Questions of travel have captured the imagination for centuries and become the focal point of critical analysis across numerous disciplines. Representations of displacement, immigration, exile, border crossing are common metaphors in German-speaking literature and culture. The narratives of travel also reveal the desire to understand and experience new cultures and places, to explore and expand the domain of nations, to seek religious fulfillment, to pursue educational opportunities. Travel writing produces and constructs how we see the world. This conference seeks to explore representations of travel, the figurative movement through spaces and the multiple formations of identities in German literature and culture.
The aim of this conference is a critical approach to the relationship between the imaginary constructions of spaces and representation of the experience of mobility. Drawing from literary and visual culture criticism, history, linguistics, anthropology, cultural and political geography, the conference seeks to explore travel in all these different modalities.
Schedule
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-8:45am Welcoming Remarks
8:45-9:30 Dr. Aron Aji, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
9:30-10:00 Naciye Tasdelen, University of Iowa
10:00-10:10 Panel Discussion
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Dr. Albrecht Classen, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
11:00-11:15 Introduction to Travel 1600-1900
11:15-11:35 Agnes Cser, University of Arizona
11:35-11:55 Charly Mostert, University of Arizona
11:55-12:15pm Regina Schmid, University of Edinburgh
12:15-12:25 Panel Discussion
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Dr. Barbara Kosta, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
2:00-2:15 Introduction to Travel 1900-Present
2:15-2:35 Anu Pande, The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad
2:35-2:55 Daniella Dora, Ghent University
2:55-3:15 Carolin Ratke and Kerry Marnell, University of Arizona
3:15-3:35 Kristin Lange, University of Arizona
3:35-3:45 Panel Discussion
3:45-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-4:15 Closing Remarks
5pm Film
7pm Reception
