Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art

3/7/2008 - 3/9/2008

Varies: Refer to program

Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art 16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference University of California, Berkeley

Friday, March 7 5:00 - 6:00 Reception German Library, 5337 Dwinelle Hall (Level E)

6:00 - 8:00 Film Screening - B-4 Dwinelle Hall (Level A) Peter Zadek's “Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame” (1968)

Saturday, March 8 - 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F) 8:00 - 8:30 am Coffee and Pastries

8:30 - 8:45 Introductory Remarks Priscilla Layne and Melissa Etzler

Panel I: REVOLUTION AND FAILURE
8:45 - 9:10 Thomas Brady, University of California, Berkeley 1525 and All That: The German Peasants' War in Modern Memory
9:10 - 9:35 Dayton Henderson, University of California, Berkeley Exploring the Importance of a Failed Revolution: Alfred Döblin's Karl und Rosa
9:35 - 10:00 Matthias Buschmeier, Universität Bielefeld When Revolutionists become too German - Suicidal Neoclassicism in Wilhelm Speyer's Drama Der Revolutionär (1918) and Revolutionary Rigidity in Brecht's Die Maßnahme (1930/31)

10:00 - 10:20 Break

Panel II: RHETORIC AND REVOLUTION
10:20-10:45 Jeffrey High, California State University, Long Beach Schiller's Declarations of Independence
10:45-11:10 Christoph Kleinschmidt, Macalester College Rhetorik der Revolte. Zur Rolle des Manifests in Naturalismus, Expressionismus und Dadaismus

11:10- 11:30 Break

Panel III: VIOLENCE AND ANARCHY
11:30-11:55 Molly Loberg, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Looting in Weimar Berlin: Acts of Desperation, Crime or Politics?
11:55-12:20 Seth Howes, University of Michigan Skinhead and Stasi: The GDR Neo-Nazi Problematic and Impossible Rebellions

12:20-1:35 Lunch

Panel IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1:35- 2:00 John Alexander Williams, Bradley University The Body Demands Its Rights: Socialist Nudism in the Weimar Republic
2:00 - 2:25 Michael Schuering, University of California, Berkeley Years of Fear: The Church, the Bomb, and Nuclear Energy in West Germany

2:25 - 2:45 Break

Panel V: GENDERED REBELLION
2:45-3:10 Martin Blawid, Università degli Studi di Cagliari Rebell mit eiserner Hand. Rebellion und hegemoniale Männlichkeit in Goethes Götz von Berlichingen
3:10 - 3:35 Julie Koser, University of Maryland Rebellious Bodies: The Human Form as the Site of Social and Political Conflict in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist

3:35 - 3:55 Break

4:00 - 5:00 Keynote: Andreas Gailus "Language Unmoored: Signs and Revolution in Kleist's 'The Betrothal in St. Domingue' "

5:00 - 7:15 Dinner Reception

Sunday, March 9 - 370 Dwinelle (Level F)

9:20 - 9:50 am Coffee and Pastries

Panel VI: STUDENT MOVEMENTS AND THE LEGACY OF '68
10:00 - 10:25 Martin Klimke, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt: The Transatlantic Protest Networks of '1968' and their Historical Legacy
10:25 - 10:50 Patricia Melzer, Temple University Rebellion from the Inside: (State) Power and the Body as Locus of (Feminist) Political Subjectivity in the RAF Hunger Strikes
10:50 - 11:15 Elliot Neaman, University of San Francisco, California Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in the Rhetoric of 1968; a Perspective Forty Years Later
11:15 - 11:40 Elliot Neaman and Hajo Funke, Freie Universität Berlin “Mein 1968”

11:40-12:25 Roundtable discussion

12:25-12:30 Closing Remarks
Sponsored by: Department of German, DAAD, Goethe Institute, San Francisco, Graduate Assembly, Doreen B. Townsend Center, Department of Comparative Literature