Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Austrian Literature and Culture Annual Conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association 13-15 April 2007 Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada download poster / download program

PROGRAMME

Friday, 13 April 2007

8:00 AM On-site Breakfast Buffet and Registration (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

8:30 AM Welcomes (West Conference Room, Stollery Business Centre)

• Franz A.J. Szabo, Director Wirth Institute, Universtiy of Alberta
• Marianne Henn, Acting Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
• Helga Schreckenberger, MALCA President, University of Vermont
• Nikolaus Demiantschuk, Honorary Consul of Austria for Alberta
• Sigurd Pacher, Cultural Director and Head of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Deputy Head of Mission, Austrian Embassy, Ottawa
• Daniel Woolf, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta

9:00 AM

Session 1: Habsburg Erotica (West Conference Room, Stollery Business Centre)
Chair: Franz Szabo, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• Olivia Gruber, Rutgers University
  "I am a slave to my hair": Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Hair Fetishism, and 19th Century Austrian Sexuality / Abstract
• Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin
  Sex, Lies, and Habsburgiana: The Political Erotics of Mayerling / Abstract
• Olivia Landry, McGill University, Montreal
  Sex and the Press: Karl Kraus' Critique of the Boulevard Press / Abstract

Session 2: Images of Women and the Male Self (Tory Building Rm. 2-58)
Chair: Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

• Marcus Patka, Jüdisches Museum, Vienna
  Mädchenhirt und Galgenton: Zum Thema "Prostitution" bei Egon Erwin Kisch / Abstract
• Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University, Beaumont
  Olga/Nahar: An Expressionist Portrait of the Female by Ernst Weiß / Abstract
• Bernhard Fetz, Boltzmann-Institut für Biografieforschung, Vienna
  Sexualität als exorzistischer Akt: Hermann Brochs Psychische Selbstbiographie (1941) / Abstract

10:30 AM Coffee Break (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

11:00 AM

Session 3: Galicia -- Sexuality and Otherness (West Conference Room, SBC)
Chair: Wolfgang Müller-Funk, University of Vienna, University of Zagreb

• Alexandra Strohmaier, University of Graz
  'Halb-Asiens' umtriebige Körper: Zur Sexualisierung kultureller Alterität in der Habsburgermonarchie / Abstract
• Agnieszka B. Nance, Tulane University, New Orleans
  Zauberin, Hexe, Zarin, Königin, Heilige: Sacher-Masoch's Literary World of Slavic Women / Abstract
• Ulrich Bach, Stanford University
  "Es war, als hätte jemand eine Tür geöffnet...": On Sexual Politics in Joseph Roth / Abstract

Session 4: Literature and Culture in the 19th Century (Tory Building Rm. 2-58)
Chair: Marianne Henn, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• Scott Messing, Alma College
  Schubert, Gender, and the Viennese Modernist Imagination / Abstract
• Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington, Seattle
  Scharfe Jungs und schräge Plots: Verführung im Vormärz / Abstract
• Linda Kraus Worley, University of Kentucky, Lexington
  The Wild Man and Woman: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Constructions of Sexuality / Abstract

12:30 PM Lunch (University of Alberta Faculty Club)

2:00 PM

Session 5: Sexuality and Eroticism in Fin de Si?cle Vienna (West Conference Room, SBC)
Chair: Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University

• Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont, Burlington
  Dämonisierte Erotik in Rainer Maria Rilkes Erzählungen 'Die Näherin' (1894) und 'Das Haus' (1899) / Abstract
• Hillary H. Herzog, University of Kentucky, Lexington
  Sexual Scenery: Vienna's Sexual Topography in Schnitzler and Salten
• Dariya Kapinus, Ukrainian National University, Kiev
  Die Problematik von Eros und Sexualität im dramatischen Werk Arthur Schnitzlers / Abstract

Session 6: Gender and Sexuality in Postwar Literature (Tory Building Rm. 2-58)
Chair: Clemens Ruthner, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Dismantling the Erotic: Exposing Gender as Power Relations in Drach's Untersuchung an Mädeln und Jelinek's Lust / Abstract
• Ruth Gross, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
  Probing Sexuality: A. Drach's Untersuchung an Mädeln / Abstract
• Lorraine Markotic, University of Calgary
  Desire, Subjectivity, and Sexual Difference: Marlen Haushofer und Jacques Lacan / Abstract

3:30 PM:
Presentation of the University of Alberta's Salzburg Collection (West Conference Room, SBC)
Erika Banski, University of Alberta Library

4:00 PM Author Reading (West Conference Room, SBC)
Olga Flor

5:00 PM MALCA Executive Meeting
Senate Chamber (Old Arts Bldg. 326)

7:30 PM Theatrical Performance (Second Space, Timms Centre)
Full Circle (Arthur Schnitzler: Der Reigen)
With students from the Univ. of Alberta's Department of Drama
Directed by Piet Defraeye and Clemens Ruthner

10:00 PM Reception

Saturday, 14 April 2007

8:30 AM On-site Breakfast Buffet (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

9:00 AM

Session 7: Eros, Myth and the Sacred in the Fin de Si?cle (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont, Burlington

• Robert W. Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte
  Sexuality and the Sacred: Erotic Religion in Fin de Si?cle Vienna / Abstract
• Wolfgang Nehring, University of California, Los Angeles
  Ästhetentum und Sexorgie: Zum Tempeltraum in Richard Beer-Hofmanns Der Tod Georgs und verwandten 'Exzentritäten' / Abstract
• Antonia Eder, Free University, Berlin
  "Wie es zwischen Mann und Weib zugeht": Hofmannsthals Mythostransformationen der (Post)Moderne / Abstract

Session 8: Arthur Schnitzler I (Reigen) (East Conference Room B, SBC)
Chair: Piet Defraeye, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• Katrin Schumacher, University of Hamburg
  Wieder. Einmal. Wieder: Schnitzlers Akte der Wiederholung / Abstract
• Brenda Keiser, Bloomsburg University
  Das süße Mädel: Then and Now / Abstract
• Christina Schlitzberger, Kassel University
  Liebesreigen und Totentanz: Tabuisierung von Sexualität und Tod in Arthur Schnitzlers Reigen und Werner Schwabs Reigenadaption / Abstract

10:30 AM Coffee Break (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

11:00 AM

Session 9: Arthur Schnitzler II (Damaged Egos) (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University, Houston

• Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia
  "Er konnte seiner Tränen nicht Herr werden": Männlichkeit und Melodrama in Arthur Schnitzlers Erzählung Flucht in die Finsternis / Abstract
• Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo
  Maternal Impressions and the Failure of Bourgeois Masculinity in Arthur Schnitzler's Andreas Thameyers letzter Brief / Abstract
• Torang Sinaga, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg Ist das Ich doch rettbar? Die Wahrung des Ego als Basis des Scheiterns in Arthur Schnitzlers Anatol-Zyklus / Abstract

Session 10: Representation, Pornography and Sexual Abuse (East Conference Room B, SBC)
Chair: Alfred Ebenbauer, University of Vienna, ÖAD

• Clemens Ruthner, University of Alberta, Edmonton
  Sexuelle 'Utopie' vs. Kinderpornografie: Gedanken zum 100-jährigen Erscheinungsjubiläum von Josefine Mutzenbacher / Abstract
• Friedbert Aspetsberger, University of Klagenfurt
  Literatur und sexueller Missbrauch: Ein Blick auf Ingeborg Bachmann / Abstract
• Bernhard Doppler, University of Paderborn
  Die heimliche Öffentlichkeit: Schnitzlers Reigen und Josefine Mutzenbacher im Kontext der pornographischen Literatur

12:30 PM: Lunch (University of Alberta Faculty Club) / Business Meeting MALCA

2:00 PM Author Reading (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Karin Rick

2:00 PM

Session 11: Austrian Film and Visual Art (East Conference Room B, SBC)
Chair: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia

• Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  Gendering the Crusade: Female Types and Sexuality in Austrofascist Film / Abstract
• Catherine Wheatley, University of Southhampton
  Unseen/Obscene: The (Non) Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste / Abstract
• Markus Hallensleben (UBC, Vancouver)
  Mapping the Body Space between Gender and Grammar: VALIE EXPORT's Körperkonfigurationen / Abstract

3:30 PM Coffee Break (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

3:45 PM

Session 12: Art, Design and Architecture around 1900 (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: David Luft, University of California, San Diego

