Graduate Student Symposium
9:00-9:45 Breakfast in the Department Lounge
10:00-10:15
Opening remarks by Kaitlin Cruz, Mikael Olsson Berggren and Department Chair Professor Matt Erlin.
10:15-11:15 Panel 1
Literary Traditions, Literary Comparisons
- Hannah Dinkel: Íven and Iwein: A Survey of the Knight of the Lion as Represented in Medieval Germanic Languages
- Heidi Grek: “Gebt ihn zurück dem heiligen Licht”: Reading “Anmutige Gegend” against The Divine Comedy
- Kaitlin Cruz: Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria: A Dance with the Devil or The Female Mephistopheles
11:30-12:30 Panel 2
In the Inbetween? Exploring History, Politics and Ethics
- Leon Wiese: Der Eraclius des Otte im Spannungsfeld geistlichen und weltlichen Erzählens
- Kalle Nyman: Understanding Wallenstein: Wrangel and Gustav Adolph
- Tyler Gahrs: Pleading Down Treblinka: Negotiating Culpability in a Perpetrator Confession in Ian MacMillan’s Village of a Million Spirits
12:30-1:30 Lunch in McMillan Café
1:30-2:15 Keynote speakers: Drs. Alexis Briley and Richard “Tres” Lambert
2:15-3:15 Panel 3
Gender, Femininity & the Unconscious
- Caroline Jebens: Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina (1971)
- Christin Zenker: Verena Stefan’s Shedding – the Cult Novel of the 1970s as Part of the Women’s Movement in Germany
- Mikael Olsson Berggren: Subterranean Berlin: Histories and Stories of the U-Bahn in Jaroslav Rudiš’ Der Himmel unter Berlin
3:30-4:30 Panel 4
Beyond the Text: Aesthetics of Reception and Methodological Critique
- Mattew Thompson: The Line Between Watching and Seeing: Yael Hernonski’s A Film Unfinished
- Sandra Weber: On Language and Form: Christian Kracht’s Die Toten
- Paula Vosse: Next to the Kanon: A Propose to a different Way of reading Text and Style
4:30-? Wine and Cheese in the Department Lounge