Location: UC Berkeley Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

**March 13, 2004**

8:00 - 9:00        B R E A K F A S T

9:00 - 9:15         Introductory Remarks (Lee M. Roberts – UC Berkeley)

Panel I: Philosophical Views on the East

                        Moderator: Gabriel Trop (UC Berkeley)

  9:15 - 9:40         Tomislav Zelic (Columbia): “Habermas and His Balkans”

 9:40 - 10:05       Nicholas Martin (UniversityofSt. Andrews): “Inviting Barbarism: Nietzsche’s Will toRussia”

 10:05 - 10:30     Jeffrey Librett (LoyolaUniversity): “Friedrich Schelling’s Defense of  ‘Oriental’ Pantheism: From the Freiheitsschrift to the         Philosophie der Mythologie”

10:30 – 10:45     C O F F E E   B R E A K

Panel II: Eastern “Germanies”

Moderator: Sabrina Rahman (UC Berkeley)

10:45 – 11:10     Wendy Graham (IndianaUniversity): “Dis-membering and Re-membering the  GDR: Material Culture andEast Germany’s Self-Reflexive Memory in Zonenkinder and Good bye, Lenin!”

11:10 – 11:35     Michael Huffmaster (UC Berkeley): “Making New Enemies: Slavs Replace Turks in G.W. Pabst’s The Treasure”

11:35 – 12:00     Sarah Painitz (UniversityofVirginia): “Liegt Böhmen noch am Meer? Ingeborg Bachmann’s Landscapes as Utopian Constructs”

12:00-1:30         L U N C H

Panel III: Eastern Europe

Moderator: Sarah Bailey (UC Berkeley)

1:30 – 1:55        Marjanne E. Goozé (UniversityofGeorgia): “Counteracting Stereotypes: The CulturalMissionto the East (Halb-Asien) and Jewish Masculinity in the Works of Karl Emil Franzos”

1:55 – 2:20        Maria S. Grewe (Columbia): “Imagining the East: Minority Literature in Germany and Exoticist Discourses in Literary Criticism”

 

2:20 – 2:45        Anne Dwyer (UC Berkeley): “Kazabaika, Kantschuk, and Baschlyk: Ethnic and Geopolitical Scenarios in Leopold von Masoch’s Venus in Furs”

2:45 - 3:00         C O F F E E   B R E A K

Panel IV: The Near East & Nearby

Moderator: David Gramling (UC Berkeley)

3:00 - 3:25         Didem Ekici (UniversityofMichigan): “Expressionism, Orientalism,  Imperialism: Bruno Taut’s ‘House of Friendship’ Competition Proposal”

3:25 – 3:50        Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani (UC Berkeley): "Why Zarathustra?"

3:50 – 4:15        Sukanya Kulkarni (UPenn): “‘Crouching Tiger’, Hidden Desire: Exotic Danger in Thomas Mann’s Tod in Venedig and Waldemar Bonsels’ Indienfahrt”

6:00 – 8:00        C O N F E R E N C E   D I N N E R 

 

**March 14, 2004**

 

8:00 – 9:00        B R E A K F A S T

Panel V: The Far East

Moderator: Lee M. Roberts (UC Berkeley)

9:00 – 9:25        Richard Ascarate (UC Berkeley): “‘So that Asiacan become great”: The Representation of Eastern Cultures in Fritz Lang’s Die Spinnen”        

9:25 - 9:50         Francesca Draughon (Stanford): “The Orientalist Reflection: Temporality, Reality and Illusion in Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde”

9:50 – 10:15      Hoi-Eun Kim (Harvard): “German Physicians as ‘Ethnographers’ on Japanese Culture: Activities of German Physicians in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Tokyo, 1873-1914”

10:15 – 10:40     Silke Schade (UniversityofCincinnati): “Rewriting Identities, Bodies, and Borders: Yoko Tawada’s Opium für Ovid”

10:40 – 10:55     C O F F E E   B R E A K

Keynote Speaker

10:55 – 11:00    Introduction of Keynote Speaker

11:00 – 12:00     Reiko Tachibana (Penn State): “German-Japanese Literary Connections”

12:00 - 12:30     Roundtable Discussion 

This conference was made possible through generous support from The Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Institute of European Studies, and the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley.