DAAD Postgraduate Summer School London, 26 – 29 June 2017
PROGRAMME Monday, 26 June 2017 Venue: Rooms G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 13.00
Registration • Welcome
13.30
Room G22 • Keynote Lecture 1 Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London): Nights of Neon and Messianic Light. The Obscure Knowledge of City Illumination according to Walter Benjamin
14.30
Coffee
15.00
Room G22 • What is a City? Tianjue Li (Humboldt University Berlin): Selbsterhaltung und Selbstentfaltung: Georg Simmels Auffassung vom Geistesleben in Großstädten Thomas Scholz (Washington University): Das Rhizom der fantastischen Metropole: Mittel der Herrschaft bei Alfred Kubin, Michael Ende und Walter Moers Charlotte Neubert (University of Regensburg): Identity Shaping in Pre-Modern German Metropoles
16.30
Tea
17.00
Parallel Sessions Room G26 • Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen Alessandra Rosati (Goldsmiths, University of London): The City and the Province in Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen Richard Hronek (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Dubious Beacons: the Modern Metropolis as Seat of Hope and Despair in Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932) and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) Room G22 • Preservation and Gentrification Iga Nowicz (King’s College London/Humboldt University Berlin): Sex and the City: Female Bodies and Destroyed Cities in Alma Hadžibeganović’s Prose Texts Ali Jones (Churchill College, Cambridge): Urban Spatial Protest as Counterviolence? Gentrification and Structural Violence in the Radical German Left
18.00
Room G22 • Keynote Lecture 2 Matthew Gandy (King’s College, Cambridge): The Brachen of Berlin
Venue: The Garden Halls, 1 Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EN 19.30
Supper
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Tuesday, 27 June 2017 Venue: Rooms G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 09.30
Parallel Sessions Room G22 • The Metropolis of the Twentieth Century Amanda Hsieh (Humboldt University Berlin): Franz Schreker the Cosmopolitan: a Music Reception History Giulia Iannucci (Sapienza University of Rome): Inside/Outside: Metropolitan Representation of Homosexuality in Weimar Berlin Sina Stuhlert (University of Bristol): Berlin der Jahrhundertwende – Max Reinhardts Salomé-Inszenierung und die Berliner Kritik Room G26 • Writing in Metropolitan Spaces Catherine Angerson (Birkbeck, University of London): Women Translators of German Literature in the Late Eighteenth-Century Metropolis: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Plumptre and Maria Geisweiler Daniele Nuccetelli (Roma Tre University/University of Stuttgart): A Tale of Three Cities: Uwe Tellkamp’s Dresden Małgorzata Zalewska-Kowalska (Bydgoszcz University): Metropole als Erinnerungsraum – Repräsentationsformen der deutschen Geschichte am Beispiel verschiedener Städte in den Texten von Jenny Erpenbeck
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Room G22 • Plenary Session Aida Baghernejad (Journalist/King’s College London/Humboldt University Berlin): Tasty City: How Street Food Markets Reclaim the Urban Space
12.00
Lunch
13.00
Parallel Sessions Room G22 • The City and ‘Other’ Stories: Migrant Writers in German-Speaking Cities Leila Essa (King’s College London): East German, West German, German at All? Post-Reunification Berlin as a Stage for Negotiations of Cultural Identity in Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin and Thomas Arslan’s Geschwister – Kardeşler Chloe Fagan (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Albanisches Wien’: Placing Vienna in German-Language Albanian Migrant Literature Alexander Anaya (University of British Columbia): The German Metropolis through Japanese Eyes: Existential Angst and Societal Estrangement in Tawada’s Missing Heels and Urasawa’s Monster Room G26 • The Metropolis in Expressionist Cinema Hugo Fagandini (King’s College London): ‘Maschinenmusik’: Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis Matthias Bock (University of Hanover): Fetischismus und Selbstentfremdung in Fritz Langs Metropolis (1927) Dennis Schäfer (Ohio State University): Monströse Metropolis. E.T.A. Hoffmann und die Schatten des expressionistischen Films
14.30
Tea
15.00
Room G22 • Alternative Careers Speakers: Clare George (Miller Archivist, IMLR/Senate House Library), Susan Reed (Lead Curator, Germanic Studies, British Library), Laurel Plapp (Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang), Leila Mukhida (Translator/Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, King’s College London)
Venue: British Film Institute (NFT2), Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT 17.55
Screening of Metropolis, introduced by Erica Carter (King’s College London)
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 Venue: Rooms G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 09.30
Parallel Sessions Room G22 • City Polyphonies Julia Scho (University of Bonn): Polyphonie der Metropole – Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz und Simon Evans Sprachkunstcollagen im Kontext poststrukturalistischer Lesarten Syamala Roberts (Jesus College, Cambridge): Sounds of the Modern City Room G26 • ‘Ost’/’West’: Identities in and of German Cities Daniel Kubiak (Humboldt University Berlin): Ostdeutsche Großstädte als Diskussionsfolie für Identitätskonstruktionen Ariel Leutheusser (City University of New York): Inheriting and Constructing the Past as Object: Making and Filling Gaps in Julia Franck’s Berlin
10.30
Coffee/Tea
11.00
Parallel Sessions Room G22 • Art and Architecture of the City Elizabeth Baldwin (Courtauld Institute, University of London): Hannah Höch: Dadaist Photomontage and the Modern City Hannah McMurray (University of Michigan): Designing the City: Kurt Schwitters and the DammerstockSiedlung Room G26 • Cityscapes in Film Tara Hottman (University of California, Berkeley): The Metropolis, Film, and History: Hito Steyerl’s Die leere Mitte Benjamin Dalton (King’s College London): Dwelling after Affect: Michael Haneke’s Cityscapes at the End of the World Stephan Ehrig (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London/University of Bristol): The Flâneuse and Modernist Space in Lothar Warnecke’s Die Beunruhigung and Helmut Dziuba’s Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Room G22 • Keynote Lecture 3 Ruth Dawson (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London/University of Hawaii): Texting the Classed and Gendered (Eighteenth-Century) Metropolis
14.30
Parallel Activities • Walking Tours
Hidden Systems of Control in the City of London (Guide: Henrietta Williams)
German Exiles’ Haunts in Bloomsbury (Guide: Clare George)
German and Jewish Whitechapel (Guide: Rachel Kolsky)
Thursday, 29 June 2017 Venue: Rooms G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 09.30
Room G22 • Plenary Session • Writing ‘Foreign’ Cities Anna Rick (University of Siegen): Kulissenempfindungen. Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns Rom, Blicke Hanna Hesse (University of Heidelberg): ‘Belehrung mancher Art’: Fanny Lewald und Julius Rodenberg in London
10.30
Coffee/Tea
11.00
Room G22/Outdoors • London in Focus – Creative Writing and Filming Workshop Workshop Leaders: Martin Swales (University College London) and Stephan Ehrig (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London/University of Bristol)
13.00
End of Summer School
Summer School Organising Committee Catherine Angerson (Birkbeck, University of London); Stephan Ehrig (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London/University of Bristol); Leila Essa (King’s College London); Stephanie Homer (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London); Ellen Pilsworth (University College London); Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London) Administration Jane Lewin (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London)
Note: For accommodation at the Garden Halls, 1 Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EN, or other University Halls of Residence, contact
[email protected] or book online at www.vacations.london.ac.uk.
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