SATURDAY April 2
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks
Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Note
Dr. Ervin Malakaj
9:10-10:00 Plenary 1
Moderated by: Emilie Kneifel (UBC)
Dr. David Gramling (UBC): “Thesis in a Bottle: Reflections on My Undergraduate German Studies Research, 23 Years Later”
10:00-11:00 Panel 1: Film Studies
Moderated by: Dr. Rosemarie Peña (UBC)
- John Ye (UBC): Ostalgie in Contemporary Germany
- Sarah Wilkinson (UVic): Stücke: Claustrophobia And The Haptic Vignettes In László Nemes’ Saul Fia (2015)
- Goldman Lam (UBC): Power Dynamics and Justice in M
11:00-12:00 Panel 2: Translation, Adaptation, Linguistic Identity
Moderated by: Dr. Caroline Rieger (UBC)
- Austin Heinz (UW): Enhancing the Accessibility of German Art-Song Through English Translations
- Auden Finch (UW): Mediating Jewish Identity in Late Imperial Austria-Hungary
- Emilie Kneifel (UBC): Its Own Antidote: Linguistic Isolation & Post-Brechtian Theatre
12:00-12:30 Announce Lunch Break & End-of-Day Wrap-Up
12:30-1:30 Plenary 2
Moderated by: Emilie Kneifel (UBC)
Dr. S. Kye Terrasi (UW): “Turn of the Century for the Twenty-First Century: Resisting Gender Construction in the Literature and Art of Vienna 1900”
1:30-2:30 Panel 3: Queer & Gender Studies
Moderated by: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC)
- Roshan Selden (UW): “The Art of Motherhood: Conflicting Gender Roles in ‘Das Lied von der Glocke’ and its Consequences on Friedrich Schiller’s Conceptualization of Art and Rebellion”
- Nicolai Hilton (UBC): A Masculine Dominion: German Military Culture 1918-1945
- Sahiba Ubhi (UBC): Nosferatu: A Symphony of Queerness
2:30-3:00 End
SUNDAY April 3rd
9:00-10:00 Panel 4: How we tell stories
Moderated by: Dr. Rosemarie Peña (UBC)
- Charlie Zeisler (UVIC): The Personification of Nature in the Fairytales of the Brother Grimm
- Ella MacQueen-Denz (UVIC): Christa Wolf’s Störfall/Nachrichten eines Tages: Moving Away from Human-Centred Narratives in Stream-Of-Consciousness Literature
- Tyrell Loster Peitzsche (UVIC): A Child’s Innocence in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
- Sidney Syona Singh (UBC): Apples Melting on Books: Visually representing Heinz Skyte’s memories of Kristallnacht in Survivour of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children
10:00-11:00 Panel 5: History & Historiography & Biography
Moderated by: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC)
- Rachel Lundeen (UW): The Revolution, Institutionalized: The Impact of the 1960s West German Student Movement on Germany’s Two Largest Political Parties
- Noah James (UBC): The Life and Career of Alvo von Alvensleben
- Kolby Mullen (UBC): Inescapable Patriarchy: Robot Maria’s Lifeline in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
- Declan Hughes (UVIC): Horst Hoheisel, Counter-Monuments, and Lieux de Mémoire
11:00-12:00 Announce Lunch Break & End-of-Day Wrap-Up
12:00-1:00 Plenary 3
Moderated by: Gabrielle Bonifacio (UBC)
Dr. Matthew Pollard (UVIC) “Riefenstahl as Revenant”
1:00-2:00 Panel 6: Humans & Nature
Moderated by: Dr. Jason Lieblang (UBC)
- Kate Block (UVIC): The relationship between humans and nature in “The Runenberg” by Ludwick Tieck
- Jamee Petterson (UVIC): Impermanence and Caspar David Friedrich: A Discussion about Nature and Humanity
- Justin Lucoe (UVIC): Romantic view of nature during the Nazi Period
- Abby Reed (UVIC): Ecocriticism in Otto Dix’s Paintings
2:00 Conference End