Conference Schedule

• Sunday, 22 Sept.
• Monday, 23 Sept.
• Tuesday, 24 Sept.
• Wednesday, 25 Sept.
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Sunday, 22 September 2019

Event Details

• 1–7 pm

  Registration

  Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Beethovenstraße 15, Foyer

  Our student staff will be available throughout the academic programme at the registration desk.

  Feel free to ask them for information.

• 2–6 pm

  Board Meeting

  Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Beethovenstraße 15, Room H5 3.16

  Meeting of the executive board and the advisory board of the Anglistenverband in preparation of the members’ assembly on Tuesday.

• From 7 pm

  Conference Warming

  Thüringer Hof, Burgstraße 19

  The conference warming is self-paid. The following options are available on the menu.

  Menu PDF

  Starters

  Consommé with vegetables and meatballs (Kraftbrühe mit Gemüsestreifen und Fleischklößchen) – 4,80 €

  Small salad with dill yogurt dressing (Kleiner bunter Salat mit Joghurt-Dill-Dressing) – 5,50 €

  Small salad with vinaigrette (Kleiner bunter Salat mit Essig-Öl-Dressing) – 5,50 €

  Main Courses

  Pot roast with raisin sauce, red cabbage and potato dumplings (Sauerbraten mit Rosinensoße, Apfelrotkohl und Thüringer Klößen) – 14,90 €

  Roasted chicken breast with herbal sauce, buttered peas and chips (Gebratene Hähnchenbrust an Kräutersauce mit Buttererbsen und Pommes Frites) – 13,50 €

  Stewed beef rolls filled with onions, bacon and pickled cucumber, served with red cabbage and potato dumplings (Geschmorte Rinderroulade, gefüllt mit Zwiebel-Speck-Gewürzgurke, serviert mit Apfelrotkohl und Thüringer Klößen) – 16,50 €

  Filled vegetable and potato patties served with courgettes, mushrooms and cream sauce with cress (Gefüllte Gemüse-Kartoffelkissen mit frischen Zucchini und gekräuterten Champignons auf Kresserahmsauce) – 12,50 €

  Gluten-free pasta, tomato sauce, vegetables and cheese (optional) (Glutenfreier Nudelteller mit Tomatenragout, Gemüse und Balkankäse (optional)) – 12,20 €

  Pudding

  Wild berry compote with vanilla sauce and whipped cream (Waldbeerengrütze mit Vanillesoße und Sahnekuß) – 5,20 €

Monday, 23 September 2019

Event Details

• 8–9 am

  Registration

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Foyer HS 2

  Our student staff will be available throughout the academic programme at the registration desk and around the coffee-break tables.

  Feel free to ask them for information and to leave your coat or luggage with them.

• 9–10 am

  Opening and Award Ceremony

  Main Campus, Paulinum

  Speakers

  President of the German Association for the Study of English
  Prof Dr Klaus P. Schneider

  Rector of Leipzig University
  Prof Dr Beate A. Schücking

  Dean of the Faculty of Philology
  Prof Dr Beat Siebenhaar

  Organising Team
  Prof Dr Oliver v. Knebel Doeberitz

  President of the European Society for the Study of English
  Prof Dr Andreas H. Jucker

  Award Ceremony for the Postdoctoral Dissertation Prize
  Prof Dr Rainer Emig

  Housekeeping

  Committee of the Postdoctoral Dissertation Prize

  Prof Dr Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier, Prof Dr Rainer Emig,
 Prof Dr Angela Hahn and Prof Dr Claudia Lange

• 10:15–10:45 am

  Coffee Break

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Foyer HS 2

  Our student staff will be available throughout the academic programme at the registration desk and around the coffee-break tables.

  Feel free to ask them for information and to leave your coat or luggage with them.

