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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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With generous support from the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, and The Goethe-Institut, Chicago.
Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies
April 26-28, 2001
Goethe-Institut,
150 N. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor
Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, April 26, 3:00 pm, Registration
5:30 pm:
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Poetry Reading by Albert Ostermaier
6:30 pm: Reception
Friday, April 27, 8:30 -9:00 am, Breakfast
Friday, April 27, 9:00-12:00 pm, Room 1
I. Rethinking Romanticism
Moderator: Robyn Schiffman, University of Chicago
1. Christina Gerhardt, University of California, Berkeley,"Meow! Bordercrossings in Hoffmann's Kater Murr"
2. Max Maier, University of Virginia, "Textual Insufficiency and the Reader in Lucinde and Der goldne Topf"
3. Thorsten Huth, University of Kansas, "Humor und Heiterkeit des Alterswerks Goethes am Beispiel des West-östlichen Divans"
4. James Kollenbroich, University of Illinois, Chicago, "A Pure Form: How the Grimms Changed Their Fairy Tales"
Friday, April 27, 9:00-12:00 pm, Room 2
II. Representations of History in Contemporary German Culture
Moderator: Brice Cantrell, University of Chicago
1. Kristin Teuchtmann, University of Minnesota, "Das visuelle Moment: Die Rolle der Fotografie in Anna Mitgutsch jüngstem Roman Haus der Kindheit"
2. Julie Hagedorn, New York University, "Might it be lying?:' Ray Müller's The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl"
3. Hope Hague, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Narrating Other Catastrophes: German Young-Adult Literature in the Shadow of the Holocaust"
Friday, April 27, 9:00-12:00 pm, Room 3
III. Representations within Genres
Moderator: Sabine Wieber, University of Chicago
1. Julia Augart , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, "Steven Soderbergh's Kafka: Visualizing the Kafkaesque"
2. Josh Kavaloski. University of Virginia,"The Surreptitious Collusion of Subjunctive and Future: Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften"
3. Hunter Bivens, University of Chicago, "Allegories of Soviet Autarky: Fascism, Consumption, and Socialist Mourning in Konrad Wolf's Lissy"
4. Barbara Meyer, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Andreas Gryphius: 'Cardenio und Celinde': The pedagogical aspect in the play"
Friday, April 27, 12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch
Friday, April 27, 1:00-3:00 pm, Room 1
IV. Traumatic Memories: German Culture in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Moderator: Andrea Scott, University of Chicago
1. Lilian Friedberg, University of Illinois, Chicago, "A Time yet to come. . ." Translation and Historical Representation in Ingeborg Bachmann's Poem 'Night Flight/Nachtflug;"
2. Anna Glazova, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam"
Friday, April 27, 1:00-3:00 pm, Room 2
V. wagners wasserbett: Masculinity and Myth
Moderator: David Greeves, University of Chicago
1. Thor Templin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Specter of Wotan"
2. Keith R. Green, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Wagner and the Nibelungs: The Importance of the Other in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century German Ethnicity"
3. Jason Tebbe, University of Illinois, Urbana, "Mannerbund and Homosexuality: The Case of Ernst Roehm"
4. Geoff Manaugh, University of Chicago,"'High on a fell she sleeps': Art, History, and Myth - Wagner's Siegried / Kiefer's Brünnhilde"
Friday, April 27, 3:00-3:15, Coffee Break
Friday, April 27, 3:15-5:15 pm, Room 1
VI. Germany and Democracy
Moderator: Sharlyn Rhee, University of Chicago
1. Chris Bauermeister, Purdue University, "The World Left Right Side Up:
Administrative Elites and Reform Ideology in Ancien Régime Hanover"
2. Réka Barabás, Bowling Green State,"Funktion und Rolle des Deutschen in Ungarn im Vorfeld der EU-Erweiterung"
3. Marc H. Lerner, Columbia University, "Early Retirement of David Friedrich Strauss and the Zuriputsch"
4. Jan Philipp Sternberg, Humboldt-Universität, "'Wanderlust' in post-war Germany: Migration and emigrants' advice bureaus, 1945-1961"
Friday, April 27, 3:15-5:15 pm, Room 2
VII. Positions of Resistance
Moderator: Bo-Mi Choi, University of Chicago
1. Susanne Wagner, "Der 20. Juli 1944 auf der Bühne"
2. Melissa Gayan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,"The Pope of Peace in World War II-His Reasons"
3. Frank M. Grelka, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, "German-Ukrainian relations in the period of World War I and World War II"
4. Lynette Deem, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, "Cleaning up the Balkans: The 1914 Invasion of Greece"
