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History in the Making – Program
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