TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN (WIG)
28 - 31 October 1999
Monte Toyon Retreat
220 Cloister La, Aptos, CA 95003
(408) 668-5420

PROGRAM

Thursday, 28 October

9:00-12:00 AM  Steering Committee Meeting (Seacliff Inn, Aptos)
4:00-7:00 PM Arrival, Registration, Room Assignment (Monte Toyon Retreat)
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner
7:00 PM Welcome Address, MRC Greenwood, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz
7:30-9:00 PM EVENING SESSION
TEXTS THAT MOVED US II

Coordinators: Lisa Roetzel (UC Irvine)
Wendy Arons (University of Notre Dame)
Panelists: Jenneke Oosterhoff (Univeresity of Minnesota)
Beth Kautz (Valpanso University)
Jeanette Clausen (Indiana University-University)
Barbara Drescher (University of Minnesota)

9:00-9:30 PM SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION: TEXTS THAT MOVED US
10:00 PM Screening of Film in conjunction with Interdisciplinary Discussion Session

Friday, 29 October

7:45 AM Screening of Film in conjunction with Interdisciplinary Discussion Session
8:00 AM Breakfast: Look for special tables to welcome WIG newcomers
9:15-11:45 AM INTERDISCIPLINARY PANEL:
THE BODY AND IDENTITY: ESSENTIAL/EXPERIENTIAL/CONSTRUCTED

NB: Experimental Session: Papers available before the conference on WiG Webpage;
Panelists will not read papers at conference
Coordinators: Marjorie Gelus (California State University, Sacramento)
Ruth-Ellen Joeres (University of Minnesota)
Jennifer Ruth Hosek (University of California, Berkeley) 
Panelists: Sandra Harding (University of California, Los Angeles)
Tina Campt (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Sue-Ellen Case (University of California, Davis)
12:00 PM Lunch (with special tables for interest groups and newcomers)
1:00-3:30 PM (RE)CONSTRUCTING WEIMAR WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE 'KULTURSTADT EUROPAS 1999'
Coordinators: Carol Anne Costablile-Heming (Southwest Missouri State University)
Sandra Alfers (University of Massachussets, Amherst)
Panelists: Gaby Pailer (University of Karlsruhe)
    "Nur Schillers bessere Hälfte? Charlotte von Schiller als Weimarer Autorin"
Jürgen Heinrichs (Seton Hall University)
    "Not a Black and White Affair: The Photography of Martha Astfalck- Vietz"
Stephanie Bretschneider, Detlef Garz, Stefan Kanke (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg)
    "Weimar hat einen eigentümlichen Reiz-- die letzten Töne einer wahrhaft von Grösse erfüllten Zeit waren noch immer nicht ganz verklungen": The Life of an actress in the Weimar and National Socialist Germany"
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 HOW TO REMAIN VISIBLE IN AN INCREASINGLY DISAPPEARING FIELD
Coordinators: Britt Abel (University of Minnesota)
Anna K. Kuhn (University of California, Davis)
Panelists: Ursula Mahlendorf (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    "Surefire Ways for Germanists to Commit Professional Suicide"
Brigitte Rossbacher (Washington University)
    "Teaching Technology and the Academic Job Market"
Anna K. Kuhn (UC Davis)
    "Can This Program be Saved?: A Report From the Culture Wars"
9:30 PM Screening of Film in conjunction with Interdisciplinary Discussion Session

Saturday, 30 October

8:00 AM Breakfast (with special interest groups)
9:15-11:45 AM INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION SESSION WITH PANELISTS ON BODY AND IDENTITY: ESSENTIAL/EXPERIENTIAL/CONSTRUCTED
Coordinators:
Panelists:
12:00 NOON Lunch
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 CLAIMING THE EAST: CONTESTING IDENTITY TEN YEARS AFTER REUNIFICATION
Coordinators: Gabrielle Weinberger (Lenoir-Rhyne College)
Jennifer Hosek (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Ilse Nagelschmidt (University of Leipzig)
    "Das Leben zwischen den Zeiten und den Orten"
Hilary Collier Sy-Quia (UC Berkeley)
    "Boxed In and Shut Out: Women in Christa Wolf's Medea Stimmen Read as Emblems of Silenced Alterity"
Elke Segelcke (Illinois State University)
    "Ost/West Migrantinnen"
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

 NOTE:
At the interdisciplinary panel session on Friday morning, each invited guest will describe her approach to "Body and Identity" based on the papers available on the Web Site. A film will be shown at times throughout the conference upon which will be based a subsequent discussion with the panel of interdisciplinary scholars on Saturday morning. A special presentation on new archival research possibilities on autobiography during the Third Reich will be given by Detlef Garz. His presentation is entitled:“'Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933' – ImmigrantInnen-Biographien – eine Projektvorstellung"

AND DON'T FORGET the WiG Dissertation Prize will be announced and awarded at the conference!!