DDGC 2019
March 1-3 (St. Olaf College)
The focus of the 2019 DDGC Conference is critical approaches to pedagogy, course design, and instructional materials for our field in a world in which “culture” is being re-conceived as trans-, multi-, and intercultural.
Organizers & Institutional Host
Amanda Randall (St. Olaf College)
Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College)
The 2019 DDGC Conference is hosted by the German programs at St. Olaf College and Kalamazoo College with financial support from the DAAD, the Liras Fund, the Broadening the Bridge Fund, and To Include is to Excel.
Program
Thursday, February 28, 2019:
Arrival of participants
8:00 p.m. Film screening: Millis Erwachen (2018) and Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
event located at Weitz Cinema, Carleton College (walking directions from hotel)
Friday, March 1, 2019:
8:45 a.m. Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
8:45-9:15 Check-in, Valhalla Room, Buntrock Commons
9:15 - 10:00 Welcome and Introductions in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons, “What is diversity & decoloni(al)zation?”
10:00-10:15 Break with refreshments
10:15 - 11:30 Panel 1: Teaching Colonialism and Decolonization for German-speaking Contexts
Moderator: Chet Lisiecki
Robin Ellis, “The Allure of European Studies: Reckoning with the EU’s Colonialist Roots from a German Studies Perspective”
Emina Mušanović, “The Settler Colonialism of German Studies”
11:30 - 12:45 New Textbook Presentations over Lunch in Board Room, King’s Dining Room, Buntrock Commons
Maureen Gallagher, “Introducing Grenzenlos Deutsch”
Steffen Kaupp and Niko Tracksdorf, “Diversifying the German Textbook: An Inclusive, Holistic Approach” (Impuls Deutsch 1: Intercultural | Interdisciplinary |Interactive)
12:45 - 2:15 Panel 2: Rethinking the Canon in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
Moderator: Adam Toth
Gabriel Cooper, “What good is the canon for a decolonized German Curriculum?”
Peter Höyng, “Hugo Bettauer’s The Blue Stain (1922): The Case for an Anti-Racist Novel and Its Shortcomings within a Transcultural and Transnational Context”
Aine Zimmerman, “Footnotes are Not Enough: Rectifying a Missed Opportunity to Problematize a Canonical Work in Teaching Max Frisch’s Homo Faber Through Social Justice Pedagogy”
Didem Uca, “Teaching German while Turkish: Close Reading Ida von Hahn-Hahn’s Orientalische Briefe (1841) in an Undergraduate Literature Seminar”
2:15 - 2:30 Break with refreshments
2:30 - 3:45 Syllabus Workshop I: Innovative Courses
Moderator: Ashwin Manthripragada
Mary Allison, “Exploring Diversity through a Cosmopolitan Approach”
Seth Peabody, “Decolonization and Folklore: Diversifying the Fairy Tale Curriculum”
Andrea Speltz, “Name Dropping: The Political Appropriation of German Historical Figures and Movements”
Hannah Eldridge, “Dialogue, Counterpoint, Polyphony: Promises and Pitfalls for Models of Decolonializing the Canon in the Classroom”
3:45-4:00 Break with refreshments
4:00-5:30 Keynote Address, "On Racism without Race: The Need to Diversify German Studies" (Dr. Priscilla Layne, UNC-Chapel Hill, author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture); event located at Regents Hall 150, Click here to stream it live.
