Conference Schedule

9.00-9.10 Opening address – Dr Michael Heinze & Dr Katie Long

 

Panel 1: 9:10-10:30 - (Re) Reading the Middle Ages

Moderator: Irena Berovic, MA

      Venue: Großer Sitzungsaal, Dekanat (23.21.00.67)

 

Sara Ismail & Anne Jasmin Schmidt, “The Intertextual Dragon - A Structuralist Approach to Beowulf`”

Ellen Marschner & Lars Hofrichter, “Literature as a Discourse of Identity - Reading Post Colonialism in Beowulf and Andreas”

Dennis Spinger and Melanie Giedke, “Modernizing Gawain”

 

10.30-11.00 – Break (refreshments and book sale in foyer of 23.21)

 

Panel 2: 11.00-12.30 – Queer Literature

Moderator: Dr Michael Heinze

       Venue: Großer Sitzungsaal, Dekanat (23.21.00.67)

 

Christopher Theus & Tabata-Florentine da Luz, “The perception and self-perception of homosexuals in 1960s' US-American literature”

Simone Kowalik, “The development of queerness in literature”

Stela Dujakovic, “Queering Death”

 

12.30-1.00 – Break (refreshments and book sale in foyer of 23.21)

 

Panel 3 – 1.00-2.00 Images of Women

Moderator: Dr Rainer Holtei

     Venue: Großer Sitzungsaal, Dekanat (23.21.00.67)

 

Elisabeth Welz & Inga Wienand, “Lady Bertilak: Taken or Token?”

Julia Weidemann & Sevin Derin, “Two Chaucerian Constructs: Eglentyne and Emily”

Lan Nguyen Thi Huong, “The Parody of Courtly Love in The Miller's Tale”

 

2.30-4.00 Performance of Romance of the Rose

Venue: Hörsaal 3H

 

Throughout the day, tea and coffee will be available in the foyer of 23.21 in addition to a second-hand book sale.