INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study | University of London

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Friday, 26 November 2021 (online)

69th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies

Programme

09.45-10.00       Registration/Login 
10.00-11.15       Panel 1: Fantastic Tales and their Inhabitants
Katharina Palme (University of Vienna): The Character of the Antagonist in Middle High German Heroic Tales
Maja Römer (Ludwigsburg University of Education): Die Darstellung der Frau im deutschen und japanischen Volksmärchen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert – ein interkultureller Vergleich
Discussion

11.15-11.30       Break
11.30-12.45       Panel 2: Literature and the Digital Age
Dîlan Canan Çakir (University of Stuttgart): German-Language One-Act Plays in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Dustin Matthes (University of Greifswald): Spielendes Lesen. Games and Gaming zweiten Grades
Discussion

12.45-13.45       Break

13.45-15.00       Panel 3: Jewish Identities and Holocaust Memory           
Federica Rocchi (University of Florence): ‘So ist Florenz der Blumenstrauß an ihrem Herzen’. A Research Project on German-Jewish Intellectuals in Florence during the 1930s
Giresse Macaire Teikeu (University of Jena): Transgenerational Memory and Family Trauma. An Analysis of Bronsteins Kinder by Jurek Becker
Discussion

15.00-15.15       Break

15.15-16.30       Panel 4: Participatory Practices
Matthew Hines (University of Birmingham): A Dialectical Model for the Post-Brechtian Theatre
Dennis Schäfer (Princeton University, NJ): On the Merits of Circulation and ‘Ideenbearbeitung’: Josias Ludwig Gosch’s Fragmente über den Ideenumlauf and Novalis’s Blüthenstaub
Discussion

This event will be held online via Zoom.
Participation is free; Advance online registration essential at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25191

Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study | University of London
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