Conference Schedule
Opening Night:
Friday, June 24 (International English Library)
18:00 – 18:30: Reception
18:30 – 18:45: Opening speech
Dr. Katie Long (Medieval Studies, HHUD)
18:45 – 19:45: Keynote speech
Dr. Michael Heinze (Anglophone Studies, HHUD)
Imagine this… in Colour! L. Frank Baum’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’
as a Symbiosis of Text and Illustrations
20:00: Joint Dinner
Conference:
Saturday, June 25 (HHUD - Building 22.01, Lecture Hall 2C)
10.00 – 11.30: The Politics of Imagination
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Roger Lüdeke (Modern English Literature, HHUD)
Presenters:
Melanie Keutken (German Studies, HHUD)
Terrorism to Protect an Image of ‘Heimat’
Imagination and Realism in Siegfried Lenz' ‘Heimatmuseum’
Marie Schmidt (Comparative Studies, LMU München)
Imagining the Writer as Detainee:
The Case of Ezra Pound’s ‘Pisan Cantos’
Alexander Zimbulov (Comparative Studies, LMU München)
'Pornographic Imagination': A Paradigmatic Clue to the Relation
Between Aesthetics and Politics?
11.30 – 12.30: Tea/Coffee Break (Foyer building 23.01)
12.30 – 14.00: Otherness Imagined
Moderator: Ina Thiesies MA (Art History, HHUD)
Presenters:
Fabian Bojkovsky (Art History/Medieval Studies, HHUD)
Of Pointed Hats and Phrygian Caps: Markers of Otherness
in the Early Bibles ‘Moralisées’
Irena Berovic (Medieval Studies, HHUD)
Imagining Otherness: Monstrosity in Medieval English Literature
Ulrike Ellguth-Malakhov (Medieval Studies, FSU Jena)
Imagining Gawain: On Character Change and Development
14.00 – 15.30: Lunch (Foyer Building 23.01)
15.30 – 17.00: The Media of Imagination
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Goerling (Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, HHUD)
Presenters:
Florian Leitner (Film Studies, FU Berlin)
(Uncanny) Imagination and Technical Media
Daniel Müller (American Studies, HHUD)
Where are the Wild Things? – Imagining the Monster
in 'Found Footage' Movies
Ömer Alkin (Media and Cultural Studies, HHUD)
Imagination in Turkish Migration Movies
20.00: Joint Dinner
Conference:
Sunday, June 26 (HHUD - Building 22.01, Lecture Hall 2C)
10.00 – 11.00: The Possibilities of Imagination: I
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Tania Kouteva (English Language and Linguistics, HHUD)
Presenters:
Lea Kawaletz (Medieval Studies, HHUD)
Texas German: Imagining Identity
Nina Monser (Medieval Studies, HHUD)
Just imagine - Talking to the Dead in Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’
11.00 – 11.30: Tea/Coffee Break (Foyer building 23.01)
11.30 – 12.30: The Possibilities of Imagination: II
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Tania Kouteva (English Language and Linguistics, HHUD)
Presenters:
Riad Nassar (Medieval Studies/Modern English Literature, HHUD)
On Imagination and Contingency
Anna Hutnik (American Studies, HHUD)
Martin Henrich (Modern English Literature, HHUD)
The Unspeakable Other
12.30 – 13.00: Tea/Coffee Break
13.00 – 14.00: Round Table
14.15: End of Conference