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Women in German Yearbook 19 (2002)

Contributions are invited for Women in German Yearbook 19. The editors
are interested in feminist approaches to all aspects of German
literary, cultural, and language studies, including pedagogy, as well
as topics that involve the study of gender in different contexts: for
example, work on colonialism and postcolonial theory, performance and
performance theory, film and film theory, or on the contemporary
cultural and political scene in German-speaking countries.

The deadline for receipt of manuscripts is January 15, 2003; early
submission is strongly encouraged. Please prepare your manuscript for
anonymous review. The editors prefer that manuscripts not exceed 25
pages (typed, double-spaced), including notes. Please follow the fifth
edition (1999) of the MLA Handbook (separate notes from works cited).
While the Yearbook accepts manuscripts for anonymous review in either
English or German, binding commitment to publish will be contingent on
submission of a final manuscript in English.

Please send one paper copy of the manuscript (no e-mailed attachments,
please) to the editors:

Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
Professor of German and Women’s Studies
Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-9034
Fax: 612-624-8297
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and
Marjorie Gelus
Department of Foreign Languages
California State University
Sacramento, CA 95819-6087
Phone: 916-278-6509
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Women in German 2003
October 16-19, Carrollton, KY

Thursday Night Session: How Interdisciplinary Are We? How
Interdisciplinary Do We Want to Be?

Recent work by WiG members has often been at the forefront of the trend
toward increasingly interdisciplinary approaches in North American
German Departments. WiG as an organization, however, continues to draw
its membership primarily from departments of German literary and
cultural studies, fields whose disciplinary methods often remain more
familiar. We seek short, perhaps polemical, papers that might address
some of the following questions:

- Where and how should WiG position itself in the inter/disciplinary
field and the debates on the future of Germanistik?

- Should the organization continue to draw members primarily from
literary and cultural studies departments or should an attempt be made
to recruit feminist German Studies scholars from other disciplines?

- What might be the advantages and disadvantages of a possibly radical
change in the constituency of the organization?

- If room were made for papers by scholars from other fields would
there be fewer slots for papers by those in literary or cultural
studies?

- What disciplinary fields might be integrated into WiG?

- Would scholars from other fields even want to come to the WiG
conference?

Please send one-page abstracts by March 15, 2003 to all three
organizers:
Claudia Breger
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and
Sara Lennox
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and
Bethany Wiggin
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Poster Session: Open Topic

The organizers of the WiG Poster Session welcome proposals for the 2003
WiG conference. The poster session gives researchers the opportunity to
conceptualize their current research or academic life as a
student/teacher/scholar/feminist in visual form. We would especially
welcome proposals in the category of 3-D art or interactive posters.
Multimedia presentations will also be considered. Proposals should
include a brief abstract describing the project and a detailed
description of the poster’s layout and materials. Posters from past
sessions have dealt with such topics as literature, film, balancing a
career in academia with a family, and motherhood in academe.

Submit your proposals electronically to all three organizers by March
15, 2003:

Denise Della Rossa
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and
Lynn Kutch
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and
Rachel Freudenburg
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General Sessions

Pre-20th-Century Panel: “Amazons and Other Oddites”

This panel invites papers which deal with the treatment of Amazons and
other female “oddities,” broadly defined (hermaphrodites, witches,
etc.), in pre-20th-century German literature and culture. What is the
function of their representation? In what ways are they shocking,
provocative, transgressive, subversive, and why? And to whom? What
tools of feminist analysis are useful in the examination of such
figures? These are some of the questions we hope will be addressed in
this panel.

Please send 1-2-page abstracts by e-mail to each of the panel
organizers by March 15, 2003.

Marjorie Gelus
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and
Nicole Grewling
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Gender and Pop in Contemporary German Culture

For this panel, we seek papers that examine the intersection of gender
and the popular in contemporary German-speaking countries. We are
particularly interested in feminist theorizations of the role of pop in
recent literature, music, and film. Papers might address the works of
the “Pop-Fraktion,” the media phenomenon of the so-called
“Fräuleinwunder,” or other constellations of the popular as it has
emerged in the German-speaking public sphere today.

