Conference Schedule

2006 Annual International Conference of the

Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association

April 20-23, 2006

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC

 

Illness, Madness and Criminality

 

 

Thursday, April 20, 2006

 

5:30                             Registration and Buffet, Reynolda Hall overlooking Hearn Quad

7:30                             Film (Hundstage) Pugh Auditorium, Benson Student Center

 

Friday, April 21, 2006

 

8:00-8:30                     Registration, Coffee, Magnolia Room, Reynolda Hall

8:30-9:15                     Opening Authors’ Panel: 

Anna Mitgutsch and Joseph Haslinger

 

9:15-9:30                     Coffee Break

 

9:30-11:15                   Session 1 a:  Fin-de-Siècle Wingate 202

Moderator Heidi Tilghman, University of Washington

 

                                    Sara S. Painitz, University of Virginia

            Lunacy and the Law: Mela Hartwig’s Der Phantastische Paragraph

 

            Felix W. Trewaser, Utah State University

            Therapeutic Nihilism and Its Discontents:  Schnitzler’s Flucht in die Finsternis as Critique of Austrian Medical Institutions

 

            Agnieszka B. Nance, Tulane University

            Genius, Narr, or Schizophrenic:  Prodomos and the dual nature of life and work of Peter Altenberg

 

Session 1b:  Freud Wingate 302

Moderator Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

 

Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin

Disciplining Psychoanalysis:  Freud’s New Science and the Medicalization of the Subject

 

J. F. Campbell, University of Pennsylvania

Truth, Justice and the Austrian and American Ways:

Navigating Through the Freud-Bullitt-Wilson Triangle

 

Hans Kellner, North Carolina State University

Freud and the Fecal Sublime

 

11:15-11:30                 Coffee Break

 

11:30-1:00                   Session 2a:  History and War Crimes, Wingate 202

Moderator Charles S. Thomas, Georgia Southern University

 

Winfried R. Garscha, Austrian Research Center for Post-War Trials, Vienna

Excesses of Violence in an Apocalyptic Mood:  Nazi atrocities in the final phases of the war – prosecution/impunity and presence/absence in public memory and literature

 

Isolde Mueller, St. Cloud State University

Bringing the Past Back Home:  War crimes and History in Josef Haslinger’s Das Vaterspiel and Alois Hotschnigg’s Ludwig’s Zimmer

 

Theodore Fiedler, University of Kentucky

Dealing with War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity:  Peter Handke on Milosevic, NATO and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

 

Session 2b:  Women and Madness, Wingate 302

Moderator, Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University

 

Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Depression Becomes Her:  Madness and Memory in Hertha Kräftner’s Poetry and Prose

 

Pamela Saur, Lamar University

Marlen Haushofer’s Heroines: Existentialism, and the Borders of Human Existence

 

Vincent Kling, The Madness of Rufina: Gender Freedom and Insanity in Heimito von Doderer’s “Divertimento I”

 

 

1:00-2:30                     Lunch: Magnolia Room; Open General Business Meeting

                                    Official Welcome, Debbie Best, Dean of the College

 

 

2:30-4:15         Session 3a: The Language of Madness,

Wingate 202, Moderator Hans Gabriel, North Carolina School for the Arts

 

                             Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green University

                                    The Figure of the “Patron” in the Austrian Fiction of Madness

 

Primus-Heinz Kucher, Klagenfurt

Schnittpunkte, Grenzpunkte, Wahnpunkte. Wahrnehmungsformen und Identitätsreflexion in den neueren Romanen von Anna Mitgutsch

 

Irene Fußl, Universität Salzburg

„Pallaksch“:  Das ,Wahnsinnswort’ Hölderlins als Zitat bei Paul Celan

 

Session 3b:  Krimis and Criminals, Wingate 302

Moderator Michael Sharp, University of the Pacific

 

Wynfrid Kriegleder, Universität Wien

Alexander Lernet-Holenias Beide Sizilien als politischer Roman

 

Paul F. Dvorak, Virginia Commonwealth University

What’s the Crime? Alois Brandstetter’s Detective Novel Die Abtei

 

John R. Schindler, Naval War College

Spy of the Century?  Alfred Redl - Myths and Realities

 

4:15-4:30                     Coffee Break

 

4:30-6:00                     Session 4a:  Madness, Theater and Art,

Wingate 202, Moderator Alyssa Lonner, Wake Forest University

 

                             Angela Gulielmetti, University of Southern Maine

Gerhard Roth’s Reise in das Innere von Wien (1991):  The Fearful Clarity of the Insane

