Newsletter –Winter 2010 – Issue 113

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Newsletter –Winter 2010 – Issue 113
In this Issue:
WiG Conference Summaries
WiG Calls & Announcements
Fascinating Clicks
Personal News
News and more…
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About WiG
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About the WiG Newsletter
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Dear Readers
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Wig 2009 Conference Summaries
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WiG 2010 Calls for Papers
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WiG Announcements
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2009 WiG Dissertation Prize Winner & 2010 Competition
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2009 WiG Best Article Prize Winner & 2010 Competition
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Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students
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Zantop Endowment Campaign: Update and Donation Form
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Fascinating Clicks
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Personal News
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News, Announcements, and Calls for Papers
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~~~~About WiG~~~~
The Coalition of Women in German is an allied organization of the MLA. Students, teachers, and all others
interested in feminism and German studies are welcome! Membership information is available on the Internet at:
http://womeningerman.roundtablelive.org/
Mission Statement of the Coalition of Women in German
Women in German (WiG) provides a democratic forum for all people interested in feminist approaches to German
literature and culture or in the intersection of gender with other categories of analysis such as sexuality, class, race,
and ethnicity. Through its annual conference, panels at national professional meetings, and the publication of the
Women in German Yearbook, the organization promotes feminist scholarship of outstanding quality. Women in
German is committed to making school and college curricula inclusive and seeks to create bridges, cross boundaries,
nurture aspirations, and challenge assumptions while exercising critical self–awareness. Women in German is
dedicated to eradicating discrimination in the classroom and in the teaching profession at all levels.
Women in German President: Nora M. Alter, Temple University, president(AT)womeningerman.org
Vice-President and President-Elect: Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona, president(AT)womeningerman.org
Treasurer: Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa, treasurer(AT)womeningerman.org
Membership Coordinator: Helga Thorson, University of Victoria, membership(AT)womeningerman.org
Women in German Steering Committee: steering(AT)womeningerman.org
Sonja Klocke, Knox College (2010- 2012) [email protected]
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn (2010-2012), [email protected]
Lisa Hock, Wayne State University (2009-2011), [email protected]
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College (2009-2011), [email protected]
Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota (2008-2010), [email protected]
Denise Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame (2008-2010), [email protected]
Yearbook Editors: yearbook(AT)womeningerman.org
Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati, and Patricia Simpson, Montana State University – Bozeman
Webeditor: Kyle Frackman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, webeditor(AT)womeningerman.org
Conference Organizers (2006-2008): conference(AT)womeningerman.org
Liz Mittman, Michigan State University (lead organizer, site and transportation)
Denise Della Rossa, Notre Dame University (online conference registration)
Jennifer Redmann, Kalamazoo College (conference program)
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~~~~ About the WiG Newsletter ~~~~
The WiG Newsletter, published online three times a year, contains information about the organization,
announcements of upcoming conferences, plans for conferences, news from abroad, personal news about members,
conference reports, a bibliography, reviews of online resources, book reviews, and selected items culled from the
WiG-L list. Reviews and other materials from past issues of the WiG Newsletter are available on the Women in
German Website, www.womeningerman.org
Subscription: The WiG Newsletter is automatically part of WiG membership. All issues are e-publications and each
new issue is available on a password-protected area of the Women in German website. Members receive notification
by email (which includes access information and passwords) when a new issue is out.
Submissions: Students, teachers, and all others interested in feminism and German studies are encouraged to submit
relevant material to the WiG Newsletter. Please email your submission to the appropriate section editor (see list
below). General questions should be addressed to the co-editors.
Submission Deadlines: for the Winter (January) issue, December 15; for the Spring (March) issue, February 15; for
the Summer (June) issue, May 30.
Co-Editors: Rachel Freudenburg, Boston College, and Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Knoxville
[email protected]
Section Editors:
Conference Reports: Michelle Stott James, Brigham Young University, [email protected]
News and Calls: Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta, [email protected], Corinna Kahnke,
California Polytechnic State University, [email protected]
Personal News: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College, [email protected]
Fascinating Clicks: Jennifer Askey, Kansas State University, [email protected]
Bibliography: Jennifer Hosek, Queens University, [email protected], and Sarah McGaughey, Dickinson
College, [email protected]
Book Reviews: Laurie Taylor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, [email protected]
Newsletter Editorial Assistant:
Zsuzsanna Rothne Zadori, University of Tennessee Knoxville, [email protected]
Hanna O'Neill, Michigan State University, [email protected]
Note: Rachel Freudenburg and Maria Stehle are the co-editors for the WiG Newsletter. Do not send them texts or
materials which should be sent to a section editor as listed above.
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~~~~ Dear Readers! ~~~~
Welcome to the Winter Issue of the WiG Newsletter!
First we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the editors and contributers to the WiG
newsletter, old and new and welcome the new members to the team! Carrie Smith-Prei and Corinna Kahnke will
now be covering News of interest to WiG, and Hanna O’Neill has come on board as editorial assistant.
We would like to take this opportunity to announce a few changes we will make to the newsletter in the
new year. In an attempt to shorten this publication and to coordinate the content of the newsletter and the website
better, we will slowly move some of our regular resorts to the website. Of course, we will provide WiG members
with updates via email, or in the newsletter, on new content published on the website. Our goals with these changes
are to clearly define the newsletter as a venue for internal comunications of our organization and to use the website
as a more open and participatory resource. The openly accessible part of the website will showcase and promote our
work; the password protected areas of the website will allow for more up to date postings and, in the future, provide
a forum for on-line discussions and engagement.
The most important and immediate change will be to the general "calls," “announcements,” and "news"
sections. These rubrics will in the future not be separated into "national" and "European;" we will open them to calls
and announcements of interests to WiG members from around the globe and post them online on a regular basis.
This is the last WiG newsletter to contain the general "news" and "calls" sections. The bibliographies will most
likely also move to the password protected part of our website over the course of the next year. We will keep you
posted as these changes unfold over the course of the year and encourage you to send us any suggestions you might
have.
If you would like to join the WiG communications and outreach team, feel free to send us an email!
This issue contains the calls for papers for the WiG conference in 2009, Personal News, WiG conference
summaries, and internal announcements. The new book reviews will be published in the spring issue of the
newsletter.
We wish you a happy 2010!
Rachel Freudenburg, Boston College
Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Knoxville
[email protected]
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~~~~ WiG Conference Summaries ~~~~
Conference Guest Author Reading: Dragica Rajčić
The invited author [this past year] was Dragica Rajčić, who has emerged as an innovative female voice in German
transnational literature. The Croatian-born author fled war in her homeland Croatia in 1991 and has been living in
Switzerland ever since. She writes poetry in three languages: Croatian, German, and English after two extended
stays in the US. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the prestigious Adelbert von Chamisso
Prize in 1994 and the Meran Poetry Prize. At the reading, Rajčić proved once again why her poetry is praised for its
sharp irony and cutting insight. She read poems that appeared deceptively simple until the listener attempted to
unpack their many layers of meanings. Rajčić admitted readily that her use of the German language was influenced
by Friederike Mayröcker und Ingeborg Bachmann. The author was a lively discussant, although she refused to
interpret her own poetry: "It's all in there. I have nothing more to add," she said and reminded attending Wiggies that
interpreting her poetry was the task of the literary critic.
Thursday Evening Panel: Collaborative Research
Organizers: Heike Henderson (Boise State University) and Gabi Kathoefer (University of Denver)
Anke Finger (University of Connecticut), “International Research Collaboration: Co-Editing and Co-Authoring
Across Languages and Disciplines”
This presentation addressed various possibilities for collaborative research across borders and within the humanities,
focusing on an E-journal, Flusser Studies, (a collection of essays with contributors from different countries), and a
book co-authored by a scholar and a creative writer. Finger addressed the numerous challenges faced in all three
forms of collaboration (support for international work, translations, tenure-process, etc.), as well as pointing to the
advantages for each collaborator's scholarly work and professional connections (broadening of expertise, posing new
questions, honing interdisciplinary communication skills, etc.).
Sabine Gross and Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin), “More Work, Better Results: On Collaboration”
Marc Silberman defined different forms of working together (collaboration vs. cooperation), discussed hierarchy,
division of tasks, and deadlines, and addressed obstacles to and gains from collaborative research based on recent
multi-participant transatlantic projects.
Sabine Gross talked about her experiences with collaborative writing and publishing based on 2 co-authored
publications and one current project in progress, covering various permutations of collaboration: two authors,
multiple authors, and local and long-distance collaboration. She also discussed how these projects originated and
developed, their design and scope, and the benefits (and challenges) of co-authoring.
Both briefly discussed funding and emphasized the crucial importance of trust and commitment for successful
collaboration
Monika Fischer (University of Missouri), “Looking Outside the Box – Ideas of Collaboration in Research and
Teaching”
The presentation examined first the meaning and practice of collaborative or interdisciplinary work; and secondly,
examples of interdisciplinary work in practice and research.
The lack of interdisciplinary work – meaning the publication of articles or books by two or more authors – can be
traced back to the romantic notion of the genius. Even so the sciences work more collaboratively, they nevertheless
do not interact much outside of their discipline and their collaborations are somewhat hierarchical. There is a move
back to the ‘pre-genius’ idea, which is the view that creative endeavors are derivative and collaborative, that
originality is not the product of isolated genius but of co-operation or collaboration. This can be seen in
collaborative work initiated and carried out in various ways in anthologies, discussion panels, workshops, symposia,
co-/cross-teaching, readings, brown bag lunches, conferences, and research centers.
Examples of collaborative work and/or co-/cross-teaching given were
• the appointment of a German professor as Director of the University of Missouri’s Bond Life Sciences
Center. She is heading the committee that organizes the upcoming interdisciplinary Life Sciences and
Society 2010 Symposium: From Art to Biology and Back Again. http://lssp.missouri.edu/committee.php
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a web blogging course presently co-taught at the University of Missouri by a German and journalism
professor resulting in a class blog on pop culture: http://eurokulture.missouri.edu/
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the University of Missouri’s Center for the Digital Globe, a collaboration of the School of Journalism,
Business, Law and Human Environmental Sciences http://cdig.missouri.edu/
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the interdisciplinary project “Digital Humanities” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that
involves several professors from the humanities, in particular from medieval studies;
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/
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The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois is a Center that
encourages interdisciplinary contact; http://www.beckman.illinois.edu/index.aspx
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the independent group HASTAC ("haystack"), a network of individuals and institutions providing a
platform for informal and formal learning and for collaborative, networked research;
http://www.hastac.org/
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the University Potsdam’s collaboration project of researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are
working on the subject “Languages of Emotion”. It is an established research cluster with interdisciplinary
and international ties; http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en.html
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an example of cross-teaching by Professor Allison Fraiberg of the University of Redlands whose work
shows that business programs seek to incorporate liberal arts education into the curriculum. She just
published an article in Academic Exchange Quarterly called "Blending Globalization, Business, and the
Liberal Arts;" http://www.redlands.edu/533.asp
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a group of professors and students at Case Western Reserve University who collaborated on a group webbased collaborative research project at the intersection of Law and Cultural Studies -- specifically, the
domain of international intellectual property covered by copyright; http://filer.case.edu/~ijd3/authorship/
The Fall of the Wall, Twenty Years After
Organizers: Beret Norman, Boise State University and Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati
Yuliya Komska, Dartmouth College. “A Moving Wall: A London Staging of The Death of Peter Fechter”
Yuliya Komska engaged with the paradox that is the memory of the Berlin Wall: Public discussions and academic
writings alike suggest that it is most vibrantly remembered for its fall. Simultaneously, its remembrance depends on
the Wall’s persistent reconstructions in Berlin and beyond Germany’s borders. Yuliya’s paper interrogated the
meanings of such moveability by focusing on the multimedial aspect of the Wall’s transposition to London on
August 17, 2007. Sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Death of Peter Fechter was a performance
designed to bring one of the most vivid Cold War images—that of a young man left to die in no man’s land 45 years
earlier—back into the public conscience. As it did so, it simultaneously diffused the Wall’s historic and geographic
specificity. The paper explored the medial overlay which helped the artist transport one of the most moving German
deaths of the twentieth century to British soil. Deciphering the heterogeneous aesthetic vocabulary of the
performance, which referenced media and genres as diverse as photography, Brechtian Verfremdungseffekte, and
triptychs depicting Jesus’ crucifixion, Yuliya argued, can be a step toward a more articulated understanding of how
the Berlin Wall is remembered in a globalized world.
David James Prickett, Humboldt Universität. “Motherhood and the East-West German Divide”
David Prickett observed that since German reunification, the number of cases of maternal filicide in Eastern
Germany has risen at an alarming rate. His paper offered an analysis of Aelrun Goette’s film Die Kinder sind tot
(2002), a documentary which seeks to identify the causes of such a crime. Goette focuses on the first of three major
cases that have been reported in Frankfurt (Oder): the June 1999 case of Daniela Jesse, whose two sons died of
dehydration after being left home alone for fourteen days. While Die Kinder sind tot is primarily a film about an
overwhelmed single mother, it also stands as a cinematic investigation of both German motherhood “gone awry”
and the “other” underprivileged Germany that bewilders and alienates many (western) Germans. It is not so much
the film’s content, but rather the social context from which it evolved that compose this project’s focus.
Concentrating on gender roles in Frankfurt (Oder) and beyond, and the image of the Mother, this paper questioned
the extent to which the East-West German divide has been overcome since the fall of the Wall.
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Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma. “‘Neue Deutsche Mädchen’: The Resurgence of Feminism, Twenty Years
After”
Hester Baer’s paper investigated the connections between the recent resurgence of feminism in Germany and the
twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. After two decades characterized by a near absence of the “f-word,”
publications like Wir Alpha-Mädchen (2008), Das F-Wort (2007), and Hot Topic (2007) have helped to introduce a
new generationally distinct “popfeminism,” which has burst onto the cultural scene in the past two years. Opposing
themselves to the anti-feminism of the demography debates and the second-wave feminism represented by Alice
Schwarzer, young German feminists draw on the influence of North American third-wave feminism, including girl
power derived from Riot Grrl. Addressing the generational contests as well as the trans-German affiliations that
inform the new German feminism, the paper focused in particular on two books by Jana Hensel: Zonenkinder
(2002), which gave voice to her (East German) generation’s experience of the fall of the wall, and the East-West
collaborative memoir Neue Deutsche Mädchen, co-authored with Elisabeth Rather. Taking Hensel’s work as
emblematic for the new feminism, Baer’s analysis examined the way it foregrounds the links among gender,
generation, and German identity after the wall.
Memories and Memoirs
Organizers: Caroline Schaumann, Emory University and Helga Thorson, University of Victoria
Ursula Mahlendorf (University of California, Santa Barbara) started out the session by discussing her friendship
with Ruth Klüger, and comparing her new memoir and memories with Ruth’s memoir. She ended her talk, “Same
time; Different Places” by reading an excerpt from her own memoir, The Shame of Survival: Working Through a
Nazi Childhood (2009). This was followed by a presentation by Anna Kuhn (University of California, Davis)
entitled "Frauen schreiben anders: Gender and Autobiography in Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben, and Ursula
Mahlendorf’s The Shame of Survival.” Her paper read Ruth Klüger’s autobiography and Ursula Mahlendorf’s
memoir within the context of the recent spate of academic memoirs by prominent male German-American
Germanisten, such as German Jewish émigrés like Egon Schwarz, and German Gentile émigrés like Jost Hermand,
who helped shape post-war German Studies in the American academy. Drawing out commonalities and differences
in their texts, she hypothesized on the role gender plays in shaping what and how each person remembers. Finally,
Angelika Bammer (Emory University) and Ruth-Ellen Joeres (University of Minnesota) discussed the notion of
“truth,” in the form of a written conversation between the two of them. Since both are in the process of writing
memoirs, their concerns and thoughts sometimes merged and sometimes diverged in their dialogue. But what they
shared, at the deepest level, is the struggle around the question of truth: how to find it, how to present it, what it does
to them, and how to keep in mind the great variety of truths that will confront anyone writing a story about her life.
Pre-20th Century Panel: Entmythisierung: Women Rewriting Myths and Legends that Shape the Public
Perceptions about Women
Organizers: Karina Marie Ash, University of California, Los Angeles; Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa;
Regina Range, University of Iowa; Co-moderator: Jennifer Hagedorn, University of Iowa.
Liesl Allingham, Virginia Tech. “’Darthula nach Ossian’: A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast and the Creation
of Her Heroic Legend”
Ossianism, the fever that overtook Germany and Europe during the “Goethezeit”, is perhaps best-known
through Werther’s sentimental exclamation that Ossian is the “new Homer.” From Klopstock to Hölderlin, the
poems inspired German writers and composers because of their connection to the ancients and to nature. In 1800,
Karoline von Günderrode wrote her own version with the epic poem “Darthula nach Ossian,” in which Darthula
dresses as a warrior, battles the enemy and shields her emasculated father. Though the exposure of Darthula’s breast
on the battlefield seemingly immediately reasserts her femininity and link to nature and the body, Günderrode
consistently breaks the traditional gendered dualisms with a heroic, courageous and virile female warrior who stands
in contrast to her weak male counterparts. As Simon Richter argues, the breast is a surprisingly unreliable signifier.
Günderrode does more than merely challenge traditional gender roles by rewriting a well-known poem—she
embraces memory as an open site of possibility for the future, marking Darthula’s physical death as the beginning of
a female heroic legend and modeling the process of the creation of cultural memory both as an author herself and in
the content of the narrative she creates. The poem demonstrates the creation of legend with multiple examples of
narration of (sometimes immediate) history. Darthula narrates her father and brother’s defeat, while Nathos,
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Darthula’s beloved, is denied the creation of a legend about his alleged heroic deeds. Instead, the “harps” and
“beautiful women” sing upon Darthula’s death, beginning a female tradition that will enter the cultural memory and
later be inscribed by Günderrode.
Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College. “Friederike Brun’s Creation, Appropriation, and Destruction of Myth”
Friederike Brun (1765-1835) was a celebrated writer in the Northern German salons; her use of myth and
mythologization must be understood in this context and especially in light of the tendency in Sentimentalism and
Romanticism to reinvent myth. My paper examines three situations narrated in Brun’s autobiographical compilation
Wahrheit aus Morgenträumen und Idas ästhetische Entwicklung (1824). Here, Brun undertook efforts at mythmaking, appropriated the role of Ancient Greece for political commentary, or set out to correct the myths
surrounding her daughter Ida, “in order to narrate Ida for herself” (Idas ästhetische Entwicklung, “Vorwort”). As a
result, a conflicting role of myth in Brun’s writing arises. In response, I suggest ways in which we may read myth as
a medium that adequately reflects Brun’s status vis-à-vis the cultural network of her time, thus cementing her place
at the center of the literary establishment of the time. It also anticipates her lasting relegation to the margins of
cultural tradition, not just within the context of pre-1900 canon formation, but also in today’s efforts to rewrite this
canon.
Marjanne Goozé, University of Georgia. “Mothers for and of the Nation: Demythologizing Motherhood in Two
Short Tales by Bettina von Arnim”
In two short tales, Bettina von Arnim offers perspectives on motherhood that demythologize 19th-century
conceptualizations of motherhood and integrate it into a web of national, social, political, and even environmental
issues, thereby untangling the myth and ideology of separate spheres which isolates women, and especially
motherhood, from the influences of class, politics, and even interspecies relations. In analyzing these tales, we can
observe how Arnim confronts the increasing marginalization of actual mothers, and the mythologizing of them into
a nationalist ideology in the 19th century, and see how she addresses its consequences for her anticipated bourgeois
and noble readership.
In 1808 Arnim wrote a Märchen that an editor later titled “Der Königssohn.” The tale employs traditional
fairy tale motifs and can be called a Kunstmärchen. But, as Jeannine Blackwell has observed, it “fractures”
traditional tale types. Although the story relies on some common tale motifs, Arnim’s depiction of motherhood at
times undermines conventional expectations of the time by highlighting the duty of queens to provide male heirs in a
patriarchal and monarchical society, in depicting unremitting grief for a lost child, by making a positive “natural”
connection between women and nature, and by showing a queen who does not enjoy the benefits of her class
position, thereby allowing gender to trump class.
The second tale of the “Heckebeutel,” written in 1845, features Arnim as the overall narrator, but the story
is primarily related through the words of an 89 year-old woman. Not strictly a fairy tale, Arnim employs tale motifs
in the service of social criticism. Throughout the story, the narrator admires the ancient woman’s resourcefulness
born of desperation, but at the same time criticizes a state that expects men to give their lives for the nation, yet
leaves widows and orphans destitute and unable to thrive in modern capitalism. The “working” and hopelessly
entrepreneurial old woman offers the bourgeois reader an example of mothering and grandmothering among the
poor that contradicts the ideology of separate spheres. The old woman, who repeatedly praises her own
“Beredsamkeit,” demands more than mere charity. Implied in her resilience is a call for social change.
Although these two stories are separated by 37 years, Arnim confronts the expectations placed on mothers
to produce sons for the nation, whether they be queens or paupers. She also presents alternate versions of
motherhood that depict independent and industrious women who defy in many ways the 19th-century construction
of an ideal of bourgeois motherhood, a view that subjugates women and limits their interactions with the wider
world. In spite of their differences, both heroines depict how women’s expected sacrifice of sons (and daughters) for
the benefit of the nation can have tragic consequences for both the individual mothers and for the nation. They both
possess gifts of speech that defy the societal silencing of women. The heroines illustrate the flaws in the developing
bourgeois ideology of separate spheres and make a case for the state’s need for the values and wisdom of mothers.
Ulrike Brisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. “A Balancing Act: De-and Reconstructing Self-Images in
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing”
Pre-twentieth-century women travelers and travel writers have always struggled in maintaining their
reputation as respectable women when they explored foreign cultures as globetrotters. Sara Mills aptly points out the
problematic gender position of women travelers and their writing: “…women writers are caught in a double-bind
situation: if they tend towards the discourse of femininity in their work they are regarded as trivial, and if they draw
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on their more adventure hero type narratives their work is questioned”. In both forms of discourse – the feminine
and the heroic – women travelers are working with and against myths, and their writing testifies to their delicate
balancing act between both stereotypical roles.
Two such travel writers were the Prussian Ida von Hahn-Hahn and the Austrian Ida Pfeiffer respectively,
and two of their publications serve as case studies in this paper.
By using Pfeiffer’s Meine zweite Weltreise (1856) and Hahn-Hahns Orientalische Briefe (1844), I explore several
questions of de- and re-constructing self-images in travel writing for public acknowledgment of these texts and their
authors: To what degree have Hahn-Hahn and Pfeiffer made use of both male and female voices in their travelogues
and how have they adopted and adapted these for their specific purposes? In what manner have they made use of or
rejected myths of femininity in order to maintain their reputation as respectable bourgeois or aristocratic women? To
what extent have they created new myths and instrumentalized them for specific purposes?
Thus this paper explores the ways in which nineteenth-century women travel writers have negotiated their
ambiguous roles as women writers and travelers to secure public recognition and a place in women’s history.
Pedagogy and Praxis Panel (E-Panel) Queering the Gaze: Film and Feminism in the Classroom
Organizers: Corinna Kahnke, California Polytechnic State and University Faye Stewart, Georgia
State University
Kyle Frackman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Queer Film
and Feminist Pedagogy in an Advanced German Stylistics Course”
Jenneke Oosterhoff, University of Minnesota. “Never a Dull Moment: Teaching with Dutch Film”
Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta. “Queer Borderlands: Teaching German Film in the Gender Studies
Classroom”
Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “‘I Guess We Are Really Speaking Across Purposes’: Speech,
Performance, and Communication in the Queer Classroom”
For copies of the papers from the pedagogy panel, please check the Women in German website for electronic copies
of the papers at:
http://www.womeningerman.org/conference/2009/epanel/epanel-papers.html
The password is the same as for the newsletter: user: member password: Krista
Women in Transit: Exiles, Expatriates, Global Nomads
Organizers: Mareike Herrmann, The College of Wooster and Cary Einberger, Michigan State University
Transit can imply a positive sense of mobility, progression, and evolving, and at the same time it evokes
more negative states of transience, uprootedness, homelessness, and displacement. While mobility has typically been
coded as a male mode of being, the three panelists pointed out how women, and those who perform femininity, have
resisted this confinement, broken out of the sedentary private realm, and ventured out into the world. Even when the
transit is imposed by outside forces, the sense of displacement and homelessness that accompany an émigré’s
existence often coexist with feelings of liberation or a compulsion to remain a wanderer in the works discussed by
the presenters. In their discussions of transit and literal and figurative border-crossings, the presenters on this panel
raised questions of agency, particularly the ability able to act upon space and to move freely, vs. victimhood, or
being acted on, limited, or even erased by space or by others who inhabit the space.
In her paper on the memoirs of Swiss nomad Regula Engel-Egli, Julie Koser (University of Maryland)
explained that the writer constructs her autobiography as a woman’s guide to surviving a life in transit and that her
literary self-portrait reveals the strategies she employs to navigate the socially-prescribed, conservative norms and
expectations for women who traveled. Drawing on her personal experiences during and in the wake of the
Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Engel-Egli promoted a positive and
progressive image of a female traveler that contrasts with the often negative depictions of women who negotiate,
cross through, and reside within the borders of the public sphere in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe.
In her presentation, Erika Nelson (Union College) focused on the similarities of representing the
experience of migration in the work of Swiss-Croatian poet Dragica Rajčić and the Swiss-Bosnian filmmaker
Andrea Štaka. She demonstrated that the works of both artists challenge the very boundaries of female identity
construction, as expressed through language, experience, and self-understanding. By emphasizing the artists’
innovative restructuring of linguistic and visual conventions, her paper examined the ways these transnational artists
encounter the limits of identity formation, language, and expression. Nelson argued that through experimentation
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and representation of refugees as rootless figures, both artists challenge the confines of language and imagine
unexplored potential in female self-representation, as well as in the structure of inclusion of that which is “other” or
foreign.
Seeking to expand the terms “women” and “transit” by focusing on transgendered women in transition
between geographical, physical, and psychological states, Faye Stewart (Georgia State University) analyzed the
complex relationships between gender, sexuality, and space in films featuring male-to-female transvestites and
transsexuals. In a paper entitled “Rites of Passage: Transgendered Bodies and Border Crossings,” she highlighted
the gendered conditions of mobility and immobility across physical and geographic borders in three films,
Fassbinder’s In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978), Oskar Roehler’s Agnes und seine Brüder (2004), and Kutlug
Ataman’s Lola and Bilidikid (1999). While critical of the films’ common tendency to represent the transgender
experience as containing, immobilizing, and ultimately deadly, Stewart pointed to the tension Ataman creates
between this familiar story of abjection of the undesirable victims and the liberating experience of his characters
Sheherazade and Calipso, who survive precisely because of their physical and geographical mobility, choosing
transit over stasis.
Submissions Policy: Send your Conference Summaries of WiG panels and WiG-sponsored sessions to Michelle
Stott James, Brigham Young University, [email protected]
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~~~~ WiG Calls for Papers ~~~~
Coalition of Women in German 35th Annual Conference
October 21-24, 2010
Yarrow Golf and Conference Resort
10499 N 48th St, Augusta, MI 49012
Please note that all panelists must be WiG members by May 15, 2010.
Thursday Night Session -- The Personal and the Professional: "Mission, Position, Identity: WiG and
Intersectionality"
How do we--as scholars, teachers, feminists, and activists--talk about race in a productive fashion? How do we
position ourselves and our work at the intersections of race, class, and gender? If WiG is to remain at the forefront
of feminist, gender, and German studies, we must continue to engage critically with these and other questions.
This panel grew out of multiple discussions at panels, meals, and speak-outs during previous WiG conferences,
and we would like to provide a space for WiGGies to engage with, reflect on, and discuss issues of race, class, and
gender, how they intersect with and how they inform our work as scholars and feminists. According to our current
mission statement, WiG "seeks to create bridges, cross boundaries, nurture aspiration, and challenge assumptions
while exercising critical self-awareness." This session asks whether we are succeeding and, to the extent we might
not be, how should we achieve this?
We invite papers from WiG members willing to reflect on these issues on personal, professional, and political
levels. Please send a 200-300 word proposal by March 15, 2010 to both of the organizers: Maureen Gallagher,
University of Massachusetts, [email protected] and Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota,
[email protected]. Selected panelists must be members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
Pedagogy Panel -- Educating Our Students and Ourselves: "Changing Job Market. Workshops"
This session will be a series of concurrent workshops that address the changing job market in
academe. Academic institutions are increasingly moving towards employing faculty on a part-time or full-time nontenure-track basis. Each year sees the creation of more dual- and multi-language positions. And tenure-track jobs
become harder and harder to find (let alone secure). It is time for everyone from graduate students to department
chairs, from senior professors to adjuncts to be aware of these trends and respond accordingly. This workshop
session at the Women in German 2010 Conference is designed to create a space in which to discuss and take action
on a variety of related issues. Possible workshop session topics include:
how to prepare graduate students for the job search (or help them find non-academic jobs)
what to know if you're considering an adjunct or full-time non-tenure-track position
how to advocate for German in times of institutional budget cuts
how to transition to non-academic jobs (including: how to adapt your c.v.)
what you can do as a department chair during a time of economic insecurity
how to find outside funding to support your research
how to combine motherhood with job insecurity
how to enter retirement and stay active in the field
The panel organizers will assemble a number of workshops (ideally approx. 5) that appeal to Wiggies at various
points in their careers. Each workshop should be a "how-to" session and is expected to provide its participants with
concrete information and/or strategies for coping with this new job market. Workshop organizers should plan an
interactive session, provide plenty of time for questions and answers, and consider helping participants create
something concrete (e.g., a resume reworked for a non-academic position).
Please submit proposals of approx. 300-500 words that makes the case for the workshop, outlines what you
intend to do during the session, and what the participants will gain from it. Please send your proposals to Allie
Merely-Hill ([email protected]) and Ulrike Brisson ([email protected]) by March 15, 2010. Selected panelists must be
members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
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Pre-20th-Century Panel: "Mood and Gender"
This panel will explore the interrelationships between concepts, representations, and modulations of mood and
gender. Moods are generally understood as enduring affects like melancholy and sadness, boredom, happiness or
anger that do not appear to have a clearly identifiable source and that can combine a variety of sensations and
feelings, making them often difficult to describe. As recent scholarship demonstrates (cf. Elisabeth Goodstein,
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Thomas Pfau, Juliana Schiesari, and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf), definitions and evaluations
of moods have changed radically over time, from the ancient four humors theory, to late 19th century psychology,
psychiatry, and early psychoanalysis: Hildegard von Bingen’s descriptions of “sanguine,” “phlegmatic,” “choleric,”
and “melancholic” women transgressed and challenged gender boundaries; in the romantic period, melancholy was
considered a characteristic of the male genius; as the nineteenth century progressed, the same mood became
increasingly associated with femininity as an illness hindering creativity. This panel invites papers that explore the
interrelationships between mood and gender in changing historical, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts from
the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century. Possible areas of investigation include:
literary and cultural representations and modulations of mood and gender
mood and gender in medicine, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy
the moods of genre and gender (i.e. the relationships between poetry, melancholy, and the male genius)
Please submit a 300-500-word proposal electronically by March 15, 2010 to both organizers: Lisabeth Hock, Wayne
State University ([email protected]) and May Mergenthaler, Ohio State University ([email protected]).
Selected panelists must be members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
Guest-related Panel: "Cinematic Journeys. A Panel in Conjunction with Guest Speaker Ulrike Ottinger"
We welcome proposals that explore cinematic border crossings, travel and the transformation of geographical
and cultural spaces into cinematic experiences. Travel in this context suggests transcultural and transnational
encounters and movement both thematically and aesthetically. These encounters may be in the form of documentary
or fiction films.
Based on the notion that the filmmaker journeys into diverse cultural spaces and visually explores them, we are
particularly interested in Ottinger’s later films that feature what may be called an ethnographic gaze. While
Cinematic Journeys is a session that is organized in conjunction with the guest speaker, Ulrike Ottinger, we
welcome contributions on other filmmakers to the extend that they are relevant to the topic of this session.
Please submit proposals approximately 250 words in length electronically by March 15, 2010 to both: Sonja
Klocke, Knox College ([email protected]) and Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona ([email protected]).
Selected panelists must be members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
Women Writers in German: Rethinking Space and Place
This panel is broadly conceived and invites interdisciplinary explorations of women’s writing in German that
combine ideas from cultural geography and texts that use the language and metaphors of space and place. Feminist
geographer Patricia Price-Chalita has pointed out that concerns of empowerment and disempowerment in feminist
writings often use spatial metaphors. Displacement, denial, or lack of space stands in contrast to the positive
experience of appropriating and creating new spaces, or in reclaiming previously coded negative spaces. Native and
non-native German women writers have oftentimes positioned their protagonists on the margins or in a space inbetween. Both captured within and desiring to move away from a western European patriarchal and colonialist
mindset, women writers thematize borders, belonging, and place, but also traveling and mobility. Papers might
include these concerns, or look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration,
concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of im/mobility, topographies of departure and arrival,
movement, motion, or shifting identities.
Please send a 300-500 word proposal to BOTH organizers Carola Daffner ([email protected]) and Beth
Muellner ([email protected]) by March 15, 2010. Selected panelists must be members of Women in German
by May 15, 2010.
Marketing German Studies: Visibility, Students, Jobs
In the face of the current crisis in German Studies (closed German programs, lost jobs, and decreasing enrollments),
we invite proposals for brief, practical presentations on strategies for survival. How can we make our field more
visible across campus and in our local communities? How do we spark interest in our students and attract them into
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our programs? Can the right "marketing" solve our enrollment problems? Should we: cross-list courses, team-teach,
work across disciplines, revisit the language requirement, tweak websites, embed German in other curricula and
programs?
Please send proposals by March 15, 2010 to both: Karen Achberger ([email protected]) and Britt Abel
([email protected]). Selected panelists must be members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
Poster Session
The organizers of the WiG Poster Session welcome proposals for the 35th Annual Conference of the
Coalition of Women in German at the Yarrow Golf and Conference Center in Augusta, MI (Oct. 21-24, 2009). The
purpose of the poster session is to allow scholars to employ visual forms to initiate conversations about their
research, teaching, or academic life. Examples of visual forms include: posters, 3-D art, interactive exhibits, and
multimedia presentations.
Proposals will consist of a 300-500 word abstract describing the project’s content and form. This must
include a description of the layout, design, material, and technology that will be used. For logistical reasons,
presenters must provide their own materials and equipment, including projectors and computers. If sound will be
used, presenters must also bring headphones. To insure that your information is available throughout the conference,
multi-media presentations must be accompanied by a simple explanatory poster or handout.
Posters from past
sessions have addressed such topics as teaching, literature, film, cultural studies, history, and the balancing of career
and family. "Posters" have taken the form of PowerPoint presentations, websites, dioramas, sculpture, and of course
cardboard (see the Women in German website for examples:
http://www.womeningerman.org/1_oldsite/conference/poster.html
Many universities support the production of posters as a way of publicizing research. You may want to find
out what your institution offers in terms of audiovisual support and travel funds. Show us all how creative you really
are! Get valuable feedback on your newest, brilliant idea!
