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12th Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies 2023 

Organizers: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger - Lafayette College

 Prof. Axel Hildebrandt - ̽������

SESSION I

8:30-9:25 AM

Moderator: Prof. Dennis Johannßen - 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 Putin’s 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-State’s Reification of State Consciousness. A Comparison between the Siegessäule and Washington Monument

Harrison Quinn (Bucknell University) Die Bauern: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen von Gettysburg 

 

SESSION III

10:20-11:15 AM 

Moderator: Prof. Viktoria Pötzl - Grinnell College

Andrew Thompson (Grinnell College) Jugenderwachen im Roten Wien: Eine historische Studie der Arbeiterjugendbewegungen in der Wiener Zwischenkriegszeit

Rachel Houts (Hillsdale College) “Münchhausen: die Wahrheit übers Lügen and the Intersection of Falsehood with Reality” 

Shannon Scott (University of Florida) “‘I am not guilty’: The Einsmann-Müller 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 Übersetzung verloren: Eine Diskussion über Übersetzungspädagogik in Bezug auf persönliche Erfahrungen bei der Übersetzung 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 (̽������) “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: Kunstmärchen von Frauen und ihre Übersetzung”

Emily Trujillo (Rutgers University) “Unchrist: Inversion & Religion in Kafka’s 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 Gould’s 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 zerstörende Natur der Schaffung: Männliche Künstler und ihre versachlichten Frauenfiguren”

Abigail Jacobs (Butler University) “Die Krankheiten der Gesellschaft: Kapitalismus, Faschismus, Patriarchat und Nora”