12th Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies 2023
Organizers: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger - Lafayette College
Prof. Axel Hildebrandt - Moravian University
SESSION I
8:30-9:25 AM
Moderator: Prof. Dennis Johannßen - Lafayette College
Mia Trani (Lafayette College) “The Eyes of the Collective: Dismantling the Idea of ‘Heimat’”
Alex Rank (University of Illinois at Chicago) “German Housing Policy after 1990: Looking to the Past to Help Look to the Future”
Silas McClung (University of the South: Sewanee) “Lessons From Post-Soviet Union Berlin: Monuments, Memorials, and Narratives Fueling President Putin’s Unjust Invasion of Ukraine”
SESSION II
9:25-10:20 AM
Moderator: Prof. Liesl Allingham - University of the South: Sewanee
Rebecca Cole (University of the South: Sewanee) A Comparative Analysis of Dialogic Memorials in Berlin: The Rape of German Women in Wartime and Postwar Germany and Addressing Scholarly Hesitancies
Nicholas Bailey (University of the South: Sewanee) The Monument as the Modern Nation-State’s Reification of State Consciousness. A Comparison between the Siegessäule and Washington Monument
Harrison Quinn (Bucknell University) Die Bauern: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen von Gettysburg
SESSION III
10:20-11:15 AM
Moderator: Prof. Viktoria Pötzl - Grinnell College
Andrew Thompson (Grinnell College) Jugenderwachen im Roten Wien: Eine historische Studie der Arbeiterjugendbewegungen in der Wiener Zwischenkriegszeit
Rachel Houts (Hillsdale College) “Münchhausen: die Wahrheit übers Lügen and the Intersection of Falsehood with Reality”
Shannon Scott (University of Florida) “‘I am not guilty’: The Einsmann-Müller Case in 1930s and 2020s Media”
SESSION IV
11:15-11:55 AM
Moderator: Prof. Nora Vosburg - St. Olaf College
Matt Oberlander (St. Olaf College) “Language as a crucial element in the differentiation between ‘us’ and ‘others’: The development of script style in Switzerland”
Christian Zeitvogel (Western Michigan University) „In Übersetzung verloren: Eine Diskussion über Übersetzungspädagogik in Bezug auf persönliche Erfahrungen bei der Übersetzung des Stadtmuseums Erlangen”
12:00-12:45 PM
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Karolin Machtans - Connecticut College
"Representing the Asylum Process in Contemporary German Literature and Film"
SESSION V
12:45-1:40 PM
Moderator: Prof. Imke Meyer - University of Illinois - Chicago
Jonathan Hogan (Lawrence University) “Transformation or Stagnation? German National Memory and the Humboldt Forum”
Eva Monahan (University of the South: Sewanee) “The Berlin Florists; Remembering Both Sides of the Wall”
Megan Mysliwiec (University of Illinois at Chicago) “Memory Culture and Repression in Germany”
SESSION VI
1:40-2:35 PM
Moderator: Prof. Vera Stegmann - Lehigh University
Brian Nicholas Utzat (Moravian University) “The Impact of COVID-19 Policies in Germany and the United States”
Alicia Wyatt (Transylvania University) “An In-Depth Analysis of the Differences between the FSK and the MPAA and Their Influences”
SESSION VII
2:35-3:30 PM
Moderator: Prof. Sebastian Heiduschke - Oregon State University
Samantha Allman (Skidmore College) “‘Prinzesschen’ von Marie von Olfers: Kunstmärchen von Frauen und ihre Übersetzung”
Emily Trujillo (Rutgers University) “Unchrist: Inversion & Religion in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung”
Mary F. Rajendran (Oregon State University) “Die ‘Heimwehnovelle’ von Stefan Zweig”
SESSION VIII
3:30-4:25 PM
Moderator: Prof. Fred Yaniga - Hillsdale College
Isaac Green (Hillsdale College) “Kohlhaas and the Play-drive”
Thea Applebaum Licht (University of Chicago) “Punctuated Equilibrium and the Hopeful Monster: The Influence of Continental Evolutionary Thought on Stephen Jay Gould’s Challenge to the Modern Synthesis”
Charlie Scott (Rutgers University) “Enframing and Catastrophe: Ge-stell in Contemporary Chinese Science-Fiction”
SESSION IX
4:25-5:20 PM
Moderator: Prof. Didem Uca - Emory University
Theodora Hadley (Grinnell College) “Summer Fashion Execution”: Reading Malina and Listening to Schoenberg”
Mabel Htay (Emory University) “Die zerstörende Natur der Schaffung: Männliche Künstler und ihre versachlichten Frauenfiguren”
Abigail Jacobs (Butler University) “Die Krankheiten der Gesellschaft: Kapitalismus, Faschismus, Patriarchat und Nora”