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								18-20 November 2010 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 3
		PROGRAMME	ABSTRACTS	KEYNOTE SPEAKERS	PHOTOS	LOCATION	ACCOMMODATION

Thursday, 18 November 2010		Download PDF-file here!
14.00-17.00	Graduate Forum
17.00-18.30	Meeting of Board and Advisory Council of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
18.30-19.00	Opening Addresses
19.00-20.00	Keynote 1: Allan Kellehear: “Dying in the UK: Politics, Ideologies and Futures”
20.00-22.00	Reception
Friday, 19 November 2010
9.00-10.00	Christoph Singer: “Displaying Death in Britain: Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens and the Human Tissue Act of 2004”
9.00-10.00	Monika Seidl: “Beautiful Inside My Purse Forever: How the Young British Artists Cash in on Death and Memorial Culture”
	10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.00	Stefan Schlensag: “Death Is Not the End: Dead Bodies and Last Rites in Britain’s Multi-Ethnic Society” Hein Versteegen: “Dying with Laughter: The Inherent Joke Structure of Death and Bereavement” Tina Weber: “Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Representations of Death in Contemporary Television”
12.00-14.00	Lunch Break Meeting of the Editorial Committee of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures
14.00-15.00	Elahe Haschemi Yekani: “The Road to Guantanamo: The Politics of Social Death and Rebirth” Michael Krause: “The Public Death of James Bulger: A Watershed for the British Discourse about Crime”
	15.00-15.30: Coffee Break
15.30-16.30	Gerd Stratmann: “Five Types of Bastardy: The Discursive Handling of Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century” Cyprian Piskurek: “Untimely Birth: Mary Whitehouse, Vicky Pollard and Teenage Pregnancies on TV”
16.30-17.30	Reading: Anthony Joseph
17.30-19.30	Annual General Meeting of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
20.00	Dinner at Hotel Oekey
Saturday, 20 November 2010
9.00-10.00	Keynote 2: Beverley Lawrence Beech: “Challenging the Medicalisation of Birth: The Difficulties in Getting the Consumers’ Voices Heard”
	10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.00	Dorothea Tegethoff: “Pregnancy and Childbirth on TV in Germany and Britain” Ingrid von Rosenberg: “Parenthood: the Most Private/Public Affair. Public Discourses on Birth and Family Planning from the 19th Century to the Present” Anja Hänsch: "Barbara Duden, Judith Butler and Birth: Contentions about Body Theory revisited"
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30-14.30	Wolfgang Funk: “A Time to Die: Debates on Euthanasia in British Culture” Marie Hologa: “‘Bursting the Bubble’: the Embryo in the Age of Visualisation”
	14.30-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-16.00	Christian Lenz: “‘Excuse Me, Has This Life Been Taken?’ Killing, Death and Resurrection in Contemporary British Horror Movies” Gerold Sedlmayr: “The Dialectics of Birth and Death in the British TV Drama Series Skins (2007ff)”
17.00	End of Conference
17.30	Chill-Out at Orlando’s (Bochum-Ehrenfeld)

Thursday, 18 November 2010

14.00-17.00

Graduate Forum

17.00-18.30

Meeting of Board and Advisory Council of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures

18.30-19.00

Opening Addresses

20.00-22.00

Reception

Friday, 19 November 2010

9.00-10.00

Christoph Singer: “Displaying Death in Britain: Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens and the Human Tissue Act of 2004”

Monika Seidl: “Beautiful Inside My Purse Forever: How the Young British Artists Cash in on Death and Memorial Culture”

Stefan Schlensag: “Death Is Not the End: Dead Bodies and Last Rites in Britain’s Multi-Ethnic Society”

Hein Versteegen: “Dying with Laughter: The Inherent Joke Structure of Death and Bereavement”

Tina Weber: “Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Representations of Death in Contemporary Television”

Meeting of the Editorial Committee of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures

Elahe Haschemi Yekani: “The Road to Guantanamo: The Politics of Social Death and Rebirth”

Michael Krause: “The Public Death of James Bulger: A Watershed for the British Discourse about Crime”

Gerd Stratmann: “Five Types of Bastardy: The Discursive Handling of Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century”