• 10:45–11:45 am

  Keynote by James English

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Room HS 2

  Five Stars: Ratings and Esteem
  in the Digital Age

  We are accustomed to thinking of hierarchies of literary value in terms of canonicity (value in the academic system, gauged by metrics of citational and curricular frequency); consecration (value in the system of mainstream prestige, gauged by distribution of prizes, awards, and honors), popularity (value in the system of literary commerce, gauged by sales figures and bestseller lists); or personal preference (value in our own system of favorites and aversions, gauged by affective response and attachment). But these days the most ubiquitous and arguably the most influential form of literary valuation is the online rating, typically calculated on a five-star scale via an aggregation of reader scores. A high rating on this scale does not directly correlate with popularity, prestige, or canonicity, nor is it even a perfect reflection of the personal preferences of the individuals doing the rating. So what exactly is a five star rating, and what kind of value does it represent? How have we become so dependent on a metric whose meaning we do not really understand? In this talk, Jim English will trace the history of the five-star system, its transformations in the digital age, and its contemporary functions and affordances.

  Prof James English (Philadelphia)

  James F. English is John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also the founding director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. He received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford. His main fields of research are the sociology and economics of culture; the history of literary studies as a discipline; and contemporary British fiction, film, and television. His first book Comic Transactions (Cornell UP) explored the joke-work of the political unconscious in the British novel from Conrad and Woolf to Lessing and Rushdie. Perhaps his most influential work to date, The Economy of Prestige (Harvard UP) is a study of the history, functions, and effects of prizes in literature and the arts. Economy of Prestige was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine. The Concise Companion to Contemporary British, a collection of essays about the scene and system of literary production in the UK, was published the following year by Blackwell. The Global Future of English was published in 2012 in the Blackwell Manifesto series. It rethinks the prevailing narratives of contraction and decline that dominate histories of the discipline, stressing instead the discipline’s expansion within a rapidly massifying global academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunities such sudden and dispersive growth presents.

  For a few years now, James English has been studying the effects of digitalization on literature and on reading and has also been using methods of the digital humanities for his own studies in literary sociology. His current book project is Beauty by the Numbers, a brief history of attempts to quantify aesthetic quality. An ongoing digital project proposes to periodize the field of contemporary Anglophone fiction by means of quantitative analysis of hand-built meta-data. Some results of this research were published in a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on “Scale and Value: New & Digital Approaches to Literary History” that English co-edited with Ted Underwood. A related digital project is Mining Goodreads: Literary Reception Studies at Scale, which involves computational analysis of nearly 4 million book reviews from the Goodreads social reading site. Findings from this project will be published in a volume English is co-editing with Heather Love for Oxford UP.

• 1:15–3 pm

  Section Panel A

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Rooms S 120–127

  Abstracts for the panel sections and the individual papers are provided below.

  Section 1
  Literature and …? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity

  Room S 120

  Introduction
  Prof Dr Jens Martin Gurr (Duisburg-Essen), PD Dr Ursula Kluwick (Bern)

  How Interdisciplinary is Interdisciplinary Research?
  Prof Dr Dirk Vanderbeke (Jena), Timea Mészáros (Jena)

  Postcolonial Urban Aesthetics: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of ‘Bombay’ Poems
  Prof Dr Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz)

  Better Stories about Science? The Contemporary Science Novel and the Field of ‘Literature and Science’
  Prof Dr Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg)

  Section 2
  Making Matter Matter: Page, Stage, Screen

  Room S 122

  Introduction
  Prof Dr Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen), Prof Dr Martin Middeke (Augsburg), Prof Dr Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen)

  Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality, and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the Trees
  Dr Gero Bauer (Tübingen)

  Concrete Matters: Materials, Methodologies, and other Makings
  Dr Kylie Crane (Potsdam)

  The Performativity of Medbh McGuckian’s Intertextual Ecopoetics in Blaris Moor
  Dr Jessica Bundschuh (Stuttgart)

  Section 3
  ‘Funny Men’: Masculinities and Ridicule in Anglophone Cultures: Iconic Eccentrics

  Room S 124

  Introduction
  PD Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena), PD Dr Wieland Schwanebeck (Dresden)

  Dickens and the Camp Aesthetic
  PD Dr Franziska Quabeck (Münster)

  Mention the War: British Sitcoms and Military Masculinity
  Prof Dr Anette Pankratz (Bochum)

  Section 4
  Canonization in Times of Globalization and Digitization

  Room S 125

  Introduction
  PD Dr Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen), Jun-Prof Dr Jens Elze (Göttingen)

