Conference Program
Coalition of Women in German (WiG): Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference
Rio Rico Resort, Arizona
October 18-21, 2001

Thursday, October 18

Panelists:

• Jennifer Hosek, University of California at Berkeley: ìThis is what an activist looks like? ëSmartí FashioningóFor Tower and Street.î

• Cindy Brewer, Brigham Young University, Slide Presentation

• Maria L. Arroyo, Harvard University: ìIím not your Super Woman: Reflections by a Juggler of Virtual Bowling Balls.î

• Mariatte Denman, Duke University: ìWalking the Tight RopeóTexts about Working Mothers.î

• Heike Henderson, Boise State University (via videotape): ìJuggling Acts: Fighting Cancer, Getting Tenure, and Raising a Happy Child.î

• Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College: ìFinding Balance, Staying Whole.î

Friday, October 19

Panelists:

• Ruth Dawson, University of Hawaii, ìEighteenth-Century Libertinism in a Time of Change: Representations of Catherine the Great.î

• Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa, ìBurning Desires. Sexuality in Meinholdís Bernsteinhexe.î

• Maria Veber, Adelaide University (Australia), ìFanny Lewaldís Eine Lebensfrage (1845): Free Love versus ëSexual Epicureanism.íî

• Valerie Weinstein, University of Nevada Reno, ìColonial Desires and Natural Science in E.T.A. Hoffmannís ëHaimatochare,í Or, What Really Bugs Me about Hawaiian Girls.î

*NOTE: The papers for this panel will be available in advance of the conference (after September 21) on the WiG Website (http://www.womeningerman.org/conferences/2001/papers01.html). Those planning to attend this session should download the papers and read them before the conference. 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. Papers that are "published" on the WiG conference website will remain on the website until the end of that calendar year. Since this is a temporary, electronic publication for the purposes of the conference only, all authors whose work appears on the WiG website will retain the copyright to their work and may submit it freely for subsequent or simultaneous publication in a paper or electronic journal.

Contributors:

• Rachel Freudenberg, Boston College, ìAspects of the Feminine in Male Friendship: Fascist and Non-Fascist Visualizations.î Examines the construction of masculinity and male friendship in public sculpture of the Third Reich, as well as responses to and critiques of Nazi visualizations of men in friendship.

• Yvonne Houy, Pomona College , ìThe Modern Woman as National Socialist Kulturpropaganda.î Argues that the core of aesthetic politics in National Socialist visual culture is expressed by the slogan (from a propaganda publication): ìThe National Socialist woman should be modern!î

• Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology, ìPostmodern and/or Post-dramatic Theater: Elfriede Jelinekís Feminist Plays.î Focusing on the recent plays, particularly Das Schweigen (2000) and Das Lebewohl (2000), argues that Jelinekís plays defy both traditional and newer categorizations, as well as rendering the label ìfeminist theaterî problematic.

• Lynn M. Kutch, Easton, PA, ìPolitics and Feminism in Ilse Langnerís Mythological Plays.î Examines the relationship between feminist and nationalist themes in Langnerís mythological plays from her Amazonen: Eine Kom–die (1932) to Iphigenie und Orest (1977).

• Daniela Loewenthal, Brandeis University, ìThe Walser-Bubis Debate as Turning Point for German-Jewish Relations and its Aftermath.î Presents the most salient and controversial arguments of this debate, looking at the reactions of various groups (divided by age, gender, education, etc.)and documenting how the German-Jewish approach to Vergangenheitsbew”ltigung has changed since then.

• Maria Stehle, University of Massachusetts, ìWie Kings of the Road und Apollos im Lastwagen zu predigenden Engeln werden: Eine feministische Kritik der westdeutschen Identit”tspolitik an Hand von Wim Wendersí Filmen der 70er und 80er Jahre.î Using the example of Wendersí films, formulates a critique of West German identity politics that is simultaneously a history of the Cold War and a prehistory of the new German conservatism since the Wende.

Panelists:

• Uta Larkey, Goucher College, Baltimore, ìNeo-Nazis in German Documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s.î

• Yvonne Houy, Pomona College, ìHow the Neo-Nazis Stole ëOurí Cyborg? And: How Can ëWeí Steal It Back?î

• Yvonne Poser, Howard University, ìGermanyís Racist Past Haunts its Present: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust and Developing Study Abroad Programs at Howard University.î

Saturday, October 20

Panelists:

• Rachael Huener, Macalester College, ìStudent Hypermedia Writing in German Cultural Studies.î

• Ute Maschke, Vassar College, ìPredicaments of German Literature? Mediated Cultural Encounters.î

• Georg Burwick, University of Chicago, ìGetting Virtually Beyond the White Cube.î 

Panelists:

• A Roundtable featuring Neva älibar from Slovenia, Maria Veber from Australia, and others TBA

Party: Letís Celebrate 25 years of WiG (Please bring dance music)

Sunday, October 21