Going Beyond Goethe: Teaching Germanic Pop-Culture(s) in the Foreign Language Classroom
9am-12pm BUR 337
9:00 am Greeting - Alexander Lorenz
9:15 am First Panel - Moderated by Katrin Fuchs
Dale Jones III
Teaching Theory Through Texts: Bodo
Morshäuser’s Die Berliner Simulation and the
Postmodern Musical Experience
John Benjamin and Matthias Fingerhuth
Transcultural flashpoints: Scaffolding cultural
keywords in the German L2 classroom
10:15 am Coffee break
10:30 am Second Panel - Moderated by Matthias Fingerhuth
John Benjamin, Devon Donoghue-Bergeler,
Alexander Lorenz, Katrin Fuchs
Directed Reading of a Multimodal
Pop-Cultural Text
Matthew Anderson
Better Reading through Pictures?: The Picture
Book as Part of the Guided Reading Task in the
L2 Collegiate German Classroom
11:30 am Coffee break
11:45 am Keynote Speaker - Per Urlaub
Transcultural Learning in Third Spaces:
Music Documentary Film and the Cultural Turn in Foreign Language Education
12:15 pm Lunch
Organized by: Germanic Studies Graduate Association (GSGA)
Alexander Lorenz
Matthias Fingerhuth
Katrin Fuchs
Collin Brown
John Benjamin
Dale Jones III
Funded by:
GSA
Texas Language Center
The Department of Germanic Studies
Special thanks to:
Alison Gillings
The Department of Germanic Studies
9am-12pm BUR 337
9:00 am Greeting - Alexander Lorenz
9:15 am First Panel - Moderated by Katrin Fuchs
Dale Jones III
Teaching Theory Through Texts: Bodo
Morshäuser’s Die Berliner Simulation and the
Postmodern Musical Experience
John Benjamin and Matthias Fingerhuth
Transcultural flashpoints: Scaffolding cultural
keywords in the German L2 classroom
10:15 am Coffee break
10:30 am Second Panel - Moderated by Matthias Fingerhuth
John Benjamin, Devon Donoghue-Bergeler,
Alexander Lorenz, Katrin Fuchs
Directed Reading of a Multimodal
Pop-Cultural Text
Matthew Anderson
Better Reading through Pictures?: The Picture
Book as Part of the Guided Reading Task in the
L2 Collegiate German Classroom
11:30 am Coffee break
11:45 am Keynote Speaker - Per Urlaub
Transcultural Learning in Third Spaces:
Music Documentary Film and the Cultural Turn in Foreign Language Education
12:15 pm Lunch
Organized by: Germanic Studies Graduate Association (GSGA)
Alexander Lorenz
Matthias Fingerhuth
Katrin Fuchs
Collin Brown
John Benjamin
Dale Jones III
Funded by:
GSA
Texas Language Center
The Department of Germanic Studies
Special thanks to:
Alison Gillings
The Department of Germanic Studies