Recap & Impressions
Recap & Impressions

Anniversary Conference - 10 Years GSPoL

The tenth anniversary of the Graduate School Practices of Literature was celebrated on June 19, 2018, with a special conference. A diverse program including a networking event “Career Development” for PhD students, a guest lecture by advisory board member Dr. Nicholas Shrimpton (University of Oxford), as well as poster and project presentations by PhD students reflected the Graduate School's research activities. Members, alumni, advisory board, and supervisors had the opportunity to network and get to know each other and their projects. The GSPoL would like to thank all contributors and participants!

 

Looking Back: GSPoL in Numbers

Program (download here)

10-10.30h Welcoming Remarks by director Prof. Dr. Andreas Blödorn, coordinator Dr. Anna Thiemann and the PhD students' representatives Lea Espinoza Garrido, Christian Dömer und Mathaabe Schick
10.30-12.30h

Networking Event “Career Development” for PhD Students with:

14.15-15.45h Guest Lecture by Dr. Nicholas Shrimpton (University of Oxford):
English Literature and the Biedermeier
16-18h

Poster Presentations

  • Christian Dömer, Der Diskurs des Kalten Krieges als strukturgebender Referenzpunkt in der Literatur des geteilten Deutschlands
  • Nele Demedts, Objektivität und Objekte in deutschen und niederländischen Romanen der Neuen Sachlichkeit
  • Lea Espinoza Garrido, Beyond the War on Terror: Marvel’s Postpost-9/11 Television
  • Héctor Feliciano, Allegorical and Messianic Readings of Time
  • Manuel Förderer, „Wir leben zwischen zwei Welten“: Transsemantiken und Interregnumsmentalität in der deutschen   Nachkriegsliteratur 1945-1949
  • Birte Fritsch, Zur Theorie des Vergleichs: Der Vergleich als Operation der Literaturwissenschaft
  • Hideya Hayashi, Yoko Tawada und Übersetzung
  • Peilin Li, Zeit-Bild: Chronotopoi nach 2000
  • Kerstin Mertenskötter, Revision der Dramenanalyse: Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Methode zur Perspektivierung dramatischer und postdramatischer Theatertexte
  • Mathaabe Schick, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in German(y): A Study of the Translation and Reception of Adichie’s Fiction


Projekt Presentations

 

Here is a visual recap of our anniversary conference:

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