Conferences · Tagungen

• Umstrittene urbane Räume: Norman Ohler schreibt Johannesburg, paper presented at VAD Conference ”Embattled Spaces/ Contested Orders”, Cologne University, 30.5 – 2.6. 2012
• Afrikadiskurse und die deutschsprachigen Länder. Plenary paper presented at DAAD Conference with partner countries for Africa Subshara entitled “Deutsche Sprache und Kultur im afrikanischen Kontext.”, Stellenbosch University, 25 – 29 March 2012

• Zerrspiegel Afrika. Afrikadiskurse und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Sozialismus am Beispiel von Olaf Müllers "Tintenpalast", paper presented at “Another Africa? (Post-)Koloniale Afrikaimaginationen”, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, 7 – 9 March 2012
• Development Aid and the Genocide in Rwanda. On Lukas Bärfuss’ novel “Hundred days” (2008). Plenary Paper presented at ‘Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village’. Third International Conference of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: 12 -15 September 2011
• Afrika anders denken. Paper presented at the 5th Wertewelten Colloquium, entitled Ähnlichkeiten, Michungen, Synkretismen. Auf dem Weg zu einer globalen Gesellschaft, University of Tübingen, 14 -16. July 2011

• Magie der Sprache – ein kulturelles Phänomen? Paper presented at the 25th Conference for the Association of German Studies (SAGV), Pretoria University 27 - 30 April 2011
• Chaired various sessions and provided summary of their outcomes in the concluding session at 5th International ganaa Workshop for Alumni und Alumnae on “Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachenpolitik im frankophonen und anglophonen Westafrika“,  Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 26 November – 01 December 2010
• Ware Mensch – Migration und Xenophobie am Beispiel Südafrikas. Paper presented at the 4th Wertewelten Colloquium, University of Tübingen, Germany, 17- 20 November 2010
• Zur Literarisierung des Blicks auf den Genozid in Ruanda. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Association for Intercultural German Studies (GiG), Göttingen University, Germany, 23 – 27 September 2010
• Literatur – Kultur – Sprache. Am Beispiel der (Süd-)Afrikas. Plenary paper presented at International Workshop on “Die Rolle der Literatur in DaF und Germanistik”, hosted by the Herder Institut, Leipzig University, Germany, 1 - 4 September 2010
• Von Weltensammlern und Grenzgängern. Paper presented at the quienquennial Conference of the International Association for German Studies (IVG), Warsaw University, Poland, 30 July – 07 August 2010
• Zum (Fußball-) Spiel als Hoffnungsträger in Afrika. Erste gemeinsame Tagung des Germanistenverbands im südlichen Afrika (SAGV) und Germanistik in Afrika Subsahara (GAS). Stellenbosch University,  14 – 18 March 2010
• Language, Identity and Social Interaction: Contextualising foreign language instruction in (South) Africa. Paper presented at 4th International ganaa Workshop at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, 06. - 11. November 2009.
• Johannesburg schreiben: Die südafrikanische Metropole im Spiegel der Literatur. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Germanistik (GIG). Istanbul University, Turkey, 11. - 15. Oktober 2009
• Writing Africa – Teaching Literature in/of a Foreign Language. Reflections on locating culture. Discussion paper presented at Research Workshop “Africa in the World – Discourse Studies in Foreign Languages and Literature Teaching” held at the University of the Western Cape, 17 – 18 September 2009
• Zeugen und Gesellschaft. Über die Verhandlung von Werten am Beispiel von Jayne Taylors Ubu and the Truth Commission (1997) und Peter Weiss’ Die Ermittlung (1965), paper presented at the 2. Forum des Projekts Wertewelten „Szene & Tribunal: Orte der ‚Wertschöpfung’“. Tübingen, Germany, 10 - 14 Juli 2009
• Crossing the line: Storytelling and survival, Paper presented at Symposium on HIV/Aids Research at Stellenbosch University, 7 - 8 May 2009
• Furcht und Fremde – Verbrechen und Verdacht, paper presented at the 24th Conference for the Association of German Studies (SAGV), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6-8. April 2009
• Der einheimische Fremde: Migration und Ausgrenzung. Paper presented at 1. wissenschaftlicher Kongress des Verbands Germanistik in Afrika Subsahara (GAS) zum Thema „Migration gestern und heute: Erfahrungen und Repräsentationen“. Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2.– 5. Dezember 2008 
• Vom Sprechen zum Unaussprechlichen: Gewalt, Wahrheit und Versöhnung, paper presented at 1. Forum des Projekts Wertewelten: "Dialog der Kulturen - Kulturen des Dialogs", Tübingen, Germany, 19 - 22 November 2008,
• The German African Alumni Network (ganaa), presentation at a workshop entitled “Knowledge Networks. On the role of South African Universities in the revitalisation of Higher Education in South Africa”. STIAS, Stellenbosch University, 11 November 2008
• Sprachenpolitik und Sprachgebrauch: Zur Rolle der Fremdsprachen in Südafrika unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Deutschen, paper presented at 2nd ganaa Workshop on „Muttersprachen – Zweitsprachen – Fremdsprachen“, Oran University, Algeria, 10 – 15 October 2008
• Death of a Dream? Exploring culture and difference, paper presented at Colloquium “Transitions and Translations: Africa in the global imaginary” at Stellenbosch University, 25 July 2008
• Deutung und Bedeutung. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der literarischen Übersetzung. Eine deutsch-südafrikanische Perspektive. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Germanistik (GIG), Tel Aviv, Israel 15 - 19 June 2008