Submit your proposals electronically to BOTH organizers by March 15, 2010 to Marjanne Goozé,
University
of
Georgia
(mgooze(AT).uga.edu),
and
Astrid
Weigert,
Georgetown
University
(weigerta(AT)georgetown.edu). Selected presenters must be members of Women in German by May 15, 2010.
WiG-Sponsored Panel for AATG: Gender, Class and Power: Teaching the GDR to Today’s Students
Boston, MA - November 19-21, 2010
This panel is based upon the assumption that teaching the GDR is a critical aspect of education offered by
German programs in the US. In this context, we invite reflective submissions on how a focus on intersections of
power, gender and class in our teaching practices on the GDR can help make the “foreignness” of the GDR less
daunting. Especially for a younger generation of students who not only grew up in a post-Cold War environment,
but also for many who were born after the fall of the Wall, the enduring legacies of Cold War history and the Wall,
and Germany as its geographic center, require a reevaluation of our pedagogical approaches to teaching the GDR to
our undergraduates.
How do pedagogues approach cultural products as products of the GDR, and how especially do we situate these
that we take as critical objects into classroom discussions today? How do we critically engage with new materials on
the GDR and/or the Wende?
“Ossis” and “Wessis”: The East and the “Other”
New Divisions and New Developments after Unification: Questions of Multiculturalism or Interculturalism,
Class, and the rise of Neo-Nazism
Multiculturalism in the GDR
The Classroom as Audience: Engaging with Contemporary Productions on the GDR
Memory and Memoire of citizens of the GDR, Oral Histories, Cultural Histories
An Evaluation of Pedagogical Approaches and Materials Used in the Classroom
Placing the GDR in German and European History, and Making Connections to American History, Society, and
Culture
The Idea of Building and Tearing Down Walls
Finding Historical Rupture, East and West
Women and Social Transformation in the GDR
Women and the Rupture of 1989
Women Artists, Bürgerrechtlerinnen, Arbeiterinnen, Mütter, usw. in the GDR
Constructions of Gender, Family, and Power Relations in fictional and non-fictional texts
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Please submit a 300-400 word abstract to Astrid Weigert [email protected] and Victoria Lenshyn
[email protected] by March 15, 2010.
WiG-Sponsored Panel for MLA: Imagining Herself into His/story, Los Angeles, CA - January 6 - 9, 2011
Scholarly attention to women’s memoirs and personal narratives has increased our understanding of women’s
relationship to, and their role within, gendered historical discourses and the ways they have framed their
contributions within and against these discourses. We are proposing an interdisciplinary panel that will analyze the
roles of women within, and at the intersections of, various scholarly fields including gender studies, historiography,
literature, film, and performance. Individual papers should focus upon strategies that women employ to present and
construct counter-narratives, and/or discuss the different possibilities for the elaboration of these stories through
fiction and non-fiction across time, genre, and various media of representation.
Please submit a 250 word abstract to Imke Brust and Beate Brunow ([email protected]). The abstract
should include your name, institutional affiliation andemail address as well as audio-visual requirements for the
presentation. Deadline: March 15, 2010.
WiG-Sponsored Panel for GSA: Outside the Metaphorical Marriage: Gendering the Beitritt, Oakland, CA October 7 - 10, 2010
This panel takes stock of the larger FRG, now, twenty years after what Article 23 of the Basic Law terms the Beitritt
of the GDR into the Federal Republic. Since 1990, multiple, often competing gendered discourses and practices
have been shaping understandings of this event and of the New Republic. Conceptions include: failed, impotent
state; colonizer/colonized; "normalized" pillar of Fortress Europe; potent economic engine; virgin market; dowried
bride. Our aim is to account for dominant narratives without reinscribing them; we welcome contributions that offer
alternatives to established frameworks and lived experiences of the (post) Beitritt.
Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words by January 15, 2010 to both: Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Queen's
University, Ontario ([email protected]) and David Prickett, Humboldt University, Berlin ([email protected]).
Please include academic position and affiliation. You will be notified of selection results by January 22. If selected,
plan to submit written confirmation, CV, short narrative biography, full contact information, and technology needs
by January 29. All presenters must be current GSA members.
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Winter 2010
~~~ WiG Announcements ~~~
Open Positions at WiG
WiG Newsletter is seeking a colleague or colleagues to compile an annual bibliographie. New Titles in German
Literature appears in the Winter Newsletter and compiles all new fiction to date of publication. Some knowledge of
electronic databases is necessary. Access to WorldCat is necessary. Questions about the position(s) can be posed to
Sarah McGaughey ([email protected]), who is also willing to aid in the transition to a new bibliographer.
Endowment
Long-time WiG member Dinah Dodds was recognized at her retirement in August 2008 with the establishment of
an endowed fund in her name, the Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education. The Endowment supports
Lewis & Clark students who wish to study overseas as well as overseas programs themselves. Contributions of any
size may be sent to:
The Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education
Attn. Christine Atchison
MSC 57
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
2009 WiG Dissertation Prize Winner: Katie L. M. Sutton
The WiG Dissertation Prize 2009 was awarded to Katie L. M.
Sutton, University of Melbourne, for her 2008 dissertation “The
Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (1918-1933).” Birgit
Tautz presented the prize to Katie at the conference, noting that
Katie was probably the winner who had traveled the farthest to
receive the prize. The members of the award committee, Rick
McCormick, Mila Ganeva, and Birgit Tautz note in their citation:
“The Masculine Woman” makes a substantial contribution to the
current scholarly dialogue on gender and culture in the Weimar
Republic. More importantly, the dissertation reaches beyond the
confines of Weimar – through the important historical and
theoretical insights it provides as well as through the dialogue it
opens up between and across disciplines (as well as Wissenschaftskulturen in different countries and on different
continents). Confidently argued and elegantly written, the dissertation “focuses on an important but underresearched aspect of what was included within the much larger (and well-researched) discourse on Weimar’s “New
Woman”—namely that her threat to traditional femininity included an advocacy not merely of androgyny but indeed
of an outright “masculinization” of women. [...] Sutton’s thorough, original, and differentiated study of a
phenomenon within Weimar culture teaches us about more than Weimar—she notes continuities from the more
liberal or tolerant Weimar attitudes that do not completely disappear in the much more oppressive culture of the
Third Reich. This dissertation provides historical evidence of emerging queer identities that we tend to think have
only evolved since “gay liberation” began in the late 1960s. Thus, in addition to its relevance for the study of
Weimar culture, this dissertation contributes to the larger history of gender and human sexuality.” Having recently
relocated to Germany from Australia, Katie came to Michigan from Potsdam, where she currently holds a post-
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doctoral position. She has begun working with Berghahn Books on revising her dissertation. We can look forward to
a great read!
Women in German Dissertation Prize 2010 APPLY OR NOMINATE NOW!
Deadline: postmarked by March 31, 2010
The Award
Every year Women in German issues a call for dissertations by WIG members to be considered for the Women in
German Dissertation Prize of $500. The 2009 award will be conferred at the 2010 WiG conference. The recipient's
name will be published in the Women of German Newsletter and on the website.
Who Is Eligible?
Dissertations completed, defended, accepted, and filed during the calendar year 2009. In rare circumstances, the
official graduation date may fall in the next calendar year, causing questions about eligibility. In such cases, please
consult the chair of the prize committee before the deadline. In general, the official submission date recorded on the
filed copy decides about the year of eligibility. For information on how to join Women in German, visit our
membership pages<http://womeningerman.roundtablelive.org/>.
Criteria for Selection
We are looking for dissertations that
* reflect the values of the Women in German Mission Statement (see below);
* make a substantial contribution to the current dialogue in the given area;
* demonstrate solid and innovative scholarship.
How to Apply?
You may either apply yourself, or be nominated. The application package must include:
* a cover letter (either by the author or by a nominator) describing the strengths of the dissertation and any other
reasons why it deserves consideration for the award (If the dissertation comes from a system using outside
examiners, these examiners' reports should neither be included nor referenced or paraphrased in the nominating
letter. We'd appreciate receiving the cover letter in a separate envelope.);
* two hard copies of the dissertation, each with an abstract, plus one complete electronic copy (in both Microsoft
Word and as PDF on a CD; we'd appreciate if the CD also contained a zipped copy);
* the applicant's mailing and email addresses and phone numbers.
Send the application to the Chair of the Dissertation Prize Selection Committee:
Birgit Tautz
Department of German
7700 College Station, Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME 04011-8477
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May Mergenthaler wins 2009 WiG Prize for Best Article
The competition for the Women in German Best Article Prize, 2009
received a record high number of strong and diverse submissions,
which speaks to the quality of current feminist research in German
Studies. The committee members, Barbara Mennel, Elizabeth Mittman,
and Katrin Pahl, chose May Mergenthaler’s article “Die Frühromantik
als Projekt vollendeter Mitteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern:
Friedrich Schlegel und Dorothea Veit im Gespräch über Friedrich
Richters Romane,” published in The German Quarterly 81.3 (Summer
2008), as the winning article for the 2009 prize, which carries a
$500.00 check award. One of the categories for the award is that the
work must present original new research that makes a significant
contribution to the field of feminist German Studies. Committee
members assessed Mergenthaler’s article as a beautiful and
sophisticated reading – a re-enactment, really – of the conversation
between Friedrich Schlegel, Dorothea Veit, and Jean Paul. Indeed, the
conversation extends to the debate between feminist and non-feminist
scholars of the 20th century about the value of Romantic ideas of irony
and conversation. We found that Professor Mergenthaler leaves her
own mark in this conversation by correcting the earlier feminist focus
on Dorothea Veit via the perspective of Jean Paul. The article thus
offers a differentiated feminist perspective that strengthens the voice of the literary. Committee members agreed that
the essay in question advances feminist German Studies by offering a nuanced feminist literary analysis that moves
beyond the gender-aligned feminist positions of the 1990s but acknowledges and builds on this earlier feminist
discourse.
WiG Prize for Best Article 2010
Women in German invites nominations for our new Best Article award. The purpose of this award is to recognize
excellent research and scholarship in the field of feminist German studies. The prize is conferred anually and was
awarded for the first time in 2004.
The author of the article selected will receive a $500 cash award and a certificate of recognition.
Eligibility:
* The article must be published in a journal issue or collection with a 200 publication date.
* The work must present original new research that makes a significant contribution to the field of feminist German
studies.
* The author must be a current WiG member.
Articles may be written in either German or English. Send 3 copies of the article to:
Prof. Barbara Mennel
Department of English
4008 Turlington Hall
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
Deadline: May 1, 20
The award will be formally announced at the 2010 WiG Conference. Questions may be addressed to Barbara
Mennel (mennel AT ufl EDU) or to the WiG President, Nora Alter (president AT womeningerman ORG).
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~ Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students ~
New Procedures and Award Amounts
Inspired by the work of Susanne Zantop, Women in German established an award in her honor to help nurture and
sustain research and publication in feminist cultural studies. The Zantop Travel Award has supported work on more
than a dozen dissertations since it was established in 2002. We are happy to announce that progress on WiG's
current campaign to endow this fund makes it possible to establish new award amounts, beginning in 2009: Each
year WiG will now grant up to two awards, each in the amount of $1500.
Eligibility:
Graduate students who have not yet completed the Ph.D. Applicants must be WiG members with a dissertation
project approved by a faculty advisor for research on a topic in feminist German cultural studies that requires travel
to consult specific archives, libraries, cultural centers, or authors.
Criteria:
1. We seek proposals that address a significant topic with demonstrated relevance to German Studies from an
approach informed by feminist cultural studies, that is, an approach that engages the intersections of gender with
other relevant categories such as sexuality, class, race, citizenship, and ethnicity. In addition, we encourage
proposals that further the project of rethinking German Studies along transnational lines.
2. The proposed research travel must be for the purpose of obtaining access to materials or information not
accessible by other means.
3. The materials or information sought must be central to the success of the dissertation project.
4. The research plan must be feasible within the proposed time period.
5. The request for funding must be supported by a letter from a major professor (dissertation advisor or committee
member).
Proposal Guidelines:
To the student: In a statement of no more than 750 words, describe your dissertation project and explain why travel
to the specified site(s) is necessary. In addition, please include the following information (required):
• a timetable
• contact information for the people or institutions you will be working with
• a one-page budget statement listing the projected cost of travel to the site
• the amount requested from WiG, and support anticipated from other sources (if any).
To the faculty member: Please address the quality and significance of the project, the importance of the research
travel, and the applicant’s ability to see the project the project through to completion.
Deadline: February 1st of each year. The Zantop Award Committee, consisting of the WiG president and two other
WiG members, will consider applications and send notifications in March.
Recipient Responsibility: As soon as is feasible after implementing the award, recipients are to present a report on
research results at the poster session of the WiG annual conference. Acknowledgment of the award in the
dissertation would be appreciated.
Submit all materials electronically to: Nora Alter, WiG President, president(AT)womeningerman(DOT)org
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~~~Zantop Endowment Campaign~~~
Update, November 22, 2009
What is the Zantop Travel Endowment Campaign?
WiG has the opportunity to endow the Zantop Award for student research travel. WiG must raise $25,000, which
will be matched by a private donor. We are in the second year of a three-year campaign to raise the funds.
What is the Zantop Travel Award?
The Zantop Award funds research travel for graduate students working on their dissertations. For the first seven
years, the amount awarded to each recipient was $500. However, the success of last year’s fundraiser made it
possible to increase the amount to $1500, the sum awarded to each of the 2009 Zantop winners, Anja Shepelak of
the University of Minnesota and Kathleen Smith of the University of Illinois. There have been 15 Zantop Travel
Award recipients since the award was established in 2001.
How much money has been raised so far?
During 2008-09 the campaign raised $13,475 in pledges, of which $11,525 has been collected (donors have the
option to pay in installments). This amount is the sum of gifts received from only 22 individuals! Because of the
generosity of several Wiggies who were able to give $1,000 or even more, the goal of raising $10,000 in the first
year was exceeded.
The fundraising goal for 2009-10 is $7,500. To date, we have received $2,990 in gifts and pledges toward that goal.
Who should give to this campaign?
Everyone who cares about feminist research in German Studies should contribute at a level they can afford. At the
October 2009 WiG conference, Margaret Ward made the point that if each of the 400 WiG members gave $25, we
would more than meet our goal of $7,500 for the 2009-10 academic year. That’s true – however, so far, just 14
individuals have donated or made a pledge toward the 2009-10 campaign. Your contribution is needed!
How do I contribute?
The pledge form is below. You can pledge an amount to be paid in installments or make a one-time donation
electronically or by check. Note that WiG has tax-exempt status, so your contribution can be deducted from your
itemized federal tax return. If you have any questions before sending your contributions, contact the fundraising
coordinator, Jeanette Clausen ([email protected]).
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Pledge Form, Zantop Travel Endowment Campaign
Amount pledged:
$5,000 __
$2,000 __
$1,000 __
$ 500__ $ 100__ Other _____
Choose a payment option:
Payment in full
Amount enclosed: ________
Amount paid electronically ______
(www.womeningerman.roundtablelive.org click on Donate to WiG)
Payment in installments:
Amount enclosed: _______
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(www.womeningerman.roundtablelive.org click on Donate to WiG)
Send reminder for balance: quarterly ____ biannually ____ in December ____
Your name ________________________
email________________________
Affiliation _________________________
phone_______________________
Preferred mailing address:
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Mail to:
Prof. Waltraud Maierhofer (WIG)
German Dept., 111 PH
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1323
Winter 2010
~~~ Fascinating Clicks ~~~
Two resources have floated to the top of my “clicks” list recently. The first one pertains to copyright and “fair use.”
Given the wide divergence of department, library, copy shop, and individual scholar understanding of what
constitutes fair use of a copyrighted source in the academic context, pointing your browser to the Federal
Government’s copyright page is a good idea: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Here you can read the four main criteria for determining the boundaries between fair use and copyright
infringement. One of these criteria is the “effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted
work,” which may guide our use in determining what to copy from textbooks currently in use on one hand and out
of print anthologies on the other.
Another resource I’ve recently discovered came to my attention because an ILL request I had made was returned
after our library discovered that the CRL (Center for Research Libraries) had completed its digitization of this
nineteenth-century girls’ school melodrama. My interest piqued, I clicked further to see what else the CRL had in its
digital collection that might be of interest to me or other Wiggies. While the introduction to their Germany
collection highlights their digitized sources in Weimar- and Nazi-era historical documents,
http://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/germany also provides links to Berlin newspapers, information on German
dialects, civil law, geology, and much more. The topic page serves as a portal to the large digitized collection of
German literature, political science, and history source material held by the Center.
Fascinating Clicks: Jennifer Askey, Kansas State University, [email protected]
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Winter 2010
~~~ Personal News ~~~
Awards:
Stefanie Ohnesorg (University of Tennessee) received the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association’s
Jacqueline Elliott Award for Teaching and Service in Higher Education. The award recognized Ohnesorg’s
outstanding contributions to her institution, to her colleagues, and to foreign language organizations.” More details
at: http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2009/11/16/ohnesorg-tn-foreign-language-teacher-of-the-year/
Sonja Fritzsche (Illinois Wesleyan University) received a DAAD summer stipend in 2009 to carry out research in
Berlin on GDR fairy tale films of the early 1950s.
Administrative Positions:
Nancy C. Erickson (Bemidji State University) has served as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs for the
past year and a half. Her term has been extended to include the next academic year as well. Before her present
position, she served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for eleven years.
"Doris Kirchner (University of Rhode Island) has been named Director of the Middlebury College German
Language School."
New Sons:
Jennifer L. Creech (University of Rochester) gave birth to a son, Harlan Wayne Peck-Creech, on Sept. 26.
Sonja Fritzsche (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Stokes Schwartz are excited to announce the birth of their son
David “Paul” Schwartz (7 lbs 1 oz) on Oct. 27, 2009 in Bloomington, IL.
