Session Details

Friday, 28 December

286. Where Germany and the Netherlands Meet

1:45–3:00 p.m., Huron, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Netherlandic Language and Literature

Presiding: Simon Richter, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Why Does Max Havelaar Have a German Narrator? Multatuli and E. T. A. Hoffmann,” Jane K. Brown, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

2. “A Struggle for Life: The Belgian Avant-Garde in Weimar Berlin,” An Paenhuysen, Humboldt Univ., Berlin

3. “‘O liebes Land, o Belgiens Erde’: The Development of the German-Speaking Community in Belgium,” Jeroen Dewulf, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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