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

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• 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

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• 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."

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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