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Prof. Graham Loud: guest lectures
On April 23 and 24, Prof. Graham Loud (University of Leeds, UK) will be at Bamberg to give two guest lectures.
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Daytrip to the Gurdwara Sagar Gobing (Würzburg)
On January 13, participants of the seminar "Writing India and the Indian Diaspora" visited the Gurdwara Sagar Gobing, the Sikh community centre in Würzburg, to take part in the Sunday ceremony.
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Dark Romanticism Trip
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Seminar and Creative Writing Workshop with Julia Pascal
From Jan 10 to 12, 2013 the British playwright, theatre director and university docent, Dr. Julia Pascal taught a seminar and creative writing workshop on the topic “Writing War”.
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Weekend Seminar at Burg Feuerstein
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Daytrip to Weimar: A Celebration of the Absurd
On 7th May a group of students from the Virginia Woolf and the Banned Books seminars went on a daytrip to Weimar to participate in the Dada-Decade.
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"Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality"
From 24 to 25 May 2012, the department hosted an international conference on new dimensions of the European in literature.
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Study Trip to Edinburgh
From February 29 to March 5, 2012 a group of 30 students and professors flew to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland for a study visit.
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Einsichtnahme in Hausarbeiten und Klausure; DVD-Ausleihe
Hiwi-Sprechstunde für Studierende, die Einsicht in ihre korrigierten Hausarbeiten oder Klausuren nehmen oder DVDs ausleihen wollen.
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Fifth anniversary of the cooperation agreement with Xi’an Jiaotong University
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the cooperation between the University of Bamberg and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
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"Writing War:" Seminar and Creative Writing Workshop
From Jan 10 to 12, 2013, the British playwright, theatre director and university docent, Dr. Julia Pascal taught a seminar and creative writing workshop on the topic of “Writing War”.
Julia Pascal discussed scenes from her play The Dybbuk and Theresa, working with both the DVDs and with the texts and talked about her work from Holocaust history.
Her stage plays include Theresa, based on the true story of a Jewish woman on Guernsey during the German occupation in the Second World War and A Dead Woman on Holiday, which is set in the Nuremberg Trials. The Dybbuk premiered in London at the New End Theatre, Hampstead in 1992. Published in "The Holocaust Trilogy", The Dybbuk had its New York premiere in August 2010. "The Wedding Party" (known as "Bloody Wedding") was premiered at The Ohrid Festival 2012, Macedonia.
After the creative writing workshop, Julia asked our students to write down their experiences:
“I’ve really enjoyed the workshop. I’ve learned to take a story, any story and play with it, experiment. I’ve learned how to express complexity through simplicity, as well as use language in different ways in the play: express emotional language through body language or displacement or fracture of the mind through language. Moreover, I enjoyed talking about music and how it breaks boundaries.”
Jelena Opricic
“I learned the importance of group work, of saying things out loud and letting go free associations; not being scared of possible writing topics that appear ‘larger than life’. Thank you!”
Sasa Ilic
"I was really impressed with the way ‘acting out’ scenes can help to shape characters and solve problems which arise with plot lines. Furthermore, the ‘English-mother-tongue-gibberish’-game (despite being unusual at first) was a great experience, since it helped discover emotions which are normally covered within a ‘layer of conscience’ which the use of (a second) language brings about."
Christian Feser
- Julia Pascal with participants of her workshop
"I have learned that sometimes it’s better to start in the middle rather than at the beginning."
Mareike Spychala
“The workshop has been extremely communicative, collaborative in nature since all the participants and their potential creative ideas have added depth and complexity to my understanding and creative process. Julia has wonderfully suggested her expert and scholarly ideas to the ones I had in my mind without instructing anything. Thus making her scholarly visions very flexible and worth following.”
Abdullah Al Mamun
“I particularly enjoyed working in a group, seeing how much other people’s thoughts and ideas can help us and influence our work. It was great to see how an expert works in terms of free association, bringing out and using personal memories to shape a character.”
Claudia Marin
"It’s important to work not on your own, because when you share your ideas with others and listen to their ideas somehow you will find what you were looking for… I enjoyed this workshop very much!"
Mariana Oleksiienko
"All of my fellow students have interesting stories to tell and we are all authors of our own story. I have learned how to express feelings, thoughts and emotions in a way that (independent of culture) everyone is capable of understanding."
Ellen Merzinger