• Maria Euchner, University of Toronto "Something wicked this way comes": Klimt's Degenerate Daughters of the Sea / Abstract
• Dariusz Gafijczuk, Universtiy of Alberta, Edmonton
  Psychoanalytic Sexuality and the Culture of Design 1900 / Abstract
• Heidi Rauscher Tilghman, University of Washington, Seattle
  Indecent Exposure: Exhibitionism in Adolf Loos's Architectural Design / Abstract

Session 13: FreudÕs Contemporaries (East Conference Room B, SBC)
Chair: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• Raymond L. Burt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
  "Errötend folgte er ihren Spuren...": The Trials and Tribulations of Friedrich S. Krauss / Abstract
• Martin Huber, Thomas Bernhard Archiv, Gmunden
  "Übrigens hat mich Weininger auf die Idee gebracht": Zur Weininger-Rezeption bei Karl Kraus -- mit einem Seitenblick auf Johannes Freumbichler und Thomas Bernhard / Abstract
• Susanne Hochreiter, University of Vienna
  "Die kommende Revolution ist eine Revolution fürs Mutterrecht": Otto Gross / Abstract

7:00 PM Conference Banquet (Hotel)
"Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in the Works of Gustav Klimt"
Stefan Koja, Curator, Österreichische Galerie im Belvedere, Vienna

Sunday, 15 April 2007

8:30 AM On-site Breakfast Buffet (Stollery Business Centre Lobby)

9:00 AM

Session 14: Robert Musil (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: Raleigh Whitinger, Universtiy of Alberta, Edmonton

• Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universtiy of Vienna
  Das ganz andere Geschlecht: Sexualität und Geschlecht bei Musil / Abstract
• Sebastian Hüsch, Universtiy of Basel
  Ist Macht erotisch? Verführung zwischen Macht und Ironie in Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften / Abstract
• Malcolm Spencer, University of Birmingham
  Violence and Love: The Search for the 'andere Zustand' in Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften / Abstract

Session 15: Alternatives in Sexuality and Gender (East Conference Room B, SBC)
Chair: Susanne Hochreiter, University of Vienna

• Agatha Schwartz, University of Otttawa
  "When the Special Girlfriend...": Lesbian Love and Fin-de-Si?cle Austrian Women Writers / Abstract
• Wolfgang Hackl, University of Innsbruck
  Transvestimus und Erinnerungsdiskurs: Gerhard Fritschs Roman Fasching / Abstract
• Anna Babka, University of Vienna
  ". . . vor dem nackten Schoß eines afrikanischen Straßenjungen . . . ": Schwuler Sex und kulturelle Alterität in Josef Winklers Friedhof der bitteren Orangen / Abstract

10:30 AM Coffee Break Business Centre Lobby)

11:00 AM

Session 16: Literary Ersatz-Eroticism after 1945 (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Heide Kunzelmann, Aston University, Birmingham
  "Zuhälter der Wörter": Sprachspiel und Sexualität bei H.C. Artmann / Abstract
• Katharina Herzmansky, Universtiy of Klagenfurt
  Vom Eros des Kreuzes: Christine Lavant und die Folgen / Abstract
• Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University
  Sexuality without Eroticism in Peter Rosei's Fiction / Abstract
• Annika Nickenig, University of Mainz
  Politische und poetologische Implikationen von Sexualitätsdarstellungen in Prosawerken Elfriede Jelineks" / Abstract

Session 17: Elfriede Jelinek (East Conference Room A, SBC)
Chair: Margarete Lamb-Fafflberger, Lafayette College, Easton

• Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Helmina von Chézy's Rosamunde and Elfriede Jelinek's Der Tod und das Mädchen III / Abstract
• Brent Holland, University of Alberta, Edmonton
  Fantasies of the Dark City: Sexual Dystopia and Space in Die Klavierspielerin / Abstract
• Lorely French, Pacific University, Forest Grove
  "Zu lieben, indem man nicht geliebt hat:" Love, Erotica, and Pornography in Elfriede Jelinek's Über Tiere / Abstract
• Alexandra Heberger, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
  "Der Mann -- freudig ist er ein Gott": Geschlechterdifferenz als sozialpolitisches Konstrukt in den Werken von Elfriede Jelinek / Abstract

1:00 PM End of Conference