Coalition of Women in German (WiG): Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference
Rio Rico Resort, Arizona
October 19-22, 2000

Thursday, October 19

Session Organizers: Christina Frei; Angelika Bammer Emory University

• Informal Chat with Jeanette Clausen, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and special guests Evelyn Torton Beck, and Heidrun Suhr
• Jeanette Clausen will speak about the politics and practices of a feminist structure of WiG
• Sara Lennox will speak as our "resident historian" about her perspectives on the continuities and changes in WiG
• Evelyn Torton Beck will speak about the beginnings of WiG
• Heidrun Suhr will speak about WiG and DAAD, and what feminists can make happen; how we can both create and transform institutions
• We would like all participants to bring a MEMORY-OBJECT (WiG t-shirt, photo, a WiG wig, a WiG hat, a WiG paper that you loved giving or hearing, a souvenir from one of the meetings, etc.)

Session Organizers: Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Britt Abel, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

• Marjorie Gelus, California State University-Sacramento, "The Spirtual Garb of the Carnal (A Work in Progress)"
• Bethany Wiggin, University of Minnesota, "Desire and Non-Domestic Fiction: Heroines of Early Eighteenth-Century German Novels"
• Kay Goodman, Brown University, "Luise Kulmusís Kato and the Language of Sentiment"
• Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University, "Desire, Envy, and Revenge in German Womenís Tragedies"
• Ilse Nagelschmidt, Universit”t Leipzig, "Forschungsbericht: Der Leipziger Schriftstellerinnen-Verein, Die Generation der Erbinnen, oder, Wider den weiblichen Dilettantismus?!"

NOTE: The papers for this panel are available WiG Website. At the panel session on Friday morning, the panelists will not read their papers in their entirety, but will instead give a short summary of her paper, which will be followed by discussion.

Session Organizers: Richard McCormick, University of Minnesota; Gabriele Weinberger, Lenoir-Rhyne College, and Hester Baer, Duke University

Panelists:

• Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, "Seyhan Derinís ben annemin kiziyim [Ich bin die Tochter meiner Mutter] (1996) and Fatima El-Tayeb and Angelina Maccaroneís Alles wird gut (1997): Production, Distribution, and Reception"
• Mareike Herrmann, Randolph-Macon College, "Abgeschminkt? Women and the Popular German Cinema of the 1990s"
• Kathrin Bower, University of Richmond, "Orpheus in Brandenburg: Helke Misselwitzís Herzsprung"

Saturday, October 21

Session Organizers: Sandra Alfers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Jeanette Clausen, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Panelists:

• Veronika Fuechtner, University of Chicago, " ëLes Chez nousí: German Exile in Lisa Fittkoís Cuban Short Stories"
• Vera Stegman, LeHigh University, " ëCrisantaí: A Mexican Tale from the GDR"
• Michele Ricci, Stanford University, "Dreams as Autobiography: Paula Ludwigís Brazil Years"

Session Organizers: Erika Berroth, Lewis & Clark College; and Sonja Fritzsche, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

• Silke von der Emde and Jeffrey Schneider, Vassar College, "Teaching with Technology: The Challenge of Redefining What We Do"
• Yvonne Houy, Scripps College, "Too Much or Not Enough? Refining Teaching with Technology"
• Mary E. Wildner-Bassett, University of Arizona, "Multiple Literacies in Computer Mediated Communication"