WiG Conference Attendees: Transportation and Weather Update

You should have received an email with the shuttle schedule and weather update. If you have any questions about transportation to and from SLC airport, please contact Michelle James at michelle_james (AT) byu.edu. Remember: there will likely be snow on the ground: bring a warm coat and warm shoes!

• Conference Poster
• Special Guest
• Housing
• Registration
• Transportation from airport: for info about airport shuttles, please contact Michelle James: michelle_james (AT) byu.edu
• WiggieWegWeiser - Acquaint yourself with WiG's unique conference format
• Conference Program
  • EPanel - This year's designated E- Panel is: Responses to the 2007 MLA Report on Foreign Language Education. Please read the MLA Report on Foreign Language Education before the conference.
• Organizers

2008 WiG Conference Poster (PDF): We encourage you to download, print, and post this poster!

2008 WiG Special Guest: Angela Krauß

Born 1950 in Chemnitz, Angela Krauß is a long-time resident of Leipzig, where she also studied at the Literary Institute "J.R. Becher." In 1988 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for Der Dienst, a story that tells of her father, a border officer who committed suicide at the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Since then she has published a number of prose texts, with topics on relationships and places ranging from life in the GDR and reflections on post-wall identity to explorations of the USA, Russia, and, most recently, Trieste.

Angela Krauß has given readings and held guest lectureships in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, England, and India. She has received many prizes, and in 2004, she gave the prestigious poetic lectures at the University of Frankfurt; the published version (Die Gesamtliebe und die Einzelliebe) was honored with the “Kammweg”literary prize in 2006.

Wig is not new to Angela Krauß, as she was one of the guests at the1990 conference, where she was warmly received.  With that positive experience in mind she is very much looking forward to joining us again. If you want to read some of her texts before the WiG annual conference, here are four that give particularly good examples of her themes and style:
 

• Der Dienst (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1990). ISBN 978-3-518-40295-5 .
• Die Überfliegerin (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995, 2002); reflections on life after the Wall and her travels to the USA and Russia.  ISBN 978-3-518-39893-7.
• Die Gesamtliebe und die Einzelliebe: Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004); an accessible and inspiring account of the wellsprings of literary creativity, with excerpts from her texts as examples. ISBN 978-3-518-12389-8.
• Wie weiter (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006) ;); a meditation on the possibilities for the future that emerge from her GDR past, her current personal relationships, and her connections to the world around her, "der weiten Welt ringsum, voller Tausendfüßler aller Art.”  ISBN 978-3-518-41824-6.
  
• Other published texts :

  Das Vergnügen (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1988)
  Kleine Landschaft (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1989; Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006
  Sommer auf dem Eis (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998)
  Milliarden neuer Sterne (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999)
  Weggeküßt (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002)
  Triest. Theater am Meer. Mit historischen Fotos (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag / Insel Bücherei,
              2007; ISBN 978-3-458-19290-9
  
  For more information, go to: http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/autor.cfm?id=2637

2008 WiG Conference Online Registration

You must be a member of Women in German to attend the annual conference.

On-line registration is now open at the following website through the University of Notre Dame: https://marketplace.nd.edu/cce/33rd_Annual_Women_in_German_Co_P380.cfm

Please note: online registration is hosted by the University of Notre Dame and is NOT controlled by the WiG webeditors; for problems with registration, please contact Denise Della Rossa at Denise.M.DellaRossa.1(AT)nd.edu.

At this site you will register for the conference only. Please keep in mind that the Early Bird deadline for registration is August 15th.

Housing Information

Housing information for lodging at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort (800-453-3000) and information on transportation to the conference site is also available at the conference registration site. We have rooms guaranteed for WiG until September 22nd. After that date rates are subject to change.

Conference Organizers:

Denise Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame, Denise.M.DellaRossa.1(AT)nd.edu

Michelle Stott James , Brigham Young University

WiggieWegWeiser Your guide to WiG Conference Culture

Conference Program:

Download the conference program for WiG 2008 here as a .pdf file or view it online.