GSURS 2022 (Inaugural Showcase)

Written By UBC German

Program: GSURS 2022

SATURDAY April 2

Opening Remarks (9:00 - 9:10 a.m.)

Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Note

Dr. Ervin Malakaj

Plenary 1 (9:10 - 10:00 a.m.)

Dr. David Gramling (UBC): “Thesis in a Bottle: Reflections on My Undergraduate German Studies Research, 23 Years Later”

Moderated by: Emilie Kneifel (UBC)

Panel 1: Film Studies (10:00 - 11:00 a.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Rosemarie Peña (UBC)

  1. John Ye (UBC): Ostalgie in Contemporary Germany

  2. Sarah Wilkinson (UVic):  Stücke: Claustrophobia And The Haptic Vignettes In László Nemes’ Saul Fia (2015)

  3. Goldman Lam (UBC): Power Dynamics and Justice in M 

Panel 2: Translation, Adaptation, Linguistic Identity (11:00 - 12:00 p.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Caroline Rieger (UBC)

  1. Austin Heinz (UW): Enhancing the Accessibility of German Art-Song Through English Translations

  2. Auden Finch (UW): Mediating Jewish Identity in Late Imperial Austria-Hungary

  3. Emilie Kneifel (UBC): Its Own Antidote: Linguistic Isolation & Post-Brechtian Theatre

Announce Lunch Break & End-of-Day Wrap-Up (12:00 - 12:30 p.m.)

Plenary 2 (12:30 - 1:30 p.m.)

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”

Moderated by: Emilie Kneifel (UBC)

Panel 3: Queer & Gender Studies (1:30 - 2:30 p.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC)

  1. 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”

  2. Nicolai Hilton (UBC): A Masculine Dominion: German Military Culture 1918-1945

  3. Sahiba Ubhi (UBC): Nosferatu: A Symphony of Queerness

End of first day  (2:30 - 3:00 p.m.)

SUNDAY April 3rd

Panel 4: How we tell stories (9:00 - 10:00 a.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Rosemarie Peña (UBC)

  1. Charlie Zeisler (UVIC): The Personification of Nature in the Fairytales of the Brother Grimm

  2. Ella MacQueen-Denz (UVIC): Christa Wolf’s Störfall/Nachrichten eines Tages: Moving Away from Human-Centred Narratives in Stream-Of-Consciousness Literature

  3. Tyrell Loster Peitzsche (UVIC): A Child’s Innocence in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

  4. 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

Panel 5: History & Historiography & Biography (10:00 - 11:00 a.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC)

  1. Rachel Lundeen (UW): The Revolution, Institutionalized: The Impact of the 1960s West German Student Movement on Germany’s Two Largest Political Parties

  2. Noah James (UBC): The Life and Career of Alvo von Alvensleben

  3. Kolby Mullen (UBC): Inescapable Patriarchy: Robot Maria’s Lifeline in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

  4. Declan Hughes (UVIC): Horst Hoheisel, Counter-Monuments, and Lieux de Mémoire

Announce Lunch Break & End-of-Day Wrap-Up (11:00 - 12:00 p.m.)

Plenary 3 (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.)

Dr. Matthew Pollard (UVIC) “Riefenstahl as Revenant”

Moderated by: Gabrielle Bonifacio (UBC)

Panel 6: Humans & Nature (1:00 - 2:00 p.m.)

Moderated by: Dr. Jason Lieblang (UBC)

  1. Kate Block (UVIC): The relationship between humans and nature in “The Runenberg” by Ludwick Tieck

  2. Jamee Petterson (UVIC): Impermanence and Caspar David Friedrich: A Discussion about Nature and Humanity

  3. Justin Lucoe (UVIC): Romantic view of nature during the Nazi Period

  4. Abby Reed (UVIC): Ecocriticism in Otto Dix’s Paintings

End of Conference (2:00 p.m.)

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