Ute Frevert (Yale): Conceptions of War, Masculinity and Femininity in Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century
18:30
Drinks
19:00
Dinner
Friday, 13 April 2007 Amazons (Chair: Gisela Ecker)
9:30
Daria Santini (Oxford): 'Den tapfersten Helden im Kampfe gewachsen'. The German Reception of the Amazon Myths from Hederich to Bachofen
10:30
Coffeebreak
11:00
Ritchie Robertson (Oxford): Warrior Women and the Foundation of the State – Libussa, Wanda and her Sisters
12:00
Peter Davies (Edinburgh): 'Amazonen sind ja keine sportgirlischen Frauenrechtlerinnen!' The Reception of Bachofen's Amazon Myth in the Work of Women Writers
13:00
Lunch
Women at Arms (Chair: Sarah Colvin)
14:30
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford): Wearing the Trousers
15:30
Tea
16:00
Julie Koser (Berkeley): Crazed Furies and Patriotic Ladies: Representations of Revolutionary Women in the German Press (1789-1794)
17:00
Bettina Brandt (Bielefeld): Germania in Armour. The Female Representation of an Endangered German Nation
18:30
Drinks
19:00
Dinner
Saturday, 14 April 2007 Women and Modern Warfare (Chair: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly)
9:30
Mererid Puw Davies (UCL): Miss(ing) Saigon: Women in West German Representations of Vietnam (1966-1973)
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Ruth Seifert (Regensburg): Soldiers and Mothers in the Bundeswehr
12:00
Elisabeth Krimmer(UC Davis): Embedded Art: Elfriede Jelinek and the Farce of War
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Free afternoon
18:30
Drinks
19:00
Dinner
Sunday, 15 April 2007 Liberators or Terrorists(Chair: Anna Linton)
9:30
Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza (Toronto): Judith and the ‘Jew-eaters’. Dramatic Fights against the Evilpropheticmoral Principles
10:30
Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh): Ulrike Meinhof. The Representation and Legitimacy of Violence in a Woman, and the Perceived Validity of Language as a Weapon in the Later Twentieth Century
11:00
Coffee & Champagne
12:00
Sarah Colvin (Edinburgh) & Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford): Conclusions and Future Directions
