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Panels Organized: 2007-2008
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  • MLA 2007: Post-Allied Austria
  • MLA 2007:Transnational and Intercultural Aspects of Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture
  • MLA 2008: Musil

Panels Organized: 2005-2006

CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 MLA Convention in Washington, D.C.


The MODERN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION (MALCA), an Allied Organization of the MLA, is seeking proposals for the following two sessions, to be held at the 2005 MLA Convention in Washington, D.C.:
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  • Elfriede Jelinek. Critical treatments of any aspect of Elfriede Jelinekıs oĤuvre. Abstracts by March 15, 2005 to Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu).

  • Austrian Film. Papers treating any aspect of Austrian cinema. Abstracts by March 15, 2005 to Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu).

PAMLA 2005: Program Copy

Panel:
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture

Presiding Officer: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College.

  1. A Botched Death for a Botched Life? The Execution Scene in Kafkaıs Der Prozeß. Simona Moti, University of California, Irvine. 20 minutes.
    The paper examines the final hours of Kafkaıs protagonist in terms of an established protocol of execution from early modern penal history, as recorded by Richard van Dülmen in "Theater des Schreckens" and Richard Evans in "Rituals of Retribution." This protocol involved a ritualistic sequence of events, most of which are carefully featured in Josef K.ıs execution scene.
  2. Traklıs "schöne Leich." Laura A. McLary, University of Portland. 20 minutes.
    Georg Traklıs poetry, obsessed with death and decay, was entirely typical of the culture of early twentieth-century Austria-Hungary, which celebrated and aestheticized death. His suicide in 1914 presented his admiring readers with a much-desired object of adoration and contemplation: his dead body. Members of the Innsbruck-based Brenner circle focused their attention on resurrecting Traklıs corpse for reinterrment in Innsbruck, creating an extended version of the Austrian 'schöne Leich'," and defining the focus of the literary magazine until its end in 1954.
  3. Angst and the Automobile: The Disorientation of the Pedestrian in Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Heidi Tilghman, University of Washington. 20 minutes.
    Brief Description: The street--with its horseless carriages, electric streetcars, racing coaches, bicycles, and oblivious pedestrians--is the locus of modern Angst in Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. It demonstrates the threat that the new century poses to the 19th-century city. The paper explores the structural and psychological roles played by the street in the novel and links it as well to the novel's more fundamental explorations of the physical universe (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and personal identity.

CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference

November 11-13, 2005
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
(MALCA is an affiliate of PAMLA)


Session on Modern Austrian Literature and Culture

Proposals on any aspect of Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are welcome and should be sent to

Imke Meyer
Dept. of German
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610-526-5381
ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu

Proposals should be sent by March 30, 2005.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call For Papers
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Fifty-Ninth Annual Convention

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
October 20-22, 2005

(MALCA is an affiliate of RMMLA)



Paper proposals are due to session chairs by March 1, 2005.
Chair for this yearıs MALCA session is:

John Antosh, SUNY-Fredonia, Dept. of Modern Languages, Fredonia, NY 14063
vasas@a-znet.com; 716-673-3832

All topics on Austrian Studies are welcome.

For more information about RMMLA, visit their website:
http://www.rmmla.org/


Panels Organized: To 2005
MLA 2004, Philadelphia

Wednesday, 29 December
551. Family Ties: Representations of Family in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
3:30­4:45 p.m., Anthony, Loews
Program arranged by the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
Presiding: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr Coll.

  1. "Submissive Masters: The Role of the Maidservant in Sacher-Masochıs Masochism," Christine R. Rinne, Dartmouth Coll.
  2. "Dysfunctional Families in the Work of Veza Canetti," Ruth Kluger, Univ. of California, Irvine
  3. "Erich Friedıs Radical Paternalism," Karin Bauer, McGill Univ.

Thursday, 30 December
770. Grillparzer in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Drama
1:45­3:00 p.m., Anthony, Loews
Program arranged by the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
Presiding: Clifford Albrecht Bernd, Univ. of California, Davis

  1. "Grillparzerıs Jewish Characters in the Context of the Nineteenth Century," Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
  2. "Gender and Colonialism in Grillparzerıs Medea Trilogy Das goldene Vlies," Christian Rogowski, Amherst Coll.
  3. "Grillparzer als Dramatiker des 'Frührealismus' zwischen Kleist und Büchner," Robert Pichl, Univ. of Vienna
  • Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference
    German Studies Association
    Washington, D.C.

    105. Roundtable: Publishing in Austrian Studies
    Saturday, October 9, 2004
    2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Salon H

    • Moderator: Lonnie Johnson, Fulbright Commission, Vienna
    • Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
    • Gary Cohen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    • Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University
    • Charles Ingrao, Purdue University
    • Anton Pelinka, Universität Innsbruck
    • Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
    Annual Conference
    November 5-7, 2004
    Reed College, Portland, Oregon

    MALCA Panel I
    Presiding Officer: Wolfgang Nehring, UCLA

    1. Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington.
      "Gotische Eskapaden: Zur ?sthetik der Transgression in Grillparzers Ahnfrau."
      (triest@u.washington.edu)
    2. Charles Hammond, Jr., University California, Irvine
      "The Species of Friendship in Kafka's Amerika."
      (chammond@uci.edu)
    3. Nina Sylvester, University of California, Los Angeles
      "Working Girl: Vicki Baumıs Stud.Chem. Helene Willführ."
      (nsylvest@ucla.edu)

