Friday, September 20, 2019 - Levis Faculty Center Room 2101:30 – 2:00 p.m. Welcome Coffee and Opening Remarks
Elena Delgado, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Hilger, Head, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurie Johnson, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Archive
“Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrožić und Deniz Utl's Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten"
Claudia Breger, Columbia University
“Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser”
Gizem Arslan, Southern Methodist University
Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois-Chicago
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Memoir
“Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen’s Travel Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August – 2 September 1939)”
Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs”
Veronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College
Moderator: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University
Saturday, September 21, 2019 - Levis Faculty Center Room 210
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Pastries and Coffee
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Displacement
“Viennese Holocaust Refugees, American Humanitarians and the Midwest”
Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University
"The Exile Author Hermann Broch on Germany During the 1940s"
Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University-St. Louis
Moderator: Christiane Eydt-Beebe, Eastern Illinois University
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Snacks
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dialectic
"Addresses of Our Last Homes: Refugees and Hyperlinked Literary Histories"
B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Return of the Prodigal Galician Sons: An Austro-Jewish Dialectic"
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois-Chicago
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Closing Discussion and End of Conference
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Board of the American Friends of Marbach, Levis Faculty Center Room 208