17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference:

3/13/2009 - 3/15/2009

The Threat and Allure of the Magical

Friday, March 13th

5pm, Welcome Gathering, 5337 Dwinelle Hall

6pm-8pm, Film Screening: F.W. Murnau’s Faust, B4 Dwinelle Hall


Saturday, March 14th, 223 Moses Hall

8am-9am, Breakfast

9am-10am, Panel 1 – Medium of Discontinuity

        Marton Marko, University of Montana
        “Enchantments of Anachrony and Transposition.
        Magic, History and Motion in F. W. Murnau’s Faust”

        Jennifer Zahrt, UC Berkeley
        “Staging Early Modern Magic in Paul Wegener´s 1920 Golem”

10:15am-11:15am, Panel 2 – Automata and Magical Media

        Ulrike Kuechler, Brown University
        “The Magical Mechanical: Automata and the Fantastic in literature:
        E.T.A. Hoffmann´s Olimpia and Alfred de Musset´s Blandine”

        Christopher Chiasson, Indiana University
        “Magical Media: Mabuse and the Unknowable Other”

11:30pm-1:00pm, Panel 3 – Contentious Magic

        Peter Staudenmaier, Cornell University
        “The Nazi Campaign against Occultism”

        Katharina Rudolf, University of Maryland
        “Phantasien und Capriccios: Friedo Lampes Magischer Realismus”

        Mark Bell, Lake Erie College
        “The Problem/s with Prophecy in Thomas Mann´s
        Beim Propheten and Mario und der Zauberer”

1:00pm-2:30pm, Lunch

2:30pm-3:30pm, Panel 4 – Changing Epistemes?

        Brian Jones, UC Santa Barbara
        “Saint Ottilie: Medieval Magic for Modern Sensibilities”

        G. Anna Leeper, Washington University in St. Louis
        “Magic, Money and Family Ties in Melusine and Fortunatus”

3:45pm-5pm, Keynote Presentation

        Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University in St. Louis
        “Pursuing the Inside Other:
        Thinking the Witch in Seventeenth Century Print Media”

5:00pm-7:00pm, Dinner

7:00pm, Downtown Berkeley Outing


Sunday, March 15th, 223 Moses Hall

9am-10am, Breakfast

10am-11am, Panel 5 – Narrative Transgressions

        Jeanine Tuschling, University of Warwick
        “Snow White’s tainted love. Elfriede Jelineks Prinzessinnen und die
        kulturindustriellen Kalamitäten weiblicher Autorschaft”

        Jacob Haubenreich, UC Berkeley
        “The Narrative Collapse of Reality, and Grasping -- :
        the Magical in E.T.A. Hoffmann´s Councillor Krespel”

11:15am-12:15pm, Roundtable Discussion

Followed by Closing Remarks, Winfried Kudszus, UC Berkeley

For more information: http://german.berkeley.edu/germanconf/MagiePoster.jpg