Academic Programme
WORKSHOPS
- Workshop A: Applying for a Professorship ("Von der Bewerbung zur Berufung")
- Workshop B: Publishing & Publications ("Publizieren und Publikationen in der Anglistik")
SECTIONS
Section "Social Reading and Reading Communities in Diachronic Perspective"
(Intro, Abstracts & Bionotes)
Organisers
Dorothee Birke (Innsbruck), Anne Korfmacher (Cologne), Helga Schwalm (Berlin)
Keynote Speaker
Christina Lupton (Copenhagen/Warwick): Reading Communities – For Work or for Pleasure?
Speakers – Panel 1
- Dorothee Birke (Innsbruck), Anne Korfmacher (Cologne), Helga Schwalm (Berlin): Introduction – Social Reading and Reading Communities in Diachronic Perspective
- Rebeca Araya Acosta (Berlin): "We, the miners in this place" – Westerkirk Parish Library as an Example of Popular Enlightenment
- Birte Christ (Gießen): Creating a Post-War West German Reading Community – RO-RO-RO and British Authors in Translation
Speakers – Panel 2
- Hanne Roth (Tübingen): Tobias Smollett and the Scene of Sociable Reading
- Gero Bauer (Tübingen): Metafictional Materialities – Fictional Reading Communities After the Turn to Reconstruction
- David Walther (Greifswald): "What should we do, chat?" – Interactive Play-Reading in the Age of Twitch
Speakers – Panel 3
- Stephan Karschay (Berlin/Hamburg): Public Virtue and Private Vice? Social Reading and the Pamela Controversy
- Heidi Lucja Liedke (Frankfurt): Reading Characters – Reparation Through Reading in Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You? (2021)
- Hannah Pardey (Hanover): "Grounded in Real Human Feeling" – Emotional Middle-Class Self-Fashioning on BookTube
Section "Language and Food"
(Intro, Abstracts and Bionotes)
Organisers
Susanne Mühleisen (Bayreuth), Sofia Rüdiger (Bayreuth)
Keynote Speaker
Kathleen Riley (Rutgers University): Food Talk and Identity at Academic Coffee Breaks in Europe and Cultural Revival Feasts in the Marquesas
Speakers – Panel 1
- Sven Leuckert (Dresden): "Throwing fat on the fire" – Linguistic Expressions of Otherness in Alpine Cooking Texts
- Susanne Mühleisen (Bayreuth): A Bellyful Experience – Language and Food Signs in Jamaica
- Manuela Vida-Mannl (Dortmund): Local Cuisine – Constructing Croatian Identity and Authenticity for Tourists
Speakers – Panel 2
- Ilse Wischer (Potsdam): Ne man ne mot drincan …, ne etan innan cyrican, ne drincan æt wynhuse – The Lexical Field of Eating and Drinking in Old and Middle English
- Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarbrücken): Exgredients – A Diachronic Perspective in Traditional Anglo-American Cuisine
Speakers – Panel 3
- Stefan Diemer (Trier): Food and Storytelling in Taster Lunches
- Sofia Rüdiger (Bayreuth): Let's Eat Together – Participation Frameworks in Multi-Party Asynchronous Eating Shows
- Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz): The Linguistic Functions of Personal Pronouns in Online Cooking Recipes
Section "Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives"
(Intro, Abstracts & Bionotes)
Organisers
Alessandra Boller (Siegen), Sara Strauß (Paderborn)
Keynote Speaker
Lucy Caldwell: Glocal Irishness – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Speakers – Panel 1
- Alessandra Boller (Siegen) & Sara Strauß (Paderborn): “Introduction: Irish Communities in a Glocal Context”
- Marion Schulte (Rostock): “New Irish Communities: Immigration, Multilingualism, and Belonging in the Republic of Ireland”
- Franca Leitner (Würzburg): "There is no one here" – Ghost Estates and the Impossibility of Community in Conor O'Callaghan's Nothing on Earth (2016)
- Yana Lebedeva (Paderborn): Irish Communities in a Glocal Cinematic Context – The Representation of the Irish Rural Community in the Film The Banshees of Inisherin
Speakers – Panel 2
- Raphael Zähringer (Tübingen): The 'Border People' – Mapping Community in Garett Carr's The Rule of the Land
- Ann-Christine Herbold (Kassel): "The Same Old Theme Since 1916"? Music of Division and (Re)Union in Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes and Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman
- Dennis Henneböhl (Erlangen-Nürnberg): Negotiating between Traditional Irishness and Modern European Identities – Narratives of Glocal Irish Community in Contemporary Fiction
Speakers – Panel 3
- Dilâra Yilmaz (Kiel): Narratives of No Community – Longing for Belonging as a Female Experience and Literary Mode in Contemporary Irish Fiction since 2017
- Sarah Busch (Freiburg/Cologne): Negotiating Irishness at the Abbey Theatre – Audience Engagement in Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (2014)
Section "Early Modern Futures"
(Intro, Abstracts & Bionotes)
Organisers
Nikolina Hatton (Munich), Cord-Christian Casper (Munich), Lara Ehrenfried (Munich)
Keynote Speaker
Leah Knight (Brock University): Heavy Hopes – Hester Pulter's Pregnant Possibilities
Speakers – Panel 1: Staging Futures
- Valentina Finger (Munich): "I’ll draw it nearer by a perspective" – Prognostic Mirrors in Jacobean Drama
- Christine Schwanecke & Jasmin Jonser (Graz): Female Futures in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam (1613)
- Julia Boll (Konstanz): Unbound – The Ethics and Entanglements of Moll Cutpurse
Speakers – Panel 2: Form and Futurity
- Lukas Lammers (Berlin): Futures of the Past – the History Play's Fraught Relation with the Future
- Johannes Schlegel (Würzburg): "And all after-times" – Futurity, Genre, and Affect in Ben Jonson's Volpone and The Alchemist
- Marlene Dirschauer (Hamburg): Donne's Future Perfect
Speakers – Panel 3: Early Modern (Re)Imaginings
- Dorothea Flothow (Salzburg): Victorian Pasts and Restoration Futures – Victorian Historical Novels and the Forms of History
- Evelyn Koch (Marburg): Re-Imaginings of the Seventeenth Century in Folk Horror
- Regula Hohl Trillini (Basel): Shakespeare's German Future – Marking the Start
Section "Narratives of Health and Illness"
(Intro, Abstracts & Bionotes)
Organisers
Alexandra Effe (Oslo), Nicola Glaubitz (Kiel), Melissa Schuh (Kiel)
Speakers – Panel 1
- Gero Guttzeit (Munich): In/Visible Ills – Health, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Gothic
- Martina Allen (Frankfurt): Addiction and Dislocation in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
- James Dowthwaite (Jena): Pandemic and Individual Narratives – The Antonine Plague in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean (1885)
Speakers – Panel 2
- Sebastian Domsch (Greifswald): I had a fall – Hanif Kureishi's Social Media Narrative of Illness
- Katrin Röder (Berlin): Probing the Relevance of Intertextuality and Creative Bibliotherapy for Autobiographical Life Storying on 'Mental Distress'
- Deborah de Muijnck (Gießen): Cultural Models of Narrative Identity as Sense-Making Strategies in Post-Trauma Storytelling
Speakers – Panel 3
- Fraser Riddell (Durham): Autistic Perception, Decadent Style and the Sensory Description at the Fin De Siécle
- Christoph Singer (Innsbruck): "An Amorphous Sense of Dread" – Narrating the Temporalities of Depression