Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
• "Music and German Nationhood: Defining a Community through Cultural Practices"
• e-mail: celia.applegate@rochester.edu

Katherine Arens (University of Texas)
• "The Culture of Culture: The Paradox of Primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften"
• e-mail: k.arens@mail.utexas.edu

Matt Erlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
• "Affirmative Culture Reconsidered"
• e-mail: merlin@wustl.edu

Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
• "German Cinema in Transnational Perspective"
• e-mail: Gerd.Gemunden@dartmouth.edu

Jonathan Hess (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• "19th-Century Middlebrow Culture and the Culture of Bildung :  Reflections on Marginality, German-Jewish Studies and the Study of Popular Culture" 
• e-mail: jmhess@email.unc.edu

Rembert Hüser (University of Minnesota)
• "Looking Good with Kafka"
• e-mail: huese002@umn.edu

Michael Jennings (Princeton University)
• "Jargon Der Aktualität: Cultural Studies Versus the Object of Culture"
• e-mail: jennings@princeton.edu

Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• "Black Germans: At the Juncture of the National and Transnational"
• e-mail: lennox@german.umass.edu

Bettina Mathes (Pennsylvania State University)
• "Symptoms of Culture: The (N)e(u)rotics of German Studies"
• e-mail: bem12@psu.edu

Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania)
• "Lola's Bedroom: Comparing Cultures of Erotic Space"
• e-mail: srichter@sas.upenn.edu

Patricia Simpson (Montana State University)
• "Cultures of Violence in the New German Street"
• e-mail: psimpson@montana.edu

Stefan Soldovieri (University of Toronto)
• "The Meaning of the National in German Film Studies"
• e-mail: ssoldovi@utm.utoronto.ca

Special Guests:

Andreas Dresen
• Film Director (Berlin, Germany)

Dilek Güngör
• Author (Berlin, Germany)