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Beatriz’ Tod Als Eine Art Weiter Zu Leben: ‚Überschreiben‘ In Irmtraud Morgeners Leben Und Abenteuer Der Trobadora Beatriz Nach Ihrer Spielfrau Laura, Helen Titchener Apr 2014

Beatriz’ Tod Als Eine Art Weiter Zu Leben: ‚Überschreiben‘ In Irmtraud Morgeners Leben Und Abenteuer Der Trobadora Beatriz Nach Ihrer Spielfrau Laura, Helen Titchener

Undergraduate German Research Conference

In diesem Vortrag werde ich zeigen, dass der Tod der Hauptfigur in Irmtraud Morgners 1974 Roman Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura eine feministische Rückgewinnung ist. Beatriz’ Tod ermöglicht Beatriz selbst, den anderen weiblichen Figuren Olga und Laura, und den weiblichen und auch männlichen Figuren Benno und Valaska weiter und besser zu leben. Wie ihr Schlaf, mit dem das Buch anfängt, gibt ihr Tod Beatriz eine neue Chance zu Leben. Das Konzept des besseren und rettenden Todes anstatt Beatriz’ möglichen Lebens, zeigt, dass die Deutsche Demokratische Republik in den siebziger Jahren keine Welt für Frauen …


Der Faust’Sche Paradox Und Wer An Kindsmord Schuld Ist, Nele Löcher Apr 2014

Der Faust’Sche Paradox Und Wer An Kindsmord Schuld Ist, Nele Löcher

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Die größte Gefahr für Frauen im 18. Jahrhundert war die patriarchale Machtstruktur, die ihre Leben bestimmte. Dies beschäftigte nicht nur die Frauen, die unter ihr litten, sondern auch die Autoren des Sturm und Drang. Diese Männer der Aufklärung waren vor allem von der Tragödie des Kindsmords inspiriert. Bespielhaft hierfür sind die berühmten Werke Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe schrieb mehrere Fassungen und zwei Teile, ich werde mich nur mit Faust I beschäftigen). Faust, der zwar als hervorragender, aber auch als typischer Mann beschrieben wird folgt einem Schema der Zeit. Er ist angezogen von der Unschuld und Tugend von Gretchen, doch …


Martin Luther: Vater Einer Allgemeinen Sprache?, Annika Ewaldz Apr 2014

Martin Luther: Vater Einer Allgemeinen Sprache?, Annika Ewaldz

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Martin Luther ist nicht nur für den Beginn der Reformation bekannt, sondern auch für seine Übersetzung der Bibel ins Deutsche. Er übersetzte diese Bibel in der Zeit nach dem Reichstag zu Worms in seinem Versteck auf der Wartburg. Er nahm besondere Sorgfalt in diese Übersetzung, so dass jede deutsche Person die Bibel sollte lesen können. In seiner Übersetzung hielt er sich nah an der Latein-Versionen der Bibel. Er plädierte auch dafür, dass Deutsch die Lehrsprache an den Universitäten sein sollte, vor allem an der Universität Wittenberg, und auch dass Deutsch, statt Latein, die Kirchensprache sein sollte, damit jede Person verstehen …


Brückenbauen: Die Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichterin Fernande Richter Und Ihr Drama Die Brücke, Calla Buttke Apr 2014

Brückenbauen: Die Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichterin Fernande Richter Und Ihr Drama Die Brücke, Calla Buttke

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Obwohl Fernande Richter (auch unter dem Pseudonym Edna Fern bekannt) als eine der besten deutschamerikanischen Verfasserinnen anerkannt wird, gibt es wenig verlässliche Information über ihr Leben und ihr Werk, einschließlich Die Brücke, ihr einziges Theaterstück, das in Milwaukee im März des Jahres 1917 uraufgeführt wurde. Diese Präsentation beschreibt einige vorher unbekannte Quellen mit Information über Richters Leben und analysiert das Theaterstück, Die Brücke, das vor wenigen Jahren unter Schreibmaschinenmanuskripten in der „Trostel Collection of German Theater Scripts“ in der Milwaukee Public Library entdeckt wurde und in Cora Lee Kluges Other Witnesses: An Anthology of Literature of the German …


