Call For Papers: German Pasts
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This DAAD-sponsored Conference (4-7 May, 2016) brings together postgraduates from opposite a UK, Ireland and Germany to benefaction cutting-edge work on contemporary German-(language) history, enlightenment and society.
The range of a discussion is broad, to inspire discourse between postgraduates operative opposite opposite disciplines, and a accumulation of themes relating to a German-speaking countries. In ubiquitous terms, we are meddlesome in a many new debates on how a German past is being remembered and memorialised, and – as critical – on what kind of destiny is emerging, or being imagined, for a German-speaking countries. We are generally meddlesome in a cultural, domestic and amicable consequences and rising understandings of fast demographic transformation, German care in Europe, a fast changing attribute between German-speaking countries and ‘the world’, a impact of new crises (the EURO and interloper crisis), and in new and rising national, regional, and internal identities.
Dr Hans Kundnani, Senior Transatlantic Fellow during a German Marshall Fund of a United States, will benefaction a full speak during a discussion (title to be confirmed).
Participants will present papers of thirty minutes in English or German.
All accommodation and dishes in Leeds will be lonesome free-of-charge, though UK and Ireland participants will need to compensate their possess travel. Participants from Germany will have their flights paid though will need to compensate their possess ride to and from airports.
Brief abstracts (100-200 words) and a brief CV to be sent to Stuart Taberner (gllsjt(at)leeds.ac.uk) by Dec 18, 2015.
Showcasing Public Engagement and Impact
A vital seductiveness of a discussion is in how investigate on German themes can minister to open rendezvous and impact. Participants will have a event to take partial in a series of events function in and around a conference, showcasing open rendezvous and impact in German during Leeds. There will also be sessions on ‘how to get published’ and ‘how to request for educational posts’.
Performance by Roger Grunwald: The Mitzvah
They were called “mischlinge,” a Nazi tenure definition “mixed blood” or, some-more crudely, “halfbreed.” It was used to report Germans descended from one or dual Jewish grandparents. By a conflict of a Second World War, tens of thousands of “mischlinge” were portion in a German armed forces. The Mitzvah (the play), conceived, co-written and achieved by actor and child of survivor, Roger Grunwald, tells a comfortless story of a German half-Jew who became an officer in Hitler’s army.
Performance by RJC Dance
RJD Dance is a historically black dance organisation from North Leeds. This performance, that was designed in partnership with members of a German dialect during Leeds and saved by a AHRC, presents immature black Britons’ interpretation of a aptitude of a Holocaust to their present-day lives, in dance.
The Skipton Diaries
Caroline Summers presents her translation project, operative with undergraduate and postgraduate students during Leeds, and with Skipton Library, to interpret diaries created by German PoWs interned in Skipton during World War One.
Conscientious Objectors in World War One
Ingrid Sharp presents her research and overdo project, operative with several village groups in a UK, on a story of responsible objectors in a UK during World War One.
Junge Filmmacher auf Spurensuche in Bautzen
Paul Cooke presents his AHRC-funded project, in that he trafficked to Bautzen with immature British people and, operative with immature Germans and a preparation group during Bautzen, grown a film traffic with how a GDR past is remembered.
Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context
This AHRC-funded exhibition, designed by Stuart Taberner in partnership with a South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation and a UK National Holocaust Centre, will be displayed during a discussion venue via a conference.
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