The poster presentations work continued at Tag der Offenen Tür in May 2006.

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1 Events: Past Events: In SS 2004 a series, South African Film Nights, was organized by Dorothea Steiner and Michela Borzaga; since May 2004, on every Tag der Offenen Tür, poster presentations are being organized featuring the current teaching program in "Intercultural Anglophone Studies and FOCUS SOUTH AFRICA" as well as the University of Salzburg's Foreign relations with Anglophone universities outside Europe. The next one is in May The poster presentations work continued at Tag der Offenen Tür in May SYMPOSIUM 2004: In December 2004, the first South Africa Symposium took place at the University of Salzburg, in which no less than 4 writers participated by giving readings and engaging in a panel discussion on "Literature and Politics". They were the notable author ANDRÉ BRINK and the 3 writer-critics ELLEKE BOEHMER, ISOBEL DIXON, and LEWIS NKOSI. Besides, scholars from Salzburg and South Africa (including many exchange students) presented their work in the fields of history, geography, philosophy, and theology. The Literature / Culture workshop (chaired by Dorothea Steiner) featured as speakers our departmental students Karina Dorn, Michela Borzaga, and Yi-heng Chen as well as linguistics student Martina Strommer.

2 Writers' panel chaired by D. Steiner Reading by André Brink introduced by Karina Dorn Literature / Culture Workshop featuring Masters' Students and D. Steiner CONFERENCES in 2005: Karina Dorn, Michela Borzaga and Dorothea Steiner participated in the Postcolonial Summer School in Berlin; Karina Dorn presented a paper at the J.M.Coetzee Conference in London and introduced André Brink at various international events; Dorothea Steiner organized a workshop on "Another Way of Thinking Transatlantic: America South Africa" in Frankfurt, and Michela Borzaga and Dorothea Steiner met Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee, when he was guest of the Salzburg Festival 2005 at which three of his novels were presented as dramatizations (Waiting for the Barbarians, In the Heart of the Country, Disgrace) under the direction of drama-chef, Martin Kusej. J. M. Coetzee talking to D. Steiner J. M. Coetzee signing a book for M.Borzaga CONFERENCE in 2006: A Dialog Conference on ). M. Coetzee, South African Nobel prize Winner" (22-24 June 2006, University of Salzburg) (as part of the project of the "Schwerpunkt Wissenschaft und Kunst") The Conference featured the notable South African scholars Derek Attridge and David Attwell (both York), Sue Kossew (Sydney), and Dirk Klopper (Stellenbosch) as weil as the distinguished writer and academic Zoe Wicomb (Strathclyde).

3 Triggered by the Salzburg Festival 2005's stage productions of three of Coetzee's novels, In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Disgrace, and its overall Coetzee-based drama focus "Waiting for the Barbarians - News from Civilization", the conference sought to address the following topics: 1. Nobel Prize Winners in Context (placing Coetzee among Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez); 2. Coetzee in the Context of contemporary South African writing: Zoe Wicomb's Reading, with comments; 3. Coetzee's Art and Artists (Keynote by D. Attridge); 4. Coetzee's Work up to the Nobel Prize (with lectures by D. Attwell, D. Klopper, E. Mengel, and M. Borzaga on aspects ranging from Practices of Estrangement to Subject, Body, and the Aesthetics of Rapture, to Truth and Reconciliation in Contemporary SA Novels, and the 'Heart of Language'); 5. Coetzee in the Classroom (featuring a group of students from D. Steienr's seminar who focused on central aspects in 4 Coetzee novels) 6. Novel into Film ("Dust" was introduced by M. Loimaier and discussed in the context of the novel In the Heart of the Country); 7. Novel into Opera (W.Piliinger from the University Mozarteum presented Phil Glass' opera based on Waiting for the Barbarians) 8. Coetzee's Work since 2003 (was covered in lectures by Wicomb and Kossew who both focused on Slow Man); this was followed by a panel discussion chaired by Attwell tying together the various strands of assessing Coetzee) 9. Novels on Stage (D. Steiner presented video clips from the festival productions and from the 2006-Munich production of Foe)

4 Library Aula University of Salzburg Nobel Prize Panel (C. Laferl, R. McLoughlin, H. Wallinger, S. Kossew) Derek Attridge & Zoe Wicomb Manfred Loimaier & Zoe D. Steiner with C. Laferl & students Zoe & Michela Borzaga Dirk Klopper & Sue Kossew David Attwell & D. Attridge Panel on Coetzee's work up to 2003 (Borzaga, Mengel, Klopper, Attwell)

5 Book Shop Lady R. Wassermann & Chidi Amaechi, our recording specialist Wolfgang Pillinger (Mozarteum) Zoe with African decorations RESEARCH: what has been accomplished? A poetry anthology (containing 22 poets contributing and 2 interviews) was published by Michela Borzaga and Dorothea Steiner, eds. Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader (Salzburg: Poetry Salzburg, 2004). --> for copies please write to orders@poetrysalzburg.com 21,80 (+ 1,50 p&p), for students 16,50 (+ 1,50 p&p) ( 3 masters' theses have been completed: Iris Panagger, "The History of South Africa as Apartheid History and Post-Apartheid Responses" Michela Borzaga, "Tatamkhulu Afrika: A Contemporary South African Poet ( )" Yi-heng Chen, "A Jewish Voice: Rose Zwi's Anti-Apartheid Discourse in her South African Fiction" 2 theses-in-progress: 2 doctoral dissertations, one on Nadine Gordimer's work since the end of Apartheid (by Karina Brink), the other on J. M. Coetzee (by Michela Borzaga) Contacts: Cooperation exists with other Austrian universities and institutions concerned with the representation and study of South Africa:

6 SADOCC (Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre), Vienna University of Vienna: Institut für Nederlandistik (esp. Rina Loader), Institut für Afrikanistik (esp. Anna Gottschligg-Ogidan), Institut für Anglistik (esp. Ewald Mengel) University of Innsbruck: Institut für Amerikanistik (Sonja Bahn) South African Embassy in Vienna (SAEMBVIE) Alte Schmiede, Vienna The purpose is mutual information about guests and events, joint organization of lectures and workshops, a sharing of visitors, invitation to conferences, exchange of publications, help with contacts and distribution of information, assistance Contacts with various professionals and institutions in Germany have been established, esp., at Mannheim (Manfred Loimeier), Potsdam, Bremen, Berlin, Hannover, as well as with Harvard (USA). Student exchange with the University of Stellenbosch Students can apply to study at Stellenbosch on an annual or semester basis; information is given by the coordinators, dorothea.steiner@sbg.ac.at (FB Anglistik) and gerhard. zecha@sbg.ac.at (FB Philosophie) Since 1996, 25 students and 17 professors from the Univ. of Salzburg have studied, taught, or done research at the partner university. In turn, 22 professors and (only) 1 Stellenbosch student has come to Salzburg. Students can newly apply for a DAF (Deutsch als Fremdsprache) fellowship; applications go to karl.mueller@sbg.ac.at (FB Germanistik). To date, two Salzburg students have used this opportunity. A survey of all the exchange activities since the informal beginnings of the Partnerschaft in 1996 is available from G. Zecha PLEASE VISIT OUR NEWSBOARD: FOCUS SOUTH AFRICA (next to Dorothea Steiner's office). On it, you find NEWS about the Stellenbosch exchange, announcements of events (in Salzburg and other places), guest speakers and visiting writers, fotographs of South Africans sites and notable people, and recent copies of the South African Embassy Bulletin (a gift of the South African Embassy in Vienna)

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