CAUTG / APAUC

Title: Cult of the Will: Nervousness and the Forging of a Modern Self in Germany, 1890-1914

Author: Michael Cowan (McGill)

Publishing Date: June 01, 2008

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

Description: Cult of the Will is the first comprehensive study of modernity’s preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche’s “will to power” to the fantasy of a “triumph of the will” under Nazism, the will—its pathologies and potential cures—was a topic of urgent debates in European modernity.

In this study, Michael Cowan examines the emergence of “will therapy” and its impact on arts and culture in Germany after 1900. The book’s five chapters lead readers through cross sections of modern German cultural history, including not only literature and aesthetics but also self-help medicine, economics, body culture, and pedagogy. Modernity’s fixation on willpower helped prepare the way for fascism, but this trajectory is not Cowan’s main concern. His focus falls rather on more widespread “technologies of the self” and their role in the effort to reimagine agency for a modern subject caught up in increasingly complex systemic networks.

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CAUTG/APAUC Jahrestagung

University of British Columbia

Freitag, 30. Mai – Montag, 2. Juni 2008

Alle Vortragssitzungen, deren Ort nicht gesondert ausgewiesen ist,

finden im Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Raum 261 statt.

Freitag, 30. Mai

16:00-19:00 Vorstandssitzung (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 196)

19.00-21.00 Vorstandsessen

20.00-23.00 Gemütliches Beisammensein vor der Konferenz

Koerner’s Pub, Graduate Student Centre

Samstag, 31. Mai

8:45-9:00 Willkommen und Eröffnungsbemerkungen

9:00-10:30 Zwischenräume um 1800

Leiterin: Gaby Pailer, University of British Columbia

Angela Borchert, University of Western Ontario

Poetogener Raum: Gelegenheitsdichtung im Tiefurter Landschaftsgarten

Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba

Friedrich Schillers Inszenierung von Geschichte zwischen Geschichtsschreibung, Dichtung und Philosophie

Andreas Kranke, St. Peter’s College, Oxford

Georg Forster: Der extrovertierte innere Plural

10:30-10:45 Kaffeepause

10:45-12:15 Orient und Orientalismus

Leiterin: Florentine Strzelczyk, University of Calgary

Nicole Perry, University of Toronto

Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the German Romantic Image of the Orient

Eva Sattelmayer, Queen’s University

Musils Törleß und der imaginierte Orient

David G. John, University of Waterloo

A New Arabic Faust in Egypt: Globalization and Loss of Cultural Identity

12:15-13:15 Mittagspause

13:15-14:45 Fighting the Powers of Writing

Leiter: Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba

Thomas Krüger, McGill University

Macht die blaue Blume rot! Bernward Vesper’s Novalis and the Rebellion of Subjectivity

Karin Bauer, McGill University

The End of Writing: Elfriede Jelineks Ulrike Maria Stuart

Charlotte Schallié, University of British Columbia

„Das Sizilianische unseres Literaturbetriebs“: Bodo Kirchhoffs Schundroman und Martin Suters Lila, Lila

14:45-15:00 Kaffeepause

15:00-16:30 Body Rythms, Body Ruptures

Leiterin: Jill Scott, Queen’s University

Michael Cowan, McGill University

Rhythm, Suggestion and the Filmic Avant-garde

Matthew Pollard, University of Victoria

Kleist’s Krug, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the Prosthetics of Body Politics

Ellie Kennedy, Queen’s University

The Great (Anti-)Climax: Masculinity and the Wende in Helden wie wir and Tanz am Kanal

16:30-17:30 Deutsch in Nordamerika

Leiter: Jörg Esleben, University of Ottawa

Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary

New Insights into Heritage Language Learners of German

Nikolai Penner, University of Waterloo

Explaining Structural Similarities in High German Varieties of North American Language Islands

20:00 Musikalisches Programm von Sharon und Harald Krebs mit anschliessendem Empfang

(Sponsoren: Generalkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Vancouver und das Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, UBC)

Sonntag, 1. Juni

9:30-10:30 Frauen-Bilder

Leiter: James M. Skidmore, University of Waterloo

Lidija Bakovic, Université de Montréal/Goethe-Institut Ottawa

Die Frauen, die es wissen: Sigune und Kundrie und ihre Funktion im Erkenntnisprozess Parzivals

Florentine Strzelczyk, University of Calgary

Pornography of History? Hitler, Hitler’s Women and Guido Knopp

10:30-10:45 Kaffeepause

10:45-12:15 Gedächtnis über Grenzen

Leiter: Guido Schenkel, University of British Columbia

Birte Giesler, University of Sydney

(Beyond) Borders in a Globalised World? – Urs Widmer’s Satire of Travel Literature

