Programme
Thursday, 17 November 2011
12:00 - 16:00
Graduate Forum

16:00 - 17:30
Meeting of the Board and Advisory
Council of the German Association
for the Study of British Cultures

17:30 - 18:00
Opening Addresses

18:00 - 19:00
10th anniversary of the association,
laudatory speech for founding members,
awarding of the Brit-Cult Award

19:00 - 20:00
"Understanding the 'Surveillance
Society'"
Dietmar Kammerer (Berlin)

20:00 - 22:00
Dinner at Baron
Friday, 18 November 2011
09:00 - 10:00
"Surveying Pubs, Cities and Unfit
Lives: Governmentality, Drink and
Space in Nineteenth- and Twentieth
Century Britain"

James Kneale (London)

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00
PANEL l:
THE UBIQUITY OF SURVEILLANCE IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE/SOCIETY
Chair: Sandra Schwab
10:30 - 11:00
"So Many Things That Will Make Me
Angry - Surveillance and Policing in
Contemporary British Club Cultures"
Christian Werthschulte (Bochum)

11:00 - 11:30
"Legal, Political und Public Debates
Around Surveillance"

Ben Harbisher (Nottingham)

11:30 - 12:00
"ID or No ID? Dilemmas and
Surveillance in the BBC Series

The Last Enemy"
Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (Hildesheim)

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break (Meeting of the Editorial
Committee of the Journal for the Study
of British Cultures)

14:00 - 15:30
PANEL ll:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Mark Berninger
14:00 - 15:30
"'Thou Shalt Not' - (Subconscious)
Surveillance of Gender in Medieval
Culture"
Sarah Schaefer (Paderborn)
14:30 - 15:00
"From Public Opinion to Common
Sense and (Self-)Surveillance in
the (Neo-)Nineteenth Century"

Nadine Christina Boehm (Erlangen)

15:00 - 15:30
"1930s and 1940s British Photography:
Surveying the Working Classes"

Susanne Schmid (Berlin/Greifswald)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30
PANEL lll:
LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS
Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh
16:00 - 16:30
"No Shot, Sherlock: The Precious
Panoptical View"
Nina Holst (Frankfurt)

16:30 - 17:00
"Battling 'the Many-headed Hydra
of Human Nature': Surveillance,
Resistance and Private Space in
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004)"

Timo Pfaff (Mainz)

17:00 - 17:30
"Cloaks, Daggers and Body Parts:
The Absurdity of Surveillance in Ian
McEwan's The Innocent (1990)"

Nathalie Schwering (Mainz)

17:30 - 19:30
Annual General Meeting of the German
Association for the Study of British
Cultures

From 20:00
Dinner at Augustinerkeller

Saturday, 19 November 2011
09:00 - 10:00
"Actually Existing Surveillance: Limits
and Implications"
Chris A. Williams (Milton Keynes)

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00
PANEL lV:
FILMIC REPRESENTATIONS
OF SURVEILLANCE

Chair: Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier
10:30 - 11:00
"Dystopian Images of Surveillance
and Corporeality in Alfonso Cuarón‘s Children of Men (2006)"

Dominik Wallerius (Mainz)

11:00 - 11:30
"'Video et Taceo' - The Representation
of Surveillance in Shekkar Kapur's
Elizabeth-Films"
Julia Kinzler (Erlangen)

11:30 - 12:00
"Faultlines and Cinematic Voyeurism:
CCTV in Andrea Arnold's Red Road
(2006)"
Lucia Kraemer (Hannover)

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00
PANEL V: RESISTING SURVEILLANCE

Chair: Patrick Gill
13:30 - 14:00
"Spoofing the Control Gaze: Playful
Resistance to Adult Prejudices against
Youth in British Media Culture"

Michael Krause (Potsdam)

14:00 - 14:30
"The Art of Surveillance: Between
Reinforcement and Subversion"

Raul Gschrey (Frankfurt)

14:30 - 15:00
"Documenting | Surveillance:
Rebecca Baron's How Little We
Know of Our Neighbours"

Alejandro Bachmann (Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien)

15:00
Concluding Remarks/End of Conference