Organizers: Ambika Athreya, Elise Volkmann, Verena Wolf    Berkeley 2023 German Studies Conference:   Fictions of Reproduction (Online)   Join the conference meeting room on Zoom by clicking here or scanning the QR Code. (Meeting ID: 998 4212 1224; Passcode: 333132) Day 1: Friday, February 24, 2023   9:00-9:15 PST / 18:00-18:15 MEZ Introductory Remarks by Ambika Athreya (UC Berkeley)   9:15-10:40 PST / 18:15-19:40 MEZ   Panel 1 – Taming, Staging and Rhapsodizing the Maternal Body Moderator: Verena Wolf (UC Berkeley)   Commentator:  Dr. Patrick Hohlweck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/UC Berkeley) Marcella Fassio (Freie Universität Berlin) – Zwischen Verstummen und Anklagen: Repräsentationen…

9:30 Scott Shell (UC Berkeley): “Conventional Language, Poetry and Curse-Formulas in the Elder Futhark Period”   9:50 W.C.Watt (UC Irvine): “Sociosemiotics 101: Zombies”   10:10 Jing Ge (UC Berkeley) and Susan C. Herring (Indiana Univ., Bloomington): “Do emoji sequences have a basic word order?”   10:30 Thaddeus Martin (Modesto Junior College): “Translating Jaspers”   10:50 Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley): ”Descriptive Beyond Reason: Freud’s Metaparanoiac Archaeology“   1:10 Sarah Harris (UC Berkeley): “Incompatibilities Under the Lupe: Translating Gender in German and English”   1:30 Kate Carnell Watt (UC, Riverside): “Sociosemiotics 102: Zombies”   1:50 Mattie Scott (Oakland, CA): “Dzogchen and the…

Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. 10am-12pm…

Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. Morning…

Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. 9:00…