Commanding Attention in Contested Time, Space and Thought

 

Seventh Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Department of Germanic Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington

 

Friday, February 20, 2009

 

5:30PM-6:00PM

Refreshments

Wylie 015

 

Horizons of Knowledge Lecture

Wylie 015

6:00PM

In/Out of Focus: Modernism and the Art of Managing Attention

 

Lutz Koepnick (Washington University)

 

 

 

Saturday, February 21, 2009

 

8:30AM-9:00AM

Coffee & Bagels

Wylie 015

 

Session I:
Navigating Fields of Vagueness

Wylie 015

9:00AM-9:30AM

Being Tom Harris: Some Problems of Not-Quite Metafiction

 

Chris Chiasson (Indiana University, Germanic Studies)

 

 

9:30AM-10:00AM

Historic Specificity through Out-Of-Focus Images in the Works of Beyer, Richter, & Wesely

 

Anne Fritz (Washington University)

 

 

10:00AM-10:30AM

Alterity and Cognitive Language Tropes

 

April Smith (Indiana University, Communication & Culture)

 

 

 


Saturday, February 21, 2009

 

10:30AM-10:45AM

Coffee Break

Wylie 015

 

Session II:
Contextualizing Perceptual Magnets in Time

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10:45AM-11:15AM

RAF-Terrorism as Perceptual Magnet for the Generations X, Y, and Z?

 

Sonja Heitgress (Knox College)

 

 

11:15AM-11:45AM

'Naturgeschichte der ZerstšrungÕ oder Verantwortung im Freien Willen? Zum ErlšsungsbedŸrfnis und der HistorizitŠt bei W.G. Sebald

 

Alex Holznienkemper (Ohio State University)

 

 

11:45AM-12:15PM

The Role of Liturgical Perception in Interpreting the Old English ÔLife of St. Mary of EgyptÕ

 

Megan Barrett (Indiana University, Germanic Studies)

 

 

 

12:15PM-2:00PM

Lunch Break

Wylie 015

 

Session III:
Connective Reality: Loopholes, Gravity & Notions of Truth

Wylie 015

2:15PM-2:45PM

Touching the Earth in Kleist and Kierkegaard

 

James Rasmussen (Indiana University, Germanic Studies)

 

 

2:45PM-3:15PM

The Poetic Address and the Loophole Addressee

 

Leeore Schnairsohn (Princeton University)

 

 

3:15PM-3:45PM

Hannah Arendt: Stories from the Other Side

 

Ingo Kieslich (Vanderbilt University)

 

 

 

3:45PM-4:00PM

Coffee & Bagels

Wylie 015

 

(Parallel) Session IVa:
Polarizing Attention Through Competing Senses

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4:00PM-4:30PM

FlaubertÕs Stupid Drum and Slackened Strings

 

Erin Sipe (Indiana University, French & Italian)

 

 

4:30PM-5:00PM

On the Presence-Effect of Sensation in Food

 

Carlos Gasperi (Indiana University, Germanic Studies)

 

 

5:00PM-5:30PM

Affecting Singularity: The Sports Highlight

 

Travis Vogan (Indiana University, Communication & Culture)

 

 

 

(Parallel) Session IVb:
Topics in Linguistics

Wylie 015

4:00PM-4:30PM

A Phonological Analysis of /g/ in Kiel German

 

Justin Glover (Indiana University, Germanic Studies)

 

 

4:30PM-5:00PM

From Greek to Gothic: TOPIC & FOCUS in Gothic nominal phrase translation

 

Elliott Gougeon (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

 

 

 


Saturday, February 21, 2009

 

Plenary Address

IMU Faculty Club

6:00PM

When Grammars Collide: Code-switching in the Minimalist Program

 

Mike Putnam (Carson-Newman College)

 

 

 

7:00PM-10:00PM

Informal Dinner

IMU Faculty Club

 



This lecture would not be possible without the generous support from:

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

         

IU History

CAHI

         

IU Linguistics

IU Medieval Studies

         

IU Second Language Studies

IU Cognitive Science

         

IU Intensive English Program

IU Jewish Studies

         

IU Dept. of Germanic Studies

IU Communication and Culture

         

Horizons of Knowledge

 







January 30, 2009
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