Delighted to be hosting the Association of German Studies in Oxford 1-3 September 2025. The theme is 'German in the World' and we are preparing a huge and wonderfully diverse programme of papers and events. More details coming soon.
The conference examines artistic processes and forms that deliberately challenge continuous time or break with chronology. This can mean, for example, that writers, musicians or artists repeat themselves, take up supposedly obsolete (media) techniques, work in outdated genres or simply ignore the current developments of an artistic field. The articulation and evocation of the experience of no longer being a contemporary of one's own epoch has often been described as a typical feature of late works and theorized as such.
Looking forward to the Autumn of 2024 when the second episode of the project AfterWords will take place discussing Afterlives and the way the past is remembered, reconstructed or haunts the present
10-12 October 2024 LCB Berlin: Enter The Ghosts!
Several fantastic people have already said yes. Watch this space.
Looking forward to going to Dublin for the AGS this year and especially to be talking about Rilke as part of a panel on Rilke and Ecology.
Delighted to be speaking in such wonderful company at the Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin. I shall speak on 'After Celan: Celan and Modern Art' but there is a really lively exchange notably with lots of practicing artists. See the poster below.
It will take place in person but also online. See the programme here:
https://lcb.de/programm/celan-in-der-bildenden-kunst-der-gegenwart-tag-i/
Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners will gather 50 leading translation practitioners from around the world to discuss the practice of translating poetry. This two-day event will be hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre and SOAS University of London with support from Commonwealth Writers, Literature Across Frontiers and the National Centre for Writing.
The aims of the symposium are:
I shall be discussing our fomer Visiting Fellow Ulrike Draesner's poetry of science as part of the Women's Writing and Science Symosium.
I shall be talking with colleagues from Germany and the UK and with practising poets about the construction of selves in poetry
The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry
Conference organised by Dr Johannes Goerbert and Dr Martin Kindermann,
(Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin) and Dr Georgina Paul, St Hildas College, Oxford.
More news soon!
Delighted to be presenting some of my new research on Rilke, listening and music by giving a keynote at the upcoming event on Rilke und die Musikalität in Regensburg in June.
