WEISMAN ART MUSEUM
5:00pm - 6:00pm Conference Registration
6:00pm – 7.00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Alice Kuzniar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Facing Shame
Moderator: Alison Karijolich (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
7.00pm - 9:00pm Reception
8:00am - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am PANEL 1 FUNFACTOR - FEARFACTOR
Sean Nye (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Overdose: German Techno Between Deafness and Intoxication
Chris Kamerbeek (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Parks and Wreck: Anxiety and Amusement at Turn-of-the-Century Coney Island
Moderator: Thomas Haakenson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm PANEL 2 WRITING DANGER
Kai Artur Diers (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Danger and Form in Arno Schmidt’s Leviathan and Reinhold Jirgl’s Die Unvollendeten
Bianca Schroeder (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Danger and the Creative Process in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann
Dana Weber (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Bluebeard in the GDR: Manfred Bieler’s Novel Maria Morzeck oder Das Kaninchen bin ich (1969)
Moderator: Brechtje Beuker (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:30pm PANEL 3 DEBTS, GIFTS, AND DISRUPTION
Wade Haynes (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
The Magistrate’s Dangerous Gift: Returning Debt in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History
Xenia Cherkaev (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
To Get Out: Derrida’s Gift, Bataille’s Expenditure and Self-Destruction
Moderator: Mirko Hall (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm SEEKING DANGER
Matthew Kresling (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Documentary Film: The Russia Journals
Moderator: Carrie Collenberg (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
4:30pm – 7:00pm Break
7:00pm – 9:00pm Dinner (Kafé 421)
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
WALTER LIBRARY 402
9:00am - 10:00am Breakfast
10:00am - 11:00am PANEL 4 CONFRONTING FOREIGNERS
Nicole Grewling (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Danger From Abroad—The Evil Indian in Friedrich Pajeken’s Youth Literature as Indication of Colonial Crisis
Helena Karlsson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
The Dangerous Immigrant: The Immigrant as Provocateur
Moderator: Constantin Parvulescu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
11:00am - 11:30am Coffee Break
11:30am - 12:30pm PANEL 5 DEVIANT WOMEN
Nancy Richardson (Washington University, St. Louis)
The Original “Desperate Housewife:” Confronting the Image of the Female Poisoner in Clara Viebig’s Absolvo Te (1907)
Julie Koser (University of California, Berkeley)
Dangerous Women and Male Fear in the German Press during the French Revolution
Moderator: Alison Guenther-Pal (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm PANEL 6 TERROR
Carrie Collenberg (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Jesse James and the Red Army Faction
Dr. Annette Vowinckel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Danger and the Fear of Flying: Some Remarks on Plane Crashes, Skyjacking and a Modern Paradox
Almut Weitze (Trinity College, Dublin)
The Shocking Screen and Certain Uncertainty
Moderator: Anne Wallen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
3:30pm – 5:00pm Break
5:00pm – 7:00pm FILM: Oak Street Cinema
Christoph Schlingensief
Terror 2000
Moderator: Brechtje Beuker (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
7:30pm - After-Party