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 registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:25 a.m.
Welcome: Remarks by Don Nieman, Dean of Harpur College
9:30 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
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:15 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
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:45 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
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:00 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
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”
Claus Altmayer, Herder-Institut, University of Leipzig
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)
Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30 a.m.
Hot Breakfast
9:30 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
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
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:45 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
12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Boxed Lunch
1:15 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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