  World Literature and the National Frame: Rerouting Multicultural Canons
  PD Dr Jan Rupp (Heidelberg)

  Constructing the Literary Canon: The Case of Contemporary Irish Fiction
  PD Dr Ralf Haekel (Gießen/Göttingen)

  Section 5
  Orality, Literacy – and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance

  Room S 127

  Introduction
  Prof Dr Sarah Buschfeld (Dortmund), Dr Sven Leuckert (Dresden)

  Exploring the ‘Degree of Immediacy’ in Late Modern English Syntax
  Dr Lucia Siebers (Regensburg/Leipzig)

  Language of Immediacy, Language of Distance and Language Awareness – From Manuscript to Internet
  PD Dr Göran Wolf (Göttingen)

  “This word no get concrete meaning oo”: Pragmatic Markers in Nigerian Multilingual Online Communication
  Dr Mirka Honkanen (Freiburg)

• 3–3:30 pm

  Coffee Break

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Room S 126

  Our student staff will be available throughout the academic programme at the registration desk and around the coffee-break tables.

  Feel free to ask them for information and to leave your coat or luggage with them.

• 3–3:30 pm

  Junior Scholars Meet-Up

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Room S 121

  Informal meet-up of junior scholars including PhD students and post-docs at the Anglistentag. Since this session is scheduled during a coffee break, coffee and other refreshments will be available.

  Eligibility for this meet-up is self-assigned.

• 3:30–5 pm

  Section Panel B

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Rooms S 120–127

  Abstracts for the panel sections and the individual papers are provided below.

  Section 1
  Literature and …? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity

  Room S 120

  Literature and Interdisciplinary (Health) Risk Research – Thought Styles, Probabilities, and Narratives of Uncertainty
  PD Dr Julia Hoydis (Köln)

  Interdisciplinarity Across the “Two-Cultures”
  PD Dr Marcus Hartner (Bielefeld)

  Section 2
  Making Matter Matter: Page, Stage, Screen

  Room S 122

  “No wires – all alive”: Theatrical Bodies and Theatrical Things
  Dr Kerstin Fest (Freiburg)

  Against the “Myth of Non-Mediation”: The Materiality of Live Theatre Broadcasting
  Dr Heidi Liedke (London/Koblenz-Landau)

  In the Blink of an Eye – Page, Eye-Movement, Sonnet Form
  Prof Dr Felix Sprang (Siegen)

  Section 3
  ‘Funny Men’: Masculinities and Ridicule in Anglophone Cultures: Comic Personas

  Room S 124

  Ricky Gervais’ Distorted Men
  Dr Nele Sawallisch (Mainz)

  Toxic Masculinity and Acid Humour: Negotiating Masculinities and Late Night Comedy
  Dr Ulla Ratheiser (Innsbruck)

  Section 4
  Canonization in Times of Globalization and Digitization

  Room S 125

  Canon, Corpus, Archive: Selection and Valuation from Romantic Criticism to the Digital Humanities
  Tim Sommer (Heidelberg)

  Comp Titles and Product Suggestions: The Algorithms of Canon Formation
  Prof Dr Sebastian Domsch (Greifswald)

  Section 5
  Orality, Literacy – and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance

  Room S 127

  Constructing Immediacy at a Distance: The Comments Section of Online Blogs
  Dr Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarbrücken)

  “We are all in this together” – Balancing Virtual Proximity and Distance in Online Caregiver Discussions
  Prof Dr Birte Bös (Duisburg-Essen), Carolin Schneider (Duisburg-Essen)

  Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows
  Dr Sofia Rüdiger (Bayreuth)

• 3:30–5 pm

  City Tour A in German

  Main Campus, Campus Courtyard

  City tour that explores the most well-known sites in Leipzig’s city centre by foot.

  This guided tour is in German. If you want to join, please register in advance since a minimum number of twelve participants is needed.