Retirement and Endowment:
Margaret Ward (Wellesley College) is completing her five-year early retirement plan this year. She finished
teaching in December and will retire officially at the end of June. To honor her 39 years at Wellesley College, her
colleagues have taken $1000 from a departmental restricted fund, the Elizabeth Vogel Falk Fund, and generously
donated it to the WIG Susanne Zantop Fund endowment capital campaign.
Creative Writing:
Helga Madland (Oklahoma University) has published a travelogue, “Dachshunds Can Fly,” an amusing tale of
traveling in Greece and Germany and living in France for one year with her husband and dachshund. Available at
Amazon, also for Kindle. More at: http://www.amazon.com/Dachshunds-Can-Helga-Stipa-Madland/dp/1593305842
Submissions Policy: Personal News welcomes announcements that are of interest to WiG members. Send your News to Karen R.
Achberger, St. Olaf College, [email protected]
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Winter 2010
~~ News, Announcements, and Calls for Papers ~~
Travel Grant: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
The American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach award a travel grant of $1,500 for Ph.D. candidates
in the field of German Studies to work in the Deutsches Literaturachiv Marbach (www.dla-marbach.de). Please
submit a 1-2 page project description which should include a brief statement about the relevance of the holdings of
the DLA for your project, a current C.V. and one letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor to Professor
Meike Werner, Department of Germanic and Slavic at Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) by
March 1, 2010. The decision will be announced by end of March 2010.
GSA Networks
The interdisciplinary initiative of the German Studies Association will be experimenting with the establishment of a
series of “networks,” designed to foster exchanges around broadly conceived themes across disciplines and to
provide continuity of discussion from meeting to meeting and to encourage workshops and conferences beyond the
GSA annual meeting. Networks should be conceived so as to be open to several disciplines and to encourage
discussions that break with traditional periodization schemas. Each network should have one or two coordinators
and a dedicated GSA forum.
Initial proposed networks:
Law, Culture and Society: Coordinators Jonathan Sheehan ([email protected]) and Timothy Guinnane
([email protected])
Family and Kinship
Transnationalism
Religious Culture: Coordinators Christopher Wild ([email protected]) and John Smith ([email protected])
Urban Society and Culture
Visual Culture: Coordinators Gavriel Rosenfeld ([email protected])
Memory Studies
Individuals who would like to act as coordinators for the Family and Kinship, Transnationalism, Urban Society and
Culture, Visual Studies, or Memory Studies networks should contact the chair of the Standing Committee for
Interdisciplinary Initiatives, David Sabean: [email protected]. If you wish to be part of the networks where
there are coordinators already in place, please contact them directly
Grants from The Max Kade Center, Washington University in St. Louis
Thirty travel stipends for advanced U.S. or Canadian graduate students and assistant professors participating in the
20th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature during the weekend from March 26-28, 2010 at Washington
University in St. Louis. (The travel stipends can be awarded thanks to a grant from the VolkswagenStiftung in
Hannover.) The topic of the Symposium: “The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Writers” Eight writers,
eight critics and eight scholars have been invited to discuss the ethical dimensions of contemporary German
Literature. This symposium is celebrating 25 years of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature.
For more information see the website: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~gersymp/sym2010/main2010.html
Two DAAD Grants (Euro 2,500 each) for U.S. or Canadian colleagues working in the field of contemporary
German literature to do research in the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington University’s
Olin Library.
One Max Kade Grant ($3,500) for a U.S. or Canadian Ph.D. candidate working on a dissertation in the field of
contemporary German literature to do research in the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington
University’s Olin Library.
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The application deadline for each of these grants is Feb. 15, 2010. Please send a CV and a short description of your
interest in the symposium or (in the case of the summer grants) an outline of your research project/dissertation topic.
Phd. candidates applying for the Max Kade dissertation grant have to add a recommendation from the dissertation
adviser. Email all applications and requests for more information about the weekend seminar in Marbach to: Prof.
Paul Michael Lützeler at Washington University in St. Louis.
Email address: [email protected]
CFPs conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.
Call for Papers: KULTUR -- WISSEN -- NARRATION. PERSPEKTIVEN TRANSDISZIPLINÄRER
ERZÄHLFORSCHUNG FÜR DIE KULTURWISSENSCHAFTEN
Internationale Jahrestagung des Zentrums für Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Graz
23. bis 26. Juni 2010 an der Universität Graz
Der so genannte "narrativist turn" in den Humanwissenschaften initiierte eine kritische Reflexion der narrativen
Konstitution von Kultur(en) und sensibilisierte für die performative und wirklichkeitsstrukturierende Funktion des
Erzählens. Die Tagung nimmt die im Zuge dieser narrativen Wende erzielten Ergebnisse der Erzählforschung zum
Ausgangspunkt einer kritischen Revision und kulturtheoretischen Weiterentwicklung narratologischer Ansätze.
Meta-Narratologien
Gegenstand dieser Sektion bilden die Wissenschaftsgeschichte(n) der Narratologie(n) und die diese strukturierenden
Präsuppositionen und Implikationen im Sinne einer selbstreflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit der narratologischen
Theoriebildung und ihrem Methodenrepertoire.
Narrative des Wissens Im Zentrum dieser Sektion stehen Fragen nach den Formen, Verfahren und Funktionen des
Erzählens in den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften. Neben Positionen der kritischen Meta-Historiographie und der
Meta-Ethnographie sollen im Rahmen dieser Sektion vor allem selbstreflexive Perspektiven der
Naturwissenschaften auf die narrative Verfasstheit von Wissen präsentiert werden.
Kulturen des Erzählens Diese Sektion widmet sich der Praxis des Erzählens in der Literatur und Kunst, der Alltagsund Populärkultur. Anhand der Untersuchung von Narrativen in ihrer spezifischen (inter)medialen Realisierung
sollen Fragen nach der Bedeutung des Erzählens für die De-/Konstruktion von Kultur(en) und Identität(en)
ausgelotet werden. Im Unterschied zu den vorherrschenden Tendenzen in der klassischen Erzählforschung soll der
Fokus auf den Ambivalenzen und Kontingenzen als zentralen Aspekten von Erzählungen liegen. Dadurch soll eine
kulturtheoretische Profilierung narratologischer Ansätze erfolgen, die es erlaubt, jene Aspekte des Erzählens in den
Blick zu nehmen, die sich in erzähltheoretischen Ansätzen strukturalistischer Provenienz der Systematisierung und
taxonomischen Klassifizierung entziehen.
Konferenzsprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Eine Tagungspublikation ist vorgesehen. Reisekostenzuschüsse können nach Maßgabe der vorhandenen Mittel
gewährt werden. Abstracts mit bis zu 300 Worten (eine Seite DIN-A 4) sowie eine Kurzvita senden Sie bitte bis
spätestens 31. Dezember 2009 an: [email protected]
Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt bis zum 31. Januar 2010.
Kontakt: Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier Universität Graz Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaften Mozartgasse 3/OG
A-8010 Graz tel. + 43 316 380 8090
[email protected] www.kulturwissenschaften.at
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CFP: Frauenbiografieforschung - Theoretische Diskurse und methodologische Konzepte, Wien (11.01.2010)
Frauenbiografieforschung - Theoretische Diskurse und methodologische Konzepte
Das gegenwärtig wahrgenommene Konzept von frauenspezifischer bzw. feministischer Biografieforschung begreift
sich als ein offenes Programm, das vielfältige Anknüpfungspunkte zu aktuellen theoretischen Diskussionen in der
Geschlechterforschung aufweist.
Widmete sich die Biografieforschung mit wenigen Ausnahmen politisch, künstlerisch oder in anderen
Lebensbereichen herausragenden Einzelpersönlichkeiten, so wendet sie sich nun vermehrt auch größeren
Gruppierungen sowie unauffälligen, aber exemplarisch als wertvoll erachteten Fallstudien und Lebensläufen zu.
Die Rekonstruktion und Analyse von Lebensverläufen und Sinnkonstruktionen -- oftmals auf der Basis
biografischer Erzählungen oder persönlicher Dokumente -- verflicht individuelle Erfahrung und gesellschaftliche
Bedingtheit. Geschlechtssensible Interpretationen fokussieren dabei das grundsätzliche Problem der Differenz
zwischen der "tatsächlichen" (historisch überlieferten), der erlebten und der erzählten Lebensgeschichte.
Die Frauenbiografieforschung stellt auf Grund ihres komplexen Forschungsansatzes und durch die sich daraus
ergebenden disparaten Ergebnisse seit längerem ein wichtiges Korrektiv zu bislang gültigen wissenschaftlichen
Einschätzungen von biografischen Verläufen und Epochen dar. Die These, dass Geschlecht biografisch konstruiert
wird, stellt nicht nur eine Weiterentwicklung feministischer Theorien zur sozialen Konstruktion von Geschlecht dar,
sondern zeigt auf vielen Ebenen politische und gesellschaftsverändernde Wirkung.
Die Tagung richtet sich an ForscherInnen, deren theoretische Konzepte auf Biografien bezogen sind und diese in der
Auseinandersetzung mit gendertheoretischen Erkenntnissen entwickeln.
Die Diskussion verschiedener Forschungsansätze und Voraussetzungen frauenspezifischer Biografik soll
Forschungslinien in Theorie und Methodologie freilegen und Anlass zu einer längerfristigen Vernetzung und
Vertiefung geben. Insofern soll die Tagung auch der gegenseitigen Information über Arbeitsansätze dienen, um nach
gemeinsamen Grundproblemen in personenbezogenen Darstellungsformen zu suchen. Eine Publikation der Beiträge
ist in der von Dr. Ilse Korotin herausgegebenen Reihe "biografiA. Neue Ergebnisse der Frauenbiografieforschung"
(Verlag Praesens) geplant.
Für jede/n ReferentIn sind insgesamt 30 Minuten vorgesehen, wobei die Länge des Vortrags 20 Minuten nicht
überschreiten sollte. Eine Kurzvita und ein Exposé Ihres Vortragsvorhabens bitten wir bis zum 11.1.2010 an beide
Koordinatorinnen:
Dr. Ilse Korotin [email protected] und
Dr. Susanne Blumesberger [email protected] zu senden.
Wir sind bemüht, Reise- und Aufenthaltskosten zu übernehmen, können derzeit aber noch keine definitive Zusage
machen.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
73rd Conference, 29-31 March 2010, The University of Reading
Panel on Literary and Cultural Theory: What is the Wissenschaft in Literaturwissenschaft?
Convener: Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary) [email protected]
In the last decade or so, there have been many voices in Anglophone academia (e.g., Mark Turner, Joseph Carroll)
arguing for a new 'scientific' literary criticism with a purportedly secure empirical basis in the biological and
cognitive human sciences. The main purpose of such a criticism, they argue, is to overcome the relativism of
'postmodern literary studies' by making claims about literary texts scientifically 'testable'. The German critic who
has most closely approached such positions is Karl Eibl in books such as ‘Die Enstehung der Poesie’ and ‘Animal
poeta.’ Yet in Germany, academic literary criticism has always had the term Wissenschaft attached to it. This panel
seeks answers to the question as to what is wissenschaftlich about German Literaturwissenschaft. How have German
theorists (both historically and in recent times) defined and defended the Wissenschaftlichkeit of their discipline?
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Papers of approximately 20 minutes in length are invited which address this topic in relation to any theorist in the
history of German literary studies. As the AGS theory panel favours the use of a single common text as an orienting
point of departure for all papers, speakers are asked briefly to include in their considerations Chapter V of Peter
Buerger’s “Vermittlung-Rezeption-Funktion. Aesthetische Theorie und Methodologie der Literaturwissenschaft”
(Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1979), pp. 95-117.
Abstracts of circa 500 words should be forwarded to Angus Nicholls by 11 January 2010: [email protected]
Further information about the AGS conference can be found here: http://www.cutg.ac.uk/ags2010.htm
CFP: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY
22-25 July 2010, University of Sydney, Australia http://www.Arts-Conference.com/
The International Conference on the Arts in Society and The International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an
intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts
in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that
connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the
streets and in communities.
The 2010 Conference will coincide with the Sydney Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured
exhibitions and programs. The Biennale of Sydney was created in 1973 as an international showcase for
contemporary art. Its aim was to develop and present a program that challenged traditional thinking and encouraged
innovative, creative expression. Within its first decade of exhibitions (1973-82) the Biennale of Sydney was among
the first to celebrate Australia's cultural and ethnic diversity; the first to show indigenous art in an international
contemporary art context; the first to focus on Asia and the contemporary art of the region. It was among the first to
present to wide audiences the art of the social change movements which transformed Australian society in the late
1970s and early1980s.
The occasion of the Sydney Biennale provides an opportunity for the Conference to serve as a node in the larger
phenomenon of fairs, festivals, and their networks. As such, the Arts Conference aims to discover what values,
instincts and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world.
Your participation shapes the Conference itself.
As well as an impressive line-up of plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop
and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to
respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The
International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations
are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the
Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 January 2010. Future deadlines
will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of
submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the
Conference website - http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope that you will be able to join us in Sydney in July 2010.
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CALL FOR PAPERS Internationale Tagung: PERFORMANCE / PERFORMANZ
VII. FAGE TAGUNG in Zusammenarbeit mit APEG 16.-18. September 2010, Universitat de València (Valencia,
Spanien)
Ähnliche Begriffe, unterschiedliche Konzepte. Immer stärker wird in den Geisteswissenschaften das Augenmerk auf
den Prozess und nicht das Resultat gerichtet. Die Länder der Europäischen Gemeinschaft sehen das "life long
learning" als eines ihrer wesentlichen Ziele an, damit wir den schnellen Veränderungen in unserer Umwelt folgen
können. Körper, Raum, Stimme lösen die Vision einer Objekt-Subjekt orientierten Welt ab. Die sich ergänzenden,
aber auch widersprüchlichen Definitionen der Begriffe Performance und Performanz sollen Anlass für produktive
Deutungen und Auseinandersetzungen geben und vor allem zu weiteren Gedanken und Handlungen anregen. Der
spanische Germanistenverband (FAGE) veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem portugiesischen
Germanistenverband (APEG) die VII. Tagung zu dem Thema Performance / Performanz mit den folgenden
Sektionen.
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
Performance ist besonders in den Literatur- und Theaterwissenschaften durch die Postmoderne-Diskussion ein
zentraler Begriff geworden. Das Augenmerk konzentriert sich nicht länger auf den Autor und den Text, sondern auf
die Gestaltung: Performance als Kunst der Präsenz, als Entgrenzung. Theater, Literatur und Kunst im weitesten
Sinne sind Agenten von intertextuellen Diskursen und von inter- und transkulturellen Begegnungen. Bedeutung wird
hergestellt und multipliziert; Positionen, Beziehungen und damit auch Machtverhältnisse werden ausgehandelt.
Ästhetik, Politik und Soziales sind untrennbar miteinander verknüpft und jede klare Trennung von Subjekt und
Objekt, wie sie in der hermeneutischen Ästhetik festgelegt ist, wird aufgehoben. Die Vorträge sollten sich auf die
Literatur und den literarischen Bereich, speziell das Theater beziehen und dabei insbesondere die variablen
Merkmale, die dem Wesen des Performativen und der Performance zugeschrieben werden, mit einbeziehen.
Untersucht werden sollen u. a. die historische Entwicklung der Performance-Kunst, verschiedene Elemente und
Formen von Performance und insbesondere ihre Kommunikationssituation. Die Themen, die sich unter dieser
Perspektive untersuchen lassen, sind vielfältig. Die einzelnen Themengruppen verstehen sich als Einladung zur
Wiederaufnahme und Weiterführung der Diskussion in Verbindung zur deutschsprachigen Literatur.
- Geschichtlicher Wandel im Denken: vom Theater zur Performance.
- Performance-Aufführungen und Performance-Theorien als ästhetische Grenzüberschreitungen, als produktiver
Weg dem Gegenwartstheater zu begegnen: Regiesprachen und Zuschauerkunst; Ort, Zeit, Raum und Körper als
wesentliche Kategorien.
- Gender als Performance. Von der Performativität zur Performanz. Gesellschaftliche und ästhetische Transgression
- Autorschaft als Performance: Pseudonym, Anonym. Inszenierungen von Authentizität.
Sektionsleitung: Ana R. Calero Valera Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Universitat de València [email protected]
KULTURWISSENSCHAFTEN
Der so genannte performative turn gehört zu den Leitbegriffen der Kulturwissenschaft. Er bezieht sich insbesondere
auf die Analyse und Kritik kultureller Prozesse, ihrer Bedeutungen und Erfahrungen. Zentrale Gegenstände dieser
Analyse und Kritik sind kulturelle Ereignisse und Praktiken, die nicht als statische Strukturen, sondern in ihrem
dynamischen Prozesscharakter betrachtet werden. In diesem Sinne gewinnt die Kulturwissenschaft den Blick zurück
auf die Prozesshaftigkeit kultureller Erscheinungen und ihrer kontextuellen Dynamik. In dem Maße wie die
Performance der Kultur zum Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Reflexion wird, in dem Maße wird auch die Kultur der
Performance als ein Kennzeichen der Moderne sichtbar, die sich gleichsam selbst einlädt, ihre anthropologische
Geltung zu erproben. Die Themen, die sich unter dieser Perspektive untersuchen lassen, sind vielfältig. Die unten
genannten Themengruppen bilden selbst eine umgekehrte trichterförmige Bewegung von der konkreten Kunstpraxis
zu den gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Die einzelnen Stichwörter verstehen sich als
Einladungen zur Wiederaufnahme oder Neuentdeckung der Diskussion ihrer Performativität.
