Sections:
1. Reformation & Renaissance
SUSANNE RAU (University of Dresden), Reformation and History: The
Construction of (Dis)Continuities in the Historiography of the Reformation
in the Early Modern Period. SUSAN BOETTCHER (University of Texas, Austin),
1521 in 1546: Luther's Death and the Creation of Lutheran History. WILHELM
RIBHEGGE (University of Münster), German or European Identity? Luther and
Erasmus in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Cultural History and
Historiography. MARTIN RUEHL (Queen's College, Cambridge), Renaissance
Italy and the German Historical Imagination, 1870-1940.
2. The Heritage of the Enlightenment
STEFAN BUSCH (Lincoln College, Oxford),'Wenn Sie an Tugend und Vorsicht
glauben!' Ideals and Life in Lessing's 'Minna von Barnhelm', Wieland's
'Geschichte des Agathon', and Moritz's 'Anton Reiser'. RITCHIE ROBERTSON
(St John's College, Oxford), Cultural Memory in Austria: The Josephinist
Legacy down to Grillparzer's 'König Ottokars Glück und Ende'. LAURA BENZI
(University of Pisa), Die Entstehung der Lyrik in der zweiten Hälfte des
18. Jahrhunderts und die spätaufklärerische Affektenlehre. AXEL GOODBODY
(University of Bath), Constructions of Nature and Naturalness in
Twentieth-Century German Literature.
3. Media, Technology & Literature
DAVID MIDGLEY (St John's College, Cambridge), Technology as a Marker of
Cultural Change. JEANNE RIOU (University College, Dublin), Joseph Roth's
'Bekenntnis zum Gleisdreieck': Technology and Experience in 1920s Berlin.
HARRO SEGEBERG (University of Hamburg), Industrielle Kultur, das Kino und
die Schriftsteller: Zur Mediengeschichte der Weimarer Republik. GÜNTHER
STOCKER (University of Salzburg), Lesebilder und Mediengeschichte: Zur
Selbstreflexion der Literatur am Beginn der modernen Lesekultur und an
ihrem vermeintlichen Ende.
4. Aspects of Intermediality
RICARDA SCHMIDT (University of Manchester), Raphaels Schüler und Meister
Salvator Rosa in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Malererzählungen: Tradierung und
Modernisierung eines frühromantischen Kunstdiskurses. CAROLIN DUTTLINGER
(St John's College, Cambridge), 'Die Ruhe des Blickes': Kafka, Media
Culture and the 'Kaiserpanorama'. CORINNA MÜLLER (University of Hamburg),
Übergang vom Stummfilm zum Tonfilm: Entwurf einer Kultur des Fiktionalen.
5. Literature & the Scientific Imagination
JÜRGEN BARKHOFF (Trinity College, Dublin), Envy of the Gods: The Dream of
Creating Artificial Humans around 1800. DANIEL STEUER (Sussex University),
Laws of Conservation and the Metaphysical Imagination. MALCOLM HUMBLE (St
Andrew's University), Monism and Literature in the Later Years of the
'Kaiserreich'.
6. Cultural Transfers
JÖRN STEIGERWALD (University of Bochum), Galanterie als kulturelle
Identitätsbildung: Frankreich Deutschland. MARTINA LAUSTER (University
of Exeter), The Continuity of the 'Gentleman Ideal' in German Literature
from Lichtenberg to Hofmannsthal. LOTHAR SCHNEIDER (University of
Giessen), Liberalismus, Positivismus, Anglophilie: Über ein Projekt
bürgerlicher Kultur in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
7. Traces of Cultural Memory
ANNE FUCHS (University College, Dublin), 'Schmerzensspuren der
Geschichte': The Landscape of Memory in W.G. Sebald. SILKE HORSTKOTTE
(University of Leipzig), Visible Gaps: Photography Inserted into Narrative
in W.G. Sebald. KAREN LEEDER (New College, Oxford), 'rhythmische
historia': Contemporary Poems of the First World War by Thomas Kling and
Raoul Schrott.
8. Figures of Memory and History
CONSTANZE GÜTHENKE (Oriel College, Oxford / Princeton University), From
the 'Archipel deutscher Kleinstaaterei' to Nature in Arms: The Image of
the Greek Land around 1821. CHRISTIAN EMDEN (Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge), The Invention of Antiquity: Classicality, Classicism and
Classical Scholarship, 1780-1930. MARC OLIVER HUBER (Free University,
Berlin), Memoria in Zeiten des Zeitenbruchs: Zur Strukturkrise des
kulturellen Gedächtnisses.
9. Cultural Reconstructions
SIMON WARD (University of Aberdeen), The Ruins of Culture in Germany after
1945. WILLIAM NIVEN (Nottingham Trent University), Martin Walser¹s ŒTod
eines Kritikers¹ and its Reception in Germany. INGEBORG CLEVE (University
of Saarbrücken / Stiftung Weimarer Klassik), Von der Subversität
beherrschten Erbens: 'Weimarer Klassik' in der DDR. SILKE ARNOLD-DE SIMINÉ
(Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge), Der Kult des Erinnerns:
Musealisierungsprozesse in Wenderomanen und -filmen.
10. History & Identity
TUSKA BENES (University of Pennsylvania), Linguistic History and Memories
of National Origin, 1806-1815. CHARLOTTE WOODFORD (Selwyn College,
Cambridge), ŒMit Gott für König und Vaterland¹: Contrasting Models of
Patriotism in the Historical Novels of Theodor Fontane and Gustav Freytag.
MANUELA ACHILLES (University of Michigan), Reforming the Reich: Political
Violence and Republican Identification in Weimar Germany.
The research group ŒCultural History and Literary Imagination¹ is based in
the German Department of the University of Cambridge, and is primarily
concerned with the relationship between literary texts and their cultural
and historical contexts, whether these are conceived in social, political
or intellectual terms.
For further information, see the website
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/researchgroup/intro.html
Or contact on of the organisers: