Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4.00 p.m. in Room 6.2, Old Library Building unless otherwise stated. All welcome (including undergraduate students).
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
1 November |
Stephen Parker (Manchester) |
The journal Sinn und Form in the GDR: An idea and its realisation |
15 November |
Tony Waine (Lancaster) |
From 'Volk' to 'Pop': the widening horizons of German culture |
29 November |
David Midgeley (Cambridge) |
The mythology of a city: Berlin 1871-1933 |
13 December |
Allan Turner (Newcastle) |
(Re-)translator Beware! -- Der Herr der Ringe fights back |
14 February |
Arachne van der Eijk (Newcastle) |
Linguistic and Psychological Structures in Thomas Bernhard's Novel Korrektur |
28 February |
Stephan Elspaß (Münster) |
Über die Schriftsprache 'kleiner Leute' im 19. Jahrhundert |
March 14 |
Monika Pruetzel-Thomas (Northumbria) |
German domestic security policy: new enemies - old mistakes |
March 21 |
Stefan Busch (Oxford) |
Blasphemy and Melancholy - Three Case Studies (Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm; Moritz, Anton Reiser; Büchner, Lenz) |
May 2 |
Jim Jordan (Nottingham Trent) |
From two worlds to many: shifting paradigms in diasporic literature in Germany. |