Program - Johannes Gutenberg

Transmediality and Transculturality
Program
Thursday, December 6
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
2:00…………Registration
3:00…………Opening Address
Nadja Gernalzick, American Studies, Universität Mainz
3:30…………Plenary Session 1
Presentation
Mapping and Cannibalism: How Technology Eats Language by
Transforming It to Other Media
Roberto Simanowski, German Studies, Brown University, Providence
Respondence
Christoph Zeller, Germanic Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Plenary Discussion
4:45…………Break
5:15…………Plenary Session 2
Presentation
Global Routing: Transculturation and Transmediality as Key
Concepts of Translation Studies
Birgit Mersmann, Iconic Criticism, eikones/NCCR, Universität Basel
Respondence
Nadja Gernalzick, American Studies, Mainz University
Plenary Discussion
6:30
End of Session 2
RESTAURANT "CAMPUS"
7:00…………Opening Reception
Friday, December 7
Morning Sessions 9:00 to 12.30……………………………………………………………………………
LINKE AULA, ALTE MENSA
Workshop 1
Transmediality and Transculturality: Theoretical and Disciplinary Issues
Chairperson: Nadja Gernalzick
9:00…………Chances and Challenges of a Transcultural Perspective in
Textile Studies
Birgit de Boer, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut: Kunst – Texti –
Medien, Universität Oldenburg
9:30…………From Cultures to Life Forms?
Tim Lanzendörfer, American Studies, Universität Mainz
10:00………..Break
10:30………..Media Transfer and Communication Theory
Karl Nikolaus Renner, Journalistisches Seminar, Institut für
Publizistik, Universität Mainz
11:00………..Rescuing 'Adaptation' as a Concept for American Cultural Studies
Anne-Marie Scholz, Amerikanistik, Universität Bremen
11:30………..Break
12:00
Workshop Round Table
Transmediality and Transculturality: Theoretical and Disciplinary Issues
Summary of Workshop Results for Presentation in Plenary Session
12:30………. End of Workshop 1
Friday, December 7
Morning Sessions 9:00 to 12.30……………………………………………………………………………
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
Workshop 2
Transmediality and Intermediality/Transculturality and Interculturality
Chairperson: NN
9:00…………At the Margin of Cultural and Medial Affiliation: Peddler, Walker,
and Harlequin as Figurations of Alterity in Film, Painting, and
Novels by Peter Weiss (1916-1982)
Ulrike Weymann, Deutsches Institut, Universität Mainz
9:30…………Nina Simone: Intermediality and Adaptation in Writing and Song
Yvonne Gutenberger, American Studies, Universität Mainz
10:00………. Break
10:30………. Transmediality within Transculturality: Gómez-Peña and La Pocha
Nostra
Thomas Wägenbaur, Cultural and Cognitive Studies, International
University in Germany
11:00………..Remediation and the Works of Orlan
Sandra Klee, American Studies, Universität Mainz
11:30………. Break
12:00………. Workshop Round Table
Transmediality and Intermediality/Transculturality and Interculturality
Summary of Workshop Results for Presentation in Plenary Session
12:30………..End of Workshop 2
MENSA
12:45………. Lunch
Friday, December 7
Afternoon Sessions 2:00 to 5:30/6:00………………………………………………………………….
LINKE AULA, ALTE MENSA
Workshop 3
Transmediality and Transculturality in Literary and Cultural History
Chairperson: Nadja Gernalzick
2:00…………Transmediality and Transculturality in German Romanticism
Leena Eilittä, Comparative Literature, Helsingfors Universitet, and
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Mainz
2:30…………Transmediality and the Circulation of Myths – A Victorian Example
Julia Straub, Department of English, Universität Bern
3:00…………Break
3:30…………Through the Looking Glass: Transmediality in Musicalized Narratives
of the Modernist Period
Emilie Crapoulet, University of Surrey and Université de Provence
4:00…………Transmediality and Transculturality in Modernist Poetry: T.S.
Eliot's The Waste Land
Christoph Straub, American Studies/Filmwissenschaft, Universität
Mainz
4:30…………Break
5:00…………Workshop Round Table
Transmediality and Transculturality in Literary and Cultural History
Summary of Workshop Results for Presentation in Plenary Session
5:30…………End of Workshop 3
Friday, December 7
Afternoon Sessions 2:00 to 5:30/6:00…………………………………………………………………….
