Brown-Harvard-Yale Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference. Form and Person.
Form and Person
PROGRAM
Yale University, April 6, 2019
12:00 – 1pm: Welcome Reception with catered lunch
Session 1: 1:00 – 2:30. Moderated by Nicole Sütterlin
Netta Sovinsky (Yale): On dramatic personhood: the case of Empedocles
With a response by Kristina Mendicino (Brown)
Jan G. Tabor (Brown): “No beginning, no middle, and no end”—the official U.S. intake
questionnaire for South American migrant children and Aristotle’s Poetics
With a response by Katrin Trüstedt (Yale)
Session 2: 3:00 – 4:30. Moderated by Katrin Trüstedt (Yale)
Gabrielle Reid (Yale): “Einförmig[e] gewaltig[e] Flächen und Linien”: Form and Formlessness in
Büchner’s Lenz
With a response by Jermain Heidelberg (Harvard)
Jasmin Meier (Brown): Es fugt des Todes: A Reading of Personal Pronouns in Paul Celan’s Todesfuge
With a response by Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard)
Session 3: 5:00 – 6:30. Moderated by Kristina Mendicino (Brown)
Sebastian Brass (Harvard): ‘Nachdenken über Christa W. und Gertrude S.:’ Pseudonym and
Authorial Persona in/as Autofictional Form
With a response by Rüdiger Campe (Yale)
Benjamin Heller (Yale): Form and Life in Jean Paul’s Leben Fibels
With a response by Mirjam Paninski (Brown)