14th Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies - April 5, 2025
Organizers: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger - Lafayette College
Prof. Axel Hildebrandt - 鶹
PROGRAM
SESSION I
8:00-9:10 AM
Moderator: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Maria Soukup - Lafayette College
Transcriptions of Meetings by the Moravian Council of Elders from the Revolutionary Period
Allison Stein - Lafayette College
German Immigrant Families from the Founding of Easton 1752 until the Revolutionary Period
Mia Trani - Lafayette College
German Newspapers of Early 19th Century Easton, Pennsylvania
SESSION II
9:10-10:40 AM
Moderator: Prof. Michael Powers (Kalamazoo College)
Michael Yuan - Rutgers University
Oedipus on the Cross
Rachel Franke - Hillsdale College
The Unity of Innovation and Beauty in Human Reason: Friedrich Georg Jünger, Walter Benjamin, and the Role of Technology in Bildung vs. Ausbildung
Meredith Steward - Kalamazoo College
Kollwitz, Grosz, and Kubin: The Influence of Artists’ Personal Politics on their Art in the Weekly Magazines Simplicissimus and Jugend in the Weimar Republic
Vanessa Folwell - Boise State University
Eine Historische Analyse des deutschen Filmes 1920-1943
SESSION III
10:40-12:10 AM
Moderator: Prof. Maria Mitchell (Franklin & Marshall College)
Ethan Mazurek - Franklin & Marshall College
German Colonial Rule in South-West Africa
Grace Collins - Franklin & Marshall College
The Impact of the Einsatzgruppen on German History
Nicholas Oselette - Georgia Tech
Eine Generation im Gefängnis: Der Holocaust und seine Folgen
Max Muller - Lafayette College
Transgenerational Trauma and Perpetrator Guilt in Malte Ludin’s 2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß (2005)
KEYNOTE LECTURE
12:10-12:55 PM
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dennis Johannssen - Lafayette College
Language and Resistance from the Third Reich to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
SESSION IV
12:55-2:05 PM
Moderator: Prof. Mikael O. Berggren (Lafayette College)
Alex Nam - Kalamazoo College
Blood Over Territory: Guest Workers, Jus Sanguinis, and Ethnocultural National Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
Nina Grafton - Dickinson College
“We Will Be Stronger”: Queer Power and Resistance in the German Democratic Republic
Noah Seaner - Lafayette College
The Impact of the 50+1 Rule on German Soccer in a Transatlantic Perspective
SESSION V
2:05-2:45 PM
Moderator: Prof. Nora Vosburg (St. Olaf College)
Alex Hu - University of Chicago
“Literaturpolitik”: The German Right and J.R.R. Tolkien
Ryan Birnesser - St. Olaf College
Soziale Medienstrategien in der Politik
SESSION VI
2:45-4:15 PM
Moderator: Prof. Jeffrey Hertel (Hillsdale College)
Nina Martin - Portland State University
Geographic, Religious, and Ethnic Identity and Othering Before the Invention of Race: A Critical Translation of the Index of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
Alexandra Comus - Hillsdale College
Eros and the Garden: Sublimity and Cultivation in Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Sol Dente - Haverford College
Eine Neubewertung von Adelheid von Walldorf: Hemmungsloser Feminismus und
Sturm und Drang
Zachary Chen - Hillsdale College
Physik und Poesie: Bedenken über menschliche Natur in Novalis und Dürrenmatts Die Physiker
SESSION VII
4:15-5:45 PM
Moderator: Prof. Britta Kallin (Georgia Tech)
Hazel Landers - Rice University
Die Aussaat der Flora der Modernität: Başak Günaks Rewilding
Chiara Baroni - Dickinson College
The Waldsterben Debate: An Issue of National Identity
James Reilly - Colby College
German Football and Climate Change
Haneen Ahmed - Georgia Tech
Grenzüberschreitungen im Bereich Umwelt zwischen Deutschland und Amerika in den letzten zwanzig Jahren