German Association for the Study of English: Annual Meeting 2021
Papers from our panel will be published in Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 33.2 (Summer Issue, 2022).
Teaser from our panel introduction
Programme and Contributions
A panel of the 2021 Annual Conference of the German Society for English Studies, hosted by Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg, and Simone Broders, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
For a detailed conference schedule, please visit https://www.uni-passau.de/anglistentag-2021/
Anglistentag 2021, Passau (Online Conference)
Limits of Knowledge – Knowledge of Limits: The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge, and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture
| Time | Monday, 20 September |
| 13.00-13.30 | Limits of Knowledge, Knowledge of Limits: An Introduction. Anna Auguscik, Oldenburg, and Simone Broders, Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 13.30-14.00 | The Ambiguity of William Shakespeare and His Romance The Tempest in Brexit Discourse. Stefan Alexander Eick, Jena |
| 14.00-14.30 | Creating Secrets to Justify a Revolution – Secret Histories, Whig Propaganda, and British Historiography. Dorothea Flothow, Salzburg |
| 14.30-15.00 | Who Killed Edwin Drood, and Why Does It Matter? Wieland Schwanebeck, Dresden |
| 15.00-16.30 | — |
| 16.30-17.00 | ‘A Happy Plight’: (Limited) Knowledge and Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Wolfgang Funk, Mainz |
| 17.00-17.30 | “You May Guess”: Poetics of Knowability in the Work of the Rossetti Siblings. Irmtraud Huber, München |
| 17.30-18.00 | Didus Ineptus: Victorian Culture, Anthropogenic Extinction, and the Imagination of the Dodo. Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Oldenburg |
| Time | Tuesday, 21 September |
| 15.45-16.15 | Fractures, Gaps, and Blanks: The Trauma of Not-Knowing in Narratives of the Aftermath of (Post)Colonial and National Socialist Violence. Mona Becker, Halle |
| 16.15-16.45 | ‘You’ve Been Told and Not Told’: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ethics of (Non-)Knowledge. Alessandra Boller, Siegen |
| 16.45-17.30 | Roundup Discussion – Future Perspectives. Anna Auguscik, Oldenburg, and Simone Broders, Erlangen-Nürnberg |