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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

海角社区 Undergraduate Conference in German Studies

German studies conference

'Invention and Innovation'听

Saturday 8 February 2020听

Gonville听& Caius College, 海角社区

9:30am Registration and coffee

10:15am Welcome (Dr Leila Mukhida)

10:30am Panel 1: Politics, Government and Legislation Bateman Auditorium Chair: Catriona Corke

Timothy Powell (Oxford), 鈥楻einventing Walther von der Vogelweide鈥 in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries鈥

Ashleigh Fetts (Hull) 鈥樷淪oft Power鈥 in Modern German Politics鈥

Matthew Banner and Libby Straw (Chester) 鈥榃as sind die wesentlichen St盲rken und Schw盲chen der E-Mobilit盲t?鈥

11:30am Refreshments

12:00pm Panel 2: Innovations in Religion and Philosophy Bateman Auditorium Chair: Lauren Dooley

Maral Attar-Zadeh (Toronto), 鈥榃orship in Vernacular: Translation, Print Culture and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Psalters鈥

Lidija Beric (海角社区), 鈥楪erman Romanticism and the Modern World鈥

Felix J眉terbock (Leipzig), 鈥楻eligion, Transcendence and Modernity鈥

Followed by a short introduction to the poster presentations

1:15pm 鈥 2:45pm Lunch

There will be the opportunity for school students and 海角社区 undergraduates to have an informal discussion over lunch.

Posters* in the Hall

Chris Harris (Durham), 鈥楻omeo and Juliet in Socialist Cinema鈥

Alesha Cheah (King鈥檚 College London), 鈥楻einventing Female Identity: Narrative Language as Gender Innovation in Hartmann von Aue鈥檚 Erec

Ombline Damy (Oxford), 鈥楲iterary Innovation鈥

Teodor Nicula-Golovei (海角社区), 鈥楳ilestones of Germany鈥檚 Energy Policy in Recent Decades鈥

2:45 pm Keynote by Dr Bernhard Struck, University of St Andrews Bateman Auditorium

鈥楥opernicus in, Mozart out. Mapping and Visualising the German Lands in the Nineteenth Century鈥

Followed by a Q&A discussion

3:45pm - 4:05pm pm Refreshments

4:05 pm Panel 3: Sensory Perception: Sound, Sight and Touch Bateman Auditorium Chair: Robert Britten听

Zak Eastop (Bristol), 鈥楢dapting Schiller鈥檚 Don Karlos: Verdi, Posa and the Problem of the Familiengem盲lde鈥

Sofia Lyall (海角社区), 鈥業nnovative Encounters: Non-Violent Interactions in Emine Sevgi 脰zdamar鈥檚 骋谤辞脽惫补迟别谤锄耻苍驳别 und Navid Kermani鈥檚 Das Buch der von Neil Young 骋别迟枚迟别迟别苍

Betsy Creamer (Durham), 鈥業nventing the Story of Art: Women Artists in Fin de Si猫cle Vienna鈥

Gemma Watts (海角社区), 鈥楲inguistic Innovation: A German Language for the 21st century鈥

5:20 pm - 5:30 pm Short break: water

5:30 pm Q&A: Where now? Careers in and after German Studies听 Bateman Auditorium

Feedback forms will be distributed before this session

6:15 pm -7 pm Drinks Reception

* Posters present a topic in outline on paper, and may be viewed in the Hall and discussed with their authors

during the lunch break.

There is a 拢10 registration fee for undergraduate attendees. Please book via this .听

School students and their accompanying adults should please email to register in order to avoid paying the online booking fee.

Contact:听CUCGS@mmll.cam.ac.uk