• Quality management: Introduction to self-evaluation of faculty, 1st International Deans’Course”, part III, co-hosted by DAAD, HRK German rectors’ Conference, Fachhochschule Osnabrück and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Moi University, Kenia & Addis Ababa University, Addis Abbaba University, Ethiopia, 10 – 15 February 2008
• Sprechen und Schreiben: Diskurse über HIV/AIDS in Südafrika (Deutsch-afrikanisches Symposium, Universität Hannover, 10. – 12. September 2007)
• Zur Verortung von Kultur, (23rd Conference of the SAGV, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg  2 – 4 April 2007)
• Umgang mit Gewalt (Kommunikation und Konflikt: Kulturkonzepte - Tagung der "Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Germanistik" (GIG),  Wien, 26. -30 September 2006
• Working with Freud, Introductory lecture at Freud Symposium “Working with Freud -150 years Freud”, Stellenbosch University, 31 August 2006
• Johannesburg – afrikanische Metropole im Konflikt der Kulturen? Wahrnehmungs-divergenzen und Synergien. Zu Norman Ohlers „Die Stadt des Goldes“ (International Association for German Studies - IVG, Paris Sorbonne, 26 August – 3 September 2005)
• Sagen, Schweigen, Blicken. Zu Elfriede Jelinek. (22nd Conference of the SAGV, University of Stellenbosch, April 2005)
• Gewalt, Trauma und HIV/AIDS. Zu Lutz van Dijks Jugendroman Township Blues. (21st Conference of the SAGV, University of Namibia, Windhoek April 2003)
• Writing about HIV and AIDS for young people. Lutz van Dijk’s novel Stronger than             the Storm. (First Conference on the Study and Research of Children’s Literature, University of Botswana, June 2002)
• Germanistik in Südafrika heute: Grenzen – neue,alte (20th Conference of the SAGV, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, March 2001)
• “Mapping the Exotic Body: Klaus Mann and André Gide in Africa”, (XVIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), University of South Africa, Pretoria, August 2000)
• “Die Angst davor, dass es rauskommt”. Exkurs über das Schweigen nach 1945, (Conference on „Representation of Jews in German Literature since 1945“, University of Ulster at Coleraine, UK, September 1999)
• “Voyeurismus und Film in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin”, (Fifth Annual East Coast Conference on Contemporary Austrian Culture, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA, September 1999)
• Klaus Mann in Afrika, (19th Conference of the SAGV, University of Cape Town, April 1999)
• Fascism, the Leader and the Masses: Mussolini’s Autobiography, (XIII. International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Boston, USA, July 1996, published in Literature and Psychoanalysis)
• Power, the Stage and Fascism: Mussolini’s ideation of the Self, (IX International Congress of the Association of Professional Italianists, University of the Witwatersrand, September 1995)
• Der verschlingende und der verschleierte Blick: Das Schau-Spiel der Macht in Klaus Manns Mephisto, (XII. International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Freiburg, Germany, June 1995)
• Literatur und Psychoanalyse: Beispiel Klaus Manns Mephisto, (17th Conference of the SAGV, University of Natal, Durban, April 1995)
• The silence of the Survivor: Memory and Language in Jurek Becker, (“Literary Responses to the Holocaust”, University of Cape Town, August 1994)
• “Das ist wahr: Neger stinken”: Masochismus und die Funktion der schwarzen Frau in Klaus Manns Roman Mephisto, (Xth International Conference in Literature and Psychoanalysis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 1993)
• Das  Schweigen des Juden als Überlebender: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung von Jurek Beckers Romanen Der Boxer und Bronsteins Kinder, (XVI. Conference of the SAGV, Stellenbosch University, April 1993)
• The function of the prostitute at the turn of the century with special reference to Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto, (Annual conference of SAVAL, Potchefstroom University, March 1993)
• History, discontinuity and the subject: On Heiner Müller’s The Task, (Annual conference of the Southern African Society for General Literary Studies (SAVAL),   Broederstroom, 1992) 
• Geschichte als Diskontinuität: Von der Unmöglichkeit des Subjekts in der Geschichte, plenary paper, (XV. Conference of the SAGV, University of the Witwatersrand, 1991) 
• Perspectives on the 1848 uprisings (with U. Kistner) (4th History Teachers’ conference, History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 1991)
• Jurek Becker’s novel The Boxer: The question of Jewish identity in modern-day Germany, (14th annual conference of The South African Jewish Studies Association at the University of South Africa, 1991)
• Masochismus  oder  die  Sprache  der Macht und Unterdrückung in Klaus Manns Mephisto. Roman einer Karriere, (3rd national workshop for German Studies, University of Natal, Durban in 1990)
• Schwarze Herrin und weißer Sklave: Sexualität und Wunschverhalten in Klaus Manns Mephisto. Roman einer Karriere, (2nd national workshop for German Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 1989)
• Masochismus und  Macht in Klaus Manns Mephisto, (1st  national workshop for German Studies, University of Cape Town, 1988)
• Geschlechtertausch.  Zu  Texten von Sarah Kirsch, Irmtraud Morgner und Christa Wolf, (12th Conference of the SAGV, Randse Afrikaanse University, Johannesburg 1986)
• Bemerkungen zur Macht in Dürrenmatts Der Besuch der alten Dame, (Conference of the SAGV, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg in 1985)
• 'Pfui Deifel'. Zu Oskar Panizzas Liebeskonzil, (X. Conference of the SAGV, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1984)
• 'Der Tod ist eine Frau'. Die Darstellung der Rolle der Frau bei Heiner Müller, (9th Conference of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa (SAGV), University of Port Elizabeth, 1983).

