Programme
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June 04
15:00 Coffee & Conference Registration 15:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks 16:00 Panel 1: Changes in Scholarly Writing
Dr. Reneé Wagener (Luxembourg). "Gilbert Trausch and his 'Zauberhefte': How a Historian organised His Working Practices in the Second Half of the 20th Century".
Dr. Anna Gonzalez Suero (Bauhaus University Weimar). "On the Emergence and Development of Autoethnograhy in Germany".
17:00 Break with Fingerfood and Snacks 18:00 Keynote Lecture I - Prof. Dr. Timothy Baker (University of Aberdeen): "Rereading Childhood: Autobiography, Criticism, and Memory"
19:45 Walk together to optional get-together with food and drinks at "Iss Was" (very close to "Hotel am Ludwigsplatz") -
June 05
9:00 Panel 2A: Politics of Writing
Clara Busch (University of Cambridge): "Autotheory and the Politics of Writing (About Writing)".
Miguel Ángel Casto Caballero (University of Giessen): "Hybrid Writing: Between Narrative and Scholarly Discourse. Some Epistemological Reflections From My Experience of Research on Perpretrator's Narratives".
Tien-Phat Nguyen (University of Giessen): " 公案 / kōan / công án and the Complexity of Contemporary Narratives: From the Zen Way of Writing to the Zen Way of Reading".
10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Panel 2B: Politics of Writing
Dr. Florian Zeilinger (University of Graz): "'Ich hab vor dem Getreng nit horen mögen, was hieruber gerödt worden.' Early Modern Recording Practices by the Example of Imperial Diets Minutes".
Dr. Khedidja Chergui (ENSB Algiers): "On the Culture of Denunciatory Pamphleteering in Colonial Algiers".
12:00 Poster Session and Leg Stretching 12:45 Lunch at Mensa 14:00 Keynote Lecture II - Prof. Dr. Katrin Lehnen (University of Giessen): "'Has this conversation been helpful so far?' – New alliances and partnerships in writing with AI"
15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Panel 3A: Materialities of Writing
Dr. Alexandra Irimia (University of Bonn): "Bureacratic Fiction, Bureaucratic Scripts. Institutional Writing in The Palace of Dreams and The Beautiful Bureaucrat".
Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen (University of Giessen): "Writing, Retreat and the Condensation of Memory: Marcel Proust and Anna de Noailles"
17:00 Short Break 17:15/30 Panel 3B: Materialities of Writing (Lecture Performance)
Dr. Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz (Zurich University of the Arts): "Writing one:others"
18:15 Walk together to conference dinner ("Restaurant Zum Löwen") -
June 06
9:00 Panel 4A: Writing, the Body, Authorship
Giovana Zamboni Rossi (Free University of Berlin): "Between Writing and the Body: The Performative Nature of Authorship in Hilda Hilst".
Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund (University of Giessen): "Writing for the Body"
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Panel 4B: Writing, the Body, Authorship
Marie-Theres Stickel (University of Giessen): "'Messieurs, je ne puis pas écrire autrement qu’une femme, puisque j’ai l’honneur d’être femme.' – Jenny P. d'Héricourt’s ‘Reparative’ Dialogic Act of Writing in La femme affranchie (1860)"
Dr. Zsófia Turóczy (University of Graz): "Women Writers in Southeast Europe, an Explorative Study on the Professionalisation of Writing Occupation"
11:30 Recap
12:00 Lunch and Bon Voyage!