Founding conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic
Strange Worlds - Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century
Complete program (with links to the videos of the lectures at lecture2go)
Thursday, 30th September 2010
from 15.00 clock
Registration for the conference (room 222)
media room
16.30-17.00
Welcome and opening of the conference (Video)
17.00-18.45
Panel Discussion (Room 221)
"Researching the Fantastic in the 21st Century" (Video)
Chair: Astrid Böger (University of Hamburg)
Randi Gunzenhäuser (Technical University of Dortmund)
Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin)
Ingrid Tomkowiak (University of Zurich)
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner (University of Salzburg)
from 19.00 clock
Champagne reception in the foyer
Friday, 01th October 2010
09.00-10.30
1. The International Fantastic (Room 120)
Chair: Margarida McMurry (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Aslan Pelin (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)
To Cross Certain Frontiers: The Meanings of Alternative Worlds in the novels of Barış Müstecaplıoğlu (Video)
Tim Lanzendörfer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
A Pulitzer for Tolkien, Once Removed: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Fantasy as Literary Intertext (Video)
Patricia Garcia (Dublin City University / Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Perforations of Reality: the Motif of the Hole in the Spanish Contemporary Fantastic (Video)
2. Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction (Room 121)
Chair: Sarah Herbe (University of Salzburg)
Arianna Casali (Sapienza, University of Roma)
Facing the end of the world: Margaret Atwood's post apocalyptic science fiction novels between political criticism and environmental concern (the presentation was cancelled, but there is a post in the proceedings)
Ralph Pordzik (University of Würzburg)
Decentering the Human Mind: Anthropocentrism and the Other of Technology in Utopian and Science Fiction (Video)
Allan Weiss (York University, Toronto)
Disharmonies and Dystopias: The Social Function and Symbolism of Music in Dystopian Fiction (Video)
3. Constructions of Religious Traditions in Star Trek (I) (Room 122)
Head: Xenia Zeiler (University of Bremen)
Nadja Miczek (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg)
Prayers to the Holy Treasury, Mok'bara and the invocation of the Pah spirits. Ritual concepts in Star Trek reflected in current discursive negotiations of religiosity
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (University of Bremen)
"The Gates of Hell, Spock. We've broken out of worse places.” The Constructing of Postmortem Imaginations in the Changing Star Trek Universe
Xenia Zeiler (University of Bremen)
The ambivalence of "evil" in religious and ritual constructions in Star Trek. The Bajoran religion against the background of Hindu-Tantric religious and ritual traditions
4. The Fantastic Movie (Room 123)
Head: Jeanne Cortiel (University of Bayreuth)
Meike Uhrig (Stanford University)
been to the cinema cried. – On the emotional impact of the fantasy genre
Simon Spiegel (freelance scientist)
A blue miracle - naturalization, alienation and digital figures in James Cameron's avatar (Video)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.30
5. Inaccessible Issues – Gender, Sex and Trauma (Room 120)
Chair: Paul Beehler (University of California Riverside)
Colin Johnson (Indiana University, Bloomington)
The Little Gay Bar on the Prairie: Film, Fantasy and the Unfinished Business of Queer World Making (Video)
Julie Miess (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Attack of the Female Monster Hero (Video)
Christian Knöppler (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Negotiating Cultural Trauma through Fantastic Spaces: Giant Monsters and 9/11 (Video)
6. The Gothic, the Uncanny and the Monstrous (Room 121)
Chair: Daniel Illger (Free University of Berlin)
Petra Eckhard (University of Graz)
The Un-Canny/Comic: Paul Auster's City of Glass (Graphic Novel) (Video)
Anya Heise-von der Lippe (Free University of Berlin)
'Patchwork' - On the Difficulties of Translating Monsters
Markus Oppolzer (University of Salzburg)
Strange Embrace: Visualizing the Fantastic in Comics (Video)
7. Constructions of Religious Traditions in Star Trek II (Room 122)
Head: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (University of Bremen)
Tilman Hannemann (University of Bremen)
Puzzling Religion: The processing of global conflicts and media change in Star Trek Enterprise, "Chosen Realm"
Idris Simon Riahi, Şemsettin Tabur, Christian Uhrig (University of Bayreuth)
Religion as a political tool. Religious and literary observations on the construction of religion as a place of protection in Star Trek Enterprise
Nina Gehring (University of Hanover)
Chakotay - Stereotypical Quota Indian or Example of Positive Representation of Spirituality?
