GSA 2014 Seminar - Art, War, and Trauma

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Thomas O. Haakenson

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Jan 12, 2014, 4:16:22 PM1/12/14

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Dear German Visual Culture Enthusiast,

As you may know, Deb Ascher Barnstone and I have decided, in our roles as co-coordiantors of the German Studies Association's (GSA) Visual Culture Network (VCN), to facilitate a seminar -- rather than organize a series of panels -- at this fall's GSA conference in Kansas City.

The focus of our seminar is "Art, War, and Trauma." As you may already anticipate, Deb and I intend to publish select essays from the "Art, War, and Trauma" seminar in Peter Lang's German Visual Culture book series.

Registration for the seminar must occur by 30 January, per the GSA note -- and additional information -- below. Please consider enrolling in the "Art, War, and Trauma" seminar for the GSA's 2014 conference.

We very much look forward to working with you on what promises to be a stellar visual culture project.

Best wishes

Tom & Deb

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Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM
Subject: GSA 2014 Seminars Open for Applications
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Dear members and friends of the German Studies Association,

The 38th GSA Conference in Kansas City (September 18-21, 2014) will again host a series of seminars in addition to its regular conference sessions and roundtables.

Seminars meet for all three days of the conference during the first morning slot to foster extended discussion, rigorous intellectual exchange, and intensified networking. They are led by 2 to 4 conveners and will consist of either 12 to 15 or 16 to 20 participants, at least some of whom should be graduate students. In order to reach the goal of extended discussion, seminar organizers and participants are expected to participate in all three installments of the seminar.

The following seminars have been selected and approved for enrollment at the 2014 GSA Conference (to access full and detailed descriptions of the content and format of all approved seminars click this link https://www.thegsa.org/conference/documents/GSA_Seminars_2014.pdf):

1.      After Critique: Models of Thinking and Writing Beyond the School of Suspicion
2.      Aesthetischer Eigensinn | Aesthetic Obstinacy
3.      German-Jewish Literature after 1945: Working Through and Beyond the Holocaust
4.      Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future
5.      Art, War, and Trauma
6.      Germany-Poland: Webs of Conflict and Reconciliation
7.      Black German Studies Then and Now
8.      Cosmopolitan Spaces, Cosmopolitan Exchanges, and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Contemporary German- Language Literature, Film, and Media
9.      Theories of/on Sexual Pathology from 1800 to the Present
10.   New Direction in Pop-, Sub-, and Lowbrow Cultural Studies
11.   The Future of Teaching the Holocaust in German Studies, History, and Comparative Literature in the U.S.
12.   Religion in Germany in the Twentieth Century: Paradigm Shifts and Changing Methodologies
13.   Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Swiss Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt
14.   Berlin in the Cold War – The Cold War in Berlin
15.   On War Trauma and Its Consequences in the Twentieth Century
16.   Film in the German Language, Literature, and Culture Curriculum
17.   Rethinking Migration and German Culture
18.   Conversion in the Eighteenth Century: Narrative, Spirituality, Aesthetics
19.   Liebe-Sex-Krieg
20.   Staging Globalization: Theory and Application
21.   Shift: Culture, Society, and Change
22.   German Community -- German Nationality? Perceptions of Belonging in the Baltics
23.   Teaching Fascist Culture

If you wish to participate in a seminar, please visit the GSA Website (www.thegsa.org) and enroll electronically under “membership services>conference proposals.”

Participation in a seminar involves intellectual work akin to preparing a paper and will thus count as such. All seminar participants will be listed by name in the program. If you are accepted to be an active participant in a seminar, you may not give a paper in panel sessions. However, you may moderate or comment on a panel.

Some individuals may choose to be a silent auditor to a seminar. Slots for auditors are limited; the enrollment process for interested auditors will only take place after the entire GSA program is set.

Applications for enrollment are due by January 30, 2014. We will inform applicants by February 6, 2014, whether they have been accepted or not. Please do not send your applications directly to the seminar organizers.

Sincerely yours,

David E. Barclay, Executive Director of the GSA
Lutz Koepnick, Chair of the GSA Seminar Program Committee

Please direct all inquiries directly to the GSA Seminar Program Committee:

Lutz Koepnick, Chair (Vanderbilt University) | lutz.k...@vanderbilt.edu
Elisabeth Herrmann (University of Alberta) | elisabeth...@ualberta.ca
Emre Sencer (Knox College) | ese...@knox.edu

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