GSA 2013 Denver (October 3-6, 2013)
Application for Seminar Participation
GSA Seminars meet for all three days of the conference during the first morning slot to foster extended discussion, rigorous
intellectual exchange, and intensified networking. Seminars are led by 2 to 3 organizers and consist of 15 to 20 participants,
at least some of whom should be graduate students. In order to reach the goal of extended discussion, seminar organizers
and participants are expected to participate in all three installments of the seminar.
Participation in a seminar involves intellectual work akin to preparing a paper and will thus count as such. All seminar
participants will be listed by name in the program. If you are accepted to be an active participant in a seminar, you may not
give a paper in panel sessions. However, you may moderate or comment on a panel. Some individuals may choose to be
an auditor to a seminar. The sign up process for auditors will take place after the entire GSA program has been finalized.
Seminar auditors may give a paper in regular sessions.
We will inform organizers and participants about the status of their proposal and application no later than February 5, 2013.
The deadline for submitting this form is February 1, 2013.
Please save and email your application form as attachment to the member of the GSA Seminar Work Group listed below as
the coordinator for the seminar in question.
*Name:
*Title:
*Affiliation:
*Email:
*GSA Member #:
*Available Seminars (select only one):
___ Seminar 1: “Global History, Literature, and Culture from a German Base” (Marchand)
___ Seminar 2: “Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond” (Kacandes)
___ Seminar 3: “What Was Politics in ‘1968’?” (Marchand)
___ Seminar 4: “Why We Read (German) Fiction – And How: Cognitive Studies and German Studies” (Koepnick)
___ Seminar 5: “Germany or Europe? The European Union and the German Question” (Marchand)
___ Seminar 6: “The Challenge of Ethnography in German Studies” (Kacandes)
___ Seminar 7: “Revisiting the Study of Emotions in German Studies” (Kacandes)
___ Seminar 8: “Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front: New Directions in WWI Studies” (Marchand)
___ Seminar 9: “Narration” (Kacandes)
___ Seminar 10: “For a New Enlightenment” (Koepnick)
___ Seminar 11: “Rethinking Modernism after Cultural Studies” (Koepnick)
___ Seminar 12: “Recycling Romanticism” (Koepnick)
*Statement of Purpose (no more than 1000 characters):
*Minivita (no more than 1000 characters):
Please submit your application to one of the three members of the GSA Seminar Work Group, following
the above instruction, no later than February 1, 2013:

Suzanne Marchand (smarch1@lsu.edu), President of the GSA (Louisiana State University)

Irene Kacandes, (irene.kacandes@darmouth.edu), Vice President of the GSA (Dartmouth College)

Lutz Koepnick (koepnick@wustl.edu), Former Executive Board Member and Member of
Conference Task Force (Washington University in St. Louis)
Do not send your application to the seminar organizers directly.
(* = required information)