Friday 7 November

WIGS 2014 Selwyn College Cambridge

Friday 7 November

Coffee/Registration (New SCR)

14:30-16:30: Postgraduate Careers Workshop: Publication and communication strategies

Alex Lloyd: Journals and Book projects

Ingrid Sharp: Impact and Public Engagement – The Women’s movement, 1914-1918

Henrike Lähnemann: Blogs and Websites

16:30-17:00: Tea (Chadwick Room Foyer)
17:15: Public Lecture (Chadwick Room)

‘Beyond our wildest ambitions’: German Women's organisations 1914-18

Ingrid Sharp (Leeds)

To be followed by a drinks reception: 18:45

19:30: Buffet Supper (New SCR)

21:00: Postgraduate Essay Prizegiving

Saturday 8 November

9:30-11:00: Panel 1

Panel 1: Women and German Cultures Around 1914 (New SCR)

Elinor Beaven (Cambridge)

Photography as ‘spielerisches Kommunikationsmittel’: Karl and Hilde Hubbuch (1926-31)

Rose Sillars (Aberystwyth)

Sterne der Heimkehr (1923): Ina Seidel’s stargazing

Caroline Bland (Sheffield)

Role Model or Deterrent? Women, Education and Work at the Fin-de-Siècle

11:00-11:30: Coffee

11:30-12:30: Parallel Panels (2/3)

Panel 2: Religion, Identity and Otherness (New SCR)

Mary Boyle (Oxford)

Bernhard von Breidenbach and the Religious Other

Marissa Munderloh (St Andrews)

From Straight German Power to Multicultural Movement: the Germanness of Hip-hop Dance

Panel 3: Narrative and Identity (Tower Room)

Anita Bunyan (Cambridge)

Narrative and Situational Identity in the work of Eva Menasse

Erica Wickerson (Cambridge)

Towards an architecture of narrative time

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-14:30: AGM

14:30-16:00: Parallel Panels (4/5)

Panel 4: Displaced Identities (New SCR)

Katy Heady (Southampton)

Wavering Nostalgia: Joseph Roth’s Die Kapuzinergruft

Godela Weiss-Sussex (Cambridge)

Ein deutsch-jüdischer Zeitroman aus weiblicher Perspektive: Audnal’s Der Holzweg (1918) als Absage an das Projekt der Assimilation

Cathy Gelbin (Manchester)

Writing an Archaeology of Tyranny: German-Speaking Jews and the Stalinist Purges

Panel 5: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit (Tower Room)

Caroline Rowan-Olive (Reading)

The authority of the witness in Christa Wolf’s prose

Jenny Watson (Swansea)

Herta Müller and her Women: Feminist History or Symbolic Reproach?

Katya Krylova (Nottingham)

Deathly Silence and Garrulous Silencing: Margarete Heinrich’s and Eduard Erne’s Totschweigen (1994) and Elfriede Jelinek’s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (2008)

16:00-16:30: Tea

16:30-17:30: Panel 6

Panel 6: Film (New SCR)

Sarah Pogoda (Sheffield)

Aktion als Film. Film als Aktion: Kontinuitäten im Werk des Filmemachers Christoph Schlingensief

Anna Stainton (Toronto)

Model Socialists? Women as Conflicted Role Models in the Films of Iris Gusner