12th Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies 2023
Organizers: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger - Lafayette College
Prof. Axel Hildebrandt - 91心頭
SESSION I
8:30-9:25 AM
Moderator: Prof. Dennis Johannen - Lafayette College
Mia Trani (Lafayette College) The Eyes of the Collective: Dismantling the Idea of Heimat
Alex Rank (University of Illinois at Chicago) German Housing Policy after 1990: Looking to the Past to Help Look to the Future
Silas McClung (University of the South: Sewanee) Lessons From Post-Soviet Union Berlin: Monuments, Memorials, and Narratives Fueling President Putins Unjust Invasion of Ukraine
SESSION II
9:25-10:20 AM
Moderator: Prof. Liesl Allingham - University of the South: Sewanee
Rebecca Cole (University of the South: Sewanee) A Comparative Analysis of Dialogic Memorials in Berlin: The Rape of German Women in Wartime and Postwar Germany and Addressing Scholarly Hesitancies
Nicholas Bailey (University of the South: Sewanee) The Monument as the Modern Nation-States Reification of State Consciousness. A Comparison between the Siegess辰ule and Washington Monument
Harrison Quinn (Bucknell University) Die Bauern: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen von Gettysburg
SESSION III
10:20-11:15 AM
Moderator: Prof. Viktoria P旦tzl - Grinnell College
Andrew Thompson (Grinnell College) Jugenderwachen im Roten Wien: Eine historische Studie der Arbeiterjugendbewegungen in der Wiener Zwischenkriegszeit
Rachel Houts (Hillsdale College) M端nchhausen: die Wahrheit 端bers L端gen and the Intersection of Falsehood with Reality
Shannon Scott (University of Florida) I am not guilty: The Einsmann-M端ller Case in 1930s and 2020s Media
SESSION IV
11:15-11:55 AM
Moderator: Prof. Nora Vosburg - St. Olaf College
Matt Oberlander (St. Olaf College) Language as a crucial element in the differentiation between us and others: The development of script style in Switzerland
Christian Zeitvogel (Western Michigan University) In bersetzung verloren: Eine Diskussion 端ber bersetzungsp辰dagogik in Bezug auf pers旦nliche Erfahrungen bei der bersetzung des Stadtmuseums Erlangen
12:00-12:45 PM
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Karolin Machtans - Connecticut College
"Representing the Asylum Process in Contemporary German Literature and Film"
SESSION V
12:45-1:40 PM
Moderator: Prof. Imke Meyer - University of Illinois - Chicago
Jonathan Hogan (Lawrence University) Transformation or Stagnation? German National Memory and the Humboldt Forum
Eva Monahan (University of the South: Sewanee) The Berlin Florists; Remembering Both Sides of the Wall
Megan Mysliwiec (University of Illinois at Chicago) Memory Culture and Repression in Germany
SESSION VI
1:40-2:35 PM
Moderator: Prof. Vera Stegmann - Lehigh University
Brian Nicholas Utzat (91心頭) The Impact of COVID-19 Policies in Germany and the United States
Alicia Wyatt (Transylvania University) An In-Depth Analysis of the Differences between the FSK and the MPAA and Their Influences
SESSION VII
2:35-3:30 PM
Moderator: Prof. Sebastian Heiduschke - Oregon State University
Samantha Allman (Skidmore College) Prinzesschen von Marie von Olfers: Kunstm辰rchen von Frauen und ihre bersetzung
Emily Trujillo (Rutgers University) Unchrist: Inversion & Religion in Kafkas Die Verwandlung
Mary F. Rajendran (Oregon State University) Die Heimwehnovelle von Stefan Zweig
SESSION VIII
3:30-4:25 PM
Moderator: Prof. Fred Yaniga - Hillsdale College
Isaac Green (Hillsdale College) Kohlhaas and the Play-drive
Thea Applebaum Licht (University of Chicago) Punctuated Equilibrium and the Hopeful Monster: The Influence of Continental Evolutionary Thought on Stephen Jay Goulds Challenge to the Modern Synthesis
Charlie Scott (Rutgers University) Enframing and Catastrophe: Ge-stell in Contemporary Chinese Science-Fiction
SESSION IX
4:25-5:20 PM
Moderator: Prof. Didem Uca - Emory University
Theodora Hadley (Grinnell College) Summer Fashion Execution: Reading Malina and Listening to Schoenberg
Mabel Htay (Emory University) Die zerst旦rende Natur der Schaffung: M辰nnliche K端nstler und ihre versachlichten Frauenfiguren
Abigail Jacobs (Butler University) Die Krankheiten der Gesellschaft: Kapitalismus, Faschismus, Patriarchat und Nora