Presenters

Keynote Speaker: Monika Shafi, University of Delaware
Elias Ahuja Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies
“A Living. Who does where what in order to survive": Work and Travel in Contemporary German Prose

Panel 1, Moderator Danielle Pisechko

Dilara Serhat, TU Dortmund: Crossing Boundaries - Carl Djerassi's Science-in-Fiction
Maximiliane Wagner, TU Dortmund: Travelling Classrooms – How New Media Affect Language Exchange

Panel 2, Moderator Robert Stone

Ani Tramblian, University of Virginia: Forced Migration: The Armenian Genocide
Tierre Sanford, University of Virginia:  Fantasy, Imagination, and Pilgrimage: Travel in Three of Vladimir Nabokov’s Short Stories
Nikita Mathias, University of Oslo/University of Tübingen: “The sea was absent completely” – Virtual Travel Media of the 19th Century between Immersion and Media Reflexivity

Panel 3, Moderator Frank Hall

Stephanie Lavorano, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen/International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture: „Reise[n] zum Vogel Simurgh“ –Das Motiv der Vögel in der deutschen ‚Migrationsliteratur‘
Max Lazar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The German Option: Motivations and First Encounters of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the FRG, 1990-1996
Katharina Breckensbauer, University of Tübingen: Narrating motion – Arno Schmidt’s writing about flight and expulsion

Panel 4, Moderator Maximilane Wagner

Frank Hall, University of Virginia: Süßkind von Trimberg: A Symbol of German Jewish Cultural Symbiosis
Geraldine Suter, University of Virginia:  "Refraction, Fragmentation and Zerrissenheit: Mending Powers of the (Red) Kite in Sarah Kirsch’s Der Milan