International Conference for Exile Studies: “Networks of Exile”
University of Vermont, Burlington VT
September 26-29 2013
(Draft)
Thursday, September 26, 2014
Waterman Manor, Waterman Building
5:00-7:00 PM Registration
Reception
Waterman 413
7:00 PM Film: The Richie Boys
Introduction and Discussion: Guy Stern
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Marsh Lounge, Billings Library
8:00-8:30 AM: Coffee, Registration
8:30-9:00 AM Welcome
9:00-10:45 Structures of Networks I
Moderator:
Competing Networks and Exile Experience
Leonie Marx, University of Kansas
German Exiles in the 1930s: From a Quasi Non-Existent Network to a Fictional One.
Mélanie Yœurp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Building (and Shielding) Networks in Exile
Kristina-Monika Hinneburg, Technische Universitat Dresden
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Structures of Exile II
“A Lost Generation”: Expatriation, Symbiosis and the Making of a Literary Movement”
Julie Powell, San Francisco State University
Old and New: The Network of Felix Guggenheim
Michaela Ullmann, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:15 European Networks
Moderator
Interfering Signals: Fractured Connectivity in the Disconnected Network of the Budapest Avant Garde.
Dorothy Barenscott, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Vancouver, Canada)
The Green Island in Dark Times: Rootedness and Refuge in Southern Denmark, 1933-1941
Katherine Hollander, Boston University
Networking Exile: German Émigré Writers in the Netherlands, 1933-1940.
Jack Boas, Linfield College, Oregon
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:00 Networks in the Arts and Music
Networking the Arts. Erich Maria Remarque and Art.
Thomas F.Schneider, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Die Musik war unsere Rettung! Die Bedeutung des Palestine Orchestra für das deutschsprachige Musikexil.
Barbara von der Luehe, Berlin
6:00 Dinner
8:00 Concert
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Saturday, September 28, 2013
Marsh Lounge, Billings Library
9:00 – 10:15 Political Networks
The Left Saxons and the ‘isolation in the isolation.’ Long-term influence of political positions in the German Trade Unions exile.
Sven Steinberg, TU Dresden
‘Fight for Freedom’ : A Vansittartist Network of Rightwing German Socialists in Great Britain (1941-1945) / ‘Fight for Freedom’: Ein Vansittartistisches Netzwerk rechter deutscher Sozialisten in Großbritannien (1941-1945).
Jörg Thunecke, Nottingham, UK
10:15-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:00 Political Networks
Networks of the interwar years helping to escape Central-Europe for British India 1933 till 1945.
Margit Franz, Graz, Austria.
“Eine kleine Gruppe Entschlossener…” The Federacion de Austriacos Libres in Bolivia.
Veronika Zwerger, Österreichsiche Exilbibliothek im Literaturhaus Wien
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 The Mann Family
The ‘German Windsors’ in Exile: Thomas Mann and his Family
Elke Nicolai, Hunter College
Thomas Manns Beziehung zu seinen amerikanischen Verlegern, Förderern und Agenturen.
Dieter Adolphs, Michigan Tech. University
2:15-3:30 Networks in Vermont
Central Europe in Vermont: German Exile Writers and the American Journalist Dorothy Thompson.
Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University
Die Familie Trapp im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Bernhard Doppler, Universität Paderborn
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:15 Epistolary Networks
“We’re becoming citizens of the world in the purest and best sense”: Epistolary Networks in Exile for Elisabeth Hauptmann and Margarete Steffin.
Paula Hanssen, Webster University
An Epistolary Network–In and Beyond Exile.
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan–Dearborn
6:00 Dinner
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
9:00-10:45 Women and Exile Networks
Gendering Russian Exile Networks: Three Russian women-writers in the search of a new identity in Interwar Russian Paris.
Natalia Starostina, Young Harris University
Anna Seghers’ Networking in Mexico.
Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University
Salka Viertel’s Transnational Hollywood-Network
Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:30 Exile and Beyond
“Ein Schriftsteller abgeschnittener deutsche Zunge”: Zur späten Vernetzung des Exilautors Arthur Feldmann.
Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont
Émigrés and Education in Germany after 1945: The Case of Josef Albers.
Karl Fuessl, TU Berlin
12:30 Verabschiedung
