German Graduate Student Association

From Page to Stage – Photo Gallery

Mike Hiegemann — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:00:00 +0000

Photographs of this year’s Graduate Student Conference “From Page to Stage” can be found here.

Deadline for “From Page to Stage” extended

Mike Hiegemann — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:50:38 +0000

The deadline for submissions for the graduate student conference “From Page to Stage: Perspectives on Theatricality in Historical, Philosophical, and Literary Discourses” has been extended to January 7, 2013.

CFP: From Page to Stage

Mike Hiegemann — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:43:12 +0000

The call for papers for our next graduate student conference is up! You’ll find it here.

Upcoming Lecture (April 4)

Mike Hiegemann — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:20:21 +0000

History in the Making – Photo Galleries

Mike Hiegemann — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:50:55 +0000

Photographs of this year’s Graduate Student Conference “History in the Making: Auditory, Visual, and Textual Representations of Germany’s Past” can be found here.

Thank you to all the participants for making it an inspiring and productive event.

New GGSA Officers

Mike Hiegemann — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:46:11 +0000

As of March 13, 2012, the new officers of the GGSA are Mike Hiegemann (President), Christine Richter-Nilsson (Vice President), Lisa Beesley (Vice President), Oliver Knabe (Treasurer), and Clara Fisher (Secretary).

Upcoming Lunchtime Seminar

Mike Hiegemann — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:32:50 +0000

Tuesday, March 27
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Furman 123

Ingo Kieslich
“Stranger than Fiction: Hannah Arendt reads Franz Kafka”

History in the Making – Program (Update)

Mike Hiegemann — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:53:16 +0000

March 17, 2012

4:10 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
“Theogony as Ethnogeny: Race and Religion in Friedrich Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology”
George S. Williamson (Department of History at the Florida State University, Tallahassee)

6:00 p.m.
Welcome and Keynote Reception, Buttrick Hall Atrium

March 18, 2012

9.00 a.m.
Breakfast, Buttrick Hall Atrium

9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks

9:45-11:15 a.m.

Panel 1
Revolution: Forming and Reforming a Society
Respondent and Moderator: Kaleigh Bangor

“The Myth of the Primal Horde and the Fate of Post-Revolutionary Politics: Freud as Materialist Dialectician”
Lara Giordano (Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University, Nashville)

“God’s Kingdom on Earth: The Connection of Prussian Religion and Politics from 1815 to 1848”
Travis Eakin (History Department at the University of Mississippi, Oxford)

“Challenging Heroics of the Hermann Dramas: Kleist’s Deconstruction of Klopstock’s Thusnelda”
Lauren Nossett (Department of German at the University of California, Davis)

11:15-11:30 a.m.
Coffee Break, Buttrick Hall Atrium

11:30-12:30 p.m.

Panel 2
Nietzsche, the Weimar Era, Modern Pathologies
Respondent and Moderator: Alexandra Campana

“Joy in Spite of History in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”
Garrett Zantow Bredeson (Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville)

“The Problem of Excessive Historical Culture in Post-Nietzsche German Identity”
Stephen Jones (German Department at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break, Buttrick Hall Atrium

1:30-3:30 p.m.

Panel 3
Writing and Re-Writing the History of World War II
Respondent and Moderator: Wesley Lim

“Die Problematik von Spielfilmen als Vermittler von Geschichte”
Raphaela Tkotzyk (Department of German languages and literatures at the Ruhr-University Bochum)

“Dialectical Juxtapositions: W. G. Sebald’s De-mythologized Histories and the Literary Imagination”
Naomi Beeman (Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University, Atlanta)

“’False Leads and Cold Cases’: The Insolubility of History in Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution”
Stacy Hartman (Department of German Studies at Stanford University)

“Rewriting Un-erasable Pasts: Contemporary Trends at Three Former National Socialist Sites in Berlin and Poznań”
Stephen P. Naumann (Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages at the Michigan State University, East Lansing)

3:30-4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break, Buttrick Hall Atrium

4:00-5:30 p.m.

Panel 4
The GDR: Its Beginnings, its Aftermath
Respondent and Moderator: Lisa Beesley

“Jazz in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989”
Helma Kaldewey (Department of History at Tulane University, New Orleans)

“Creating Socialist Perspectives: The Wild West in the East German Imagination”
Matthew Scully (Department of History at Tulane University, New Orleans)

“Behind the scenes of history: Staging the Fall of the Wall in Material by Thomas Heise”
Gudrun Lena Stölzl (Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna)

5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks

Closing Reception at the home of Prof. Barbara Hahn
(Directions will be announced.)

Unless otherwise noted all events will take place in Buttrick Hall 206