BUGSC 2015 is made possible by generous support from the Department of German and Russian Studies, the Harpur College Dean's Office, the Binghamton University Alumni Association, Binghamton University Alumna Doris Braun and the Wells Family.
All events take place in the Engineering and Science Building (room ES 2008) at the Binghamton University Innovative Technologies Center (ITC) on Murray Hill Road.
Friday, April 24, 2015
8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. A History of More Than Words
Hauke Kuhlmann, Universität Bremen, “In Bildern leben. Theodor Storms Immensee im Kontext zeitgenössischer ‚Bildprosa‘“
Patrizia McBride, Cornell University, “Writing Time: A (Literary) History of Dadaism“
Moritz Hiller, Humboldt University Berlin, “Signs O’ the Times. Lektüre, Leserschaft und Geschichtlichkeit digitaler Quellcodes”
Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University
-- Coffee break --
11:00 a.m. - 12:20 a.m. Goethe and His Readers
Brian McInnis, United States Military Academy, West Point, “Lotte as Reader”
Ari Linden, University of Kansas, “Faustnaturen in Karl Kraus und Else Lasker-Schüler”
Harald Zils, Binghamton University, “Faust in Ingo Schulzes Neue Leben"
Moderator: Julia Ludewig, Binghamton University
12:20 p.m. Lunch
1:20 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: A Tiny Canon
1:50 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Stereoscopic Revisions
Alexis Briley, Colgate University, “Walking/Reading/Coincidence: Kleist, Walser, Sebald”
Sören Ohle, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, “Die Buch- und Zeitungsproduktion des Ullstein-Konzerns als Quelle der Lesergeschichte – ein transatlantischer Vergleich”
Christine Schott, Cornell University, “Verbracht ins Gelände – The Spatial Coordinates of Szondi’s Writings on Celan and the Physicality of Versenkung”
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University
3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Hauntings of the Past
Carl Gelderloos, Binghamton University, “Massenwesen and Gespensterheere: Characters as Collectives in Döblin’s Wallenstein”
Oliver Speck, “Doing Justice, The aporia of Fassbinder’s Adaptations”
Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University
4:20 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Keynote Lecture: David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago
The Larry Wells Memorial Lecture: “The Tragic Process in Goethe’s Faust”
Remarks: Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton University
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 25, 2015
8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Germany vs. World... Literature
Thomas O. Beebee, The Pennsylvania State University, “German National vs. World Literary History: Uses and Abuses”
Julia Ludewig, Binghamton University, “Teilung und Wiedervereinigung in der deutschsprachigen Graphic Novel: Wie wird aus Geschichte Literatur(geschichte)?"
Moderator: Kerstin Petersen, Binghamton University
-- Coffee break --
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. The Literature Classroom
Mary Boldt, York College of Pennsylvania, “The Shape of Literature in Undergraduate German Curricula”
Elena Mancini, DAAD/Queens College, “Teaching Kafka’s The Trial in the Multicultural Classroom”
Moderator: Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton University
12 noon Boxed Lunch
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. BUGSC Workshop
Text and Illustration. Readers and Readings between Text and Image
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