Symposia, Lectures & Conferences – up-coming events
Friday 16 May 2008, 9:30-13:15
University of Manchester
GEOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE IN THE WORKS OF JEWISH WRITERS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIA AND GERMANY
A Postgraduate Workshop by Prof. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
The two-part workshop explores the sense of geography and language in selected works of Jewish writers and filmmakers born after the Shoah. These authors come from different places of origin, but they write in German for German-speaking audiences. Their relationship to Germany and / or Austria is clearly one of choice, as is obvious from their fictional characters and personal statements. Israel, the United States, and Poland, Russia, and other East European countries are important sites through which these authors position themselves.
All postgraduates welcome
For further information, registration and copies of preparatory readings, please contact Rachel.M.Corbishley@manchester.ac.uk by 4 April 2008
Postgraduate Office in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Venue and Information
University of Manchester
Humanities Lime Grove, A213
Thursday 22 May, 8pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
An Evening with Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Alexander Stillmark and his New Translation of ‘Der Schwierige’
On the occasion of the international conference on Hugo von Hofmannsthal (22-23 May), organised by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, the Austrian Cultural Forum will host a reading by Alexander Stillmark from his new translation of „Der Schwierige“, accompanied by film clips and a musical interlude.
Please click here for a detailled programme of the conference.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 22 – Friday 23 May
Chawton House Library, Alton
Readers, Writers, Salonnieres: Female networks in Europe, 1700-1900
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion of interest in Europe in foreign languages and literatures. This conference seeks to examine the trans-national links between literary women in Europe in the period 1700-1900.
For more information please contact Sandy White, Conference Administrator: sw17@soton.ac.uk
or visit www.soton.ac.uk/english/news/femalenetworks.shtml
Venue and Information
Chawton House Library, Alton
Hampshire, GU34 1SJ, T 01420541010
Thursday 5 June, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
In memoriam Peter Marginter (1934-2008)
by Wolfgang Georg Fischer
Author and art historian Wolfgang Georg Fischer will give a commemorative talk on the Austrian writer, translator and diplomat Peter Marginter, Director of the Austrian Cultural Institute in London from 1990 to 1995, who passed away in February this year. Marginter’s oeuvre comprises acclaimed novels, stories, essays and literature for children. His translations from English include works by Thomas Hardy and Robert Graves.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 19 June, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Hans Gál Lecture – Hans Gál Vienna to Edinburgh
Michael Haas will give an audio-illustrated talk on the life of the renowned Austrian composer Hans Gál. Following considerable success in the 1920s, Gál was appointed Director of the Conservatory in Mainz in 1929 but was instantly dismissed (and his works banned) when Hitler took power in 1933. He returned to Vienna, the city of his birth, but was again forced to flee by Hitler’s annexation of Austria in 1938. He emigrated to Britain and settled in Edinburgh, where he remained active until his death in 1987.
Michael Haas is an accomplished executive and recording producer, having worked for both Universal Music Group’s Decca/London and the Sony Classical labels and with many of the world’s most renowned musicians and singers. He is also highly regarded for his contribution to the rediscovery of music lost during the Nazi years in Europe. The recording series “Entartete Musik” is seen as a groundbreaking recovery of works thought lost, forgotten or destroyed.