DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN
RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAMME

2007-2008

Research Forum 2007/2008
Wednesdays 4 p.m.

Semester 2

13/2/08

Helen Finch (Department of German, University of Leeds)

Günter Grass’s account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer?

Room: Michael Sadler 220

20/2

Sally Johnson (Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds)

The reform of German orthography as 'legitimation crisis': A Habermasian approach

Room: Michael Sadler SR 1.42

5/3

Diane Morgan (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)

Greifbarkeit & Spielraum: Towards a Benjaminian Conception of Utopian Architecture

Room: Michael Sadler 220

12/3

Helen Finch (Department of German, University of Leeds)

Neo-romanticism and the Oedipus complex: W. G. Sebald, Botho Strauß and Peter Handke in generational context

Room: Michael Sadler 220

16/4

Jeanette Rieger (Department of German, University College London)

Aspekte der Poetologie in Kafkas Texten

Room: Michael Sadler B37

23/4

Moritz Föllmer (School of History, University of Leeds)

Weimar Novels and the Cultural Historian

Room: Michael Sadler B37

30/4

Klemens Czyzydlo (Department of German, University of Leeds)

The Holocaust in German Film: „Das Enkelkind Aus Berlin“

Room: Michael Sadler B37

Semester 1
24/10	Open Research Forum
31/10	Christine Haase (University of Georgia)	Heimat and Hollywood: Investigations of German-American Cinematic Engagement
14/11	Frank Finlay	New Work in progress
21/11	Karina Berger Stuart Taberner	PhD – Work in progress Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel
28/11	Paul Cooke	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (2006): The Stasi, Ostalgie and the Fantasy of Spectatorship