An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Liverpool 17-20 September 2000
Organised by Nicholas Saul (Liverpool) and Susan Tebbutt (Bradford)
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Institute (London) and the Goethe Institute
(Manchester) The School of Modern Languages and the Faculty of Arts (University
of Liverpool)
SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
16.00-18.00 Arrival and registration
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Ian Hancock (Austin): Gypsilorists, Gypsiologists and Romanologues: Their relationship with the Romany people
MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
Section I: Romanies and scholars, scholars and Romanies
09.15-10.45
Donald Kenrick (London): The outsider's view of Romanies in Western Europe in the 15th century Anthony Sampson (London): John Sampson and the "Gypsies"
Micheál Ó hAodha (Limerick): Scott Macfie. A Gypsiologist's image of the Roma
10.45 Coffee Section II: The Romanies in language, culture, media
11.15-12.45
Yaron Matras (Manchester): Language and origin: The contribution of eighteenth-century German scholarship in Gypsy/Romani studies
Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool): The ambivalence of the ethnological gaze: The amateur Tsiganologist Hanns Weltzel and Nazi genocide
Colin Clark (Newcastle): "Gypsy"- invasion in pictures and words: European states' response to Romany refugees and asylum seekers in the twentieth century
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Alaina Lemon (Ann Arbor): Roma and post-Cold war journalistic practice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw): Rituals of memory in constructing Eastern European Roma identity
Mirjana Kristovic (Nis): Changing the Gypsy image through getting to know their culture: The role of media produced in the language of the Gypsies
15.45 Tea/Coffee Section III: Writing and writing back: Romanies in European art and literatures
16.15-17.45 Franz Maciejewski (Heidelberg): The image of the Gypsy in "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
Claudia Breger (Paderborn): Understanding the "Other": Communication, history and narration in Margriet de Moor's "Hertog van Egypte" (1996)
18.15 Sherry reception (University Art Gallery, Abercromby Square)
20.00 Conference Dinner
TUESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
09.15-10.45
Jonathan Bate (Liverpool): John Clare and the Gypsies
Nicholas Saul (Liverpool): Half a Gypsy: The case of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone"
10.45 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Carmel Finnan (Limerick): From survival to subversion: Strategies of self-representation in selected texts by Mariella Mehr
Susan Tebbutt (Bradford): Personality, persecution and prejudice: Images and self-images of Gypsies in European art
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Gloria Fulton (Humboldt State): "Inside Out and Outside In" : The Rom-antic films of Emil Kusturica and Tony Gatlif Irèn
Kertèsz Wilkinson (London): Roma societies, Roma musics and racial stereotypes: The case of Hungarian musicians and Vlach Roma
Parvati Nair (London): The Gypsy in the mirror: Tradition, social change and hybridity in visual self-projections of Gitano identity
15.45 Tea/Coffee
16.15-17.45 Thomas Acton (Greenwich): Modernity, culture, and " Gypsies"
WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
11.00 Ceija Stojka (Austrian Romany writer & artist)
Workshop in German for A level students and interested parties
REGISTRATION DETAILS
To attend please return this slip together with the appropriate fee to reach The Secretary, German Department, The University of Liverpool, Modern Languages Building, Chatham Street, GB-Liverpool L69 7ZR Tel 00 44 151 794 2352 Fax 00 44 151 794 2307 Email:ager01@liv.ac.uk http://www.liv.ac.uk/german/ by 1 September 2000 PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCKCAPITALS I wish to attend the conference 17-20 September
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