Conferences and Talks
1. Conference Presentations and Guest Lectures
Speeches / Talks Der Naturwissenschaftler Metaphorizing Irish and British (Intra-)Relations in Audrey Magee’s The Colony Negotiating between Traditional Irishness and Modern European Identities: Narratives of Glocal Irish Community in Contemporary Fiction https://anglistentag23.de/irish_communities_(overview).pdf Creating Uncertainty and Distrust in Science: Conspiracy Theories, Anti- and Pseudoscientific Attitudes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist Performativity and the Construction of Cultural Authority: Literary Representations of Victorian Science (Re-)Evaluating Conflicts and Avoiding Partisanship: The Troubles in Northern Irish Historical Fiction after Brexit Documenting History and Engaging with Populist Discourses: Contemporary TV’s Medialisation of Classed British Identities Exploiting Britain’s Imperial History: The Polarising Effects of the British Culture War and the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Rhetoric ‘The Troubles’ in Recent Historical Fiction: Constructing History and National Identity ‘The Best Way to Find Out Where Britain’s Heading Is to Look Behind Us’ – Challenging Dominant National Narratives in the Mockumentary Cunk on Britain Northern Ireland, Brexit, and Europe in Contemporary British Political Rhetoric Instrumentalising National Identity and Nostalgia in Current Political Messages: The Rhetoric of Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Elite’? – The Brexit Novel’s Engagement with New Class Discourses The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ The Past as Utopia: Nostalgia in Brexit Britain Deconstructing Dominant Narratives about the Second World War: Their Finest as (Self)-Reflective Historical Fiction Preserving the Past or Progressing towards the Future? A Case Study of Brexit as Representing Restorative Nostalgia Fragmentation, Intertextuality and Metafictionality: Theorising New Forms of Narrating the Past in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ Brexit and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Literature and Media: Middle England (2018) and Darkest Hour (2017) Nostalgia in Contemporary British Culture and Society Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit (Re)Writing the Past for the Purposes of the Present: Darkest Hour (2017) as a Mythscape