| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, April 19, 2013 | 9:00AM - 1:30PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
| Saturday, April 20, 2013 | 9:00AM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
6th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 2013
Munk School for Global Affairs, 208 North Wing, 1 Devonshire Place, University Toronto
9:00 – 9:30 WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
John Zilcosky, Chair of German, University of Toronto
Meric Gertler, Professor of Geography, Dean of Arts & Science, University of Toronto
Sabine Sparwasser, Consul General, German Consulate Toronto
Angelica Fenner, Associate Professor of German & Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
Uli Linke, Professor of Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology
9:30 – 11:00 PANEL 1: GEOGRAPHIES OF IN/VISIBILITY
Moderator: Stefan Soldovieri, Associate Professor of German, University of Toronto
The “Unheimlich”: Geographies of Race and Nation at the Edges of Berlin
Bettina Stoetzer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Moving Mountains: The Diasporic Optic and Archives of the West in Alpi
Vasuki Shanmuganathan, Doctoral Candidate in German & Women & Gender Studies, University of Toronto
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 PANEL 2: MING WONG’S REENACTMENTS
Moderator: Kass Banning, Lecturer, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Screening of Angst Essen (Eat Fear, Ming Wong, 2008, 28 Min.)
Blackface Reloaded: Restaging Fassbinder’s Fear Eats The Soul
Katrin Sieg, Professor of German, Georgetown University
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 19, 2013
Media Commons Theatre, 3rd Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street
1:45 – 3:15 PANEL 3: IDENTIFICATION AND ATTACHMENT IN THE BLACK DIASPORA
Moderator: Yasmin Aly, Doctoral Candidate in German, University of Toronto
Why Images Move Us
Tina Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Director, African Studies Program, Barnard College/Columbia University
Occupying African-American Bodies and Reconfiguring European Spaces:
Possibilities For Non-Citizen Articulations In Berlin And Beyond
Damani Patridge, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology & African Studies, University of Michigan
3:30 – 5:45 SCREENING: The Education of Auma Obama (Branwen Okpako, 2011, 80 min.)
Moderator: Angelica Fenner, Assoc. Prof of German & Cinema Studies, Univ. Of Toronto
Respondents: Marième Lo, Asst. Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Univ. Of Toronto
and Pablo Idahosa, Professor of International Development Studies, York University
6:00 – Reception
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 2013
Munk School for Global Affairs, 208 North Wing, 1 Devonshire Place, University Toronto
9:00 – 10:30 PANEL 4: PERFORMATIVITIES OF RACE, GENDER, & ETHNICITY
Moderator: Anna Stainton, Doctoral Candidate in German, University of Toronto
Hardboiled Performance: Re/Mediations of Turkish-German Identity in the Tatort Series
Claudia Breger, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Indiana University
Voice, Accent, Authenticity: Female Labor in Contemporary German-Language Films
Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of German & English, University of Florida
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 PANEL 5: REPRESENTATIONAL CLAIMS: ART, RITUAL, RIGHTS
Moderator: Stefana Gargova, Doctoral Candidate in German, University of Toronto
The Indianerfilm Revisited: Ulrich Weiss’s Blauvogel (1979)
Reinhild Steingroever, Associate Professor of German, University of Rochester
Art, Politics, and Diversity at dOCUMENTA
Barbara Wolbert, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch Break
1:15 – 2:00 Wrap-up Session
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