Thirteenth Annual Focus on German Studies Conference
Friday October 31 & Saturday November 1, 2008
Mediating the Message: The Poetics of Communication in German Literature, Art, Film and Culture
Max Kade German Cultural Center
Old Chemistry Building 727
University of Cincinnati
Friday, October 31, 2008
3:00: Opening Remarks
3:30: Keynote Address: Dr. Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University)
"German Theater in the Age of Intermediality"
4:30-4:45: Coffee Break
4:45: Panel I - Framing Realities on Stage
(Moderator: Nicole Lyon)
4:45 Annika Ligner (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
"Wir können Geschriebenes nicht gut lesen."
Mediality and the Individual in 18th Century German Drama
5:05 Silke Lipinski(University of Arizona, Tuscon)
Udohla - Platform/Vessel for the Communication of Philosophical Ideas
5:25 Martin Sheehan (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Sternheim's Die Kassette:
The (Mis)communication of Character through Dialogue
5:45 Ana Foteva (Purdue University)
Handke’s Fictional Utopia against Media Construction of "Real" Dystopia
6:05 Questions & Discussion
7:30: Reception downtown at Dr. Friedrichsmeyer’s
Saturday, November 1
9:00: Breakfast in the Kade Center
9:30: Panel II - Rendering the Visual in the Textual Sphere (Moderator: Todd Heidt)
9:30 Andrea Meyertholen (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
The Sound of Silence: Communicating the Invisible in the Art of Arnold Böcklin
9:50 Madhuvanti Chintamani Karyekar (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
On Ernst Jünger's Rhetoric of Image in Das abenteuerliche Herz
10:10 Wesley Jackson (University of Cincinnati)
War Unedited and Uncut: An Exposition of Images of Violence in Alfred Döblin's Wallenstein
10:30 Christine McCrory (Washington University, St. Louis)
A Problem of Evidence: The Dangers of Looking in Marcel Beyer's Spione
10:50 Questions & Discussion
11:15-11:30: Coffee Break
10:30: Panel III – Communicating between Fact and Fiction
(Moderator: Tobias Grünthal)
11:30 Brett Martz (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Musil's Mediating Body: Physiology, Metaphor and the Construction of Realities
11:50 Peter Christian Pohl (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Botschafter der Ungewissen: Literarische Medienkritik bei Kafka und Musil
12:10 Antonio Castore (University of Torino, Italy)
From Kafka to Bernhard: the Mediality of Media and the Poetics of Miscommunication
12:30 Questions & Discussion
12:45-2:40: Lunch Break
2:40: Panel IV – Negotiating Narrative Perspectives
(Moderator: Marie-Luise Büsch)
2:40 Nathan Magnusson (University of Washington, Seattle)
Telling and Rebelling: Michael Kohlhaas, Andreas Baader, and the Documentation of Terror
3:10 Zvi Gilboa (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
The Foreigner as the Ideal Formalist Narrator: Notes on Yoko Tawada's Talisman
3:30 Kyle Long (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Double Your Pleasure: The Author Persona and the Marketing of Pop Literature
3:50 Questions & Discussion
4:10-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30 Reading & Film Screening:
Dr. Susanne Ayoub (Writer in Residence, Bowling Green State University) will read from book of short stories as well as present her film documentary and audio book "Bagdad Fragments" (2004).
6:00: Closing Remarks
