Events

Courses

The Fickle Fate of Classics, Siegen University

Summer Term 2014 / Thursdays, 8.00-10.00 with Prof. Dr. Anja Müller  

Workshops

Workshop with Prof Dr. Matthew O. Grenby (Newcastle University), Siegen University

Friday, 14. Juni 2013

Conferences

Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature, Tübingen

11.-13.09.2014; organisers: Prof. Dr. Anja Müller and apl. Prof. Dr. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Tübingen); supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

 

 

Past Events

Lecture at the Universitá Ca' Foscari

17.11.2015, Venice, Italy

• Anja Müller: "Visualizing Macbeth in Shakespeare Comicbooks and Manga"

2015 ISSCL Conference "Construcing Childhoods and Texts for Children"

10.-11.04.2015, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

• Simone Herrmann: "Robinson Crusoe's Neglected Centuries: 20th- and 21st-Century Transformations of the British Robinsonade."

Student Conference "Lions and Unicorns"

09.-10.02.2015, Siegen

• Franziska Burstyn: "The Secularisation of the Unicorn: From Christ Figure to Cyber-Goddess."
• Anja Müller, Keynote Lecture: "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, or The Pride of the Rock? Exploring the Symbolic Den ofthe Lions of Lannister."

Workshop "Transformations of Childhoods in Contemporary Britain"

07.-08.11.2014, Bielefeld

• Anja Müller: "Writing plural childhoods (?) - Some thoughts concerning the recent shortlists of some children's books awards."
• Außerdem: Response zum Vortrag "Trnsformations in nursery care for Britain's under-fives c. 1960-2010" von Angela Davis (Warwick)

Symposium of the Inklings Society: "Dark Visions: Margaret Atwood’s Imaginative Travels into the Regions of the Uncomfortable"

27.-28.09.2014, Düren

• Franziska Burstyn: "The North and the Pursuit of the World Song in Russell Hoban’s Soonchild."

Conference: "Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature"

11.-13.09.2014, Tübingen

• Anja Müller: "Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children's Literaure."
• Simone Herrmann: "Changing Democratic Values in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Robinsonades for Children: A Case Study."
• Franziska Burstyn: "Of Water-Fairies and the North Wind - Divine Mentorship in Victorian Fantasy Literature."

Conference: "Informing the Inklings - George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy"

13.-15.08.2014, Magdalen College Oxford

• Franziska Burstyn: "A Floating Princess and a Fallen Star, or Gravity Unhinged: Femininity in George MacDonald’s and Neil Gaiman’s Fiction."

Conference: "Adventures in Wonder Worlds - The Power of Literary Fantasy"

05.-06.12.2013 Ateneo Veneto, Venedig - zum Flyer

• Anja Müller: "Power in/of Fantasy in the Wonder Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin."

Conference: "Born Happy: Happiness, Childhood and Children's Literature"

16.11.2013, St. Hilda's College, Oxford - External Link

• Franziska Burstyn: "Dreaming of the Land of Plenty: A Defence of Utopias in Children's Literature."
• Simone Herrmann: "'Uninterrupted Harmony' or Barbaric Wasteland: The Ambigious Island Motif in Nineteenth-Century Robinsonades for Children."

Conference: "'… so that I wished myself to be a horse': Das Pferd als Repräsentant kulturellen Wandels in Denksystemen"

14.-16.11.2013, Universität Vechta

• Anja Müller: "The Different Faces of War Horse – Media Change and Cultural Implications.

Conference: "Feast or Famine: Food in Children's Literature"

09.11.2013, Roehampton University, London - External Link

• Franziska Burstyn: "The Myth of the Magic Porridge Pot: Never-ending Edibles in Children's Literature."
• Simone Herrmann: "The Island that Provides - Food Supply and Sustenance in Victorian Robinsonades for Children and Young Adults."