8. Fantasy for Children and Teens (Room 123)
Head: Ingrid Tomkowiak (University of Zurich)
Aleta-Amirée von Holzen (University of Zurich)
Marvel-lous masked men: dual identities in superhero films (Video)
Christine Lötscher (Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media SIKJM / University of Zurich)
"What in the devil are you?" Animated books in fantastic (children's and young adult) literature (Video)
Petra Schrackmann (University of Zurich)
Knowledge as a threshold - urban fantasy for children and young people in media transfer (Video)
12: 30–13: 30 pm
Lunch break
13: 30–14: 00 pm
Fantastic research – research on site (Room 221 – Lecture Hall)
Presentation of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar
Dipl. Bibli. Bettina Twrsnick
14: 00–15: 30 pm
9. Haunting Technology and Cyberpunk (Room 120)
Chair: Marleen S. Barr (Fordham University)
Minwen Huang (Leipzig University)
The Haunted House of Science Fiction: Modern Ghosts, Crypts, & Technologies
Sarah Herbe (University of Salzburg)
Is the Scientist Still Mad? The Presentation of Scientists in Contemporary Science Fiction Dealing with Biotechnology (Video)
Birgit Pretzsch (University of Koblenz-Landau)
"I'm a late-twenty-first-century-techno-crone": Bodies and Subjectivities in Cyberpunk (Video)
10. The Fairy Tale and the Fantastic (Room 121)
Chair: Karin Kokorski (University of Osnabrück)
Ezra Plummer (University of Nottingham)
The Enchanted Tales of Unica Zürn: From Myth to Madness (Video)
Catriona McAra (University of Glasgow)
Re-reading Max Ernst's Two Children… Through the Kunstmärchen of the Brothers Grimm (Video)
Paul AJ Beehler (University of California, Riverside)
Change and Sexuality: Ursula and Ariel as Markers of Metamorphosis in The Little Mermaid (Video)
11. Language and Fantasy (Room 122)
Head: Julia Boog (University of Hamburg)
Pamela Steen (University of Hamburg)
"I've got sone extra pille" - fictionalization in everyday conversations
Martin GE Sternberg (freelance scientist)
Materiality of characters and materiality of the world in fantasy at the beginning of the 21st century (Video)
Jochen Walter (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
An island of reality in the sea of fantasy: Latin
12. Between Horror and Catastrophe (Room 123)
Head: Jacqueline de Giacomo (freelance scientist)
Daniel Illger (Free University of Berlin)
Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy and the Grotesque Pictorial Space (Video)
Janina Scholz (freelance scientist)
Blood and Sex. Crossing borders in fantastic TV series
13. Fantasy author reading (room 221 – lecture hall)
Direction: Frank Weinreich (German Tolkien Society)
Eva Mehrbrey – The Lady of Dragons (Video)
Oliver Plaschka – The Magicians of Montparnasse (Video)
Thomas Finn- The Spark of Chronos (Video)
15: 30–16: 00 pm
Coffee break
16: 00–17: 00 pm
14. Gothic Worlds (Room 120)
Chair: Stefanie Krüger (University of Osnabrück)
Elaine Hewitt / Marta Gomez Moreno (University of Granada)
The Strange World of Japanese Gothic Literature
Marta Maria Gutierrez Rodriguez (University of Valladolid)
The Fantastic Worlds of the Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Fictional Journey to the Present
15. Music and the Fantastic (Room 121)
Chair: Kerstin Frank (University of Heidelberg)
Agnieszka Jedrzejczyk-Drenda (Middlesex University)
Magical Musical: Musicalized Spaces in Fantastic Literature (Video)
Isabella van Elferen (Utrecht University)
Music of Other Spheres: Diagonal Time, Virtuality, and Metaphysics in Lost
16. Fantasy and Politics (Room 122)
