Conference Office
Sitzungsraum des Dekanats / Conference Room of the Dean’s Office
Philosophicum
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Office Hours
Friday thru Saturday (June 1-2)
08:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Contact
E-mail: dgfa2012@uni-mainz.de
Fon: +49 6131 39-27201

Conference program

Please note:
Due to organizational changes the order of workshops during the conference does not correspond to the order of workshops sent out with the DGfA newsletter.
Please make sure to check back with our website for any changes in the overall schedule. A final version of the schedule will be announced, published online, and will of course be available during the conference.

 

FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, 31 May
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Business Meeting of Editors of
DGfA/GAAS Publications  		Fakultätssaal
(Philosophicum)
10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. DGfA/GAAS Board Meeting Fakultätssaal
(Philosophicum)
2:00 p.m. – ca. 3:30 pm. Guided City Tour of Mainz      For more information visit our website.
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Postgraduate Forum (PGF) –
Young Scholars Forum  		Seminarraum P108
(Philosophicum)
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Electronic Publishing and
Digital Scholarship Initiative 

Meeting point for this event is the Conference Office in the Philosophicum at 2:45 p.m. All latecomers are kindly asked to follow the signposts to the "Kleine Bibliothek."

Kleine Bibliothek
(Philosophicum)
3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Tagungsmappenausgabe Rechte Aula
(Alte Mensa)
5:00 p.m.

Conference Opening

Music: The Authentic Voices

* Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel,
President DGfA/GAAS

* Prof. Dr. Georg Krausch,
President Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

* Michael Ebling,
Mayor of the City of Mainz

* Philip D. Murphy, United States Ambassador to Germany

Award Ceremony

* United States Ambassador's Grant for Young Researchers in American Studies(presented by Ambassador Philip D. Murphy)

* Fulbright American Studies Award
(presented by Dr. Rolf Hoffmann)

* Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship
(presented by Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel)

Music: The Authentic Voices

* Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung, American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

* Prof. Dr. Sidonie Smith, U of Michigan:
"'America's Exhibit A': Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History and the Genres of Authenticity"

Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
Reception Rechte Aula
(Alte Mensa)
FRIDAY, 1 June
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Conference Office Sitzungsraum Dekanat
(Philosophicum)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Plenary Lecture
Thomas Bender: "Intellectual Biography
and the Matrix of Creativity" 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break Rechte Aula
(Alte Mensa)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture
Birgit Däwes: "'What happens when
the vanishing race doesn't vanish?'
Scenes of Native North American
Historio/Biography" 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

 

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Book Presentation (brown bag lecture)

Werner Sollers, Julia Faisst, Frank Kelleter

David Boder
Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt

Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. AK Teaching American Studies Restaurant Baron
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Postgraduate Forum (PGF) Restaurant Baron
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Workshop Series 1 Philosophicum

Workshop A
Faking It: The End of History and the
Rise of Memory, Identity, and Personality
Georgiana Banita (Bamberg) /
Andrew S. Gross (FU Berlin)

Workshop B
Mesmerizing America – From Missionaries
to 'Media Preachers'
John Andreas Fuchs (LMU München) /
Christine Gottstein-Strobl (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

Workshop C
The Female Gaze: Women Diarists and
Chroniclers of the American Civil War
Hans-Jürgen Grabbe / Julia Nitz
(Halle-Wittenberg)

Workshop D
Healing Self-Portraits? Representing Illness
in Poetry, Prose, and Film
Susanne Rohr (Hamburg) /
Miriam Strube (Paderborn)

Workshop E
The Emplacement of American Lives
Susanne Leikam (Regensburg) /
Sascha Pöhlmann (München)

Workshop F
Theories of American Autobiography /
Theorizing American Autobiography
Philipp Löffler (Heidelberg) /
Stefanie Schäfer (Jena)

Workshop G
Life Writing, Human Rights, and
the Humanities
Sabine N. Meyer / Peter Schneck (Osnabrück)

Coffee available

Seminarräume
(Philosophicum)
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Women's Caucus Seminarraum P7
(Philosophicum)
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Reading Siri Hustvedt
The Summer Without Men and an excerpt from her upcoming book
Please note: The reading is not open to the public. Only conference participants who have pre-registered online are eligible.
SATURDAY, 2 June
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Conference Office Sitzungsraum Dekanat
(Philosophicum)
8:15 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Research Grant Applications
at the German Research Foundation 		Fakultätssaal
(Philosophicum)
9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Plenary Lecture
Craig Howes: "Slow Lives – Micro-Traditions
in American Biography and Autobiography" 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break Rechte Aula
(Alte Mensa)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. DGfA Mitgliederversammlung /
GAAS Business Meeting 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Workshop Series 2 Philosophicum

Workshop H
Autobiographix: Autobiographic Life
Narratives in American Studies
Christina Meyer (Osnabrück) /
Martin Klepper (Berlin) /
Astrid Böger (Hamburg)

Workshop I
Multiracial Genealogies in American Life
Writing, Past and Present
Heike Paul / Cedric Essi (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Workshop J
Narratives of Self – Life Sciences and
Life Writing in the Biomedical Age
Karin Hoepker (Erlangen) /
Eva-S. Zehelein (Bonn)

Workshop K
Life Writing in the Digital Age
Heike Schäfer (FU Berlin / Mannheim) /
Regina Schober (Mannheim) /
Bettina Soller (Göttingen)

Workshop L
Religion and Life Writing in
Early North America
Oliver Scheiding (Mainz)

Workshop M
Exhibiting American Lives:
The Poetics and Politics of
(Re-)Presentation
Pia Wiegmink (Washington/Mainz) /
Andrea Zittlau (Rostock)

Workshop N
Postgraduate Forum (PGF)
Ottilie P. Klein / Daniel A. Holder /
Andreas Hübner (Gießen)

Coffee available

Seminarräume (Philosophicum)
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Online Forum Fakultätssaal
(Philosophicum)
7:30 p.m. Conference Dinner Restaurant
Proviant-Magazin
SUNDAY, 3 June
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Plenary Lecture
Siri Hustvedt: "First, Second, and Third
Person Adventures in Crossing Disciplines" 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Coffee break Rechte Aula
(Alte Mensa)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Concluding Panel Discussion

Life Sciences and Life Writing

Thomas Bender (New York U), Ralf Dahm (IMB Mainz), Birgit Däwes (JGU Mainz), Craig Howes (U of Hawai‘i), Siri Hustvedt, Norbert Paul (University Medical Center Mainz), and Sidonie Smith (U of Michigan) 		Linke Aula
(Alte Mensa)

 

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