Conference and Workshop Organisation:

• Co-organizer of International Conference of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik (GiG) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 21 – 24 January 2013
• “Spiel und Leidenschaft”, First International Joint Conference by the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa and the Association for West African German Studies (GAS), University of Stellenbosch, 14 – 18 March 2010
• 3rd International ganaa (German Africa Network for Alumni) Workshop, University of Stellenbosch, 31 March – 4 April 2009
• Commemorating Symposium “Working with Freud”. 150 years of `Sigmund Freud (in conjunction with Austrian Consulate General). 31 August 2006
• Co-organiser of 22nd International Conference of the SAGV, Stellenbosch University, March 2005
• “Africa and Europe: Myths, Masks and Masquerades”, Wits University, 2 – 5 April 2001 (The conference was covered by SABC 2, DSTV SABC Africa, and the BBC)
• Co-organiser of 20th International Conference of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, Wits University, 29 – 31 March 2001
• Co-organiser of Biennial Main Congress of the South African Society for General Literary Studies (SAVAL), Wits University, 2-5 June 1998
• Co-organiser of DAAD Bursars Seminar at Wits University on 21 September 1992
• Co-organiser of 15th Conference of Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, April 1991
• School of European Languages and Literatures Research Seminars series,1991 – 1992
• Goethe Commemorative Exhibition, Wits Rembrandt Art Centre, 6-15 October 1982
• Co-organiser of workshop “Kanonbildung, Psychoanalyse, Macht”, University of Cape Town, June 1982