Department of German

Conference

Programme

Germany in The Age of Normalisation

1-2 September 2004

at

Hinsley Hall, Leeds

Wednesday, September 1

14.00 Jeannette Madarász and Esther von Richthofen

‘Another kind of normalisation?’ Limitations and possibilities of a concept

14.20 Jeannette Madarász and Esther von Richthofen

‘Another kind of normalisation?’ Limitations and possibilities of a concept’

14.40 Jonathan Grix

The Berlin Republic and The Normalisation Debate

15.00 Stephen Brockmann

Germany and Normality: Has Helmut Kohl’s Wish Been Achieved?

15.20 discussion

16.00 coffee

16.20 Jeremy Leaman

Coping with Disparity. Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification

16.40 Kerry Longhurst and Sebastian Harnisch

Understanding Germany - The Limits of Normalisation and The Power of Strategic Culture

17.00 Kerry Longhurst and Sebastian Harnisch,

Understanding Germany - The Limits of Normalisation and The Power of Strategic Culture

17.20 Karoline von Oppen,

Memories of WWII in Literary Representations of Yugoslavia in the 1990s

17.40 discussion

18.20 end of first day

18.30 conference dinner

Thursday, September 2

09.30 Anna Saunders

‘Ein Land wie jedes andere’?: Memories and Perceptions of the GDR amongst Young East Germans

09.50 Barend Schutte

Normalisation of the GDR image in post-unification German film

10.10  Renate Rechtien 
 Looking Back across the Border: Irene Boehme's novel Die Buchhändlerin in the context of identity politics in the new Germany

10.30 discussion

11.00 coffee

11.30 Lothar Probst

The Europeanization of the Holocaust and The Normalisation Debate

11.50 Helmut Schmitz

‘Wo waren die Mörder geblieben?’ The Normalisation of the image of the perpetrator in Ulla Hahn’s Unscharfe Bilder and Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall

12.10  Annette Seidel-Arpacı

National Memory's ‘Schlüsselkinder’: Migration, Postmemory, and Pedagogy in Reunited Germany

12.30 discussion

13.00 lunch

14.30 Andrew Plowman

Normalising the Federal Republic 1949-1990: The 'old' FRG in
contemporary narratives?

14.50 Simon Ward

Representing Normality? Architecture in the
Capital of the Berlin Republic

15.10 Ute Woelfel

Normalising Effects of Genealogical Writing in Contemporary German Literature

15.30 discussion

16.00 coffee

16.20 Kathrin Schödel,

Normalisation and Narration - History, Identity and Story in Recent German Literature

16.40 Rebecca Beard,

Teaching an old dog new tricks: Günter Grass and the position of the author as ‘Gewissen der Nation’ in post-Wende Germany

17.00 William Donahue,

‘Normal’ as Apolitical: Uwe Timm’s Rot and Thomas Brussig’s Leben bis Männer

17.20 discussion

18.00 Departure

Directions to Hinsley Hall

From M1 Junction 43 take the M621 continue on the M621 past the City Centre exit and on to Junction 2, turn right  At the Armley gyratory follow York sign onto inner Ring Road, A58(M) for 1 mile. Turn first left after the tunnel A660, follow Skipton signs past Leeds University for one and a half miles, turn right at Oakfield, Hinsley Hall is straight ahead.

From M62 Leave M62 at junction 27, follow M621 to junction 2, directions as above from M1.

From York and East Follow A64 and continue onto A64(M) turn off at A660 and follow instructions as above.

From Skipton Follow A660 through Headingley, Oakfield and Hinsley Hall will be located on left one third of a mile past North Lane traffic lights

By Public Transport
Hinsley Hall is approx. 2 miles from Leeds Station by Taxi or Headingley/Cookridge Buses from City Square.

By Air
Leeds & Bradford
Hinsley Hall is only approx 6 miles from the Airport