The Forty-First Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, October 5-8, 2017, will bring together over one thousand scholars in the areas of German history, literature, culture, and politics. Presentations range over the period between the Middle Ages and the present.

Faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures will be participating in the event. This list appears below. For more information on the conference, see the website, https://www.thegsa.org/conference/current.html.

U-M Faculty/Graduate Students presenting at German Studies Association 2017

NAME

ROLE

TITLE

Kathleen Canning

LUNCHEON SPEAKER

States of Exception and Sensibilities of Democracy in 20th-Century Germany

Damani Partridge

SEMINAR CONVENER

(Post)Migrant Theater: Now and Then

Peter McIsaac

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Critical 10th-Century Visual Cultural Studies

Emily Gauld

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Not Enough Notes: Exploring the Intersections of Music, History, and Cultural Studies

Andreas Gailus

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Philosophy in Literature, Literature as Philosophy

Maya Barzilai

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Mary Hennessy

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Sights and Sounds: Mediating the Senses in German-Speaking Europe

Tyler Whitney

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

Sight and Sounds: Mediating the Senses in German-Speaking Europe

Helmut Puff

SEMINAR PARTICIPANT

The Future of the Past: New Approaches to Germanic Studies before 1750

Silke-Maria Weineck

SEMINAR CONVENER

The Tragic Today

Ramona Uritescu-Lombard

SESSION SPEAKER

Deconstructing the West in the East: Herta Müller’s Zwischen-Deutsch

Geoff Eley

COMMENTATOR

Intersections of Ideologies within the Radical Right

Domenic DeSocio

SESSION SPEAKER

“Ich glaube an diese Welt”: Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz and Queer Historicity

Johanna Folland

SESSION SPEAKER

Origin Stories: East German and African Scientists and the Cold War Politics of AIDS Research

David Spreen

SESSION SPEAKER

“Es lebe der bewaffnete Befreiungskampf der Völker des südlichen Afrikas”: West German Maoists and the Zimbabwean War of Liberation, 1975-1980

Claire Zimmerman

SESSION SPEAKER

“Building to Meet Any Contingency”: Mobile Architecture in the World Wars

Emma Thomas

SESSION SPEAKER

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of a Colonial Catastrophe

Kathryn Holihan

SESSION SPEAKER

The Dirt on “Hygiene City”: Dresden and the Traveling Hygiene Exhibition

Helmut Puff

MODERATOR

Protestant Reformations and their Fictional Counterparts in Works by Kleist, Schebest, and Keller

Geoff Eley

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANT

Author Meets Critics: Nina Berman’s Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance

Kathleen Canning

COMMENTATOR

Cultures of Resistance to Political Oppression (2):  Weaponizing the Past

Alice Goff

MODERATOR

German Art in the Time of Reformation

Elizabeth Nijdam

MODERATOR

The German Graphic Novel (3): Language and Form