Agenda for the Business Meeting, October 21, 2006 (11am-1pm)
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INFO ABOUT THE FORMAT OF THE MEETING
1. New Author invitation policy voted on last year (we’re moving to a 2-year in advance process)
2. Wiggie Wegweiser: Please submit your creative design to the Steering Committee
3. Write Book reviews for H-German!
4. We will continue with Jeanette’s online Electronic Publication survey—please respond, especially if you’re a department chair!!
5. Nominations and volunteers for Yearbook Editor and Treasurer
6. Film screening—Fri night (9:30) in future: Sat afternoon—Tina Gerhardt will organize film screenings until further notice (contact her with suggestions)
7. We need volunteers for membership database creation and management, somebody with web/programming skills?
REPORTS
8. President’s Report (Jeanette and Julie)
9. Treasurer’s Report (Vibs)
10. Yearbook Report (Helga)
11. Newsletter Report (Rachel and Maria)
12. Website Report (Beverly)
ELECTIONS
13. Selection of special panel/guest for 2007 and 2008
• Nomination for WiG 2007: Hito Steyerl (Beverly Weber and Maria Stehle)
• Nomination for WiG 2008: Angela Krauß (Julie Klassen)
14. Selection panels for WIG 2007
Thursday night panel:
• Non-Tenure Track or not Totally Temporary (Jill Smith, Amy Young)
• Wiggies as Activists (Lisa Roetzl & Liesl Allingham)
Pre-20th Century panel:
• Religion, Race, Gender, and Class in pre-20th Cent. Encounters with Islam (Katja Altpeter-Jones, Olga Trokhimato)
• Teach Me, Mold Me, Show me the Way: Pedagogical Discourses from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century (Kyle Frackman, Carol Strauss, Sotiropoulos, Liesl Allingham)
• Purity & Piracy: Originality of Thought and Intellectual Property (Carol Strauss-Sotiropoulos, Kyle Frackman)
• Flights of Fancy/Fantasy (Karin Baumgartner)
Professional Praxis:
• Creative Possibilities of Academic Writing (Angelika Bammer)
• What is Happening at Libraries & Archives (Helga Thorson)
Open Sessions: (vote for one guest-related panel and two other panels)
• Contesting Europe: Feminist Critiques and Globalization (Katrin Sieg, Jenn Hosek)
• Women and Crime (Lisa Hock, Alexandra Pa’kh, Pauline Ebert)
• Gender and the RAF (Jill Smith)
• GDR Revisited (Sonja Klocke, Faye Stewart)
• Women and Weimar (Liesl Allingham)
• Gendered Pasts? – Gendered Memories? (Kai Herklotz, Waltraud Maierhofer, Kirsten Kumpf)
• Female Spectatorship in 20th Century German Film (Mareike Herrmann, Hester Baer)
15. Selection panels for GSA 2007
• Women, Violence, and Islam (Monika Shafi, Jenn Hosek)
• Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: Landscape, Nature, and the Environment in German Women’s Literature (Cathie Grimm, Xenia Harwell)
16. Selection panels for MLA 2007
• Schriftstellerinnen der Berliner Republik (Corinna Kahnke, Sonja Klocke)
17. Selection panels for AATG 2007
• Teaching Unit on Multiethnic Culture from German-speaking Countries (Michaela Grobbel, Sabine Smith)
18. Nominations for new Steering Committee Members:
• Karen Achberger
• Erika Berroth
• Mareike Herrmann
• Allie Merley Hill