5:30-7:00 Dinner in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
7:15 p.m. Shuttles from St. Olaf to hotel
Saturday, March 2, 2019:
9:00 a.m. Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
9:15 - 10:30 Roundtable: Whose German Studies? Diversity and Inclusivity in Promoting German Studies in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
Moderator: Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College)
Susanne Rinner (AATG)
Rosemarie Peña (@Blackgermans; Black German Heritage & Research Association)
Beret Norman (Boise State University)
Jennifer Redmann (Franklin & Marshall College)
10:30 - 10:45 Break with refreshments
10:45 - 12:00 Panel 3: Diversity and Decolonization at the Program Level
Moderator: Shelley Hay
Karin Maxey, “Building an Inclusive German Curriculum from the Ground Up: A Case Study”
Joela Jacobs, Janice McGregor, David Gramling, “Decolonizing Graduate Study in German: Ongoing Interventions in Arizona”
Anna Zimmer, “Learning about Diversifying and Decolonizing the Curriculum in Community”
Sophie Bornscheuer, “Language Ideologies and the Decolonialization of German Studies (in Mozambique)”
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break in Stav Hall, Buntrock Commons
1:00 - 1:15 Greetings from St. Olaf College President
1:15-2:30 Panel 4: Social Justice Pedagogies in Action
Moderator: Regine Criser
Andrea Bryant, “Whence and Whither Bildung?”
Magda Tarnawska Senel and Anna Brungardt, “Politicizing Classroom Space through Experiential Learning”
Beverly Weber and Emily Frazier-Rath, “Refugee Texts in the German Studies Classroom: Teaching and Hospitality”
Nichole Neuman, “Community and the Inclusive Classroom”
2:30 - 3:00 Break with refreshments
3:00 - 4:15 Syllabus Workshop II: Developing Units / Rethinking our Texts in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons
Moderator: Rachael Huener
Christine Evans, “Regional and minority languages in intermediate German instruction”
Amanda Sheffer, “Teaching Migration within Austria in the Basic Language Classroom: Diversity & Inclusion at the Intermediate Level”
Holly Brining, “Black Magic, Power and Diversity: Krabat in third-semester German”
Claire Scott, "Gender Neutral Language and TA Training"
4:15-5:15 Individual Action Plans / Break-Out Groups
5:30 p.m. Shuttles from St. Olaf to hotel; dinner on your own in Northfield
Sunday, March 3, 2019:
8:45 a.m. Shuttles from hotel to St. Olaf College
9:00-10:00 Brunch and Business Meeting in Valhalla, Buntrock Commons - What are the next steps for DDGC?
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Small Group Discussions: Take-Aways
11:15 - 11:45 General Reflections, Feedback, Wrap-Up
12:00 p.m. Shuttles to airport
DDGC 2019 Reading List
2019 Conference Common Reading List
Common Readings (found in shared Dropbox folder - see email for link)
Claire Kramsch, “Between Globalization and Decolonization: Foreign Languages in the Cross-Fire” in Decolonizing Foreign Language Education, Donaldo Macedo, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2019).
Donaldo Macedo, "Rupturing the Yoke of Colonialism in Foreign Language Education: An Introduction" in Decolonizing Foreign Language Education, Donaldo Macedo, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2019).
Bhambra et al., "Introduction: Decolonising the University?" in Decolonizing the University, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Kerem Nisancioglu, Delia Gebrial, eds. (London: Pluto Pres, 2018).
Carol Azumah Dennis, "Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention" in in Decolonizing the University, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Kerem Nisancioglu, Delia Gebrial, eds. (London: Pluto Pres, 2018).
Optional/Supplementary Readings:
"Introduction" to Yuliya Komska, Michelle Moyd, David Gramling, Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave, 2019).
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, eds. Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education (New York: Routledge, 2018).
John Holmwood, "Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University" in Decolonizing the University, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Kerem Nisancioglu, Delia Gebrial, eds. (London: Pluto Pres, 2018).
Alastair Pennycook, "From Translanguaging to Translingual Activism" in in Decolonizing Foreign Language Education, Donaldo Macedo, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2019).
Timothy Reagan and Terry A. Osborn, "Time for a paradigm shift in U.S. Foreign Language Education? Revisiting Rationales, Evidence and Outcomes" in Decolonizing Foreign Language Education, Donaldo Macedo, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2019).
AnnaHeger, Xier packt xiesen Koffer, https://annaheger.wordpress.com/pronomen/zine/
2017 Conference Common Reading List
Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)," The Scholar and Feminist Online: Polyphonic Feminisms--Acting in Concert 8.3 (2010).
