Mini-Conference: Minor Subjects in History
April 25, 2017, 3:00-6:30
MLB Conference Room, Third Floor

3:10-4:20 Languages, Spaces, and Objects

Elizabeth McNeill, “’tu es… Was? Was? Tu es…?’: Subjectifying the Simultaneous
Interpreter in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Simultan’”

Tina Tahir, "Ulrike Ottinger’s Bildnis einer Trinkerin: The Foreigner Within—
Blueprints of Impossible Places"

Lauren Beck, “Objects of Memory, Subjects of Memoir: Dubravka Ugrešić and
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s respective works, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1998) and Ich bin meine eigene Frau (1992)”

4:30-5:45 Minor and Marginal Subjectivities

Rhiannon Muncaster, “ARTKORE: Constructing Marginal Masculinities and Minor
Musics in Nazar’s “FreundlicherDiktator”

Onyx Henry, "Racism and Agency in Ika He-man Hall's Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany."

Kristefer Stojanovski, “The contingencies of a ‘minor’ social identity and the “risk of HIV infection”

Wojciech Owczarek, “Peasant Subjectivity in Poland’s Proza Chłopska” [not
presenting]

5:45-6:30 Subject Zero

Srdjan Cvjeticanin, Title TBA

Julia Shiota, “Performing Human: Osami Dazai, No Longer Human, and Empty
Subjectivity”