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The Department invites speakers from Bristol, the UK and abroad to speak about their research. There are roughly 5-8 talks every year and everyone, staff and students alike are welcome to come along.
All colloquia - except for the Christmas lecture - will take place in G113 at 2.15pm
Professor Frank Shaw (University of Bristol):
John Henry Mackay (1864-1933): German poet, anarchist and champion of gay rights
Followed by a reception in honour of Professor Shaw's eightieth birthday
Dr Anne Simon (University of Bristol):
Showcasing a Saint: St Katherine of Alexandria, Patrician Patronage and Empire in Fifteenth−century Nuremberg
Dr Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol):
Stage-managed Childhood: The ‘Pionierdelegationen’ at ‘SED-Parteitage’
Professor T. J. Reed (The Queen’s College, University of Oxford):
Reversals: Enlightenment and the Movements of the Heavens
Followed by a reception in honour of Professor Reed
ALL ARE WELCOME AT THESE EVENTS!
For further details on the forthcoming colloquia, please contact:
Dr Anna Carrdus
Email: anna.carrdus@bristol.ac.uk
Phone: 0044 117 92 88796
Tony Grenville (Bristol), "Enemy Aliens" on the Home Front: Jewish Refugees from Hitler in Britain during World War II
Katrin Kohl (Oxford), Poetics and the Power of Metaphor
Alexander Košenina (Bristol), Postcards from Bedlam: Madhouse-Tourism in the 18th Century
Mary Fulbrook (University College London), Life stories and historical representations: some reflections on the German dictatorships
Liliane Weissberg (Philadelphia), No Place on Earth: The Berlin Jewish Salon Reconsidered
Alexandra Lenz (Marburg), Regional varieties of German: dialects, regiolects and regional standards
Yvonne Wübben (FU Berlin / Bristol), Karl Philipp Moritz and the Berlin Enlightenment
Mark Allinson (Bristol), Planning in the GDR: Fact or Fiction?
Frank Shaw (Bristol), Truth in the Middle Ages: A glance at medieval chronicles
Angela Krauß (Leipzig): Heinrich von Kleist
William Dodd (Birmingham): Dolf Sternberger’s path between Jaspers und Heidegger.
Yvonne Wübben (Berlin) Gottfried Benn and brain-research
Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), Christmas Lecture : Sex, lies and videotapes: telling it how it wasn't in ‘Stille Zeile sechs’,‘Helden wie wir’ and ‘Goodbye Lenin’
Andreas Gardt (Kassel), Linguistics as Cultural History. Topics and Methods
Victoria Mier (Bristol). Hans Leinberger: a Victim of Methodology?
Nils Langer (Bristol): Bad German from 1600 – 2005
Elizabeth Britton (Bristol): Kafka’s ‘Verwandlung’ and its translations
Ulla Spittler (Brighton) & Gerd Knischewski (Portsmouth): "The relative power of competing memories: GDR and NS memorial sites"
Jeffrey Ashcroft, (St Andrews), A translation, with commentary, of the voluminous schriftlicher Nachlass of Albrecht Dürer.
John Hibberd, (Bristol), Kleist's "Die Hermannsschlacht" and the Power of Patriotism
Charlie Louth, (Oxford), Power and Poetry. Rilke as an example.
Christopher J Wells, (Oxford), Language and Power. Thoughts on the History of German.
Juliane Schwarz (Lancaster/Birmingham), Non-sexist language at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Feminist Topic in a Post-feminist Era.
Nils Langer (Bristol), Women and Language: an Overview of Feminist Linguistics
Dr Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh), Ulrike Meinhof as journalist, as revolutionary theorist, and as prison writer
Dr Clare Flanagan (Bristol), Women in the political arena
Anna Linton (Oxford), Staining the name of father: Jephthah's daughter and Iphigenia in German literature
Dr Anna Carrdus (Bristol), Women, self-sacrifice, sacrifice
Dr Laura Martin (Glasgow), A woman's twist on an old plot? The 'Rübezahl Legend' in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmärchen der Deutschen and Karl August Musäus's Volksmärchen der Deutschen
Prof. Lesley Sharpe (Bristol), Is there a feminist aesthetic? (WORKSHOP)