Cyprian Piskurek: “Untimely Birth: Mary Whitehouse, Vicky Pollard and Teenage Pregnancies on TV”

Annual General Meeting of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures

20.00

Saturday, 20 November 2010

9.00-10.00

Keynote 2:
Beverley Lawrence Beech: “Challenging the Medicalisation of Birth: The Difficulties in Getting the Consumers’ Voices Heard”

Dorothea Tegethoff: “Pregnancy and Childbirth on TV in Germany and Britain”

Ingrid von Rosenberg: “Parenthood: the Most Private/Public Affair. Public Discourses on Birth and Family Planning from the 19th Century to the Present”

Anja Hänsch: "Barbara Duden, Judith Butler and Birth: Contentions about Body Theory revisited"

Wolfgang Funk: “A Time to Die: Debates on Euthanasia in British Culture”

Marie Hologa: “‘Bursting the Bubble’: the Embryo in the Age of Visualisation”

Christian Lenz: “‘Excuse Me, Has This Life Been Taken?’ Killing, Death and Resurrection in Contemporary British Horror Movies”

Gerold Sedlmayr: “The Dialectics of Birth and Death in the British TV Drama Series Skins (2007ff)”

Thursday, 18 November 2010

14.00-17.00

Graduate Forum

17.00-18.30

Meeting of Board and Advisory Council of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures

18.30-19.00

Opening Addresses

20.00-22.00

Reception

Friday, 19 November 2010

9.00-10.00

Christoph Singer: “Displaying Death in Britain: Damien Hirst, Gunther von Hagens and the Human Tissue Act of 2004”

Monika Seidl: “Beautiful Inside My Purse Forever: How the Young British Artists Cash in on Death and Memorial Culture”

Stefan Schlensag: “Death Is Not the End: Dead Bodies and Last Rites in Britain’s Multi-Ethnic Society” Hein Versteegen: “Dying with Laughter: The Inherent Joke Structure of Death and Bereavement” Tina Weber: “Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Representations of Death in Contemporary Television”

Meeting of the Editorial Committee of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures

Elahe Haschemi Yekani: “The Road to Guantanamo: The Politics of Social Death and Rebirth”

Michael Krause: “The Public Death of James Bulger: A Watershed for the British Discourse about Crime”

Gerd Stratmann: “Five Types of Bastardy: The Discursive Handling of Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century” Cyprian Piskurek: “Untimely Birth: Mary Whitehouse, Vicky Pollard and Teenage Pregnancies on TV”

Annual General Meeting of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures

20.00

Saturday, 20 November 2010

9.00-10.00

Keynote 2: Beverley Lawrence Beech: “Challenging the Medicalisation of Birth: The Difficulties in Getting the Consumers’ Voices Heard”

Dorothea Tegethoff: “Pregnancy and Childbirth on TV in Germany and Britain”

Ingrid von Rosenberg: “Parenthood: the Most Private/Public Affair. Public Discourses on Birth and Family Planning from the 19th Century to the Present”

Anja Hänsch: "Barbara Duden, Judith Butler and Birth: Contentions about Body Theory revisited"

Wolfgang Funk: “A Time to Die: Debates on Euthanasia in British Culture”

Marie Hologa: “‘Bursting the Bubble’: the Embryo in the Age of Visualisation”

Christian Lenz: “‘Excuse Me, Has This Life Been Taken?’ Killing, Death and Resurrection in Contemporary British Horror Movies”

Gerold Sedlmayr: “The Dialectics of Birth and Death in the British TV Drama Series Skins (2007ff)”

Stefan Schlensag: “Death Is Not the End: Dead Bodies and Last Rites in Britain’s Multi-Ethnic Society”

Hein Versteegen: “Dying with Laughter: The Inherent Joke Structure of Death and Bereavement”

Tina Weber: “Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Representations of Death in Contemporary Television”

Gerd Stratmann: “Five Types of Bastardy: The Discursive Handling of Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century”

Cyprian Piskurek: “Untimely Birth: Mary Whitehouse, Vicky Pollard and Teenage Pregnancies on TV”

Keynote 2:
Beverley Lawrence Beech: “Challenging the Medicalisation of Birth: The Difficulties in Getting the Consumers’ Voices Heard”