    MALCA Panel II
    Presiding Officer: Heidi Schlipphacke

    1. Michaela Grobbel, Sonoma State University
      "Stecken, Stab und Stangl. Elfriede Jelinekıs Memory Theater 'Commemorating' the 1995 Murder of Roman in Austria's Burgenland."
    2. Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College
      "Heimat, Nostalgia, and Marlene Streeruwitz's _Lisa's Liebe._"
    3. Hubert Lengauer, Universit@t Klagenfurt
      "Subterranean, But Not Homesick: Peter Handkeıs Latest Blues."
    4. Laura A. McLary, University of Portland
      "The Traveling Woman and the Web of Connections in Lilian Faschingerıs Paarweise."
  • The 2003 meeting of PAMLA, sponsored by Scripps College, CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA
    Friday, November 7, 2003

    F 1:00-2:30 p.m.
    Modern Austrian Literature and Culture BL 40
    Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
    Presiding Officer: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College

    1. "Dangerous Desire: Melancholia in Otto Weiningerıs Geschlecht und Charakter."
      Ulrike Peters, University of Michigan.
    2. "'Der ungeheure Begriff Asien': Hugo von Hofmannsthalıs Search for Antiquity."
      Susanne Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles.
    3. "Poetry After Auschwitz: The Publication of Ingeborg Bachmannıs Unfinished Poems."
      Eva Reeves, University of California, Irvine.
  • Panels for the 2002 Annual Modern Language Association Conference:

    Panel # 534: Topographies of Memory in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
    Sunday, December 29, 2002, 1:45-3:00 p.m., Conference H, Sheraton
    Presiding: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College

    1. "Mnemonic Devices: Rachel Whiteread's Minimalist Monument in
      Vienna's Judenplatz," Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College.
    2. "Oedipal Topographies: Elfriede Jelinek's `Die Klavierspielerin'
      and the Disappearing Father," Heidi M. Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University.
    3. "Topographies of Memory: Bachmann and Haneke, `Drei Wege zum See',"
      Willy Riemer, University of Delaware.Pane

    # 762: Gender and Politics in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
    Monday, December 30, 2002, 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Conference D, Sheraton
    Presiding: Heidi M. Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University

    1. "Adolf Loos and the Politics of `Ladies' Fashion'," Patrizia Carollo McBride, University of Minnesota.
    2. "No Exit for Sissy: Privilege, Nationality, and Gender in Ruth Beckermann's `Ein fluechtiger Zug nach dem Orient'," Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago.
    3. "Das Geschlecht des Populisten: Haiders Selbstbild und Jelineks Gegendarstellung," Jay Julian Rosellini, Suffolk University.

  • Panels for the 2001 Annual Modern Language Association Conference,
    New Orleans

    199. Seriously Funny: Humor, Comedy, and Satire in Austrian Literature and Culture I
    Friday, 28 December
    10:15-11:30 a.m., Iberville, Marriott

    Program arranged by the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association. Presiding: Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State Univ.

    1. "Hanswurst Redux: Staberl, Titus, and Annina," Katherine Marie Arens, Univ. of Texas, Austin
    2. "Über die Unpässlichkeit des Gelächters: Vom Versuch der Unterwerfung des Witzes durch die Literatur im Wiener Volksstück," Christian M. Aspalter, Univ. of Vienna
    3. "'Ohne dass der Hörer kapiert': Humor and the Cold War in Postwar Austrian Radio," Joseph G. McVeigh, Smith Coll.

  • Sunday, 30 December
    812. Seriously Funny: Humor, Comedy, and Satire in Austrian Literature and Culture II

    1:45-3:00 p.m., Balcony I, Marriott
    Program arranged by the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association. Presiding: Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn

    1. "Joining in the Fun: Quer Sacrum Meets Ver Sacrum in Fin de Siècle Vienna," Julie Greer Johnson, Utah State Univ.
    2. "The Ludic Pathology of Everyday Life: Austrian Psychoanalysis and Humor," Thomas Paul Bonfiglio, Univ. of Richmond
    3. "Humor as 'Terrorism of the Mind': A Feminist Analysis of Laughter and Violence in the Plays of Marlene Streeruwitz," Nele Hempel, Univ. of Memphis
  • 2000 MLA sessions, Washington D.C.:

    Session 1: Session 459
    Friday, 29 December, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Dupont, Washington Hilton

    From Habsburg to Haider: Multi-Ethnic Austria 1900/2000 (I)
    Presiding: Craig Decker, Bates College

    1. "Fin-de-Siècle Masochism: Negotiating Multi-Ethnicity"
      Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    2. "From Halbasien to Europe: Contrasting Representations of Austrian Bukovina"
      Valentina Glajar, Ohio State University
    3. "The Anti-politician with Qualities: Musil on Jörg Haider"
      Patrizia C. McBride, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Session II, Session 758
    Saturday, 30 December, 10:15-11:30 a.m., C-326, Washington Hilton.

    From Habsburg to Haider: Multi-Ethnic Austria 1900/2000 (II)
    Presiding: Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University

    1. "'Haus Österreich' contra 'Habsburgischer Mythos': Die exemplarische Aufarbeitung geschichtlicher Altlasten bei Ingeborg Bachmann"
      Robert Pichl, University of Vienna
    2. "'Second, Deeper Sky': Handke, Yugophilia, Ethnic Self-Fashioning, and Empire"
      Marton Marko, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    3. "Cultural Identity and Public Spaces in Recent Austrian Film"
      Aili Zheng, Johns Hopkins University
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