PROGRAM
Respondent: Professor James A. Schultz, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.
Presenters:
1. Johanna Schuster-Craig (graduate student, Germanic Studies, Duke University), "Enlightenment Fundamentalists and Preachers of Hate," a chapter from her dissertation.
2. Annegret Oehme (graduate student, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies), "Der ‚Ehefrauenpreis’ im Sangspruch Süßkinds von Trimberg," the paper Annegret is considering using for her Writing Proficiency Review next year.
3. Christian Straubhaar (graduate student, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies), ""bildlos gebilden unde wiselos bewisen": Text, Image, and Genre in Suso's Leben," the paper he is currently revising for his Writing Proficiency Review.
This event is sponsored by The Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by Duke University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and its Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.
Gabriel Trop (UNC): "Between Attraction and Critique: The Intensification of Aesthetic Tension in Romantic Literature and Philosophy"
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers (UNC): "Suffering for Art: Masochism and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Discourse"
Kathryn Starkey (UNC): "Art, Emotion, and Desire in Medieval Ekphraseis"
Michael Ryan (Duke): "Bertolt Brecht's Radio Theory: A Popular Re-Assessment"
Johanna Schuster-Craig (Duke): "Heroes wird eine Bewegung: Young Muslim Men and Feminism"
Corinna Kahnke (UNC): "/*Transnationale*/*/ //Teutonen//:/ /Rammstein/ Representing the Berlin Republic"
Guest Lecture by Professor Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers) on Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band
(Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, 11:40am-12:55pm, Allen 326)
Student Film Workshops (in English and German)
(Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, 10am-5pm, Old Chem 116, 119 and 123)
This event is being held in conjunction with German 168/AMI 111I/VISUALST 118GS: "Introduction to German Film" (Fall 2010)
