Jul 24, 2024
September 4-6, 2024 - Conference "Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today"
Conference Program
Wednesday, September 4
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16:00-16:30 |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Keynote Daniel Stein / Niels Werber (both Siegen): The Fear of Conspiracy. On the mystery and serialized novel in the 19th century" |
| 17:45-18.30 | Panel: Writing the Gothic Today |
| 18:30-20:30 | Reception |
Thursday, September 5
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote Carol Davison (Windsor): The Gothic in Different National Contexts |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15-11:00 | Louise Welsh (Glasgow): Writing gothic novels in the 21st century in the shadow of Hogg and the Scottish gothic tradition |
| 11:00-11:45 | Gero Guttzeit (Munich): "Terror is not of Germany": Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Transatlantic Gothic, and the "Barber of Gottingen" (1826) |
| 11:45-12:30 | Hendrikje Schauer (Jena): Transatlantic Transfer of Forms and Ideas: Fear and Sympathy in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or, the Transformation |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Ingrid Lacheny (Metz): The serapiontic "as-if" principle as a mode of Hoffmannesque horror |
| 14:45-15:30 | Christopher Meid (Freiburg/Osnabrück): Fear as text - fear from text. E.T.A. Hofmann's Majorat (1817) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:45 | Jan Süselbeck (Trondheim): Emotionalization strategies of literary anti-Semitism in Black Romanticism |
| 16:45-17:30 | Ulrich Kinzel (Kiel): "The uncanny: From the Aesthetics of Horror to the Politics of Fear" |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner (Ratskeller) |
Friday, September 6
| 09:00-09:45 | Mario Grizelj (Munich): The Abyss of the Abyss. Fear and Alterity in the Gothic Novel |
| 09:45-10:30 | Stephan Brössel (Münster): Literary Anthropology(ies) of Fear: Patterns and Changes of Knowledge in Literary Texts around and after 1800 |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Christine Lötscher (Zurich): Demon karaoke. Paranoia in the coming-of-age novel |
| 11:30-12:15 | Lucy Elisabeth Allan (Glasgow) The Unnatural Feminine: An Exploration of the Gothic Man-Made Woman |
| 12:15-13:00 | Leonie Jungen (Mainz): The Page as Gendered Cultural Recess: Female Creative Anxieties in Margaret Oliphant's "The Library Window" (1896) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Barbara Schaff (Göttingen): Gothic Communities in the Novels of John Burnside and Sarah Moss |
| 14:45-15:30 | Christoph Seelinger (Braunschweig): "Von Grau- und Petermännchen. The Gothic Novel around 1800 between Exploitation and Emancipation" |
| 15:30-16:15 | Anja Schonlau (Göttingen): Horror novels published by Fürst in Nordhausen |
| 16:15-16:30 | Closing Remarks |
The program can also be downloaded here as a PDF under Program Conference "Writing Angst...", 4.-6.9.24.