Chair: Britte Madeleine Woitschig (freelance scientist)
Peter Seyferth (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Preliminary considerations for a fantastic political science (Video)
Friedhelm Schneidewind (author, editor and publisher)
Fantastic as a peacemaker? The fantastic and in particular fantasy as a mediator of cultural knowledge and cross-cultural understanding, illustrated by the image of the dragon (Video)
17. Fantasy, Genre and Theory I (Room 123)
Head: Hans Harald Müller (University of Hamburg)
Marco Frenschkowski (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
The emergence of the genre of fantastic-imaginative storytelling: a religious-scientific contribution (Video)
Frank Weinreich (German Tolkien Society)
The fantastic is not fantastic. Presentation and evaluation of the real-world references of the fantastic with a view to future cultural roles of fantastic literature, films and (computer) games
18. Reading Fantasy / Science Fiction (Room 221 - Lecture Hall)
Head: Ralph Pordzik (University of Würzburg)
Ju Honisch – Beyond the carousel (Video)
Benedict Marco – "How to Change" (Video)
17: 00–17: 15 pm
Coffee break
17: 15–19: 00 pm
General Assembly of the GFF (Room 221) (D)
19: 00–20: 00 pm
Keynote Lecture (Room 221 – Lecture Hall) (E)
The Art and Science of Heterocosmic Creativity (Video)
dr Brian Stableford
Saturday / Saturday 02 October 2010
09.00-10.30
19. Fantasy in Young Adult Literature (Room 120)
Chair: Anne Klaus (University of Osnabrück)
Karin Kokorski (University of Osnabrück)
'It's magical!' – Supernatural Elements in Children's Literature and Young Adult's Fiction (Video)
Lily Glasner (Bar-Ilan University)
Taking a Zebra to Vegas: Allegorical Reality in Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Farah Mendlesohn (Middlesex University)
The Domestic Landscape of Children's Fantasy - How early children's fantasy confined the fantastic (Video)
20. Gothic and Fantastic in the 18th and 19th Century (Room 121)
Chair: Marta Gomez Moreno (University of Granada)
Sladja Blazan (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The Daemon of Tedworth from 17th Century England to 20th Century cinema: a Reevaluation of Ghosts" (Video)
Kerstin Frank (University of Heidelberg)
Grappling with Modernity and its Moral Challenges: The Emergence of the Modern Fantastic in Eighteenth-Century England (Video)
Agata Zarzycka / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (University of Wroclaw)
On Alien Alders: The "Earlking" Inspirations in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher Saga as a Metonimization of the Discourse of Difference (Video)
21. Myth, Religion and Ethics (Room 122)
Head: Sebastian Emling (Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg)
Anja Stürzer (freelance scientist)
The desacralization of the world - Mircea Eliade's concept of "sacred space" and cryptoreligious spaces in the novels The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter (Video)
Francesca Yardenit-Albertini (University of Potsdam)
Myth and religiosity in the TV and film series Star Trek (1966–2009) (Video)
Holger Nielen (University of Bonn)
Metaphysical and Ethical Aspects of the Starship Voyager Episode "Tuvix" (Video)
22. Fantastic, Boundaries and Spaces (Room 123)
Head: Jacek Rzeszotnik (University of Wroclaw / Breslau)
Uwe Durst (University of Stuttgart)
Bounded and Unbounded Wonderful Systems: From Bourgeois to Magical Realism (Video)
Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin)
Fantastic and/as liminality - Some theoretical considerations (Video)
