Coalition of Women in German (WiG) 37^th Annual Conference

Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort

Shawnee on Delaware, PA

October 25-28, 2012

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (MAY 2012)

Thursday, October 25

5:30-6:45 pm 6:45-7:00 pm	Dinner Welcome
7:00-9:15 pm	Thursday Evening Session The Crisis of Academic Labor Organizers: Lindsay Lawton, University of Minnesota Amy Strawser, Otterbein University 1. Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The Labor of the Academic Crisis – The Plight of Graduate Students 2. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Northern Kentucky University: Mentoring for 21^st-Century Contexts
9:15 pm -	Cash Bar

Friday, October 26

7:30-8:45 am	Breakfast
9:00-10:45 am	Pre-20^th Century Panel Gendered Immigration in Pre-20^th-Century German Literature and Culture Organizer: Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Panelists TBA
11:00 – 12:45 pm	Pushing the Scented Envelope: Women’s Role Transgressions Inside the Boundaries Organizers: Michelle James, Brigham Young University Sarah Reed, University of Wisconsin–Madison 1. Linda Koiran, Ecole Normale Supérieure des Mines de Paris: “Sorgen und Nöten und Herzeleid” – Die Memorien der Glückel von Hameln (1645–1724) 2. Julie Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: For the Love of a Domineering Man – Gerda Brandes and Ruth Berlau’s Struggle to Negotiate Between Infatuation and Emancipation 3. Deborah Barton, University of Toronto: Feminizing Total War? The Public Influence of Women Journalists and “Soft” Propaganda, 1939–1945
1:00-2:00 pm	Lunch
2:15-4:00 pm	Professional Praxis Panel: Making German Count – A Showcase of Creative Courses Organizers: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Ute Bettray, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1. Erika Berroth, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX: Revisioning the German Curriculum in London 2. Julie Klassen, Carleton College, Northfield, MN: The Forest in German Literature and Culture 3. Elizabeth Bridges, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN: The Invention of Sexuality 4. Monika Fischer, University of Missouri, Columbia: Web Blogging in Cultural Context
4:15-5:45 pm	Poster Session Organizers: Imke Brust, Haverford College Daniel Kline, Michigan State University Imke Brust, Haverford College: German Colonial History in Africa – A Gendered Perspective Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College: The Streets of Modernity – Berlin in Sight and Sound Yvonne Franke, University of Pittsburgh: New Economy Flâneuses in Recent German Film Niki McInteer, Pennsylvania State University: A Child’s Gaze: Irmgard Keun’s Kind aller Länder Stefanie Ohnesorg, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Werbung und Werbesprache Kristina Pilz, Texas Tech University: Gut und Böse – Frau und Mann!? Die Darstellung von Genderrollen in Elke Heidenreichs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Sarah Reed, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Push and Pull of Polygamy – Ethnicity and Emigration in Balduin Möllhausen's Mormon Novels Victoria Rizo Lenshyn, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Star Culture in the GDR – Bridging the Individual and the Collective Julie Shoults, University of Connecticut: Building Socialist Unity: International Socialism as an Alternative to Nationalism in Hermynia zur Mühlen’s Der Tempel Jamele Watkins, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Waiting in Spaces – Time, Space, and Identity in A Snowman for Africa (1977) Carsten Witt and Nicole White, University of Connecticut: From Blank Spaces to Un-Settling Memories. Spatial Construction of and Movement in Literary Landscapes in the Works of Gertrud Kolmar and Barbara Honigmann
6:00-7:00 pm	Dinner
7:00-7:15 pm	Announcements Margaret McCarthy: Dissertation Prize Best Article Prize
7:15-9:15 pm	Renovating Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Home/Heimat after 1989 Organizers: Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma Yvonne Franke, University of Pittsburgh 1. Brooke Kreitinger, Georgetown University: Destroying the Provincial Home to Renovate the Nation – An Analysis of Space and Subjectivity in Kerstin Hensel’s Im Spinnhaus (2003) and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung (2008) 2. Mareike Herrmann, The College of Wooster: Reconstructing Home in the Rural East in Thomas Arslan’s Ferien and Dominik Graf’s Komm mir nicht nach 3. Necia Chronister, Kansas State University: Angel of the House? More like Apparition! – Alienation and the Renovation of Domestic Space in Ulrich Köhler’s Montag kommen die Fenster 4. Monika Shafi, University of Delaware: This Old House – Space, Temporality, and Gender in Endmoränen and Selina oder das andere Leben
9:15 pm -	Reception

Saturday, October 27

7:30-8:30 am	Breakfast (Yearbook Editorial Board Meeting)
8:45-10:30 am	Guest-Related Panel: Is there a Feminist Aesthetic?  Contemporary German Women Writers Organizers: Alexandra Merley Hill (University of Portland) and Sonja Klocke (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 1. Beret Norman, Boise State University: An (Dis)Entangled Web – How Antje Rávic Strubel Succeeds at Weaving a GDR History 2. Faye Stewart, Georgia State University: Investigating Strubel – The Queer Elements of Style 3. Corinna Kahnke, Duke University: Aesthetic Program or Annihilation? – Gender(ed) Violence in Popliteratur
10:45 am-12:45pm	Business Meeting
1:00-2:00 pm	Lunch

2:00-6:00 pm	Free Time
6:00-7:00 pm	Dinner
7:00-8:45 pm	Special Guest: Antje Rávic Strubel
9:00 pm	Cabaret

Sunday, October 28

7:30-9:00 am	Breakfast
9:00-10:30 am	Speakout Open discussion of issues and ideas raised during the conference.

Conference Organizers:

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College: Lead organizer, site and transportation

Lynn Kutch and Gregory Hanson, Kutztown University: Online conference registration

Jennifer Redmann, Franklin and Marshall College and Axel Hildebrandt, Moravian College: Conference program

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