Lectures, talks and symposia archive
Leeds-Swansea Series in Contemporary German Literature. Constructing the Nation in Literature and Film
16 – 18 July 2012 | Swansea University
Organised by Professor Julian Preece (Swansea) and Professor Frank Finlay (Leeds)
This Colloquium explores the contention that the national question is being posed across Europe at present, which is in turn manifested in contemporary works ...
ANALYTICAL SPACES: Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis
14 July 2012, 9.30am | Freud Museum London
Freud Museum London Day Conference
Freud’s youngest son Ernst was an architect, and Freud himself created the ‘analytic situation’ as, in essence, an architectural space. This conference brings together practitioners and theorists from architecture ...
Jelinek in the arena: sport, cultural understanding and translation to page and stage
11 – 13 July 2012 | Lancaster University
This will be the first dedicated conference on Elfriede Jelinek in the UK. The organisers also hope to host a workshop on literary translation for postgraduate students and academics where Jelinek's work will be ...
Mark the Music: Jews, Music and Viennese Modernity
4 July 2012 | Freud Museum London
The role music plays in the cultural life of 19th and 20th century Vienna cannot be overemphasized. This lecture will look at this world from the perspectives of Jews from Herzl to Freud to Mahler ...
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy or a Reorientation of Science
29 June 2012, 7.00pm
A presentation by the Wittgenstein expert Michael Nedo
An argument based on quotes by Lessing, Brecht and Wittgenstein, presented by actors and followed by a discussion exploring the importance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for todays ...
Mahler and the Erotic
24 June 2012, 11.00am | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Given Alma's notoriety and the glamorous singers who surrounded Mahler before their marriage, the erotic is bizarrely underplayed in the composer's life and work. One recent commentator remarked that there was no erotic ...
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