• 5:15–6:15 pm

  Keynote by Jonathan Culpeper

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Room HS 2

  Reflections on ‘Writtenness’ and ‘Spokenness’ and the English Language

  This lecture encompasses a series of reflections on ‘writtenness’ and ‘spokenness’ in and across the English Language especially in Britain. It begins with the present-day and one of the most prevalent myths in British culture: when posh people speak, they do not ‘drop’ (i.e. fail to pronounce) the letters of the written form. I examine this myth, and also the myth that American English is corrupting British. Both myths, I argue, relate to what sociolinguists have referred to as the “standard language ideology” (e.g. Milroy & Milroy 1985/1992). This is, essentially, a belief system revolving around the idea that there is only one correct spoken variety of language which is modelled on a single correct written form. This ideology, I propose, also encompasses writers, who, accordingly, are imbued with superhuman abilities. With this in mind I consider one further myth, the myth that Shakespeare created many thousands of new words for the English language. Of course, the standard language ideology assumes one written variety with high value. Historically, however, such a variety has more often than not been lacking. At this point, I introduce a more descriptive approach to ‘writtenness’ and ‘spokenness,’ one revolving around three categories, namely, the degree to which a text is speech-like, speech-based or speech-purposed. This descriptive approach is part of the work on spoken interaction in historical English writing that I conducted over 20 years with Merja Kytö (e.g. Culpeper & Kytö 2010). I discuss some of our findings, in particular what we termed ‘pragmatic noise’ (essentially, primary interjections, the noises – ooh’s and aah’s – that facilitate conversation). I also discuss the genre of play-texts, a complex hybrid genre, and how it has changed over the centuries. As a coda to this lecture, I bring the focus back to the present day. I offer some observations on online sarcasm, especially in comparison with spoken sarcasm, and thereby note some of the resources a digital medium deploys.

  Culpeper, Jonathan & Merja Kytö. 2010. Early Modern English dialogues: Spoken interaction in writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Milroy, James & Lesley Milroy. 1985/1992. Authority in language: Investigating language prescription and standardisation. London: Routledge.

  Prof Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster)

  Jonathan Culpeper is chair of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. In his research, he focuses, amongst other things, on orality and literacy, most noticeably in his work on the exploitation of historical written material for the analysis of spoken language. A central publication on this topic is the monograph Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing (2010, Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Merja Kytö). In this book, Culpeper and Kytö classify certain text types as “speech-based,” “speech-purposed,” and “speech-like,” partially solving the ‘bad data problem,’ which lamented the issue of having to rely on written texts for the analysis of spoken language of the past. Another of Culpeper’s main research interests is pragmatics, the exploration of language in its situational, context-sensitive dimensions. An important publication is the Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (2017, Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Michael Haugh and Dániel Z. Kádár); various papers on politeness theory as well as on connections between pragmatics and other disciplines such as corpus linguistics have been published by Culpeper in numerous prestigious journals (e.g. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Politeness Research).

  In addition to his linguistically-inclined research, Culpeper has published widely on interdisciplinary topics. His work on Shakespeare is a case in point, with a major publication being the book Stylistics and Shakespeare: Transdisciplinary Approaches (2011, Continuum, co-edited with Mireille Ravassat). In his plenary talk, Jonathan Culpeper will also bridge several gaps: between orality and literacy, between British and American English, and between literary and cultural studies and linguistics.

• 7–9 pm

  Reception

  New Town Hall, Martin-Luther-Ring 4

  The reception takes place at the New Town Hall, erected at the site of the former Pleissenburg from 1899 to 1905. Prof Dr Thomas Fabian, Leipzig’s Bürgermeister und Bei­geordneter für Jugend, Soziales, Gesundheit und Schule, is expected to address attendees in the grand upper lobby. Hors d’oeuvres, wine and nonalcoholic beverages will be provided.

