Focus on German Studies
12th Annual Conference
Images of Culture…A Culture of Images:
German Visual Culture in Literature, Film, Art and Beyond
Max Kade German Cultural Center
Old Chemistry Building 727
Friday, October 26th
3:00: Opening Remarks
3:20: Keynote Address: Dr. Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
Tales of Authenticity: William Dieterle’s Screen Biographies
4:20-4:40: Coffee Break
4:40: Panel One: Sights and Sites of Conflict
4:40 Rachel Bachmann (Indiana University, Bloomington)
The Good German?: Representations of German Characters in the Archers’ Wartime Films
5:00 Jason Lieblang (University of Toronto)
The Visible Man: Visual Representations of German Masculinity 1914 – 1921
5:20 Leah Chizek (Washington University, St. Louis)
Alternative Visions: Gender, Landscape and the Politics of the Visual in Clara Viebig’s Das schlafende Heer
5:40 Questions and Discussion
Saturday, October 27th
8:00: Breakfast in the Kade Center
8:30: Panel Two: Modernity
8:30 Emily Anne Bell (University of Florida)
Synesthetic Expression: Schönberg’s Die Glückliche Hand
8:50 Sandra Kohler (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Gender Specific Visual Representation in the Weimar Republic as Examined in Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Symphonie einer Grossstadt
9:10 Jacob VanderKolk (Pennsylvania State University)
Benjamin's Temporal Politics of Visual Media
9:30 Questions and Discussion
9:50-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10: Panel Three: The Social(ist) Sphere and Identity
10:10 Gabriella Skwara (University of Pennsylvania)
Visualizing a Communist Future: Science Fiction Films in the German Democratic Republic
10:30 Lilla Balint (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
“Haben wir es nach zehn Jahren DDR nötig im karierten Sakko ins Theater zu gehen?” - Mode und Identität in der DDR
10:50 Margaret Ewing (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
Re(-) presenting History: Installation Art in the New Berlin
11:10 Kathrine Balsley (Southern Illinois University)
Victimization and the Gaze in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
11:30 Questions and Discussion
11:50-1:20 Lunch Break
1:20: Panel Four: Rendering Vision in Literature
1:20 André Lottmann (Freie Universität, Berlin)
"nicht eigentlich erkannt": Problematische Ekphrasis in Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre
1:40 Antonius Weixler (Universität Konstanz)
Die Gemütlichkeit der Vernichtung
2:00 Sunny Parrott (University of Washington, Seattle)
Ekphrasis as Literary and Documentary Technique in W.G. Sebald’s ‘Max Aurach’
2:20 Questions and Discussion
2:40: Closing Remarks
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University of Cincinnati
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