GSA VCN 2011 Panels Announced

[Thomas O. Haakenson]

Visual Culture Network (VCN) Panels

VCN 2011 Theme: Representations of German Identity in Visual Culture

GSA Conference: September 22-25, 2011, in Louisville, Kentucky

(Numbers Indicate GSA Panel Listing; Panel Dates / Times Subject to Change By the GSA)

5. German Identity and Heimat (Friday, September 23rd - 8:30-10:15 a.m. - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Deborah Ascher Barnstone
• Commentary: Jonathan Osmond

• Erin Sassin, “Architecture and Extra-Urban Settlements (Siedlungen) in WWI”
• Elisabeth Cronin, “The Problem of German Identity in 1930s Austria and the Rise of Austrian Heimat Photography”
• Mareike Herrmann, “Fremde Heimat: The Domestic Home as Site of Homelessness  in Thomas Arslan’s Ferien (2007)”

30. Time and German Identity (Friday, September 23rd, 2011 - 10:30-12:15 am. - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Michel Andre
• Commentary: David Marshall

• Gabriella Szalay, “The Picture ‘which Master Stephan made’”
• Miriam Paeslack, “Through the Looking Glass: German Identity in Two Architecture Photography Series”
• Samuel Adams, “Cleaving German Identity in Wagner’s Ring”

59. Post-Wende German Identity (Friday, September 23rd, 2011 - 2:00-4:00 p.m. - Grandstand)

• Moderator:  Christina Schmid
• Commentary: Barbara McCloskey

• Lynn Kutch, ““Keine Frage der Herkunft: An Analysis of the German Government’s Visual Multicultural Campaign”
• Erin Hanas, “Raus mit der Sprache. Rein ins Leben: The Exposed Tongue”
• Kathrin Bower, “Who am I? Who are You?: Ethnicity and Mimicry in the Comedy of Kaya Yanar, Bülent Ceylan and Murat Topal”

87. Painting and German Identity (Friday, September 23rd, 2011 - 4:15-6:15 - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Maria Makela
• Commentary: Thomas O. Haakenson

• Barbara McCloskey, “George Grosz’s Self-Portraits, 1937-1945”
• Sharon Jordan, “’Your Educators can be only your Liberators’: Ernst L. Kirchner and the Importance of Nietzsche, 1914-1917”
• April A. Eisman, “Rewriting the East German Past: The Contemporary Reception of Bernhard Heisig and Neo Rauch”

114. German Identity Beyond the Third Reich (Saturday, September 24th, 2011 - 8:30-10:15 a.m. - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Kathrin Bower
• Commentary: Christina Schmid

• Kristine Nielsen, “How ‘Meaningless” is Art Research of the Third Reich?”
• Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, “Identity Carved in Stone: Iconography on Town Halls after 1945”
• Bradley Boovy, “Images of the Ideal Male Body and the Emergence of West German Gay Identity in the 1950s”

143. German Identity Beyond the Cold War (Saturday, September 24th, 2011 - 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Deborah Ascher Barnstone
• Commentary: Marion Deschmukh

• David Marshall, “Reconstructing German Identity in the East German Museum of German History”
• Wendy Westphal, Good Bye, DDR!:  Where East German Material Culture meets Film”
• Gwyneth Cliver, “Representing the ’geteilte geme1insame Erinnerung’:  The Musealization of Halle-Neustadt”

279. German Identity and the Warrior (Sunday, September 25th, 2011 - 1:30-3:15 p.m. - Grandstand)

• Moderator: Maria Makela
• Commentary: David Choberka

• Jonathan Osmond, “Fantasies from the armory: Germany as warrior in art since the Romantics”
• Robert C. Kunath, “German Art and the Spirit of 1914: Identity, Modernism, and the Problem of War Art”
• Brian Crim, “’Where the Iron Crosses Grow’: Cinematic Portrayals of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front”
• Mattias Harbeck, “Visualizing Germany and the Germans in American Mainstream Comics since World War II”

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Thomas O. Haakenson, PhD
Chair and Associate Professor

Liberal Arts Department
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2501 Stevens Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.  55404

Email: thaak...@mcad.edu
Telephone: 651.894.2894
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