Programme:
10.30 – 11.30 am
Renate Rechtien, Bath: ‘Staging the Self: Images of the City in Christa Wolf’s Writing before 1989 and since.’
Lyn Marven, Liverpool: ‘”Was bedeutet das alles? Das Verbindungsstück!“ Photos of East Berlin in post-Wende texts by Daniela Dahn, Irinal Liebmann, Sophie Calle.’
Coffee

12.00 – 1.00 pm
Annie Ring, Cambridge: ‘“...als wären die, die fort waren, noch da“. Sovereignty , Stasis and the Surveyed City in post-GDR fiction.’
David Clarke, Bath: ‘Im Bürgertum der Insel Dresden: Uwe Tellkamp’s Topography of Dictatorship in Der Turm (2008)’

Lunch

2.30 – 3.30 pm
Simon Ward, Aberdeen: ‘Memory Value and the Materiality of the Cityscape’
Adam Sharr, Cardiff: ‘Selective Memory: Reconstruction and Reinterpretation at the Site of Potsdam’s Stadtschloß’
Coffee
4.00 – 5.00 pm
Patrick Major Reading: ‘Tunnel Vision: Film Memories of the Berlin Wall’
Josie Mc Lellan, Bristol: ‘Homosex and the City: Gay Men and Lesbians in Berlin’