GSURS 2024

All times are in PT.

To attend the symposium, register with Dr. Matt Pollard by sending him an email (matthewp@uvic[dot]ca) and he will send you the zoom info.

Saturday, April 6th

9:00 - 9:10 am Welcome and Acknowledgements

9:15 - 10:00 am Session 1: Reading Colonial Legacies

Farida Abdoulaye (UVic): "The Forgotten Genocide: Reconciling Germany’s Colonial Past in Namibia"

Tamara Laing (UVic): “Indianer Illusions and German Fantasy”

Lily Evans (UBC): “Post-Colonial Memory, Trauma, and Ethical Visual Representations in a German Context"

Kendyl Stark (UBC): “Polish-German Archival Discourse: Memory Politics and Conflict”

10:05 - 10:50 am First Plenary

Dr. Peter Gölz (UVic): “Of the foul German spectre – the Vampyre”

10:55 - 11:45 pm Roundtable 1: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture: Media Interventions

Sponsor: Dr. Biz Nijdam, with participants Varvara Bogantseva and Aliyah Fisher (UBC)

11:45 - 12:30 pm Lunch Break

12:35 - 1:35 pm Session 2: Haunting and Haunted Histories

Lindsey Andrew (UVic): "Nietzsche: Of Good and Spectral"

Haley Greenhalgh (UVic): “Exploring Germany’s Connection To The Name Lola”

Keith Molyneux (UVic): “We Are Remembered: The Importance of Photography and Visual Culture for Remembering Queer and Trans Individuals in Weimar Berlin” 

Cat Watt (UVic): “National Sexualism: German History, Identity, and Sexuality in the Political Spectacle of Rammstein”

1:40 – 2:25 pm Second Plenary

Dr. Jason Groves (University of Washington): “Going Under: Offshore Formations of German Studies on a Climate-Changed Planet”

2:30 – 3:30 pm Session 3: Voices of Belonging

Rachel Lundeen (University of Washington): Die Verwandlung der “Verwandlung”: Kreative Auseinandersetzungen mit marginalisierten Figuren in Kafkas “Die Verwandlung”

Hana Dekker (UBC): "Hermann Hesse's Appeal: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Examination"

Angelina Schwarz (UVic): "The Gendered Vulnerability of German Women During the Holocaust: A Case Study of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück Concentration Camps"

Aoise Roche (UVic): “Gender-Exclusivity in the German Language: A Nonbinary Critique”.

3:30 pm Wrap-up

Sunday, April 7th

9:00 - 9:50 am Roundtable 2: An Absence of German Horror

Sponsor: Dr. Jason Lieblang, with participants Jack Macleod Mosher, Ross Oteri, Mikaela Cochrane, Natalia Sliwa, and Rowan Milligan (UBC)

9:55 – 10:40 am Third Plenary

Dr. Biz Nijdam (UBC): “Graphic Historiography: Comics on/and Writing History”

10:45 – 11:45 am Session 4: Transmission and Transference

Jia Gu (UBC): "Grimm’s Fairy Tales & Vocaloid Music: A Study on Cultural Diffusion”

Alexander Suyanto (UBC): “The Chronopolitics of the AfD”

Tenaya Tremp (UBC): "The AfD: Normality and Heimat as Central to Germany's Populist Far-Right." 

Lucas Hung (UVic) “'Don't Forget...': Bernhard Wicki’s Visual Portrayal of Youth in Die Brücke”

11:45 am Thanks and Auf Wiedersehen