Germany and Turkey: (Trans)National Cultures, Migration,
and Issues of Citizenship

2008 Symposium

Parallel Film Screenings: Friday, February 15 @ 5:10 pm

• Roland Suso Richter's Eine Hand voll Gras (2000); screenplay by Uwe Timm.
  (In German without subtitles)
  Introduced by Keith Bullivant
  CBD 210
• Fatih Akin’s Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
  (In English, German, and Turkish with English subtitles)
  Introduced by Barbara Mennel
  CBD 310

Symposium Program

Saturday, February 16, 2008
Ruth McQuown Room (Dauer 219)

• 10:00 Introduction
  Barbara Mennel (University of Florida)
• 10:15-11:15 am
  Lydia Potts (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
  “Transnational Families: Migration, Gender and Generational Relations”
• 11:30-12:30 pm
  Keith Bullivant (University of Florida)
  “Eine Hand voll Gras: A German View of the Perils of Migration from Anatolia to Hamburg”
• 12:30-2:00 pm
  Lunch Break
• 2:00-3:00 pm
  Barbara Mennel (University of Florida)
  “Turkish-German Spaces?: Migration and Cinema between Germany and Turkey”
• 3:00-4:00 pm
  Leslie Adelson (Cornell University)
  “Europe and Mars: Imaginative Ethnoscapes and a New Futurism in German Literature”
• 4:00-4:30 pm
  Break
• 4:30-5:30 pm
  Jim Jordan (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
  “Talking Heads, Shifting Sands: Diasporic Writers in the Wake of 9/11”
• 6:00 pm
  Reception

Symposium Co-Sponsors

The Center for European Studies, the Center for Modern German Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Kade Foundation Inc., and the University of Florida International Center.

The Symposium is organized by Keith Bullivant (Professor, Germanic and Slavic Studies) and Barbara Mennel (Assistant Professor, Germanic and Slavic Studies and Film and Media Studies, English Department). For questions, please contact: mennel@ufl.edu.

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