Conferences, Congresses

Alptraum(a). Alps, Summits and Borderlands in German-speaking Culture, online

Beginning
14.04.2021
End
16.04.2021
Registration deadline
13.04.2021

INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE

at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of Lon

Alptraum(a). Alps, Summits and Borderlands in German-speaking Culture

Online Conference (All timings are given as London Time - British Summer Time/GMT+1)

Programme

Wednesday, 14 April 2021

14.00                    Welcome and Introduction

14.30-16.30         Shaping Alpine Discourse

Jens Klenner (Bowdoin College, Maine): Resistence to Form: the Aesthetics of Mountains

Leonie Silber (Marburg): Die Alpen als Ort der Entgrenzung? Wilhelmine von Hillerns Die Geier-Wally – Eine Geschichte aus den Tiroler Alpen (Deutsche Rundschau, 1875)

Veronika Hofeneder (Vienna): Gletscherspalten und Zauberberge – Der Alpendiskurs bei Vicki Baum am Beispiel ihres Romans Marion (1942)

Caroline Jäger (Arizona):  ʿAlles natürlich, alles bioʾ. Zur Utopie (?) einer kapitalistischen Alpenregion in Felix Mitterers Piefke-Saga

Thursday, 15 April 2021

14.00-16.00         Constructing the Alps

Helen Baur (Munich): Verbindende Transnationalisierung und Mnemotop ʿder Pariasʾ – Die Alpen als Grenz- und Kontaktzone in Ferdinand von Saars Die Steinklopfer

Chris Zintzen (Vienna): Stillgestellt: Alpine Szenarien im Werkkomplex ʿNach der Naturʾ der österreichischen Architekturfotografin Margherita Spiluttini

Maria Buck (Innsbruck): Verkehrslawinen am Dachgarten Europas: Diskurse und Praktiken der Transitproteste in Österreich

Kamaal Haque (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania): Dammed Alps: Literary and Filmic Representations of Mountain Dams in Austria and Switzerland

16.00-16.30         Break

16.30-18.00         Alpine Minority

Jamie Green (Oxford): A Cross-Alpine Memory Culture? 21st-Century Memory Culture in South Tyrol and its Impact on Contemporary Identity

Seán Williams (Sheffield): Small State Writers: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Benjamin Quaderer, and the Literary History of Liechtenstein

Richard McClelland (Bristol): God Tamangur. Symbolic Encounters with an Alpine Forest in Peider Lansel, Leta Semadeni and Ulrike Almut Sandig

Friday, 16 April 2021

14.00-15.30         Alpine Resistance

David Anderson (Queen Mary University of London): Festung Schweiz: Fortifications and National Identity in Christian Kracht’s Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten

Peter Arnds (Trinity College Dublin): Alpine Spaces as Resistance, Resilience and Randomness: Homeric Wanderings in Peter Stamm’s Weit über das Land

Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander (King’s College London):  More than a Romantic Scenery – the Contested Alpine Landscape in Raphaela Edelbauer’s Das flüssige Land

15.30-16.00         Break

16.00-17.30         Ascent and Descent

Eva-Maria Müller (Innsbruck): ‘Von wegen runter geht’s schneller’: Mediations of Descent in Philipp Stölzl’s Nordwand (2008)

Jon Hughes (Royal Holloway, University of London): The Art of Climbing: Reassessing the Legacy of Paul Preuß

Johannes Wankhammer (Princeton): Natur als Gelände: Vorübungen zu einer Ästhetik des Anthropozäns in Frischs Der Mensch erschient im Holozän

17.30                    Conclusion

Organisers: Richard McClelland (Bristol) and Andrea Capovilla (IMLR, University of London)

Participation is open to all and is free of charge. Advance registration is essential.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23998

Registration closes 13 April 2021

This event is sponsored by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature & Culture at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study | University of London

Senate House | Malet Street | GB- London WC1E 7HU

Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk

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Fields of research

Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Literature and cultural studies
Alpen

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Institutions

University of London (UL)
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture
Date of publication: 22.02.2021
Last edited: 22.02.2021