Schedule

Friday, February 17, 2004 (Herter 227)

7:00 p.m. Opening reception and Screening of "Masjävlar" (Dalecarlians, 2004, directed by Maria Blom)

Saturday, February 18, 2006 (Herter 601)

8:30-9:30 a.m. Coffee and Muffins

9:30-11:00 a.m. Session I: Subculture: Questioning Authority
Chair: Florence Feiereisen, UMass Amherst

  • Katie Sutton (German and Swedish Studies, University of Melbourne): "Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Representations of Queer Female Experience in 1920s Germany"
  • Bastian Heinsohn (German Studies, University of California Davis): "Gerhard Klein's Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (1957): Heimat and the Role of the Urban Setting in East Germany's Quest for a New Identity"
  • Melissa Gazo (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Attempts of Spatial Transgression: When 'Writing' Crosses Borders"

11:00-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session II: Perceiving an(O)ther
Chair: Rachael Salyer, UMass Amherst

  • Erin Sullivan (Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Framing Insanity: Expressionism and the Production and Reception of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"
  • Adile Esen (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan): "Exoticism and the 'Orient' in the 'New' German Transnational Cinema: Fatih Akin's Experimentation on Cities and Genders in Gegen Die Wand"

12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 p.m. Session III: (Con)Textual Infusions in German and Scandinavian Studies
Chair: Kyle E. Frackman, UMass Amherst

  • Michael Moynihan (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Denmark and Germany at the Twilight of the Enlightenment and the Dawn of the Germanic Renaissance"
  • J. Laurence Hare, Jr (History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill): "'When the Germans Ran Wild in Denmark': The Discovery of Prehistory and the German-Danish Wars, 1848-1864"
  • Dean Krouk (Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, University of California Berkeley): "The Politics of Authentic Dwelling: On the Antimodernism of Heidegger and Hamsun"

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break

3:45-5:30 p.m. Discussion: "Experimenting with the Canon: What do Graduate Students need to read?"

6:00 p.m. Dinner (à la carte) in downtown Amherst

Sunday, February 19, 2006 (Herter 601)

8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Muffins

9:30-11:00 a.m. Session IV: Politics of Presence
Chair: Alison Behling, UMass Amherst

  • Evan Torner (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "DEFA Science Fiction"
  • Laurie Taylor (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "'Das Ende der Dialogkultur': Counter-hegemonic Subjectivities and Kanak Attak's Political Activism"
  • Timothy A. Delaune (Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "The Free Town of Christiania: An Endangered Experiment in Radical Self-Government"

11:00-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session V: Gendering Bodies
Chair: Anne Hector, UMass Amherst

  • Juliette Brungs (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Body Disfranchisement and Body Reproduction in Nazi Cinema and Photography"
  • Alexandra Merley (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst): "The Art of Conspiracy: Magnus von Plessen and the Frustrated Gaze"

12:45 p.m. Closing remarks

Post-conference/ Lunch gathering in downtown Amherst