BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//University 鶹ѡ//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T112400Z DTSTART:20180307T150000Z DTEND:20180307T170000Z SUMMARY:IGS Workshop: 'The (Im)Possibility of Liberating One('s)Self' UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/141239 DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Prof. Stefan Neuhaus (University of Koblenz-Landau) and Dr. Alexandra Milner (University of Vienna)\n “Freedom is the key term of German-language literature after the Enlightenment”, claims Stefan Neuhaus in his recently published history of German-language literature (Grundriss der Neueren deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte, Tübingen: UTB). This IGS workshop will explore Neuhaus’s tenet by analysing how some key texts in modern German literature, explored in Final and Second Year undergraduate courses in German Studies, deal with the concepts of ‘freedom’ or ‘liberation’.\n Texts: Theodor Fontane: Mathilde Möhring, Effi Briest; Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: range of short stories t.b.d.; Bertha von Suttner: Die Waffen nieder; Lily Braun: Memoiren einer Sozialistin; Lou Andreas Salome: Fenitschka; Hedwig Dohm: Werde die du bist; Christa Wolf; Malin Schwerdtfeger; Erich Maria Remarque: Im Westen nichts Neues; Ernst Jünger: In Stahlgewittern.\n LOCATION:TBC STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR