Conference Schedule

All conference events will take place in Minor Hall, Room 125.


Schedule for Friday, February 28, 2014

Opening Remarks: 5:00 pm, followed by a reception

Keynote Speaker: Professor Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth University

Irene Kacandes is The Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 1991 and taught at the University of Texas, Austin, before going to Dartmouth in 1994. Specializing in narrative theory and 20th-century cultural studies, she has published on topics ranging from orality and literacy, feminist linguistics, the Holocaust, and German prose to experimental life writing.



Schedule for Saturday, March 1, 2014

9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast

Panel I: Narrative Strategies and Memory - Repetition in Literature and Thought 
Moderator: Robert Stone

9:30 - 9:55
Stephanie Galasso (Brown): The Acropolis and After: The Emergence, Doubling, and Haunting of Memory in Freud's Erinnerungsstörung auf der Akropolis


9:55 - 10:20
Rebekah Slodounik (Virginia): The Figure of Imposture in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand


10:20 - 10:45
Maeve Hooper (Chicago): Going in Circles: Structural  Repetition in Stifter’s Bergkristall

10:45 - 10:55
Break

Panel II: Re-appearances - Repetition of Art and Objects
Moderator: Ani Tramblian

10:55 - 11:20
Beatrice Waegner (Virginia):Inside a Blossom lies the Truth. Original and Recreation in Stefan Zweig’s The Buried Candelabrum.

11:20 - 11:45
Matthew Anderson (Texas): Beautifully Blonde or Enchantingly Ugly: John Bauer’s Visual Narrative in the Illustrated Volumes of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), 1912-1915

11:45 - 12:15
Geraldine Suter (Virginia): “Down into that Dark Abyss”: Mirroring (Im)Mortality in Mörike’s “Erinna an Sappho”

12:15 - 1:15
Lunch

Panel III: The Beat Goes on - Repetition in Film and Music
 Moderator: Dilara Serhat

1:15 - 1:40
Kevin Boix (Virginia): Subversive Suburbia and Seidl's Hundstage

1:40 - 2:05
Victor Szabo (Virginia): Loops after the End of History

2:05 - 2:30
Anne von Petersdorff (Michigan State): Establishing Polyphony Through Repetition: Rethinking Tourism-Migration Categories through Lisl Ponger’s Passagen

2:35 - 2:55 Coffee Break

Panel IV: Scientific Advancements through Repetition - Repetition in 
the Physical World 
Moderator: Dylan Goldblatt

2:55 - 3:25
Harry Caufield: Let’s Do Some Networking: Interactomics across domains of life

3:25 - 3:50
Chris Nichols (Virginia): Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

3:50 - 4:00
Break

Panel V: Borrowing and Subverting - Repetition in/from Cultures and Institutions 
Moderator: Chuck Taggart

4:00-4:25
Dylan Goldblatt (Virginia): Rosa’s Misdiagnosis: Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Speech Acts in Kafka’s “A Country Doctor”

4:25 - 4:50
Karsten Forbrig (Uni. Nantes): « Es gibt eben abermals : noch einmal : nur das Theater » Recycling und covering in den Theatertexten Werner Schwabs

4:50 - 5:20
Philipp Sugg (Chicago): Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder die Entsagende: The Repetition of Religious Themes in Search of an Expanded Frame

5:20 - 5:30 Closing Remarks

6:45 Dinner