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EVENTS
GENERATIONS CONFERENCE
Full Program
May 29-31, 2003
Generations:
A Conference Dedicated to Past, Present, and Future Scholarship in Germanics at the University of Washington.
Primary Sponsor: The Max Kade Foundation, New York
Other Conference Sponsors:
Center for West European Studies, University of Washington
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Graduate School, University of Washington
College of Arts & Sciences, University of Washington
Office of Research, University of Washington
Department of Germanics, University of Washington
Program
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Graduate Student Conference: "Generating Difference: Identity and Alterity as Generational Conflict" Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
3:30 Keynote Address: Wilhelm Vosskamp, Universitaet Koeln, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Washington: "'Abschied von gestern': Zur Generationsproblematik im Bildungsroman."(Communications 226)
5:00 Reception for all Participants in the "Generations" Conference (Communications 206)
Friday, May 30, 2003
Panel 1: Generating Memories 8:30-10:30; Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Moderator: Richard T. Gray, University of Washington
Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University: "Literary Memories: Victorian Lovers and Nazi Fathers in Ingeborg Bachmann's Der Fall Franza"
Bettina Matthias, Middlebury College: "'Where Daddy Has Nothing to Say Anymore': The Hotel as Space of (Female) Emancipation in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Literature"
Sylvia Rieger, Harvard University: "The Art of Memory: Generational Aspects in Recent Approaches to Remembering the Holocaust"
Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College: "'Was du ererbt von deinen Vaetern hast...': Paternal Legacies in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's 'Das Maerchen der 672. Nacht'"
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45
Moderator: Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington
Panel 2: Knowledge Generations 10:45-12:45; Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Jeffrey Peck, York University: "Germans and Jews in American German Studies: The Generational Transfer of Knowledge"
Anne C. Reitz, University of Texas, Austin: "Reforming the State, Reforming the Family: Jean Paul's Levana, oder Erziehlehre"
K. Scott Baker, Pacific University: "Adaptation or Heterodoxy?: The Functions of Art in the Aesthetic Theories of G.W.F. Hegel, F.W.J. Schelling, and F.T. Vischer"
Lunch: 1:00-3:00: Pompeii Room
Lunch Speaker: Jens Rieckmann, University of California, Irvine: "Haushalt zu dreien: Hofmannsthal, buergerliche Insuffizienz und kuenstlerische Existenz"
Introduction: Gunter Hertling, University of Washington
Afternoon Sessions: 3:30-5:00
Research Roundtable: Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Moderator: Eric Ames, University of Washington
Panelists:
Anke Biendarra, University of Washington
John Crosetto, University of Washington Law School
Andrea Gogroef-Voorhees, Western Washington University
Urs Meyer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Hye Yang Shin, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
Preparing Future Faculty: William H. Rey Library (Denny 306)
Moderators: Sabine Wilke and Heidi Tilghman, University of Washington
Panelists:
Richard Block, University of Colorado, Boulder
Reika Ebert, Murray State University
Eva Hagemeyer, Director, Eastside German Language School
Bettina Matthias, Middlebury College
Sylvia Rieger, Harvard University
Saturday, May 31, 2003
Panel 3: Contested Generations 8:30-10:30; Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Moderator: Hellmut Ammerlahn, University of Washington
Nikolaus Wegman, Universitaet Potsdam: "Medien-Generationen"
Liane Reinshagen Joho, Montevideo, Uruguay: "On the Younger Generations of German Writers: Jochen Schmidt and Ingo Schulze"
Richard Block, University of Colorado, Boulder: "Taking the Words out of the Father's Mouth: Goethe Authors his Father in Italy"
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45
Panel 4: Intercultural Generations 10:45-12:45; Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Moderator: Jane K. Brown, University of Washington
Reika Ebert, Murray State University: "Inside--Outside--and In-Between: Four Generations and Two Cultures in Renan Demirkan's Schwarzer Tee mit drei Stueck Zucker"
Richard Sperber, Carthage College: "Generating Nothing: Representations of the South Pacific in Norbert Jacques, Robert Mueller, and Gottfried Benn"
John D. Pizer, Louisiana State University: "Weltliteratur: Intergenerationial, Intragenerational, and Intrapersonal Contestations"
Lunch 1:00-3:00: Pompeii Room
Lunch Speaker: Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College: "University of Crossed Destinies: German Academic Exiles in Istanbul, 1933-1945"
Introduction: Diana Behler, University of Washington
3:30-5:30: Workshop: "Business Careers for Germanics Graduates": Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
Moderator: Britta Simon, Linguistic Test Engineer
Panelists:
Erin Dallin, Software Test Engineer
Ulrike Irmler, Localization Project Manager
Erik Macki, Translator
Thomas Stratmann, Journalist
Laura Wideburg, Writer/Translator
6:30: Closing Dinner/Reception: Simpson Center for the Humanities (Communications 206)
More details to come.
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