 

Julie M. Johnson, Utah State University

The incompetent Spectator:  The Theater in the Asylum at Steinhof

 

Luke Heighton, Birkbeck College, University of London

Art theory, therapy and practice at the Mauer-Oehling asylum, Vienna 1908

Session 4b: Illness, Madness, Criminality and Identity, Wingate 302

                             Moderator Liz Ametsbichler, University of Montana

 

                             Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

                                    A Memory of one’s Own:  On Criminality, Guilt, and Identity De/construction in Alois Hotschnig’s Leonardos Hände

 

                                    Roxane Riegler, Emporia State University

                                    Schuld und Leiden:  Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Doron Rabinovicis Roman Suche nach M.

 

                                    Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, :University of Illinois, Chicago

                                    Madmen and Criminals, Winners and Losers, in Elias and Veza Canetti’s novels Die Blendung and Die Schildkröten

 

6:00-6:30                     Reception

6:30-7:45                     Dinner, Magnolia Room

7:45-8:45                     Author Reading and Discussion:   

Anna Mitgutsch

 

Saturday, April 22, 2006

 

8:00-8:30                    Coffee

8:30-10:15                  Session 5a:  Felix Mitterer, Benson 401 A

                                    Moderator Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado

 

Gerlinde Ulm Sanford, Syracuse University

Religiöser Wahnsinn im Dinste der Mächtigen.  Gedanken zu ausgewählten Stücken Felix Mitterers

 

Gerd K. Schneider, Syracuse University

Fachübergreifende Perspektiven zum Alter und zu den Alterskrankheiten

 

Georg Grote, University College of Dublin

Bombenjahre in Südtirol. Felix Mitterers Terroristen – die Gründungsväter des modernen “Regionalstaates”?

 

Session 5b:  Pathologies of Heimat and Calamity:  W.G. Sebald Reads Austrian Literature, Benson 401 B

Moderator David Luft, University of California, San Diego

 

Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University, SUNY

Crossing Borders: Sebald, Handke and the Pathological Vision

 

Markus Zisselsberger, Binghamton University, SUNY

At the Borders of the (Un)Natural:  W.G. Sebald reads Stifter’s Fetishistic Fantasies

 

Mark R. McCulloh, Davidson College

Sexuality, Criminality, and the Uncanny:  On Sebald’s Reading of Hofmannsthal

 

Session 5c:  Sex Trafficking and Prostitution, Benson 401 C, Moderator Wolfgang Nehring, UCLA

 

                             Jurgen Nautz,  University of Vienna

                                    Interactions:  Women trafficking and Forced Prostitution as a Theme of Literature and Arts

 

                                    Lesley Bart and Lorely French, Pacific University

                                    Prostitution and Sex Trafficking of Women in Austria:  The Legalities and Illegalities of the Sex Trade Meet Marlene Streeruwitz’s Jessica

 

10:15-10:30                 Coffee Break

 

10:30-12:15     `           Session 6a:  Robert Musil, Benson 401 A

                                    Moderator Geoffrey C. Howse, Bowling Green University

                            

                                    Maximilian Aue, Emory University

Pandämonium verschiedener Formen des Wahns:  Vom (kriminellen) Wahnsinn und seinen Grenzen in Robert Musil’s Mann ohne Eigenschaften

 

Stefan Kutzenberger, Universität Wien

Philosophie, Medizin und Jursprudenz:  Der Skandal um Gustav Klimts Fakultätsbilder und seine Weiterführung in Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften

 

Casey J. Servais, Cornell University

Moosbrugger as Modernist:  Aesthetics, Mental Illness, and Law in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities

 

Session 6b:  Madness, Crime and Culture Benson 401 B

Moderator Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette University

 

Bernhard Doppler, Universität Paderborn

Der Herr Udo:  Udo Proksch

 

Günter Haika, IES and Flow House, Wake Forest University

Paulus Hochgatterer: eine neue Definition von Normalität

 

Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University

Youth, Crime and Moral Decline in 1950s Austrian Films:  Asphalt and Unter Achtzehn

Session 6c:  Modernisms, Benson 401 C

Moderator Susan Anderson, University of Oregon

 

Erika Hille Rinker, Washington University, St. Louis

Elective Aphasia:  Distinguishing the Literary Modernisms of Karl Kraus and Oskar Kokoschka

 

Susanne Hochreiter, Universität Wien

Geschlecht und Kultur:  Rosa Mayreder und „die Erotik der Wiener Moderne“

 

Wolfgang Nehring, UCLA

Ein österreichischer Dekadent in Paris:  Hermann Bahrs Gute Schule – moderne ‘Seelenstände’ zwischen ‘Entartung’ und Trivialität

 

12:15 – 2:15                 Box Lunch; opportunities to explore Old Salem historical Moravian community, Secca Museum of Contemporary Art, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, or Botanical Gardens.

