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"Der neue Mensch": 2010 BTWH Conference

4/1/2010 - 4/3/2010

370 Dwinelle Hall

The New Man / Der neue Mensch 2010 Conference of the BTWH International Working Group on the Emergence of German Modernity

Presentations and discussion in English and German

Thursday, April 1

370 Dwinelle Hall

Film Screening 5-6pm Films by Hans Richter, Fernand Léger, Viking Eggeling, and Leni Riefenstahl

Keynote Presentations 6-7pm Siegfried Mattl (Vienna), “Der ‘Neue Mensch’ und die aktive Passivität bei Otto Neurath” Klaus Müller-Richter (Tübingen), “Ingenieur - Neuer Körper - Neue Zeichen: Zur Semiotik in G”

Friday, April 2

370 Dwinelle Hall

Panel 1: G for Gestaltung 10-11:30am Erik Born (Berkeley), “Music by and for Machines” Paul Dobryden (Berkeley), “Designed Movement: The Choreography of Experience in G” Ingo Zechner (Vienna), “Ökonomie des Überflusses - Der andere neue Mensch” Moderator: Michael Cowan (McGill)

Panel 2: New Visions 1-2:30pm Karin Fest (Vienna), “Im Vorraum der Bilder: Versuche das dezentralisierte Subjekt über das Auge zu erziehen.” Katrin Pilz (Vienna), “‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ und Fotografie im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit” Janet Janzen (McGill), “Abstracting Nature: Karl Blossfeldt\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s ‘Urformen der Kunst’ and the Other Nature” Moderator: Christoph Bareither (Tübingen)

Panel 3: The New Man and ‘das Rote Wien’ 3-4pm Birgit Nemec (Vienna), “Visuelle Gesundheitserziehung: Otto Neurath und die Biopolitik im ‘Roten Wien’” Rob McFarland (BYU), “Max Adler\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Neue Menschen: Gedanken über sozialistische Erziehung” Moderator: Mario Wimmer (Berkeley)

Saturday, April 3

370 Dwinelle Hall

Panel 4: Embodied Renewal in the Third Reich 10-11:30am Marie Yazdanpanah (Vienna), “Zum NS-Körperkult in Ausstellungen und ‘Kulturfilmen’” Seth Peabody (Harvard), “Riefenstahl\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Olympia: Lyrical Curves, Angular Rhythms and Problems of History” Joanna Wendel (Harvard), “Olympia and the Rhetoric of the Body” Moderator: Kurt Beals (Berkeley)

Panel 5: Decay and Emergence 1-2:30pm Zachary Dziedziak (Berkeley), “The Exigency of Decay” Joachim Schätz (Vienna), “Die ‘große Zahl’ und die ‘Einmaligkeit des Daseins’: Zur Notwendigkeit des Neuen Menschen in Rudolf Brunngrabers Karl und das 20. Jahrhundert” Nicholas Baer (Berkeley), “The New Jewish Man: Golem and Homunculus as Zionist Allegories” Moderator: Eric Savoth (Berkeley)

Roundtable Discussion and Review of ‘Der neue Mensch’ 3-4:30pm Moderator: Siegfried Mattl

With generous support from: The Department of German The Townsend Center for the Humanities The Institute for European Studies The Program in Film Studies The Graduate Film Working Group