Please send abstracts (electronic submissions preferred) of 200 words
or less by March 15, 2003 to all three organizers:

Hester Baer
Modern Languages
University of Oklahoma
780 Van Vleet Oval, KH 206
Norman, OK 73019-2032
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and
Veronika Fuechtner
Dartmouth College
German Studies
Hanover, NH 03755
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and
Amy Young
Women’s Studies Program
1209 Oldfather Hall
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0341
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Women in the Fortress Europe: Feminist Critiques of Globalization

In the last decade, sociologists, political scientists, and social
geographers have been at the forefront of shaping a descriptive and
critical discourses of globalization, without, for the most part,
exploring the gendered dimension of this process. How does a
transnational context change what we do, namely study German culture?
In what ways does global capitalism transform local and national gender
systems? How can feminism contribute to a critique of globalization?
More specifically, what critical strategies can we glean from German
feminisms? Interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged.

Please send one-page abstracts by e-mail to all three organizers (paste-
in message preferred) by March 15, 2003:

Katrin Sieg
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and
Jill Suzanne Smith
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and
Monika Moyrer
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Queer/Feminist Encounters

We invite papers that examine the relationship between feminist and
queer discourses which can be literary, cinematic, theoretical or
social/political. Possible topics might include a comparison between
Germany and the U.S., the relationship between theory and cultural
production or the inclusion or exclusion of lesbian/bi-sexual women in
German Studies within the academy.

Electronic submissions welcome (MS Word attachments only please).
Deadline for abstracts is March 15, 2003. Presentations must not exceed
20 minutes. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and should be sent to
both of the session organizers below:

Dinah Dodds
Lewis and Clark College
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Box 30
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
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and
Virginia Cooper
University of Massachusetts
German Department
518 Herter Hall
Amherst, MA 01002
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Pedagogy Panel: “Teaching for Change: Challenging Discrimination in
the Classroom”

After 30 years of knowing that gender, “race,” class, and sexuality
biases affect our teaching and learning, what new approaches have we
developed in the 21st century? Does our teaching incorporate our
convictions as feminists? We call for papers addressing the multiple
dimensions of bias and discrimination: teaching materials, the baggage
students and teachers bring, campus culture, and society at large. We
welcome proposals ranging from first-year German to graduate level
dealing with theoretical and/or pedagogical issues, but focusing on
application in the classroom.

Panelists will give a five minute presentation followed by a 45 minute
interactive workshop. Materials will be posted on the WiG website
before the conference. Proposals should include a description of the
planned activity as well as the intended outcome.

Please e-mail proposals by March 15, 2003 to all three organizers:

Liesl Allingham
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and
Jeanette Clausen
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and
Marion Gerlind
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Modern Language Association 2003
December 27-30, San Diego, CA

Non-native Writing in German: Interlinguality, Interculturality,
Globalization
Session sponsored by the Coalition of Women in German

In reunified, multicultural Germany, contemporary writers, artists and
filmmakers reflect in their work a growing concern about the role of
its minority populations. In this context, some of the most innovative
and experimental modes of representation come from non-native women
artists. This panel wants to explore strategies of reading and
understanding the moods, voices, or memories presented in works that
deal with an existence between languages, cultures, borders, or
ethnicities. Contributions could address how voices from
Central/Eastern Europe, Japan, Africa, etc. contribute to texts and
research on Turkish-German intercultural dialogues; how the German
language is used to represent memories outside a German history; how
this writing and art relates to other interlingual or intercultural
literatures; how this work contributes to a new world literature; or
how specific theoretical frame works could be relevant for
understanding this writing.

