• Markus Stock, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, U of T, Walter Stechel, German Consulate General

  • Stefan Soldovieri, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, U of T

  • Walter Stechel, German Consulate General

  • Anna Stainton, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, U of T

  • Stephen Rupp, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, U of T

  • Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin

  • Symposium 2014

7th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium

Spectres of the Other Germany: 25 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
April 11-12, 2014.
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, 208 North Wing, University of Toronto

Organized by Stefan Soldovieri

Sponsored by
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
CERES / Munk School of Global Affairs
Faculty of Arts & Science

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Friday, 11 April

9:00-9:30 Words of Welcome
  • Professor Stephen Rupp, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, U of T
  • Walter Stechel, German Consulate General
  • Professor Markus Stock, Dept. of Germanic Langs. and Literatures, U of T
9:30-12:00 Panel I: From the Local to the Global: Shifting Frames on East German Cinema
  • Professor Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, USA
    Breaking the Boundaries: Remapping DEFA in a Global Context
  • Professor Jennifer Hosek, Queens University, Canada
    Post-socialist Germany in a Para-socialist Cuba: Visions of the GDR along a South-North Axis
  • Anna Stainton, University of Toronto
    From History to Heroism: DEFA’s Ernst Thählmann Films
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Session II: Loss and Literature
  • Prof. Julia Hell, U Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
    Re-Inventing GDR Literature: Uwe Tellkamp’s Stories from a Vanished Country
  • Prof. Anke Pinkert, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA
    Mending a Present in Peril: Memories of 1989 and its Aftermath
2:30-3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:45 Session III: Film Legacies

Screening & Discussion: Professor Mamlock (Konrad Wolf, 1961) [premiere of new release] Media Commons Theatre, Robarts Library

6:15 Reception

Munk School of Global Affairs, South House, Campbell Lounge

Saturday, 12 April 2014

9:30 – 12:00 Session IV: Relocating Urban Spaces
  • Dr. Bettina Stoetzer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, USA
    Re-Wilding the East: Transforming Landscapes in Brandenburg
  • Eli Rubin, University of Western Michigan
    Amnesiopolis: Memory, Space, and Socialism in East Germany
  • Professor Gabrielle Mueller, York University, Canada
    Memories of the Niche Society: Cinematic Representations of Private Spaces in the GDR
12:00-1:30 Lunch and Final Plenary Discussion