  Menu PDF

  Hors d’oeuvres

  Canapés

  Pumpernickel snacks

  Vegetarian canapés

  Gluten- and lactose-free vegan canapés

  Salads

  Mediterranean pasta salad

  Cherry tomato salad

  Brochettes

  Courgette with scampi and fresh mint

  Canary melon with parma ham, cheese and grapes

  Mozzarella and cherry tomatoes

  Puddings

  Wild berry compote with vanilla sauce

  Tangerine curd creme

  Alcoholic Drinks

  Rotkäppchen champagne

  Dornfelder wine, Heilbronn estate Drautz-Able, dry

  Riesling wine, Heilbronn estate Drautz-Able, dry

  Ur-Krostritzer beer

  Clausthaler Alkoholfrei beer

  Nonalcoholic Beverages

  Schorle (with gooseberry juice or rhubarb juice)

  Apple juice

  Mineral water (sparkling or non-carbonated)

• 9–10:30 pm

  City Tour B in German with a Night Guard

  New Town Hall, Martin-Luther-Ring 4

  City tour that explores the most well-known sites in Leipzig’s city centre by foot. The tour is guided by a costumed night guard.

  This guided tour is in German. If you want to join, please register in advance since a minimum number of 15 participants is needed.

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Event Details

• 9–10 am

  Keynote by Tom McCarthy

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Room HS 2

  From Paper to Pulp: A Report from No Man’s Land

  Translated into over 20 languages, adapted for cinema and theatre and honoured with several awards, the novels of Tom McCarthy could be seen as bringing several of the themes of this conference into perfect alignment. Not only do they move across a wide interdisciplinary range, drawing on (inter alia) anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, political theory and cinema; they also display a recurrent preoccupation with materiality, with the untranslatability – or ‘baseness’ – of plain, simple matter. In this keynote, he discusses both his own practice and his understanding of literature tout court in terms of in-betweens, impurity and mess.

  Tom McCarthy (London)

  Best known for his best-selling and prize-winning novels, Tom McCarthy is also a critic, installation artist and cultural theorist. He was born in 1969 and grew up in London. His debut novel, Remainder, was originally published in 2005 by a niche publisher. Alongside Men In Space (2007), however, it established his reputation as a standard-bearer of the avant-garde. C (2010) won the Windham-Campbell award and Satin Island (2015) won the Goldsmiths Prize. Both novels were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

  Tintin and the Secret of Literature (2006) explored Hergé’s work through the prism of structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory. Tom McCarthy’s two other books, popular with students for whom his novels are required reading, contain some of the essays he has written for a wide variety of print publications including Guardian, Independent, London Review of Books, TLS and Another Magazine. McCarthy is also known for the art exhibited in the name of the ‘semi-fictitious avant-garde network’ International Necronautical Society.

  Additional Reading

  Tom McCarthy reads Satin Island: 25 Sept. 2019, 7:30 pm, Haus des Buches, Gerichtsweg 28.

• 10–10:30 am

  Poster Session and Coffee Break

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Foyer HS 2

  The posters produced in advance of workshop B on “The Digital in Research-Oriented Teaching: Interdisciplinary Exchange” at 4:45 pm will be available to look at throughout the academic programme. During this coffee break, however, poster authors are available to answer your questions.

  Our student staff will be available throughout the academic programme at the registration desk and around the coffee-break tables.

  Feel free to ask them for information and to leave your coat or luggage with them.

• 10:30 am–1:30 pm

  Members’ Assembly

  Main Campus, Hörsaalgebäude, Room HS 2

  An invitation to this meeting along with the agenda is sent to eligible participants.

  Please note that the participation in this assembly is limited to members of the Anglistenverband.

• 10:30 am–12 noon

  City Tour C in English

  Main Campus, Campus Courtyard

  City tour that explores the most well-known sites in Leipzig’s city centre by foot.

  This guided tour is in English. If you want to join, please register in advance since a minimum number of twelve participants is needed.

• 2:30–2:45 pm

  Editors’ Meeting

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Room S 120

  Brief meeting to plan the conference proceedings to be published as Anglistik 31.2 in 2020.

  An invitation to this meeting is sent to all section chairs, the local organisers and the general editors of Anglistik.

  Organisers: Prof Dr Heinz Antor, PD Dr Julia Hoydis, Prof Dr Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz

• 3–4:30 pm

  Section Panel C

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Rooms S 120–127

  Abstracts for the panel sections and the individual papers are provided below.

