham) and Karen Jürs-Munby (Lancaster)
Programme and registration details
This event is sponsored by the MHRA
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 - Friday 16 September, 13:30 - 12:15
German-Speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Programme and further details
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
Friday 9 September, 16:00 - 18:00
Nothingness as Ground and Nothing but Ground - Room 275 (Stewart House)Rainer Zimmermann (Munich/Cambridge):
Nothingness as Ground and Nothing but GroundTranscendental Materialism, essentially starting from the philosophy of Schelling, deals with the re-actualization of a project that has its origin within the Tübingen axiomatic. This project aims at the construction of a system of worldly concepts as well of its physical grounding, as does transcendental materialism. However, the latter is different from the former in that it is based on two central preconditions which lead decisively beyond the Tübingen axiomatic: on the one hand, the idea is to produce a system which does not relate to theological connotations of one kind or another; on the other, the objective is to introduce a new concept of matter derived from the viewpoint of modern physics. It emerges that the conceptual difference between nothingness and non-being is crucial for the understanding of what metaphysics can still mean for us today.
Rainer Zimmerman teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Studium Generale, University
of Applied Sciences, Munich. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Monday 18 July, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)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 18 - Saturday 23 July, 10:00 - 17:00
Use your Language, Use Your English (Summer School) - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Training will be open to any native speaker of English who has one or more other language(s) at advanced level, and will be provided by seven professional translators (from Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) and a professional editor.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 8 July, 16:00 - 19:30
CANCELLED
From Textual to Visual - STB7 (Stewart House, basement)Details to be announced
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 July, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Sarah Sparkes (IGRS/London):
Ghost Hunting in the Magical Library
Contact: igrs@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
Monday 27 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)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
Friday 24 June, 18:00
CANCELLED
Lecture and reading by Professor Alberto Cavaglion - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)"The House of Mirth: Jewish Italian Reflections"
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Friday 17 June, 09:30 - 18:00
The Future of Modern Languages - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)A one-day Conference organised jointly by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and the Modern Humanities Research Association
In the light of recent budget cuts, amalgamations and closures across UK Modern Language departments, this conference seeks to address what aspects of Modern Languages and Cultures can and should realistically be taught and researched at British universities. Equally importantly, it will explore whether teaching and learning foreign languages in disconnection from the contexts provided by comprehensive literary, cultural and area studies can enable students in secondary and higher education to develop the intercultural and media literacies, conceptual insights and socio-critical thinking required in today's global economy and society. The event is a way of bringing together academics, politicians, people from the private and public sector and people from the media to raise common concerns and see where we may be able to go from here.
Further details and registration
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 15 June, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture: Alternative Worlds - Room 274 (Stewart House)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Monday 13 June, 16:00 - 18:00
Cultural Memory Seminar: Sites of Memory and the Politics of the Past in the Former Yugoslavia - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Speaker: Professor Vjeran Pavlakovic (University of Rijeka)
The talk will highlight the most prominent contested histories of the 20th century in the Yugoslav successor states, with an emphasis of how each of the countries has dealt with the legacies of World War II and the wars of the 1990s through visual cultural memory (monuments, statues, public space) and commemorative culture. Although the presentation will focus on Croatia since 1990, the divided cultural memories of the other former Yugoslav republics will also be discussed in this comparative analysis.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 June, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Corresponding Fellows' Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Hans-Otto Horch (Aachen):
Deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte:
Zur Entwicklung eines Forschungsfelds in den letzten 30 Jahren
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 4 June, 14:00 - 18:00
Research Training Programme: the PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD published - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 3 June, 09:30 - 18:15
Youth Challenges Traditions? Reconsidering Changes in Austrian and British Society 1960-1989 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)The survival of mankind will depend to a large extent on the ability of people who think differently to act together. [Geert Hofstede]
Well into the 21st century, the time has come to re-evaluate how traditions have been challenged through different forms of culture in both Austria and Britain in the second half of the 20th century. The generational unit most often linked with challenging traditions is ‘youth’, first identified as a social and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s many attempts were made – mainly, but not only, by young people – to challenge taken-for-granted traditions which the parental generation had brought from the past. The conference aims to investigate various ways in which norms in society have been questioned, opposed and, in some cases, changed by youth.
Co-Ordinators: Bianca Zaininger and Martin Liebscher (London)
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 27 May, 14:30 - 15:30
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 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.
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 25 May, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Alternative Worlds - Room 274 (Stewart House)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Friday 20 May, 09:30 - 18:45
Modernist Eroticisms - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)A one-day conference organised by the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent, and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Co-Ordinators: Dr Katharina Schaffner (Kent/IGRS) and Professor Shane Weller (Kent)
Programme and further details/registration
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 17 May, 17:30 - 19:00
CWWF Seminar - Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)French author Christine Angot reads from and discusses her latest novel Les Petits (Paris: Flammarion, 2011)
Chair: Shirley Jordan (QMUL)
Contact: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 May, 18:30 - 20:00
Coffin Trust Reading - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Luisa Costa Gomes's Short Stories
Contact: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk
Friday 13 May, 16:00 - 19:30
CANCELLED
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
Thursday 12 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Katrin Kohl (Oxford):
Hero or Villain? The Response of German Authors to Frederick the Great, 1740-1786More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 May, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Gisela Holfter (IGRS/Limerick):
Exile on the 'Isle of Exile'? A Research Project on German-speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933-1945
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Gisela Holfter (London/Limerick):
Hidden Memories: German-Speaking Exiles in IrelandMore about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 May, 18:00
Lecture and reading by Professor Carlo Ginzburg - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Our Words and Theirs. A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft Today.
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second 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 practise German philosophy reading skills.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers
Further details
Instead of 16 May 2011
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 7 May, 18:30 - 20:20
Coffin Trust Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Hélia Correia
Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing at the Institute
in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 7 May, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme: organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journals - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 6 May, 16:30 - 20:00
Coffin Trust Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Esther Tusquets: Anna Maria Matute
Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing at the Institute
in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 May, 09:00 - 20:00
Feminine Singular/feminino singular/femenino singular: Women Growing Up through Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Keynote speakers: Anna Caballé, Hélia Correia, Clara Crabbé Rocha with Esther Tusquets
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 May, 18:30 - 20:00
Entre escritoras - Room 275 (Stewart House)Laura Freixas: Carmen Martin Gaite
Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing at the Institute
in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 27 April, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011: Alternative Worlds - Room 274 (Stewart House)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 April, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 275 (Stewart House)Erika Carter (IGRS/Warwick):
Melodrama and the Emigré Audience: Case Studies from 1930s Film
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 - Wednesday 13 April
Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Programme and registration details
Convenors: Lucille Cairns (Durham) and Andrea Reiter (Southampton)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 April, 10:00 - 17:00
Use your Language, Use Your English - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)A taster event for the Summer School to be held in July 2011. Training will be open to any native speaker of English who has one or more other language(s) at advanced level, and will be provided by seven professional translators (from Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) and a professional editor.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 April, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Ricarda Schmidt (Exeter):
Kleist and the Dark Side of Antiquity
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 4 April, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - 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 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 31 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Nicholas Boyle (Cambridge):
Inventing the Intellectual: Schiller and Fichte at the University of Jena
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 30 March, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture: Alternative Worlds - Room 274 (Stewart House)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 March, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)António Lobo Antunes's What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire
trans. Gregory Rabassa
Speaker: Aino Rinhaug (IGRS)
Contact: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 March, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Maria-Josée Blanco (London) presents
Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle (1945)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 19 March, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Historical Methods, Oral History and Fieldwork; Working across Disciplines; Time Management - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 - Friday 18 March, 10:30 - 18:00
Tales of Commerce and Imagination: The Berlin Department Store 1896-1938 - Das Berliner Warenhaus 1896-1938 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - 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 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
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: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 March, 17:30 - 20:00
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Peter Davies (Edinburgh):
Holocaust Testimony in Translation
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 March, 19:00 - 20:30
CANCELLED
Entre escritoras - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)This event has been postponed - further details on revised dates to be announced soon.
Ester Tusquets (Barcelona): Ana Maria Matute
Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing at the Institute
in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 March, 11:00 - 17:00
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Study Day - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)Esther Tusquets (Barcelona)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Friday 4 March, 19:00 - 20:30
CANCELLED
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Reading Group - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)This event has been postponed (not cancelled) - further details on revised dates to be announced soon.
Esther Tusquets (Barcelona)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 March, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Charlie Louth (Oxford):
Hölderlin and Antiquity
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 March, 12:00 - 15:00
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Claire Gorrara (IGRS/Cardiff):
Past Crimes, Present Memories: French Crime Fiction and the Second World War
and
Joan Dejean (Pennsylvania)
Painting the 17th-Century City: The First Cityscapes of Amsterdam, Paris, and London?
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 1 - Wednesday 2 March, 09:00 - 20:30
(Re)Branding Feminism - 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: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 26 February, 14:30 - 16:30
CWWF Spring Term Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Unstable Selves in Ying Chen's Fiction
Organisers: Gabrielle Parker (Middlesex) and Julie Rodgers (Maynooth)
Further details
Contact: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
Friday 25 February, 18:30 - 20:30
Coffin Trust Lecture - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Laurie Lipton, artist (London):
On Painting Death
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 February, 18:30 - 20:30
Coffin Trust Lecture - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)Briony Campbell:
The Dad Project
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 February, 09:25 - 21:00
Holocaust Writing and Translation - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Coordinators: Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth) and Peter Davies (Edinburgh)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@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 22 February, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture: Alternative Worlds - Room 275 (Stewart House)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Monday 21 February, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Ester Pou (London) presents
Maria Barbal's Pedra de tartera (1985)/Canto rodado (1995)
Transl. by Anna M. Moix (2007)/Stone in a Landslide (2010) transl. by Laura McGloughlin
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 19 February, 11:00 - 16:00
Cultural Memory Seminar: Memory and Education - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)Speakers: Lucy Bond (Goldsmiths', London),
Andy Pearce (Holocaust Educational Trust),
Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, London)
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 February, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)T.J. Reed (Oxford):
Replacing Ancient Gods - Weimar Classicism and After
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 February, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Metamnetic Motion and Grotesque Female Bodies by Contemporary Women Writers: Counter-Cultural Memory in Juli Zeh, Isabella Santacroce and Amélie Nothomb
Mattia Marino (Comparative Literature, Bangor)
Please see here for a programme of our 2010/11 Work-In-Progress Seminar series
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - 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 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
Saturday 12 February, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Visual Cultures - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 February, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Nigel Harris (Birmingham):
Virgil in the Sixteenth Century: Some Case Studies
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@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
Heinz Wolff (Brunel University):
The Making of a Refugee Scientist
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 31 January, 18:00 - 19:30
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Nagor Calvo Mendizabal (London) presents
Isabel Allende's Eva Luna (1985)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 January, 10:30
Creating the Child's Voice - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)A workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London,
More Information
Contact: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 January, 09:00 - 19:30
The Impact of Caravaggio on Contemporary Culture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Caravaggio yesterday and today: art, Genius and Legend
Keynote Speaker: Sheila Mc Tighe, Courtauld Institute
Contact: mls023@bangor.ac.uk
Thursday 27 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Michael Gratzke (St Andrews):
Werther's Love: Notes on Voluntary Self-Divestiture
More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 26 January, 18:30 - 21:00
Seminar in Visual Culture: Alternative Worlds - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the seminar’s theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.
