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Thursday, October 17

9:00-12:00 Steering Committee Meeting

4:00 Arrival and Check-In

3:00-4:30 German Women in Global Context
Session Organizers: Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Barbara Drescher, Michigan State University, and Gundolf Graml, University of Minnesota

Panelists:
· Beverly Weber, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "A 'German' Cosmopolitics? Gender and the Cosmopolitan Body in Works by Renan Demirkan and Emine Sevgi Özdamar."

· Gita Rajan, Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY): "Shared Peripheries: A Missionary's Wife in 18th Century East India."

· Michelle Matson, Iowa State University: "Mapping Moral Obligations: Ingeborg Drewitz, Grete Weil, and Christa Wolf."

4:00 Arrival and Check-In (continued)

6:00-7:00 Buffet dinner

7:15 Welcoming Words

7:30-9:00 Thursday Evening Session: Who We Are, Where We're Going
Session Organizers: Beth Muellner, University of Minnesota, and Brigetta Abel, Macalester College

Panelists:
· Nicole Grewling, University of Minnesota: "Professional Development 101, or Perspectives from a New Member."

· Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma: "Back to the Future: Ten Years with WiG"

· Nina Zimnik, SUNY Cortland: "Working as a Wiggie in Germany."

· Angelika Bammer, Emory University: "The Measure of Our Words, or Taking How We Talk to Each Other Seriously."

9:30 Preview Screening: Love Story (Catrine Clay, 1997, England, 60 minutes).

This moving documentary tells of an unlikely love affair in wartime Nazi Germany. In 1942, Lilly Wust was a model Aryan Hausfrau, with a picture of the Führer on the wall, a husband in the army, and a German motherhood medal for bearing four sons. But then she met spirited Felice Schrader and unexpectedly fell in love, unaware that Felice was Jewish and operated in the underground resistance. Even after Lilly discovered her lover's secret, the couple remained together until Felice was arrested by the Gestapo, never to return. Now 82, Lilly recounts their story, supplemented by her surviving photos, love letters, and poems, together with other firsthand witness accounts and archival footage.

 

Friday, October 18

8:00-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Scandalous Women of the Early Modern and On
Session Organizers: Ruth Dawson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Nicole Grewling, University of Minnesota, and Monika Moyrer, University of Minnesota

Panelists:
· Claire Baldwin, Colgate University: "Anna Louisa Karsch as Sappho."

· Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa: "Not just another 'beautiful soul': Wilhelmine Encke-Ritz-Lichtenau."

· Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Northern Michigan University: "Defining Scandalous Women in the Wake of the French Revolution: The Case of Amalia Holst."

· Bethany Wiggin, University of Minnesota: "Victims of Fashion? Reading the 'Scandal' of Seventeenth-Century Representations of Fashionable Women."

*NOTE: The papers for this panel will be available in advance (after September 20) of the conference on the WiG Website (http://www.womeningerman.org). 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.

10:30-12:00 Poster Session: Open Topic. An interactive session where contributors display posters on their latest research, and discuss their work individually with WiG members.
Special Session sponsored by the DAAD.
Session Organizers: Rachel Freudenburg, Boston College , Denise M Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame and Lynn Kutch, Lehigh University

Contributors:
· Maria Arroyo, Harvard University: "To Be of Use: Poetry in the First-Year Classroom and in My Research."

· Ruth Dawson, University of Hawaii at Manoa: "Traces of Female Celebrity. Catherine the Great of Russian in the Eyes of her German Contemporaries."

· Friederike Eigler, Georgetown University: "Cultural Memory and German Literature of the 1990s."

· Helen Fehervary, Ohio State University: "Editing Anna Seghers."

· Heike Henderson, Boise State University: "Academic Performances."

· Janet Besserer Holmgren, Pacific Lutheran University: "Seduction and Reproduction in Triumph des Willens: The Dissemination of Fascist Ideology through Leni's Lens."

· Jennifer Hosek, University of California, Berkeley: "Cuba: German Representations of Exotic Utopia."

· Elena Mancini. Rutgers University: "Nationalist Discourse, Male Homoeroticism and Gender Relations in Turn of the Twentieth Century German Literature."

· Beth Muellner, University of Minnesota: "Untitled."

· Dagmar Voith-Leemann, Rutgers University: "Texts by Alien(ated) Women. A Feminist Perspective on the Political and Social Constructions of Identity in a Multicultural Society."

· Beverly Weber, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Mapping Gender in the Works of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Aras Ören."

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:15-2:45 Gender, Politics, National Identity in German Poetry 1945-Present
Session Organizers: Maria Luisa Arroyo, Harvard University and Erika Berroth, Minnesota State University

Panelists:
· Amy Kepple Strawser, Ohio Dominican/Columbus State Community Colleges: "From the Fringe towards the Center: Post-war and Contemporary German Poetry by Women."

· Kathrin Bower, University of Richmond: "border less foreign ness: gabriele stötzer-kachold raps herland."

· Marion Gerlind, University of Minnesota: "May Ayim's Present Absence in German Poetry."

· Yvonne Houy, Pomona College: "An 'interview with myself' becomes a 'report from the battlefield': A Comparison of Feminist Poetry Between Women Writers in the Weimar Republic and Post-War West Germany."