  Section 1
  Literature and …? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity

  Room S 120

  From Law and Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture… and Beyond?
  Dr Susanne Gruß (Erlangen)

  Literature and… Business Studies: Conflicts and Crossovers
  Dr Caroline Kögler (Münster)

  Summary
  Prof Dr Jens Martin Gurr (Dusiburg-Essen), PD Dr Ursula Kluwick (Bern) Section 2
  Making Matter Matter: Page, Stage, Screen

  Room S 122

  Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans, Exploring Non-Human Matter in Fiction
  Dr Dunja M. Mohr (Erfurt)

  Places, Animals, Things: The Importance of the Non-Human for John Berger’s Spiritual Materialism
  Prof Dr Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock)

  Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts: British Thing-Essays from 1700 until Today
  Daniel Schneider (München)

  Summary
  Prof Dr Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen), Prof Dr Martin Middeke (Augsburg), Prof Dr Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen)

  Section 3
  ‘Funny Men’: Masculinities and Ridicule in Anglophone Cultures: Aging Men

  Room S 124

  The Imitation Competition: Comic Masculinity in Midlife Crisis in Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip Series
  Prof Dr Lucia Krämer (Passau)

  Laughable Old Men: Conceptions of Aging Masculinities in the Britcom
  Franziska Röber (Dresden)

  Summary
  PD Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena), PD Dr Wieland Schwanebeck (Dresden)

  Section 4
  Canonization in Times of Globalization and Digitization

  Room S 125

  “A truth universally acknowledged”? Jane Austen, Fan Fiction and the Canon
  Prof Dr Angelika Zirker (Tübingen)

  The Value of Hashtags and Goodreads: Theorizing the Canon in Digital Culture
  PD Dr Julia Straub (Bern)

  Summary
  PD Dr Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen), Jun-Prof Dr Jens Elze (Göttingen)

  Section 5
  Orality, Literacy – and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance

  Room S 127

  Tweeting with Trump: An Analysis of Trump’s Twitter Language
  Prof Dr Patricia Ronan (Dortmund)

  Tertiary Orality? Rereading Walter Ong in the Posthumanist Era
  Prof Dr Theresa Heyd (Greifswald)

  Summary
  Prof Dr Sarah Buschfeld (Dortmund), Dr Sven Leuckert (Dresden)

• 4:45–6:15 pm

  Workshops A & B on University Teaching

  Main Campus, Seminargebäude, Rooms S 126–127

  If you want to participate in one of these workshops, please register in advance. Workshop A is in German.

  Das Anglistikstudium im Spannungsfeld von Schule und Universität

  Room S 126

  Die Ausbildung von Lehrkräften für den Schuldienst hat in vielen Anglistik-Instituten eine große Bedeutung und macht bundesweit einen großen Teil der Englischstudierenden aus. Die daraus folgende Spannung zwischen fachwissenschaftlicher Ausrichtung und Professionsbezogenheit will der Workshop mit drei Round Tables produktiv aufnehmen und Lösungsansätze erarbeiten. Geplante Themen sind: Fachwissenschaft oder schulformspezifische Kompetenzen: ein Widerspruch? Literaturtheorie/Literaturgeschichte: Ballast oder Anker? Digitale Anglistik in Studium und Schule: Buzzword oder Chance?

  Organisers: Prof Dr Christoph Heyl, Dr Jürgen Ronthaler and Prof Dr Felix Sprang

  The Digital in Research-Oriented Teaching: Interdisciplinary Exchange

  Room S 127

  The ubiquity of the digital in research and society raises important questions concerning the competences and skills to be conveyed to future generations by the university. Currently, the first born-digital generation is entering the universities. Students of this generation are interacting with everyday technology in a very casual way, yet, they are just as new to the utility of digital technologies in their course of studies, as they are unfamiliar with their newly chosen subjects of study and their contents.

  University teaching can nowadays build upon the openness and curiosity of this generation concerning digital technology. At the same time, it is facing the challenge of aligning the possibilities offered by digital technology with the requirements of philological and cultural studies aspects of the courses of study in order to enable students critically engage with said technologies in an academic context. It is important that the teaching of digital technology is integrated into the study of language, literature and culture in order to convey to students its relevance in research, teaching and the workplace. University education must thus prepare aspiring academics and scientists as well as teachers for work, life and research in a digital society and make them aware of the methodological and theoretical implications.

