• Programme

    Wed, 26 Nov

    09:00-10:00

    Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Michael McKeon
    "Constructions of Home in Early Modern England: An Overview"

    10:00-10:30

    Coffee

    10:30-11:15

    Prof. Dr. Kevin Cope
    "Home is Where the Heat Is: Hole, Holy, and Holistic Dwellings and Modern Domestic Proficiency"

    11:15-12:00

    Prof. Dr. Walter Göbel
    "Homes Lost and Found. Three Expatriate Indian Novelists"

    12:45-14:00

    Lunch

    14:00-14:45

    Prof. Dr. Ulf Müller
    "Individual and Collective Home in German Civil Law"

    14:45-15:30

    Prof. Dr. Maria Donata Panforti
    "The Family Home and the Law: A Comparative Overview of the Western Legal Systems"

    15:30-16:00

    Coffee

    16:00-17:00

    Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. George Rousseau
    "Longing for Home: A Middle-European Case History"

    17:00-17:45

    Prof. Dr. Jochen Achilles
    "Constructions and Contestations of Home in African-American Theatre"

    17:45-18:30

    Lori Lyn Greenstone, MA
    "Interpreting the Blueprint for The Road Home by Rose Tremain"

    19:30 Dinner at Molloh's (African cuisine)/ Hörsterstr. 33 (not included in conference fee; please register on arrival)

    Thu, 27 Nov

    09:00-10:00

    Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. John Archer
    "Towards an Aesthetics of Home"

    10:00-10:30

    Coffee

    10:30-11:15

    Prof. Dr. Wolf Tegethoff

    11:15-12:00

    Dr. ing. Heiko Lieske
    "How to Root Yourself in Suburbia"

    12:00-13:30

    Lunch

    13:30-14:15

    Prof. Dr. ing. Niels-Christian Fritsche
    "Housing as a Restricting Conditio Humana: About the Concurrence of Private Property, Human Language and Perception"

    14:15-15:00

    Prof. Dr. Alfred Sproede
    "The Ithaca Syndrome. Literature and Public Space in Post-Imperial Ukraine"

    15:00-15:30

    Coffee

    15:30-16:15 Prof. Dr. Sonja Fielitz
    "The Literal and Architectural Fashioning of Private and Public Homes: British Country-House Poems of the 18th Century"

    16:15-19:00 WORKSHOP I
    Patrick Gill, MA
    "The Enemy You Know: The Uneasy Domesticity of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood as a Response to a World in Crisis"
    Dr. Katja Kanzler
    "Architecture, Writing, and Vulnerable Signification in Herman Melville's 'I and My Chimney'"
    Dr. Florian Kläger
    "Roots and Routes in Contemporary Irish Drama"
    Marie Löffler
    "'All We Ever Remember Is Their Scars' - Dismantling the Foundations of Home in African-American Speculative Fiction"
    Gregor Pudzich, MA
    "After the Diaspora: Concepts of Home in African-Canadian Literature"
    PD Dr. Katharina Rennhak
    "Imagining the Nation as Home; or Regulating English Desire in Mary Mitford's Our Village"
    Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer
    "The British 'Intrusion Comedy': 19th Century and After"

    20:00 Thanksgiving Dinner at Parkhotel Schloss Hohenfeld/ Dingbängerweg 400 (not included in conference fee; please register on arrival)
    Shuttle bus leaves at 19:30 from the English Seminar

    Fri, 28 Nov

    09:00-09:45

    Prof. Dr. Immacolata Ammodeo
    "The Emergence of a New Heimaten-Literatur. Migrant Literature in Germany."

    09:45-10:30

    Dr. Elke Schuch & Neil Deane, BA, MSc:
    "Merseypride or the Importance of Geography in the Construction of Home and Belonging"

    10:30-11:00

    Coffee

    11:00-12:00

    WORKSHOP II
    Anna Maria Everding, BA
    "Complements of Home - 'Belle Rêve' and 'Elysian Fields' in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire"
    Prof. Dr. Annette Kern-Stähler
    "Homeliness in Late Medieval England"
    Franziska Quabeck, MA
    "Shooting Up and Coming Home - Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting and Porno"

    12:00

    Buffet

    13:15-13:45

    Valedictory: Prof. Dr. Daniela Carpi
    "The Law Firm as the House/ Home of Law in P.D. James's A Certain Justice"