Programme
| Friday, 3rd May 2019 | |
09:00 | REGISTRATION: Lecture Hall | |
09:30 | WELCOME: Lecture Hall | |
10:00 | Keynote 1 Christine Berberich Brexit and the Migrant Experience – a Personalised Account Chair: Ina Habermann | |
11:00 | COFFEE | |
1A: Writing Travel/Travel WritingRoom: Lecture HallChair: Ina Habermann | 1B: Writing Brexit: Ali SmithRoom: 11Chair: Daniela Keller | |
11:30 | Jérémie Magnin The Importance of Being ‘A.C.’: Visitors’ Books and National Ideology in the Swiss Alps | Merle Tönnies / Dennis Henneböhl Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit |
12:00 | Anne-Claire Michoux To have Brexit, one needs Britain: What one Romantic woman writer thought on the issue | Harald Pittel Dreams, Death, Desire: Ali Smith’s ‘Coming-of-Age’ in the Age of Brexit |
12:30 | Marijke Denger Instrumentalising (In)Dependence: Empire, Nation and Identity in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing and the Pro-Brexit Campaign | |
13:00 | LUNCH | |
2A: The BrexLit PhenomenonRoom: Lecture HallChair: Melanie Küng | 2B: Identity / PoliticsRoom: 11Chair: Ina Habermann | |
15:00 | Sara Alessio From Politics to Literature: Reading Brexit | Jenni Riihimäki Analysis of the representation of the UK as a member of the EU in the debates of the British House of Commons from 1975 to 2011 |
15:30 | Victoria Allen Long Road from Jarrow: Stuart Maconie’s writing as a contribution to cultural myths and memories in the context of Brexit-negotiating-Britain | Nora Wenzl ‘We might be a small island but we punch above our weight’ – National identities as constructed in British parliamentary debates about Brexit |
16:00 | Michelle Witen Alice in Brexitland and Other Tales: The Story of Brexit in Children's Literature | |
16:30 | COFFEE | |
17:00 | Keynote 2 Shelley Fisher-Fishkin Nostalgia for a Fictive Past: Nation and Identity in a Post-Trump, Post-Brexit World Chair: Philipp Schweighauser | |
19:00 | CONFERENCE DINNER |
| Saturday, 4th May 2019 | |
09:00 | Keynote 3 Maurice Fitzpatrick Fractured Identities: How Brexit is Unravelling an Agreed Ireland Chair: Ina Habermann | |
10:00 | COFFEE | |
3A: Native American IdentitiesRoom: Lecture HallChair: Michelle Witen | 3B: Constructions of OthernessRoom: 11Chair: Daniela Keller | |
10:30 | Sämi Ludwig When Local Indians Negotiate with the Global Other: The First British Empire and the History of Changing ‘Fathers’ on the Great Lakes | Paola Giorgis IN OTHER WORDS. How Words (re)Produce Otherness – and How such Construction can be Problematized |
11:00 | Cécile Heim ‘(Non)Domestic (In)Dependent Nations’: Unsettling the U.S. Settler State in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit | Matthias D. Berger 2016 and All That: Medievalism and Exceptionalism in Brexit Britain |
11:30 | SAUTE Annual General Meeting | |
13:00 | LUNCH | |
14:30 | Keynote 4 Jo Angouri ‘We owe it to history’ – GR/BRexit discourses and beyond Chair: Joelle Loew | |
4A: Nation and FilmRoom: Lecture HallChair: Michelle Witen | 4B: Staging EnglishnessRoom: 11Chair: Ina Habermann | |
15:30 | Barbara Straumann Long Live the Queen! Cinematic Representations of Queen Victoria as a National Icon Then and Now | Margaret Tudeau-Clayton The Portrait of an Englishman in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice |
16:00 | Ian Goode The cultural topography of rural cinema-going in the post-war Highlands and Islands of Scotland | |
16:30 | COFFEE and FAREWELL |
last update: 2-5-2019