Jun 25, 2015 - Jun 26, 2015
Internationale Konferenz: "Borderlands/Edgelands"
This international workshop is part of TU Dresden‘s strategy of internationalisation and of the strategic partnership initiative of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It documents the close international co-operation not only between TU Dresden and its strategic partner, the University of Wrocław, but also with the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, the University of Kentucky, the University of Sunderland, and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. Over the course of two days, experts from the fields of British and American Literature, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, and French and Italian Studies will critically analyse the various textual, cultural, philosophical, and linguistic manifestations of the key concepts of borderlands and edgelands from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The conference programme as well as the official poster are now available.
The international workshop Borderlands/Edgelands is open to the public and free of charge. Advance registration is kindly requested. The workshop will be held in English.
Thursday, June 25th
| 09:30 |
Christian Prunitsch (TU Dresden): Conference Opening |
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Stefan Horlacher (TU Dresden): Introduction to Borderlands and Edgelands |
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Ewa Kêbłowska-Ławniczak (University of Wrocław): Experiencing the Past:Epistemological and Emotional Insecurity in Borderlands |
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| 10:15 | Refreshments |
Borderlands of Identity
| 10:45 |
Amith Kumar (EFL University, Hyderabad): Living on the ‘Social Edgelands’:Identity Formation and Identification of the Disabled Population(s) in India |
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Mariusz Marszalski (University of Wrocław): Redrawing the Borderlines of Humanity in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos |
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Wumi Raji (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife): Men at the Edge: Margins and Masculinity in Nigerian Migrant Fiction |
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Anna Cichoń (University of Wrocław): Borderland Life-Writing: J.M. Coetzee’s Autobiographical Trilogy |
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| 12:30 |
Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch Break |
Literary Borderlands
| 14:15 |
Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław): Pushing Generic Boundaries: David Markson’s Antinovelistic Tetralogy |
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Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław): Ballardian Edgelands: Surreal Spaces in J.G. Ballard’s Fiction |
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Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Wrocław): On the Border of the Textual/Visual and the Autobiographical/Fictional: Representing Experiences of Crisis in Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Narrative |
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| 15:30 |
Discussion |
| 16:00 | Refreshments |
American Landscapes
| 16:30 |
Brigitte Georgi-Findlay (TU Dresden): Women’s Western Frontiers on Screen |
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Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice (University of Wrocław): Between the Garden and the Desert: American Identity in Joan Didion’s Writing |
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Angelika Köhler (TU Dresden): Between Apocalyptic Nightmare and Marvelous Vision: Shifting Landscapes and Populations in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange |
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| 17:45 | Discussion |
Friday, June 26th
Linguistic Borderlands
| 09:30 |
Claudia Lange (TU Dresden): Global English(es): Transnational and Transcultural Spaces |
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Mark Lauersdorf (University of Kentucky): Borders in the Language Continuum: Historical Standard Language Development and the Writing of Historical Identities |
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Joachim Scharloth (TU Dresden): Borders and Linguistic Diversity: The Making of Swiss Standard German |
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| 10:45 |
Discussion |
| 11:15 | Refreshments |
Borderlands of Class
| 11:45 |
Robert Troschitz (TU Dresden): Liminal Seaside? Working-Class Tourism in 19th-Century Britain |
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Katja Kanzler (TU Dresden): Discursive Borderlands in the American Sitcom: Laughter and Class in Two Broke Girls |
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| 12:35 |
Discussion |
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13:00 |
Lunch Break |
Conflict Zones
| 14:15 |
John Storey (University of Sunderland): On the Border Between Two Wars: The Roots and Routes of Hollywood’s Vietnam |
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Elisabeth Tiller (TU Dresden): Violence and Identity: South Tyrol in Literature at the Turn of the Millennium |
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Justyna Kociatkiewicz (University of Wrocław): Conspiracy Narrative: The Borderlines of Reason and Paranoia |
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| 15:30 |
Discussion |
Ansprechpartner: stefan.horlacher@tu-dresden.de, borderlands@mailbox.tu-dresden.de