Further details, programme and abstracts
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Monday 24 January, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Reading Group - Room 274 (Stewart House)Mia Couto's Sleepwalking Land
trans. by David Brookshaw
Speaker: Patrícia Oliveira da Silva McNeill (IGRS)
Contact: maria-jose.homem@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: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 January, 17:30 - 19:00
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Wolfgang Harms (Munich):
Vergegenwärtigung und Verwandlung der Antike in deutscher Literatur des hohen und späten Mittelalters
In memory of Professor Marianne Wynn
Organised in conjunction with the Institute of Classical Studies
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 18 January, 19:00 - 20:30
CANCELLED
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Seminar - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)Maria Reimóndez and Mercedes Cebrián:
Lost in Translation? Translating and Being Translated
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 18 January, 18:00 - 21:00
GHost III: Ghost Hunters - The Senate 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
Monday 17 January, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Seminar - 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 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
Saturday 15 January, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Workshop: Theoretical Applications - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 January, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Adriana Bontea (IGRS/Sussex):
Faces and Masks: Reconstructions of the Human Body on Early Modern Stage and in Modern Painting
Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 December, 10:00 - 17:00
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
Thursday 9 December, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Graduate Forum - Room 275 (Stewart House)details to follow
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 December, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Ernest Schonfield (London):
Compromise and Commitment in Wilhelm Meisters LehrjahreMore about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 December, 12:00 - 13:30
CANCELLED
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Sharon Jordan(IGRS/London):
The Dionysian Spirit in the Development of German Expressionism, 1890-1917
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 6 December, 15:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
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
Saturday 4 December, 10:30 - 16:15
Saturday research training workshop: computing in the humanities - Venue to be confirmed
More details
Space is very limited, so it is essential that you register in advance. Contact igrs@sas.ac.uk
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 December
Women’s Filmmaking in France 2000-2010 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)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 perspectives.
Programme and registration details
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 29 November, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)Presented by Claire Lindsay (UCL): Claudia Pineiro, Las viudas de los jueves (2005): Thursday Night Widows (2009) Trans. Miranda France
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@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)Programme and further details
The printed programme will be available early in September
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
Tuesday 23 November, 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 19 November, 16:00 - 19:30
From Textual to Visual - Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)19th November 2010 4.00-7.30 p.m. Room 104 (Senate House, South Block) – Alicia Kent (KCL) and Maria-José Blanco (IGRS) presenting Benito Pérez Galdós’ Tristana (1892) and Buñuel’s film by the same name (1970).
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 November, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Helen Abbott (IGRS/Bangor):
The Time for Poetry, or What Composers Learn from Baudelaire
Contact: igrs@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
Wednesday 10 November, 10:00 - 18:00
London French Postgraduate Conference 2010 - Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)The Other's Others - Othering and Marginalisation in French Feminism and Beyond Programme & Abstracts
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 6 November, 10:30 - 16:15
Saturday research training workshop: libraries and archives - Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 November, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Graduate Forum - Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)details to follow
Contact: igrs@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
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 the 70th Birthday of Professor Martin W. Swales
Programme and further details
The printed programme will be available early in September
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 25 October, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)Presented by Ester Pou (Queen Mary University of London): Maria BARBAL, Pedra de tartera (1985): Canto rodado (1995) - Trans. Anna M. Moix (2007): Stone in a Landslide (2010) Trans. de Laura McGloughlim
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 23 October, 10:30 - 16:15
Saturday research training workshop: introductions - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More details
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 October, 18:30 - 20:00
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.
This event is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust Fund
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 October
THE PERSONALITY CULTS OF MODERN DICTATORS: Call for papers - Room G22/26 (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
Thursday 21 October, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Graduate Forum - Room 275 (Stewart House)details to follow
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 21 October, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Henk de Berg (Sheffield)
Hegel's View of Modern SocietyMore about the English Goethe Society
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 - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)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
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
Tuesday 12 October, 18:00 - 21:00
GHost III - Hostings - The Senate 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
Saturday 9 October, 10:00
Annual Conference of Society for Pirandello Studies - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 October, 12:00 - 13:30
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Anna Schaffner (IGRS/Kent):
Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: Wandering Concepts in Scientific and Imaginary Accounts of Sexual Deviance
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 6 October, 17:30 - 20:00
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Alison E. Martin (Halle-Wittenberg):
Double Lives: Alexander von Humboldt's Work in 19th-century English Translation
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
Thursday 30 September - Friday 1 October
Beyond Glittter and Doom: New Perspectives of the Weimar Republic - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Co-Ordinators: Jochen Hung (IGRS, London), Katherine Tubb (Glasgow) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS, London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 27 September, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)Presented by Sara Caba: Carmen Laforet, Nada (1944): Nada (2007) Trans. Edith Grossman
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 September, 09:30 - 00:00
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 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.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@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 12 July, 18:00 - 20:00
The Cassal Lecture 2010: Humanities Research in China: New Horizons - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)This paper analyses recent developments in social-science and humanities research in China, and their links with European research. The main focus will be on the humanities as traditionally conceived - languages, linguistics, literature, the arts, music etc. These disciplines were relatively neglected in the last fifteen years in China, where the stress was much more on social and economic research. In the last two or three years, however, the more traditional humanities subjects have come to the fore, and it is European research, rather than American research, that has inspired this change.
Professor Alain Peyraube
Professor Peyraube is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique, Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a member of the European Research Council Scientific Council.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 July, 19:00 - 21:00
Contemporary Lusophone Poets - OtherThis event is part of the series of high profile live poetry events "Waxing Lyrical", forming part of the City of London Festival in June-July 2010. The City of London Festival is a leading arts festival that provides a summer feast of music and arts set against the backdrop of the Square Mile's fabulous buildings, both ancient and modern.
In 2010 the Festival will run from 19 June-9 July and is celebrating a number of key themes, among which Lusophone cultures from around the world. One of the events aimed at celebrating Lusophone cultures is entitled "Contemporary Lusophone Poets", and will be held on 8 July at the offices of Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, at Canary Wharf. The event will bring together four acclaimed contemporary Lusophone poets from Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde, who will read a selection of their poems in Portuguese; translations into English will be provided in the event.
For more information see http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk
Speakers: Valter Hugo Mãe & Ana Paula Tavares
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 5 July, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS):
Theodor W. Adorno: 'Minima Moralia' - Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): II
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 June, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Almudena Grandes: Las edades de Lulú/ The ages of Lulú
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 21 June, 18:00 - 20:00
Nina Melero: book launch - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
"Tenebrae: twelve shivers and a nightmare is a collection of short stories" in which ... More Details
Nina Melero
Teresa Lawlor, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies, Kingston University
Laura Rodríguez, founder and editor-in-chief of London’s Spanish cultural magazine El Colectivo
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 16 June, 16:00 - 18:00
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Nortbert Gstrein: 'The English Years'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 - Tuesday 15 June, 09:00 - 17:00
Cultural Institutions and Literary Reception in Europe - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
organized by Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE) and supported by the British Academy, building upon the work of the British Academy Network on Reception Studies (2004-09)More Information
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Bernhard Fabian FBA (English and Bibliography, Münster)
Prof. Joseph Th. Leerssen (Modern European Literature, Amsterdam)
Prof. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Comparative Literature, Eötvös Loránd, Budapest)
Prof. Rosa Rabadán (English and Translation Studies, León)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 June, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
‘Gentrification and art' More Information
RICARDA VIDAL (Visual & Media studies)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 June, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
IGS Corresponding Fellow's Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Hans Otto Horch (Aachen):
Deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte: Zur Entwicklung eines Forschungsfelds in den letzten 30 JahrenPOSTPONED TO THURSDAY, 9 JUNE 2011
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 June, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstöße Seminars - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further infomation
Bianca Zaininger (IGRS, London):
The Interrelationship between British and Austrian Youth Culture 1960-1990
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 9 June, 17:00 - 19:00
Lydia Mischkulnig - Meet the Author Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
This year’s writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre is Lydia Mischkulnig, whose distinctive and uncompromising voice has earned her the prestigious Bertelsmann Literaturpreis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Wettbewerb (1996) and the manuskripte-Preis (2002). Her work includes the novels 'Hollywood im Winter' ['Hollywood in the Winter'], published in 1996, and 'Umarmung' ['Embrace'], which appeared in 2002, as well as collections of short stories such as 'Sieben Versuchungen' ['Seven Temptations'] (1998), and most recently, 'Macht euch keine Sorgen. Neun Heimsuchungen' ['Don’t Worry. Nine Visitations'], published in 2009.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 8 June, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Book Launch Series - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
The book launch of Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles More Information
Patrícia Silva McNeill
Contact: eduard.mota@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 June, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Theodor W. Adorno: 'Minima Moralia' - Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): I
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 - Friday 4 June
7th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
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.
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 2 June, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Book Launch Series - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The book launch of Marguerite Duras: au risque de la philosophie More Information
Françoise Barbe-Petit
Contact: eduarda.mota@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 May, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Book Launch Series - Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The book launch of Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema More Information
Yosefa Loshitzky
Contact: eduarda.mota@sas.ac.uk
Friday 28 May
New Insights into Gramsci’s Life and Work - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
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Derek Boothman (SSLMIT, University of Bologna), Craig Brandist (University of Sheffield), Fabio Frosini (University of Urbino), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, University of London), James Martin (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck, University of London), and Peter Thomas (member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism).
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 27 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society: Ida Herz Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Yahya Elsaghe (Berne):
Jewish Names in Thomas Mann
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 26 May, 18:30 - 20:00
Tertúlia Seminar Series - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Lídia Jorge, A Costa dos Murmúrios/The Murmuring Coast, translated from the Portuguese by Natália Costa and Ronald W. Sousa More Information
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Monday 24 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Carmen Posadas: Juego de niños/ Child's play
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 21 May
Polemical Austria - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)This conference will explore how the concept of ‘Austria’ has evolved and been treated by Austrians. Speakers will contrast the way in which the state has presented itself, how it has been perceived by various social groups, how communists and socialists have used the term, and how the concept fits into the Catholic tradition. Amongst the eminent speakers will be Robert Evans, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, who will set the historical context on which subsequent discussions will be based.
Programme available in March.
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Co-Ordinators: Antony Bushell (Bangor) and Martin Liebscher (London).
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 19 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre
Inge Weber-Newth (London):
German 'Gastarbeiter': Female Work and Life Experiences in Post-War Britain
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 May, 17:30 - 19:30
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Siegbert Prawer (Oxford):
Types and Stereotypes. Sigmund Freud's Portrayal of Jews in Greater Austria
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 May, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstöße Seminars - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further infomation
Jochen Hung (IGRS, London):
The Ullstein Paper 'Tempo' and the Generational Problem in the Weimar Republic
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 12 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Katrin Kohl (Oxford):
Hero or Villain? The Response of German Authors to Frederick the Great, 1740-1786More about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 10 May, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Ernst Bloch: 'Spuren' (1930, 1959; selection): II
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 7 May, 11:00 - 18:00
‘Writing childhood’: Inaugural meeting of the CCWW cross-cultural seminar - Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)The first meeting of this seminar series develops the topic of the CCWW launch event, held on 16 October 2009, when three authors (from Austria, Italy and Portugal) came to London to read from and discuss their work on ‘writing childhood’. More Information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 7 May, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 274 (Stewart House)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 5 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
By invitation
Friends of Germanic Studies
Martina Lauster (Exeter)
The Nineteenth-Century Writer as Mentor and Soulmate: Readers' Responses to Karl Gutzkow
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 5 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)By invitation
Friends of Germanic Studies
Joyce P. Crick (London):
Benjamin Britten's German Texts
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 4 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)By invitation
Friends of Germanic Studies
Joyce Crick (London)
Title to follow
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 April, 17:30 - 21:00
2010 Keith Spalding Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Rudolf Hoberg (Darmstadt/Berlin):
Deutsche und europäische Sprachenpolitik. Bestandsaufnahme - Meinungen - Konsequenzen für die Praxis
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 April, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Tertúlia Seminar Series - Room 274 (Stewart House)
Lídia Jorge, A Costa dos Murmúrios/The Murmuring Coast, translated from the Portuguese by Natália Costa and Ronald W. Sousa More Information
THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON 26 MAY 2010
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 April, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 274 (Stewart House)
‘Embodied voices: female performers in narrative fiction' More Information
BARBARA STRAUMANN (Gender studies)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 April, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Claudia Nitschke (Oxford):
Semiotizing the Body: Corporeality and Emotion in Goethe's 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 April, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Norbert Gstrein: 'The English Years'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 13 April, 17:00 - 18:30
Postgraduate Forum at the IGRS - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 April, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Ernst Bloch: 'Spuren' (1930, 1959; selection): I
THIS SEMINAR WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON 19 APRIL (ROOM G32)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 April, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Ernst Bloch: 'Spuren' (1930, 1959; selection): I
INSTEAD OF 12 APRIL
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 31 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Nicholas Boyle (Cambridge):
Inventing the Intellectual: Schiller and Fichte at the University of JenaMore about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 29 March, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
La Plaza del Diamante – Mercè Rodoreda
Noèlia Diaz-Vicedo (Queen Mary, University of London)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 March
47th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and registration details
More about the Colloquium
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 March
Seminar in Visual Culture 2010: The Art of Murder - Room 274 (Stewart House)
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Brittain Bright, “The Aesthetic of the Crime Scene Photograph”
Julia Banwell, “True Crime: Looking at Violent Death in Mexican Visual Culture”
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 - Thursday 25 March
49th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 23 March, 05:00 - 06:30
IGRS Graduate Forum - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Music and Philosophy
Contact: forum.igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 March, 18:30
Malcolm Bowie Annual Lecture - Other
A series of annual lectures in celebration of Malcolm Bowie organised by Queen Mary University and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies The lectures will be hosted by these institutions in alternate years.
