Negotiating Identity: Navigating through Different Times and Spaces
Sixth Biennial Graduate Student Conference
Department of Germanic Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
February 16-18, 2007
Keynote Address by Julia Hell
Plenary Address by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
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| KEY NOTE ADDRESS: STATE ROOM EAST |
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JULIA HELL, University of Michigan
Empires and Ruingazers: Reinventing the Imperial Imaginary
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| 8 : 0 0 - 9 : 0 0 am, Breakfast Buffet in Maple Room |
| MAPLE ROOM | WALNUT ROOM |
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Cultural Identities in Flux
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Shaping Identity through Language: The Individual and Society
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| JOSHUA RYAN HAWKINS | Searching for the Afro-German: Black German Communal Identity Formation and the African-American Impetus |
JUSTIN GLOVER | Identities in Flux: Pronominal Address Shifting in Heimskringla |
| MARK WILKINSON | "Stigma" in Russian-German identity |
ANDREW KOSTAKIS | Rejecting Uvular [R] as Part of German Ancestral Identity |
| BERNA GUENELI | (Re)Crossing the Bosporus: a Generational Struggle for Turkish-German Identities in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand |
STEVE IGLESIAS | José F.A. Oliver's Meta-German |
Moderator: Sonja Klocke
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Moderator: Lauren Goetting
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| MAPLE ROOM | WALNUT ROOM |
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Struggling with a German-Jewish Identity: Travels, Duels, and Crime
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Navigating Solo: Identity and the Individual
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| AMANDA SHEFFER | Harry, Heinrich or Henri Heine? Culture, Ethnicity & Identity in Heine's Travel Writings |
MEGAN BARRETT | Arian Identity and the Apostle of the Goths: Evidence from MS. Parisinus Latinus 8907 |
| ANDREW MILLS | No Duel, No Peace! German-Jewish University Students and the Establishment of a Separate Violence in Wilhelmine Germany |
JAMES RASMUSSEN | Identity as Repetitions of the Self; or, Kierkegaard and Hölderlin meet Bill Murray on Groundhog Day |
| ERICK URBANIAK | Serial Killers: Looking for Identity in all the Wrong Places | |
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Moderator: Zvi Gilboa
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Moderator: Wendy Westphal
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| MAPLE ROOM | WALNUT ROOM |
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The Musician, the Monument, and the Murderess: "Deviant" Genders and Sexualities
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The Power of Crisis: Identity in Times of Political Turmoil
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| LAURA K. T. STOKES | Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Das Jahr |
MICHAEL WALLO | A Crisis in German Identity from 1914-1933: Literary Expressionists and Radical Weimar Conservatives as Examples |
| BRADLEY BOOVY | Desire Memorialized: Jacob Israël de Haan and the Amsterdam Homomonument |
ANA FOTEVA | Verwechslung der individuellen mit der übernationalen Identität der k.u.k. Monarchie in Joseph Roths Erzählung Die Büste des Kaisers |
| SARA JACKSON | Unbounded Criminality: Considering the Mother who Murders |
RACHEL BACHMANN | European Sensibilities and indigenista Tendencies in the Exile Writings of Paul Zech |
Moderator: Faye Stewart
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Moderator: Tyler Hafen
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Navigating Identity: Between Borrowing and Appropriation
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| HILLAH CULMAN | When a Hobby Becomes Identity Theft: German Indian Hobbyists |
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| DOREEN DENSKY | "How German Is It": Walter Abish's Textual View of Germany |
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| ELA EYLEM GEZEN | Mapping the Beat: The "Narrativization of Space" in German Rap |
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Moderator: Dana Weber
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| PLENARY ADDRESS: FACULTY CLUB |
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CARMEN TALGHANI-NIKAZM, Ohio State University
On the Reflexive Relationship of Language and Culture and Ways of Developing "Cross-Cultural" Second Language Learners
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| 7 : 0 0 - 9 : 0 0 pm, Catered Dinner in The Faculty Club |
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