Galicia Conference
Galicia Conference8-10 Apr 2010
The Department of German at NUI Maynooth hosts a conference entitled "Exklusion, Inklusion, Repraesentation: Galizien im Diskurs" from 8 to 10 April 2010.
Galicia, the Eastern dominion of the Habsburg monarchy, now part of Poland and Ukraine, was a truly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual area. After World War One, German was still used as a literary and scholarly language, and until very recently, German writers with Galician roots continued the discourse on this area (2009 Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Herta Mueller hails from not too far away from there). The issues negotiated in literary and other form have to do with integration and interaction between the various groups, Poles, Germans, Jews, Ruthenians, etc.
The conference is devoted to studying this debate, from early travel writing after the Polish partitions in the 18th century which first brought Galicia under Austrian rule and the golden period of Galician-German-Jewish literature between ca 1870 and 1930 to the very recent discourse on Galicia and its neighbour Bukowina as a laboratory of multiculturalism.
The conference is a joint venture between the Sonderforschungsbereich 600 Fremdheit und Armut. Wandel von Inklusions- und Exklusionsformen of the University of Trier (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Department of German at NUI Maynooth.
Speakers come from Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Ireland, Britain and Germany.
Organiser: Professor Florian Krobb
Email Address: florian.krobb@nuim.ie
