The University of Sheffield
Department of Germanic Studies

Research Seminars Germanic Studies

Spring Semester 2012-13

Date Speaker Affiliation Title

20 February 2013

Please note: This seminar takes place in JW-SR04

Andrew Wormald University of Sheffield “The Dark Side of the Moon: National Socialist Representation and the Transnational Perspective in Iron Sky (2012)”

6 March 2013

Please note: this seminar will start at 17.00

Alison Edward University of Cambridge

“The misfit: Placing the Netherlands on the map of World Englishes”

This seminar is jointly organised with the Centre for Dutch Studies

13 March 2013 Liesbeth Minnaard Universiteit Leiden

“Transnational Contact-Narratives: The Postcolonial Netherlands from a Turkish-German Viewpoint"

This seminar is jointly organised with the Centre for Dutch Studies

17 April 2013 Gerhard Höhn Barbizon, France

“Heines Paris, ein Fest fürs Leben und eine Wende des Schreibens: Kontrastästhetik”

This seminar is jointly organised with the Centre for 19th-Century Studies

24 April 2013 Elzbieta Dzikowska Lodz

“Joseph Roths Stalin-Roman”

1 May 2013 Robert Vilain University of Bristol “Iron, Bronze and Verse: Politics, War and the Sonnet in German”

8 May 2013

Please note: this seminar takes place in JW-G03

Anne Franziskus University of Luxembourg

“Have You Still Not Learnt Luxembourgish?” Language Norms and Cross-Border Workers in Luxembourg”

This seminar is jointly organised with the Centre for Luxembourg Studies

Unless indicated otherwise, all seminars take place in Jessop West SR07 (floor 4, red wing). Wine served afterwards.

All welcome