Manifestations
of (Im)Mobility...
14th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the German and Dutch Graduate
Student Association
Pyle Center, Room 325/326
702 Langdon Street
Friday March 2, 2012
3:00-3:30 Registration
... in Linguistics (Moderator: Kristin Speth)
3:30-4:00 The Life Journey of an "Old Language Island" Dialect: How Long Will It Be?
Jana Martin
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
4:00-4:30 Did
Afroasiatic Play a Role in the Development of
Germanic?
Michael St. Clair
Department of German, University of California, Berkley
4:30-5:00 From Sir William Jones to Otto Jespersen, and Beyond: Language Ideology and Linguistic Complexity in Models of Language Change
Joshua Bousquette
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
5:00-5:30 Break (Refreshments and Continued Registration)
5:30-7:30 Keynote Address
Migration, Indigenization, and Language
Formation
Professor of Germanic Languages, Professor of Linguistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8:00 Conference Dinner (Speakers, Moderators, & Hosts)
Saturday March 3, 2012
... in Notions of Gender (Moderator: Sarah Reed)
9:30-10:00 "Moving Right Along" while Defying Domesticity: Homeless Mothering in Clara Viebig's Barbara Holzer
Kirsten E. Kumpf-Baele
Department of German, University of Iowa
10:00-10:30 "Insecurity on the path [...] has recently increased because of the natives": Imagined Geographies of Virtue and Violation in the Post-World War I Occupied Rhineland
John Boonstra
Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
10:30-11:00 Break (Refreshments)
... in Philosophy (Moderator: Joel Kaipainen)
11:00-11:30 Movable Systems of
Representation: From Letter to Pixel
Alexander Scholz
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Department of German, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bonn
11:30-12:00 Neighborhood and Worldhood: Heidegger and Human Scale
B. Robert Gingerich
Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
12:00-1:30 Lunch
... in Notions of East and West (Moderator: Eric Lindsay)
1:30-2:00 From in Transit to a Sense of Belonging
Christina Butler and Martina Schwalm
Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
2:00-2:30 Post-War Mass Migration, Social Mobility and Professional Qualification
in the SBZ/GDR:
The Movement of Writing Workers as a Contribution to an Educated Nation
Bill Waltz
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2:30-3:00 The (Im)Mobility of Concepts: German Imaginations of East and West
Karolina May-Chu
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
3:00-3:30 Break (Refreshments)
... in Literature (Moderator: Ben Parrot )
3:30-4:00 Die poetologische Bedeutung des Spaziergangs in
Peter Waterhouses (Krieg und Welt)/ The Poetological
Significance of the Walk in Peter Waterhouse's (Krieg und Welt)
Mirjam Berg
Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
4:00-4:30 Migration and Multilingualism around 1900: Oskar Panizza's
Operated Jew
Joela Zeller
Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
4:30-5:00 Closing Remarks
8:00-10:30 Conference Reception (All Conference Attendees)
Cover Image Courtesy of Aliza Rand, alizarand.com
This conference was made possible by generous support from:
Department of German, University of Wisconsin–Madison
UW Lectures Committee
UW Anonymous Fund
Center for German and European Studies
The Center for European Studies
DAAD North America: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service
Call for Papers 2012 (PDF)