Program

Mapping Narratives: Excursions in Limbo

Conference Program

 

Friday, December 1, 2006 (Sherwood Room in Levering Hall)

 

3 pm:  Introductory Remarks by Ellwood Wiggins

 

3:15-5:15 Mapping Space and Time (Moderator: Rüdiger Campe)

 

Panelists:

 

Jan Völker (Free University Berlin), ‘Dismapping Life: a Moment of the Other in Goethe’s Wahlvervandschaften’

 

Barbara Hui (UCLA), ‘Digital Topographies: Mapping W.G. Sebald’s Nodal Narratives’

 

Simone Marx (Princeton University), ‘Constellating “Amorbach”: Proper Names and (E)Utopias in Adorno’s Late Writings’

 

John Bova (Villanova), ‘The Topological Timaeus’

 

5:15-5:30 Coffee Break

 

5:45 Keynote Lecture:  John Zilcosky, University of Toronto

 

‘Uncanny Encounters: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity’

           

8:00 pm Reception at the Hamacher Haus (311 E. University Parkway)

 

 

 

Saturday, December 2, 2006 (Sherwood Room in Levering Hall)

 

9-9:30 Continental Breakfast

 

9:30-11:30 Place: Ideology and Identity (Moderator: Katrin Pahl)

 

Panelists:

 

Anna E. Baker (University of Virginia), ‘Die Harzreise: Map of a Fragmental Society’

 

Arndt Niebisch (Johns Hopkins University), ‘Narrative Closure with a Global Spin: On Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days’

 

Daniel Kollig (University of Virginia), ‘The Nibelungenlied: Structures of Tribal Conflicts’

 

Caroline Domenghino (Johns Hopkins University), ‘Geography in John Dos Passos’ U.S.A.’

 

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

 

11:45-1:00 Space and the Rhetoric of Cinema (Moderator: Joshua Gold)

 

Panelists:

Johannes Schade (University of Hamburg), ‘Impossible Space and its Meaning in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia’

 

Almut Weitze (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Terrorist Destruction of Space and Time’

 

1:00-2:30 Lunch

 

2:30-4:00 Space and the Self (Moderator: Rochelle Tobias)

 

Panelists:

Matt Belcher (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Walking around the Lobby: Internal Flânerie in Benjamin and Krakauer’

 

Sofie Decock (Ghent University), ‘Landscape depiction in Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travel Writing’

 

Kristan Werner (University of Virginia), ‘Guide in the Darkness: Melanie in Malina’

 

 

4-4:15 Coffee Break

 

4:15 Closing Remarks by Anne Flannery

 

4:30-6:30 Keynote Lecture: Tom Conley, Harvard University

 

‘The Topographic Impulse in Early Modern French Writing, 1530-1590’

 

 

7:30 pm Reception at 309 Ilchester Ave