Presentations, Workshops, Lectures

INVITED LECTURES

2018       “Foundational Narratives: West German Nation-Building Through State Sponsored PR Films, 1951-1963.” The Arts of Democratization. 24th Biennial St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture. Washington University St. Louis, April 7, 2018.

2018       “German Studies: An Overview of the Profession.” Alumni Lecture, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, February 26, 2017.

2018      “Staging West German Democracy: Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963.” International symposium “Winning Peace: Reconstruction and Democratization after WWII.” The International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), New Orleans, January 12, 2018.

2017       “Promoting Western Integration: Mobilwerbung and Governmental PR Films in West Germany during the Adenauer Years.” Department of German, Russian, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures & Department of History, Miami University, November 27, 2017.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2018       “Bonn during the Adenauer Years: Explaining the West German Provisional Capital through Government-Commissioned Film Productions.” SCMS Conference 2018. Toronto, ON, March 15.

2017        Fostering Intercultural Competence: Video Documentary Projects during the Georgia Tech Study Abroad Program in Berlin.” ACTFL Conference 2017. Nashville, TN, November 17, 2017.

2017       “Promoting Rearmament in Rural Lower Saxony: Governmental Mobilwerbung Campaigning during the Early Adenauer Years.” GSA Conference 2017. Atlanta, GA, October 7, 2017.

2016      “Staging West German Democracy through Foreign Policy: The Politics of Self-Representation through Government-Sponsored PR Films during the Adenauer Years (1949-63).” GSA Conference 2016. San Diego, CA, September 30, 2016.

2015     “Bonn during the Adenauer Years: Explaining the Provisional Capital through Government-Commissioned Documentary Film Productions.” SCMLA Conference 2015.  Nashville, TN. November 2, 2015.

2014     “Filmic Representations of Reconciliation: The Neue Deutsche Wochenschau Special Features on the Reconciliation with France, 1961-63.” SCMLA Conference 2014. Austin, TX, October 20, 2014.

2014      “Performing Reconciliation: The Neue Deutsche Wochenschau Special Feature Films on the Rapprochement with France.
GSA Conference 2014. Kansas City, MO, September 20, 2014.

2014      “The City as Classroom: Place-Based Education in Berlin During the GT Study Abroad.” CIBER 2014. Park City, UT, April 25,

2013     “Building Consensus for the Chancellor: West German Newsreel Special Features and Konrad Adenauer’s Media Image.” GSA
Conference 2013. Denver, CO, October 6, 2013.

2013      “Expanding the Global Footprint at Georgia Tech: The LBAT, the International Plan, and the ALIS Degree.” Education Abroad in
German Speaking Europe. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 23, 2013. (with Bettina F. Cothran)

2012      “A Symbolic Homecoming: The Neue Deutsche Wochenschau Special Feature on Konrad Adenauer’s 1955 State Visit to
Moscow.” GSA Conference 2012. Milwaukee, WI, October 7, 2012.

2012     “New Models for Collegiate Second Year Language Instruction.” SCOLT 2012, Atlanta, GA, March 23, 2012. Co-presented with
Per Urlaub, University of Texas.

2011      “Separate Cityscapes, Divided Societies: Bonn as Cityscape of Contradiction in Wolfgang Koeppen’s Das Treibhaus and
Günther Weisenborn’s Auf Sand gebaut.” GSA Conference 2011. Louisville, KY, September 23, 2011.

2010     “’Schluss mit dem Bauen gegen Berlin!’ The Building Freeze in Bonn and the ‘Berlin Initiatives’ of 1956/7,” Cold War Cultures. 
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The University of Texas at Austin, September 30 – October 3, 2010.

2008      “Berlin is a Cabaret of the Nameless: Berlin as Topography of Cynicism in Erich Kästner’s Fabian,” Berlin and Modernism 1900-
1945. The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, September 27, 2008.

2008      “Gender, Sex, and Consumption: The Domestic Wars of the Economic Miracle in Arno Schmidt’s The Stony Heart,” Beyond
Berlin. Local Cultures in Divided Germany, 2nd Biannual Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, TX,
March 27, 2008.

2007 “From Uncritical Insider to Estranged Observer: Shifts in Wolfgang Koeppen’s Narrative Strategies 1934 – 1954,” SAMLA 
Convention 2007, Atlanta, GA, November  9-11, 2007.

2007      “Sexual Cynicism in Erich Kästner’s Fabian and New Objectivist Großstadt Painting,” PCA ACA 2007 Conference, Kansas City,
MO, October 13, 2007.

2005     “Alle senden, nur Murke schweigt! – Heinrich Bölls Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen,” 12th Annual German Graduate Studies Conference,
University of Virginia at Charlottesville, April 1, 2005.

 

WORKSHOPS

2017        “Implementing Mobile Learning Technologies during the Georgia Tech Study Abroad in Berlin.” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Iowa Annual Spring Meeting, Grinnell College, IA, April 22, 2017.

2016       “Americanization and anti-Americanism in the Federal Republic.” Short Course, German Department, Grinnell College. Fall 2016.

2014      “Pathways to Language Excellence: Integrating Language and Workforce Needs” (co-facilitated with Bettina Cothran and Osvaldo Cleger). 17th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education. Providence, RI, November 6, 2014.

2013      “Workshop on Mobile Learning: A new Paradigm for Place-Based Instruction.” Emory University, August 15, 2013.
(Co-facilitated with Osvaldo Cleger, Georgia Tech)

2013      “Creating Consensus for the Chancellor: West German Newsreel Special Features and Konrad Adenauer’s Media Image.” Modern Languages Faculty Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 4, 2013.

2012      “The Adenauer Years in Film.” Grinnell College. October 15, 2012.

2012      “Show & Tell: In-Class Activities from GER3011 – Germany Today,” AATG Sprachbad Atlanta. Ein Workshop für Deutschlehrende. January 15, 2012

2010      “Founding Discourses on Bonn in the new Bundestag, City Planning, Architecture, Newsreels, and Literary Fiction.” The
University of Texas at Austin, November 1, 2010.

2010      “From GER 312K/312L to GER 612: Rethinking the Second Year,” The Texas Language Center “Language Matters” Lecture
Series, The University of Texas at Austin, October 13, 2010. Co-Presented with Per Urlaub.
Video of the presentation: http://vimeo.com/16319160

2010      “Second Year German at UT: New Goals, Curricula, and Materials,” <em “mso-bidi-font-style:=”” normal”=””>South  Texas AATG Chapter Meeting, The University of Texas at Austin, September 18, 2010. Co-presented with Per Urlaub.

2009      “Consumption and Consummation (!): Domestic Tales of the Economic Miracle in Arno Schmidt’s Das steinerne Herz,” Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 21, 2009.