Archived German Research Seminar Programme 2004-2005

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).

Semester 2

Unless otherwise stated, all seminars will take place on Thursdays, at 4pm*, in room 6.2 of the Old Library Building. ALL WELCOME!!

03.02.05 Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh) 'Das Private ist politisch': Ulrike Meinhof's TV drama "Bambule" and feminism.

17.02.05 Alexander Kosenina (Bristol) Discovery of Innocence: Dream and Crime in Kleist's "Prince Frederic of Homburg".

21.04.05 Martha Young-Scholten (Durham) Morphosyntactic Development in Adult L2 German: Paths and Detours. *NB. New time 4.30pm*

05.05.05 Carol Fehringer and Tina Fry (Newcastle) 'I'm doing the best I
can': language complexity and working memory constraints in near-bilinguals.

 

Semester 1

30.09.04 Simon Meacher (Newcastle) 'Eco-thrillers: a new wave of German environmental literature'

14.10.04 Teresa Ludden (Oxford Brookes)'Narrations of Birth in post-1945 German texts'

25.11.04 Alexandra Schulte (Newcastle) 'Modern Foreign Language Teaching today: A comparison of approaches in England and Germany.'

16.12.04 Pol O'Dochartaigh (Ulster) "GDR vs Hollywood: Filming Jurek Becker's 'Jakob der Lügner'"