GSA Conference 2012 - Commentators / Moderators Needed
Thomas O. Haakenson
We coordinators of the Visual Culture Network will be submitting five exceptional panels for inclusion in the German Studies Association conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from October 4-7, 2012. But we are still in need of a few individuals interested in acting as moderators and / or commentators. Here's where you come in!
Please review the panels, below, and send both of us a note indicating your interest. We will also need your active GSA membership number. We need these materials no later than Monday, February 13th. We'll seek to accommodate those individuals who respond first to our request.
Once the GSA has completed its conference program, we'll be sure to once again alert the VCN listserv with panel dates, times, and locations. So stay tuned for more!
Best wishes,
Tom & Deb, Co-Coordinators
Visual Culture Network, German Studies Association
Deborah Ascher Barnstone: das...@acm.wsu.edu
Thomas O. Haakenson: thaak...@mcad.edu
German Studies Association Convention 2012
Visual Culture Network
Proposed Panels
Panel A: Political Sites of Spectacle
Moderator: Gwyneth Cliver
Commentary:
• Alys X. George, “Staging Socialism: The 1931 International Workers’ Olympics in Vienna”
• Paul Dobryden, “Vor den Toren der Stadtillusion”: Berlin’s Lunapark in the Weimar Feuilleton”
• Megan Mastroianni, “Documenta: Spectacle and Post-War Identity in West Germany”
Panel B: Spectacle and Racial Politics
Moderator: Thomas O. Haakenson
Commentary:
• Vasuki Shanmuganatha, “Children, Postcards and Colonial Images, 1890-1930s”
• Willeke Hannah Sandler,” “Pith helmets do not make colonial pioneers”: Colonial Spectacle and Colonial Kitsch in the Third Reich”
• Heather Mathews, “Beyond the Global Spectacle: Documenta 13 and Multicultural Germany”
Panel C: Aesthetics of Spectacle
Moderator:
Commentary: Thomas O. Haakenson
• Michael Andre, “The Intimate Spectacle of Weimar Classicism: Goethe, Schiller, and Meyer on Hector’s Abschied”
• Michael Berkowitz, “"A New Approach to 'Spectacle': Erich Salomon, His Cohort, and the Origins of Photojournalism, 1918-1945”
• Maria Makela, “"The Spectacle of the 'Sex Glands' in Weimar Germany" or "Eugen Steinach's Spectacular 'Sex Glands”
• Elizabeth Otto, “Spectacle at the Bauhaus”
Panel D: Instruments of Spectacle
Moderator: Gwyneth Cliver
Commentary:
• Peters Mersereau, “Military Spectacle, Popular Sentiment, and Early German Film, 1900-1918”
• Sara A. Sewell, “Spectacle and Discipline in Weimar Communism”
• Paul (Monty) Paret, “Berlin im Licht (1928): Mass Culture, Modernism and the Aesthetics of Despair.”
• Kerstin Steitz, “Mengele in the Glass Booth: Roland Suso Richter’s Holocaust Trial Spectacle Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)”
Panel E: Spectacles of Propaganda
Moderator:
Commentary:
• David Ciarolo, “Advertising, Propaganda, and the Roots of Fascism in German Visual Culture” (title tbd)
• Janina Fuge, “A Spectacle for the Constitution: The City of Hamburg’s Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of Germany's Constitution in 1929”
• Erika Briesacher, “Festwoche: The Parameters of Nordische Woche 1938”
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