1. Home ›
  2. Research ›
  3. MEMGS ›
  4. Conferences

Conferences

Each year, MEMGS (The Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Network) organizes panels and seminars at the annual conference of the German Studies Association. The current network coordinators are:

  • Christopher Hutchinson, University of Mississippi (cjhutch1@olemiss.edu)
  • Frances Kneupper, University of Mississippi (fckneupp@olemiss.edu)
  • James Parente, University of Minnesota (paren001@umn.edu)
  • Marcela Perett, North Dakota State University (marcela.perett@ndsu.edu)

The GSA's 2024 annual conference will be held in Atlanta Georgia, on September 26-29. For general information about the conference and a link to the most up-to-date program, please visit the GSA's website. 

 

For the GSA's 2024 annual conference in Atlanta, MEMGS is organizing and sponsoring five sessions. 

 

Heroic Epic as Border Crosser: Intertextual—Intermedial—Intercultural

Friday, September 27, 8:00-9:50am

Moderator: Anna Chalupa-Albrecht – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Commentator: Maximilian Wick – Goethe-Universität

Presenters:

Florian Geddes – University of Toronto
Printers’ Perspectives on Epic Poetry: Books of Heroes (1479–1590)

Walker Horsfall – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Racial Coding and the Astronomer in Stjörnu-Odda draumr

Detlev Weber – University of Washington
Rapunzel in the Epic Poetry of Dietrich

The Visual in German Culture before 1700 

Sunday, September 29, 8-9:50am

Moderator: Francien Markx – George Mason University
Commentator: James Parente – University of Minnesota

Presenters:

Alison Beringer – Montclair State University
Was Helen a Trojan Horse? Women and Statues in Medieval German Trojaliteratur

Jonathan Green – University of North Dakota
Visualizing the Mass Audience in Theuerdank

Christopher Hutchinson – The University of Mississippi
Visual Medicine in a 1529 Pamphlet on the English Sweating Sickness

Hannah Hunter-Parker – Amherst College
Renaissance and RenAIssances: Perspectives on Dürer and Panofsky Today

 

War and Peace in Central Europe (1): Medieval

Saturday, September 28, 10:10-12:00am

Moderator: Christopher Hutchinson – The University of Mississippi
Commentator: CJ Jones – University of Notre Dame

Presenters:

Rosmarie Morewedge – Binghamton University, SUNY
Reinfried von Braunschweig: The Courtly Transformation of a Bloody Medieval Crusade into Civilized Relations Between Adversaries
 
Anna Cappellotto – University of Verona
"Ir sult in lân genesen": Dietrich von Bern and the Rhetoric of Peace in the Nibelungenlied
 
Marcela Perett – NDSU
The Salvific Effect of Violence: Hussite Heretics at War

 

War and Peace in Central Europe (2): Early Modern

Sunday, September 29, 10:10-12:00am

Moderator: Marcela Perett – NDSU
Commentator: Mary Lindemann – University of Miami

Presenters:

Zoë Burgard – Yale University
In the Shadow of War: Self-Representation and Trauma Processing in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus
 
Peter Hess – University of Texas
Asymmetrical Warfare in Colonial Encounters: German Mercenaries in South America
 
Andrew Deaton – The University of Alabama
The Medieval Roots of Early Modern Military Discipline in the German Lands

 

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Premodern German Studies: A Roundtable

Saturday, September 28, 3:55-5:45

Moderator: James Parente – University of Minnesota

Roundtable Participants:

CJ Jones – University of Notre Dame
Adam Oberlin – Princeton University
Annegret Oehme – University of Washington