15:40-16:00

Panel 1

Navigating memories and landscapes

• Anne Fuchs, Towards a cultural history of walking in the twentieth century
• Helen Finch, ‘Every form of assumed pathos is repugnant’: Silbermann’s queer archive of memory
• Jean Conacher, Navigating familiar and unfamiliar landscapes: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen

Invitation to book launch at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2:

Anne Fuchs, Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture.

Followed by WiGS Book and Essay Prizegiving and book launch:

Deirdre Byrnes, Jean E. Conacher, Gisela Holfter (eds):

German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture

Irish German Studies vol. 11: Perceptions and Perspectives. Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR.

Dinner at Hugo’s Restaurant, 6 Merrion Row, Dublin 2 (10 mins walk from RIA)

Panels 2 and 3

Third Reich

• Simone Schroth, The texts behind The House Behind: On the latest editions of Anne Frank’s diaries
• Sophie Bayer, The Ernst Levin Collection
• Alex Lloyd, Sophie Scholl: Interpreting an Icon

Representations of femininity

• Sina Stuhlert, Emma Vely’s Herodias: Problematising the image of the femme fatale
• Katherine Calvert, Negotiating Intergenerational Tensions: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Elfriede Brüning’s Kleine Leute

Panels 3 and 4

Places and spaces

• Claudia Gremler, Deutsche Schuld und skandinavische Gnade – das Norwegenbild im deutschen Gegenwartsfilm
• Rebecca Wismeg, Tranquil Austria? A nation between trauma and tourist idyll

Adaptation, rewriting, refashioning

• Deirdre Byrnes, Reading Seán O’Casey in the GDR
• Rachel MagShamhráin, Faking Amphityron, Or: Things You Can Do to An Author When He’s Dead

Panels 6 and 7

Female voice in poetry and visual arts

• Stephanie Galasso, Violence of Framing in Ayim’s Blues in Schwarz Weiß
• Niamh Burns, Women in the abstract: spiritualism and materialism in modernist women’s abstract poetry and visual arts
• Caroline Bland, Nina Schmidt, Girlsplaining: A Comparison of German Graphic Art in the era of the Suffrage Campaign and Contemporary Comics

Authority, Agency, Resistance

• Rebecca Braun, ‘What is a German world author?’
• Catriona Corke, ‘Party politics, public intellectuals and West German left-wing terrorism during the 1970s’