                                   

                                    Executive Board Meeting

 

2:15-4:00                     Session 7a:  Bernhard and Ransmayr,

Benson 401 A, Moderator, Luke Heighton, Birkbeck College, University of London

 

                             Joseph W. Moser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

                                    War, Crime, and a Subconscious Awareness of the Shoah in Thomas Bernhard’s Frost

 

                                    Eva Kuttenberg, Penn State Erie

                                    Literary Suicide as Anti-narrative:  The Abject in Thomas Bernhard’s Korrektur

 

                                    James Martin, Washington College

                                    Kitahara’s Disease:  Disjunction and Dysfunction in Christoph Ransmayr’s The Dog King

 

Session 7b: 19th Century Literature: Beyond Cultural Norms, Benson 401 B

Moderator Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin

 

Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo, Canada

Criminal Minds in a Criminal World:  Depictions of Female Criminality in the Works of Ferdinand von Saar

 

Hans Gabriel, The North Carolina School of the Arts

“Aber es gab kein Jenseits”:  Stifter’s Narrative Perspective Beyond Cultural Norms

 

Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington

Funny Games:  Semiotischer Sündenfall und anthropologische Lektüre in Grillparzers “Treuer Diener”

                                   

Session 7c: Krimis! Benson 401 C

                             Moderator Paul Dvorak, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

                             Ester Saletta, University of Bergamo, Italy

                                    Der “legitimierte Wahnsinn” in Elfriede Czurdas Kriminalroman Die Giftmörderin (1991)

 

                             Faye Stewart, Indiana University

                                    Lesbian Sleuths and Queer Crime:  Genre, Gender and Sexuality in the Austrian Lesbenkrimi

 

                                    Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont

                                    Anatomie des Verbrechens.  Das Bild Österreichs in Wolf Haas’ Kriminalromanen.

 

4:00-4:15                     Coffee Break

 

 

4:15-5:30                     Mini-session 8a:  Ingeborg Bachmann,

Benson 401 A, Moderator Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois Chicago

 

                             Shveta Thakrar, Rutgers University

                                    “Es war Mord,” She Said:  Culpability and the Role of the Victim in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina

 

Ute Bettray, UMass, Amherst

Niedergangszeichen (in Form von Wahnsinn und Tod) des weiblichen Individuums in der Wienerisch-österreichischen Sprache am Beispiel des Goldmann-Rottwitz Romans

 

                                               

Mini-session 8b: Madness and Music,

Benson 402 B, Moderator Susan H. Borwick, Wake Forest University

 

                             Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte

                                    The Madness of Arnold Schoenberg. From Blick (1908) to Pierrot Lunaire (1912)

Lyle Barkhymer, Otterbein College

                                    Alban Berg’s Musical Depiction of Madness and Crime in Wozzeck

 

 

Mini-Session 8c:  World War I,

Benson 401 A, Moderator Michael Hughes, Wake Forest University

 

                             Oliver C. Speck, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

                                    The chiasm of identity:  Erich von Stroheim as Austrian Director

 

                                    Ana Foteva, Purdue University

                                    Die Logik des Krieges als Logik des Wahnsinns in Karl Kraus’ Die letzten Tage der Menschheit

 

5:30-6:00                     Reception

6:00                             Dinner, Magnolia Room

 

7:30                             Author Reading and Discussion:

                             Joseph Haslinger

 

 

Sunday, April 23, 2006

 

8:00-8:30                     Coffee and pastries

 

8:30-10:15                   Session 9b:  Kafka, Benson 401 B,

                             Moderator Pamela Saur, Lamar University

 

                             Ekkehard Haring, Universität Aussig/Usti nad Labem

                                    Heillose Schreib-Befunde.  Franz Kafka und “Der nervöse Charakter“

 

                                    Marcel A. Derosier, Minneapolis

                                    Letters as Therapy and Social Chronicle:  Kafka’s Letters to Milena

 

                                    Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr, International Kafka Society

                                    Kafka and Illness:  Saint or Dangerous Don Giovanni?

 

10:15-10:30                 Abschied, Benson 401 C