8:30-8:55 AM
Max Kade Center Lobby, 4th Floor, Pardee Hall |
Registration and Breakfast Buffet |
8:55-9:00 AM
429 Pardee Hall |
Welcome
Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
| Session 1
9:00-10:10 AM
429 Pardee Hall |
Moderator: Prof. Julie Shoults (Muhlenberg College)
Christine Hill ‐ Susquehanna University: The Rise and Return of Holistic Medicine: Hildegard von Bingen’s Legacy in the Western Medical World
Varsha Chiruvella ‐ Emory University: A Comparative Reading of Medical Ethics in Late 19th Century German Literature
Melina Boutris - Southwestern University: Inklusion von Schülern mit Lernbehinderung in Deutschland
Fengzhang Wang - Syracuse University: Die Rolle der idealen Geliebten zwischen wissenschaftlicher Einstellung und individueller Bekämpfung in Juli Zehs Roman Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess
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Session 2
10:10-11:05 AM
429 Pardee Hall |
Moderator: Prof. Martina Kolb (Susquehanna University) Kiara Romotzki - Bucknell University: Deutsche Dialekte: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache
Nicolas Herzberg - Grinnell College: “Native, Mutter, fremd: The Challenges and Rewards of Translating into a “Foreign Language”
Kaitlyn Gardineer - Susquehanna University: River Symbolism in Hermann Hesse: The Case of "Der Dichter" (1913)
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11:05-11:10 AM
Max Kade Center Lobby |
Coffee Break
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Session 3
11:10-11:50 AM
429 Pardee Hall |
Moderator: Prof. Vanessa Plumly (SUNY New Paltz)
Conor O'Riordan ‐ SUNY New Paltz: Shifting Sandstone: German Monuments as Vessels of Collective Memory
Alvina Ahmed ‐ SUNY New Paltz: Humanist Discourse in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus: Re-Reading the Novel in Light of Policies Regarding Integration of Refugees in Germany |
11:50-11:55 AM
Max Kade Center Lobby
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Coffee Break
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11:55-12:40 AM
429 Pardee Hall |
Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Prof. Peter Höyng - Emory College: “The Blue Stain (1922) - German Novel of a Racial Outcast”
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12:40-1:20 PM
Max Kade Center Lobby |
Buffet Lunch |
Session 4
1:20-2:15 PM
429 Pardee Hall |
Moderator: Prof. Nicole Grewling (Washington College)
Clarice Gardner - Washington College: Closing the Open-Door Policy: How Germany’s Influx of Immigration is Mobilizing Nationalist Sentiment
Emma Bullock - Haverford College: Factors Influencing the Integration of Refugees in Germany
Danyale Kellogg - Southwestern University: NATO First, Germany Second?: The Future of German National Security in the New Age of “America First”
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Session 5
2:15-2:55 PM
429 Pardee Hall
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Moderator: Prof. Ute Bettray (Lafayette College)
Paul Greenstein ‐ Emory University: Rhetoric and Antipolitics: The Rise of and Literary Response to Extreme Right Parties in Austria and Germany
Ephraim Clay Hadley ‐ Temple University: “Magazin für Auto-Dekonstruktion”: Debating Gender and Gendered Debates in Männerrundbrief, a Journal of the Pro-feminist Men’s Movement, 1993-2002 |
2:55-3:25 PM
Pardee Hall |
Poster Session
Noel Fedeli - Kutztown University: ,,Keiner glaubt mir”—,,ich werde bald sterben”--,,wie kafkaesk”: #Me Too, Kafka
William Pelletiers - Moravian College: Examining Differences between Americans and Germans in Mental Health and Social Media Usage |
Session 6
3:30-4:10 PM
429 Pardee Hall |
Moderator: Prof. Olivia Landry (Lehigh University)
Brooke Dubyna - Lehigh University: Un-canning the Uncanny in German Horror Film
Yinchen Dong - Lehigh University: The Consequence of Abuse in German-language Horror Film |
Session 7
4:10-5:05 PM
429 Pardee Hall
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Moderator: Prof. Dennis Johannssen (Lafayette College)
Emily Loparco - Syracuse University: The Ideal Woman?: Gender-Stereotyped Pro-Robotics in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman
Leah Epstein - Lafayette College: Was für eine Rolle spielt Clara in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Sandmann?
Rachel Bird - Lafayette College: Die Winterreise als Repräsentation der Bestandteile der Romantik
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5:05 PM
429 Pardee Hall |
Closing Remarks
Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Prof. Axel Hildebrandt (Moravian College)
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