2018
Lessing's Laughter
Modern Language Association (MLA), New York, New YorkJanuary 4-8, 2018
Moderator: Mary A Bricker, (Southern Illinois University)
Respondent: Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown
1. Richard E. Schade,University of Cincinnati:
Lessing's Lyric Laughter2. Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State University: Satire and Pedagogical Laughter in Lessing's Early Comedies
3. Pascale LaFountain, Montclair State University: "'Was haben Sie gegen das Lachen?': Lessing's Laughing Bodies
4. Anne Lagny, École normale supérieure de Lyon: Laughter in Lessing's Nathan
2017
GSA Panels
German Studies Association (GSA), Atlanta, GAOctober 5-8, 2017
Moderator: Francien Markx, George Mason University
Respondent: Almut Spalding (Illinois College)
1. Seth Berk (University of Washington): Early-Enlightenment Ideals and the Pedagogical Circumscription of Sexuality in Johann Christoph Gottsched's Atalanta, oder die bezwungene Sprödigkeit (1741)2. Andrea Speltz (University of Waterloo): Educating the Cosmopolitan Imagination in Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon
3. Mary Bricker (Southern Illinois University): Politicizing Parents on the Enlightenment Stage