Stacy Jane Grover, "Creating Trans-Inclusive Curricula," Inside Higher Ed November 4, 2016.
bell hooks, "Talking Race and Racism," Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (New York: Routledge, 2003), 25-41.
Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action," Sister Outsider (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007), 40-45.
George F. Peters, "Editor's Corner," Die Unterrichtspraxis: Special Issue on Diversity 25.2 (1992): vii-viii.
Zoé Samudzi, "We Need a Decolonialized, Not a 'Diverse,' Education," Harlot Magazine March 29, 2016.
Working Bibliography
Adams, Maurianne, Lee Anne Bell and Diane Goodman, eds. Teaching for Diversiy and Social Justice. A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Ayers, William, Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn, eds. Teaching for Social Justice. A Democracy and Education Reader. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.
Barnett, Roland. Higher Education: A Critical Business. Buckingam and Bristol: The Society for Research inro Higher Education&Open University Press, 1997.
Bell, Brenda, et al., eds. We make the Road by Walking. Conversations on Education and Social Change. Myles Horton and Paulo Freire. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
Bracher, Mark. “Teaching for Social Justice: Reeducating the Emotions through Literary Study.” JAC, vol. 26, no. 3/4 (2006), 463-512.
Brumfit, C., F. Myles, R. Mitchell, B. Johnston and P. Ford. “Language Study in Higher Education and the Development of Criticality.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics 15, no 2, 2005. 145–68.
Byram, Michael. From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship: Essays and Reflections. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2005.
McLaren, Peter and Ramin Farahmandpur. Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism. A Critical Pedagogy. Lanham, Bouder, New York: Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2005.
Chapman, Thandeka K. & Nikola Hobbel, eds. Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum. The Practice of Freedom. New York, London: Routledge, 2010.
Cho, Seehwa. Critical Pedagogy and Social Change. Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility. New York, London: Routledge, 2013.
Cowden, Stephen and Gurnam Singh. Acts of Knowing. Critical Pedagogy In, Against and Beyond the University. New York, London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
De Lissovay, Noah. Power, Crisis, and Education. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Derasiewicz, William. Excellent Sheep. The Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life. New York, London, Toronto, Sydneu, New Delhi: Free Press, 2014.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London, New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
---. Pedagogy of Freedom. Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. London, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998.
Gay, G. Culturally Responsice Teaching: Theory, Research, & Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000 .
Giroux, Henry A. America on the Edge. Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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---. The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine. San Francisco, City Lights, 2014.
---. Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014.
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Glynn, Cassandra, Pamela Wesely and Beth Wassell. Words and Actions: Teaching Languages Through the Lens of Social Justice. Alexandria: ACTFL, 2015.
Grant, C.A. & C. E. Sleeter. Turning on Learning. Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley: 2008.
Heger, Anna. "Xier packt xiesen Koffer" https://annaheger.wordpress.com/pronomen/zine/
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress. Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.
---. Teaching Community. A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge, 2003.
---. “Confronting Class in the Classroom.” The Critical Pedagogy Reader. Ed. Antonia Darder, Martha P. Baltodano and Rodolfo D. Torres. New York: Routledge, 2009. 135-141.
---. Teaching Critical Thinking. Practical Wisdom. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Horton, Myles. The Long Haul: an Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Jacobs, Dale, ed. The Myles Horton Reader: Education For Social Change. Knoxville: U
Tennessee P, 2003.
Jorge, Ethel and Milton Machuca. “A Conversation about Language Teaching and Social Justice,” Spanish Language Teaching and Learning: Policy, Practice and Performance, vol. 91, no. 1, (Mar., 2008), 265-266.
Kahane, David. “Learning About Obligation, Compassion, and Global Justice: The Place of Contemplative Pedagogy,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning. Special Issue: Internationalizing the Curriculum in Higher Education. Vol. 2009, issue 118, 1–115.
Kramsch, Claire. Context and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
---. “Whose German? Whose English? German Studies as Cultural Translation.” The German Quarterly. Vol. 79, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), 249-252.
