Please note: due to limited space we are unable to accommodate further requests for auditors. If you have questions, please contact the conference organizers Dr. Amanda Randall or Dr. Kathryn Sederberg.  

Thursday, February 28, 2019: 
Arrival of participants
8:00 p.m.        Film screening: Millis Erwachen (2018)  and Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
                       event located at Weitz Cinema, Carleton College (walking directions from hotel)
 
Friday, March 1, 2019:  
8:45 a.m.            Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
8:45-9:15            Check-in, Valhalla Room, Buntrock Commons
9:15 - 10:00        Welcome and Introductions in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons, “What is diversity & decoloni(al)zation?”
10:00-10:15         Break with refreshments
10:15 - 11:30   Panel 1: Teaching Colonialism and Decolonization for German-speaking Contexts
Moderator: Chet Lisiecki
  1. Robin Ellis, “The Allure of European Studies: Reckoning with the EU’s Colonialist Roots from a German Studies Perspective”
  2. Emina Mušanović, “The Settler Colonialism of German Studies”

11:30 - 12:45   New Textbook Presentations over Lunch in Board Room, King’s Dining Room, Buntrock Commons
  1. Maureen Gallagher, “Introducing Grenzenlos Deutsch”
  2. Steffen Kaupp and Niko Tracksdorf, “Diversifying the German Textbook: An Inclusive, Holistic Approach” (Impuls Deutsch 1: Intercultural | Interdisciplinary |Interactive)
 
12:45 - 2:15     Panel 2: Rethinking the Canon in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
Moderator: Adam Toth
  1. Gabriel Cooper, “What good is the canon for a decolonized German Curriculum?”
  2. Peter Höyng, “Hugo Bettauer’s The Blue Stain (1922): The Case for an Anti-Racist Novel and Its Shortcomings within a Transcultural and Transnational Context”
  3. Aine Zimmerman, “Footnotes are Not Enough: Rectifying a Missed Opportunity to Problematize a Canonical Work in Teaching Max Frisch’s Homo Faber Through Social Justice Pedagogy”
  4. Didem Uca, “Teaching German while Turkish: Close Reading Ida von Hahn-Hahn’s Orientalische Briefe (1841) in an Undergraduate Literature Seminar”
 
2:15 - 2:30       Break with refreshments
2:30 - 3:45      Syllabus Workshop I: Innovative Courses
  • Moderator: Ashwin Manthripragada
  • Mary Allison, “Exploring Diversity through a Cosmopolitan Approach”
  • Seth Peabody, “Decolonization and Folklore: Diversifying the Fairy Tale Curriculum”
  • Andrea Speltz, “Name Dropping: The Political Appropriation of German Historical Figures and Movements”
  • Hannah Eldridge, “Dialogue, Counterpoint, Polyphony: Promises and Pitfalls for Models of Decolonializing the Canon in the Classroom”
 
3:45-4:00         Break with refreshments
4:00-5:30         Keynote Address, "On Racism without Race: The Need to Diversify German Studies" (Dr. Priscilla Layne, UNC-Chapel Hill, author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture); event located at Regents Hall 150, Click here to stream it live.

5:30-7:00        Dinner in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
7:15 p.m.         Shuttles from St. Olaf to hotel
 
Saturday, March 2, 2019:
9:00 a.m.        Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
9:15 - 10:30     Roundtable: Whose German Studies? Diversity and Inclusivity in Promoting German Studies in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
  • Moderator: Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College)
  • Susanne Rinner (AATG)
  • Rosemarie Peña (@Blackgermans; Black German Heritage & Research Association)
  • Beret Norman (Boise State University)
  • Jennifer Redmann (Franklin & Marshall College)

10:30 - 10:45   Break with refreshments
10:45 - 12:00   Panel 3: Diversity and Decolonization at the Program Level
Moderator: Shelley Hay
  1. Karin Maxey, “Building an Inclusive German Curriculum from the Ground Up: A Case Study”
  2. Joela Jacobs, Janice McGregor, David Gramling, “Decolonizing Graduate Study in German: Ongoing Interventions in Arizona”
  3. Anna Zimmer, “Learning about Diversifying and Decolonizing the Curriculum in Community”
  4. Sophie Bornscheuer, “Language Ideologies and the Decolonialization of German Studies (in Mozambique)”
 
12:00 - 1:00     Lunch Break in Stav Hall, Buntrock Commons
1:00 - 1:15        Greetings from St. Olaf College President
1:15-2:30         Panel 4: Social Justice Pedagogies in Action
Moderator: Regine Criser
  1. Andrea Bryant, “Whence and Whither Bildung?”
  2. Magda Tarnawska Senel and Anna Brungardt, “Politicizing Classroom Space through Experiential Learning”
  3. Beverly Weber and Emily Frazier-Rath, “Refugee Texts in the German Studies Classroom: Teaching and Hospitality”
  4. Nichole Neuman, “Community and the Inclusive Classroom”
 
2:30 - 3:00       Break with refreshments
3:00 - 4:15       Syllabus Workshop II: Developing Units / Rethinking our Texts in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
  • Moderator: Rachael Huener
  • Christine Evans, “Regional and minority languages in intermediate German instruction”
  • Amanda Sheffer, “Teaching Migration within Austria in the Basic Language Classroom: Diversity & Inclusion at the Intermediate Level”
  • Holly Brining, “Black Magic, Power and Diversity: Krabat in third-semester German”
  • Claire Scott, "Gender Neutral Language and TA Training"
 
4:15-5:15         Individual Action Plans / Break-Out Groups
5:30 p.m.       Shuttles from St. Olaf to hotel; dinner on your own in Northfield
 
Sunday, March 3, 2019:
8:45 a.m.        Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
9:00-10:00     Brunch and Business Meeting in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons - What are the next steps for DDGC?
10:00-10:15      Break
10:15 - 11:15      Small Group Discussions: Take-Aways
11:15 - 11:45      General Reflections, Feedback, Wrap-Up
12:00 p.m.       Shuttles to airport