1. Bühnen: Ausführung, Aufführung, Inszenierung, Dramaturgie, Choreografie, Muster, Szenen, Bewegung, Tanz,
event, Spektakel
2. Medien: Film, Fernsehen, neue Medien, Videokunst, digital art, multimediale Inszenierung, Unmittelbarkeit,
Hypertext, Remediation, Sichtbarkeit, Simulakrum
3. Textperformanz: Materialität, Intertextualität, Paratexte, Legitimation, Verhandlung, Gesetz
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4. Rituale und Bräuche: Familie, Feste, Religion, Politik, Macht, Lifestyle, Räume, Reisen, innere Sicherheit
5. Identität: Alterität, Authentizität, Erinnerung, Emotionen, tacit knowledge, Körper, Gender, Grenzen
6. "Soziale Dramen": Brüche, Krisen, Liminalität, "Bewältigung", Konflikt und Spaltung, Experiment, Innovation,
Wandel, Ökonomie
Sektionsleitung: Fernando Clara & Peter Hanenberg
Dep. Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Universidade Católica Portuguesa
[email protected] & [email protected]
TRANSLATIONSWISSENSCHAFT
Ausgehend von vier verschiedenen Definitionen von Performanz schlagen wir als offen zu betrachtende
Themenkreise vor, die verschiedene Aspekte der Translation betreffen; wenn auch nicht explizit angegeben, gehen
wir davon aus, dass eine der Arbeitssprachen immer Deutsch ist. Der erste Themenkreis berührt vor allem Aspekte
der literarischen Übersetzung und ihrer Rezeption; aufgrund ihres performativen Charakters wurde hier ebenso der
operative Texttyp mit einbezogen. Performanz als aktuale Sprachverwendung behandelt situationsgebundene Fragen
im weiteren Sinn. Um Inszenierung im engeren und im weiteren Sinn geht es bei Performanz als Re-zitation und als
theatralische Inszenierung, von der konkreten Übersetzung für Bühne, Film oder Fernsehen bis hin zur
feministischen Translation. Die Wirksamkeit oft wiederholter Sprechakte verbindet die Themengruppe Performanz
als Iteration.
1. Performanz als Gelingen von Sprechakten (Austin), mit Einwirken auf die soziale Welt. Aspekte der
Rezeptionsgeschichte deutscher Literatur auf der iberischen Halbinsel: Was wurde wann, wo, von wem, in welche
Sprache übersetzt?
- Aspekte der Rezeptionsgeschichte anderssprachiger ins Deutsche übersetzter Literatur
- Einflüsse der Zielkultur auf die Übersetzung
- Literarisches Übersetzen und Intertextualität
- Problematik der Übersetzung operativer Texte 2. Performanz als aktuale Sprachverwendung in einer
bestimmten Situation (Chomsky)
- Die Stimme der ÜbersetzerInnen
- Übersetzung und vergleichende Literatur
- Literarisches Übersetzen und Übersetzungskritik
- Strategien zur Lösung von Übersetzungsproblemen
- Kreative Prozesse in der Übersetzung
- Innovative Vorschläge für den Übersetzungsunterricht
3. Performanz als Re-zitation und als theatralische Inszenierung
- Übersetzen für die Bühne
- Übersetzen für Film und Fernsehen
- Selbstreferenz und Subjektivität
- Verstehen und Verständlichmachen des Fremden
- Verständlichmachen der körperlichen und stimmlichen Dimension von Texten
- Interkulturelle Unterschiede der literarischen Mündlichkeit
- Übersetzung als Manipulation
- Feministische Translation
4. Performanz als Iteration, mit infiniter Rezitierbarkeit und Rekontextualisierbarkeit (Derrida)
- Übersetzen des ideologischen Diskurses
- Übersetzungspolitik
- Übersetzung und Minderheitensprachen im globalen Zeitalter
- Wirksamkeit der Rhetorik und ihre Übersetzung
Sektionsleitung:
Heike van Lawick
Departament de Traducció i Comunicació
Universitat Jaume I
[email protected]
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LINGUISTIK UND SPRACHWISSENSCHAFTEN
Die Performance als kommunikativer Prozess stellt eine große Herausforderung für die Linguistik dar, da es sich um
ein Studienobjekt von großer Komplexität handelt. Sie stellt eine multimodale Kommunikationsform dar, auf die
Faktoren wie Zeit, Raum, Körper des Künstlers sowie die Beziehung zwischen diesem und dem Publikum
einwirken. Andererseits ist das handelnde Subjekt das konstitutive Element der Performance. Diese Tatsache
impliziert eine Erweiterung des Studienobjektes, seiner Werkzeuge und Methoden der linguistischen Analyse zu
neuen Formen der künstlerischen Kommunikation, die die verbale mit der nonverbalen, visuellen und musikalischen
Kommunikation kombinieren und außerdem das Publikum selbst am künstlerischen Prozess teilhaben lassen.
Es werden Beiträge aufgenommen, die sich mit der Diskussion um die Performance als dynamische und
multimodale Kommunikationsform befassen sowie Forschungen zu allen linguistischen Aspekten, die dazu in
konkretem Bezug stehen. Die Vorschläge für Beiträge sollten sich innerhalb einer der folgenden Forschungslinien
einordnen lassen.
1. Phonetik/ Phonologie
2. Morphologie/Syntax/ Semantik
3. Pragmatik
4. Diskursanalyse/ Kritische Diskursanalyse
Sektionsleitung:
María Labarta Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Universitat de València
[email protected]
DEUTSCH ALS FACHSPRACHE UND DaF
Bezüglich Deutsch als Fachsprache und DaF hat die Performance eine große Bedeutung, da das handelnde Subjekt
das konstitutive Element der Performance ist. Die Studierenden werden zu Subjekten. Das bedeutet, dass die
Betonung nun auf der Kreativität der Studierenden liegt, dass die Studierenden zu Darstellern und Trägern ihrer
Handlung werden und insofern verantwortlich für ihr Studium sind. Auf diese Weise wird einerseits das Augenmerk
auf den Prozess und nicht auf das Resultat gerichtet und andererseits das wesentliche Ziel in den
Geisteswissenschaften erreicht: das "lebenslange Lernen". Dieses Lernen impliziert eine integrale Entfaltung des
Menschen: das Handeln, das savoir faire, das "Sich-Selbst-Kennenlernen", und die Fähigkeit den kreativen Ideen
Ausdruck zu geben. Es sind alles Fähigkeiten, die sowohl mit den Werten als auch mit dem Lernprozess -- lifelong
learning -- in Verbindung stehen und folglich mit der Performance. Diesbezüglich schlagen wir folgende
Themenkreise vor:
1. Autonomes und handlungsorientiertes Lernen
- Selbstevaluation
- Portfolio
- Motivation
2. Spracherwerb
- Neue Ansätze und Tendenzen
- Grammatikalische Progression
- Kontextuelle und interkulturelle Aspekte
3. Interaktion im Klassen- / Vorlesungsraum
- Kommunikation
- Rollenspiele und Theater
- Beziehung Lehrer -- Schüler / Professor -- Studierende
4. Fachsprachenerwerb
- Neue Trends
- Lernprozess im Fachsprachenerwerb
- Linguistisches Wissen bzw. fachspezifisches Wissen
5. Fachsprachendidaktik
- Neue Ansätze
- Aktive Methodologien
- Multimedialer Sprachunterricht
6. Terminologie und Lexikologie
- Tradition und Innovation
- Lehnwörter
- Neue Übersetzungsvorschläge
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Sektionsleitung:
Josefa Contreras Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
[email protected]
Themenvorschläge und Exposé (200-250 Worte) werden bis zum 15. Januar 2010 als Word-Dokument erbeten an
die jeweilige/n Sektionsleiter/in und an die Tagungskoordinatorin.
Kongresskoordination: Brigitte Jirku ([email protected])
Sektionsleitung: Literaturwissenschaft: Ana R. Calero ([email protected])
Kulturwissenschaften: Fernando Clara ([email protected]) & Peter Hanenberg ([email protected])
Translationswissenschaft: Heike van Lawick ([email protected])
Linguistik & Sprachwissenschaften: María Labarta ([email protected])
Deutsch als Fachsprache und DaF: Josefa Contreras ([email protected])
Vorträge sollten 30 Minuten nicht überschreiten und können sowohl in deutscher als auch spanischer, katalanischer
oder portugiesischer Sprache gehalten werden.
CFP: LITERATUR UND INSTITUTION
Internationale Tagung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 17.-19. Juni 2010
Der Problemkomplex "Institutionalisierung der Literatur" greift denkbar vielfältige Bezüge des Literarischen auf angefangen bei seiner heute mehr denn je rätselhaften Bestimmung. Nicht zufällig kam diese Fragestellung nach der
Problematisierung formalistisch-strukturalistischer Modelle der Literarizität in den 70-80er Jahren auf. Dass die
institutionellen Bezüge der Literatur wichtig werden, steht allgemein verstanden mit den Ambivalenzen des Status,
der dem Literarischen zugeschrieben wird, in engstem Zusammenhang. Diese institutionelle Dimension lässt sich
jeweils nach ihren referentiellen, kulturtechnischen und performativen Aspekten auffächern, die in Komplexen der
Archivierung, des Bewahrens, Wiederholens und Reproduzierens von Literatur und ihrer Interpretation ins Spiel
gebracht werden. Dabei ist vor allem der Vorschlag zu bedenken, der in der Dekonstruktion geltend gemacht wurde
(Derrida, Samuel Weber, Peggy Kamuf), laut dem man die Institutionalität aus ihrer Rolle als "Außen" befreien
sollte, die dem "Innen", genannt Literatur, gegenüberstehen oder als deren Rahmen fungieren würde. "Kunst als
Institution" (Bürger), aber auch die Theorie des "literarischen Feldes" (Bourdieu) zeichnen gewissermaßen die
selbstinstitutionalisierenden Züge ihres Gegenstandes nach oder verbleiben letztendlich in einer Sichtung der selbstverständlich immer schon institutionalisierten - Einstellungsformen und Dispositive der ästhetischen
Produktion und Rezeption. Dies wird aber möglich, da sie die Dimension der Interpretation ausklammern oder
depotenzieren, die jedoch im Zuge der Herausforderung des Textes institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen zu
überborden in der Lage sein kann und nicht nur als Kompetenzbereich oder als Pragmatik von vorgängigen
ästhetischen Konstruktionsparadigmen gilt. Die konstativen Modi der Begegnung mit der Problematik - z.B.
Kanontheorien, das Konzept der "Interpretationsgemeinschaften", aber auch diskursiver Machtpraktiken -,
überhaupt die Denkfigur der Institution als Konvention oder Pragmatik sollten von dem performativen
Transgressionspotential des Literarischen, seiner Singularität, von seinem nicht-institutionalisierbaren Überschuss
oder Fehlen (einer ihm zugehörigen Substanz) her neu verortet werden. Davon, dass die Literatur sich selbst in ihrer
Sprachbewegung institutiert und diese Etablierung zugleich überschreitet, zeugen die vielfältigen Metaphern und
Motive, die von den Texten als ihre Selbstpräsentationsfiguren eingesetzt werden (von der Turmgesellschaft bei
Goethe bis zur Bibliothek von Babel von Borges). Um eine Archäologie der literarischen Kommunikation zu
umreißen, vor allem aber systematisch mit der Selbstinstitutionalisierung der Literatur in Lektüre, Interpretation,
Kulturtechnik und performativen Gründungsprozessen Ernst zu machen, genügt es freilich auch nicht, nur
Metaphorologie zu betreiben. Vielmehr müssen die (selbst)institutionalisierenden Dispositive und Effekte der Texte
in ihren performativen, medialen und interpretativen Praktiken und Beständen aufgesucht und inszeniert werden.
Die (de)institutionalisierende Kraft der Textualität gilt es im Zusammenspiel ihrer kommunikativen wie "nichthermeneutischen" Momente zu erschließen.
"This strange institution called literature" (Derrida) kann von der sich selbst spaltenden, nicht-identischen, von
Differenzen markierten Singularität im/des Literarischen nicht getrennt werden. Die (Selbst)institutionalisierung tritt
somit in eine spannungsvolle Korrelation mit der Dynamik der Singularisierung der Texte. Der Text selbst als
Institution wäre dann eine Art Archiv des Ereignisses - sowohl seine Spur als auch seine Institution, in einem
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unzerlegbaren Chiasmus vor bzw. Nach dem Ereignis als Chance des Nicht-Institutionalisierbaren.
Diese Fragen und Probleme ziehen womöglich, wenn auch oft unterschwellig, in alle der folgenden thematischen
Punkte ein:
1. Öffentlichkeit - Die Problematik des Wissens bzw. des Nicht-Wissens, der Konflikt Öffentlichkeit vs. Geheimnis,
Transparenz vs. Verborgenheit, demokratische vs. geheime Gesellschaft und ihrer medialen Präsentation. Das
Phänomen der ästhetischen Exemplarität und der Mitteilbarkeit (Kant), wo das Teilnehmungsgefühl (und die mit
ihm verbundene Geselligkeit) in Bezug auf das Einzigartige in Partizipation, Partialität und Mitteilung aufgefächert
wird.
2. Rechtlichkeit - Die quasi-juridischen Tendenzen und Bezugnahmen der Texte auf Autoritäten, wie das Gesetz,
das (kanonische wie kanonisierende) Recht und vergleichbare Normen; die ihnen zuzuordnende Verantwortung und
deren Verhältnis.
3. Performativität - Momente der Stiftung oder Einrichtung quasi-institutioneller Größen, Akteure oder Rahmen;
Eidleistung und Institutionalisierung (Schwur, Vertrauen, Meineid, Zeugnis, Gegenzeichnung); Ritual als
Installierung und Vollzugsinstanz bestimmter Gemeinschaften und diskursiver Wissens- und Machtdispositive;
Performanz als Ausübung vorgängiger Kompetenzen in Spannung mit der unpersönlichen, kontingenten, gar
maschinenartigen textuellen Performativität.
4. Temporalität - Genealogien der textuellen Produktivität; Prozesse der (Selbst)institutionalisierung der Texte in
ihrer Durchkreuzung von materiellen Inskriptionen der Geschichte her; das Verhältnis von Institution und Ereignis.
5. Institution "Universität" - Archäologie bestimmter universitätsbedingter Bildungskonzepte bzw. -ideen und ihrer
Beziehung zu den Humanwissenschaften; die Universität als Ort der "Theorie" und der Status der
Literatur(wissenschaft) in diesem institutionellen Feld.
Die Reise- und Unterkunftskosten der ReferentInnen werden zurückerstattet, die Veröffentlichung der
Tagungsbeiträge wird geplant.
Organisator und Kontaktperson: Prof. Dr. Csongor Lőrincz, Seminar für Hungarologie
(Email: [email protected])
Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2010
Call for Papers for the concluding conference of the AHRC Network ‘After the Wall: Reconstructing and
Representing the GDR’: REMEMBERING AND RETHINKING THE GDR: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
AND PLURAL AUTHENTICITIES?
8-10 September 2010 – Bangor University
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany, the memory of the GDR is
experiencing an ever increasing boom. As physical signs of German division disappear from the united landscape,
new sites of memory are being created, ranging from consumer-orientated Ostalgie to the documentation of political
oppression. The diversification of this memory landscape – in both content and form – and the conflicting nature of
many narratives has led not only to a blurring of boundaries between history and memory (‘myth’) but also to a
reappraisal of the longer-term legacy of the GDR in unified Germany.
This interdisciplinary conference sets out to question the ongoing tendency to categorise memories of the GDR into
neat polar opposites (e.g. ‘Alltag versus dictatorship’ or ‘perpretrator versus victim’). Whilst such concepts may
partly be driven by public funding strategies, political narratives, or the demands of tourism, they are not always
helpful in uncovering the multiple layers of memory and revealing the dynamic interplay between memory and
history. We therefore particularly welcome papers which seek to question the polar opposites outlined above, and
which challenge the dominant paradigms of discussion about GDR history. We hope that papers will suggest new
ways of thinking about this past so as to do justice to what might be described as ‘plural authenticities’ and the
multiple GDRs of the mind.
As the concluding event of the AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research network ‘After the Wall’, the conference
also aims to foreground theoretical questions of memory, and to examine the interplay between form and memory.
According to a number of memory theorists, the way societies choose to remember the past is necessarily influenced
by the media they use to extend the limited range of individual memories. Contributors are thus encouraged to
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consider how different forms of remembrance may condition varied memories of the GDR past.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the network, contributions from any academic field are welcome.
Papers may address – but are not limited to – the following themes:
• Reflections on the twentieth anniversary celebrations of 2009
• Public memory contests
• Autobiographical recollections
• Literary reflections
• Monuments, museums and material culture
• The GDR on screen
• Political interpretations of the GDR and the effect on contemporary party politics
• The periodisation of remembrance since 1989
• The politics of East German memory in unified Germany
• Commemorative acts
• Visual culture
Following the discursive nature of the Network, the organisers would like to encourage reflective papers which seek
to challenge and question existing conceptions, rather than to present conclusive results. The aim is to allow ample
time for discussion, which will help to shape contributions for an edited volume. Papers which are to be considered
for the volume will be expected to engage with theoretical questions of memory.
Contributors are asked to submit:
a) a 300 word abstract
b) a bullet-pointed list of the central questions which the paper seeks to ask (it is envisaged that these will be
published on the website prior to the conference, in order to stimulate debate).
These should be submitted to Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold at [email protected] by Monday 25
January 2010. Papers may be given in English or German.
The ‘After the Wall’ network was established in January 2009 in order to examine the ways in which the East
German past has been – and is being – reconstructed and represented since the demise of the GDR. The project is
the result of collaboration between Bangor University and the University of Bristol, and is funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council. Further information can be found at: http://afterthewall.bangor.ac.uk.
