9:00 a.m. Welcome
Garnett Stokes (Dean, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences)
Lutz H. Görgens (German Consul General, Atlanta)

9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Martin Kagel (Germanic & Slavic Studies):
"The Meaning of Culture: German Studies in the 21st Century"

10:00 a.m. Session I Cultural Literacies
Katherine Arens (University of Texas at Austin):
"The Culture of Culture: The Paradox of Primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften"
Michael Jennings (Princeton University):
"Jargon der Aktualität: Cultural Studies Versus the Object of Culture"
Moderator: Alexander Sager (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

11:45 p.m. Lunch-Kino: Andreas Dresen’s Nachtgestalten [Night Shapes, 1999]
(at Ciné Art House Movie Theater)

2:30 p.m. Session II Transcultural Germany
Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts Amherst):
"Black Germans: At the Juncture of the National and Transnational"
Patricia Simpson (Montana State University):
"Cultures of Violence in the New German Street"
Moderator: Brigitte Rossbacher (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

4:15 p.m.– Coffee Break –

4:30 p.m. Session III Gender Studies
Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania):
"Lola's Bedroom: Comparing Cultures of Erotic Space"
Bettina Mathes (Pennsylvania State University):
"Symptoms of Culture: The (N)e(u)rotics of German Studies"
Moderator: Marjanne Goozé (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

6:15 p.m. – Short Break –

6:30 p.m. Author Reading (in German)
Dilek Güngör (Berlin, Germany)
Moderator: Katerina Wicka (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

8:00 p.m. – Conference Dinner –

Saturday, March 29, 2008

9:00 a.m. Session IV German Film Studies
Stefan Soldovieri (University of Toronto):
"The Meaning of the National in German Film Studies"
Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College):
"German Cinema in Transnational Perspective"
Moderator: Antje Ascheid (Theatre & Film Studies)

10:45 a.m. – Coffee Break –

11:00 a.m. Session V Cultural History in German Studies
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"
Celia Applegate (University of Rochester):
"Music and German Nationhood: Defining a Community through Cultural Practices"
Moderator: Jake Short (History)

12:45 p.m. – Lunch Break–

2:00 p.m. Session VI Cultural Theory in German Studies
Matt Erlin (Washington University in St. Louis):
"Affirmative Culture Reconsidered"
Rembert Hüser (University of Minnesota):
"Looking Good with Kafka"
Moderator: Laura Kagel (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

3:45 p.m. – Coffee Break –

4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion on Transnational Literature/Transnational Studies
Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
Dilek Güngör (Berlin, Germany)
Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Moderator: David Roberts (History)

5:30 p.m. – Short Break –

6:00 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion (at Ciné Art House Movie Theater)
Andreas Dresen’s Sommer vorm Balkon [Summer in Berlin, 2005]
Discussion with Filmmaker Andreas Dresen (Berlin, Germany)
Moderator: Christine Haase (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

9:00 p.m. Reception at the CinéLab following the film screening.