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Colloquium 4: Women in Death, Women as Death, Women on Death

Thursday, 3 January 2008
The Question of Representation

14:30	Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford) & Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh): Welcome and practicalities followed by an overview of the research project, a summary of the April 2007 colloquium and our research questions. Participants introduce themselves and their research.
15:00	Sigrid Schade (Zurich): Zeigen Repräsentationen des Todes (nur) den Tod? Zum Verhältnis von Tod, Weiblichkeit und Schaulust in der visuellen Kultur
16:00	Tea
16:30	Discussion led by Sarah Colvin
18:30	Drinks
19:00	Dinner

Friday, 4 January 2008
Women in Death (Chair: Anna Linton)

9:30	Jill Bepler (Wolfenbüttel): Women in death: The German funeral book of the early modern period
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Judith Aikin (Iowa): ‘Ich sterbe’: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany
12:00	Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (Berlin): Visualisierung des Terrors in Deutschland 1918-9
13:00	Lunch

Women on Death (Chair: Anna Richards)

14:30	Barbara Becker Cantarino (Ohio): Tod und die neue Mythologie bei Caroline von Günderrode
15:30	Tea
16:00	Abigail Dunn (Oxford): ‘Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?’ The Representation of the Widow by Hedwig Dohm
17:00	Áine McMurtry (Oxford): Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten
18:30	Drinks
19:00	Dinner

Saturday, 5 January 2008
Women as Death (Chair: Áine McMurtry)

9:00	Joint discussion on women in the military in East Germany and Post-Unification Germany. Ruth Seifert (Regensburg) : Frauen und Krieg: Die Position der feministischen Friedensforschung in der Bundesrepublik & Christine Eifler (Bremen) : „Das Sterben der Unsterblichen“. Gender und Militär in der DDR
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Mererid Puw Davies (London): Miss(ing) Saigon: Women in West-German representations of Vietnam (1966-1973)
12:00	Simon Richter: Lola Doesn't: Cinema, Death and Desire from Marlene Dietrich to Franka Potente
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Free afternoon
18:30	Drinks
19:00	Dinner

Sunday, 6 January 2008
The German Question

9:30	Robert Vilain (London/Oxford): The Aestheticisation of Death in Fin de siècle German, French and English Poetry
10:30	Discussion: What is specifically German about the representation of women and death as discussed over the 4 colloquia?
12:00	Coffee & Champagne Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh) & Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford): Conclusions