Friday, April 27, 7:00 pm
Berghoff Restaurant
17 W. Adams St.
312-427-3170
Saturday, April 28, 9:00-12:00 pm, Room 1
VIII. Apocalypse Now?
Moderator: Hunter Bivens, University of Chicago
1. Alexandra Huster and Edna Epelbaum, New York University, "Kaleidoscope FEAR: An analysis of fear in Helma Sanders-Brahms' Deutschland, bleiche Mutter"
2. Jameson Bell, Pennsylvania State University, "Peter Handke's 'Versuch über den geglückten Tag': An Ethic of Literary Perception"
3. Jason Dawsey, University of Chicago,"History After Hiroshima: Gunther Anders and the Critique of Nuclear Weapons"
4. Corina Petrescu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Narrative of Apocalypse: Günter Grass' Die Rättin"
Saturday, April 28, 9:00-12:00 pm, Room 2
IX. Claiming the Phallus
Moderator: Lillian Friedberg, University of Illinois, Chicago
1. Kari Foster, University of Notre Dame, "Nothing but a Housewife? Recasting Nazi Womanhood in Occupied Germany"
2. Susanne Buettner, University of West Virginia, "Christa Wolfs Kassandra und Medea"
3. Rebecca Mink, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Breaking Down Wall: Post-War Austrian Feminism in Haushofer's Die Wand and Jelinek's Die Liebhaberinnen"
4. Cathrin Winkelmann, McGill University,"(Lesbian) Love and Loss in Karen-Susan Fessel's Bilder von ihr"
5. Caron Jacobson, Wayne State University, "Testing Political Opportunity Models: Potential Barriers to Domestic Violence Movement Organizations in Post-Communist States"
Saturday, April 28, 12:00 -1:00 pm, Lunch Break
Saturday, April 28, 1:00 -3:00 pm, Room 1
X. Sweet Home, Foreign Land: Transformations of the Self
Moderator: Anna Gisbertz, University of Chicago
1. Sukanya Kulkarni, University of Pennsylvania,"Jakob van Hoddis Und seine Beziehung zu Indien"
2. Ihor Junyk, "'A Fragment From Another Context': Rainer Maria Rilke and Radical Classicism"
3. Marshelle Machtan, Bowling Green State University, "Rilke and Russia"
4. . Tessa Lee, Yale University ,"The Scent of Heimat: Memory and Representation in Edgar Reitz's Heimat"
Saturday, April 28, 1:00 -3:00 pm, Room 2
XI. Ethnicity and German Identity
Moderator: Darren Ilett, University of Chicago
1.Heather Dittmore Snow, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Turkish or German? An Inquiry About Language and Identity of Turks in Germany"
2. Carol Tiegs, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Leveling the Religious Playing Field: A Score for Multiculturalism and a New German Identity"
3. Angelo Georgakis, University of Minnesota, "Polish Migrant Workers in the Ruhr Valley of Germany (1870-1914): An Historiographical Overview"
4. Victoria Hegner, Humboldt University, "Jewish Migrants from the former Soviet Union in Berlin and in Chicago - A Comparative Study"
Saturday, April 28, 3:00- 3:15 pm: Coffee Break
Saturday, April 28, 3:15 -5:15 pm, Room 1
XII. Weimar and the Struggle for National Identity
Moderator: Jochem G.L.A. Riesthuis, University of Chicago
1. Eric Kurlander, Harvard University, "The Price of Exclusion: Ethnic Preoccupation and the Decline of German Liberalism 1898-1932"
2. Sean A. Forner, University of Chicago, "War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis: Weimar Germany and the Neue Wache, 1924-1931"
3. Jochem G.L.A. Riesthuis, University of Chicago, "Breaking the Myth of 'Germanness': A Barthesian interpretation of Klaus Mann's Vergittertes Fenster and Bruno Frank's Der Reisepass"
Saturday, April 28, 3:15-5:15 pm, Room 2
XIII. Searching for the "New Man" in the early Twentieth Century
Moderator: Veronika Füchtner, University of Chicago
1. Lisa Marie Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, "'Ein gebrochener Christus ohne Gott': The Search for the 'New Man' in the Early Plays of Georg Kaiser"
2. Celka Straughn, University of Chicago, "Jewish Expressionism? Viewing the Pathetiker exhibition at Der Sturm with the context of modern Jewish art in Berlin"
3. Thomas Weber, Oxford University, "Comparing Anti-Semitism in pre-1914 Heidelberg and Oxford"
4. Tracy Mays, University of Illinois, Chicago, "'Leuchten Sie hier': Darkness in Kafka's Der Proceß"
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