Kubota, Ryuko. “Critical Teaching of Japanese Culture.” Japanese Language and Literature. Vol. 37. No. 1 (Apr, 2003), 67-87.
Nakayama, Thomas and Rona Tamiko Halualani. The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Nieto, Sonia. Language, Culture, and Teaching. Critical Perspectives for a New Century. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.
---. Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education. Boston: Pearson, 2004.
---, ed. Dear Paulo. Letters from Those Who Dare Teach. Boulder: Paradigm, 2008.
--- and Patty Bode. Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education. Boston: Pearson, 2012.
Nikolakaki, Maria, ed. Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Age. Challenges and Possibilities. New York, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2012.
Osborn, Terry A. Teaching World Languages for Social Justice. A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices. New Jersey, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
Purpel, David E. and William M. McLaurin, Jr. “A Curriculum for Social Justice and Compassion.” In: Counterpoints. Vol. 262, Reflections on the Moral & Spiritual Crisis in Education (2004), 125-140.
Reagan, Timothy and Terry Osborn. The Foreign Language Educator in Society. Toward a Critical Pedagogy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2002.
Szilagyi, Charlotte, Sabrina K. Rahman, and Michael Saman, eds. Imagining Blackness in
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Sokolower, J. “Bringing Globalization Home: A High School Teacher Helps Immigrant Stuendts Draw on Their Own Experience,” Rethinking Schools, 21 (1), 2006.
Swalwell, Katy M. Educating Activist Allies. Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite. New York: Routledge, 2013.
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Confirmed Participants
Speakers, Presenters, Moderators and Auditors
Brit Abel, Macalester College
Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College
Wendy Allen, St. Olaf College
Mary Allison, Texas A&M University
Lisa Marie Anderson, Hunter College, CUNY
Gizem Arslan, Southern Methodist University
Sophie Bornscheuer, Pedagogical University Maputo in Mozambique
Holly Brining, University of Minnesota Duluth
Anna Brungardt, University of California Los Angeles
Andrea Bryant, Georgetown University
Vance Byrd, Grinnell College
Gabriel Cooper, Oberlin College
Regine Criser, UNC Ashville
William Davis, Colorado College
Hannah Eldridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robin Ellis, University of Virginia
Christine Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emily Frazier-Rath, University of Colorado-Boulder
Maureen Gallagher, University of Pittsburgh
David Gramling, University of Arizona
Alison Guenther-Pal, Lawrence University
Alexandra Hagen, Concordia University (Montreal)
Lauren Hansen, New College of Florida
Shelley Hay, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Peter Höyng, Emory University
Rachael Huener, Macalester College
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona
Steffen Kaupp, University of Notre Dame
Natasha A. Kelly, Independent Scholar
Kiley Kost, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Priscilla Layne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chet Lisiecki, Colorado College
Ruth Lunt, Lawrence University
Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
Ashwin J. Manthripragada, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Karin Maxey, Northeastern University
Janice McGregor, University of Arizona
Adrienne Merritt, Oberlin College
Emina Mušanović, Linfield College
Nichole Neuman, Berlin Program, FU Berlin
Beret Norman, Boise State University
Seth Peabody, St. Olaf College
Rosemarie Peña, Rutgers University
Amanda Randall, St. Olaf College
Jennifer Redmann, Franklin & Marshall College
Susanne Rinner, UNC Greensboro and AATG President
Samper Vendrell, Javier, Grinnell College
Juliane Schicker, Carleton College
Claire E. Scott, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathryn Sederberg, Kalamazoo College
Amanda Sheffer, Catholic University of America
Andrea Speltz, University of Waterloo
Christiane Steckenbiller, Colorado College
Wendy Sutherland, New College of FLA
Magda Tarnawska Senel, University of California Los Angeles
Adam Toth, UNC-Wilmington
Niko Tracksdorf, University of Rhode Island
Didem Uca, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Walter, Emory University
Beverly Weber, University of Colorado-Boulder
Meyer Weinshel, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brandy Wilcox, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Jason Williamson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Anna Zimmer, Northern Michigan University
Aine Zimmerman, Hunter College