Thursday, August 30
Registration: 09.00 –
10.15 – 10.30 Opening remarks
Carola Surkamp (Göttingen)
10.30 – 11.30 Inventing the Institution
Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock): “‘Cultural Imperialism’ and the Invention of EngLit in Elizabethan England”
Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): “Literature and the Institution of the Human”
11.30 – 12.30 Transcultural Perspectives
Georgia Christinidis (Berlin): “Cross-cultural Transformations of Bildungsroman-Criticism”
Martina Witt-Jauch (Hildesheim): “Miscellany or Masterpiece? – Defining the Discipline of Comparative Literature Through its Anthologies”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Canon Formation
Thomas Kullmann (Osnabrück): “Canon Formation in English Literature Studies: A Comparison of Britain and Germany, 1900 – 1930”
Anna Auguscik (Oldenburg): “The Institution of Literary Prizes”
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
16.00 – 17.00 Unveiling John Tompson’s Memorial Plaque
Weender Str. 43
17.30 – 18.00 Welcome Addresses
Vice President Hiltrud Casper-Hehne & Barbara Schaff (Göttingen)
18.00 – 19.00 Keynote
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster): “The Death of Criticism?”
19.00 – 21.00 Reception
Friday, August 31
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote
Konrad Schröder (Augsburg): “‘Hardly has a university had a more distinguished master of languages than Tompson was.’ John Tompson’s personality, his biography, and his significance for ELT and English Studies in Germany”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Institution Histories
Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen): “Navigation Guides for the Vast Ocean of Literature: Writing and Teaching the History of (English) Literature in 1800”
Alexandra Lawrie (Edinburgh): “English Literature and the University Extension Movement”
Leigh Dale (Wollongong): “Germany in the Antipodes, the Antipodes in Germany”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Teaching Genre
Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen): “The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and (Inter-)Disciplinary Challenges”
Nikola Mayer (Frankfurt): “Exploring the Cultural Potential of Graphic Novels in the EFL Classroom”
Annika Kolb (Heidelberg): “Diary Fiction in the EFL Classroom”
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.00 Literature and Teacher Education
Katerina Dakoura (Frankfurt): “Experts in the Making? – The Problem of Literary Competence in Future EFL-Teachers’ University Education”
Janice Bland (Hildesheim): “Postmodern Fairy Tales: Empowerment of Teacher Education”
17.00 – 18.30 Workshop
Daniel Candel (Alcalá): “Basic is Fundamental: A Thinking Tool for Humanistic Interpretation Based on Scientific ‘Facts’”
19.30 Joint Conference Dinner
Saturday, September 1
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote
Susan Bassnett (Warwick): “The Joys and Perils of Poetry Collections”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Transfer and Translation
Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann (Erfurt): “Cultural Transfer and Translation: the Strange Fascination of the World’s Secular Metropolis”
Karolin Echarti (Göttingen): “Women Translators in Göttingen at the End of the Eighteenth Century”
Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): “Landeskunde and FL Teaching: The History of a Troubled Relationship”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Methodological Challenges
Daniel Xerri (Malta): “Teachers’ Beliefs and Literature Teaching: The Case of Poetry”
Christine Gardemann (Hamburg): “Literary Texts in the English Language Classroom – English Teachers’ Codes of Practice in Hamburg”
Elisabeth Bracker (Hamburg): “Negotiating Literary Texts – a Nexus Between Different Realms of Competence? Examples of a Qualitative Case Study with Advanced English Learners”
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.30 Globalized English Studies
Arjan Shumeli, Manjola Salla, Esmeralda Sotiri, Jolanda Xhemali (Tirana): “The Status of English Language Education in Albania in the Context of Globalization Challenges”
Nandana Dutta (Guwahati): “English Studies and the Mediation of Modernity: The Case of North East India”
Myles Chilton (Nihon): “Global English and Changing Status of English Literature in the Japanese Academy”
17.30 Closing Remarks