German Studies Association of Australia

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Conference

Biennial Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce that our next conference will be held 18-21 November 2025 at The University of Melbourne. Please find the call for papers on the theme of "Community - Gemeinschaft" here.

Please submit your 250-word abstract and short bio by 31 January 2025 to Birgit Lang (langb@unimelb.edu.au) and Tina Weller (tina.weller@monash.edu).

Kind regards/ Herzliche Grüße,

Yixu Lü

President

German Research Seminar

2025

Seminars take place at 3.30pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted. Contact Prof Birgit Lang or Dr Brangwen Stone for the Zoom link.

7 April: Wesley Lim (ANU), ”Figure Skating Television Programming in the GDR from the 1960-1980s" (Sydney/Zoom)
4 April: Valeria Morelli (UoM), "Literary Memory of Nazism and the Second World War in Uwe Timm’s Post-Reunification Narratives" (Melbourne/Zoom)
9 May: James Hodkinson (Warwick/UoM), “(Un)desirable Relations? Cultural Representations of German-Islamic Kinship from the Enlightenment into the Long 19th Century” (Melbourne/Zoom)
16 May: Emma Thomas (UNSW), "Gendering German Colonialism in Melanesia" (Sydney/Zoom)
23 May: Marvin Martin (Monash), "German-Aboriginal encounters at the Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, 1926–1952" (Melbourne Zoom)

2023

Contact Prof Birgit Lang or Dr Brangwen Stone for the Zoom link.

20 March (3.30pm): Annie Ring (University College, London) „Give Up Your Data, and Enjoy! Internet Codes of Conduct in Brenda Lien’s Call of … Short Film Trilogy.“

24 March (3.30pm): Gabriele Dürbeck (Uni Vechta): “Narrating Anthropocenic Futures - Utopia as 'a Necessary Survival Strategy.’”

21 April (3.30pm): Deborah Holmes (Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg): “Disquiet on all fronts: Reception and adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues” (Melbourne/Zoom)
28 April (3.30pm): Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary UL): “Hermann Klaatsch in Australia: theories, objects, legacies” (Melbourne/Zoom)
2 June (3.30pm): Anna Axtner-Borsutzky (LMU): “Goethes Gärten und andere. Raumsemantik in ausgewählten Dramen um 1800” (Sydney/Zoom)
9 June (3.30pm): Martin Luginbühl (Basel): „Wie Kinder mündlich argumentieren (lernen) - Zur Verbindung von qualitativen und quantitativen Analysen in der Gesprächsanalyse“ (Sydney/Zoom)

2022

Semester 2, 2022

Hosted by The University of Melbourne. Contact Dr Andreas Dorrer for more information.

Semester 1, 2022

Friday 11th March (3pm): Claudia Sandberg (Melbourne), "The Story of a Tiger in the Bathroom: German-Jewish filmmaker Peter Lilienthal in West German Television of the 1960s."
Thursday 7th April, (5pm)*: Franz-Josef Deiters (Sydney) , "Neues Welttheater? Bühne und Politik im Theater der Neo-Avantgarden."
Friday 29th April (2pm)*: Andrew Hurley (UTS), "Keeping secrets badly? On German revelations of the Aboriginal secret-sacred in the 1970s and 1980s."
Friday 13th May (3pm): Donna Brett (Sydney), "The Surveillance Legacy of East Germany."