Henning Kasbohm (University of Hamburg)
The disorder of spaces - contribution to the discussion about an operationalizable concept of the fantastic (Video)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.30
23. Politics, Science Fiction and Utopia (Room 120)
Chair: Jacobo Canaday (University of Seville)
Marleen S Barr (Fordham University)
Fantastic Language/Political Reporting: The Science Fiction Illocutionary Force Is With Us (Video)
Christopher Leslie (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
The New Wave's Cultural Strategy: The Cold War, Science Fiction, and the Irrational (Video)
Ingo Cornils (University of Leeds)
'Yesterday's snow is tomorrow's avalanche.' Utopian, dystopian and subversive strategies in recent German alternate history fiction. (Video)
24. Buffy, Supernatural and Twilight (Room 121)
Head: Dorothea Schuller (University of Göttingen)
Michael Fuchs (University of Graz)
Breaking the Mirror: Reality, Holes between Universes, and Supernatural (Video)
Jacquelin de Giacomo (Freelance Scientist)
Angels of Twilight: Gothic Transmutations of the Fallen Angel Narrative in Final Fantasy 7, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Saga
Maria Verena Siebert (Ruhr University Bochum)
From Buffy to Twilight - A Feminist Backlash in Youth Vampire Fiction? (Video)
25. Ritual, Religion and Vampirism (Room 122)
Head: Anja Stürzer (freelance scientist)
Strange, familiar vampire world? – On the construction of alterity and rituality in True Blood
Nadja Miczek (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg) – Introduction
Katja Rakow (Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg) – characters/plot
Sebastian Emling (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg) – "The Familiar"
26. Fantastic in the 18th and 19th centuries (Room 123)
Head: Martin Sternberg (freelance scientist)
Jörg Schönert (University of Hamburg)
Fantastic from a genre historical point of view. On the constitutional phase of Gothic and horror novels in German-language fiction around 1800
Evelyne Jacquelin (University of Artois)
The fantastic and the wonderful: disqualifying the “ghostly” in Goethe's conversations with German emigrants
Peter Hühn (University of Hamburg)
Gruesome Family Stories: On the Plot Structure of English Gothic Novels
27. Japanese Fantasy Worlds (Room 221 - Lecture Hall)
Head: Janina Scholz (freelance scientist)
Benedict Marko (Trier University)
Visual Labyrinths: The Image of the City in the Oshii Mamorus Cinema (Video)
Wolfgang Baker (Trier University)
From the picture scroll to the video game - medial transposition in the video game series Star Fox (Video)
Andreas Regelsberger (Trier University)
Dark Japan: Epiphanies and Dystopian Worlds in the Movies of J-Horror (Video)
12: 30–13: 30 pm
Lunch break
13: 30–14: 00 pm
Researching the Fantastic - On-Site Presentation
Introducing the Eaton Collection - University of California, Riverside
Paul Beehler / Wallace Cleaves (Room 221 - Lecture Hall)
14: 00–15: 30 pm
28. New Theories of Science Fiction (Room 120)
Chair: Allan Weiss (York University)
Natalia Samutina (Higher School of Economics Moscow)
Future is in the Present, Love is in the Past? Cult Movies and Science Fiction in the 21st Century (Video)
Jeanne Cortiel (University of Bayreuth)
Fantastic Science: Converging Technologies, Risk and Popular Culture (Video)
Iveta Leitane (Freelance Scientist)
The extended self in SF: between autonomous and anthropological self. (Unfortunately, the lecture had to be cancelled.)