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
Workshop 4
Transmediality and Transculturality in Contemporary and Emerging
Genres
Chairperson: NN
2:00………… Drama and Transmediality: Stage Adaptation as Medial Transition
Birte Lipinski, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Oldenburg
2:30………….Narratives of Planetarity: Introducing the Global Narrator
Georgiana Banita, Amerikanistik, Universität Konstanz
3:00………….Break
3:30………… Brief Apearances: Rumors as/and Transmedial Narratives
Karin Bruns, Institut für Medien, Universität für künstlerische und
industrielle Gestaltung, Linz
4:00………….From Transculturality to Transmediality? Jonathan Lethem as
Literary Seismograph of Pop Communication in The Fortress of
Solitude and You Don't Love Me Yet
Carsten Schinko, Amerikanistik und Neuere Englische Literatur,
Universität Stuttgart
4:30………….Break
5:00………….'The House is I' – Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves as a
Transmedial Text
Sascha Seiler, Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Mainz
5:30………….Workshop Round Table
Transmediality and Transculturality in Contemporary and Emerging
Genres
Summary of Workshop Results for Presentation in Plenary Session
6:00…………End of Workshop 4
Friday, December 7
Evening …………………………………………………………………………………………………….
RESTAURANT "DIWAN"
6:15…………Pre-Concert Supper
LINKE AULA, ALTE MENSA
7:30…………Piano Recital
Transmediality and Transculturality in Performance: from Aloysius
Bertrand's La Nuit et ses prestiges (1842) to Ravel's Gaspard de la
nuit (1908)
Emilie Crapoulet
8:30…………Drinks and Pretzels
Saturday, December 8
Morning…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
9:00…………Plenary Session 3
Presentation
Screen Shots: Wolf Vostell's Media Art
Christoph Zeller, Germanic Languages, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville
Respondence
Antje Kley, American Studies, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Plenary Discussion
10:15..……...Break
10:45………. Plenary Session 4
The Transmedial Effects of Scale in the Visual Arts and the
Contemporary Proliferation of Screens
Mary Ann Doane, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University,
Providence
Respondence
Stefan Brandt, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute für Nordamerikastudien,
Freie Universität Berlin, and Anglistik und Allgemeine
Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Siegen
Plenary Discussion
12:00………..End of Plenary Session 4
MENSA
12:15………..Lunch
Saturday, December 8
Afternoon………………………………………………………………………………………………….
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
1:30…………Plenary Session 5
Results from Workshops
Workshop 1
Transmediality and Transculturality: Theoretical and Disciplinary Issues
Workshop 2
Transmediality and Intermediality/Transculturality and Interculturality
Workshop 3
Transmediality and Transculturality in Literary and Cultural History
Workshop 4
Transmediality and Transculturality in Contemporary and Emerging
Genres
Plenary Discussion
3:00…………Break
3:30…………Plenary Session 6
Presentation
Frida Kahlo Revisited: Transmedial Dispositives, Representation,
and Anti-Representations in Frida Kahlo's Transpictorality
Alfonso de Toro, Ibero-American Research Centre, Leipzig University
Respondence
Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle, Ibero-American Institute, Preußischer
Kulturbesitz Berlin
Plenary Discussion
4:45..…….... Plenary Meeting with Refreshments
- Proposal DFG Research Network
- Publication "Transmediality and Transculturality"
5:45…………Bus to Restaurant
RESTAURANT JORDAN'S UNTERMÜHLE, KÖNGERNHEIM
6:30…………Conference Dinner
Sunday, December 9
FAKULTÄTSSAAL, PHILOSOPHICUM
9:30…………Plenary Session 7
Presentation
From Intermediality to Transmediality: Cross-Media Transfer in
Contemporary German Literature
Urs Meyer
Respondence
Roberto Simanowski, German Studies, Brown University, Providence
Plenary Discussion
10:45.………Break
11:15……….Plenary Session 8
Presentation
The Transmediality of Life: a Bioethical Response to Contemporary
Media Culture
Joanna Zylinska, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College,
University of London
Respondence
Till Kinzel, Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft,
Technische Universität Berlin
12:15………..Final Plenary Discussion
~12:30………End of Conference
Closing Reception