Professor Sarah Kay from Princeton University will be giving this year's lecture entitled ‘Legible Skins. Animals, Ethics and Reading in the Middle Ages’. The lecture will take place in the Arts Lecture Theatre at QMUL and will be followed by a drinks reception.
Professor Sarah Kay, Princeton University
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 - Friday 19 March
Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and registration details
Co-Ordinator: Ulrike Zitzlsperger (University of Exeter)
Organised under the auspices of the IGRS and the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter (CISSGE)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 16 March, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 274 (Stewart House)
‘Memories of trauma on film' More Information
JULIA WAGNER (Cinema studies)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 15 March, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar on Modernism and Cinema - Room 274 (Stewart House)
Cendrars, Survage and Colour Music More Information on Seminar Series
Eric Robertson [Dept of French, Royal Holloway]
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 13 March, 14:30 - 16:30
CWWF Spring term 2010 - Seminar meeting - OtherCo-ordinator: Julia Waters (Reading)
Topic: Ananda Devi
More Details
Speakers to be confirmed
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 12 March, 16:00 - 19:00
Memories: Three languages – Three Generations: One Country - The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women Writers and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory are delighted to present an afternoon of readings by three writers representing the three romance languages of the Spanish Peninsula. More Information
Abelló, Lala Isla and María Reimóndez.
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Peter Riedl (Freiburg/Br.):
Die Kunst der Muße. Über ein Ideal in der Literatur um 1800
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 March, 16:00 - 18:00
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Stefan Zweig: 'The Royal Game'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 9 March, 17:00 - 18:30
Postgraduate Forum at the IGRS - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Monday 8 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 5 March, 17:30 - 19:00
John Coffin Lecture on Literature: Franco Moretti, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
"Network theory and its application to literature"
'In the last decade or so, the quantitative analysis of literary style has made considerable progress. But what plot – which, after all, is the dominant dimension in novels and plays? This talk looks for a possible answer in the conceptual framework of network theory, and offers a few concrete examples drawn from English and Chinese literature'.
Franco Moretti is the author of Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005). Chief editor of The Novel (Princeton, 2006). He has given the Gauss seminars at Princeton, the Beckman lectures at Berkeley, and the Carpenter lectures at Chicago; he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and writes for New Left Review.
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 5 March, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 March, 18:00 - 20:00
The Long Arm of Dictatorship. Publishing in the GDR and in Exile. Freya Klier, Gabriele Bock and Gabrielle Alioth in Discussion - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Freya Klier was a high-profile member of the GDR peace movement, which was instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall. She was expelled from the GDR in 1988 and continued her work as writer and film director in West Berlin. She will read from her recent work - in German and in English translation.
Gabriele Bock was a reader for English language literature at the Reclam publishing house in Leipzig from 1974 to 1992. She will speak about her experience of producing literature under a dictatorship and in the context of censorship.
Freya Klier and Gabriele Bock will then join a discussion chaired by Gabrielle Alioth, herself a well-known writer and expert on exiled German authors.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 March, 15:00 - 17:00
CANCELLED
Denkanstöße Seminars - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further infomation
Details to be announced
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 1 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
More details
Kate Briggs (freelance translator)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 27 February
Cultural Memory Seminar: 'Testimony, Memory and the Past' - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Professor Erica Burman (Manchester Metropolitan University), Kirsten Campbell (Goldsmiths College), Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway), Dr Ursula Tidd (University of Manchester)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 26 February
Carlo Goldoni's 'La Locandiera' - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
An all day workshop and rehearsed reading of 'La Locandiera'
More details
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 February, 18:30 - 21:00
GHost – the Post-GHost-Hosting Projections of GHost photography by Julian Wakeling and performances by GHost artists - The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
This evening concludes the cycle of events that comprised GHost II and opens the curtain for the entrance of GHost III. In a parallel projection on the walls of the Courtroom we will show Julian Wakeling’s haunted photographs of hostings I and II, which took place in the same room in October and November last year and of the GHost II exhibition at St Johns Church on Bethnal Green.
Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Fabrizio Manco, Callum F. Kerr, Miyuki Kasahara and Derek Jordan, who have all taken part in GHost II, have devised a series of performances for the evening and will invite audiences to interact with the space and its invisible entities.
Wine will be served and you will have a chance to purchase a copy of our GHost publications, “Hosting I: Haunted Houses” and “Hosting II: Ghost Voices”, which contain essays from the hostings and a selection of Julian’s photographs.
The Daughters of Moroni will preside over the evening.
This is a free event but please email us at ghost.hostings@gmail.com so we know how many to expect.
GHost is organised by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal.
www.host-a-ghost.blogspot.com
Contact: ghost.hostings@gmail.com
Thursday 25 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Tertúlia Seminar Series - Room 274 (Stewart House)
José Eduardo Agualusa, O Vendedor de Passados/The Book of Chameleons, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn (Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007) More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 February, 17:30 - 20:00
Thursday Evening Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Simon Richter (Pennsylvania):
Weimar Hetero-Classicism: Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Aesthetics of Gender
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 February
Seminar in Visual Culture 2010: The Art of Murder - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More Information
Roger Cook, “Murder, Myth and Martyrdom: the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini”
Leila Peacock, “Dis-moi ce qui tu manges…”
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 22 February, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar on Modernism and Cinema - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Word and Image in Early Avant Garde Film More Information on Seminar Series
Kim Knowles [School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent]
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre
Anna Nyburg (London):
Danube and Spree, Thames and Hudson: Researching the German-speaking Refugee Publishers
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Katya Krylova (Cambridge):
A City where one must Suffer the Past: Vienna and Austrian Identity in Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Malina'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 9 February, 17:00 - 18:30
Postgraduate Forum at the IGRS - Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Monday 8 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 8 February, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
‘Freud on holiday' More Information
SHARON KIVLAND (Arts Fellow)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Anil Bhatti (New Delhi):
The Art of Cultural Metamorphosis: Goethe's 'Divan' as an Experiment
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 27 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Michael Gratzke (St Andrews):
Werther's Love: Notes on Voluntary Self-DivestitureMore about the English Goethe Society
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 27 January
Seminar in Visual Culture 2010: The Art of Murder - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More Information
Ricarda Vidal, “A brief introduction to murder”
Geraldine Swayne, “On Painting Murder”
Simon Bacon, “The Two Faces of the Murderous Gaze”
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 25 January, 18:30 - 20:00
Seminar on Modernism and Cinema - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Ballet mecanique as citation collage and avant-garde revue More details on Seminar Series
Barney Dicker [PhD candidate, Dept of Media Arts, Royal Holloway]
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 25 January, 16:00 - 18:00
Spanish Reading Group - Dulce Chacon, La voz dormida/The Sleeping Voice. - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 January, 14:30 - 19:30
The Memory of Myths: Sylvie Germain’s Narratives - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
A Round Table discussion and a Coffin Trust Fund Reading by the well-known French author, Sylvie Germain. She will be joined by Toby Garfitt (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), Carol Gouspy (University of Kent), Ana de Medeiros (University of Kent), Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University).
Sylvie Germain uses the mythmaking possibilities of Fantastic Literature to recreate ancient myths while, at the same time, the surface reality created in this fiction suggests alternatives to our present reality – a reality which, the author reveals is often in conflict with the explanations offered. The symbolic images used by Sylvie Germain recall narratives where History and the Fantastic work together to highlight the everyday and illuminate the eternal.
Round table discussion: 14.30 to 16.30
Refreshments: 16.30 to 17.00
Reading: 17.00 to 18.30
Wine reception from 18.30
All are welcome. Admission free but please book your place by email.
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 January
Lusophone Visual Culture Workshop - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
This workshop will feature a keynote speech by artist Ângela Ferreira and presentations by graduate students from Birbeck College, King’s College London and the Royal College of Art and by guest speakers on various current aspects of Lusophone visual cultures, including contemporary art and cinema. A screening of the film Torre Bela, directed by Thomas Harlan, 1977 (115 mins), followed by a presentation by José Filipe Costa will take place on Friday evening.
For any queries, please contact Eduarda Mota at eduarda.mota@sas.ac.uk
Attendance is free, but please book a place by emailing igrs@sas.ac.uk
In collaboration with the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies/King’s College London and the Curating Contemporary Art Department/Royal College of Art.
Click here for programme
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 21 January, 18:00 - 20:00
The Witness and the Text - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)Book launch of the special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies 9.3 (Winter 2009), edited by Debra Kelly and Gill Rye. In conjunction with a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the MA in Cultural Memory.
More Information
Contact: eduarda.mota@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 21 January, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Martin Prochazka (Prague):
'From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology': Theories of Fiction in Wolfgang Iser's Later Work
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 20 January, 16:00 - 18:00
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Thomas Glavinic: 'Night Work'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 18 January, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
(Originally scheduled for 11 January)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 15 - Saturday 16 January
Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino (1936-2008): ‘Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa’ - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The death of Fabrizia Ramondino in June 2008 deprived Italy of one of its most interesting writers and of a sharp observer and commentator of the cultural and political changes Italy has undergone in the past fifty years. After an intense experience of social commitment and political militancy in Naples in the 1970s, Fabrizia Ramondino devoted herself to writing and has left a varied corpus of works which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment. Between the publication of her first and last novels, Althenópis (1981) and La Via (2008), Ramondino continued to probe the question of identity and its foundations in language, family, class, history, geography and the environment. Gender remained an important focus of her work throughout her career.