2:45-3:15 Break

3:15-4:45 "Ich liebe Österreich": Cultural Critique in Contemporary Austrian Literature, Art, and Film
Session Organizers: Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Maria Stehle, University of Massachusetts and Amy Young, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Panelists:
· Karen Stuart, University of California, San Diego: "Writing History in the Shadows of Progress and Prosperity: Elisabeth Reichart's Februarschatten."

· Brenda Bethman, Texas A&M University: " 'Pornography for Pessimists' or 'Heftiger Antiporno'? Elfriede Jelinek's Lust and Pornography."

· Ellie Kennedy, Queen's University: "Genre Trouble: Performative Theory and the Picaresque in Lilian Faschinger's Magdalena Suenderin and Wiener Passion."

· Gisela Roethke, Dickinson College: "Lilian Faschinger's Feminist Critique of Austria."

5:00-5:30 Lesbian Meeting

5:30-6:30 Dinner

7:00 Reading and Discussion with Lilian Faschinger
Introduction: Gisela Roethke, Dickinson College

The Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger was selected by the membership as the guest for the 2002 WiG Conference. Faschinger was born in 1950 in Tschöran, a small town in Carinthia, and studied English literature and history at the University of Graz, where she earned her doctorate in English literature. A prolific author, Faschinger has produced numerous works in many genres since her 1983 debut with a volume entitled Selbstauslöser. Lyrik und Kurzprosa, including novels, (Die neue Scheherazade [1986], Lustspiel [1989] Magdalena Sünderin [1995], and Wiener Passion [1999]), radio plays, short stories ("Frau mit drei Flugzeugen" [1993], "Sprünge" [1994]), and translations. She also is the recipient of many literary prizes.

10:00 Preview Screenings: Shadows of Memory (2000), and Forbidden Fruit (2000)

Shadows of Memory (Claudia von Aleman, Germany, 2000, 43 minutes)
Filmmaker Claudia von Aleman embarks on a journey to uncover her family's painful history and erroneous relationship with the Third Reich during World War II. In an attempt to reconcile this unsettling past, the filmmaker, her 84-year old mother, and her 17-year old daughter, reunite in the small East German village of Seebach, the location their family fled after being expelled to the West. The ensuing intergenerational dialogue reveals a disturbing, but rarely heard point of view on Nazism: that of an average German citizen, mother of six and housewife, believing in Hitler, who later radically changed her beliefs with deep regret and guilt for her past affiliations. The honesty and clarity of the mother's narrative provides a unique insight into the psychology behind Hitler's mass appeal among the German people. The conversations between mother and daughter and mother and granddaughter, while not always easy, make for emotional and touching scenes.

Forbidden Fruit (S. Bruce, B. Kunath, Y. Zueckmantel, Germany, Zimbabwe, 2000, 30 minutes).
This groundbreaking video gently breaks long held taboos about sexual identity and lesbian love in African society. Forbidden Fruit opens rural life and village politics in Zimbabwe to anew understanding...[and] responds neither with pleas for tolerance, nor condemnation; instead, it exploits passion in the service of transformation. The inventive reconstruction oft this love story breaks the barriers of genre, too: this is a docu/dramatic and moving call to queer, global solidarity."(Amy Villarejo, Cornell University).

 

Saturday, October 19

7:30-8:30 Breakfast

8:00-9:00 Women in German Yearbook editorial board meeting

8:30-10:00 Pedagogy Panel: Engaging the Class: Politics and Pedagogy in the German Classroom
Session Organizers: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College and Jennifer Ruth Hosek, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists:
· Marganne Goozé, University of Georgia: "Treading Lightly but Steadily: Political and Social Concerns in the Infamous Third Year Courses."

· Julie Klassen, Carleton College: "'Man merkt die Absicht und ist verstimmt': Reflections on Literary Texts in the Classroom."

· Lisa Jennings, University of Minnesota: "Life Stories: Personal Accounts of Societal Change in Postwar German-Speaking Countries."

· Jennifer Redmann, Kalamazoo College: "Über das 'Frausein' nachdenken: Promoting a Feminist Understanding through Literature of the Women's Movement."

10:15-12:30 Business Meeting and Planning Session

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Free

5:30-6:30 Dinner

7:00-8:30 German Drag: Gender-Bending in Literature and Film from von Grimmelshausen to von Praunheim
Session Organizers: Alison Guenther-Pal, University of Minnesota, Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota, and Bethany Wiggin, University of Minnesota

Panelists:
· Liesl Allingham Indiana University: "Aristocrats in Drag: Dorothea Schlegel and Gender-Bending in Florentin."

· Caryl Flinn, University of Arizona: "Criss Cross Dressing."

· Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University: "Subversion Shmubversion: 'Forgotten' Critical Vocabularies for the Study of Drag."

· Stefan Soldovieri, Northwestern University: "Re-Dressing the 'Wirtschaftswunder' in Heinz Paul's Hula Hopp, Conny (1958)."

Cabaret Evening (Please bring dance music.)

Sunday, October 20

7:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Concluding Session: WiG Members Speak Out

12:00 Check-Out

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