29. Fantastic: Genre, Fashion, Style (Room 121)
Chair: Caroline Webb (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Bülent Somay (Istanbul Bilgi University)
The Fantastic and the Mimetic (unfortunately had to be canceled)
Stefanie Krüger (University of Osnabrück)
Alternative Worlds - The Fantastic in the 21st Century (Video)
Sandor Klapcsik (University of Jyvaskyla)
Liminality and Transgression in '21st Century Stories' (Video)
30. Adaptation, Parody and Bricolage in the Fantastic (Room 122)
Head: Christine Lötscher (SIKJM / University of Zurich)
Maren Conrad (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel)
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers - allegories and parodies of post-structural literary theory in the fantasy subject of Zamonia
Inken Frost (European University Viadrina)
fairytale forests. The topos 'forest' in European fairy tales and its modern interpretations (Video)
Britta Madeleine Woitschig (freelance scientist)
Characters in Comics and Manga as Bricolage: Fantastic Storytelling (Video)
31. Discourses of Science Fiction Film (Room 123)
Head: Hans Esselborn (University of Cologne / Jagiellonian University of Kraków)
Thomas Zwenger (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
The historical-philosophical turn of science fiction using the example of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Video)
Jörg Hartmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
The spaceship in the science fiction film. On the metaphors of cosmic evasion. (Video)
Martin Wambsganß (University of Tübingen)
Pandora's Empty Box - Fantastic timidity in James Cameron's bourgeois SF spectacle Avatar (Video)
32. Fantastic in Europe (Room 221 - Lecture Hall)
Head: Tim Lanzendörfer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Julia Boog (University of Hamburg)
Inside Views – Phantasmagoria in Yoko Tawada's The Naked Eye
Hans-Harald Müller (University of Hamburg)
Forms and functions of the fantastic in the work of Arthur Schnitzler and Leo Perutz (Video)
Jacek Rzeszotnik (University of Wroclaw / Breslau)
Fantastic in Europe: Faces of Polish Non-Realist Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Video)
15: 30–16: 00 pm
Coffee break
16: 00–17: 30 pm
33. Contemporary Vampires (Room 120)
Chair: Julie Miess (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Marie Löffler (Leipzig University)
Reconfigurations of Interracial Desire in Contemporary African American Women's Vampire Fiction
Simone Knewitz (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
God Hates Fangs? Morality, Ideology, and the Domesticated Vampires in Contemporary American Culture (Video)
Dorothea Schuller (University of Goettingen)
"Glutted with Strangeness": Appetite, Art, and Otherness in Suzy McKee Charnas' The Vampire Tapestry (Video)
34. Science Fiction Literature (Room 121)
Chair: Christopher Leslie (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
Jacobo Canaday (University of Seville)
Difference and Resistance in MT Anderson's Feed (Video)
Florian Bast (Leipzig University)
Fantastic Voices: Octavia Butler's First-Person Narrators
Edward James (University College Dublin)
Finding Physical Space: Disability in the Vorkosigan Universe (Video)
35. Between ritual, myth and ethics – fantasy and role play (Room 122)
Head: Lucia Traut (University of Münster)
Lucia Traut (University of Munster)
Ritualized imagination in the fantasy role-playing game The Dark Eye (Video)
Thimo Zirpel (University of Munster)
'There is no good and evil, only decisions and consequences' – The Witcher as a venue for contemporary moral conflicts (Video)
Fabian Perlini-Pfister (University of Zurich)
play and self-experience. A myth-theoretical view of intermedial fantasy culture. (Video)
36. Fantasy and Film (Room 123)
Head: Wolfgang Bäcker (University of Trier)
Ingrid Tomkowiak (University of Zurich)
In light of the occasion: Tim Burton and the fantastic (Video)
Vera Cuntz-Leng (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Frodo astray - The queer potential of current fantasy cinema
37th Author Reading – Mystery / Fantasy (D) (Room 221 – Lecture Hall)
Direction: Eva Mehrbrey (author)
Thomas Kohlschmidt – The last Bus (Video)
Gesa Schwartz Grim: The Seal of Fire (Video)
Friedhelm Schneiderwind – Middle-earth is our world (unfortunately had to be canceled)
17: 30–18: 30 pm
38. Elements of the Fantastic (Room 120)
Chair: Elaine Hewitt (University of Granada)
Anne Klaus (Osnabrueck University)
