Brown University Departments of Italian Studies and German Studies present
FASCISM, NAZISM & SEXUALITY
Saturday, February 23 9:00 am Welcome Address Lara A. Kelingos (Brown University)
Katherine R. Goodman Mädchen in Uniform? Sexual Identification Under the
Vartan Gregorian Quad (chair of the German Studies Department) Swastika in Christa Wolf’s “A Model Childhood”
Lounge Ronald Martinez
101 Thayer Street (chair of the Italian Studies Department) 12:30 pm Lunch
Vartan Gregorian Quad, Library, 101 Thayer St.
(Saunders Inn)
9:15 am Opening Remarks
Lorenzo Benadusi 2:00- Round Table Discussion
(University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Brown University) 4:00 pm Chairs: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
“A Fully Furnished House?” (Department of Italian Studies)
This conference is co-sponsored by:
Cogut Center for the Humanities Thomas Kniesche
Pembroke Center 9:30 am Part 1 (Department of German Studies)
Department of History Bruno Wanrooij (Georgetown University)
Department of Comparative Literature Sexualities: The Theory, Praxis and Performance of Sex Participants:
in Fascist Italy Lauren Faulkner (PhD candidate, Department of
History); Abbott Gleason (Keeney Professor of History
Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York) Emeritus); Mary Gluck (Professor, Department of
Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany History) Lewis Seifert (Professor, Department of
French Studies); Michael Steinberg (Director of the
10:45 am Coffee Break Cogut Center for the Humanities and Keeney Professor
of History); John S. Tortorice, (Director of the George
11:00 am Part 2 L. Mosse Program in History at the University of
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University) Wisconsin–Madison)
Modernity and Masculinity in the Italian Colonial
Cinema