Finanziell Verpflichtet, Geistlich Verbunden Und Zur Katastrophe Vorbestimmt: Die Notwendigkeit Und Die Gefahr Der Arbeit In Bahnwärter Thiel, Zach Nelson Apr 2014

Finanziell Verpflichtet, Geistlich Verbunden Und Zur Katastrophe Vorbestimmt: Die Notwendigkeit Und Die Gefahr Der Arbeit In Bahnwärter Thiel, Zach Nelson

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Obwohl die Industrialisierung in dem 19. Jahrhundert große Fortschritte für die Menschen Europas bedeutete, wird sie in dem Buch Bahnwärter Thiel von Gerhart Hauptmann aus einer anderen Perspektive betrachtet. Die Abhängigkeit zwischen Menschen und der Industrialisierung wird nicht positiv repräsentiert und das Leben von Thiel, der Protagonist der Geschichte, stellt die katastrophalen Folgen dieser gefährlichen Verbindlichkeit dar. Bahnwärter Thiel erzählt eine Geschichte, die die Arbeit Thieles in der Eisenbahnindustrie als notwendig für ihn erklärt, aber auch als eine zerstörende Kraft in seinem Leben. Zwar benötigt er seine relativ unkomplizierte Arbeit, um seine Familie unterstützen zu können, aber die spirituelle und …


Lena Goreliks Meine Weißen Nächte: Ein Bild Der Russischen Juden In Deutschland, Abigail Weisberger Apr 2014

Lena Goreliks Meine Weißen Nächte: Ein Bild Der Russischen Juden In Deutschland, Abigail Weisberger

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Diese Forschung untersucht Lena Goreliks Meine weißen Nächte (2004) als ein Hauptwerk, um die inneren Konflikte von russisch-jüdischen Einwanderern in Deutschland nach dem Fall der Sowjetunion im Jahre 1991 zu verstehen. Obwohl russische Juden politische Hilfe bekamen, in Deutschland einzuwandern, kamen sie nach Deutschland nicht aus religiösen Gründen. Eher argumentiere ich durch eine Analyse von Meine weißen Nächte, dass diese Immigranten eine schwache Verbindung zu ihrem Judentum wegen der historischen sowjetischen Unterdrückung hatten und, dass ihr Russentum eine größere Quelle von Fremdheit gewesen ist als ihr Judentum. Ich beginne mit einer Untersuchung von den Erinnerungen von der Protagonistin Anja …


Rock ‘N’ Roll Honecker‘: Die Fdj Und Westliche Rockmusik Während Der 80er Jahre, Dale Jones Apr 2014

Rock ‘N’ Roll Honecker‘: Die Fdj Und Westliche Rockmusik Während Der 80er Jahre, Dale Jones

Undergraduate German Research Conference

In der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik in den Achtzigerjahren entwickelte sich ein neues undeutliches Verhältnis zwischen der Führung der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) und dem westlichen Rockmusikstil. In meiner Arbeit werde ich zeigen, dass diese unsicheren Haltungen über Rockmusik die konkurrierenden Ideen innerhalb der Parteiorganisationen und die widersprüchlichen Elemente der SED-Organisationen offenbaren. Besonderes in der Freien Deutschen Jugend (FDJ) existierten Antriebe, die die westliche Jugendkultur mit dem Sozialismus vereinbaren wollten, um die Sicherheit der politischen Zukunft zu gewährleisten. Dieses Streben orientierte sich oft gegen die älteren Parteigenossen und Führung in der SED, die selbst kritischere und patriotischere Standpunkte in der Eskalierung …


Mehr Als Unterhaltung: Warum Und Inwieweit Filme In Deutschland Zensiert Werden, Samantha Petroski Apr 2014

Mehr Als Unterhaltung: Warum Und Inwieweit Filme In Deutschland Zensiert Werden, Samantha Petroski

