ANGLISTIK I: MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

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

Contact

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik I
Geb. 23.21 R. 01.71
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf

Dr. Katie Long M.A.
Irena Berovic B.A.
Riad Nassar M.A.

imaginephil.uni-duesseldorfde

Tel: +49 211 81-12961
Fax: +49 211 81-11728