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From:   Astrid Weigert <[log in to unmask]>

"Time - Space - Gender":
German Women Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries"

Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
May 9-11, 2003

Preliminary program

Friday, May 9, 2003:
(White Gravenor 201)

3 p.m.: Welcome: Dean McAuliffe (invited); Chair
3:30 - 4:30: Travelling Women I:
Session Chair and Commentator: Friederike Eigler, Georgetown U.

Helga Schutte Watt, University of Denver
"Leaving Home for Alternative Domesticities in Sophie von La Roche's
Fiction"

Monika Fischer, Hunter College, CUNY, NY
"Women Travelers in the 19th Century: Cultural Mediators or Reinforcers
of Imperialist Thought?"

Break

4:45-6:00: Travelling Women II:

Traci O'Brien, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY
"A Daughter of the Occident" Traveling to the Orient: A Pre-Colonial
Reading of Ida von Hahn-Hahn's Gräfin Faustine and Orientalische
Briefe"

Ulrike Brisson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Space-Time-Authority: Ida von Hahn-Hahn's Orientalische Briefe"

Dinner to follow


Saturday, May 10, 2003
Riggs Library, Healy Bldg, 2nd Floor

8: 30 a.m.-9 a.m.: catered breakfast

9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. :  Concepts of Nationality
Session Chair and Commentator: Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University

Maya Gerig, UNC, Chapel Hill
"Schriftstellerinnen und politische Reformen: Marianne Ehrmanns
Auseinandersetzung mit Staat und Gesetz"

Jonathan Skolnik, University of Maryland
"In the Name of the (M)Other: History, Gender and Nation in Benedikte
Naubert's Joseph Mendez Pinto.

Elisabeth Krimmer, Mt. Holyoke College
"Transgressing/Trans-Dressing: Trojan Horses in Caroline Paulus's
Wilhelm Dumont."

10:45 - 11 a.m: coffee break

11 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.:  Women (Re)Writing History
Session Chair and Commentator: Susanne Kord, Georgetown University

Peter Pfeiffer, Georgetown University
"Renaissance Redux: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's 'Künstlernovelle'
Agave"

Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa
"Bilder aus westfälischer Vergangenheit: Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs
Die Schlacht am Loener Bruch 1623"

Sabine Sievern, University of Alberta, Edomonton, Canada
"Ein Wesen, das nicht Mann, nicht Weib": Christiana von Schweden als
Regentin und Frau in Elisabeth von Berges gleichnamigem historischem
Trauerspiel"

12:15 - 1 p.m.: catered lunch

afternoon free for sightseeing

evening: possible joint theater event


Sunday, May 11, 2003
(Riggs Library, Healy Bldg, 2nd Floor

8:30 - 9 a.m.: catered breakfast

9 a.m. - 10:45:  Carving out New Literary Spaces: Women's (Self-)
Representation as Writers, Translators, and Imaginers
Session Chair and Commentator: Denise Mae DellaRossa, University of
Notre Dame

Catherine Grimm, Independent Scholar
"'Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee': The Meaning and Function
of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim's Die Günderode"

Ruth Whittle, Birmingham University, Great Britain
"The Significance of Self-representation in the Correspondence of
Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903) and Fanny
Lewald (1811-1889)"

Andrew Piper, Columbia University
"Soundscapes: Scenes of Overhearing in the Works of German Women
Translators in the Early Nineteenth Century"

10:45 - 11 a.m. : coffee break

11 a.m. - 12:15:  Age
Session Chair and Commentator: Mark Lauer, Georgetown University

Anke Gilleir, University of Leuven, Belgium
"Gendered Age. A Comparison between Therese Huber's Eine Frau von
vierzig Jahren (1800), Goethe's Ein Mann von fünfzig Jahren (1818-27)
and Charlotte von Ahlefeld's Eine Frau von vierzig Jahren"(1829)."

Lanlan Xu, Georgetown University
"Können wir werden, was wir waren? Über die Kindheitsvorstellung in
Ludwig Tiecks "Der blonde Eckbert" und Dorothea Schlegels Florentin."

Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University
"Childhood as Poetological Metaphor in Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin."

12:15- 1 p.m.: catered lunch with concluding discussion


Dr. Astrid Weigert
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of German
ICC 464
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
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