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Film hat die Macht, überzeugende Ideen darzustellen und die Möglichkeit viele Leute zu erreichen. Was passiert, wenn die Gedanken der Filme und die Ideologie der Regierung nicht das Gleiche sind? Die Doktrin der Regierung entscheidet, wie Filmzensur benutzt wird. Diese Situation ist in Deutschland besonders interessant zu untersuchen, weil die Regierung sich während des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts ziemlich häufig geändert hat. Es gab nicht einen, sondern zwei Kriege, die auch eine Rolle spielen. Kriegszeiten sind wichtig. Filme waren, in der Zeit des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs ziemlich neue Mittel, die, wenn vorsichtig benutzt, die Stimmung der Leute beeinflussen könnten. Die Regierung …


3rd Annual German Undergraduate Research Conference Program, German Studies Department Apr 2014

3rd Annual German Undergraduate Research Conference Program, German Studies Department

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Complete schedule of events for the 3rd Annual German Undergraduate Research Conference.


13th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College Apr 2014

13th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, presents student projects through presentations, papers, and poster displays. The event serves as a “showcase” demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at NSU. The Symposium is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines. Projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary. They are taken from class assignments as well as from independent projects. The projects do not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage in the concept’s evolution, from proposal and literature …


'An Explosive Of Quite Unimaginable Force': Did Werner Heisenberg Obstruct German Atomic Bomb Research?, Aaron G. Noll Mar 2014

'An Explosive Of Quite Unimaginable Force': Did Werner Heisenberg Obstruct German Atomic Bomb Research?, Aaron G. Noll

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Why was Nazi Germany unable to acquire an atomic bomb during World War II? An answer to this question necessarily involves an analysis of the wartime conduct of Werner Heisenberg. As the undisputed leader of German nuclear research, Heisenberg was integral to the successful production of a bomb. Heisenberg claimed after the war that the Nazis lacked the economic resources for this project. Moreover, Nazi military strategy ruled out such a sustained long-term commitment in armaments development. Heisenberg explained that he personally felt fortunate that these circumstances prevented Hitler from having a bomb. He argued that he merely “pretended” to …


American Indian Activism And The Rise Of Red Power, Rachael Guadagni Mar 2014

American Indian Activism And The Rise Of Red Power, Rachael Guadagni

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Recent historical scholarship has determined that the socio-political environment of post-World War II America provided the necessary catalyst for Native American activism which when combined with the socio-political atmosphere of the civil rights era lead to the development of the Red Power Movement. In the thirty or so years immediately following World War II America witnessed profound social and political change. Initial fear of communism lead to strict, pro-capitalist Indian legislation resulting in the termination of hundreds of tribes and the relocation of countless Indian people. From this same environment rose strong leaders, including many veterans, influenced by Cold War …


A Case Study Of Melita Maschmann: Women And The Third Reich, Lynda Maureen Willett Mar 2014

A Case Study Of Melita Maschmann: Women And The Third Reich, Lynda Maureen Willett

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The case study of Melita Maschmann shows that despite the deep manipulation and gender discrimination she was subject to in her youth by National Socialism Maschmann made her own free choices as an adult and chose to zealously absorb its political ideology. The general assumption is that National Socialism, and fascism, were male dominated political ideologies in which women played a passive role, such as that professed by Gertrude Scholtz-Klink. However, many women found National Socialism appealing and became active supporters of its ideals. The purpose of this paper is to explore that appeal and analyze why certain women such …


Telling The Whole Store: Native Americans And The Development Of Urban Spaces, Paul T. Fuller Mar 2014

Telling The Whole Store: Native Americans And The Development Of Urban Spaces, Paul T. Fuller

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

This paper places the subject of urban Indians in North America within the historical reality of their existence and emphasizes the need to rework current assumptions about Native peoples. Not only were Native peoples intimately involved in the act of building up villages, forts, and trading posts – which would eventual evolve into the cities that dot the continent today – but they have also very much been a part of the urban scene in major cities since the middle of the twentieth century. The cities around Puget Sound would not have been able to exist without the direct aid …


Teaching Preeminence In Renaissance Florence: Leonardo Bruni’S Translation And Dedication Of Pseudo-Aristotle’S Economics, Jason F. Amato Mar 2014

Teaching Preeminence In Renaissance Florence: Leonardo Bruni’S Translation And Dedication Of Pseudo-Aristotle’S Economics, Jason F. Amato

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Renaissance scholars consider Leonardo Bruni’s translation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, a work dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici in 1420, the beginning of the Italian humanists’ interaction with newly readable Greek sources. The text was among the first Greek documents Westerners embraced and translated into Latin or the vernacular of the Quattrocento. Thus, it played a significant role in the revival of the ancient Greek language amongst humanists, which was largely lost since the fall of the Roman Empire. However, this paper argues that Bruni’s translation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Economics also represents the utilization of an important Roman source: Seneca …


Romance And Reason: Contextualizing The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes, Alexandra Borkowski Mar 2014

Romance And Reason: Contextualizing The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes, Alexandra Borkowski

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The twelfth century saw the birth of the romance in literature, as well as the intellectual and social developments of humanism. The romance often involved the adventures of the knight, focusing on the behavior of the knight using the ideals of courtly love and chivalry. Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135-c.1183) contributed to the discussion of chivalry and courtliness by writing narrative poetry involving the Arthurian legends. He focused on the consequences of his knightly characters’ choices in order to show examples of how a proper knight should behave. This emphasis on the choices of each knight conveys a humanistic perspective, which …


Historical Thinking: Perspectives On Teaching History In The Secondary Education Classroom, Michael Diclemente Mar 2014

Historical Thinking: Perspectives On Teaching History In The Secondary Education Classroom, Michael Diclemente

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

“Doing” history can be interpreted in many different ways and this is due to the dynamic nature of history as a discipline. Doing history can be research, writing papers, working on a manuscript, putting final touches on a thesis, setting up a museum exhibit, being a tour guide, or teaching. In all these examples historians try to take their passion for the subject and make that clear to others. History needs an audience. Interest in history exists, if not, we would not have outlets like the History Channel. Dealing with an audience who wants to learn about history is one …


Sasquatch And The Law: The Implications Of Bigfoot Preservation Laws In Washington State, Joan Ilacqua Mar 2014

Sasquatch And The Law: The Implications Of Bigfoot Preservation Laws In Washington State, Joan Ilacqua

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The American Pacific Northwest is characterized by its lush wilderness, mountain ranges, salmon, Starbucks coffee, and most recently, by “Portlandia”-esque hipsters. The Pacific Northwest is also the home of the elusive, and potentially bogus, Sasquatch. The first Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, story was published by pioneer missionary Elkanah Walker in 1840 and a long tradition of publishing Bigfoot stories has proliferated since. Bigfoot searches and stories culminated in the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film of a supposed female Sasquatch, although the myth has found resurgence in modern Bigfoot hunting television shows. Whether or not the elusive Sasquatch exists, ultimately the stories serve as …


"Synthesizing Cubism And Surrealism: Wifredo Lam's 1940s Cuban Works", Kelsey Winiarsky Mar 2014

"Synthesizing Cubism And Surrealism: Wifredo Lam's 1940s Cuban Works", Kelsey Winiarsky

Africana Studies Student Research Conference (2013-2019)

As a modernist artist, Wifredo Lam used issues of racial degradation and colonialism as a catalyst to create work that directly addressed issues of colonialism in Cuba. Akin to Picasso’s process of appropriating of African motifs within a modern, Cubist style, Wifredo Lam created and appropriated a pastiche of both Surrealistic and Cubist styles into his 1940s paintings. The utilization of these modern styles engendered Lam’s international reputation while providing him with a powerful, creative outlet to express his struggle as an Afro-Cuban. Through the use of African masks and the Santería religion in his paintings during this time period, …


"Africa In The Museum: The Politics Of The Display Of African Material Culture At The Field Museum", Kristin Otto Mar 2014

