Thursday, August 30

Registration: 09.00 –

10.15 – 10.30 Opening remarks

Carola Surkamp (Göttingen)

10.30 – 11.30 Inventing the Institution

Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock): “‘Cultural Imperialism’ and the Invention of EngLit in Elizabethan England”

Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): “Literature and the Institution of the Human”

11.30 – 12.30 Transcultural Perspectives

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”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Canon Formation

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”

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee

16.00 – 17.00 Unveiling John Tompson’s Memorial Plaque
Weender Str. 43

17.30 – 18.00 Welcome Addresses

Vice President Hiltrud Casper-Hehne & Barbara Schaff (Göttingen)

18.00 – 19.00 Keynote

Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): “The Death of Criticism?”

19.00 – 21.00 Reception

Friday, August 31

09.30 – 10.30 Keynote

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”

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Institution Histories

Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen): “Navigation Guides for the Vast Ocean of Literature: Writing and Teaching the History of (English) Literature in 1800”

Alexandra Lawrie (Edinburgh): “English Literature and the University Extension Movement”

Leigh Dale (Wollongong): “Germany in the Antipodes, the Antipodes in Germany”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Teaching Genre

Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen): “The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and (Inter-)Disciplinary Challenges”

Nikola Mayer (Frankfurt): “Exploring the Cultural Potential of Graphic Novels in the EFL Classroom”

Annika Kolb (Heidelberg): “Diary Fiction in the EFL Classroom”

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee

16.00 – 17.00 Literature and Teacher Education

Katerina Dakoura (Frankfurt): “Experts in the Making? – The Problem of Literary Competence in Future EFL-Teachers’ University Education”

Janice Bland (Hildesheim): “Postmodern Fairy Tales: Empowerment of Teacher Education”

17.00 – 18.30 Workshop

Daniel Candel (Alcalá): “Basic is Fundamental: A Thinking Tool for Humanistic Interpretation Based on Scientific ‘Facts’”

19.30 Joint Conference Dinner

Saturday, September 1

09.30 – 10.30 Keynote

Susan Bassnett (Warwick): “The Joys and Perils of Poetry Collections”

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Transfer and Translation

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”

Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): “Landeskunde and FL Teaching: The History of a Troubled Relationship”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Methodological Challenges

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”

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee

16.00 – 17.30 Globalized English Studies

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”

17.30 Closing Remarks