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GERMAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM |
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German Pop Culture how "american" is it? |
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Program |
All sessions and coffee
breaks are held at
Gambrell Hall 428/429 |
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Thursday, April 5 |
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4:00 pm |
Welcoming Reception |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner -- Faculty Club at McCutchen House
Welcoming Remarks
Joan H Stewart, Dean, USC College of Liberal Arts
Margit Resch, Chair, Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Languages
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9:00 pm |
Reading: Thomas Meinecke |
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Friday, April 6 |
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Introductory Remarks |
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Agnes C. Mueller -- University of South Carolina (German and comparative
Literature) |
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Module I: Past & Future -- Americanization of German Pop Culture ? |
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9-10:30 am |
Panel 1: |
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Moderator: Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina, (History) |
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9-9:25 |
Tom Saunders, University of Victoria, Canada (History) |
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With or Without America: The Perils of Popularity before 1945 |
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9:25 - 9:50 |
Winfried Fluck,Kennedy Center of the Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany (American Studies) |
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Americanization of German Culture? Modernization and Modernity |
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9:50-10:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11am -12:30 pm |
Panel 2: |
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Moderator: Peter Höyng
University of Tennessee, (German) |
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11-11:25 |
Lutz Koepnick,Washington University (German / Film & Media
Studies) |
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‘Amerika gibt’s überhaupt nicht’: Global Identities and the Future
of Cultural Criticism |
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11:25 -11:50 |
Matthias Politycki, Germany |
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Der amerikanische Holzweg. Am Anfang vom Ende einer deutschsprachigen
Literatur |
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11:50 - 12:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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12:30-2:00 |
Lunch -- Faculty Club at McCutchen House |
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Module II: Film & Media |
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2:-3:30 pm |
Panel 1: |
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Moderator: Susan Courtney, University of South Carolina, (English
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2-2:25 |
Marc Silberman,University of Wisconsin, Madison (German) |
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Popular Cinema, National Cinema, and European Integration |
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2:25-2:50 |
Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College (German / Comparative Literature) |
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Global/Local: Fatih Akin’s Kurz und schmerzlos and the Transnational
Imaginary |
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2:50-3:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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3:30-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4-5:30 PM |
Panel 2: |
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Moderator: Gerald Giesecke, ZDF , Germany |
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4-4:25 |
Frank Trommler,University of Pennsylvania (German / Comparative
Literature) |
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Mixing High and Popular Culture: The Impact of the Communication Revolution |
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4:25-4:50 |
Nora Alter, University of Florida (German / Women’s Studies / Film
& Media Studies) |
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From Capitalrealism to MTV: The ‘Umfunktionierung’ of American Pop Culture |
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4:50-5:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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7:30 |
Dinner Party |
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Saturday, April 7 |
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Module III: Texts & Sounds |
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9:-10:30 am |
Panel 1: |
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Moderator: P. Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, (Comparative
Literature) |
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9:00-9:25 |
Uta Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle (History) |
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American Jazz in the German Cold War |
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9:25-9:50 |
Dieter Lamping, Universität Mainz, Germany (Comparative Literature) |
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Moderne deutsche Lyrik und populäre Musik. Spannungen und Annäherungen |
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9:50-10:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:am-12:30 PM |
Panel 2: |
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Moderator: Martin Kagel, University of Georgia, (German) |
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11-11:25 |
Eckhard Schumacher, Universität Köln, Germany (German) |
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Translating Pop: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann |
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11:25-11:50 |
Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh (German) |
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Transatlantic Transfers of Popular Music: Hip Hop Made in Germany |
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11:50-12:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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12:30-2 |
Lunch Break |
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Module IV: Gender, Politics, Identities |
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2-3:30 PM |
Panel 1: |
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Moderator: Sarah Westphal, University of South Carolina, German
/ Women’s Studies |
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2-2:25 |
Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (German / Women’s
Studies) |
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Constructing Femininity in the Early Cold War Era |
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2:25-2:50 |
Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona (German) |
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The City and the Female Body in Lola rennt |
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2:50-3:30 |
DISCUSSION |
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3:30-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4-5:30 pm |
Panel 2: |
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Moderator: Michael Nentwich, Goethe Institute, Atlanta |
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4-4:25 |
Thomas Meinecke, Germany |
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"Ich als Text" |
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4:25-4:50 |
Theodore Fiedler,Univeristy of Kentuky (German) |
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"Hegel Anyone? Volker Braun's Response to Culture Under Capitalism" |
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4:50-5:30 |
CONCLUDING ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION |
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Moderator: Agnes C. Muller |
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7 pm |
Concluding Dinner -- Top of Carolina, Capstone House |
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9 pm |
Reading:Matthias Politycki |
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