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Looking Forward, Looking Back

Image, Imagination and Media

Indiana University Germanic Studies
Graduate Student Conference
18-20 February 2005

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2004

Keynote Address:

Geoffrey Winthrop Young, University of British Columbia
Why Media? Exaggerations of a German Theory Phenomenon
Friday, February 18, 5:00pm Georgian Room IMU

5:00pm-6:15pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Georgian Room IMU

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: “Why Media?: Exaggerations of a German Theory Phenomenon”

 

Saturday, February 19

• 8:00am–9:00am Breakfast in Maple Room IMU

9:00am-10:30am
IMAGINATION AND ILLUSION, Maple Room IMU

Elizabeth Bridges: “The Once and Future Metropolis: Notes on the Imaginary Text”

Arndt Niebisch: “Luminous Images: On Sensorial Hallucinations in Nietzsche, in the Eye, in Italian Futurist Theater, and in the Cinema”

Kathryn M. Johnston: “Love in the World of the Signified: Image and Death in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”

Moderators: Christine Lehleiter and Christian Weber

• 15 Minute Break

LOOKING BACK EAST
Maple Room IMU

Corinna Kahnke: “Ostalgie – a postcolonial reaction?”

Dara Bryant: “Ravensbrück, A Multivalent Site of Queer Resistance: East German Lesbian Demonstrations in the 1980s”

Moderator: Sonja Klocke

MODES OF REPRESENTATION
Walnut Room IMU

Brian M. Thomas: “Life is but a Dream: Images of the ‘Human’ in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain”

Zvi Gilboa: “Zwei Fälle einer weiblichen Sucht nach einem anderen Schicksal”

Heike Polster: “Snapshots: Image, Imagination, and the Past in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Die Ausgewanderten”

Moderator: Kris Vander Lugt

• 12:15pm – 1:45pm Lunch Break

GO WEST?
Maple Room IMU

Dana Weber: “The Persistence of Preliterate Imagery in the Literate Mind: The Western Legend of Dracula”

Nicole Grewling: “’Thessakeh und sein weißer Bruder sind eins’: The Construction of a National German and Colonial Self in Friedrich Gerstäcker’s Short Stories”

Julia K. Baker: “A Nightmare – America in the German and French mind”

Moderator: Orsolya Kiss

NATIONAL IDENTITY AND MEMORY
Walnut Room IMU

Keith O’Regan: “Viewing the Past: The Representation of Cultural Memory and National Identity in von Trotta’s Die Bleierne Zeit and Becker’s Good Bye Lenin”

Bernard von Bothmer: “The Politics of the Past: German Memory of World War II”

Todd Cesaratto: “New and Improved Totalitarianism”

Moderator: Andrew Mills

• 15 Minute Break

3:30pm–5:00pm
REINVENTING IMAGES, Maple Room IMU

Maaike van der Heijden: “Changing Images: A Comparative Discussion of the Title Pages to Jacob Böhme’s Vierzig Fragen von der Seele”

Anne Wallen: “Redrawing Struwwelpeter: New Images of a German Children’s Classic”

Carrie Collenberg: “Die Rote Armee Fraktion: Memento Mori Imagery of Death and Terrorism”

Moderator: Elizabeth Bridges

6:00pm
PLENARY ADDRESS, Faculty Club IMU

Sara Hall: “‘Fiction’ Meets ‘Non-Fiction’: A Crisis Point in the Authority of the Image and the Image of Authority”

• 7:00pm Dinner Buffet in the Faculty Club IMU

Sunday, February 20

• 9:00am Informal Round Table and Breakfast at The Uptown Café on Kirkwood Ave.

This conference would not be possible without the generous support of the following:

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

The Max Kade Foundation

Horizons of Knowledge

The College of Arts and Humanities Institute

I.U. Western European Studies

I.U. Department of Communication and Culture

I.U. Department of History

I.U. Department of Folklore

I.U. Jewish Studies Program

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