Program
All events take place in the Anderson Center Reception Room on the Binghamton University main campus.
Friday, April 25, 2014
8:15 a.m. Light Breakfast
8:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Studying Visual Culture as German Studies
Lioba Ungurianu, Vassar College: “Visual Arts in Max Reinhardt's Production of Danton’s Death”
Kerstin Petersen, Binghamton University: “Reinhardt in the Archive”
Mary Boldt, York College: “Art, Graphic Design, and Interdisciplinarity in German Studies”
Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University: “Modernist Visualities Across Media”
Moderator: Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton University
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Text and/in Space
Bastian Heinsohn, Bucknell University: “What the Study of Graffiti and Street Art Reveals about Current Issues of Migration and Globalization in Germany – Case Study: Berlin”
Ulrich Kinzel, Universität Kiel: “Text Surfaces. German Concrete Poetry and Art and Creation of Urban Space”
Anett Holzheid, Universität Siegen: “Literatur im Raum. Zur Neubestimmung von Schrift in der Medienkunst”
Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m – 2:45 p.m. Ways of Seeing
Emina Mušanović, UC Berkeley: “In Expectation of Illumination, Instead of Seeing I am Seen: X-ray Vision, the Human, and the Nonhuman”
Karl Ivan Solibakke, Syracuse University: “Ingeborg Bachmanns Romgedicht: Gedanken zu einer ekphrastischen Rhetorik”
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. German Studies/Film Studies/Visual Culture
Barbara Mennel, University of Florida: “Revisiting Auteurism: Fatih Akin”
Oliver Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University: “The Mythical Capitalist Community in Fritz Lang’s M”
Mary Rhiel, University of New Hampshire: “22 Theses on the Contribution of Visual Studies to German Studies”
Moderator: Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Binghamton University
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Colloquium Keynote: The Larry Wells Memorial Lecture:
Welcome Remarks by Anne McCall, Dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Introductory Remarks: Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Department of German and Russian Studies, Binghamton University
Keynote: Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh: "German Studies and the Challenges of Visual Culture: From the National to the European Style"
8:00 p.m. Dinner
for all registered Colloquium participants at PS. Restaurant, 100 Rano Boulevard, Vestal, NY (dinner included in the registration fee; cash bar)
Saturday, April 26, 2014
8:15 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Teaching Visual Culture in German Studies
Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton University: “Tangent and Core: A Template of Iconic Images Constructed for German Cultural History”
Bridget Swanson, University of Pennsylvania: “Using Authentic Audiovisual Media from the Start: First-Year German Language Education through Film and Television”
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Visual DaF: “Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte – Werbung im DaF-Unterricht”
Tom Hänel, Binghamton University: “Potential der Werbung für den Fremdsprachenunterricht anhand praktischer Beispiele”
Michelle Brüssow, Binghamton University: “‘Verstehen braucht Sehen’ - Über die Bedeutung der Visualisierung im Fremdsprachenunterricht”
Christin Weitzmann, Binghamton University: “Kulturelle Frames im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache – ein Unterrichtsbeispiel”
Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Comics in the Classroom and Beyond
Elizabeth Nijdam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: “Teaching Comics in German Studies”
Lynn M. Kutch, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania: “Contemporary German Graphic Narratives as Tools for Reading and Interpreting Alltagskultur”
Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College CUNY: “Bevor sie Kunst wurden: Comics in Westdeutschland von Lurchi, Mecki, Jimmy bis zu Seyfried”
Moderator: Julia Ludewig, Binghamton University
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Boxed Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Colloquium Workshop with Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh