Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature

On September 08 and 09, the Department of English and German Studies will host the online conference "Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature": The conference has been organised by the departmental research group "Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English" and brings together around 80 researchers in the literature of war. The keynote presentations will be given by Professor Kate McLoughlin (Oxford University) and Professor Jay Winter (Yale University), two of the most internationally renowned specialists in their field, and Rachel Seiffert, a highly prestigious British novelist.