Institute of English Languages and Literatures

Anglistentag 2008

5. bis 8.Oktober 2008 in Tübingen

Es locken nicht nur ein spannendes akademisches Programm mit hochkarätigen Keynote-Speakers, breit gefächerten Sektionsthemen und einem aktuellen Forum, sondern auch Tübingen selbst mit seiner wunderschönen Altstadt und dem Neckar, die seit Jahrhunderten als geistig anregend und entspannend zugleich berühmt sind.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Englisches Seminar
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Sektion I The Religious Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies, Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg)

Sektion II Borders and Transitions in Language, Literature and Culture, Andrew James Johnston (Berlin), Hans Sauer (München)

Sektion III Travelling Literatures, Sissy Helff (Frankfurt/M./Leeds), Cecile Sandte (Chemnitz), Axel Stähler (University of Kent/Canterbury)

Sektion IV Teaching English Literatures: From Theory to Practice (and Back), Sabine Doff (Frankfurt/M.), Ulrike Erichsen (Darmstadt), Susanne Reichl (Wien)

Sektion V Patterns in Language, Rainer Schulze (Hannover), Ute Römer (Hannover/Ann Arbor)

Sektion VI Varia

Sektion I (The Religious Turn)
Raum 027
Plenarvortrag (Montag, Hörsaal 036)
15.15 – 16.15 Panel plenary by Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University, New York):
"Secularism, Literature, and Heterodoxy"
Montag
16.45 – 17.00 Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg)
“Introduction”
17.00 – 17.45 Miriam Wallraven (Giessen)
“Who’s Afraid of Witches, Goddesses, and Women Occultists? The Importance of a ‘Spiritual and Occult Turn’ in Connection with Gender for Literary and Cultural Studies“
17.45 – 18.30 Kai Merten (Kiel)
“‘Our Nature Angels May Weigh and Fathom’: Towards an Angelic Anthropology in British Romanticism”
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Peter Schneck (Osnabrück)
“The Aesthetics of Fundamentalism: Rapture, Redemption and the Search for the Numinous in Don DeLillo’s Fiction“
12.15 – 13.00 Susanne Gruß (Erlangen)
“‘The Flesh Made Word’ – Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts”
Mittwoch
10.30 – 11.15 Enno Ruge (München)
“Of Hollow-Hearted Men and Hypocrites: Images of English Puritans in Early Modern Studies”
11.15 – 12.00 Anne-Julia Zwierlein (Bamberg)
“‘Redeeming Eve’? The ‘Religious Turn’ and Early Modern Gender Studies”
12.00 – 12.45 Mark Berninger (Mainz)
“Modern ‘Miltonicks’ – 20th Century Appropriations of Milton and the Religious Turn”

Sektion II (Borders and Transitions)
Raum 030
Plenarvortrag (Mittwoch, Hörsaal 036)
09.00 – 10.00 Panel plenary by Allen Frantzen (Chicago)::
"Religious Tolerance in Old and Middle English Sources"
Montag
16.45 – 17.00 Andrew James Johnston (Berlin), Hans Sauer (München)
“Introduction”
17.00 – 17.45 Ferdinand von Mengden (Hamburg)
“What Remains of 1066”
17.45 – 18.30 Ursula Lenker (München/Eichstätt)
“The Language Divide – The Long 19th Century from a Linguistic Point of View”
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Andrew James Johnston (Berlin)
“Beowulf and the Remains of Imperial Rome: Archeology, Legendary History and the Problems of Periodization”
12.15 – 13.00 Nicole Meier (Bonn)
“Anglicisation in Scottish Manuscripts during the Renaissance”
Mittwoch
10.30 – 11.15 Claudia Olk (Berlin/Oxford)
“Performing Transition: Word and Image in the York Cycle”
11.15 – 12.00 Gabriela Schmidt (München)
“Elisabethan Translation as Literature at the Limits: Thomas Wilson’s Demosthenes and John Harington’s Orlando Furioso”
12.00 – 12.45 Ralf Haekel (Berlin)
“Romantic Constructions of Poetry / Poetic Constructions of Romanticism”

Sektion III (Travelling Literatures)
Raum 032
Plenarvortrag (Dienstag, Hörsaal 036)
09.00 – 10.00 Plenarvortrag Sektion III: “Travelling Literatures” (Hörsaal 036)
Gerhard Stilz (Tübingen)
“Indigenes, Migrants and Others: A Selfish Inquest”
Montag
16.45 – 17.00 Sissy Helff (Frankfurt/M./Leeds), Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz), Axel Stähler (Canterbury)
“Introduction”
17.00 – 17.45 Susan Arndt (Frankfurt/M.)
“Postcolonial Perspectives on Reconceputalised Notions of Travelling in Elisabethan and Jacobean England: Migration and Violence in Shakespeare’s Othello, Sonnets, and The Tempest”
17.45 – 18.30 Katrin Berndt (Bremen)
“Enlightened Vices: Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia (1792) in the Context of Anti-Imperialist Thinking of the Eighteenth Century”
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Elisabeth Bekers (Antwerpen/Brüssel)
"The Lives and Strange Surprising Adventures of Classic and Contemporary Travellers in Fiction in English"
12.15 – 13.00 Christian Huck (Erlangen)
“Seeing Other People? Travelling and the Senses”
Mittwoch
10.30 – 11.15 Christiane Schlote (Bern)
“‘So You Dig In Syria, Do You?’ The Middle East in Anthropological and Archeological Travel Writing”
11.15 – 12.00 Betsy van Schlun (Eichstätt)
“Journeys of the Mind”
12.00 – 12.45 Karin Ikas (Frankfurt/M.)
“From Beach to Beach: Pacification Travelogues”

Sektion IV (Teaching English Literatures)
Raum 031
Plenarvortrag (Dienstag, Hörsaal 036)
11.00 – 12.00 Panel plenary by Peter Barry (Aberystwyth)::
"Continuing Literary Theory – in the Classroom and Beyond" (download the slides of this lecture)
Montag
16.45 – 17.00 Ulrike Erichsen (Darmstadt), Susanne Reichl (Wien)
“Introduction”
17.00 – 17.45 Alexander Härning (Augsburg)
“Literary Ecology and Foreign-Language Literary Education”
17.45 – 18.30 Michael Prusse (Zürich)
“Teaching to Read and Reading to Teach: English Literature in Teacher Education”
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Pascal Nicklas (Leipzig)
“Teaching English in English Not Being English”
12.15 – 13.00 Carola Surkamp (Göttingen)
“Action- and Production-Oriented Methods in Literature Courses at University: Theoretical Basis and Practical Benefits”
Mittwoch
10.30 – 11.15 Sarah Heinz (Mannheim)
“Teaching Autobiography: The Reintegration of Theory through Creative Writing”
11.15 – 12.00 Engelbert Thaler (Freiburg)
“Teaching Literature via Web 2.0”
12.00 – 12.45 Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)
“Teaching Cultural Studies and / or Literature in the EFL Classroom”

Sektion V (Patterns in Language)
Raum 033
Plenarvortrag (Montag, Hörsaal 036)
14.00 – 15.00 Panel plenary by Douglas Biber (Flagstaff):
"Frequency-based approaches to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle"
Montag

10.30 – 10.45 Rainer Schulze (Hannover), Ute Römer (Hannover/Ann Arbor)
“Introduction“

10.45 – 11.30 Thomas Herbst (Erlangen)
“Patterns in Syntax, Lexicography and Corpus Lingustics”

11.30 – 12.15 Rolf Kreyer (Bonn)
"Patterns of Language Use from a Network Perspective"

15.15 – 16.00 Elke Gehweiler (Berlin)
“Mere Mortals, Sheer Delight, Pure Coincidences, and Bare Essentials: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Intensifiers”
16.00 – 16.45 Sebastian Hoffmann (Lancaster) & Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen)
“Patterns Across Varieties: Verb-Complementational Profiles of Old and New Englishes”
16.45 – 17.30 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Lieselotte Anderwald (Freiburg)
“Why Grammar Is Real – A Usage-Based Perspective on Patterns”
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Ute Römer (Hannover/Ann Arbor)
“A neo-Firthian Approach to Academic Writing: Uncovering Local Patterns and Local Meanings in the Discourse of Linguistics”
12.15 – 13.00 Eva-Maria Graf, Susanne Handl (Klagenfurt)
“Collocations in Language Acquisition: The Emergence of Patterns” Sektion VI (Varia)
Raum 034
Montag
16.45 – 17.00 Introduction
17.00 – 17.45 Christina Sanchez (Augsburg)
"What makes a word dissociated? A contrastive study of the English and German vocabulary"
17.45 – 18.30 Christoph Schubert (Erfurt/Würzburg)
"Punchlines in Context: Cooperation and Relevance as Key Issues in Humour Studies"
Dienstag
11.30 – 12.15 Jochen Petzold (Freiburg)
"The 'South African War' in Magazines for Young Readers"
12.15 – 13.00 Sigrid Rieuwerts (Mainz)
"Authentic children's literature: The Children's Laureates in the EFL classroom"
Mittwoch
10.30 – 11.15 Christina Wald (Augsburg)
"'This is my body': Transubstantiation and Disguise in Early Modern Prose Fiction"
11.15 – 12.00 Christoph Henke (Augsburg)
"Men of Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees and Samual Johnson's Writings"
12.00 – 12.45 Till Kinzel (Berlin)
"Transcending Multiculturalism? Neil Bissoondath and the Question of Canadian Identity"