New Zealand, Germany,
and the (Post) Colonial Pacific
The 16th annual conference
of the New Zealand Studies Association
together with the
Centre for New Zealand Studies,
Birkbeck, University of London
and the Institute for English and American Studies,
Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany
3 - 5 July 2009
All sessions take place in the Casino building on the Westend Campus
Friday 3 July
12.00-12.30 Registration (Main Hall)
12.30-12.50 Welcome (Main Hall)
12.50-1.00 Conference opened by Lisa Futschek, Chargé d'Affaires, New Zealand
Embassy, Germany
1.00-1.50 Keynote 1 (Main Hall) - Professor Albert Wendt (University of
Hawai'i at Manoa), "The Adventures of Vela: Writing a Novel
in Verse"
Chair: Dr Dominic Alessio (Richmond The American International
University in London)
1.55-3.35 Session 1a (room 1.811) New Zealand Literature and Germany
Chair: Michaela Moura-Koçoglu (Florida International
University)
- Norman P. Franke (University of Waikato), "William Satchell's
Reception of 19th Century German Literary Discourses in The
Greenstone Door"
- Delphine Soulhat (Université Lumière, Lyon), "The World in a
Pension: The Transnational in Katherine Mansfield's In a
German Pension"
- Nora Neumann (Berlin), "Stories from the Pacific: Cathie Dunsford
and the Importance of Storytelling"
- Claudia Duppé (University of Freiburg) and Sissy Helff (Goethe
University, Frankfurt), "Berlin in My Mind: New Zealand
Writers Re-Imagine the German Metropolis Before and After
the Fall of the Wall"
Session 1b (room 1.812) Film and Television
Chair: Ian Conrich (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Lars Weckbecker (University of Auckland), "Making Maori Visible:
The Representation of Maori in Documentary Film by the New
Zealand National Film Unit in the 1940s and 1950s"
- Eva Rueschmann (Hampshire College, Mass.), "'Strange Power of
Speech': Cross-Cultural Encounter and Coming of Age in
Flight of the Albatross"
- Jo Smith (Victoria University of Wellington), "Migrant Cinema in
the Postcolonial Pacific"
- Christopher Balme (University of Munich), "Naked Samoans: Self-
Reflexivity and Cosmopolitanism in Aotearoa/New Zealand"
3.35-4.00 Tea break
4.00-4.50 Session 2a (room 1.811) Maori Theatre and Germany
Chair: Simone Drichel (University of Otago)
- Hilary Halba (University of Otago), "Poetry, Politics and the Past:
Interweaving Maori Postcolonial Theatre with Brecht"
- Bronwyn Tweddle (Victoria University of Wellington),
"Re-appropriating the Appropriator: A Maori Playwright
'Borrows' from Brecht"
Session 2b (room 1.812) Refugees and Exiles
Chair: Dieter Riemenschneider (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
- Peter H. Marsden (University of Aachen), "As Far Away as You Can
Get: German Writers, Artists, and Thinkers in New Zealand
During and After World War II"
- Robin Skinner (Victoria University of Wellington), "Remote
Imaginings: Gottfried Semper and the New Zealander"
5.00-6.30 Keynote 2 (Main Hall) - Dr Cilla McQueen, "Was ist aus Barbra
Streisand geworden?: Cilla McQueen Revisits her 1988 Berlin
Diary"
Keynote 3 (Main Hall) - Dr Sarah Quigley, "Little Exiles Everywhere
Else: The Importance of Isolation in Imaginative Writing"
Chair: Dr Claudia Duppé (University of Freiburg)
6.30-8.00 Reception in association with the New Zealand Embassy, Berlin
(Casino balcony)
Saturday 4 July
9.00-10.15 Session 3a (room 1.811) Maori and Pacific literature
Chair: Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
- Michaela Moura-Koçoglu (Florida International University), "Old
Ways, Novel Meanings: Forging Indigenous Modernities in
Native Pacific Writing"
- Oliver Haag (University of Vienna), "Oceanic Literatures in German
Translation"
- Katharina Luh (Justus-Liebig University, Giessen), "Literary
Manifestations of Female Identity/ies in Select Post-Provincial
Maori Novels Through the Lens of a Gender-Oriented
Narratology"
Session 3b (room 1.812) New Zealand & Germany - Samoa, Fiji, Niue
Chair: Michael Goldsmith (University of Waikato)
- Manumaua Luafata Simanu-Klutz (University of Hawai'i),
"Saolufata's 'Girls' Before, During, and Since the German and
New Zealand Administrations in (Western) Samoa"
- Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (University of Otago), "The Fijian Qoliqoli
and Urban Squatting in Fiji: What NZAID is Not Seeing"
- Hilke Thode-Arora, "'In New Zealand the Clock is My Boss; in Niue
I am My Own Boss': Niuean Women's Migration to New
Zealand as Reflected in Biographical Interviews"
10.15-10.35 Coffee break
10.35-11.25 Keynote 4 (Main Hall) - Professor Werner Kreisel (University of
Göttingen), "The Pacific Islands in the Focus of German
Geographical Research"
Chair: Dr Mike Goldsmith (University of Waikato)
11.30-12.20 Session 4a (room 1.811) New Zealand, Germany, and Science Fiction
Chair: Oliver Haag (University of Vienna)
- Ian Conrich (Birkbeck, University of London), and Dominic Alessio
(Richmond The American University in London), "'Don't
Mention the War': The Science Fiction Writing of M.K.
