Film and Asian German Studies

I vividly remember the moment when I saw in my inbox a call for papers from Sara Lennox: "For the past few years the German Studies Association (GSA) has been an important forum for scholarly efforts to transnationalize German Studies and place German history in a global perspective. Those of us who have been active in this area would like to organize a series of panels on the topic of 'Asian German Studies' at the 2009 conference of the GSA (October 8-11, Washington DC)." It was the first time I realized that Asian German Studies could be a viable specialization.