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Monday, May 23, 2022 in Royce 306

9:00-9:30 Registration, Breakfast provided

9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks

9:45-11:00 Panel presentations 1: Ideologies and the Political Self

· "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

11:00-11:15 Morning break, refreshments provided

11:30-12:45 Panel presentations 2: Preservation and the Archive

· "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

1:00-2:30 Break for Lunch

2:30-3:45 Panel presentations 3: Linguistic Change

· “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

3:45-4:45 Opening keynote: “Natives of the Republic: Postcolonial Migration and the Politics of Indigeneity.” Prof. Aamir Mufti, UCLA, Comparative Literature

4:45-5:00 Closing remarks

Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Royce 306

9:00-9:30 Registration, Breakfast provided

9:30-11:00 Panel presentations 4: National Identities, Constructed and Deconstructed

· “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

11:15-11:30 Morning break, refreshments provided

11:30-1:00 Panel presentations 5: Gender Identities

· “‘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

1:00-2:00 Break for Lunch

2:00-3:00 Closing Keynote: “Drafting Private Gelidium: Agar as a thermal medium in C. K. Tseng’s research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1943-1946),” Prof. Melody Jue, UCSB, English

3:15-4:15 Closing Remarks

4:30-7pm Reception, refreshments provided