MONDAY, 13 MAY, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., room 282 Dwinelle

III. Strangers in the Nation

• Robert Peckerar: The Vampire Writes Back: Icons of Eastern European Jews
• June Hwang: Locating the Wandering Jew
• Joel Freeman: Death and the Grounds of Nationalism in Triumph of the Will
• Alexander Klemm: Staging Racism in R.W. Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul

IV. Staging Identities

• Mariah Larsson: “An Impossible Homecoming”. Mai Zetterling’s Questioning of the Swedish Imagined Community
• Meg Dahlgren: Nationalist Lampoon: H.J. Syberberg’s Parsifal
• Mike Allan: Image and Nation at War:Harun Farocki’s Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges
• Susanne Hoelscher-Whiting: Lola on the Run: Trafficking Identity in Synthesized Berlin

Sponsored by the Department of German and the Program in Film Studies, in conjunction with German 214/Film 240 (Profs. Deniz Göktürk and Anton Kaes).