RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.
A three-day interdisciplinary conference
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 25-27, 2007
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, October 25
7.00 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sarah Lennox (University of Massachusetts-Amherst): “Reading
Transnationally: The German Democratic Republic and Black Writers”
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Friday, October 26
9:00am – 10:30am POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH MODERNISM
Laura Silverberg (Columbia University): “Is Dissonant Music Dissident
Music? – SED Advocates of Western Modernism.”
Ulrike Goeschen (Independent Scholar, Berlin): “From Socialist Realism to
Art in Socialism: The Reception of Modernism as an Instigating Force in
the Development of Art in the GDR”
April Eisman (Iowa State University): “Art in the Crucible: Bernhard
Heisig and the Hotel ‘Germany’ Murals”
Sigrid Hofer (Kunstgeschichtliches Insitut, Philipps-Universität
Marburg): “Art beyond Socialistic Realism. The Development of Alternative
Paintings in Dresden after World War II”
11:00am – 12:30pm ART AMONG US
Kristine Nielsen (University of Chicago): “Do ut des: The Value of the
Thälmann Monument in Berlin”
Andrea Bohlman (Harvard University): “‘Vielleicht befreit uns Aktion…’:
Music and Political Ideals in Leipzig, 1989”
Jakob Norberg (Princeton University): “Dictatorship and the Everyday”
1:30pm – 4:00pm MUSIC HISTORIOGRAPHY PANEL DISCUSSION
“Rethinking theoretical approaches of writing music history”
Participants:
Matthias Tischer (Harvard University)
Nina Noeske (Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover)
Günter Mayer (Emeritus, Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
8:00pm LITERARY READING
Utz Rachowski
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
9:00am – 10:00am IDENTITY AND THE PAST: CHALLENGING OFFICIAL
HISTORIES
Catherine Wilkins (Tulane University): “Re-presenting the Heroic
Landscape: East German Appropriations and Adaptations as a Vehicle for
Social Critique”
Brian Campbell (Simon Fraser University): “Heimat and Historical
Preservation in the GDR”
10:30am – 12:00pm POST WENDE EXHIBITIONS AND EVALUATIONS OF GDR ART
Jonathan Osmond (Cardiff University): “Reflections on the ‘Bilderstreit’:
The Visual Art of the GDR and Eastern Germany from Socialist Realism to
the New Leipzig School”
Silke Wagler (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden): “Dealings with Art
from the GDR: Experience from History and the Work of the Kunstfonds,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden”
Justinian Jampol (Wende Museum, Los Angeles): “The Wende Museum”
1:30pm – 4:00pm LASTING LEGACIES: GDR ARTISTIC CULTURE
Moderator: Wolfgang Müller (German, Dickinson College)
Joy Haslam Calico (Vanderbilt University): “Regieoper or Eurotrash? – The
Legacy of GDR Theater Directors on the Opera Stage”
Heather Mathews (Pacific Lutheran University): “Was Bleibt? – The
Resonance of GDR Art in New German Painting”
Teodora Atanasova (Georgetown University): “A Contemporary Critic – Heiner
Müller and his Germania Tod in Berlin”
4:30pm
Closing Remarks
8:00pm CONCERT
1941: Messiaen and Eisler
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All events are open to the public and attendance is free. For further
details see the conference website:
http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/music/newsinfo/events/gdr.htm
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