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Wednesday 22 May 2013

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14:00 Women's Writing in the 21st Century (CCWW Seminar)
Convenors: Marie Carrière (Alberta) and Gill Rye (IGRS)All welcome (please contact Gill Rye to attend) This cross-cultural semina...
16:00 Director's Seminar
Elisa Marti-Lopez(IGRS/Northwestern): Urban Spaces of Death: Cemeteries as Narratives of the Modern City, 1780-1918

Thursday 23 May 2013

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17:30 Dodo Burgner (1907-1998): From Weimar Berlin to Post-War London - a Journey through Art and Design
Speaker: Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery, London)  

Wednesday 29 May 2013

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14:00 PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group

18:00 Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar
Ann Rau Dawes (London): Milein Cosman: an Examination of Identity of an Emigré ArtistMore about the Centre for German and Aus...

Friday 31 May 2013

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17:00 'L'Arte della Gioia'. A Reading
Angelo Pellegrino and Paola Pace read from publishers' letters of rejection to Goliarda Sapienza and Modesta's monologueThe Reading will ...

Saturday 1 June 2013

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09:00 Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture
Organisers: Alberica Bazzoni (Oxford), Dr Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Warwick) and Dr Emma Bond (St Andrews) There will be a performed readin...

Monday 3 June 2013

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10:00 10th IBC International Postgraduate Conference
An opportunity for students from both the UK and further field to discuss their current research on Austrian literature and culture. Key...

Tuesday 4 June 2013

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19:00 Reading by Arno Geiger
The acclaimed Austrian writer, who was awarded the 2005 German Book Prize for Es geht uns gut, will be this year's writer-in-residen...

Wednesday 5 June 2013

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09:30 Argentine Poetry Today
Programme Registration Form (closing date: 27 May 2013)

Saturday 8 June 2013

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11:00 Postgraduate Study Day (Modern Languages and Film)
Details to follow

Wednesday 12 June 2013

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16:00 Director's Seminar
Stef Craps (IGRS/Ghent): The Future of Trauma
18:00 Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar
Martina Kolb (Pennsylvania/London): Losing Screams, Breathing Words: Ingeborg Bachmann's Language in Exile More about the Centre fo...

Thursday 13 June 2013

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17:15 English Goethe Society
Elystan Griffiths (Birmingham): 'Oft reiss' ich mich aus der Stadt los, und fliehe in einsame Gegenden': Social Criticism and the German ...

Monday 17 June 2013

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18:30 CCWW Spanish Reading Group
Noelia Diaz will present the poetry of Alexandra Pizarnik: 'Extracción de la piedra de locura' (1968) Venue: Room S 316, King...

Wednesday 19 June 2013

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09:00 Theatrical Lives from Vienna to London: Treasures from the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive
Seventy-five years since the German annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) is mounting a...
16:00 Director's Seminar
Evi Fountoulakis (IGRS/Basle): Aesthetics of Decline. Dementia and Alzheimer's in Contemporary Narratives

Saturday 22 June 2013

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11:00 Memory and Space: Oral Narrative of a pre-1948 Jerusalemite Family (Cultural Memory Seminar)
Speaker: Sahar Hamouda (author of 'Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem' [Garnet, 2010])

Wednesday 26 June 2013

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10:00 Es geht uns gut! – Writing History in Austria after 1945 - POSTPONED TO 4-5 DECEMBER 2013
Organised with Catriona Firth (University of Leeds), national and international experts in the field will discuss recent trends...
14:00 PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group

14:30 The Aesthetics of Disgust: Revolting Bodies and Other Gruesome Things in post-1990 Women's Writing (CCWW Seminar)
Convenor: Katie Jones (Nottingham)All welcome (please contact Gill Rye to attend) Disgust is a strong immediate visceral reaction. ...

Friday 28 June 2013

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10:00 Motherhood and Religions
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkWorkshop 5Places lim...

Thursday 4 July 2013

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09:15 Windows. Their Literary, Cultural, Artistic and Psychological Significance in the German-Speaking Territories from the Middle Ages to the Present
Programme Registration Form (closing date: 21 June 2013)
19:00 The Motif of the Open Window from Romanticism to Realism (Coffin Trust Lecture)
Speaker: Sabine Rewald (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Thursday 24 October 2013

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10:00 Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkClosing ConferenceCA...

Thursday 14 November 2013

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10:00 Büchner Today / Büchner Heute
Detailed Call for Papers Closing date: 30 June 2012

Thursday 28 November 2013

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18:00 Corresponding Fellows' Lecture: Wer singt wann in 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren'?
Speaker: Hans Joachim Kreutzer (Regensburg)

Wednesday 4 December 2013

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10:00 Es geht uns gut! – Writing History in Austria after 1945
National and international experts in the field will discuss recent trends in depicting Austrian and world history in fiction, with parti...

Wednesday 11 December 2013

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14:00 Women Leaders in Contemporary European Women’s Writing (CCWW Seminar)
Convenor: Elizabeth SercombeAll welcome (please contact Gill Rye to attend) Despite the increasingly important role played by women lead...

Friday 7 March 2014

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17:00 Practicing Theory: The Friction between Theoretical Work and Creative Writing
Enrico Palandri in Conversation Organised under the auspices of the Friends of Italian at the IGRS   

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