Margaret Maliszewska, Queen’s University

Reise nach Polen und „kommunikatives Gedächtnis“ in Beate Rygierts Bronjas Erbe

Michael Zimmermann, University of Regina

Globalised Terror and Cultural Memory in Katharina Hacker’s Die Habenichtse

12:15-14:00 Arbeitsessen

Seminar Editorial Board (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 196)

Committee on Business German (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 184)

Graduate Students’ Caucus (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 183)

Women’s Issues Caucus (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 181)

14:00-15:30 Happy Altern(ativen)

Leiter: Matthew Pollard, University of Victoria

Alan Corkhill, University of Queensland

Spaces for Happiness in Jünger’s Heliopolis

Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University

Midlife and the Pursuit of Happiness in Monika Maron’s Postwenderomane

Gabriele Mueller, York University

Schultze’s Journey into Retirement: Constructions of Aging in Recent German Cinema

15:30-15:45 Kaffeepause

15:45-17:15 In und über Berlin

Leiterin: Ellie Kennedy, Queen’s University

Katrina Sark, McGill University

Berlin’s Cinescape–Urban and Cinematic Spaces

Maria Mayr, University of Western Ontario

Yoko Tawada’s Pulverschrift Berlin and the Import(ance) of Berliner Migrationsliteratur

David Darby, University of Western Ontario

The Genealogy of the Storyteller

17:15-17:45 Vorstellung des neuen E-journals Forum Deutsch

Eva Ledwig, Goethe-Institut Montréal

17:00-19:00 Empfang des Universitätspräsidenten der UBC

East and West Atria, Life Sciences Building

20:00 Filmvorführung: Schultze gets the Blues, 2003, Regie: Michael Schorr

Green College Coach House

(Sponsor: Goethe-Institut Toronto)

Montag, 2. Juni

9:00-10:45 Workshop: Europäischer Referenzrahmen für Sprachen

Eröffnungsvortrag: Sandra Hoenle, University of Calgary

Proficiency beyond Borders

Workshopleitung:

Caroline Rieger, University of British Columbia und

Sandra Hoenle, University of Calgary

10:45-11:00 Kaffeepause

11:00-13:00 DaF: Methoden und Materialien

Leiterin: Caroline Rieger, University of British Columbia

Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo, University of Calgary

Beginner German CMC and peer-to-peer communication: A qualitative study

Mareike Mueller, University of Waterloo

Pronunciation Training in Recent German Textbooks: Thinking Beyond the Borders of “Listen and Repeat”

Tetyana Reichert, University of Waterloo

Practical aspects of using role-play in foreign language learning

Grit Liebscher und Matthias Schulze, Univ. of Waterloo

Collaborative Activity in Tasked-based Language Learning

13:00-14:00 Mittagspause

14:00-15:30 Keynote Lecture

Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley

Second language acquisition in multilingual settings: From communicative competence to symbolic competence

Einleitung: Arnd Bohm, Carleton University, Präsident der CAUTG

(Sponsor: Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

15:30-15:45 Kaffeepause

15:45-17:30 CAUTG-Jahreshauptversammlung

17:30-18:30 Vorstandssitzung (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 196)

20:30 Bankett

Voraussichtlich im Watermark Restaurant am Kitsilano Beach. Details zu Menü und Preis folgen auf der Online-Mailingliste und Webseite der CAUTG

Gastrednerin

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition in the German Department and in the School of Education at the University of California in Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of second and foreign language study and pedagogy, with an emphasis on the cultural and contextual factors involved in language learning. Her major publications include:

Discourse Analysis and Second Language Teaching;

Interaction et discours dans la classe de langue;

Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective;

Text and Context: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Language Study; Context and Culture in Language Teaching;

Language and Culture;

Language acquisition and language socialization-Ecological perspectives.

She is the author of numerous articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. She has received numerous majors awards, among them the 1988 ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award for the teaching of culture, the 1994 MLA Kenneth Mildenberger Prize for Outstanding Research in the teaching of foreign languages and literatures, a Goethe Medal in 1998, and the MLA Distinguished Service Award in 2000. She holds honorary doctorates from the Middlebury School of Languages 1998 and St. Michael’s College 2001.

Abstract des Gastvortrags:

Second language acquisition in multilingual settings: From communicative competence to symbolic competence.

Learning and using language in the multilingual settings of our global economy requires more than communicative competence in one standard foreign language, even if this language is a global language like English. It requires an understanding of the subjective, cultural and historical resonances associated with the use of this or that language and an ability to position oneself within and across symbolic systems, i.e., it requires “symbolic competence”. The paper examines interactions among multilingual Yucatecan Maya and other immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco in an attempt to tease out what this symbolic competence is composed of. It discusses implications for teaching second and foreign languages at the college level.

Die CAUTG dankt den Sponsoren der Tagung

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Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies