On 4 and 5 July, the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Senate House, London, will host a two-day international, interdisciplinary conference which has been supported by SECL’s Centre for Modern European Literature. The conference title is ‘Windows: Their Literary, Cultural, Artistic and Psychological Significance in the German Speaking Territories from the Middle Ages to the Present’, and has been co-organised by Dr Heide Kunzleman from the Department of German.
Speakers from the department include Dr Deborah Holmes on ‘Windows and Snail Shells: Masculinity and Femininity in Lou Andreas Salome’ and Dr Ian Cooper on ‘Realism, Framed and Unframed: Buchner’s Lenz and Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter’.
Keynote speakers are Dr Sabine Rewald (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), who will give the John Coffin Trust Lecture on 4 July at 7pm, and Dr David Derby (University of Western Ontario), a comparatist, who will start the conference with his keynote lecture on the same day in the morning.
For more details on the conference, please see the page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/german/events