CFP: (Re)Contextualizing Literary and Cultural History, Stockholm (25.01.2010)
Stockholm University, 02.-04.09.2010
The invention of paper and of the printing press, the growth of the postal system, new techniques in warfare, and the
expansion of the world known to the Europeans are some disparate but important developments in early modern
Europe that resulted in new and expanded modes for communication as well as commercial, political, and cultural
exchange. Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation further contributed to the development of a world that no
longer corresponded to the “old” – medieval – world but that had not yet become the “new”, industrialized world.
The printing press and the development of a market economy paved the way for a mass market of print material that
was consumed by a growing group of bourgeois city dwellers. New types of texts and new genres emerged while
medieval texts were adapted and transformed. Other technical inventions affected culture in different ways: the
development of optics influenced painting and literature; the development of watercolor and blacklead changed the
conditions for painting and writing; the technical improvement of musical instruments enabled more refined music.
In a more abstract way, technologies of language – such as rhetoric – and of painting and music – art and music
theory – were developed in new ways. As a starting-point, attempts were made to define art and music through the
theoretical system of rhetoric, but gradually the theories developed into original systems.
For the last thirty years or so there have been lively theoretical discussions about the correlation between literature
and history, as well as literature and culture. The “cultural turn”, “new historicism”, the “linguistic turn”, as well as
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other theoretical approaches and aspects have contributed to a growing interest in investigating early modern
literature and culture anew. Our conference therefore aims to bring together scholars to (re-)examine the importance
of historical perspectives in literary studies, as well as to scrutinize the impact of “cultural studies” on early modern
scholarship. We welcome contributions from various disciplines, particularly inter- and cross-disciplinary studies,
but also diachronic investigations that can cast light on various relationships between the past and the present.
Papers dealing with the use of new technologies – from the printing press to digitalization– as well as the application
of contemporary theories to old textual or visual material are especially welcome.
Papers may focus on these and other related topics:
• Literary and cultural historiography
• Early modern cultural technologies
• Text and context
• (Re-)Writing literary history
• Early modern literature and literary theory
• Early modern art and art theory
• Early modern music and music theory
20 minute papers are welcome. Abstracts of app. 250 words may be submitted by 25 January 2010. Please include
your name and affiliation, a short cv and e-mail address in your proposal. Send your proposal to: Elisabeth Wåghäll
Nivre, Department of Baltic languages, Finnish, and German, Stockholm University
[email protected]
CfP: Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture, Conference and Event
Budapest, Hungary April 8-10, 2010
Proposal Deadline: January 25, 2010
How do things stand with respect to the fate of the alternative? Branded and normativized, incorporated into a whole
ensemble of mainstream discourses, and no longer the threat it once posed to capitalist and communist states alike,
the political and social force of the alternative seems to have faded away. And yet the dream of the alternative
continues to inspire political and social movements, artists, theorists, and all kinds of creative practices. How might
we begin to situate and think alternativity as a global phenomenon at this precise conjuncture in world history? What
is alternative about culture today? And what might or can it become?
The alternative, of course, has always been phraseable in the singular and the plural. On the one hand, it is
a phenomenon locked into local configurations, a multi-polar and non-totalizable practice of myriad deviation. Here,
its ambit can be that of a family drama or workplace, a national concatenation, or the homogenizing logic of a
dominant cultural medium or genre. The dreams it holds in reserve are vitally minor: the fissuring of a regime with a
joke or dissidence, the freedom mobilized in small, almost imperceptible defections or reversals. The production of
the alternative is in this sense the aggregate, spontaneous effort of innumerable cultural agents to resist every species
of stasis and capture, every grammar and vernacular, every gestural hierarchy and total system.
At the same time, this molecular vision of the alternative, of a plurality of fissions and margins, has always
been accompanied by attempts to think what it is in the tendency of a moment which suppresses cultural possibilities
on a global level. This is a dream of a communication or inter-mediation between margins, a system of deviances
which comprehensively address the conditions which negatively hypostatize the life of the virtual. Global
patriarchy, violent state expansionisms, the inhibiting logics of capital, and the globalization of the English language
can be envisioned as transnational, systematized normativities that threaten cultural specificity or possibility in a
way that is never exhausted by its expression on the register of the local. Is there, in this sense, only one alternative:
an alternative to which there is no alternative? This notion of a single alternative—a universal difference necessary
to shelter the future lives of difference—immediately sets into motion its own paradoxical dialectics of alternativity,
itself appearing to erase the thing it promises. How do we escape this vortex, or at least make its impasses
productive? Is one alternative more important than another? Can alternatives be exhausted or rendered obsolete?
What kind of method could we develop to test the valences of alternatives? Can or should alternative culture
polemically charge the space of its own marginality, or would this degenerate into an infinite sectarianism?
We understand “alternative culture” to include diverse forms of cultural expression and activity, which are
connected by their shared goal of creating just, humane, and equitable human relations by means of their opposition
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to existing cultural, social, and political forms. This conference encourages contributions from scholars, educators,
artists, cultural workers, policy makers, journalists, and others involved in alternative culture and international
cultural policies. We are especially interested in contributions addressing alternative culture in Central/Eastern
Europe and countries/regions of the former Soviet Union.
Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following general topics in relation
to the politics of alternative culture today: Aesthetics – Collectivity – post-Communist Culture - Creativity - Cultural
Studies – Eastern Europe – Geography – Globalization – Higher Education – Media – Memory/Nostalgia – Music –
New Media – ex-Socialist History – ex-Soviet Urban Spaces — Visual Culture
The “Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture” conference will take
place at the OSA Archivum in Budapest, Hungary, April 8-10, 2010. It is organized and sponsored by the
International Alternative Culture Center, with the support of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
(Central European University) and the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies (University of Alberta). The
conference format will be diverse, including paper presentations, panels, round-table exchanges, artistic
performances, and exhibitions. We encourage individual and collaborative paper and panel proposals from across
the disciplines and from artists and community members.
Paper Submissions should include: (1) contact information; (2) a 300-500 word abstract; and (3) a one page
curriculum vitae or a brief bio.
Panel Proposals should include: (1) a cover sheet with contact information for chair and each panelist; (2) a
one-page rationale explaining the relevance of the panel to the theme of the conference; (3) a 300 word abstract for
each proposed paper; and (4) a one page curriculum vitae for each presenter.
Please submit individual paper proposals or full panel proposals via e-mail attachment by January 25, 2010
to [email protected] with the subject line “Alternative Culture Now.” Attachments should be in
.doc or .rtf formats. Submissions should be one document (i.e. include all required information in one attached
document).
Conference Organizing Team: Sarah Blacker (University of Alberta, Canada), Jessie Labov (Ohio State,
USA), Andrew Pendakis (University of Bonn, Germany), Justin Sully (McMaster University, Canada), Imre Szeman
(University of Alberta, Canada), Maria Whiteman (University of Alberta, Canada), and Olga Zaslavskaya (OSA,
Hungary)
Website: http://www.alternativeculture.org
CFP: "Empire and the German-Speaking World Today"
The fourth Colloquium in the Leeds-Swansea Series in Contemporary German Culture will take place in Leeds from
7-9 July 2010 on the theme of Empire.
Invited speakers:
Professor Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham)
Professor Michael Hoffmann (Paderborn)
Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier (Graz)
Titles of papers and short abstracts (up to 200 words, in German or English) giving some details of how an aspect of
Empire is treated in a contemporary medium or genre, visual, textual or other, to:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Or: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by 31 January 2010.
While the organisers have an elastic understanding of 'contemporary', some connection with the current (that is
twenty-first) century should be made.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* Legacies of Colonialism
* The Imperial Idea in Central Europe (Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, Romanov)
* Imperial Encounters in contemporary travel writing
* Third Reich Imperialism
* Counterfactual Histories
* Transnationalism and memory in the postcolonial world
* The 'Eastern Turn'
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A selection of the papers will be published.
With best wishes,
Frank Finlay, University of Leeds and Julian Preece, Swansea University
CFP: Anthropologisches Wissen und zitierbares Schreiben - Walter Benjamins Aphoristik im Kontext, Berlin
(31.01.2010) Tagung am Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 20.-22. Mai 2010
Leitung: Detlev Schöttker (TU Dresden) und Daniel Weidner (ZfL)
Aphoristische Formen spielen in Walter Benjamins Schreiben eine zentrale Rolle. Mit ihnen verdichtet Benjamin
seine Überlegungen zu prägnanten Aussagen und reflektiert zugleich über die Darstellungsprobleme seines
Schreibens. Ein wichtiger Teil dieser Texte steht dabei im Kontext der anthropologischen Reflexion der
Zwischenkriegszeit, die versuchen, über die Gegenüberstellung von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft hinaus, das
menschliche Leben als ein Grenzphänomen zwischen Organischem und Historischem, Übernatürlichem und
Subhumanen zu denken – als Grenzphänomen, das sich gerade der forcierten Reflexion aphoristischer Formen
erschließen kann. Die Tagung will die spezifische Form dieser Denkbewegungen diskutieren und ihren historischen
Kontext untersuchen, sowohl jenen der aphoristischen Tradition als auch den der anthropologischen Reflexion.
s. dazu das detailliertere Exposé auf der Homepage:
http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen//_/360/?cHash=6d27229e2c
Teilnehmer u.a.: Justus Fetscher, Joachim Fischer, Nicola Gess, Werner Helmich, Heinrich Kaulen, Burckhardt
Lindner, Reinhard Mehring, Uwe Steiner, Friedemann Spicker
Die Organisatoren laden junge Wissenschaftler ein, Vorträge vorzuschlagen, bitte schicken Sie ein abstract (ca. 1000
Zeichen) bis zum 31.01.2010 an: weidner[a]zfl-berlin.org
CFP: Realisms in Contemporary Culture: Theories, Politics and Medial Configurations
Universität Freiburg, 23. Sept. - 25. Sept. 2010 / FRIAS
In the context of structuralist and poststructuralist theory, realism, with its implication of a transparent representation
of reality, was deemed at best out-moded and at worst ideologically insidious. Recent years, however, have seen a
revival of the term in analyses of contemporary developments in literature and film, at times even as a yardstick for
measuring the quality of individual works. A closer look shows that in critical debates widely differing concepts of
realism are used, often connected with explicit or implicit ideological positions. The question of what may be
understood by realism is thus still very much open to debate and, what is more, highly charged. The aim of this
conference is, firstly, to chart the territory of the usages of the term 'realism' in contemporary theory. Secondly, we
want to discuss the validity and usefulness of the 'realisms' posited for describing and analyzing trends in
contemporary literature and film. How does the debate on realism tie in with the ongoing controversies regarding the
connections between ethics or politics and form? In what ways do 'realist' contemporary works relate to sociocultural developments?
In order to foster an interdisciplinary discussion, we invite papers from a range of different disciplines (e.g. literary
studies, media and digital studies, art history) on topics such as
o Concepts of realism in contemporary critical debate
o Formal realism and reception aesthetics
o Medial developments and realism
o Transmedial comparison of the 'reality effect'
o Case studies of realism in contemporary culture
o Ethics / Politics and realism
Contributors are strongly encouraged to make explicit their own usage of 'realism' by reflecting on the question of
what they see as realism and how they would distinguish it from other modes of representation.
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Application:Please send your one-page abstract for a 30-minute presentation to [email protected]. Submission deadline is 31st January 2010.
Organizing Institution: The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg's
international research college. It was established after Freiburg's success in the Federal Excellence Initiative in
October 2007. As a centre-piece of the Albert-Ludwigs-University's institutional strategy, FRIAS pursues three
main objectives: to promote top level research, to develop new interdisciplinary areas of competence and
knowledge, and to foster the advancement of outstanding junior scholars.
Contact: For further information, please contact Dr. Stella Butter ([email protected]) or Dr.
Dorothee Birke ([email protected]).
CFP: Perspektiven der Thomas Mann-Forschung. Workshop des Kreises junger Thomas Mann-Forscher in
Göttingen 03.-05. September 2010
Der Kreis junger Thomas Mann-Forscher setzt sich aus Forscherinnen und Forschern aller Phasen der
wissenschaftlichen Qualifikation (vom Hauptstudium bis zur Habilitation) zusammen. Seit 1994 trifft er sich
regelmäßig begleitend zu den Tagungen der Deutschen Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft. Mit dem Kreis verbindet sich
die Idee, laufende Forschungsprojekte des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses zusammen mit einem interessierten
Publikum diskutieren und wichtige Anregungen von außen für die eigene Arbeit erhalten zu können.
Im Rahmen des Internationalen Kolloquiums der Deutschen Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft e.V. zu »Thomas Mann und
die Phantastik« vom 03. bis 05. September 2010 in Göttingen richtet der Kreis einen Workshop aus.
In Kurzvorträgen (max. 20 Minuten) können entstehende Qualifikationsarbeiten (Disserationen, Habilitationen)
vorgestellt und diskutiert werden. Die Vorträge sollen ausdrücklich den work-in-progress-Charakter der
Arbeitsvorhaben widerspiegeln und offene Fragen thematisieren, die mit dem Publikum erörtert werden sollen. Bei
der Auswahl werden jene Arbeiten bevorzugt behandelt, die für die Thomas Mann-Forschung innovative Ansätze
versprechen. Vorgesehen sind zwei bis drei ReferentInnen.
Interessentinnen und Interessenten für einen Kurzvortrag werden gebeten, bis zum 14. Februar 2010 eine knappe
Skizze des Projektes (max. eine halbe Seite) an alle drei hier angegebenen eMail-Adressen zu senden:
Anke Göckeler: [email protected]
Regine Zeller: [email protected]
Jens Ewen: [email protected]
CFP: Queer Manifestations: Literature, History, Theory, Culture, A one-day conference at the University of
Chester, Saturday 26th June 2010.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Munt (University of Sussex).
This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to explore the burgeoning field of queer studies, with particular
emphasis on its impact upon literary histories, theories, and cultures. How influential is heteronormativity in culture
today, or in the past? Is it true, as Sharon Marcus claims, that ‘queer theory often accentuates the subversive
dimensions of lesbian, gay, and transgender acts and identities’? Do readers force heteronormative readings onto
queer texts, or vice versa? Must literary readings always focus upon ‘secrecy, shame, oppression, and
transgression’? What has it meant to be ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the literary closet?
We welcome papers on any aspect of queer culture, theory, or history. Postgraduate students or early career
researchers are especially welcomed.
Possible topics may include:
- Queer Relations
- Queer figures in history: authors, protagonists, people
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Queering history: Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Romantics
Queer genres: neo-Victorianism, post-colonialism, Modernism, post-modernism
Apparitional Lesbians or Closeted Men
Closeted space: the legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Cross-dressing, Gender-blending, Camp, and Transvestism
Queer space
Current debates in queer media
Please send proposals (250 words max) for 15-20 minute papers to Louisa Yates ([email protected]) by Friday
5th March 2010.
CFP: International Conference on Intercultural Competence Concepts - Challenges - Evaluations
University College Dublin & National University of Ireland Maynooth, 02-04, September 2010 in Dublin
Intercultural Competence has increasingly become an issue in second language acquisition over the last two
decades. The concept has been broadly welcomed by theoreticians and practitioners alike and has become an
integral part of most 21st century foreign language curricula around the world, but it has also been challenged from
various positions. Being quite vague and oscillating, the concept of Intercultural Competence is open to a wide
variety of interpretations and adaptations; it has become a shibboleth for many of those engaged in second language
teaching, curricular planning and educational policies. Although it is difficult not to be in favour of fostering
Intercultural Competence in foreign language learning, in whatever form and shape, there are still open questions as
to the precise conceptualisation of Intercultural Competence and its constitutive components, ways of
conceptualising and implementing the teaching/learning process and forms of assessment and evaluation. The
conference aims to critically address these problems with the following focal questions
Concepts
o What exactly is ‘competence’?
o How can Intercultural Competence be defined (e.g. against concepts like cross-cultural competence,
multicultural competence, trans-cultural competence, critical cultural awareness, intercultural sensitivity
and intercultural communicative competence)?
o Is the concept of Intercultural Competence mainly a cognitive phenomenon, or does it include
psychological traits such as attitudes, affective aspects and constructions of identity?
o What does the acquisition of such competence entail, particularly for learners of a foreign language?
o Can the acquisition of Intercultural Competence be conceptualised independent of the process of learning a
foreign language, or are the two inextricably linked?
o Can synergies be developed between academic fields which operate with the concept of Intercultural
Competence (e.g. economics, social psychology, pedagogy, contrastive linguistics, didactics of foreign
language teaching/learning)?
o Can one conceptualise the acquisition of intercultural competence as a progressive or developmental
process?
Challenges
o Does the concept of Intercultural Competence operate with essentialist and hence reductive categories (e.g.
monolithic and simplistic conceptualisations of ‘culture’)?
o Is it possible to teach Intercultural Competence in the foreign language classroom, or is it rather a question
of learning and individual experience?
o Which processes facilitate intercultural learning?
o How are intercultural experiences processed by the learner?
o If Intercultural Competence can be taught in a classroom situations, do the various limitations not
inevitably lead to stereotyping and reductive procedural suggestions?
o Is the classroom with its specific organisational peculiarities the most conducive environment to the
teaching and learning of intercultural competence?
o What is the role of language(s) in the development of Intercultural Competence?
o What role can learning foreign languages in schools play in the acquisition of intercultural competence?
o Should language teachers focus on teaching language as a system and ignore vague psychological
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constructs like Intercultural Competence?
