Events: Symposium on German Film

German Cinema: National and Global Dimensions

• Saturday, January 27, 2007
• Location: Auditorium at the Harn Museum
  The Harn is located on the Univeristy of Florida campus at the UF Cultural Plaza
• This is a free event and open to the public.
  

Symposium Schedule

• German National Cinema
  10:00 am-11:00 am
  Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey
  (Associate Professor of German, University of Binghamton)
  "The Aestheticization of Death from Weimar to Nazi Cinema"  
  Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey is author of the forthcoming title Women in Nazi Cinema: Engendering Heimat, Nationalizing Gender.
• Panel: From National to Global  
  11:30 am -1:00 pm
  • Britta Herdegen (Germanic and Slavic Studies)
    "Allegorical Representation of the Body in Kaufmann's Ways to Strength and Beauty"
  • Jennifer Coenen (Germanic and Slavic Studies)
    "Children as Witness of the Nation"
  • Will Lehman (Germanic and Slavic Studies)
    "New German Cinema, the Nation, and its Other"
• 1:00 pm -3:00 pm Break
  Framing a Global Cinema 
• 3:00-4:00 pm
  Katrin Sieg (Associate Professor, Georgetown University)
  "Globalization and Familial Imaginary in Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three"
  Katrin Sieg is author of the forthcoming title Choreographing the Global on the European Stage.
• 4:30-5:30 pm  
  Randall Halle (Klaus Jonas Chair of German Film and Cultural Studies, Pittsburgh University)
  "Border Economics and the Transnational Moving Image"
  Randall Halle is author of the forthcoming title German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic.
• 6:00-8:00 pm Reception
  Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall
  The symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in cooperation with the Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation, the Center for European Studies, the Harn Museum of Art and Risk Cinema, the University of Florida International Center, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. It is organized by Barbara Mennel, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and Film and Media Studies, Department of English. For questions, please contact: mennel@ufl.edu.

Film Screenings

In conjunction the following films will be shown 
Thursdays @ CBD 212 @ 7:00 pm

• Thursday, January 11, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
  CBD 212
  Arnold Fanck. White Hell of Pitz Palu. (1929)
  The early German silent film shows Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in her earlier incarnation as a mountain climber. Co-sponsored by the German Club. Introduction: Barbara Mennel, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.
• Thursday, January 18, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
  CBD 212
  Billy Wilder. One, Two, Three. (1961)
  Coca Cola meets socialist parades at the Brandenburg Gate in Billy Wilder’s brilliant Cold War comedy. Co-sponsored by the German Club
  Introduction: Barbara Mennel, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.
• Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
  CBD 212
  Hans-Christian Schmid. Lights. (2003)
  A contemporary film about different border crossings between Germany and Poland. Co-sponsored by the German Club and the Polish Club
  Introduction: Ewa Wampuszyc, Center for European Studies .

Symposium Coordinator

Barbara Mennel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Cinema Studies
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies (GSS) and Film and Media Studies
Phone: (352) 392-2101 ext. 215
mennel@ufl.edu

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