Women in German Annual Conference

 

Business Meeting Minutes 2011, Michigan

 

I.               General announcement & info about business meeting format; Introduction of Steering Committee

II.             PresidentÕs announcements & report (Barbara Kosta)

III.           Report on Zantop campaign (Jeanette Clausen)

IV.           Conference Site 2012-2014 Shawnee Inn Resort, Pennsylvania (Airports Newark and Lehigh Valley International Airport ABE)

V.             Election of new SC members. Candidates and winners:

i.      Nicole Grewling

ii.     ii. Beate Brunow

iii. Dan Kline

iv. Erika Berroth

v. Ulrike Brisson

vi. Jennifer Askey

VI.           Selection of guest in 2 years (Oct 24-27, 2013; Pennsylvania)

No Guest: Break out prof. sessions in vita, letters, mock job, teaching post/tenure, book, etc (M. Goozˇ & Monika Moyrer) approved by majority (hand vote)

VII.         TreasurerÕs report (Waltraud Maierhofer)

VIII.       Selection of 2012 WiG panels (Oct 25-28)

a. Thursday Night Panel

The Crisis of Academic Labor (Lindsay Lawton & Amy Strawser) approved by majority (hand vote)

b.     Pedagogy Session

i. Making German Count: High Impact Practices and Techniques of Campus-Wide Integration (Karen Achberger & Ute Bettray) 47 votes

ii. Languages Across the Curriculum: Best Practices in the LAC Classroom (Denise Della Rossa & ) 25 votes; moved to AATG

c.     Guest-Related Panel (Guest: Antje R‡vic Strubel)

      Is there a Feminist Aesthetic? Contemporary German Women Writers and

      Writing Style (Allie Hill & Sonja Klocke) approved by majority (hand vote)

d.     Pre-20th Century Panel

i. Gendered Immigration in pre-20th century German Literature and Culture (Maureen Gallagher & Ulrike Bresson) 36 votes

ii. Pushing the ŅScentedÓ Envelope: WomenÕs Role Transgressions Inside the Boundaries (Michelle James & Sarah Reed) 36 votes (Michelle James volunteered to move to the open session)

e.     Open Sessions (Choose 2 Sessions)

i. Women & Social Media (Monika Fischer) 3 votes; moved to GSA

ii. Representations of Masculinity in The Works by Women (Natalia Dudnik)

    10 votes; moved to GSA

iii. Sex Sells! Sex Work, Commerce, and Business of Desires (Corinna Kahnke &

     Kyle Frackmann) 8 votes; moved to GSA

iv. Popfeminism, Politics, and Performance (Carrie Smith-Prei & Maria Stehle)

     18 votes

v. Renovating Gender, Sexuality, Race and Home/Heimat after 1989) (Hester

    Baer & Yvonne Franke) 31 votes

vi. Feminist Perspectives on Children & Youth Literature (Delene White)

    10 votes; moved to MLA

vii. Happy Women (Ekaterina Pirozhenko) 4 votes move to GSA

viii. (German) Feminist Writing and Human Rights (Ute Bettray) 27 votes; moved

      to GSA

ix. Pushing the ŅScentedÓ Envelope: WomenÕs Role Transgressions Inside the

     Boundaries (Michelle James & Sarah Reed) 32 votes

IX.       Announcement of new SC members

Nicole Grewling

Jennifer Askey

X.            Poster Session

Dan Kline, Imke Brust

XI.       Yearbook report (Patty Simpson and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger)

XII.        Selection of WiG panel at GSA 2012 Oct. 4-7, Milwaukee (Choose 1 Panel)

i. [Crime and Gender] En-gendering Crime (Sabine Gross & Faye Stewart) 32 votes

ii. Women & Social Media (Monika Fischer) 0 votes

iii. Representations of Masculinity in The Works by Women (Natalia Dudnik) 4 votes;

     moved to MLA

iv. Sex Sells! Sex Work, Commerce, and Business of Desires (Corinna Kahnke &

     Kyle Frackmann) 10 votes

v. Happy Women (Ekaterina Pirozhenko) 2 votes; moved to MLA

vi. (German) Feminist Writing and Human Rights (Ute Bettray) 24 votes

XIII.      Newsletter report (Rachel Freudenburg)

XIV.      Selection WiG panels at MLA 2013, Boston, January 3-6 (2 Sessions, 1 Guaranteed)

i. Heimat as a Gendered Space (Yvonne Franke & Imke Brust) 51 votes (Guaranteed panel!)

ii. Feminist Perspectives on Children & Youth Literature (Delene White & Jennifer Redmann) 47 votes

iii. Representations of Masculinity in The Works by Women (Natalia Dudnik) 32 votes

iv. Happy Women (Ekaterina Pirozhenko & ) 4 votes

XV.        Web editor report (Kyle Frackman)

XVI.      Selection of AATG/ACTFL 2012 panel, Philadelphia, Nov. 16-18

i. Teaching the Holocaust Past through German Drama & Film (Imke Brust & Regina Range) 25 votes

ii. Teaching German women authors of the 18th and 19th centuries (Astrid Weigert & Nicole Grewling) 31 votes

iii. Languages Across the Curriculum: Best Practices in the LAC Classroom (Denise Della Rossa & ) 12 votes

XVII.   Final Remarks by the president (Barbara Kosta)