'Real adventures weren't about Hogwarts and Muggles' – Intertextual References in Hemingway's Sangreal-Trilogy (Video)
Regina Uhlen (University of Freiburg)
Deadly Enemies, Companions in Arms or Friends for Life - the Multi-Faceted Relationship of Hero and Dragon in Modern Fantastic Literature. (Video)
39. Author's Reading – Horror / Fantasy (D) (Room 121)
Chair: Ole J. Christiansen (University of Hamburg)
Thomas Plischke – The zombies (Video)
40. Fantasy, Genre and Theory II (Room 122)
Direction: Friedhelm Schneidewind (author, editor, publisher)
Melanie Knaup (University of Bayreuth)
Performance of Transition – Paths into the Spaces of Contemporary Fantastic Literature (Video)
Helmut W. Pesch (freelance scientist)
Fantasy and intertextuality - On a paradigm shift in genre typology (Video)
41. Fantastic World in Middle-earth, Medieval and Role-Playing (Room 123)
Head: Marco Frenschkowski (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Florian Schmid (University of Hamburg)
The desire for adventure and winning great honor? Reflections on the Foreign World in “Laurin”
Maximilian Vogelmann (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg)
Life role-playing game and fantasy - result of a qualitative study at the Drachenfest 2009 (Video)
42. Author's Reading - Science Fiction (E) (Room 221 – Lecture Hall)
Head: Ingo Cornils (University of Leeds)
Alan Weiss - "The Whole Megillah" (Video)
Marleen S Barr – Oh Pioneer! (A Reading From a Humorous Feminist Academic SF Novel) (Video)
18: 30–18: 45 pm
Coffee break
18: 45–19: 45 pm
Exclusive Reading (Room 221 – Lecture Hall)
Pocketful of Faces (Video)
Paul DiFilippo
Sunday, 03th October 2010
09.30-11.00
43. Fantastic, Magic Realism and Slipstream (Room 120)
Chair: Lily Glasner (Bar-Ilan University)
Caroline Webb (University of Newcastle, Australia)
From Narnia to Now: Magic Realism, Fantasy, and Postmodernism
Alicia E. Ellis (Hampshire College / University of Konstanz)
Adaptation, Telling and Re-telling: Ransmayr Revises Ovid (Unfortunately, the lecture had to be cancelled.)
44. Fantastic Stories of Influence (Room 121)
Chair: Colin Johnson (Indiana University Bloomington)
Rene Schallegger (Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt)
The Nightmares of Politicians - On the rise of Fantasy from subcultural to mass-cultural phenomenon (Video)
Margarida McMurry (University of Oslo)
Stories matter - the treatment of story in JRR Tolkien and Terry Pratchett (Video)
Wallace T. Cleaves (University of Riverside, California)
Grimmerie and Primer: Wicked and Diamond Age as Instructional Texts (Video)
45. Fantastic Movie (Room 122)
Chair: Minwen Huang (Leipzig University)
Christian Lenz (TU Dortmund)
Love Your Zombie - Romancing the Un-Dead (Video)
Jan Christoph Meister (University of Hamburg)
From Don Juan and Donnie Darko: Towards a Metaphysics of the Fantastic (Video)
Caroline Webb
From Narnia to Now: Magic Realism, Fantasy and Postmodernism (Video)
46. Science Fiction in Development (Room 123)
Head: Peter Seyferth (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Hans Esselborn (University of Cologne / Jagiellonian University of Kraków)
The change in German science fiction from technical science fiction to depicting alternative worlds)
Meret Fehlmann (University of Zurich)
Strange and yet familiar – The image of the Neanderthal in 'Prehistoric Fiction'
Anke Woschech (TU Dresden)
'Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway' - On the change in technology and history semantics in science fiction using the example of the television series Battlestar Galactica (Proceedings)
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
11: 30–13: 00 pm
Author discussion and final talk (room 221)
"The Future of Fantastic in the 21st Century" (Video)
Main organiser: Lars Schmeink (University of Hamburg)
Michael Siefener
Thomas Plischke
Christoph Hardebusch
Bernhard Hennen
Ju Honisch
Overview:
- Annual conference Hamburg 2010
- Annual conference Salzburg 2011
- Annual conference Zurich 2012
- Annual conference Giessen/Wetzlar 2013
- Annual conference in Klagenfurt 2014
- Annual Conference Tübingen 2015
- Annual Conference Munster 2016
- Annual Conference Vienna 2017
- Annual conference Friborg 2018
- Annual Conference Berlin 2019
- Annual conference Augsburg 2020
- Annual conference Cologne / Bamberg 2021
- Annual Conference Dortmund 2022
- Annual Conference Dresden 2023
- Annual meeting Kassel 2024
- Annual Conference Gießen 2025
- Annual Conference Cologne 2026