E-mail attachment preferred. Panelists must be MLA members and are
expected to send their 15-20 minute papers to both organizers by
December 1, 2003. Please send abstracts (about 300 words) to both
organizers by March 15, 2003:

Erika Berroth
Department of Modern Languages
AH 227
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 45001
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Fax: 507 389 5887
and
Dagmar Voith-Leeman
Lerchenstrasse 4
CH-4059 Basel
Switzerland
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Fax: 41 61 361 70 83


Feminism and Terrorism
Session sponsored by the Coalition of Women in German

We invite papers that address terrorism from a feminist perspective.
How does gender figure into a rhetoric of terrorist violence and war?
How is it occluded or instrumentalized? Papers might be historical
(e.g., examine female German terrorists or media perceptions of
feminist militance in the 1970s and 1980s), contemporary (studying the
long-germ effects of „internal security” and „homeland protection”
issues vis-à-vis civil rights), or comparative (German vs. U.S.). The
topic is open to a variety of disciplinary approaches, including
literature/culture studies, political theory, sociology.

Please send one-page abstracts by e-mail to both organizers (paste-in
message preferred) by March 15, 2003:

Katrin Sieg
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and
Jennifer Hosek
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German Studies Association 2003
September 18-21, New Orleans, LA

Governing the Body: 20th Century Legislation on Abortion and Sexual
Reproduction
Session sponsored by the Coalition of Women in German

2003 is the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Legislation concerning
the female body has a long, international history of controversy.
Crucial moments of this history in Germany range from Friedrich Wolf’s
provocative play on abortion, “Cyankali,” and his subsequent 1931 trial
with his physician colleague Else Jacobowitz to changes in abortion law
in the new German States after reunification to contemporary debates on
stem cell research and fertilization technology. We invite papers that
explore this history of legislation on abortion and sexual reproduction
as well as its intersection with literature and film. We encourage
proposals from all relevant disciplines.

Please e-mail proposals (no attachments please) to both panel
organizers by January 15, 2003:

Veronika Fuechtner
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and
Jennifer Hosek
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AATG-ACTFL 2004
November 18-21, Chicago, IL

Creative Writing in the German Language Classroom
Session sponsored by the Coalition of Women in German

We are inviting proposals for papers that address the role of creative
writing in the German language classroom. This panel is interested in
both theoretical approaches to and practical applications of creative
writing at all levels and across the entire spectrum of the
undergraduate German curriculum (elementary, intermediate, and advanced
language, literature, culture, and business courses). We welcome papers
that address any aspect of this topic, but are are especially
interested in papers that address the role of creative writing in the
context of feminst pedagogical approaches. Paper topics may include,
but are not restricted to the following questions:

- How do creative writing assignments enhance a variety of language
learner skills at different stages and contexts of learning, such as
their linguistic ability, inter/cultural competence, and analytical
skills? What are their limitations?

- How can creative writing assignments bridge the much deplored content-
form gap and integrate both ideas and language? How can learners’
analytical skills be developed in conjunction with the prevalent model
of personalizing topics?

- What role does creative writing play in teaching literary genres
(poetry, drama, prose) and discursive functions (describing, narrating,
reporting, debating, persuading, etc.)?

- What particular teaching and learning strategies does creative
writing call for at different levels in the German curriculum in more
or less student-centered classrooms? What role does instructional
technology play in creative writing? What assessment models need to be
developed?

- Feminist pedagogies are especially interested in questioning power
structures and knowledges, in consciousness-raising and politicizing
the personal, as well as in student-centered or student-driven
learning. How can creative writing speak, for example, to one of
feminist pedagogy’s primary goals of developing critical thinking in
the elementary, intermediate, and advanced classroom? How do creative
writing assignments empower students to situate themselves within their
changing individual and global communities?

Please send paper proposals in the form of one-page abstracts by March
15, 2003 to both panel organizers:

Beth Muellner
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and
Barbara Drescher
Dept. of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. S.E.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-2080
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