Germany From the Outside - Program
Friday, September 20, 2019 - Levis Faculty Center Room 210
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Welcome Coffee and Opening Remarks
Elena Delgado, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Hilger, Head, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurie Johnson, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Archive
“Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrožić und Deniz Utl's Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten"
Claudia Breger, Columbia University
“Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser”
Gizem Arslan, Southern Methodist University
Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois-Chicago
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Memoir
“Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen’s Travel Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August – 2 September 1939)”
Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs”
Veronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College
Moderator: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University
Saturday, September 21, 2019 - Levis Faculty Center Room 210
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Pastries and Coffee
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Displacement
“Viennese Holocaust Refugees, American Humanitarians and the Midwest”
Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University
"The Exile Author Hermann Broch on Germany During the 1940s"
Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University-St. Louis
Moderator: Christiane Eydt-Beebe, Eastern Illinois University
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Snacks
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dialectic
"Addresses of Our Last Homes: Refugees and Hyperlinked Literary Histories"
B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Return of the Prodigal Galician Sons: An Austro-Jewish Dialectic"
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois-Chicago
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Closing Discussion and End of Conference
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Board of the American Friends of Marbach, Levis Faculty Center Room 208
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Welcome Coffee and Opening Remarks
Elena Delgado, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Hilger, Head, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurie Johnson, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Archive
“Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrožić und Deniz Utl's Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten"
Claudia Breger, Columbia University
“Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser”
Gizem Arslan, Southern Methodist University
Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois-Chicago
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Memoir
“Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen’s Travel Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August – 2 September 1939)”
Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs”
Veronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College
Moderator: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University
Saturday, September 21, 2019 - Levis Faculty Center Room 210
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Pastries and Coffee
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Displacement
“Viennese Holocaust Refugees, American Humanitarians and the Midwest”
Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University
"The Exile Author Hermann Broch on Germany During the 1940s"
Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University-St. Louis
Moderator: Christiane Eydt-Beebe, Eastern Illinois University
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Snacks
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dialectic
"Addresses of Our Last Homes: Refugees and Hyperlinked Literary Histories"
B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Return of the Prodigal Galician Sons: An Austro-Jewish Dialectic"
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois-Chicago
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Closing Discussion and End of Conference
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Board of the American Friends of Marbach, Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Please visit the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
in the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!