| 9.30 | Welcome from the Austrian Ambassador H. E. Dr. Thomas Nader and the German Ambassador H. E. Deike Potzel |
| 10.00 – 11.30 | Panel 1 – Alternative Perspectives on German Reunification (Chair: Leila Essa) Joseph Twist (UCD) – Brown Spectres in the Black Spring: The Fall of the Wall and Memory Debates in Zafer Şenocak’s ‘Berlin vor dem schwarzen Frühling’ Meryem Choukri (Warwick) – Archives of Resistance: Feminist Alliances of Women of Color in Germany Stephan Ehrig (UCD) – ‘It’s not the GDR, it’s the 90s that created an East German identity’: East Germans Reclaiming and Shifting Perspectives on 1989/90 (and beyond) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Break |
| 12.00-13.30 | Panel 2 – Current Irish Research (Chair: Jürgen Barkhoff) Rachel MagShamhráin (UCC) – A Kleist of One’s Own: Kleist’s Sister Sandra Aline Wagner (MIC) – Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in the German pen-and-paper game FHTAGN Caitríona Ní Dhúill (UCC) – Reading Austrian Literature in the Anthropocene |
| 13.30-15.00 | Break |
| 15.00-16.00 | AGM |
| 16.00-17.00 | Virtual Launch of Germanistik in Ireland, Vol. 15 (2020): Zeitgenossenschaft/Contemporaneity by Anne Fuchs |
German Studies Association of Ireland 