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------- Forwarded message follows ------- 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 e-mail: [log in to unmask]