"Africa In The Museum: The Politics Of The Display Of African Material Culture At The Field Museum", Kristin Otto

Africana Studies Student Research Conference (2013-2019)

In this paper, I will analyze how museum exhibitions use material culture to construct and present a narrative about Africa. Exhibiting material culture reflects the power, authority, and ideology of the exhibitor, sometimes at the expense of the displayed culture’s agency in representation. Museums have a particularly infamous history of distorting African culture in exhibits, often validating racist ideologies. Consequently, zealous museum critics have begun to question the relevance of museums in the future public education. The public, however, continues to visit museums and experience exhibits featuring African objects. Based on the challenges and controversies museums exhibiting African objects face …


The Velvet Revolution: A Case Study In Strategic Nonviolence, Peter Tkach Mar 2014

The Velvet Revolution: A Case Study In Strategic Nonviolence, Peter Tkach

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia provides a unique case of the successful use of strategic nonviolence. This paper will seek to provide a basic background of the causal events leading to the revolution in 1989. After establishing a suitable background from which to frame the analytical portion of the paper, it will be asked what role nonviolence played in the movement and how that nonviolence was applied strategically to facilitate its goals. In doing so, this paper will draw upon the research of Peter Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler, two leading nonviolent theorists, and their twelve principles of strategic nonviolence. Drawing …


More Than A Housewife: Revolutionary Era Women In War, Claire R. Williams Mar 2014

More Than A Housewife: Revolutionary Era Women In War, Claire R. Williams

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Sexual Violence On College Campuses: Individual Experience And Collective Silence Among Survivors, Kelsey Ruane Mar 2014

Sexual Violence On College Campuses: Individual Experience And Collective Silence Among Survivors, Kelsey Ruane

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


The Dream Of The Rood And Medieval Cross Veneration In Context, Brooke Thomas Mar 2014

The Dream Of The Rood And Medieval Cross Veneration In Context, Brooke Thomas

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Founding The Island Gateway, Christopher Scott Bennett Mar 2014

Founding The Island Gateway, Christopher Scott Bennett

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


The Unwanted Immigrant: The Rise Of Californian Nativism From 1849-1860, Frank Anthony Bozich Iii Mar 2014

The Unwanted Immigrant: The Rise Of Californian Nativism From 1849-1860, Frank Anthony Bozich Iii

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Poster, University Of The Pacific Mar 2014

Poster, University Of The Pacific

Muir Symposium

No abstract provided.


“Don’T Call Me A Pothead!” A Qualitative Study Of High Achieving Marijuana Users, Katrina Miles Mar 2014

“Don’T Call Me A Pothead!” A Qualitative Study Of High Achieving Marijuana Users, Katrina Miles

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Hemingway’S Flapper Transcending Hollywood Norms: Brett Ashley And The Sun Also Rises, Sam Vaughn Mar 2014

Hemingway’S Flapper Transcending Hollywood Norms: Brett Ashley And The Sun Also Rises, Sam Vaughn

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Hemingway’s portrayal of the “new woman” of the 1920s, namely Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, is more strikingly complex than those portrayals in popular films of the time. In Brett, Hemingway develops a complexity and depth of the “new woman” portrayal by utilizing Brett’s tumultuous past, which is in stark contrast to her filmic counterparts. Her conflicted characterization sets her apart from the typical flat representation of the woman of her time in film. Hemmingway provides a glimpse into a “real new women’s” complex way of being in the new 1920’s metropolitan world.


The Extimate Mind, Kai Woods Decker Mar 2014

The Extimate Mind, Kai Woods Decker

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

We all experience the same world, yet this experience manifests itself differently within each individual. Innumerable works of art, pieces of literature, musical compositions or creations can occur at any time within the private mind of an individual, but would never happen unless outwardly expressed. In this oral presentation I will address my artistic body of work, entitled "The Extimate Mind." In this series of digital illustrations —specifically portraiture—I explore the inner workings of the mind as it is revealed through exterior gesture. The compositions within each portrait are characterized by diagonal shapes with isolated figures in stark backgrounds, highlighting …