Prawer Lecture:
annual
postgraduate lecture
The annual Prawer lecture promotes the work of outstanding postgraduate students working on any aspect of literature, culture and history in the German-speaking world from 1700-1900. The first lecture was held in the academic year 2021-22. Each year, the winner will be invited to address the EGS, and the lecture published in a subsequent issue of PEGS. In addition, the lecture carries a cash prize of £300.
Graduate students registered at any higher education institution worldwide are invited to send abstracts of up to 500 words to Astrid Köhler (a.kohler@qmul.ac.uk), Charlotte Lee (cll38@cam.ac.uk) and Charlie Louth (charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk) by Friday 28 June, 2024. Enquiries may also be directed to these addresses.
Please note that applicants will need to be registered as a student on 1 October 2024 in order to be eligible.
Please note that applicants will need to be registered as a student on 1 October 2024 in order to be eligible.
2024
RACHEL WONG (Chicago)
Oceanic Resonances in Schiller’s Ring des Polykrates
Oceanic Resonances in Schiller’s Ring des Polykrates
2023
SARAH FENGLER (Oxford)
Gessner’s Voegel, Klopstock’s Frühlingswürmchen, and Lavater’s Schmetterling. Metaphors of Mortality and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century Religious Literature
Gessner’s Voegel, Klopstock’s Frühlingswürmchen, and Lavater’s Schmetterling. Metaphors of Mortality and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century Religious Literature
2022
ANHAD ARORA (Oxford)
Fanny Mendelssohn’s ‘Divan’
Fanny Mendelssohn’s ‘Divan’
Siegbert Salomon Prawer (1925-2012)
taught at Birmingham, at Westfield College, London, and at Oxford, where he was
Taylor Professor of German between 1969 and 1987. He and his sister Ruth (later
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) had fled Germany in 1939. Siegbert Prawer was a
scholar of immense breadth, his work ranging from poetry to film, from Heine to
Marx, and beyond German studies to comparative literature. He was President of
the EGS from 1998 to 2003. The naming of the lecture pays tribute to Siegbert
Prawer’s charisma as a speaker and to his unflagging encouragement of students
and younger scholars.
In written correspondence, he would often accompany his signature with a doodled self-portrait.
In written correspondence, he would often accompany his signature with a doodled self-portrait.
An obituary of Siegbert Prawer can
be found in PEGS, 81 (2012), 198-201.