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       Friday, March 3:
    1:30 - 2:00:Coffee and Reception: State Room West
    2:00 - 2:30:Welcome and Opening Remarks (William Rasch, Indiana University): State Room East
    2:30 - 4:00:Session I: State Room East, From Pre-Modern to Modern Culture (Moderator: Kari Ellen Gade, Indiana University)

    Claudia Bornholdt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Past Present or Present Past,

    Daniel Soneson (Southern Connecticut State University), German Culture Through Spectacle: From 15th Century Passion Plays to 21st Century Multimedia,

    Corey Roberts (Northern Illinois University), German Pietism, Hamann, and the Origins of Aesthetic Experience
    4:00 - 4:15:Coffee break: State Room West
    4:15 - 6:00:Session II: State Room East, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Culture (Moderator: Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University)

    Elliott Schreiber (Vassar College),Thinking Inside the Box: K.P. Moritz's Critique of the Enlightenment Project of a Non-Coercive Pedagogy,

    Derek Hillard (Kansas State University), Notes on the Nineteenth-Century Self, or Why Guilt Requires a Sacrifice,

    Lynne Tatlock (Washington University, St. Louis), Communion at the Sign of the Wildman
    6:00 - 8:00: Reception for all Participants: Federal Room
       Saturday, March 4:
    8:00 - 8:30: Coffee: Oak Room
    8:30 -10:30:Session III: Oak Room, Pedagogy/Linguistics (Moderator: Rex Sprouse, Indiana University)

    Elizabeth Bridges (Hendrix College), The Top Ten Things I've Learned Since Leaving IU

    Silke Von der Emde (Vassar College), History, Memory and the Legacies of the Holocaust: A New Model for Interdisciplinary Education in the 21st Century

    Astrid Klocke (Northern Arizona University), Content-Based Language Teaching: Humorous Short Texts in an "Introduction to German Literature" Course

    John Sundquist (Purdue University), Language Variation and Change in Germanic Linguistics: A Thread that Binds the Disciplines
    10:30 - 11:00Coffee break: Oak Room
    11:00 -12:30:Session IV: Oak Room, Film (Moderator: Claudia Breger, Indiana University)

    Wilfried Wilms (University of Denver), A German Affair: Rubble Film and Public Memory

    John Blair (State University of West Georgia), Reading Triangles in Fassbinder's Fontane Effi Briest

    Muriel Ann Cormican (University of West Georgia), Frame Matters: Narrative and Ethics in von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse
    12:30 - 2:30:Lunch (Presenters and Graduate Students): State Room East
    2:30 - 4:00:Session V: Oak Room, Twentieth-Century Culture I (Moderator: Marc Weiner, Indiana University)

    Patrizia McBride (University of Minnesota), Embracing the Void of Ethics: Robert Musil's Unfashionable Modernism

    Karl-Heinz Maurer (Rhodes College), Kafka's Metamorphosis: A Portrait of the Artist as a Giant Dung Beetle

    Brent McBride (Hunter College), It's a Mall World after All: The Contemporary Museum as Heterotopia
    4:00 - 4:30:Coffee break: Oak Room
    4:30 - 6:00:Session VI: Oak Room, Twentieth-Century Culture II (Moderator: Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University)

    Jill Smith (Union College), Working Girls: White-Collar Work and Prostitution in Late Weimar Fiction

    Vera Stegmann (Lehigh University), Anna Seghers' Postwar Prose: Attempt at an Intercultural Reading

    Christine Rinne (Dartmouth College), The Textual Production of Fantasy
    8:00:Dinner for Speakers and Germanic Studies Faculty Dinner for Graduate Students and Prospective Students: Location to be advised
       Sunday, March 5:
    9:00 - 9:30:Coffee: Oak Room
    9:30 - 12:00:Roundtable Discussion: Oak Room, The Institution (Moderator: Michel Chaouli, Indiana University)

    Jeannine Blackwell (University of Kentucky), Graduate Studies in the Humanities: The Dean's Perspective

    Ray Wakefield (University of Minnesota), ADFL's Genesis: IU's Call to Action

    Ann McGlashan (Baylor University), Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, or: Thank Goodness Alice Is a Generalist

    Kirstine Lindemann (Indiana University), "Bekannte Gesichter, gemischte Gefühle," or the Art and Science of Multiple Identities

    Joe Gene Delap (Jacksonville State University), Deans are Professors, Too

    Felix Twerasser (Utah State University), Interdisciplinary German Studies and the Cold War, or: Thank you, I.U. Institute of German Studies

    12:00: Farewells

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