PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
All events take place at the Old University Union, room UU120, unless noted otherwise.Friday, April 9, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Light breakfast and registration9:00 a.m. – 9:25 a.m.
Welcome: Remarks by Don Nieman, Dean of Harpur College9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Panel "Transsexuals, Transvestites, Transnationals: Failed Transitions in German Film" Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College, Impossible Journeys: Werner Herzog’s Stroszek
Oliver Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fassbinder’s Failings
Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University, In & Out in GDR Cinema: Gerhard Klein’s Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser and Heiner Carow’s Coming Out
Moderator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey
Oliver Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fassbinder’s Failings
Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University, In & Out in GDR Cinema: Gerhard Klein’s Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser and Heiner Carow’s Coming Out
Moderator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break11:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m.
Panel "Turkish-German Transitions"Hülya Yilmaz, The Pennsylvania State University, The Imagined Turkish-German Exile: Orhan Pamuk in his Novel Kar (Snow)
Sarah Schackert, Binghamton University, Liebeskonzepte in Feridun Zaimoglus Roman Liebesbrand
Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Binghamton University, Topographical and Generational Shifts in Turkish-German Film
Moderator: Harald Zils
Sarah Schackert, Binghamton University, Liebeskonzepte in Feridun Zaimoglus Roman Liebesbrand
Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Binghamton University, Topographical and Generational Shifts in Turkish-German Film
Moderator: Harald Zils
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Panel: "Exile as Transition"Harald Zils, Binghamton University, After the Camp: Edmund Goldenberg's Journey
Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University, Dorothy Thompson and her Central European Friends
Moderator: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton University
Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University, Dorothy Thompson and her Central European Friends
Moderator: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton University
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Panel "Aging as Transition"Gerd K. Schneider, Syracuse University, Demografische Transformation: Von der Alterspyramide zum Alterspilz – Bevölkerungsschwammerl in Deutschland und Österreich
Brenda Keiser, Bloomsburg University, Transformation and Old Age in Felix Mitterer’s Der Panther
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages
Brenda Keiser, Bloomsburg University, Transformation and Old Age in Felix Mitterer’s Der Panther
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception (Anderson Center Reception Room)5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Keynote: The Larry Wells Memorial Lecture 2010 (Anderson Center Reception Room)“Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung im Kontext von Deutsch als Fremdsprache und German Studies. Thematische, theoretische und forschungspraktische Übergänge”
Introductory Remarks: Rosmarie Morewedge and Annemarie Fischer, Department of German and Russian Studies
8:00 p.m.
Dinner for conference participants
at P.S. Restaurant,
100 Rano Blvd, Vestal, NY
Dinner is included in the registration fee (cash bar)
Dinner is included in the registration fee (cash bar)
Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30 a.m.
Hot Breakfast9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Panel "Literature, Memory, Transition"Karl Ivan Solibakke, Syracuse University, Medien und moderne Erinnerungskulturen: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis in Heinrich Heines Lutetia
Cynthia A. Klima, SUNY Geneseo, Identity and History in Norbert Gstrein’s Das Register
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages
Cynthia A. Klima, SUNY Geneseo, Identity and History in Norbert Gstrein’s Das Register
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Panel "To Be Like Any Other? Transitions in Images of “Germanness”"Annemarie Fischer, Binghamton University, The Cinematic Logo-Code in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Susan Wagner, Binghamton University/University of Leipzig: The “Germanness” of “Tokio Hotel”
Moderator: Sarah Schackert
Susan Wagner, Binghamton University/University of Leipzig: The “Germanness” of “Tokio Hotel”
Moderator: Sarah Schackert
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Coffee Break11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Panel "Teaching Transitions"Andrea Dortmann, New York University, Involving the 5 C’s in the Translation Classroom
Kathleen McKenna, Broome County Community College, Teaching Rolf Zuckowski’s Songs for Children
Moderator: Rosmarie T. Morewedge
Kathleen McKenna, Broome County Community College, Teaching Rolf Zuckowski’s Songs for Children
Moderator: Rosmarie T. Morewedge
12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Boxed Lunch1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Workshop‚Ossis’ vs. ‚Wessis’: Kulturelle Deutungsmuster im Ost-West-Diskurs
(“Ossis” vs. “Wessis”: Cultural Patterns of Meaning in East-West Discourse in Germany)
with Claus Altmayer, University of Leipzig
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