More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 January, 17:30 - 19:30
Third Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Andrew Barker (Edinburgh):
Politics and History in 'Post-War' Austrian Fiction: Bruno Brehm's 'Die Throne stürzen' (1951) and Heimito von Doderer's 'Die Dämonen' (1956)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 January, 16:00 - 18:00
CANCELLED
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
SEMINAR RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, 18 JANUARY IN ROOM ST 276 (4 - 6 pm)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 December, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 274 (Stewart House)
‘Who saw it coming? Prediction and hindsight in emplotting the crisis' More Information
SÁNDOR HITES (Comparative Literature)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 December, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 December
Landmarks 2: ECREA Philosophy of Communication Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The ECREA Section for the Philosophy of Communication will host its second Landmarks conference, from 9-11 December 2009, at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Landmarks is the name of our bi-annual conference exploring current pathways of research and scholarship in the philosophy of communication. We aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and engagement, spanning philosophy and communication studies broadly understood, and creating opportunities for established as well young scholars and researchers to present their work and their ideas.More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 8 December, 17:00 - 19:30
Graduate Forum at the IGRS - Room G16 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
'Ethics and Critical Theory'
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 December, 18:00 - 20:00
IGRS Book Launch Series - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The book launch of Consensuality: Didier Anzieu: Gender and the Sense of Touch More Information
Naomi Segal
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 December, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More details to follow
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 December, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 274 (Stewart House)
‘Why democracy must be rethought: Hannah Arendt’s approach' More Information
VICTORIA RODRÍGUEZ (Philosophy/Politics)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 4 December, 17:00 - 20:00
Reading by Antonella Anedda - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Hailed as one of the most significant and original living poets in Italy today, Antonella Anedda was born in Rome and teaches linguistics at the University of Siena. She contributed to significant Italian journals such as Il Manifesto, Linea d'ombra and Nuovi Argomenti. She also published a number of collections of poetry including Residenze invernali (1992), Notti di pace occidentale (1999) and Il catalogo della gioia (2003), as well as the collections of essays Cosa sono gli anni (1997), La luce delle cose (2000) and the translations Nomi distanti (1998). Published by the distinguished house Mondadori, her collection 'Dal balcone del corpo' moves from the founding metaphor that the body is a balcony, an architectural interface between the individual and the world around. Her poetic language strives to regain both a communicative function and a psychological dimension, beyond the destruction hailed by the avantgarde. In 2008 this collection was awarded he prestigious literary prize: Premio Dessi. Anedda's poems have been translated into English by Jamie McKendrick.
This Reading will be structured as a dialogue between the poet (Anedda) and her translator (McKendrick), himself a poet.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 4 December, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 275 (Stewart House)
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Thursday 3 December, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Robert Weninger (London):
'A Great Poet on a Great Brother Poet': A Parallactic Reading of Goethe and James Joyce
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 30 November, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Details to follow shortly
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 27 - Saturday 28 November
Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI): Annual Conference 2009 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Since at least the Grand Tour, the western world has tended to view Italy as a domain of notable emotional intensity, but the question of emotions has only recently started to become a focus for scholarly investigation of Italian society. This conference will provide a forum for scholars wishing to share their research on Italy and the emotions and to explore the theoretical implications of this focus. More information
Keynote speakers:
Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa): 'The politics of emotion in 19th century Italian history'
Professor Luisa Passerini (University of Turin): 'Discourses on Love and Europe: Italian Europeanists in the interwar period'
Natalia Aspesi (La Repubblica)
Contact: Fricatti@usc.edu.au
Wednesday 25 November, 16:00 - 18:00
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Christoph Ransmayr: 'The Terrors of Ice and Darkness'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 24 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Tertúlia Seminar Series - Room 274 (Stewart House)
José Saramago, "O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo/The Gospel according to Jesus Christ", translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 21 November, 14:30 - 16:30
CWWF Autumn term 2009 - Seminar meeting - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Reading group on Marie Ndiaye's Trois femmes puissantes
Organiser: Gill Rye - gill.rye@sas.ac.uk
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Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 21 November, 11:00 - 13:00
Spanish Reading Group - 'La mujer habitada' by Gioconda Belli - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
To launch the Contemporary Women's Writing in Spanish Seminars, Dr. Jennifer Fraser (Birkbeck) will be introducing Gioconda Belli's first novel 'La mujer habitada'. This will be followed by a discussion of the novel.
More Information
Dr. Jennifer Fraser (Birkbeck)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 20 November
Italian Immigrant Communities in the UK: The Case of Bedford - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
This represents the first of a series of conferences to investigate the social history, culture and language of Italian immigrants in the UK. In this first conference, the principal emphasis will be placed on the Italian immigrant community living in and around Bedford and will attempt to address various issues relating to the community’s development since early investigations in the 1970s. More Information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 - Friday 20 November
Germania Remembered 1500 - 2009 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Co-Ordinators: Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland (Nottingham)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 November, 18:00 - 21:00
‘Haydn-Spaß’ - Haydn for Young and Old. Recital and Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature celebrates the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death with a recital by the Matteo (formerly Escher) String Quartet from the Sun, Tost and Apponyi quartets. Haydn’s music will be complemented by readings by Eva Mayer, the remarkable writer of children’s literature, from her stories inspired by Haydn’s stay in England. English translations will be available. The event is sponsored by the John Coffin Memorial Fund of the University of London.
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
More details
Terry Dennett (photographer)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
David Bate (Westminster) & Alessandra Antola (RHUL)More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Details to follow
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 November, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More details to follow
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 November, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 3 November, 17:00 - 19:30
Graduate Forum at the IGRS - Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
'Philosophy and Literature'
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 October, 18:30 - 21:00
IGRS Book Launch Series - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
"The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's Aracoeli", co-edited by Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna. This event is organised in cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and the new Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, which will be launched on 16 October 2009 at the IGRS. More Information
Manuele Gragnolati
Sara Fortuna
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 October, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Angus Nicholls (London): Between Natural and Human Science: Scientific Method in Goethe's 'Noten und Abhandlungen zum West-Östlichen Divan'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 October, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Details to follow shortly
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 October, 18:00 - 20:00
Stefano Benni - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The London correspondent from 'La Repubblica', Enrico Franceschini, will present and interview Stefano Benni about Misterioso and Theatralia's adaptation at Riverside Studios (Oct 21-Nov8 2009) and about the publication of the English translation of his book 'Timeskipper'
For more information on Riverside Studios event
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 October, 12:00 - 13:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 274 (Stewart House)
‘The anticipatory unconscious: Bloch’s concept of life & the encounter in psychoanalysis' More Information
JOHAN SIEBERS (Philosophy)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 October, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre
Jennifer Taylor (London):
A Transit Camp without a Newspaper. What can be known of Huyton Internment Camp in 1940?
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 20 October, 18:30 - 21:00
GHosting Workshop - The Jessell Room (Senate House, First Floor)
GHosting is lead 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
Monday 19 October, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 17 October
Clothing the Naked: Pirandello and Pirandellismo - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Annual conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies to be preceded by the annual general meeting of the Society for Pirandello Studies.
Further details available from Mary Casey: mary_e_casey@hotmail.com.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 16 October, 14:00 - 17:30
Launch of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Ana Luísa Amaral (Portuguese poet), Anna Mitgutsch (Austrian novelist and essayist) and Nicoletta Vallorani (Italian novelist and children's book author)
Readings from recent works treating the theme of childhood. Join us for an afternoon of exhilarating, disturbing, beautiful and provocative literature. Readings will be in the original language and in English translation. A round-table discussion chaired by Prof. Abigail Lee Six will follow the readings.
The event is co-funded by the John Coffin Trust Fund and the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
More information on the CCWW launch event
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Thursday Evening Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Ruth Dawson (Hawaii/London):
Framed: the Mutual Gazes of Europeans and Pacific Islanders from Cook to Today
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 October, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstöße Seminars - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
Further infomation
Ernest Schonfield (London):
Classical Ballet versus 'Ausdruckstanz': Vicki Baum's 'Menschen im Hotel'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Memorial screening: Pina Bausch — 'Kontakthof' - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In June this year, the legendary German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch passed away. Bausch’s work revolutionised dance, theatre and performance art on an international scale. She has been attributed with the invention of ‘Tanztheater’ (dance theatre), a new genre combining in loosely composed collages text, song, gesture, theatrical as well as movement-based elements.
Bausch was born in Solingen in 1940. She trained at the Folkwang School, Essen, with the dance innovator Kurt Jooss and at Julliard in New York. In 1962 she returned to Germany to become a soloist and assistant to Jooss at the Folkwang-Ballet. 1968 marked the beginning of her choreographic work, which led to her becoming artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal in 1973. In her choreographic work with the company, she increasingly abandoned conventional structures of ballet, developing a form of choreography much closer to theatre. Her method was improvisation-and process-based, generating in close collaboration with her company over months the montages of gestures, scenes and images that would make her haunting pieces. Bausch’s thematic interest was the exploration of inner motion: ‘Mich interessiert nicht so sehr, wie sich Menschen bewegen, als was sie bewegt.’ [I am less interested in how people move than what they are moved by.]
To remember her, we will screen the 1978 piece ‘Kontakthof’, revived and filmed in 2000. In the film version, Bausch chose a cast of seniors, amateurs who were all over 65 years old. ‘Kontakthof’ stages the longing for love, the lonely, uncomfortable attempt of courting the other, the shameful experience of rejection and the sexual excitement and angst accompanying physical intimacy.
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 October, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Details to follow shortly
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 October, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More details to follow
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
David Blamires (Manchester):
The Scholar as Explorer and Detective: The Impact of Germany on 19th-Century British Children’s Books
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 7 October, 16:00 - 18:00
Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Convenors:
David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
Further details
Daniel Kehlmann: 'Measuring the World'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 6 October, 17:00 - 19:30
Graduate Forum at the IGRS - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Open topic
Further details
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 - Friday 2 October
The 'Good German' in Literature and Culture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Co-Ordinators: Pol O'Dochartaigh (Ulster) and Christiane Schoenfeld (Galway)
Sponsored by the University of Ulster
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 September, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Details to follow shortly
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 September, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Further details to follow shortly
Further details
Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 September
'Play up! Play up! And play the game!' Music and Theatre in the Life of Peter Branscombe (1929-2008) - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 22 September, 18:00 - 21:00
Reading by Joseph Kanon from 'The Good German' - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Joseph Kanon's work has achieved critical acclaim as well as gathering a large readership. His first novel, 'Los Alamos' (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. 'The Good German' (2001) was adapted for the cinema screen in 2006 (directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred George Clooney and Cate Blanchett). The novel focuses on Hitler’s willing or passive collaborators and raises profound ethical questions.
Sponsored by the John Coffin Memorial Fund
This event is free but please email Jane Lewin to book a place.
[This reading was originally to take place on the 1st of October as part of "The Good German" conference. This conference is still going ahead - click here for details.]
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 September
The Kindertransport 1938/9 Seventy Years On. New Developments in Research - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Co-Ordinators: Andrea Hammel (Sussex) and Bea Lewkowicz (London)
Supported by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 - Friday 11 September
Crossing Boundaries: The Making and Circulation of Art and Literature - Other
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Ina Blom (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo)
J. Hillis Miller (Distinguished Research Professor, Comparative Literature & English, Harvard University)
Carrol Clarkson (Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Cape Town)
Chris Bremmers (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 September
Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to Marcuse - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and registration details
Co-Ordinators: Steve Giles, Jerome Carroll and Maike Oergel (Nottingham)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 2 - Friday 3 July, 09:00 - 17:00
Génétique et Culture Française: Genetic Science and French Culture - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
This conference will aim to explore the impact and influence of genetic theories and related technologies in French and francophone intellectual and cultural life, with particular though not exclusive emphasis on literary and visual culture (including bande dessinée, plastic arts, cinema, TV, advertising) from the late nineteenth century to the present day, reflecting on some of the most controversial scientific and ethical questions in a corpus that embraces both the mainstream and the marginal.More Information
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jacques Testart, Honorary Research Director of I.N.S.E.R.M; Fay Brauer, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 27 June, 10:00 - 17:00
Contemporary Women's Writing seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Study Day on Marie Darrieussecq More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 June, 09:30 - 18:00
Symposium on Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication in Spanish. Simposio de Pragmatica y Comunicación Intercultural en Español - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The purpose of this symposium is to provide a platform to explore different aspects of intercultural communication in Spanish from a broadly defined pragmatics perspective and thus contribute to the development of this area of research with respect to the Spanish-speaking world. More Information
Keynote Speakers: Kristine Fitch, University of Iowa, Francisco Raga Gimeno (Grupo CRIT), Universidad Jaume I, Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 June, 18:30 - 20:00
Money, Money, Money: Seminars in Visual Culture - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Dr. Gavin Grindon (Kingston University), “Art-Activism, Anticapitalism and Value – from the Situationist International to now”
Robin Priestley, The Space Hijackers (art presentation)
More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 20 June, 14:00 - 20:00
Shortness: A very short conference and a very long dinner - to be held at Tate Modern - Other
Organised by Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis and Ricarda Vidal in collaboration with Public Programmes, Tate Modern. IGRS in collaboration with London Consortium
More Information
Contact: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 June, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Friends of Italian Film Screening - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Film screening of Le conseguenze dell’amore (2004) directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 15 June, 12:30 - 14:00
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
‘Hands & worlds: closed and open love in The Piano and The Truman Show’. More Information
NAOMI SEGAL (Comparative studies)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 - Friday 12 June
Femmes engagées : Women Intellectuals in France 1986 to present - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
For more details
Conference Organisers: Elise Hugueny-Léger,St Andrews University and Imogen Long Leeds University
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 June, 15:00 - 17:00
CANCELLED
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
An opportunity to meet the author in an informal setting and engage in detailed discussion.
More about the Bachmann Centre
CANCELLED IN THE EVENT THAT THE LONDON UNDERGROUND STRIKE GOES AHEAD
Gabriele Petricek - Meet the Author
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 6 June, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 June, 10:00 - 18:00
6th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and registration details
More about the Bachmann Centre
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 1 June, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Heidegger: Was heisst Denken?
Convenor: Johann Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 30 May, 13:00 - 16:00
Paolo Giordano - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Bestselling author Paolo Giordano will be reading from his first novel 'La solitudine dei numeri primi', winner of the 2008 Premio Strega award.
Q & A session to follow.
Contact: Angela.Fattibene@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 May, 18:30 - 20:00
Money, Money, Money: Seminars in Visual Culture - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Dr. Diane Gabrysiak (Birkbeck College), “Let’s Make Money – Representing money on film”
Morgan Adamson (University of Minnesota), "Inflation and the Image: Film, Financial Crisis, and the End of the Gold Standard"
More Information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 May
Cultural Footprints 1945-1955: the Allied Forces' Influence on Austrian Literature and Culture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and registration details
More about the Bachmann Centre
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Conference
Co-Ordinators: Martin Liebscher (IGRS, London) and Heide Kunzelmann (QMUL)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 26 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Friends of Italian Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 23 May, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme: Visual Culture, including film theory - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Malcolm Miller (Open University):
Music as Memory:
Emigré British Composers and their Wartime Experiences
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 20 May, 18:00
Mio Fratello e` Figlio Unico - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Screening of the film by Daniele Luchetti introduced by Jordan Lancaster, the English translator of the novel by Antonio Pennacchi
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 20 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Film Screeing: Friends of Italian Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Mio fratello e` figlio unico (Daniele Luchetti; 2007).
Dr Jordan Lancaster, the English translator of the novel by Antonio Pennacchi, will introduce the film.
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Tuesday 19 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 14 May, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh):
Mephisto, Masculinity, and Other Matters
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 May, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstöße Seminar Series - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Annja Neumann (Queen Mary, London):
'SCHWIMMHAEUTE zwischen den Worten': A Method of Procedural Interpretation
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 May, 12:30 - 14:00
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Questions of Womanhood and Jewishness: Else Croner, 'Die moderne Juedin' (1913) and Grete Meisel-Hess, 'Die Intellektuellen' (1911)
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GODELA WEISS-SUSSEX (German studies)
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Tuesday 12 May, 17:00 - 19:30
Cassal Lecture in French Culture: 'Antinomies of Citizenship' - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Ever since the origins in ancient societies, the concept of the citizen and the corresponding "community of citizens" (the Greek politeia, the Roman civitas) have moved in polarities which accounted for a permanent tension: between rights and duties, membership and exclusion, participation and representation, etc. In periods of crisis of the political institution such as the current 'trans-nationalization' of the Law and the global Economy , the constitutive tensions can become genuine antinomies, which confront individuals and collectives with radical choices. This Lecture will try to clarify their formulation and show what is at stake in their uncertain perspectives.
Etienne BALIBAR, born in 1942, graduated in France and the Netherlands. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Political and Moral Philosophy at the University of Paris-Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, London. Among his recent publications are 'Politics and the Other Scene', and 'We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship'.
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Saturday 9 May, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Friday 8 May, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Tuesday 5 May, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Friday 1 May, 09:30 - 18:30
The Screen Anniversary Béla Balázs Symposium - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The symposium's objective is to develop film-critical awareness of the work of the Hungarian-born film critic and theorist, Béla Balázs, by situating him as one of the writers of the interwar period trying to think through the aesthetics of the then-new medium; and also to open up discussion of the relevance of Balázs's work to understanding contemporary media aesthetics. More Information
Sabine Hake, (University of Texas), Hanno Loewy, (Jewish Museum, Hohenems), Erica Carter, (University of Warwick), Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 April, 15:00 - 18:00
Book and Screen Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Heinrich Mann's 'Professor Unrat' (1904) and
Joseph von Sternberg's film 'Der blaue Engel' (1930)
Introduced by Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 27 April, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Monday 27 April, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Nietzsche: Schopenhauer als Erzieher
Convenor: Johann Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 April
Breaking Boundaries. The 1790s in Germany, Britain and France. Revolution, Liberation and Excess - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme and further details
Co-Ordinators: Maike Oergel and Daniel Hall (Nottingham)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 4 April, 09:30 - 19:30
Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Culture - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Co-organised by Prof. Markman Ellis (School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr. Ann Lewis (French Department and School of Languages, Linguistics & Culture, Birkbeck, University of London) with the support of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London; and the Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Keynote Speakers: Prof. Emma Clery (University of Southampton) and Prof. Kathryn Norberg (UCLA)
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Monday 30 March, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Schelling: Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhaengenden Gegenstaende
Convenor: Johann Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 25 March, 18:30 - 20:00
Money, Money, Money: Seminars in Visual Culture - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Marina Vishmidt, “Speculation as Mode of Production: Art, Money and the Formalism of Value”
Tessa Garland, "Consumerism and Art" (art presentation)
Carolyn Kay, “Economics and Gaming” (art presentation)
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Monday 23 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Saturday 21 March, 11:00 - 17:00
CARMEN MARTIN GAITE STUDY DAY - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)This Study Day will bring together students, researchers and academics in order to share ongoing research and broaden horizons. In particular it aims to provide new perspectives on Carmen Martin Gaite studies, past, present and future.More Information
Maria-José Blanco, Mercedes Carbayo Abengózar, Caragh Wells and Jessamy Harvey.
Contact: m.blanco@ucl.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Marian Malet (London):
The Jews of Belgrade in the Second World War
POSTPONED FROM 6 FEBRUARY
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 16 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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David Evans
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Monday 16 March, 12:30 - 14:00
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Tracing Memory across Landscapes: Varda's (Auto)portraits en mouvement
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DELPHINE BENEZET (French cinema)
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Thursday 12 March, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Kevin Hilliard (Oxford):
'Ein Hogarthisches unsinniges Tollhausl�cheln':
The Problem of the Laughing Philosopher in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 March, 15:00 - 18:00
Book and Screen Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Harvey Cokliss's film 'Crash!' [in collaboration with Ballard] of 1971,
J.G. Ballard's novel of 1973, and David Cronenberg's film of 1995
Introduced by Ricarda Vidal (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 March, 19:00 - 21:00
'Out of Austria': Remembering the Austrian Centre - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)An evening organised by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the IGRS and the Anglo-Austrian Society
Programme
Registration essential
Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Marian Malet, and Jutta Raab Hansen
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 7 March, 11:00 - 16:00
Contemporary Women's Writing seminar - Other
French Women's Writing: Recent Fiction. A Seminar in Celebration of Elizabeth Fallaize at St John’s College, Oxford.
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Thursday 5 - Friday 6 March
Where are we now? A workshop on women & heterosexuality - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir began The Second Sex with the words "Enough ink has been spilled over the quarrel of feminism; it's pretty much closed now " let us say no more about it". Sixty years later, the quarrel continues. A spirit of optimism and activism reigned for women born around 1950 and entering maturity together with the feminist movement in 1969. Where are those women now and where are the generations of women that have followed?
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Wednesday 4 March, 18:00 - 19:30
Friends of Italian lecture - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Changing countries, crossing genres: Richardson, Goldoni and Pamela
Ann Caesar, Warwick
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Tuesday 3 March, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
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Thursday 26 February, 18:30 - 20:00
Money, Money, Money: Seminars in Visual Culture - Room 274 (Stewart House)
Samuel Thomson, “Artist Futures” (film presentation)
Jon Purnell, Cack-U-Like (art presentation)
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Thursday 26 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Catriona Firth (Durham):
The Violence of Visual Anthropology in Gerhard Roth's 'Der stille Ozean' and its Filmic Adaptations
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 February, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstöße Seminar Series - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Alexandra Kurmann (IGRS, London):
'A Heideggerian Analysis of the Ontology of Exile'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 23 February, 18:00 - 19:30
Coffin Reading: Dreaming together: Jewish literature in Latin America - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
For many centuries Jews are present in the history of Brazil and in other Latin American countries, both as marranos and immigrants. An interesting literature came out in the uneasy frontier between cultures; the work of Jewish-Brazilian writers will be analyzed.
Moacyr Scilar
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Monday 23 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Friends of Italian Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI CONTINI (1962) BY GIORGIO BASSANI
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Monday 23 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
'Brother Animal's Long Tail: Freud, Tausk and the Research Assessment Exercise'.
The accompanying reading wil be Freud's 'Group psychology'.
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Mandy Merck, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway,
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Monday 23 February, 16:00 - 18:00
German Philosophy Reading Group - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Kant: Von einem neuerdings erhobenen vornehmen Ton in der Philosophie
Convenor: Johann Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Lucia Ruprecht (Cambridge):
Servile Virtuosity in Robert Walser, W.G. Sebald and the Brothers Quay
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 17 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Photography and Memory
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David Bate (Westminster)
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Saturday 14 February, 11:00 - 16:00
Cultural Memory Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)What is Memory Studies? A day of reflection and discussion More Information
Rebecca Bramall, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Brighton; Andrew Hoskins, Founding Principal Editor of the journal 'Memory Studies' and Director of the Centre for Memory Studies, University of Warwick; Christoph Hoerl, Philosophy Department, University of Warwick; Mary Stevens, Research associate on the AHRC Community Archives project in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London; Susannah Radstone, Reader in Cultural Theory, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 13 February, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 12 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Thursday Evening Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Sandra Richter (London/Stuttgart):
On Optimism. Leibniz, the Philosophical Novel and the Effects of an Eighteenth-Century Discussion
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 February, 15:00 - 18:00
Book and Screen Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Ferdinand Bordewijk's novel 'Karakter' and
Mike van Diem's film 'Karakter '('Character')
Introduced by Johan Siebers (IGRS)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 9 February, 14:30 - 16:30
Translation Master Class with Daniel Hahn - from Portuguese into English - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Translation Masterclass More Information
Daniel Hahn
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Monday 9 February, 12:30 - 14:00
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Heredity, genealogy and literature: voices of António Lobo Antunes
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AINO RINHAUG (Portuguese studies)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 6 February, 18:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Marian Malet (London):
The Jews of Belgrade in the Second World War
DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, 18 MARCH 2009
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Visiting Fellow's Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Manuel Dries (Oxford/London):
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 3 February, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
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Monday 2 February, 14:00 - 16:00
Translation Master Class with Daniel Hahn - from Portuguese into English - Other
Masterclass to be held in room E1 at King's College London. More Information
Daniel Hahn
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Contact: eduarda.mota@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 January, 18:30 - 20:00
Money, Money, Money: Seminars in Visual Culture - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Dr. Yair Wallach, “Money becomes Text: Gold and Paper in Palestine”
Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), “Doing Visual Culture: Currency and Graphic Design”
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Thursday 29 January, 17:15 - 19:45
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Abstract
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Regina Sachers (Cambridge):
From 'Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen' to 'Gott und Welt':
Science and Philosophy in Goethe's Poetry
[Annual General Meeting at 17:45]
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 23 January, 14:00 - 17:00
The Society for Italian Studies - preparation of bids to research councils and other funding bodies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Jenny Burns (Warwick), Jane Everson (Royal Holloway), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Brian Richardson (Leeds) and Naomi Segal (IGRS)
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Friday 23 January, 10:00 - 17:00
Italian Research Training - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 22 January, 17:30 - 19:30
Keith Spalding Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Helmut Peitsch (Potsdam):
Von der Re-education zum kalten Krieg. Das Londoner PEN-Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren und die Erinnerung an die Bücherverbrennung
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 January, 15:00 - 18:00
Book and Screen Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Jose Saramago's 'A Jangada de Pedra' and
George Sluizer's film 'The Stone Raft' (with English subtitles)
Introduced by Eduarda Mota (IGRS/King's College London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 13 January, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
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Monday 15 December, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 11 December, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Visiting Fellow's Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Frauke Matthes (Edinburgh/London):
Islam as Commercialized Object in Navid Kermani's 'Kurzmitteilung'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 December, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Anna Richards (London):
The Late Eighteenth-Century Novel as 'Trostschrift':
Johann Martin Miller's 'Siegwart' (1776)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 2 December, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
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2008/09 programme to follow
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Monday 1 December, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 27 - Friday 28 November
Nietzsche's 'Ecce Homo' - A Centenary Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
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Wednesday 26 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Tuesday 25 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Friends of Italian Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
Vitaliano Brancati
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Saturday 15 November, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Illness and Suffering More Information
Helen Vassallo (Exeter) on Nina Bouraoui and Leila Sebbar Catherine Markey (UCL) on Nina Bouraoui
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Thursday 13 November, 17:30 - 19:30
IGS Corresponding Fellow's Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 November, 15:00 - 17:00
Denkanstoesse Seminar Series - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Samuel Willcocks (London):
The Love of God, the Errors of the Jews, the Power of the Patron and the Task of the Poet: Michael Beheim's Versifications of Popular Piety
followed by a visit to the Germanic Studies Library
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 10 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
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Thursday 6 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 30 October, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Steffan Davies (Bristol):
'Wir wollen sein ein einig Volk von Br�dern'?
