GERMAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
German Pop Culture how "american" is it?
Program All sessions and coffee
breaks are held at 
Gambrell Hall 428/429
Thursday, April 5
 
4:00 pm Welcoming Reception 
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 and Literatures
9:00 pm Reading: Thomas Meinecke 
 
Friday, April 6
 
8:45-9:00 am Introductory Remarks
  Agnes C. Mueller -- University of South Carolina (German and comparative Literature)
   
Module I: Past & Future -- Americanization of German Pop Culture ?

    9-10:30 am Panel 1:   
      Moderator: Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina, (History)  
         
    9-9:25 Tom Saunders, University of Victoria, Canada (History)  
      With or Without America: The Perils of Popularity before 1945  
         
    9:25 - 9:50 Winfried Fluck,Kennedy Center of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (American Studies)  
      Americanization of German Culture? Modernization and Modernity  
         
    9:50-10:30 DISCUSSION  
    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  
    11am -12:30 pm Panel 2:   
      Moderator: Peter Höyng University of Tennessee, (German)  
         
    11-11:25 Lutz Koepnick,Washington University (German / Film & Media Studies)  
      ‘Amerika gibt’s überhaupt nicht’: Global Identities and the Future of Cultural Criticism  
         
    11:25 -11:50 Matthias Politycki, Germany  
      Der amerikanische Holzweg. Am Anfang vom Ende einer deutschsprachigen Literatur  
         
    11:50 - 12:30 DISCUSSION  
    12:30-2:00  Lunch -- Faculty Club at McCutchen House  
Module II: Film & Media

    2:-3:30 pm  Panel 1:  
      Moderator: Susan Courtney, University of South Carolina, (English / Film Studies)  
         
    2-2:25 Marc Silberman,University of Wisconsin, Madison (German)  
      Popular Cinema, National Cinema, and European Integration  
         
    2:25-2:50 Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College (German / Comparative Literature)  
      Global/Local: Fatih Akin’s Kurz und schmerzlos and the Transnational Imaginary  
         
    2:50-3:30 DISCUSSION  
    3:30-4:00 Coffee Break  
    4-5:30 PM Panel 2:   
      Moderator: Gerald Giesecke, ZDF , Germany  
         
    4-4:25 Frank Trommler,University of Pennsylvania (German / Comparative Literature)  
      Mixing High and Popular Culture: The Impact of the Communication Revolution  
         
    4:25-4:50 Nora Alter, University of Florida (German / Women’s Studies / Film & Media Studies)  
      From Capitalrealism to MTV: The ‘Umfunktionierung’ of American Pop Culture  
         
    4:50-5:30 DISCUSSION  
    7:30  Dinner Party  
Saturday, April 7 
Module III: Texts & Sounds

    9:-10:30 am  Panel 1:   
      Moderator: P. Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, (Comparative Literature)  
         
    9:00-9:25 Uta Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle (History)  
      American Jazz in the German Cold War  
         
    9:25-9:50 Dieter Lamping, Universität Mainz, Germany (Comparative Literature)  
      Moderne deutsche Lyrik und populäre Musik. Spannungen und Annäherungen  
         
    9:50-10:30 DISCUSSION  
    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  
    11:am-12:30 PM Panel 2:   
      Moderator: Martin Kagel, University of Georgia, (German)  
         
    11-11:25 Eckhard Schumacher, Universität Köln, Germany (German)  
      Translating Pop: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann  
         
    11:25-11:50 Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh (German)  
      Transatlantic Transfers of Popular Music: Hip Hop Made in Germany  
         
    11:50-12:30 DISCUSSION  
    12:30-2 Lunch Break  
Module IV: Gender, Politics, Identities

    2-3:30 PM Panel 1:  
      Moderator: Sarah Westphal, University of South Carolina, German / Women’s Studies  
         
    2-2:25 Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (German / Women’s Studies)  
      Constructing Femininity in the Early Cold War Era  
         
    2:25-2:50 Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona (German)  
      The City and the Female Body in Lola rennt  
         
    2:50-3:30 DISCUSSION  
    3:30-4:00 Coffee Break  
    4-5:30 pm  Panel 2:   
      Moderator: Michael Nentwich, Goethe Institute, Atlanta  
         
    4-4:25 Thomas Meinecke, Germany  
      "Ich als Text"  
         
    4:25-4:50 Theodore Fiedler,Univeristy of Kentuky (German)   
      "Hegel Anyone? Volker Braun's Response to Culture Under Capitalism"  
         
         
    4:50-5:30 CONCLUDING ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION  
      Moderator: Agnes C. Muller  
    7 pm Concluding Dinner -- Top of Carolina, Capstone House  
    9 pm  Reading:Matthias Politycki