Evaluations
o Can (or should) Intercultural Competence be assessed, and if so, how?
o Are there cross-culturally stable instruments available for measuring and assessing Intercultural
Competence?
o Are there language programmes in existence which show the usefulness of integrating elements of
Intercultural Competence?
o Is there empirical evidence that individuals have benefited in terms of Intercultural Competence from the
exposure to a particular kind of teaching?
o Is there evidence of a progression in the acquisition of Intercultural Competence?
o Are there strategies within the framework of institutional language teaching which allow for the creation of
a type of intercultural competence that goes beyond stereotyping?
o How do intercultural experts (and/or students) conceptualise and evaluate their personal intercultural
learning process?
o How can teaching about intercultural topics be planned and conducted?
Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) should be sent to one of the contact persons to arrive no later than Wednesday,
31 March 2010.
Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Theo Harden
School of Languages and Literatures
University College Dublin
[email protected]
Dr. Arnd Witte
Senior Lecturer & Head
Department of German
National University of Ireland Maynooth
[email protected]
CFPs books, other publications
Publications of the English Goethe Society now accepting unsolicited submissions
The editors of the Publications of the English Goethe Society – Professors Matthew Bell (King's College London),
Susanne Kord (University College London) and W. Daniel Wilson (Royal Holloway, University of London) – are
delighted to announce that the journal will now include unsolicited articles. Articles may be published in either
English or German.
The English Goethe Society was founded in 1886, making it the oldest learned society in the UK dedicated to things
German, and the second-oldest Goethe society in the world. In expanding the publication schedule of PEGS to three
issues a year, the Society has opened the journal to high-quality unsolicited articles, which will be evaluated by
blind peer review. The subject areas covered by PEGS are:
* Goethe's life and works and their immediate context
* the literature and culture of 18th- and early 19th-century German-speaking lands
* responses to or reception of that literature and culture both outside and within Germany up to the present day.
The deadline for articles to appear in the next issue of the journal is 13 Jan. 2010. We will normally provide a
response on submitted articles within three months and publication within a year. For details on submission
requirements see http://www.englishgoethesociety.org/PEGSSubmissions.html
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The Kindertransport to Britain: New Developments in Research, edited by Andrea Hammel and Bea
Lewkowicz, Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, volume 13
The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies invites contributions to Volume 13 of the Yearbook,
which is to appear in 2011.
The arrival and settlement of 10,000 unaccompanied children in Britain, today known as the Kindertransport, is one
of the most eagerly debated events in the history of the emigration of refugees from National Socialism to Britain.
Seventy years after the event, new resources for research have become available and there is widespread media and
public interest in the Kindertransport itself and in the lives of the children who came to the UK with the
Kindertransport. This volume of the Yearbook aims to present the more recent approaches to the study of the
Kindertransport and will place them within a wider research context.
We would welcome proposals addressing the following topics:
• The Kindertransport in British historiography • The Kindertransport in the media • The Kindertransport and family
relations • The Kindertransport and the second generation • Careers and professions of former Kindertransportees •
The Kindertransport and experiences of domestic work • The Kindertransport and the schooling of refugees • The
Kindertransport and religion • The Kindertransport and experiences of abuse and neglect • The Kindertransport
Reunion movement • The Kindertransport and oral history interviews and their use within the field •
Autobiographical narratives by former Kindertransport members • Life history research of former Kindertransport
members • Comparative research with other groups of child refugees/evacuees and migrants
If you wish to offer a contribution to this volume, please send a synopsis of around 300 words to Dr Andrea
Hammel by email by 1 March 2010. If accepted, your paper will have to be submitted for peer review by 1
September 2010.
Announcements: conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.
BIRKBECK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH WINTER COLLOQUIUM: BEYOND THE PINK
CURTAIN? EASTERN EUROPEAN SEXUALITIES, HOMOPHOBIA AND WESTERN EYES. 22ND
JANUARY 2010
Sexualities, as aspects of identity and as part of the public language of nation, are a controversial feature of postcommunist transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Radical political changes have led to the emergence of new
social actors, such as the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement, the airing of new discourses
about sexuality, as well as the eruption of new social conflicts and divisions.
This interdisciplinary Colloquium will bring together scholars in the social sciences, history, Slavic and other area
studies, as well as activists from LGBT communities, to examine the relationships between gender, nation and
sexuality. How, for example, did the emergence of revised national identities after 1989 relate to new conceptions of
non-normative gender and sexuality? What were the local dimensions of the ‘lesbian and gay question’, and why did
they develop? How did queer sexualities in this region evolve historically? And what influence does that historical
legacy have today? What are the specificities and particularities of Central and Eastern European sexual identities,
within the region and compared with Western and other non-Western formations?
Numbers are strictly limited, so please register early. Cost, includes vegetarian lunch: £25 Standard £10 Birkbeck
staff and all students. Payment is by credit/debit card - Standard Booking Form[1] Birkbeck Staff & /all
/Students[2] Friday 22nd January 2010 Room 541 Birkbeck College Main Building, 9.30am – 5pm
DETAILED PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS:
http://robertkulpa.com/index.php?/projects/BISR-Colloquium.html[3]
Info: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/news/pinkcurtain[4]
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Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day
Thursday, 18 March and Friday, 19 March 2010
Co-Ordinator: Ulrike Zitzlsperger (University of Exeter)
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966).Please note
the closing date for receipt of registrations is Monday, 1
This conference takes places under the auspices of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and theCentre for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE)at the University of Exeter
Research Seminar program for the 2009-2010 academic year. Department of German, Russian and Slavonic
Studies, University of Leeds
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 4 pm
This is a Worldwide Universities Network virtual seminar
Rob Howell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Social networks and language contact in the early modern Dutch Republic**
Chris Homewood (University of Leeds)
From Baader to Prada: 'Terrorist-Chic' and the legacy of the RAF in Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
This is a Worldwide Universities Network virtual seminar
Patrick Stevenson (University of Southampton)
The times of their lives: time, place and space in Central European language biographies**
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 5 pm
Wini Davies (University of Aberystwyth)
The role of (lay) linguistic myths in the production of sociolinguistic norms in the German context
Cedric Krummes (University of Bangor/Humboldt Universität Berlin)
What's Hard in German?: A corpus-based approach to German learner data &
Svitlana Kurella (University of Leeds)
Comparative linguistic resources for teaching cognate Slavonic languages
Bill Dodd (University of Birmingham)
The discourses of German ‘inner emigration’ during the Nazi period
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 5 pm
Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds)
The women who were there: German feminists' claim to experience of the First World War &
Dr Jonathan Sutton (University of Leeds)
Some aspects of Russian literature's engagement with religion
Seminars normally take place in Baines Wing Seminar Room 23, University of Leeds.
For further details please see the University of Leeds, German Research Seminar website:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/research_seminar.htm
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Measuring the World. 20th-Century Austrian Writers Abroad INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE
SEMINAR SERIES 2009-2010
Convenors: David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)
A series of seminars centred on novels that delve into the psyche of man at the extremes of experience in places and
times where the borders of fact, fiction and fantasy become uncertain. Removed from an Austrian – centric world to
the ends of the earth, human pretensions to power and influence are questioned in the texts’ revelations of how man
seeks to shape his own surroundings in a hostile universe. The seminars will also explore the tension between the
post-modern restlessness of writers and the very rootedness of their writing, dealing with particular Austrian themes
in a diversity of places from the Amazon jungle and the Arctic to Provence and the Isle of Man, and of times from
the Enlightenment and the Habsburg Empire to World War II and a post-apocalyptic Europe, challenging thinking
about what is to be held important in our present.
The Seminar will meet on Wednesdays, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room ST 275 in Senate House, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HU (Stewart House wing, access via 32 Russell Square)
Texts are available in English translation, and discussion will be in English
20 January 2010 Thomas Glavinic: Night Work [Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006] An ordinary man wakes up on a
seemingly ordinary day to find that he is the last man alive. His response and attempts to unravel the mystery of
what has happened reveals the fragility of the individual and the uncertain borders between waking and dreaming.
10 March 2010 Stefan Zweig: The Royal Game [Schachnovelle, 1942] On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an
encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger whose dark and
damaged past emerges as the game unfolds.
21 April 2010 Norbert Gstrein: The English Years [Die englischen Jahre, 1999] This novel pieces together the story
of a literary icon, Hirschfelder, who fled Vienna shortly before the outbreak of World War II and lived in London
with the family of a judge. In 1940 he was classified as an 'undesirable alien' and sent to camp with other internees
on the Isle of Man. There his life would be changed forever.
16 June 2010 Peter Handke: Slow Homecoming [Langsame Heimkehr, 2006] A novel of self-questioning and selfdiscovery which tells of a troubled geologist who had gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work but now feels
drawn back to Europe. Following a middle section in which Handke takes Cezanne as a model-maker of images that
allows him to avoid succumbing to 'the world of names', the protagonist’s solitary attentiveness to forms is replaced
by his unfolding relationship with his young daughter.
Birmingham Research Seminars
Monday 1 February 2010, 5.15pm
Strathcona Lecture Theatre 6
Dr Sean Allen (Warwick)
Ich denke sie machen meistens nackte Weiber’. Constructions of masculinity and national identity in East German
Cinema of the 1970s.
Monday 22 February 2010, 5.15pm
Dr Claudia Gremler (Aston), date and venue tbc
"Aus den alten Geschichten fortgehen": Gegenwartsschilderung und Vergangenheitsarbeit in Judith Hermanns
"Sommerhaus, später"
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Monday 8 March 2010, 5.15pm
Professor Wilfried van der Will (Birmingham)
W G Sebald or Literature as Lament on the Course of History?
German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s
Critical accounts of literary publications which sparked allegations of misdemeanours, plagiarism, anti-Semitism,
falsified autobiography or pornography. The papers contextualise and analyse the texts and associated controversies
and will appear next year in an edition of the German Monitor, edited by Tom Cheesman.
All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.30 in the Callaghan Conference Room, James Callaghan Building
29 October: Professor Stuart Parkes (Mougins, France), Martin Walser’s Death of a Critic and Anti-Semitism
19 November: Dr Heike Bartel (University of Nottingham), Porn or PorNO? Questioning Texts from Elfriede
Jelinek to Charlotte Roche
3 December: Dr David Barnett (University of Sussex), Offending the Playwright: Directors Theatre and the
Werktreue debate
11 February: Dr Peter Thompson (University of Sheffield), Crimes Against Utopia: The Curious Case of Wolf
Biermann
4 March: Dr Rebecca Braun (University of Liverpool), Günter Grass: Authorship and Appropriateness
18 March: Dr Áine McMurtry (University of St. Andrews), 'I have my quill / in hand once more / its point sharpened
harder': Signs of Violence in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Poetic Drafts of the 1960s
Special German Studies Guest Speaker
29 January: Professor Jonathan Long (University of Durham), Photography/Topography: Berlin 1870/19
Julian Preece
Professor of German Studies
Department of Modern Languages
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP
Tel. 01792 602949
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Other announcements
Herta Müller Network
We are setting up a network to bring together those with a professional interest in Herta Müller, this year’s winner of
the Nobel Prize in Literature: translators, publishers, researchers, teachers and so on. A directory of members and
their interests will be hosted by German at the Department of Modern Languages, Swansea University, Wales.
If you would like to join, please contact Brigid Haines ([email protected]) with your details in the following
format:
Name, profession and affiliation (employer, university, college, school, other, freelance, retired etc)
Interests (50 word maximum)
Email (optional)
Webpage (optional)
Online Contents Komparatistik.
Online Contents Komparatistik ist ein Fachausschnitt des HeBIS-Aufsatzkatalogs und enthält die
Inhaltsverzeichnisse von gegenwärtig 180 Zeitschriften zur Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft,
wobei viele Zeitschriften davon auch von der UB Frankfurt/M. vorgehalten werden. Zur Zeit sind die Titelangaben
von ca. 160.000 Aufsätzen ab Erscheinungsjahr 1993 zu finden. Die Titel sind mit Links zur Elektronischen
Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) und zur Aufsatzbestellung via Dokumentenlieferdienst Subito ausgestattet.
Der neue Informationsdienst basiert auf dem Angebot der Firma Swets und wird täglich aktualisiert. Der
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"myCCK" (My Current Contents Komparatistik). Dabei kann das Zeitschriftenportfolio individuell nach Interesse
des Nutzers definiert werden.
Für diesen Dienst ist eine kostenlose, einmalige Registrierung per E-Mail erforderlich. Danach wählt man
"seine" Zeitschriften komfortabel aus einer Liste aus. Sobald die Inhaltsdaten zu einem neuen Heft vorliegen,
erhalten alle für die Zeitschrift eingetragenen Nutzer automatisch eine E-Mail mit dem kompletten
Inhaltsverzeichnis. Das Inhaltsverzeichnis wird in einem Format ausgeliefert, das direkt in viele
Literaturverwaltungsprogramme importiert werden kann. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und Literatursammlungen
werden so optimal unterstützt.
Den Start in den neuen Service finden Sie unter http://mycc.hebis.de/mycc/myCCK/mycc-start.html (bzw.
demnächst auch über http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ssg/litwiss.html). Die Oberflächen zur Registrierung und
Zeitschriftenauswahl sowie die Benachrichtigungs-Emails sind durchgängig zweisprachig gehalten, um damit auch
internationalen Benutzern den Zugang zu erleichtern.
Ansprechpartner
Dr. Volker Michel
[email protected]
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Fachreferent für die Sondersammelgebiete Germanistik,
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Koordination Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Germanistik
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MA or PhD conferences/programs/announcements
CFP: Lesen und Verwandlung
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germanistisches Institut, DoktorandInnentagung 29./30. April 2010
Lektüren fallen ins Vergessen oder schreiben sich ins Gedächtnis ein. Nachts findet man ihre Spuren in Träumen,
tags in Gesprächen und im Handeln. Sie münden in Emotionen, Wissen und Ideen jedes Einzelnen und haben die
Macht, zu verwandeln. Sie schlagen sich nieder in neuen Texten, wenn professionelle LeserInnen, seien es
DichterInnen oder WissenschaftlerInnen, schreiben. Die DoktorandInnenkonferenz möchte die Aufmerksamkeit auf
ein Feld von Phänomenen unserer Schriftkultur richten, auf dem sich die kulturelle Praxis Lesen mit dem Thema der
Verwandlung berührt. Das Themenfeld Lesen und Verwandlung soll unter den Schwerpunkten Kulturtechnik,
Motivik, produktive Rezeption und Theorie befragt werden.
Kulturtechnik
Unter dem Schwerpunkt Kulturtechnik soll es um normierende Verwandlungen im Anschluss ans Lesen und ZuLesen-Geben gehen. Para-digma hierfür ist die christliche Autobiographie. In den Confessiones des Augustinus ist
die Bekehrung (lat. conversio und mutatio) strukturell ans Lesen gekoppelt: Das reicht von den Berichten von
Konversionen anderer römischer Beamter und Würdenträger bis zum "Tolle lege; tolle lege" ("Nimm es, lies es;
nimm es, lies es!") in der berühmten Gartenszene. Und indem der Kirchenvater seine Bekenntnisse zu lesen gibt,
will er auch bei seinen (römischen) Lesern den Eifer entfachen, es den schon Verwandelten nachzutun (Struktur der
imitatio). Das verwandelnde Lesen dient hier dem Herstellen einer Art genealogischer Ordnung, einer Kette von
Verwandlungen und zielt auf die kulturelle Transformation des Imperiums. Und im Bußkampf, der schließlich mit
dem "Tolle, lege" entschieden wird, zeigt sich, dass es dabei auch um die grundlegende Differenz von
,bestialischem' und ,richtigem' Leben, von ,Tier' und ,Mensch' geht. Lesen ist also Kulturtechnik der verwandelnden
Zähmung bzw. Züchtung. Diese Kulturtechnik wirkt bis weit in die Moderne hinein fort und ist keineswegs auf die
Stiftung einer christlichen Gesellschaft begrenzt. Man sieht sie am Werk, wenn z. B. aus den Plutarch-Lektüren des
kleinen Jean-Jacques der später Rousseau so auszeichnende "republikanische Geist" entsteht oder wenn Herder ein
"Athanasium" der Deutschen vorschlägt. Sie wirkt womöglich auch noch, wenn man sich von der Struktur der
imitatio oder der Identifikation abgrenzt und dagegen Sperren errichtet. -- In dieser Hinsicht sind Beiträge
erwünscht, die dem Zusammenhang von Lesen und Verwandlung für die Stiftung von Gesellschaften nachgehen,
seien es religiöse, republikanische, nationale etc. Und nicht nur die Stiftung, sondern auch die Reproduktion solcher
Gesellschaftsformen durch das Auslegen von Klassikern interessiert, sofern dabei ein Zusammenhang von Lesen
und Verwandlung zu beobachten oder begrifflich im Spiel ist.
Motivik
Für eine motivische Betrachtung müssen innerfiktionale Aspekte beleuchtet werden. Denkbar sind hier
Konversionen fiktionaler Charaktere nach Leseerfahrungen. Eine innerfiktionale Verwandlung durch Lektüre zeigt
sich beispielsweise in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein von 1818. Das Monster findet eines Tages im Wald eine Tasche
voller Bücher: Miltons Das verlorene Paradies, Plutarchs Große Griechen und Römer und Goethes Die Leiden des
jungen Werther. Die Lektüren verwandeln das Monster maßgeblich: Sie rühren es zu Tränen, lassen es das Konzept
von Mitleid verstehen, bringen ihm Ehrgeiz bei und machen es demütig gegenüber dem ,allmächtigen Gott'. Durch
das Lesen verwandelt sich das Monster in ein ,gefühlvolles Individuum'. Oft sind Verwandlungen strukturell an das
Lesen gekoppelt. So ist es z. B. in Cervantes' großem Roman die Lektüre der unzeitgemäß gewordenen Ritterbücher,
die aus dem Landjunker Alonso Quijano den Ritter von der traurigen Gestalt werden lässt, ein Motiv, dessen sich in
der Folge viele Don Quijotiaden bedient haben. Nicht von ungefähr wird Lesen in dystopischen Romanen (Orwell,
1984; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451) vom Staat als Bedrohung angesehen, da es die Verwandlung des funktionierenden
Teils des totalitären Systems zum denkenden Individuum zur Folge haben müsste. In dieser Hinsicht sind Beiträge
erwünscht, die einen Zusammenhang von Lesen und Verwandlung als motivisches Gestaltungsmerkmal
untersuchen.
