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9th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature

9th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature

24 – 25 May 2012 | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
This annual conference offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature the opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. The ninth meeting will take place ...
“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

23 May 2012, 6.30pm
'The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew'. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised together with the Leo Baeck Institute ...
The English Garden in Europe

The English Garden in Europe

23 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
The idea of the English Landscape Garden – naturalistic in form but pictorial and associative, with many styles of garden building from classical to rustic – spread right through Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
Traces: ‘Out of Austria’- Remembering the Austrian Centre

Traces: ‘Out of Austria’- Remembering the Austrian Centre

22 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Marian Malet and Jennifer Taylor, all members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London ...
Traces: An Evening in Memory of Polish Jews

Traces: An Evening in Memory of Polish Jews

15 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This evening, organised by the Polish Cultural Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum London, chaired by Julia Winckler (University of Brighton) accompanies the exhibition Traces and features two presentations: Dr. Gerhard Wolf’s presentation is ...
LIT.NET Austria - The net as theme, aesthetic paradigm and communicative tool in literary Austria

LIT.NET Austria - The net as theme, aesthetic paradigm and communicative tool in literary Austria

18 – 19 April 2012 | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
It is the aim of this conference to discuss the various aesthetic facets of the net using exemplary studies from the context of modern Austrian literature. 'Digital literature' is a relatively new area of research ...

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