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20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in
Germanic Languages & Literatures at Yale University

“Collecting and Collections in German Literature”

Yale University March 5-6, 2009

Keynote speaker: Mara Wade, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

Thursday, March 5th

02:00-03:30 PM Yale Campus Tour (optional; starts at the Visitor Center, 149 Elm St)

04:00-05:00 PM Conference Registration (William Harkness Hall, Room 309)

05:20-05:30 PM Opening Remarks (Beinecke Room 38/39)

05:30-06:30 PM Keynote Address (Beinecke Room 38/39)

Mara R. Wade (Professor and Head, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign): “Early Modern to Postmodern: Emblematica as a Case Study for Collecting and Collections”

06:30-07:30 PM Reception (Beinecke Mezzanine)

Friday, March 6th

08:30-09:00 AM Breakfast (Beinecke Mezzanine)

09:00-10:25 AM Panel I (Beinecke Room 38/39)

  • Grace-Yvette Gemmell (Cornell University): “Hyperbole, Fragmentation and the Poetics of schouwen: Walther von der Vogelweide’s Mädchenlied
  • Bryn Savage (Yale University): “>>Homerus Deuschdt<<. Materiality & Simon Schaidenreißer’s Odüssea
  • Joachim Harst (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen & Baden-Württemberg Exchange Fellow at Yale University): “Collecting Words: J.G. Schottelius' (Ana)Grammatic Thesaurus”

Moderator: Jonas Karlsson, Yale University

10:25-10:35 AM Break

10:35-12:00 AM Panel II (Beinecke Room 38/39)

  • Johannes Kaminski (University of Oxford): “Zielhemmung. Fallgeschichten der Spätaufklärung und ihr erzählpragmatisches Erbe”
  • Matthias Meyer (University of Oxford): “Sammeln, Deuten und Lösen. Zur Poetik der Resultate in Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren
  • Emily Bruce (University of Minnesota): “Collecting as Exclusion in the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen

Moderator: Ansgar Mohnkern, Yale University

12:30-01:30 PM Lunch Roundtables (Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108)

01:30-02:30 PM Curator Talk (Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208)

Gunilla Eschenbach (MA & wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Literaturarchiv Marbach): “ Verlagsarchive im DLA. Sammlungspolitik und wissenschaftliche Verwertbarkeit am Beispiel des Rowohlt Verlags”

02:30-04:00 PM Panel III ( Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208)

  • Susanne Sara Fejer (Washington University in St. Louis): “ Nun, lieber F., noch immer bei Wege? Die Sammlung der Gedichte Theodor Fontanes”
  • Anatole Oudaille-Diethardt ( University of Oxford): “ Big Man, Small Figures. Freud’s Collection of Antiques as Mirrors of Man and Work”
  • Constanze Drumm (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt): “Die patriotische Parallelaktion: Ein Kanon österreichischer Literatur”

Moderator: Kristina Mendicino, Yale University

04:00-04:15 PM Coffee Break

04:15-05:45 PM Panel IV ( Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208)

  • Jonathan Voges ( Washington University in St. Louis): “ Magier der Dingwelt. Sammler und Sammlungen in der Moderne. Benjamin und Zweig”
  • Martin Modlinger (University of Cambridge): “Die Furcht vor dem Archiv. Sammelwut und Vergangenheitsobsession bei Sebald und Foer”
  • Jesko Bender (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main): “Mit der Bibliothek gegen die Bibliothek. Thomas Bernhards Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall

Moderator: Manuel Clemens, Yale University

05:45-06:00 PM Concluding Remarks ( Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208)

06:30-09:00 PM Farewell Dinner (Sammons’ Residence)

More information about original source material at Yale can be found on the Beinecke website, the Yale Library website, or by contacting Bryn Savage, Assistant to the Curator of German Literature.

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