The Germanic Studies Graduate Program at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies presents
Friday-February 27, 2015
DALI KLIBADZE (1-1:40PM)
Wir alle leben in Plagiaten: Das Phänomen der Reproduktion bei Max Frisch
CAROLINA FRANZEN (1:50-2:30PM)
A Narrative in Historical Action-between Mass Murder and Everyday Life: Conceptualizing Antique Adventure
ANJA NOWAK (2.40-3:20PM)
Spatial Configurations of the Concentration Camp: Confinement
MELANIE KAGE (3.30-4:10PM)
Wiehern, schnattern, krächezen, gackern: A CLAS-Approach to Literary Animal Voices
KATHRIN KÖHLER (4:20-5:00PM)
Legitimate Literary Account or Revisionist Tendencies? Analysis of Broken Taboos in Bernhard Schlink’s “Der Vorleser,” Martin Walse’s “Tod eines Kritikers” and Günter Grass’s “Im Krebsgang”
Friday-March 6, 2015
STEPHANIE DREIER (1-1:40PM)
Fighting Intolerance: Xenophobia in Fantasy Fiction
LAURA ISAKOV (1:50-2:30PM)
Epistolary Encounters in Charlottes Schiller’s “Wallberg”
TIM HÖLLERING (2:40-3:20PM)
Carnivalesque Extraterritoriality in the Ethno-Comedy of Bülent Ceylan
ROWAN MELLING (3:30-4:10PM)
Dissociative Resistance: The Lives and Writings of Hans Fallada and Isabelle Eberhardt
REBECCA REED (4:20-5:00PM)
Abjection or Agency? The Narrativization of Women’s Victimization and Agency in German Film (1992 to 2008)