German Nationalism and the Schillerfeier of 1859
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 28 October, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Saturday 25 October, 10:30 - 16:15
Saturday research training workshop - Stewart House
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Friday 24 October, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Christopher Burke (Reading):
Otto and Marie Neurath in Exile
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 21 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Coffin Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Dynamics of Beauty
Giuseppe Longo, University of Trieste
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 20 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 October, 10:00 - 18:00
Literary and Cultural studies: the future. - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Initiated & Sponsored by the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation
In the European academic context, "literary studies" is a circumscribed discipline; it is one of the 15 ESF-SCH humanities "science areas". This Strategic Workshop will seek to define the discipline as it is evolving and devise a 3-5-year strategy for developing literary studies (or what should perhaps now be called "literary/cultural studies") as a field with renewed potential in Europe and beyond.
The idea of developing this strategy is to explore and reinvigorate a discipline that is on the one hand extremely rich, interdisciplinary and diverse and on the other relatively poor at defining and presenting itself. The intention is to energise colleagues in this field and help it develop its role in an increasingly policy-driven research environment. There is an urgent need to formulate and discuss the problems arising from the situation of literary studies, instigating both constructively critical self-reflection and a proactive move towards defining the added value that these studies produce in the context of the humanities; in the field of academic research as a whole; and for European and, in the long run, global society.
The workshop will involve academics from 13 nations: the four ESF organisers are from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland and the UK; the other 17 invited participants are from Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Turkey & the USA.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 October, 18:00 - 19:30
Bithell Memorial Lecture - Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre - SOAS
Peter Stein
Theatre and Opera Director
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 7 October, 17:00 - 18:30
Graduate Forum - STB8 (Stewart House, basement)
More information
Welcome Session: 2008/09 programme to follow
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Thursday 2 October, 14:00 - 19:00
The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction: - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Claudia Boscolo (Royal Holloway University of London), Wu Ming 1 (Italian writer), Vanni Santoni (Italian writer), Marco Amici (University College Cork), Monica Jansen (Utrecht University & University of Antwerp)
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Friday 26 September, 18:00 - 20:00
Coffin Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Sir Jonathan Miller
to view the recording, please click here
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Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 September
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Saturday 20 September
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Wednesday 17 - Friday 19 September
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
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Exile in and from Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 7 July, 17:45 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Work in Progress Seminars - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
The death of an aesthetic? Chronicling German Reunification in Edgar Reitz's film sequence "Heimat 3"
Ben Schofield
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 July, 09:30 - 17:00
Face-to Face: The Photographic (self) Portrait - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Study Day, organised by Colette Wilson, University of Kent, at the IGRS More information
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Friday 27 June, 10:45 - 18:00
- Germanic Studies Library
Programme
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Monday 23 June, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
The metamorphosis of Madam Butterfly
Hyunseon Lee
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 June, 17:00 - 18:00
Cassal Lecture in French Culture: 'French, English and Amharic: The Law in Ethiopia' - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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This event was recorded. To view the film click here
ROGER BRIOTTET, former adviser to the Special Prosecutor for alleged crimes against humanity in Ethiopia and until recently EU Observer at the trial of the opposition leaders, Addis Ababa.
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 June, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar Series: The Balkans in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Christopher Barenberg
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 June, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
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Monday 9 June, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Futurist Machines
Katia Pizzi
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 6 June, 17:30 - 19:00
'L'amour des commencements: les citations d'incipits et la diaspora occitane" - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Keynote lecture in the Conference "La diaspora occitane au moyen �ge. La culture occitane en Occitanie et ailleurs".
Professor Sarah Kay
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 June, 10:00 - 18:00
5th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
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Friday 30 - Saturday 31 May
Psychoanalysis and Portuguese - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
This conference aims to explore psychoanalytical approaches to late 19th- and 20th-century Portuguese literature. More Information
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Wednesday 28 May, 17:00 - 19:00
London French Research Seminar - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 - Friday 23 May
The Nameable and the Unnameable. Hofmannsthal's 'Der Schwierige' in Context - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Co-Ordinators: Martin Liebscher (IGRS, University of London) and Christophe Fricker (Duke University)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 May, 17:00 - 19:00
Friends of Italian Seminar - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
'Tel me, I praye you, howe like you the Citie of London? Translating Aliens at the Court of Elizabeth I: Petruccio Ubaldini (circa 1524-1600) and John Florio (1553-1625)'
Dr Andrea Rizzi of Melbourne University
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May
"When familiar meanings dissolve" - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Conference in memory of Professor Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 May, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Hyunseon Lee (IGRS, London):
Interkulturelle Liebschaften. Reisende in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 7 May, 17:00 - 19:00
London French Research Seminar - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 7 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS
Nicholas Boyle (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled 'Introducing a Very Short Introduction to German Literature' and there will be an accompanying exhibition 'The Sound of the Canon. Germanistik and Literary History'
BY INVITATION ONLY
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 6 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS
Details to be announced
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 May, 17:30
CANCELLED
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Ben Schofield (IGRS, London):
Amsterdam: City of Dissent? Contested Locations in a Contested Capital (to be confirmed)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 30 April, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Gill Rye (IGRS, London)
introduces
Choderlos de Laclos' 'Les Liasions Dangereuses'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 28 April, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - ST276 (Stewart House)
The pure and mindless joy of driving really fast: from F.T. Marinetti to Claude Lelouch and Quentin Tarantino
Ricarda Vidal
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 26 April, 10:30 - 16:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 April, 17:30 - 19:30
IGS Corresponding Fellows Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 24 April, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar Series: The Balkans in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Christopher Barenberg
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 April, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Virtual encounters in the Berlin novel at the turn of the millennium (1998-2001): the case of Klaus Shlesinger's "Trug"
Elke Gilson
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 12 April
Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
More information
Speakers include Douglas Keesey (Cal Poly, USA), Sarah Cooper (KCL), and Kate Ince (Birmingham)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 April, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Paul Kerry (Brigham Young/Princeton):
Goethe and Benjamin Franklin
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 5 April, 10:00 - 15:30
Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837 - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
"Goddesses of Reason and their Daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler, Mary Shelley and Rosina Bulwer Lytton"
Keynote Speakers:
Marie Mulvey-Roberts & Joanna Goldsworthy
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 31 March, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Nietzsche's 'ausgesuchte Intelligenzen': Reading Nietzsche in Vienna
Martin Liebscher
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 19 March, 17:00 - 19:00
London French Research Seminar - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 14 March, 17:00 - 18:30
Coffin Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 March
Contemporary Barcelona: visual cultures, space and power - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Keith Spalding Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Helen Chambers (St Andrews):
Daniel Kehlmann's 'Die Vermessung der Welt': Reception and Transmission
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 March, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Johan Siebers (IGRS):
'Hier ist Flamme und geheimster Uhrenschlag': The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Music in Ernst Bloch's 'Geist der Utopie'
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 12 March, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 10 March, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Natural Education and other lovely stories
Sharon Kivland
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 8 March, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 March
Nordic Translation - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The conference will look at literary and non-literary translation, both between various Nordic languages and also between English and the Nordic languages. More information |
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 6 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Judith Beniston (London):
'Aber eine Ohrfeige in einem Trauerspiele!': The Earl of Essex on the Nineteenth-Century Austrian Stage
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 3 March, 17:30 - 20:00
A History of Italian Food - ST273 (Stewart House)
John Dickie,
Reader in Italian at UCL
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further information
John Goodyear (QMUL):
A Literary 'Take' on Early Twentieth-Century Urban Noise: Theodor Lessing's Quest for Silence (1900-1933)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 28 February, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar Series: The Balkans in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Christopher Barenberg
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 26 February, 18:00
Coffin Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Professor Laura Freixas
"Does writing put you beyond gender?"
El Mundo's Pilar Castro has stated that 'Laura Freixas is one of the most important voices in recent Spanish fiction' and this is bound to be a stimulating evening. Laura will discuss issues of gender in relation to writing and illustrate with readings from her own work, including her most recent writing, touching on relationships with other women in her family and particularly her grandmother. Her readings will be accompanied by translated readings in English.
This event is free and all are welcome but please email margaret.andrews@sas.ac.uk so that we can estimate capacity.
This event was recorded. To view the film click here
Contact: margaret.andrews@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 23 February, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar - Other
More information
Speakers:
Philippa Caine (Bath University): 'No Place Like Home: Displacement & Fragmentation in Marie Darrieussecq's _White_ and _Le Pays_'
Siobhan Shilton (Bristol University) 'Diasporic Encounters in Contemporary Art: Zineb Sedira and Majida Khattari'
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 February, 10:00 - 20:00
From Charlottenburg to Middleton: Michael Hamburger (1924-2007), Poet, Translator, Critic - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
More about the English Goethe Society
Organized jointly by the English Goethe Society and the IGRS, this workshop commemorates the death on 7 June 2007 of this fine scholar and critic, superb translator of German poetry, and major poet in his own right.
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 20 February, 17:00 - 19:00
Coffin Reading - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Q&A session with Angolan-Portuguese Writer
This event was recorded. To view the film click here
Ondjaki
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 18 February, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - ST273 (Stewart House)
Desire and utopia in Das Prinzip Hoffnung
Johan Siebers
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 15 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Annual Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 9 February, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 7 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Martina Lauster (Exeter):
German and Austrian Sociological Sketches within the European Feuilleton Culture of the 1830s and 40s
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 4 February, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
The Empty Place of the Enemy: Representations of the Other in the 'War on Terror'
Daniele Salerno
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Sunday 3 February, 16:00 - 17:30
Coffin Reading from Stoppard's Travesties - British Library
This event is followed by a Study Day with Anthony Sher & John Hurt (et al) which takes place on Monday 4th.More information
Various
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 2 February, 10:30
'Paragraph' Conference in honour of Malcolm Bowie - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Speakers include Rachel Bowlby, Celia Britton, Owen Heathcote, Leslie Hill, Marian Hobson, Christina Howells, Ann Jefferson, Christopher Prendergast, Naomi Segal, Anne-Marie Smith, Michael Worton
More information |
Amongst his many other achievements Malcolm Bowie was a key figure in the development of critical theory in the UK. The Editors of the journal 'Paragraph' have organised a conference to honour Malcolm's memory as founding member of the Modern Critical Theory Group and of the journal.
