GSURS 2023

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SUNDAY March 12

9:00-9:05 Opening Remarks 

Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Note

Dr. Jason Groves (UW)

9:05-9:50 Plenary 1 

Dr. Annegret Oehme (UW): Fun with Footnotes

9:50-10:50 Panel 1: New Directions in German Studies: Community, Belonging, and Performance

Moderated by: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC)

1. Bridget Chu (UBC): The Common in The Earthquake in Chile

2. Lea Lassen (UBC): Gatekeepers of Belonging

3. Jacqueline Boivin (UBC): Die Beiden Grenadiere as an Example of Cross-cultural Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Germany

4. Rachel Lundeen (UW): On the Threshold of the Unknown: Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Her Novella To See a Woman

5. Brandon Bach (UBC): A Dramaturgical Reading of Simmel’s “Concept and Tragedy of Culture”

10:50-11:40 Panel 2: German Jewish Studies: Queer Poetics, Queer History, and Collective Memory

Moderated by: Dr. Jason Groves (UW)

1. Elena Senecal (UVic): Jewish Revenge in Contemporary Holocaust Media: Value in Collective Memory

2. Colton Schons (UW): Queer Jews in the Weimar Republic: Reading Archival Silences

3. Auden Finch (UW): “Ein Löwy mit einem gewissen Kafka’schen Fond”: Franz Kafka, Jizchak Löwy, and the Queer Poetics of Non-Arrival

4. Lily Evans (UBC): “He was Tired. No One Looked at Him”: Memory Culture and Attention in Christian Petzold’s Transit

11:40-12:10: Panel 3: A Roundtable on Fractured Fairy Tales

Moderated by: Dr. Biz Nijdam (UBC)

1. Noah Demers (UBC)

2. Lena Khadra (UBC)

12:10-12:40 Lunch Break

12:40-1:10 Panel 4: Crafting Translations and Paratexts

Moderated by: Dr. David Gramling (UBC)

1. Jia Gu (UBC)

2. Alexander Suyanto (UBC)

1:10-1:55 Plenary 2

Dr. Jason Lieblang (UBC): From Caligari to Haneke: Histories of the Germanic Horror Film

Showcase End: 2 p.m.