Presentation Titles

All presentation titles are organized in chronological order of presentation.

"Antigone’s Action: Restructuring the Law of Sovereignty ––on Brecht’s Die Antigone des Sophokles (1948) and Agamben’s biopolitics," Chaoge Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"Ideological Permanence: The Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy in Ingeborg Holm," Mads Larsen, UCLA

“‘…between fluidity and elastic vessel’: On Robert Musil’s Literary Psycho-logy,”Andrew Blough, UC Berkeley

"From Silence to Sound: Germany’s First Talkie Today," Ben Seyfert, UCLA

"Collecting as a way of saving the world in the work of Adalbert Stifter and W. G. Sebald," Nikoleta Perić, University of Debrecen, Hungary

“The Persistence of Memory and a Decaying Monument—What Denazification Left Behind,” Caleb Davis, Ohio State University

“Heteroglossia in Cameroonian literature,” Vanessa Awa, University of Missouri

"Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear: A Text in Translation," Betsy Carter, University of Arizona

"Mucus, Quinces, Life, Death, and Pieces of Bread. Eugene Savitzkaya and Hybridity as a (Poetic) Way of Being in the World," Léa Fougerolle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

"Lost in Migration: The Search for Identity in Language. The place of Emine Sevgi Özdamar's novel _Mutterzunge_ in contemporary German culture," Akshita Sharma, Delhi University

"Death and Ruin: Envisioning the Fascist Aesthetic in the Work of Riefenstahl, Speer, and Mishima," Todd Maslyk, University of Michigan

“Reading Kazakh New Wave Cinema Through (German) Media Theory,” Vincent Kancans, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

"The Apple, the Gods, and the Juniper Tree," Lujun Guo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“It Was Not Garbage”: An Economy of Decay in Valeska Gert’s Performance Venue Ziegenstall (1951-1978)," Jacqueline Davis, UCLA

“‘On a resté’: The Evolution of Women’s Home Music in Southwest Louisiana,” Miranda Heaner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“Selfless city: Gendered Flânerie and the Empty Ego in Baudelaire and Virginia Woolf,” Katya Lopatko, UCSB

“Erosion and Decay – Challenging Binary Thinking in Laura Pugno’s Eco-Feminist Novels,” Kelly Roso, UCLA

* Title subject to change