8:00-8:15 AM
HUB Lobby |
Registration in the HUB Lobby |
8:15-8:30 AM
UBC Room |
Welcome
Prof. Gordon Weil, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
(Moravian College)
Prof. Axel Hildebrandt (Moravian College) and Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
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Session 1
8:30-9:30 AM
UBC Room |
Migration: Language and Literature
Moderator: Prof. Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College)
Emily Starace, Haverford College -
"The Autoethnographic (De)Construction: How German writers of Turkish heritage manipulate the German language to reexamine ideas of national identity and -lingualism"
Signe Carlson, Gettysburg College - "'Die Unmessbarkeit des großen Wassers': Representations of Water in Yoko Tawada’s Schwager in Bordeaux"
Halliki Kreinin, Washington College -
"Between Exclusion and Inclusion: The Turkish Minority and Prospects of Integration" |
Session 2
9:35-10:50 AM
UBC Room |
Before and After 1990
Moderator: Prof. Angelika von Wahl (Lafayette College)
Nicholas Iaquinto, Syracuse University
- "Literatur als Wegweiser der sozialen Veränderungen: Heinrich Bölls Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa..."
Melody Li, Allegheny College
- "Der wirtschaftliche Bankrott: Eine ökonomische und politische Überprüfung des Planwirtschaftssystems in der DDR"
Jason DuPaul, Lehigh University -
"German Foreign Policy: Sources of Disagreement Since the Cold War and the Future of Germany’s Global Role"
Meagan Betke, Lafayette College
- "What does it mean to be ‘Green’: The intersection of identity, environmentalism, and the branding of place in Freiburg, Germany" |
Kaffeepause
10:50-11:00 AM |
Coffee Break |
Session 3
11:00-12:00 PM
UBC Room |
Neo-Nazism and Racism
Moderator: Prof. Imke Brust (Haverford College)
Chaz Schneider, Haverford College - "Echoes of Nazism and Reunification"
Lauren Hawkins, Haverford College - "Roots and Holocaust: Representing History through the Miniseries and the Tradition of the ‘Hollywood Historical Epic’"
Robert Lee Anderson, Haverford College - "Rassismus in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: An Evaluation of German and American Societal Discrimination" |
Lunch
12:00-12:35 PM
HUB Pavilion |
Lunch |
Keynote Lecture
12:40-1:10 PM
UBC Room |
Keynote Lecture:
Prof. Nitzan Lebovic, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values
(Lehigh University)
"Tomorrow's Yesterday:
Why Political Films are Obsessed with Nietzsche's Philosophy" |
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Discussion
1:10-1:25 PM
UBC Room |
Discussion of the Keynote Lecture |
Parallel Session
Session 4A
1:30-2:30 PM
UBC Room |
Austria
Moderator: Prof. Nicole Grewling (Washington College)
Kathryn Gilley, Washington College - "Heldenplatz neu interpretiert: Thomas Bernhards Beziehung zu Österreich"
Jessica Bawgus, Bryn Mawr College
- "Identity Conflict: Austrian Imperial Theater at the Turn of the Century"
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Parallel Session
Session 4B
1:30-2:30 PM
Snyder Room |
Thomas Mann
Moderator: Prof. Jaclyn Kurash (Ohio State University)
Ian Gavigan, Haverford College - "Death in Venice, Philology, and Mythic Language of Difference"
Emily Goodling, Hillsdale College
- "Todesromantik plus Lebensja: Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg, and the Response to Liebestod"
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Parallel Session
Session 5A
2:35-3:35 PM
UBC Room |
Politics and Art
Moderator: Prof. Heikki Lempa (Moravian College)
Grace Bonds, Temple University - "The Entartete Kunst Exhibition: Defining Degeneracy and the Nazi Ideal"
Kaitlin Kenyon, Moravian College
- "Symbols of Suffering: Ethical Considerations of Holocaust Representation in Visual Arts" |
Parallel Session
Session 5B
2:35-3:35 PM
Snyder Room |
Perpetrators and Bystanders
Moderator: Prof. Vera Stegmann (Lehigh University)
Justin Kauffman, Lehigh University - "Joint Responsibility: An Examination of the Relationship between the KPD and the NSDAP in Weimar Germany"
Myles V. Barros, Moravian College
- "Bystanders to the Holocaust in Eastern Europe"
Caitlin Draayer, Albright College
- "Female Perpetrators of the Third Reich" |
Kaffeepause
3:35-3:45 PM |
Coffee Break |
Session 6
3:45-5:00 PM
UBC Room |
Music in the Third Reich
Moderator: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Sharon Chen, Lafayette College - "Beguiling Music: The Victimization of the Jewish Musicians of Nazi Concentration Camps"
Samantha Nichols, Lafayette College - "The Music of Nazi Germany: Insight into the Mindset of Germans Living in Hitler’s Third Reich"
Melissa Zirkel, Moravian College - "Musik im Kriegsgefangenenlager: Defining the Abyss of the Birds from Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time" |
