TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN (WIG)
29 October - 1 November 1998
Monte Toyon Retreat
220 Cloister La, Aptos, CA 95003
(408) 668-5420

German- American-Jewish author Jeannette Lander was invited to the 1998 WiG Conference. Visit the University of Georgia Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, where she will also be speaking, to learn more about the author.

PROGRAM

Thursday, 29 October

9:00-12:00 AM  Steering Committee Meeting (Seacliff Inn, Aptos)
      
3:00-7:00 PM Arrival, Registration, Room Assignment (Monte Toyon Retreat)
       
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner
        
7:00 PM Welcome Address, MRC Greenwood, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz
       
7:30-9:30 PM Evening Session:
ON BEING A TRANSCULTURAL IM/MIGRANT

Coordinators: Katrin Všlkner (Duke University)
Ursula Mahlendorf (University of California, Santa Barbara)
             
Panelists: Laura Ann McLary (University of Mississippi)
"From Mass-es to Miss-es"
Mareike Herrmann (Randolph-Macon College)
"‘Making Love with Absence’: Living and Working In Between Two Cultures"
Anita Brown (Ohio State University)
"On Being an Immigrant Daughter"

       
9:30-10:00 PM Small Group Discussion:
ON BEING A TRANSCULTURAL IM/MIGRANT
          
10:30 PM Screening of Ulrike Ottinger’s Exil Shanghai

Friday, 30 October

7:45 AM Screening of Ulrike Ottinger’s Exil Shanghai
         
8:00 AM Breakfast: Look for special tables to welcome WIG newcomers
            
9:15-11:45 AM DIASPORIC SUBJECTS: MEMORY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND BELONGING
Coordinators: Katrin Sieg (Indiana University)
Barbara Mennel (Bates College)
        
Panelists: Monika Shafi (University of Delaware)
"Points of (No) Return: Home and Displacement in Recent Novels by Jeannette Lander and Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch"
Marjanne GoozÈ (University of Georgia)
"Negotiating the Elsewhere in Lander’s Early Work)"
Kirsten Harjes (UC Berkeley) & Tanja Nusser (UC Berkeley)
"Travel and Memory in Ulrike Ottinger’s Exil Shanghai"
           
12:00 PM Lunch (with special tables for interest groups and newcomers)
            
1:00-3:30 PM CREATING A FEMINIST SYLLABUS
Coordinators: Lisa Yun Lee (Duke University)
Jeanette Clausen (Indiana University-Purdue)
          
Panelists: Lisa Yun Lee (Duke University)
"Get on the Syllabus: Steering Your Way Toward Creating a Feminist Course"
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming (Southwest Missouri State University)
"Challenges to Feminist Perspectives in Advanced Literature Classes"
Rebecca A. Raham & Brigitta M. Abel (University of Minnesota)
"Using the Syllabus to Structure the Feminist Classroom"
Laura A. McLary (University of Mississippi)
"Coerce, Subvert or Submit? A Feminist Syllabus for the New South"
             
3:30-5:15 PM WIG BUSINESS MEETING AND PLANNING SESSION
            
6:00-7:00 PM Dinner (with tables for special interest groups)
          
7:00-8:00 PM Lesbian Meeting
            
8:30-10:30 PM READING AND DISCUSSION WITH JEANETTE LANDER

 

Saturday, 31 October

8:00 AM Breakfast (with special interest groups)
                 
9:15-11:45 AM FEMINISMS DEUTSCH-DEUTSCH: FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE IN GERMANY SINCE 1989
NB: Experimental Session: Papers available before the conference on WiG Webpage
University of California, Berkeley Special Session -- Cosponsored by the German Department and the Center for German and European Studies of University of California at Berkeley
Coordinators: Sabine von Mering (Brandeis University)
Ruth-Ellen Joeres (University of Minnesota)
Beret Norman (University of Massachusetts)
          
Panelists: Ilse Nagelschmidt (Universit”t Leipzig)
"Zum Feminismusverst”ndnis ostdeutscher Autorinnen von und nach 1989"
Rick McCormick (University of Minnesota)
"Back to the Future: The East-West Debate on ‘Feminism’ at the 1990 WiG Conference"
Irene D–lling (Universit”t Potsdam)
"Warum es 1998 keinen Sinn mehr macht, von ‘ostdeutscher’ Frauenforschung zu sprechen"
       
12:00 NOON Lunch
       
12:30 PM Screening of Jutta Br¸ckner’s Hungerjahre
         
1:00-6:00 PM Free Time (Excursions to Beach / Monterey Aquarium /Wine Tasting)
       
6:00-7:00 PM Dinner
       
7:15-9:15 PM FEMALE AGGRESSION
Coordinators: Simone Novak (San Diego State University)
Jill Kowalik (University of California, Los Angeles)
        
Panelists: Susan Elizabeth Snyder (Creighton University)
" ‘Innen zerfressen von b–sen Taten’: Women as (Dis)empowered Aggressor in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Ausgesperrten"
Simone Novak (San Diego State University)
"‘I am ruined. And there is more to come’: Representations of Female Aggression in Euripedies’ and Christa Wolf’s Medea Texts"
Laura Lindenfeld (UC Davis)
"Consuming the Self: Internalized Aggression in Jutta Br¸ckner’s Hungerjahre"
         
9:30 PM until ? CABARET AND HEXENTANZ

 

Sunday, 1 November

8:00 AM Breakfast
       
8:30-10:00 AM CONCLUDING SESSION: WIG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT
       
12:00 Noon Lunch
      
Departure