DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN
RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Winter Semester 2002

Date
17.10	Stuart Taberner	The Problem of German Wartime Suffering: Günter Grass Im Krebsgang'
21.11	Fred Bridgham	'The phrase that launched a thousand ships?'
28.11	Andrew Plowman	'"Westalgie"? Nostalgia for the 'old' Federal Republic in Recent German Literature'
05.12	Katharina Hall	'The problematic representation of the Nazi perpetrator in the work of Bernhard Schlink: a comparative analysis of Der Vorleser and the detective novel Selbs Justiz'

Seminars will take place in the MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING ,
Room 220 at 1.10pm. All welcome!

Seminar Coordinator: Frank Finlay

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PAST PROGRAMMES

2001-2002

08.11	Julian Preece	Genre in the Works of Elias Canetti
22.11	Jo Drugan	Exceptionalism & the Green parties of Belgium, France & Germany
05.03	Tony Waine	German Folklore Studies & Popular Culture (SMLC Popular Culture Seminar Series)
07.03	Richard Byrn	Innovate, or perish: scribe/illuminator turned printer, Johannes Bämler in 15th century Augsburg
14.03	Carol Tully	Schlegel in his Suitcase: Johann Nikolaus Boehl von Faber and the Development of Romanticism in Spain
25.04	Chris Young	(Re)presenting the Nation - the Munich Olympics 1972
03.05	Janet Stewart	Exhibiting Culture: Adolf Loos and the 1898 Kaiser-Jubiläumsausstellung in Vienna
10.05	Fred Bridgham	Wagner's "Jesus of Nazareth" project

Summer Semester 2001

01.02	Syd Donald	Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Der Reiz des Mythos
08.02	Greg Moore	Philosophy in the Nervous Age: Nietzsche, Simmel, Klages and Lessing
15.02	Susan Tebbutt	'The Complexities of Cultures: Romanies in German and English-language Children's Literature'
01.03	Mathias Schulze	Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and the Impact on Human-Computer Interaction
12.03	David Blamires	‘The Prince as bird’: German and French Variations on a Medieval Fairytale Venue: Le Patourel Room, Parkinson 4th floor, 406, at 6.30 pm. Organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies
15.03	Peter Thompson	The PDS. East German CSU or All-German Alternative?
27.03	Donal McLaughlin & Eoin Burke (19.00)	Special Event: Stella Rotenberg at 85
26.04	Mererid Puw Davies	Grimmer Tales: Perrault's 'La barbe bleue' in German
03.05	Michael Kumpfmüller DAAD Writer-in-residence	New German Writing Lecture in Parkinson Basement 08, at 12.00
10.05	Paul Cooke	Beyond a Trotzidentität? Storytelling and  the Post-colonial Voice in Ingo Schulze's Simple Storys Lecture in Parkinson Basement 08, at 12.00

All seminars will take place in the MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING , Room 220
at 1.30, unless otherwise indicated. All welcome!

Seminar Coordinator: Frank Finlay

Winter Semester 2000

19.10	Ingrid Sharp	Riding the Tiger: Ambivalent Representations of the ‘New Woman’ in the Popular Press of the Weimar Republic
02.11	Mathias Schulze [Postponed]	Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and the Impact on Human-Computer Interaction
09.11	Paul Rowe	Wild German or Tame French? Three French Translations of ‘Die Harzreise’
23.11	Bill Niven	The Berlin Republic: Models of Remembering the Nazi Past
30.11	Ulrike Meinhof	Border Identities: Reconfiguring East and West

Seminars will take place in the MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING ,
Room 220 at 1.15pm. All welcome!

Coordinator: Frank Finlay