  Digital technology poses opportunities and challenges for the development of university teaching; these are frequently taken up in research-oriented teaching formats. Our workshop session invites participants to share their concepts and experiences from research-oriented teaching formats. We invite poster presentations optionally including demos of websites, teaching materials and software. The workshop will also include a panel discussion to spark further exchange about experiences and challenges and offer a forum for discussion on the role of the digital in teaching to a wider plenum.

  The posters produced in advance of this workshop will be available to look at throughout the academic programme. In addition, the poster authors are available to answer your questions during the coffee break on Tuesday at 10 am.

  Organisers: Dr Sabine Bartsch and Prof Dr Angelika Zirker.

  Further information: workshop website.

• 5–6:30 pm

  City Tour D in German

  Main Campus, Campus Courtyard

  City tour that explores the most well-known sites in Leipzig’s city centre by foot.

  This guided tour is in German. If you want to join, please register in advance since a minimum number of twelve participants is needed.

• From 7:30 pm

  Conference Dinner

  Auerbachs Keller, Grimmaische Straße 2–4

  The conference dinner is paid in advance during registration. Mineral water is included, but other drinks and beverages are self-paid.

  Menu PDF

  Starter

  Vegetarian potato soup with croutons and fresh herbs (Sächsische Kartoffelsuppe (vegetarisch) mit Croûtons und frischen Kräutern)

  Main Course

  Pot roast with cabbage and potato dumplings (Heimischer Schmorbraten nach Angebot zu hausgemachtem Kraut und Kartoffelklößen)

  Vegetarian Main Course

  Potatoes au gratin with fresh vegetables (Gratin von marktfrischem Gemüse auf Kartoffelscheiben)

  Pudding

  Small potato pancakes with applesauce (Leipziger Quarkkäulchen mit Apfelmus)

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Event Details

• 9:15 am–2 pm

  Excursion to Colditz Castle

  Bus Stop Goethestraße

  The castle is internationally renowned for its use as a high-security prison during World War II. It has one of the greatest records of successful escape attempts.

  The fee for this excursion includes a lunch bag. You can safely deposit your luggage on the bus throughout the trip. The excursion ends near the main station, but we recommend booking your departure no earlier than 2:30 pm due to possible delays and traffic. The minimum number of participants is 25.

  Schedule

  9:15 am: meeting at the bus stop Goethestraße near Leipzig main station

  9:30 am: departure to Colditz Castle

  10:20 am: arrival at Colditz Castle

  10:30 am: guided tour of the castle in English with a focus on the history of British prisoners of war and their attempts to escape

  12 noon: time to explore the castle by yourself

  1 pm: return to Leipzig

  2 pm: arrival in Leipzig

• 10 am–2 pm

  Workshop C on Post-Doc Opportunities

  Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Beethovenstraße 15, Room R 2010

  If you want to participate in this workshop, please register in advance. The workshop is in German.

  Schritte nach der Promotion

  Der Workshop richtet sich insbesondere an Post-Docs und Promovierende in der Endphase, die mehr über die akademischen Schritte nach der Promotion erfahren wollen. Inhaltlich skizzieren wir Wege und Schritte nach der Promotion, die mit Blick auf Berufbarkeit und Professur wichtig sind. Neben fachlichen Überlegungen werden wir uns auch den administrativen Schritten sowie dem Lehrportfolio widmen.

  Organisers: Prof Dr Ilka Mindt, Dr Sandra Dinter, Dr Philip Jacobi, Dr Sven Leuckert and Prof Dr Felix Sprang.

Colour Key

• Academic Programme
• Social Programme
• Group Meetings
• Breaks

BA, MA and Staatsexamen students at Leipzig University are welcome to join the academic programme for free and without completing a registration form.

Section Panels and Abstracts

There are five sections at the Anglistentag 2019 as part of the academic programme. The original calls for papers as well as the individual abstracts are provided below. The speakers were selected by the respective section organisers.

The five sections at the Anglistentag 2019 in Leipzig are the result of a vote held during the members’ assembly of the Anglistenverband in 2018. For more information on this process please refer to the guidelines for section organisers.