Please register in advance (igrs@sas.ac.uk)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 31 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Ida Herz Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham):
Disgusting Lust or Lustful Disgust?
Dilemmas in Reading Thomas Mann
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 31 January, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Ricarda Vidal (IGRS, London):
Caspar David Friedrich through a Broken Windscreen: Arnold Odermatt's Peaceful Crash Scenes
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 26 January, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 23 January, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 - Saturday 19 January
Vicissitudes: histories & destinies of psychoanalysis - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Concluding conference in the programme: Psychoanalysis in the Arts and Humanities: a multilingual perspective
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 14 January, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Democratic dandyism
Roger Cook
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 January, 17:30 - 19:30
Identities of European Cities Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Polly Jones (London):
Return to Stalingrad: Imagining and Re-Imagining the Wartime City from Stalin to Brezhnev —¡olé!—
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 17 December, 17:45 - 19:30
Work in Progress Seminars - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Catherine the Great's Impolitic Body
Ruth Dawson
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 14 December, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis in the French Field - STB7 (Stewart House, basement)
More information
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 December, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis in the Hispanic field - Room NG15
More information
Mike Richards: Problems of war and memory in Spain, 1936 to the present
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 December
Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 10 December, 10:00 - 17:00
Modern Languages Training Day for Research Postgraduates - British Library
In collaboration with the AHRC Research Training Network in Modern Languages (RTN) based at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), University of London
More information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 8 December, 10:00 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 December
Madness and Melancholy in 17th Century Spain - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
Programme
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 6 December, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Alexander Kosenina (Bristol):
The Problem of Fatherhood in Hogarth and Goethe
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 5 December, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 30 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Wine and cheese tasting - Italian Ambassador's Residence
More information
Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 30 November, 17:45 - 19:30
Imagined Cities Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More info |
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 30 November
Beyond Vienna: Aspects of Provincial Austria - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organized by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre in conjunction with the University of Wales, Bangor
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 November, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis in the French field - STB5 (Stewart House, basement)
More information
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 November, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Ruth Dawson (Hawaii/IGRS):
German Studies, Cultural Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Unpacking Catherine the Great
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Biennial Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 November, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar Series: The Balkans in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Christopher Barenberg
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 19 November, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis and the Arts seminar - Room 274 (Stewart House)
More information
Postponed from 5 November
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 17 November, 10:30 - 16:15
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Identities of European Cities Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Nagihan Haliloglu (Heidelberg):
Istanbul Criteria: Construction of an Urban Identity
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 13 November, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum - ST276 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Monday 12 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate - Room 275 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 10 November, 11:00 - 16:00
Hispanic Study Day: The National/Transnational in Hispanic and Latin American Film and the Telenovela - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
Further details
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 9 November, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More about the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Jennifer Taylor (London):
'Work of Modest Proportion': The Contribution of Quakers in England to Saving Refugees from Hitler
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 3 November
42nd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - University of Kent, Canterbury
More about the Colloquium
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Thursday Evening Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon/Leeds):
Nuremberg: The Not-so-Secret Nazi Capital
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 31 October, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Sissi Tax
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 October, 17:15
English Goethe Society Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More about the English Goethe Society
Matthew Bell (London):
Poetry, Sex and the City: Goethe in Venice, 1790
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 October, 15:00 - 17:00
- Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Further details
Isabel Schropper (IGRS, London):
Austrian Female Migration to Great Britain after 1945: A Personal Account (provisional title)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 October, 17:00 - 19:00
London French Research Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 20 October, 10:30 - 16:00
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 October, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis in the German field - ST273 (Stewart House)
More information
Dr Michael Mack (Nottingham):
Freud's 'Savage Science': Psychoanalysis and Judaism
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 October
Beyond Pirandello - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Conference on contemporary Italian theatre More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 October, 15:00 - 18:00
European Literature: Book and Screen Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Naomi Segal (IGRS, London)
compares Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' with Claude Chabrol's film (1991) and the BBC TV series (2000)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 16 October, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum - ST273 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Monday 15 October, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis and Arts seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 October, 17:00 - 19:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Reading - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Lilian Faschinger
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 October, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar Series: The Balkans in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Christopher Barenberg
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 October
Containment and Subversion: The Work and Person of Heinrich von Kleist - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organised by the English Goethe Society in conjunction with the IGRS
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 2 October, 16:30 - 19:00
Graduate Forum - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Introductory welcome to the Graduate Forum More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 21 September, 18:30
Friends of Italian Studies Reading Group - STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Monday 17 September
CANCELLED
Harmony and Dissonance - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 September
Beyond French Studies: University of London French Postgraduate Conference - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Organised by Sophie Fuggle (KCL) and Kate Hodgson (UCL)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 12 September, 10:30
Exploding the Canon. From Medieval Romance to TV Soap: meeting the challenges in resource provision - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
West European Library and Information Studies Network joint colloquium with the IGRS
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Monday 2 - Tuesday 3 July
Words and Notes in the Nineteenth Century - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 June, 18:30
CANCELLED
Book Launch: History of Italian Theatre - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Postponed until autumn 2007
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 22 June, 18:30
Italian Reading and Discussion Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
As part of the activities of the Friends of Italian Studies we are launching a new Reading and Discussion Group aimed at sharing ideas in a friendly informal setting, sometimes assisted by scholars in the field who will give a short introduction. The first book on our reading list will be: ARTEMISIA by Anna Banti (1947)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 15 June, 18:00
Cassal Lecture in French Culture - N336a (Senate House, North Block)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 June, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 9 June, 11:00
The National / Transnational in Hispanic and Latin American Film - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 31 May, 17:30 - 19:30
IGS Corresponding Fellows Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 23 May, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group: World War II in Post-War European Literature - ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 19 May, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 19 May, 14:00 - 19:30
Research Training Workshop - Room 275 (Stewart House)
Programme
Dr David Henn (UCL) and Professor Naomi Segal (IGRS, London)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 May, 18:00 - 19:30
Reading by Ursula Krechel - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Sponsored by the Coffin Fund of the University of London
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 16 May, 18:00
CANCELLED
Elio Pagliarani - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
University of London Coffin Trust Reading
[Poet Elio Pagliarani reads from his seminal work 'La Ragazza Carla' ]
This event has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to Pagliarani's ill-health. It is hoped to reschedule.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 15 May, 17:00
Graduate Peer Surgery - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The graduate peer surgery enables students working in any aspect of Germanic and Romance language speaking cultures to receive and give feedback on their writing from their peers. Students can exchange draft chapters or articles with others, in order to comment, discuss and improve the quality and fluency of writing. The peer surgery provides students with a second opinion, in an informal and participatory environment. More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
More about the English Goethe Society
Lesley Sharpe (Exeter):
Acting and Autobiography: August Wilhelm Iffland
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 10 May, 15:00 - 17:00
CANCELLED
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Mara Delius (London):
Generating Authenticity? Text and Photographic Image in Contemporary German Literature
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 9 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - ST273 (Stewart House)
More about the Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS
T.J. Reed (Oxford):
Talk about Enlightenment!' Languages and Attitudes
and accompanying exhibtiion
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 8 May, 17:45 - 19:30
Imagined Cities Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Dr Jane Rendell: Site-Writing: Spaces in Criticism
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 3 May, 17:30 - 19:30
Thursday Evening Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
W. Daniel Wilson (London):
'But is it Gay?' Kissing and Love in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 30 April, 18:00 - 20:00
Michelangelo's Restored Chapel 12 years on: Reflections on Art, Science and Conservation - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
More information
Professor Giacomo Chiari, Chief Scientist of the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 April, 15:00 - 17:00
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Seminar - Room 275 (Stewart House)Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
More about the Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 April, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Nick Martin (Birmingham):
In Sickness and in Health: Nietzsche's Goethe
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 March
41st National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 March, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 17 March, 14:30 - 16:30
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar - Other
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Venue: University of Newcastle
Co-ordinator: Kathryn Robson (Newcastle)
Topic: Sexual Violence
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 March, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Derek Keene (London):
London: Forging an Identity
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 March, 18:00 - 19:30
John Coffin Lecture in Literature - ICwS - Russell Square
What ever happened to Modernism?
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Professor Gabriel Josipovici
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 March, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group: World War II in Post-War European Literature - ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Gill Rye introduces Marguerite Duras's 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour'. The event will be preceded by a screening of the film
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 8 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
W.E. Yates (Exeter):
Nestroy's Versions of English Comedies in the Context of Commercial Theatre in mid-nineteenth century Europe
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 3 March, 12:00 - 18:00
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 March, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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David Hill (Birmingham):
'Ueber die Soldatenehen': Lenz's Project for Social Reform
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 March, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Christopher Barenberg (Nottingham/London):
Fabrications of the Past: WWII in Contemporary British and German Fiction
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 February, 17:00 - 20:00
CANCELLED
Psychoanalysis and the Arts seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Friday 23 - Saturday 24 February
Neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary Europe? Language and discourse in the construction of identities - Stewart House
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Kristin Veel (Cambridge):
Fiction in a Digital Age: Grass, Hettche, Jirgl
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 February, 12:00 - 14:00
Book Launch: Translation of De Martino's 'Land of Remorse' - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Dr Dorothy Zinn
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 February, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Mariano d'Amora (London):
Naples and its Twentieth-Century Playwrights (title to be confirmed)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 10 February
Italy on Screen: Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Italy and Cinema - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
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Postgraduate conference
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 3 February, 10:30 - 17:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 31 January, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group: World War II in Post-War European Literature - ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Naomi Segal introduces Albert Camus's 'La Peste' ('The Plague')
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 27 January
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Part of the IGRS Core Programme: Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 January, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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John Armstrong (Melbourne):
Goethe and Imaginary Friendship
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 23 January, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis and Politics seminar - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Tuesday 23 January, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum - Room 274 (Stewart House)
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Saturday 20 January, 11:00 - 18:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 January, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Michael Sheringham (Oxford):
City of Names: Parisian Dimensions and Trajectories
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Monday 15 January, 17:00 - 20:00
Psychoanalysis and the Arts seminar - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Friday 12 - Saturday 13 January
The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe - ST274/275 (Stewart House)
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Thursday 14 December, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Peter Smith (London):
'Faust', the Physicists, and the Atomic Bomb
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 14 December, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Johan Siebers (London):
'Verdinglichung' as a Necessary Category in Critical Theory
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 12 December, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Saturday 9 - Monday 18 December, 10:30 - 18:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 December
Hubert Fichte: Texte und Kontexte - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organiser: Robert Gillett (London)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 5 December, 17:45 - 19:30
Imagined Cities Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 30 November, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Godela Weiss-Sussex (London):
Berlin - A City 'Condemned to Forever Become and Never to Be'?
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 November, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group: World War II in Post-War European Literature - ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Eleanor Chiari introduces Giorgio Bassani's 'Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini' ('The Garden of the Finzi-Continis')
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 November
Freud in Translation, Freud in Transition - Stewart House
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 23 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Thursday Evening Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 18 November, 10:30 - 17:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 17 - Saturday 18 November
Arthur Schnitzler: His Cambridge Manuscripts, His European Experience - CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Further details
Organized by Lorenzo Belletini (Cambridge) in collaboration with the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, London
For more information on the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 16 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
Katrin Kohl (Oxford):
Exchanging Metaphors: Concepts of Literature in German and English Poetics during the Period of Romanticism
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 14 November, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Thursday 9 November, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Iain Fenlon (Cambridge):
Sounding out the City: Music, Monteverdi, and the Myth of Mantua
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 November, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Sheridan Burnside (London):
Poetry as Confession: Paul Celan and Geoffrey Hill
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 8 November, 18:00
John Coffin Lecture in the History of Ideas - N336 a + b (Senate House, North Block)
Old Wine in New Bottles; New Wine in Old Bottles?