Joseph"
- Georg Schifko (University of Vienna), "The Reception of Ferdinand
von Hochstetter's Work Concerning New Zealand in Jules
Verne's Novel The Children of Captain Grant"
Session 4b (room 1.812) New Zealand and the Impact of World
War II
Chair: Chris Pugsley (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
- Adam Claasen (Massey University), "New Zealanders in the Battle
of Britain"
- Hugo Bühren (Technische University Dortmund/ Victoria University
of Wellington), "Odo Strewe (1910-1986). A German Life in
New Zealand: Internment on Matiu/ Somes Island as a Class A
Enemy Alien"
12.25-1.15 Keynote 5 (Main Hall) - Professor Dieter Riemenschneider (Goethe
University, Frankfurt), "'You will know when you get there' -and did I?"
Chair: Professor Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
1.15-1.25 IC and FS short presentation on Friedensreich Hundertwasser ahead of
coach excursion
1.25-2.25 Lunch
2.30 Coach departs for excursion and conference dinner (boat trip on the
Rhine, followed by dinner at Vollrads Castle, 7.30-9.30)
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Sunday 5 July
9.00-9.50 Session 5a (room 1.811) New Zealand and German Culture
Chair: Jo Smith (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Simone Drichel (University of Otago), "'Don't we all live in mirrors,
for ever?' Janet Frame and Immanuel Kant"
- Rachael Morgan (Birkbeck, University of London), "New Zealand
Composer Michael Norris and his Musical Relationship with
Germany"
Session 5b (room 1.812) Politics & Economics: New Zealand,
Germany, and the Pacific
Chair: Sissy Helf (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
- Gordon M. Winder (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich),
"Sites of Representation: New Zealand's Embassies and
Consulates in Germany, 1966-2008"
- Geoffrey Miller (University of Mainz), "Like-Minded Liberals? A
Comparison of the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) and
ACT New Zealand"
Session 5c (Main Hall) German Migrants and New Zealand
Chair: James Bade (University of Auckland)
- Tanja Bueltmann (University of Northumbria), "'Inscribed in
German': German Associational Culture on New Zealand's
West Coast in Comparative Perspective, c1860 to 1900"
- Angela McCarthy (University of Otago), "German Migrants and the
Asylum in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand"
9.55- 10.45 Keynote 6 (Main Hall) - Dr James Bade (University of Auckland),
"Early German Settlers in the Pacific and Their Descendants"
Chair: Professor Angela McCarthy (University of Otago)
10.45-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10-12.00 Keynote 7 (Main Hall) - Dr Chris Pugsley (Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst), "Peace, Sport and Cologne: The New Zealand
Division in Germany, 1918-1919"
Chair: Rachael Morgan (Birkbeck, University of London)
12.05-12.40 Session 6 (Main Hall) - Tusiata Avia, "Which Way to Paradise?
Samoan Immigrants to New Zealand in the 1950s - A Poetic
Investigation"
Chair: Sissy Helf (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
12.40-1.40 Lunch
1.40-2.55 Session 7a (room 1.811) The German View of New Zealand
Chair: Eva Rueschmann (Hampshire College, Mass.)
- Stan Jones (University of Waikato), "Constructing New Zealand for
the German Popular Television Audience: Der Liebe entgegen and Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt"
- Eveline Dürr (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), "Notions of
Nature: Constructing New Zealand through a German Lens"
- Jan Wilm (Goethe University, Frankfurt), "The Outsider's Gaze: A
False Perspective? An Example of German Travel Writing
From 1908"
Session 7b (room 1.812) Germany and the Pacific
Chair: Christopher Balme (University of Munich)
- Hilary Howes (Australian National University), "Encounters in
Nineteenth-Century New Guinea: Otto Finsch and the
'Notorious Papuans'"
- Mike Goldsmith (University of Waikato), "Accessing Images of
Tuvalu: The Cultural Politics of Gerd Koch's Niutao Films"
- Hartmut Bergenthum (Goethe University, Frankfurt) "Historical
Resources and Modern Literature on the Pacific Islands in
Germany"
3.00-3.50 Keynote 8 (Main Hall) - Professor Hermann Mueckler (University of
Vienna), "The 1894 Murder of Paul Kannengiesser and its
Consequences: An Example of German-British Diplomatic
Entanglement and Confrontation in the Pacific"
Chair: Dr Ian Conrich (Birkbeck, University of London)
3.50-4.10 Tea break
4.10-5.00 Keynote 9 (Main Hall) - Robert Sullivan (University of Hawai'i at
Manoa)
"Being Close to the Is-Land: Indigenous Maori and Polynesian
Poetics in English"
Chair: Dr Michaela Moura-Koçoglu (Florida International University)