This annual conference offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature the opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. The ninth meeting will take place at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on Thursday, 24 and Friday, 25 May 2012, and the organisers would like to invite offers of papers on any aspect of modern Austrian literature.

If you are interested in giving a paper, please send an abstract of not more than 400 words to heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk by 15 February 2012.

If you have any general queries about the conference, please contact Heide Kunzelmann at the above address or telephone her on +44 (0)20 7862 8959. A programme will be available in April. Further information on the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre is available at

http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/centres-societies/ingeborg-bachmann-research-centre.html