Preliminary Conference Programme
The Institution of Literature: 250 Years of English Studies and Cultural Transfer
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
- Conference Warming: 18.30 –
Cafe Botanik (Untere Karspüle 1b)
- Carola Surkamp (Göttingen)
- Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock): “‘Cultural Imperialism’ and the Invention of EngLit in Elizabethan England”
- Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): “Literature and the Institution of the Human”
- Georgia Christinidis (Berlin): “Cross-cultural Transformations of Bildungsroman-Criticism”
- Martina Witt-Jauch (Hildesheim): “Miscellany or Masterpiece? – Defining the Discipline of Comparative Literature through its Anthologies”
- Thomas Kullmann (Osnabrück): “Canon Formation in English Literature Studies: A Comparison of Britain and Germany, 1900 – 1930”
- Anna Auguscik (Oldenburg): “The Institution of Literary Prizes”
- Vice President Hiltrud Casper-Hehne (Göttingen)
- Barbara Schaff (Göttingen)
- Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): “The Death of Criticism?”
- Konrad Schröder (Augsburg): “‘Hardly has a university had a more distinguished master of languages than Tompson was.” John Tompson’s personality, his biography, and his significance for ELT and English Studies in Germany”
- Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen): “Navigation Guides for the Vast Ocean of Literature: Writing and Teaching the History of (English) Literature in 1800”
- Leigh Dale (Wollongong): “Germany in the Antipodes, the Antipodes in Germany”
- Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen): “The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and (Inter-)Disciplinary Challenges”
- Annika Kolb (Heidelberg): “Diary Fiction in the EFL Classroom”
- Katerina Dakoura (Frankfurt): “Experts in the Making? – The Problem of Literary Competence in Future EFL-Teachers’ University Education”
- Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): “‘Landeskunde’ and FL Teaching: The History of a Troubled Relationship”
- Daniel Candel (Alcalá): “Basic is Fundamental: A Thinking Tool for Humanistic Interpretation Based on Scientific ‘Facts’”
Please click here to register. - Susan Bassnett (Warwick): “The Joys and Perils of Poetry Collections”
- Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann (Erfurt): “Cultural Transfer and Translation: the Strange Fascination of the World’s Secular Metropolis”
- Karolin Echarti (Göttingen): “Women Translators in Göttingen at the End of the Eighteenth Century”
- Janice Bland (Hildesheim): “Postmodern Fairy Tales: Empowerment of Teacher Education”
- Daniel Xerri (Malta): “Teachers’ Beliefs and Literature Teaching: The Case of Poetry”
- Christine Gardemann (Hamburg): “Literary Texts in the English Language Classroom – English Teachers’ Codes of Practice in Hamburg”
- Elisabeth Bracker (Hamburg): “Negotiating Literary Texts – a Nexus Between Different Realms of Competence? Examples of a Qualitative Case Study with Advanced English Learners”
- Arjan Shumeli, Manjola Salla, Esmeralda Sotiri, Jolanda Xhemali (Tirana): “The Status of English Language Education in Albania in the Context of Globalization Challenges”
- Nandana Dutta (Guwahati): “English Studies and the Mediation of Modernity: The Case of North East India”
- Myles Chilton (Nihon): “Global English and Changing Status of English Literature in the Japanese Academy”
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Venue: Paulinerkirche (Papendiek 14)
Registration: 09.00 –
10.15 – 10.30 Opening remarks
10.30 – 11.30 Inventing the Institution
11.30 – 12.30 Transcultural Perspectives
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Canon Formation
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
16.00 – 17.00 Unveiling John Tompson's Memorial Plaque
17.30 – 18.00 Welcome Addresses
Venue: Große Aula (Wilhelmsplatz)
18.00 – 19.00 Keynote
19.00 – 21.00 Reception
Friday, August 31, 2012
Venue: Paulinerkirche (Papendiek 14)
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.00 Institution Histories
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Teaching Genre
15.00 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.00 Literature and Teacher Education
17.00 – 18.30 Workshop
Joint Conference Dinner
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Venue: Paulinerkirche (Papendiek 14)
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Transfer and Translation
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Methodological Challenges
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.30 Globalized English Studies
17.30 Closing Remarks
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