Saturday, September 26

120A Walker Arts and Humanities

8-9 am—Breakfast Buffet

Morning Session

Moderator:
Barbara Lide, Michigan Technological University

9 am—Telling Tales of Everyday and Extreme: Friendship in the Correspondence of Austrian-Jewish Schoolboys (1938-1943)
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn

9:45 am—Dialog as Paradigm in Johannes Urzidil’s Das Grosse Halleluja
Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University

10:30—The Family as Baggage: Family-ties in the Exile Novels Exil by Lion Feuchtwanger and Ein Kind aller Länder by Irmgard Keun
Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont

11:15 am—(Online conference:) Marriage of Convenience as a Way into Exile – Unusual Partner Relationships
Irene Messinger, University of Vienna

Noon—Lunch

Public Key Note Address

1 pm—Introduction
Helga Schreckenberger, NASFES President, University of Vermont

The Future of Exile Studies
Guy Stern, Wayne State University

Afternoon Session

Moderator:
Barbara Lide, Michigan Technological University

2 pm—Partners in Exile: The Challenge of Acculturation
Leonie Marx, University of Kansas

2:45 pm—Saxon Families and the Borderland Exile in Czechoslovakia (1933-38)
Swen Steinberg, University of California, Los Angeles

3:30 pm—Camelot in Exile: Family and Partnership Relationships
of the Mann Family
Dieter Adolphs, Michigan Technological University

5 pm—Visit of Temple Jacob in Hancock
Host: Susan Burack

6:30 pm—Dinner at Bambu in Houghton