EMPIRE AND THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD, 8-9 JULY 2010
The fourth Colloquium in the Leeds-Swansea Series in Contemporary German Culture will take place in Leeds from 8-9 July 2010 on the theme of Empire. Programme details are to be found below. The Colloquium gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Forum for this event.
Please contact h.c.finch@leeds.ac<mailto:h.c.finch@leeds.ac>.uk to register, by 2 July. The fee for attendance will be £25, excluding conference dinner.
Invited speakers
Professor Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham)
Professor Michael Hoffmann (Paderborn)
Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier (Graz)
8 July
15:00 onwards: Arrival and registration at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/> )
16:00 – 16:30 : Introduction (Frank Finlay/ Julian Preece)
16:30 – 17.15: Keynote: Alexandra Strohmeier (Graz): Raumaneignungen. Zu Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt.
17:15 – 18:00: Monika Albrecht (Limerick): Postcolonial Germany?
19.00: Conference Dinner
9 July
9:30: Professor Michael Hoffmann (Paderborn): Empathie und Herrschaft. Die Grenzen des Verstehens in den Indien- und Mekka-Passagen von Trojanows Weltensammler
10.15 Julian Preece (Swansea): Writing home? Ilija Trojanow in India and Africa
11:00 Coffee
11:30: Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham): Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the Fascination of Cross-Cultural Experience in Contemporary German Historical Novels about Colonialism
12:15: Nina Berman (Ohio): The German Colonizer in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel Paradise
13:00: Buffet Lunch
14:00: Karoline von Oppen (University of Bath): Sarajevo: City of Europe, City of the Orient
14:45: Plenary/ Publication Discussion
15:30: Close