Nineteenth-century Electrotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Newest Approaches to the Treatment of Mental Illness
Professor Sander L Gilman (Emory University)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 8 November, 18:00
John Coffin Lecture in the History of Ideas - N336 a + b (Senate House, North Block)
Old Wine in New Bottles; New Wine in Old Bottles?
Nineteenth-century Electrotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Newest Approaches to the Treatment of Mental Illness
Professor Sander L Gilman (Emory University)More information
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Saturday 4 November
40th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - University of Leeds
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 2 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Visiting Fellows Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 28 October, 10:30 - 16:30
Research Training Programme - Stewart House
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Various.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 October, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 October
Space, Place and Landscape: Women and Environments in Contemporary French Culture - North Block (Senate House)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 25 October, 17:00 - 19:00
London French Research Seminar - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
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Colin Davis, RHUL
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 October, 17:30 - 19:30
The Cultural Identity of European Cities Lectures - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Paul Julian Smith (Cambridge):
The Madrid Movida and Urban Theory: Comic Book and Film
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group: World War II in Post-War European Literature - ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenor: Martin Liebscher
Further details
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Friday 13 October
- Stewart House
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 October, 15:00 - 17:00
- ST276 (Stewart House)
Convenors: Martin Liebscher and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Further details
Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 5 October, 17:30 - 19:30
Keith Spalding Lecture - ST273 (Stewart House)
Alison Martin (Kassel):
Narratives of Mobility: German Travel Writing on England, 1780-1830
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 3 October, 17:00
Graduate Forum - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 27 June, 16:30
Graduate Forum - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Presence of Animals in the Arts and Humanities
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 June, 18:30
Material Production and Artistic Practices - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 June, 17:00
MARCO PAOLINI - STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
Italian performance Workshop
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Man of the Theatre and Italian Story Teller: Storie Orali. Dal Testo alla Televisione
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 June
Mediations and Meditations: Iberia and Latin America inTravel Writing - Stewart House
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Friday 16 - Saturday 17 June
Mediations and Meditations: Iberia and Latin America in Travel Writing - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 June, 15:15 - 17:15
Postgraduate Seminar Series: Cultural Exchange in Vienna and Berlin in the Early Twentieth Century - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
John Warren (Oxford): Berlin Cabaret and the Viennese Contribution
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 June, 15:00 - 17:00
CANCELLED
IGRS Reading Group - Room 266 (ST)
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 1 June, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - ST273 (Stewart House)
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Professor Susanne Kord (London):
Publish and Perish: Women Writers anticipate Posterity
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 30 May, 16:30
Graduate Forum - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 20 May, 14:00 - 18:00
Research Training Programme 2005-06 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Session 7: PhD only
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Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 May, 10:00
Levinas and Cinema - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
This conference brings together Levinas specialists and film scholars to demonstrate the pertinence of his thinking to key contemporary debates within film studies, with mutual benefits for philosophy and film.More info
International
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 18 May, 15:15 - 17:15
- ST269 (Stewart House)
Carly McLaughlin (London):
Richard Dehmel's Modernity: A New Perspective on the Relationship between Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 May, 16:00 - 18:00
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Annual Meeting - ST273 (Stewart House)
Dr Ernest Schonfield (London):
Tea at the Ritz: The Aesthetics of the Grand Hotel in Thomas Mann's 'Felix Krull'
By invitation only
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 13 May, 11:00
Cultural Memory Seminar: Memory, Illness and the Body - Stewart House
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Professor Naomi Segal (IGRS), Dr Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton) and Lucy Burke (Manchester Metropolitan)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 12 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)More information about the Centre
Dr Andrea Hammel (Sussex): The Online Database of British Archival Resources relating to German-Speaking Refugees 1933-1950: An Overview
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 12 May
Memory, Illness and the Body. - Stewart HouseCultural Memory Study Day More information
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 May
Postmodern Impegno: Towards a post-hegemonic approach to literature, ethics and socio-political engagement in contemporary Italian culture - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 May, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society - ST273 (Stewart House)
Lessing's Failures.
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Professor Barry Nisbet (Cambridge).
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 May, 15:00 - 17:00
IGRS Reading Group - ST273 (Stewart House)
Katia Pizzi:
Carlo Collodi's 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 4 May, 17:30 - 19:30
Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture - Stewart House
The Picaresque Mode and Economies of Circulation
Bernhard Malkmus (Cambridge)
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 2 May, 16:30
Graduate Forum - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Experimental and Avant-Garde Writing
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 27 April, 17:30 - 19:30
Corresponding Fellows Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 27 April, 15:15 - 17:00
CANCELLED
- ST274/275 (Stewart House)
Godela Weiss-Sussex (London):
'A Comparative Look at Female Encounters with the City, 1932-1994/96'
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 22 April, 10:30 - 16:00
Research Training Programme 2005-06 - Room NG16
Session 7: PhD only. Please note the change of venue, to the North Block of Senate House (ground floor)
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Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 April, 10:00 - 17:00
Public and Private Spaces in Italian Culture - STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
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Keynote: Professor Emily Braun (CUNY)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 20 April, 17:15 - 19:30
English Goethe Society Special Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
A Change of Direction? Sigmund Freud between Goethe and DarwinMore info
Professor S.S. Prawer (Oxford)
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 April
39th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Contact: Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 31 March - Saturday 1 April
The Transnational in Iberian and Latin American cinemas - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Organised by Peter W. Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Chris Perriam (Manchester University) and Isabel Santaolalla (Roehampton University).
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Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 30 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Rescheduled from 23 February 2006
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Dr Martin Liebscher (London):
Vienna: The Narcissistic Insult
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 28 March, 16:30
Graduate Forum: Conversation and the Arts - Room 269 (Stewart House, Second floor)
more info
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 23 - Friday 24 March
Standard, Variation and Language Contact in the Germanic Languages - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organised by Dr Christian Fandrych (KCL) and Professor Reinier Salverda (UCL).
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 15 March, 15:00 - 17:00
Reading Group - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
on Proust's 'Swann's Way'.
Further details and discussion points
Professor Naomi Segal
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Friday 10 March, 18:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Karl Otten and the Revival of Expressionism in Post-War Germany.
More info...
Professor Richard Dove (London).
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 March
Translation, adaptation and performance: Spanish Golden Age Theatre and Marivaux on the post-1945 stage - North Block (Senate House)
Includes an evening of rehearsals-by-invitation at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
More info.
Keynotes: Professor David Johnston (Queen's University, Belfast) and Professor Francoise Rubellin (Nantes)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Displaced Eccentric: Literary Reactions to Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mr Florian Mussgnug (London):
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 9 March, 15:15 - 17:00
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Novalis and the Metaphysics of Science.
Michael Hoare (London).
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 8 March, 18:00
Babel or Pentecost - adventures of a monolinguistic in translation - North Block (Senate House)
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David Edgar. The distinguished playwright will speak about his relationship to the European theatrical tradition
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 4 March, 12:00 - 16:00
Research Training Programme 2005-06 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Session 6
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Thursday 2 March, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society Ida Herz Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Thomas Mann's Popularity
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Dr Michael Minden (Cambridge):
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 28 February, 16:30 - 18:00
Graduate Forum 2005-06 - Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor)
MUSIC AND IDENTITY
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Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 25 February, 10:30
Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The conference will explore Pinocchio and the visual arts, the dichotomy puppet-human, the artificial/mechanical/phantom body, and other themes related to, arguably, the most renowned puppet in the history of humankind. More info
Prof. Jean Perrot, of the International Institute Charles Perrault and author of Le secret de Pinocchio (2003); others include Christopher Cairns, Ann Lawson Lucas, Salvatore Consolo, Jill Fell, Stephen Wilson and David Reason
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Friday 24 February, 11:00 - 17:00
Goethe's Poetry. Translation and Transmission - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Workshop held in memory of John Whaley, the acclaimed translator of Goethe's poetry, who passed away on 23 June 2005. Organised jointly with the English Goethe Society
More info
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 23 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 349 (SH)
Vienna. The Narcissistic Insult.
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Rescheduled to 30 March 2006
Dr Martin Liebscher (London)
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 23 February, 15:15 - 17:00
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Raymond Coffer (London).
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 22 February, 18:00 - 19:00
Book Launches: Yearbook vol 6: Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-1945: Politics and Cultural Identity; and Yearbook vol 7 'Totally Un-English?' Britain's Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)The latest two volumes of the Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
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Shulamith Behr, Marian Malet and Richard Dove
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 16 February, 18:00 - 20:00
Panel Discussion - ST269 (Stewart House)
Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism
Paul Bishop, Roger Stephenson, and Hans-Gerd von Seggern
In the Chair: Martin Liebscher (IGRS) and Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary)
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 15 February, 15:00 - 17:00
CANCELLED
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Reading Group - Room 266 (ST)
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Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 11 February, 10:30 - 17:30
Research Training Programme 2005-06 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Session 5.
More Information
Various.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 8 - Friday 10 February, 09:15 - 16:00
Bertolt Brecht - A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Programme
Organised by Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS), Dr Robert Gillett (QMUL) and Professor Hamish Ritchie (Sheffield).
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 7 February, 17:00
CANCELLED
London French Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Round table discussion: co-ordinator, Jo Malt (KCL): Art and literature in 20th century France More info
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 1 February, 15:00
Italian Performance Workshop - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Giorgio Pressburger
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 28 January, 10:00 - 18:00
Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French and Francophone Literature, Film and Art - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Keynote speaker: Professor Colin Davis
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 26 January, 17:15 - 19:15
English Goethe Society - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Goethe, Hoepfner und das Rehberg-Album.
More info
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 21 January, 10:00 - 17:30
Research Training Programme 2005-06 - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Session 4.
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Various.
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 January, 17:30 - 19:30
Keith Spalding Lecture - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
German and English Humour: Why are the Two so Different?.
Professor Hans-Dieter Gelfert (Berlin).
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 19 January, 15:15 - 17:00
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Steffen Stadthaus (London).
Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 18 January, 17:00
London French Seminar - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Persian Travels: Enlightenment Hospitality and CommerceMore info
Judith Still (Nottingham)
Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 12 January, 17:30 - 20:00
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Lisbon on Screen.
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Mr Paul Castro (Cambridge).
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 December, 17:30 - 19:30
CANCELLED
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
City of Names: Parisian Dimensions and Trajectories.
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Professor Michael Sheringham (Oxford).
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Thursday 15 December, 15:15 - 17:15
- Room 269 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The 'Ostjude' as Other: The German-Jewish Self-Image in Berlin and Vienna before and after the First World War.
Charlotte Ryland (London).
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Thursday 8 December, 16:15 - 18:15
English Goethe Society - - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Georg Forster between Britain, France, and Germany and the South Seas
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Professor David Bindman (London):
Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 17 November, 17:30
Cultural Identity of European Cities - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Cityscapes of Barcelona
Margaret Andrews
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Thursday 17 November, 15:45
- Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
The Role of Misrepresentation and Misunderstanding in the Breaking of the Freud-Jung Alliance.
Nick Lewin (London): In the Shadow of Vienna ... (Berlin and Cardiff).
Contact: Godela.Weiss-Sussex@sas.ac.uk
Friday 11 November, 09:30
Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic - Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
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Convenor: Stuart Taberner (Leeds)
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Friday 4 November, 18:00
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies - Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)Refugees from Nazi Persecution in North Oxford: A Child's Eye View
Irene Gill (Oxford)
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