Friday, Sept. 11, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Heritage Room: High Tea
Friday, Oct. 9, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
For language teachers:
Reflections on Week One (especially the International Breakfast), 3:30-4:00
Discussion of assessment strategies being used in the language departments, 4:00-5:00
Friday, Oct. 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
Luying Chen (Chinese)
“The Journey Wilhelm Meister Has Not Taken: A Journey Beyond a National Identity in Yu Dafu’s Moving South”
The paper discusses the dialogue between the novella Moving South by the modern Chinese writer Yu Dafu (1896-1945) during the author’s study in Japan and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship in the depictions of the relationship with the foreign and subject formation.
Chris Brunelle (Classics)
“Sixty extra women in Latin literature”
Roman authors occasionally mentioned women (“he or she”) when it was grammatically unnecessary to do so; why?
Friday, Nov. 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
Steffen Kaupp (German)
“Contemporary German Migration Literature – A postmodern quest for identity?”
This paper is part of a project dealing with different theories and concepts of identity in connection with migration. My talk wants to show a development in German migration literature from the 1960s to the present day, in which the topics addressed by these authors have significantly changed. The very beginnings were coined by a “literature of sadness” and over the years there has been a change towards a dealing with problems that are triggered by our postmodern society. This paper tries to find out to what extent the quest for identity of 3rd generation immigrants is still influenced by the experience of the migration itself.
Ariel Strichartz (Spanish)
“Post-Genocidal Mourning and Memory in the Family Portrait: A Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski”
My paper is part of a larger project that examines theatre about the Armenian Genocide written and/or staged in Argentina, and treats a play in which the family portrait and the act of portrait-making become sites of struggle for the control of representation, identity, and memory.
Friday, Feb. 19, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
Shannon Cannella (Chinese)
“‘Beauty and Art,’ Shen Congwen’s Humanist Manifesto”
Shannon will discuss the significance of the essay “Beauty and Art” in contextualizing Shen Congwen’s lyrical fiction.
Karen Wilson (Theatre)
“Wilson on Wolf”
Karen will talk about St. Olaf’s production of Preston Lane’s Brother Wolf, a musical adaptation of Beowulf featuring two monstrous puppets.
Friday, Mar. 19, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
Lise Hoy (French)
“Sacred Birds, Doubting Saints, and Linguistic Flights of Fancy in Flaubert’s A Simple Heart and The Temptation of Saint Anthony”
Mike Sampson (Classics)
“‘What kind of party is this?’: A Sympotic Poem by Anacreon”
The ancient Greeks walked a fine line between enjoying a good party and practicing self-restraint. By considering a variety of translations for one sympotic poem by Anacreon, this paper will show how blurry that line can be–both then and now.
Friday, Apr. 23, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Library 515
Jeff Solomon (English)
“Gertrude Stein in and on TIME”
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (English) and Vladimir Sotirov ’12
“Toward a Natural Translation of a Natural Novel”
Jennifer will introduce the work that she and Vladimir have been doing this semester–she translating the Korean poetry of Kim Ki-Taek, he translating a Bulgarian novel. Vladimir will read from his translation and discuss the framework that he has developed through his independent study with Jennifer.
Yulia Irgiztseva (Russian)
“The Soviet Reality in the Satire of Zoshchenko”