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‘... under the spell’
Thomas Bernhard’s Reception
in the Anglophone World
Venue: University of London, G22/26 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Friday, 20 November 2015
10.00 Registration / Coffee
10.00 Agnes Müller (South Carolina): Bernhard,
Sebald, and Holocaust Fiction
10.30 Heide Kunzelmann (Kent/London):
Welcome
10.40 Rüdiger Görner (London): Montreux,
Grönland, die Pyramiden und kein Zurück.
Thomas Bernhard oder die Weltabschaffung
als Geste des Internationalen
11.20 Martin Huber (Salzburg): ‘wäre ich doch ...
in London geblieben’: zur englischen
Gegenwelt im Werk Thomas Bernhards
10.40 Coffee
11.10 Stephen Dowden (Brandeis): Thomas
Bernhard and Susan Sontag
11.50 Ramón Soto Gámez (Madrid): ‘My Cicero for
all future engagements ...’: William
Gaddis’s Agap under the Influence of
Thomas Bernhard
12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
12.00 Jonathan J. Long (Durham): On Thomas
Bernhard’s Anglophone Reception
12.40 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.40 Shane Weller (Kent): Translating a
Literature of the Unword: Thomas Bernhard
in English
15.20 Tom Wilks (London): Teaching Thomas
Bernhard’s Autobiography in Translation/
Translating Thomas Bernhard’s
Autobiography in Teaching
14.30 Robert Leucht (Zurich): ‘for Bernhard thus
far was not yet a crowd pleaser’: Walter
Abishs literarische Bernhard-Rezeption als
Österreichkritik
15.25 Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder
(Vienna): Wittgenstein’s Nephew in the
Anglophone World. Readings of Thomas
Bernhard’s Wittgensteins Neffe
16.20 Closing Discussion
17.00 Conference Ends
16.00 Ryan Crawford (Vienna): On What remains:
Text and Survival in Thomas Bernhard
16.40 Discussion
17.00 End of First Day
19.00 Evening Programme (details to be
announced)
Conference organisers: Jonathan J. Long (Durham)
and Heide Kunzelmann (Kent/IBC, London)
Advance registration required by Friday, 6 November
2015.
Conference fees: 2 days: £50 (standard); £40 (Friends);
£20 (students). 1 day only: £30 (standard); £25 (Friends);
£15 (students).
Registration form overleaf and at:
www.modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk > events or contact
[email protected] (tel: 020 7862 8966)
Background image: From Christiaan Tonnis’s photograph of
Bernhard’s house, taken in 1992 (Flickr/Wikimedia
Commons/CC-BY-SA/2.0)

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