Symposium

The project team held a symposium at the University of Bath on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd September 2004 at which they presented some preliminary findings of their research - methodology and the practical application thereof. All five members of the project team (including the postgraduates) gave presentations. Selected ecocritics and Germanists, some of whom also gave presentations, were present at the symposium in order to referee and review the progress made by the team.

Many thanks to all who attended. Your stimulating and encouraging comments have taken us a real step forward in our work on the project, and Katharine and Aniela with their PhDs.

Nature and Environment in Modern German Literature Symposium

University of Bath, Thursday 2 - Friday 3 September 2004

Thursday 2 September

3.45-4pm Arrival and Tea/Coffee
4pm Introduction (Colin Riordan)
4.15pm Colin Riordan: "German Literature, Nature and Modernity before 1914"
5.15pm Jürgen Barkhoff (Dublin): "Naturferne in der Literatur: Jelinek und Bernhard"
6.15pm Close
7pm Dinner in Wessex House

Friday 3 September

8-9am Breakfast (Choices Restaurant)
9.15am Aniela Morris: "Herta Müller's Niederungen: Village Life as the Anti-Idyll" (Response: Margaret Littler)
10am Michael Niedermeier (Berlin): "Goethe in Amerika"
10.45am Tea/Coffee
11.15am Simon Meacher: "Beyond Environmentalism: Critiques of the Green Movement in German Literature of the 1970s and 1980s" (Response: Jürgen Barkhoff)
12.15pm Berbeli Wanning (Dusseldorf): "Körperstrategien in Alfred Döblins Unser Dasein"
1pm Lunch (Claverton Rooms)
2.15pm Katharine Griffiths: "Nature and Dissidence in German Literature 1933-1945" (Response: David Midgley)
3.15pm Axel Goodbody: "From Egocentrism to Ecocentrism: Nature and Morality in German Writing in the 1980s" (Response: Michael Niedermeier)
4.15pm Tea/Coffee; Close
7.30pm Dinner

Some snaps kindly taken during the symposium by Michael Niedermeier: Top Left: With the serious proceedings completed, a group of symposium participants set off for a stroll around Bath university campus, (l-r) Aniela Morris, Katharine Griffiths, Wendy Skinner, David Midgley, Berbeli Wanning, Jurgen Barkhoff, Axel Goodbody. Top Right: Settling down for evening meal in Woods restaurant, (l-r) KG, JB, BW, Colin Riordan, AG Above Left: Waiting for that all important food and drink to arrive, (l-r) Simon Meacher, WS, KG Above Right: A pleasurable meal draws to an end, (l-r) JB, BW, CR Right: The evening continues in a local beer garden, but who's drinking what? (l-r) BW, JB, AG, CR, KG, WS

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