Produktive Rezeption
Unter dem Aspekt der produktiven Rezeption könnten beispielsweise an Rezeptionsvorgänge anschließende TextVerwandlungen, Gattungsformationen oder auch an vorauslaufende Lektüre gebundene intertextuelle
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Neukonstellationen thematisiert werden. Peter Weiss' Lektüre der Prozessberichte zu den Frankfurter AuschwitzProzessen etwa initiiert einen Produktionsprozess, in dessen Verlauf das gelesene Faktenmaterial in die dramatische
Gestalt der Ermittlung verwandelt wird, die sich ihrerseits als intertextuelle Referenz zu Dantes Divina Commedia
aufstellt und als Dokumentarstück die Transformation faktualer Stoffe in die dramatische Gestalt eines
Bühnenkunstwerks leistet. Unter dem Stichwort "produktive Rezeption" wäre ebenso danach zu fragen, inwiefern
die Rezeption von Kunstwerken als solche immer schon ein Akt des Verwandelns und Neuschaffens ist: Als
Rezipient ist der Künstler aktiv an der Sinnkonstituierung eines bestehenden ästhetischen Gebildes beteiligt, indem
er gleichsam das Material des Kunstwerks den unterschiedlichen, von ihm verfügbar gehaltenen Leerräumen
anverwandelt, um daraufhin in einem Produktionsakt ein eigenes Werk zu schaffen, in das wiederum das ursprünglich rezipierte eingeht. Christoph Ransmayrs Die letzte Welt beispielsweise ließe sich unter diesem
Gesichtspunkt als Verwandlung der Ovidischen Metamorphosen in die Gestalt eines postmodernen Romans
untersuchen, der seinerseits als intertextuelle Neuschöpfung dem Verfahren produktiver Rezeption entspringt. In
dieser Hinsicht sind Beiträge erwünscht, die Produktion und Rezeption als zwei Vermögen untersuchen, deren
Verbindungsmoment als Verwandlungsphänomen erfasst werden kann.
Theorie
Der Lesevorgang ist in verschiedenen Epochen unterschiedlich beschrieben worden, jedoch erweist sich der Topos
Verwandlung als bemerkenswert konstant. Schleiermacher etwa bestimmt die "divinatorische" Methode der
Auslegung als diejenige, "welche, indem man sich selbst gleichsam in den anderen verwandelt, das Individuelle
unmittelbar aufzufassen sucht". Und die romantische Obsession für das Verhältnis von Buchstabe und Geist ist eine
für Verwandlungen, wie sich etwa in Schlegels Diktum andeutet: "Buchstabe ist fixirter Geist. Lesen heißt,
gebundnen Geist frei machen, also eine magische Handlung." Bei den Romantikern sind es das "Individuelle", die
"Eigentümlichkeiten" oder der "Geist", was bei Lesen verstanden bzw. hervorgebracht und produziert wird. In
dieser Hinsicht sind Beiträge erwünscht, die den Topos von Lesen und Verwandlung untersuchen. Nachgegangen
werden sollte dabei auch den Fragen, was Resultat bzw. Produkt der Verwandlung (z. B. "Geist"), und was
Ausgangspunkt (z. B. "Buchstaben") ist. Nach welchem Algorithmus, nach welcher Logik oder A-Logik vollzieht
sich Verwandlung? Ausgehend von diesen Fragen interessieren besonders Bestrebungen, die sich von der Politik der
imitatio wie auch der romantischen Geistfabrikation absetzen, indem nicht länger das Resultat der Verwandlung von
Bedeutung ist, sondern das Verwandeln selbst (vgl. Deleuze und Guattari über "Werden").
Die Tagung richtet sich an DoktorandInnen. Es sind insbesondere interdisziplinäre, komparative und
epochenübergreifende Perspektiven erwünscht. Die Abstracts zu den Vorträgen, die jeweils 20 Minuten umfassen
sollten, dürfen aus maximal 2500 Zeichen bestehen. Sie können bis zum 31. Januar 2010 an die E-Mail-Adresse
[email protected] gesendet werden. Achten Sie darauf, den Abstract als kompatibles Word-Dokument
anzuhängen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: http://homepage.rub.de/lesenundverwandlung
Die Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien
ist die einzige rein literaturwissenschaftliche Graduiertenschule, die in der Exzellenzinitiative des Bundes und der
Länder erfolgreich war. Hier werden theoretisch und konzeptionell herausragende literaturwissenschaftliche
Dissertationen betreut, die Texte europäischen, amerikanischen, arabischen oder asiatischen Ursprungs untersuchen.
Das Promotionsstudium "Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien -- Literary Studies" bietet Doktorandinnen und
Doktoranden mit einem überdurchschnittlichen Hochschulabschluss in einem literaturwissenschaftlichen
Studiengang (M.A. oder gleichwertiger Abschluss) ein strukturiertes Studien- und Forschungsprogramm mit
intensiver individueller Betreuung. Arbeitssprachen in dem internationalen Promotionsprogramm sind vorrangig
Deutsch und Englisch. Die Doktoranden nehmen an Veranstaltungen teil, die sie bei der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit
in ihrer Disziplin unterstützen und diese in einen interdisziplinären Kontext stellen. Hierzu gehören
- Forschungscolloquien mit renommierten internationalen Gastwissenschaftlern
- Seminare aus Methodologie und Literaturtheorie
- Kurse und Workshops zur Vermittlung von Schlüsselkompetenzen.
Die Graduiertenschule gewährt jährlich 10 Promotionsstipendien. Die Stipendien sind auf eine Laufzeit von
insgesamt maximal drei Jahren ausgerichtet. Die Bewerbung um einen Studienplatz im Promotionsstudium ist auch
unabhängig von einer Bewerbung um ein Stipendium möglich. Studienbeginn ist im Oktober 2010; Ende der
Bewerbungsfrist ist der 31. Januar 2010.
Winter 2010
Erforderliche Bewerbungsunterlagen: das ausgefüllte Bewerbungsformular (zu finden auf der Website); ein Exposé
des Dissertationsvorhabens (8-10 Seiten); eine tabellarische Übersicht über die für das Promotionsstudium
relevanten Tätigkeiten und Erfahrungen; eine Begründung der Motivation zur Bewerbung für das
Promotionsstudium (2-3 Seiten); Zeugnisse aller bisher erworbenen Hochschulabschlüsse (in beglaubigten Kopien);
zwei Empfehlungsschreiben; Nachweis der englischen und ggf. deutschen Sprachkenntnisse; eine Arbeitsprobe (1520 Seiten). Bewerbungen richten Sie bitte an:
Freie Universität Berlin
Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien
Dr. Susanne Scharnowski Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
CULTURE AS RESOURCE: CULTURAL PRACTICES AND POLICIES AFTER ’89
Graduate Summer Course
Course Dates: 19 - 30 July, 2010
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary,
Detailed course description: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/culture
Course Director:
Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, Canada
Faculty:
- Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, English and African American Studies, Chicago, USA
- Alexandra Kowalski, Central European University, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Budapest, Hungary
- Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara, Film Studies, Santa Barbara, USA
- Will Straw, McGill University, Art History and Communications Studies, Montreal, Canada
- Maria Whiteman, University of Alberta, Art and Design, Edmonton, Canada
Target group: Applications are invited from faculty members and doctoral students of institutions of higher learning
and researchers with academic background in cultural studies, political theory, globalization studies and cultural
policy. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.
Language of instruction: English
Tuition fee: EUR 550. Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 15, 2010
Online application (from mid November): http://www.sun.ceu.hu/03-application/howto_apply.php
9 Doktorand/innenstipendien und 1 Postdocstipendium, Gießen
Das im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitiative des Bundes und der Länder geförderte International Graduate Centre for the
Study of Culture (GCSC) der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen bietet eine strukturierte kulturwissenschaftliche
Doktorandenausbildung in drei Jahren. Mit einem exzellenten forschungsintensiven Umfeld, einem
zielgruppengerechten Promotionsprogramm und einer intensiven persönlichen Betreuung bietet das
Graduiertenzentrum seinen Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden optimale Promotionsbedingungen und eine
maßgeschneiderte Vorbereitung auch auf die Zeit nach der Promotion, sowohl für wissenschaftliche als auch
außeruniversitäre Karrieren.
Zum 1. Oktober 2010 vergibt das GCSC bis zu 9 Doktorand/innenstipendien und 1 Postdoc-Stipendium. Die Dauer
der Doktorand/innenstipendien beträgt zunächst 1 Jahr mit der Möglichkeit zweier Verlängerungen um jeweils ein
weiteres Jahr. Das Postdoc-Stipendium ist auf 2 Jahre begrenzt.
Erwünscht sind gleichermaßen Bewerbungen, die zur gesamten historischen Breite kulturwissenschaftlicher
Forschung beitragen, und solche, die sich der Analyse gegenwärtiger Phänomene widmen. Voraussetzung ist ein mit
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Prädikat abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium (Doktorand/innen) bzw. eine herausragende Promotion
(Postdoktorand/innen) im Bereich der Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften. Von den Stipendiat/innen wird
erwartet, dass sie ihren Wohnsitz in Gießen oder der näheren Umgebung nehmen. Mit der Annahme eines
Doktorand/innenstipendiums ist die Verpflichtung verbunden, sich an der Justus-Liebig-Universität als Doktorand/in
anzumelden.
Mit dem Stipendium ist die regelmäßige Teilnahme am Curriculum und den Veranstaltungen des GCSC sowie das
Engagement in den GCSC-Forschungsbereichen verbunden. Das GCSC hat seine Forschungsschwerpunkte in
folgenden Research Areas*: Memory Cultures | Culture and Narration | Culture and Performativity | Visual Culture |
Culture, Language and the New Media | Culture and Identities | Political and Transnational Cultures | Cultures of
Knowledge, Research and Education. Wir bieten Ihnen darüber hinaus eine intensive Betreuung in den
regelmäßigen interdisziplinären Forschungskolloquien, geben Hilfestellung bei der Vorbereitung von Vorträgen auf
internationalen Tagungen, bei der Organisation von eigenen Konferenzen oder Tagungen sowie bei ersten
Publikationen und unterstützen Sie in allen Phasen Ihrer Promotion am GCSC.
Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 01. März 2010. Alle Informationen zu unserem zweistufigen OnlineBewerbungsverfahren finden Sie im Internet unter: http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/application Wenn Sie Fragen zur
Ausschreibung haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an [email protected]. Ausführliche Informationen und
persönliche Beratung bieten wir Ihnen an unserem Informationstag am 25. Januar 2010 im International Graduate
Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Alter Steinbacher Weg 38, 35394
Gießen.
* s. dazu http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de bzw. http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/research
Gerda-Henkel-Stipdendium fuer Ideengeschichte
Das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach, die Klassik Stiftung Weimar und die Herzog August Bibliothek
Wolfenbuettel schreiben in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gerda Henkel Stiftung
3 Gerda-Henkel-Stipendien fuer Ideengeschichte aus. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Doktoranden und
Postdoktoranden, die ein ideengeschichtliches Projekt auf der Basis der Quellenbestaende planen, die in einer der
drei Forschungseinrichtungen zur Verfuegung stehen. Die maximale Foerderdauer betraegt 5 Monate, der
Stipendiensatz 900,-/Monat fuer Doktoranden, 1.500,-/Monat fuer Postdoktoranden. Als ideengeschichtliche
Projekte sind solche Vorhaben verhandelbar, die eine klare, forschungsrelevante Fragestellung innerhalb des
Ueberlieferungszeitsraums einer der drei Einrichtungen entwickeln. Interdisziplinaere Ansaetze, etwa die
Verbindung politischer Ideengeschichte mit bildwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen, sind ausdruecklich erwuenscht.
Rein literaturwissenschaftliche Projekte koennen nicht beruecksichtigt werden. Einrichtungsuebergreifende
Antraege sind moeglich.
Bewerbungen (Abstract, Projektdarstellung auf max. 6 Seiten, Arbeitsplan mit Liste der in Frage kommenden
Bestaende, Lebenslauf, Publikationsliste, Zeugnisse, ggf. Gutachten) sind unter Verwendung des Formblatts bei der
jeweiligen Einrichtung bis zum 28. Februar 2010 einzureichen. Ueber die Vergabe entscheidet eine gemeinsame
Kommission der drei Einrichtungen Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Klassik Stiftung Weimar und Herzog
August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel sowie der Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Als Kriterien fuer die Vergabe der Stipendien
gelten Qualifikation der Bewerber, Bedeutung des ideengeschichtlichen Forschungsvorhabens sowie die Relevanz
des Bestandsbezugs. Ein Rechtsanspruch auf ein Stipendium besteht nicht. Details zur Krankenversicherung,
Auslandsreisekosten etc. vgl. Marbacher Stipendienprogramm.
Kontakt:
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Dr. Marcel Lepper, Schillerhoehe 8-10,
D-71672 Marbach am Neckar, E-Mail: [email protected], Telefon: +49-7144-848-171,
Fax: +49-7144-848-191, WWW: http://www.dla-marbach.de
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel, Dr. Jill Bepler, Postfach 1364,
D-38299 Wolfenbuettel, E-Mail: [email protected], WWW: http://www.hab.de
Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Dr. Jonas Maatsch, Burgplatz 4, D-99423 Weimar,
E-Mail: [email protected], WWW: http://www.klassik-stiftung.de
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MA AND PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN GERMAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
The Department of German Studies at Nottingham invites applications for the following studentships:
1 AHRC PhD studentship (Home/EU fees and maintenance), allocated through the Block Grant Partnership
1 AHRC MA studentship (Home/EU fees and maintenance), allocated through the Block Grant Partnership
1 PhD studentship funded by Nottingham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Home/EU fees plus
maintenance contribution of £ 7,000 p.a.)
1 MA bursary funded by Nottingham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Home/EU fees or bursary)
For further information contact the School’s Postgraduate Office, email: [email protected] or see:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/modern-languages/prospective/postgraduate/enquiries.aspx
or write to the Department’s Director of Postgraduate Studies, Professor Dirk Göttsche, email:
[email protected]
For further funding opportunities at Nottingham see the information provided by Nottingham’s Graduate School and
its International Office:
http://pgstudy.nottingham.ac.uk and http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/international/scholarships_and_finance
Please note that applicants must have applied for MA/PhD study at Nottingham before they can apply for funding.
Applicants should also allow sufficient time for the processing of applications. Online applications via
https://pgapps.nottingham.ac.uk
DEADLINES:
1.3.2010 for applications for AHRC funding.
5.5.2010 for applications for School of Modern Languages and Cultures funding.
The Department of German Studies at the University of Nottingham is one of the leading centres for research in
German Studies in the UK. In 1996 and 2001 it was awarded the highest grade (5*) by the Higher Education
Funding Council for the excellence of its research. In the national Research Assessment Exercise 2008 it was ranked
fifth in terms of research power in UK German Studies, with just under 90% of its research output classed having
international quality. We offer a wide range of research and teaching opportunities at postgraduate level in German
literature, film, linguistics, culture, history and politics. The Department’s provision includes the following MA
programmes:
MA in Modern and Contemporary German Studies
MA German (by research)
MA in Critical Theory and Modern Languages
MA in Comparative Literature
MA in Literatures in Translation
Das von der DFG geförderte Graduiertenkolleg Transnationale Medienereignisse von der Frühen Neuzeit bis
zur Gegenwart (Gießen) vergibt zum 1.4.2010 sowie zum 1.5/1.7.2010 6 Doktorandenstipendien
Die Dauer des Doktorandenstipendiums beträgt zunächst 24 Monate mit der Möglichkeit der Verlängerung um ein
weiteres Jahr. Die Höhe der Stipendien liegt bei 1000,- Euro im Monat (hinzu kommt ein pauschaler
Sachkostenzuschuss von 103,- Euro). Zusätzlich zum monatlichen Stipendium stehen den DoktorandInnen
Reisemittel in Höhe von je ca. € 2.000 pro Jahr zur Verfügung.
Die Universität Gießen bietet den Stipendiat/innen ein attraktives wissenschaftliches Umfeld durch die exzellente
Vernetzung des Graduiertenkollegs mit dem International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), dem
Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften und dem Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität (ZMI).
Mit dem Stipendium ist die kontinuierliche Teilnahme am Studienprogramm und den Veranstaltungen des GK
verbunden. Von den Stipendiat/innen wird erwartet, dass sie ihren Wohnsitz in Gießen nehmen.
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Am Graduiertenkolleg beteiligt sind die Kunstgeschichte, Literatur-, Sozial-, Medien- und Geschichtswissenschaften.
Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf, Zeugniskopien, einer Projektskizze mit Arbeitsplan und Ihrer Abschlussarbeit
schicken Sie bitte bis zum 1.02.2010 ausschließlich per Email (PDF-Dokument) an der Sprecher Prof. Dr. Frank
Bösch an folgende Email-Adresse: [email protected]
Bei Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an die Koordinatorin des Kollegs (Anne Lenz, email:
[email protected]).
Weitere Informationen zum Forschungsprogramm und den Projekten des Graduiertenkollegs finden Sie unter
http://www.uni-giessen.de/gkmedienereignisse
Submissions Policy: The News, Calls, and Announcements are collected by Carrie Smith-Prei, University of
Alberta, [email protected] and Corinna Kahnke, California Polytechnic State University, [email protected]
and will be published on the website starting in the Spring 2010.
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