'Invention and Innovation' 

Saturday 8 February 2020 

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

9:30am Registration and coffee

10:15am Welcome (Dr Leila Mukhida)

10:30am Panel 1: Politics, Government and Legislation
Bateman Auditorium
Chair: Catriona Corke

Timothy Powell (Oxford), ‘Reinventing Walther von der Vogelweide​ in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’

Ashleigh Fetts (Hull) ‘“Soft Power” in Modern German Politics’

Matthew Banner and Libby Straw (Chester) ‘Was sind die wesentlichen Stärken und Schwächen der E-Mobilität?’

11:30am Refreshments

12:00pm Panel 2: Innovations in Religion and Philosophy
Bateman Auditorium
Chair: Lauren Dooley

Maral Attar-Zadeh (Toronto), ‘Worship in Vernacular: Translation, Print Culture and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Psalters’

Lidija Beric (Cambridge), ‘German Romanticism and the Modern World’

Felix Jüterbock (Leipzig), ‘Religion, Transcendence and Modernity’

Followed by a short introduction to the poster presentations

1:15pm – 2:45pm Lunch

There will be the opportunity for school students and Cambridge undergraduates to have an informal discussion over lunch.

Posters* in the Hall

Chris Harris (Durham), ‘Romeo and Juliet in Socialist Cinema’

Alesha Cheah (King’s College London), ‘Reinventing Female Identity: Narrative Language as Gender Innovation in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec’

Ombline Damy (Oxford), ‘Literary Innovation’

Teodor Nicula-Golovei (Cambridge), ‘Milestones of Germany’s Energy Policy in Recent Decades’

2:45 pm Keynote by Dr Bernhard Struck, University of St Andrews
Bateman Auditorium

‘Copernicus in, Mozart out. Mapping and Visualising the German Lands in the Nineteenth Century’

Followed by a Q&A discussion

3:45pm - 4:05pm pm Refreshments

4:05 pm Panel 3: Sensory Perception: Sound, Sight and Touch
Bateman Auditorium
Chair: Robert Britten 

Zak Eastop (Bristol), ‘Adapting Schiller’s Don Karlos: Verdi, Posa and the Problem of the Familiengemälde’

Sofia Lyall (Cambridge), ‘Innovative Encounters: Non-Violent Interactions in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Großvaterzunge und Navid Kermani’s Das Buch der von Neil Young Getöteten’

Betsy Creamer (Durham), ‘Inventing the Story of Art: Women Artists in Fin de Siècle Vienna’

Gemma Watts (Cambridge), ‘Linguistic Innovation: A German Language for the 21st century’

5:20 pm - 5:30 pm Short break: water

5:30 pm Q&A: Where now? Careers in and after German Studies 
Bateman Auditorium

Feedback forms will be distributed before this session

6:15 pm -7 pm Drinks Reception

* Posters present a topic in outline on paper, and may be viewed in the Hall and discussed with their authors

during the lunch break.

There is a £10 registration fee for undergraduate attendees. Please book via this link. 

School students and their accompanying adults should please email to register in order to avoid paying the online booking fee.

Contact: CUCGS@mmll.cam.ac.uk