Thursday, October 7, 1999

Cocktail Party Hosted by Emory University 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Ballroom
Foyer

Pre-Conference Lecture 6:00-7:30 PM Glenmar
Room

Friday, October 8, 1999
Sessions 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

1. Zehn Jahre danach: Wann fällt die Mauer in den Köpfen Barrington
2. Martin Walser Stirs It Up Again I Liberty
3. 50 Jahre NATO-44 Jahre Bundeswehr Mimosa
4. Banality of Evil? Nazi Careers Jarrett
5. Literature and Nationalism Brampton A
6. Money, Value, Labor Brampton B
7. The Emergence of Mass Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century
Germany and Mass Culture Criticism Brampton C
8. Human Rights in Democratic Germany: National Identity, Religion,
And Mission Abroad Knollwood B
9. Consumer Cooperatives and the Mittelstand in the 19th and 20th
Centuries Glenmar B
10. Austausch und Identität: Rollentausch, Kleidertausch, Geldtausch Elizafield
11. That Old Time Rock 'n' Roll: Goethe, Bettina von Arnim,
Beethoven, and Their Critics Westover
12. The Body and Identity in Modern German Literature Barrington
13. The Kohl Legacy Glenmar A
14. The New Populism and the Other: Aspects of the Current
Debate in Austria Greenwood
15. Construction Sites: Gendered National Identity in the Law,
Religion, and Domestic Practice Knollwood A
16. Foreign Policy Perspectives at Century's End Bellevue
17. Dissonant Identities: Sound, Culture, Politics Swanton

Session 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

18. Moralische Entscheidungssituationen in der deutschen
Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts Rutherford

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

19. Kulturpolitik in Domestic and Foreign Policy in Germany
During the Interwar Years Glenmar A
20. Historicizing Trakl Brampton C
21. Thoughts on the Atlantic Divide Mimosa
22. Violence and Terror at the End of the Third Reich Barrington
23. Kulturdämmerung: Sites of Resistance to the Kulturnation Greenwood
24. Postcolonial Theory and the German-Jewish Experience Jarrett
25. Gender Relations in the Republic of Letters Bellevue
26. Exhibiting Germany: Museums, Culture, and National Identity Thornton
27. Lies, Sex, and Silence: Revisiting Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist Brampton A
28. Formen und Probleme der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung Brampton B
29. New Developments in Party, Campaign, and Union Politics Knollwood A
30. Representations of German and Austrian Colonialism Westover
31. After the Party, the Hangover: Barriers to Reform Knollwood B
32. Educating the Masses: Intersections of Bildung, Consumer
Culture, and Nationalism Around 1900 Elizafield
33. Secular Dreams? Encounters Between Literature and
Psychoanalysis Glenmar B
34. German Language Study and German Studies: A Challenge
and Wake-Up Call Liberty
35. Historical Memory, New Left Violence, and Gender Swanton

LUNCHEON
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Rutherford

Peter Schneider
Schriftsteller
"Eduards Heimkehr"

Sessions 2:00 PM-4:30 PM

36. Roundtable on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust:
The Status of Research Barrington
37. Family Ties: Homely, Unhomely, Uncanny Brampton C
38. German Politics in Europe Bellevue
39. Jewish Consciousness and Anti-Semitism in the
Nineteenth Century Mimosa
40. Figures of Masculinity Liberty
41. German Colonial Studies and the Problem of Knowledge
Boundaries Greenwood
42. The Myth of Synergy: Jews and Gentiles in 18th and
19th Century Germany Elizafield
43. Goethe and the Question of National Identity Knollwood A
44. Creating Their Place in History Jarrett
45. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: The Analysis of Recorded Glenmar B
46. Grand Ideas, "Little" Genres: Diary, Vignette, Love Letter,
And Travelogue Brampton A
47. to be determined
48. A Roundtable on Austria in the Early Cold War: Gerald Stourzh's Use of the New
Sources in His State Treaty History Um Einheit Und Freiheit Glenmar A
49. Expanding Germandom: Racial Planning and Ideology in the
New Order, 1933-1945 Brampton B
50. German Dilemmas at the End of the Century Knollwood B
51. German Film Directors in Hollywood: Film Emigration
from 1933-1945 Swanton
52. Paul Celan Westover

4:30 PM-6:00PM
Rutherford

BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

Hosted Reception
6:30 PM-7:00 PM
Rutherford

BANQUET
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Rutherford

Presidential Address
Gerhard H. Weiss
University of Minnesota
"German Studies: A Topic for Presidents"

Saturday, October 9

Sessions 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

53. The Exile Experience: Mallorca, Brecht's Collaborators
and Stefan Zweig Brampton A
54. Crises at the Austrian Border Greenwood
55. J.M.R. Lenz: Macht-Körper-Politik Knollwood B
56. Nazi Germany from Inside and Out Mimosa
57. German Policy Issues: Between Drift and Direction Knollwood A
58. Humboldt, Nietzsche, Dilthey: Ideas and Experience in
the 19th Century Brampton B
59. Einfluß der SED auf die westdeutsche Friedensbewegung gegen
den NATO Doppelbeschluß 1979-1983 Bellevue
60. Mediated Vision Thornton
61. Outsiders in Early Twentieth Century German Culture Jarrett
62. Visions of the Nazi Holocaust: Sources, Preparation, and Memory Liberty
63. Women and Children as Focus of Political Transformation
Of Postwar Germany Glenmar B
64. Multicultural Germany Westover
65. Strategies of Political and Social Reform in Umbruch Germany,
1890-1933 Brampton C
66. Representations of Reality in Film and Cyberspace Swanton
67. Defining Germany: Discourses of Nature and Technology in
German Nationalism Glenmar A
68. Domestic Fictions of the Emergent Nation Elizafield

Session 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

68. Martin Walser Stirs It Up Again II: The Recent Walser-
Auschwitz Controversy in Context Rutherford

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

70. Global Human Experience, Capitalism, and Nature:
The Construction of New Grand Narratives in History Barrington
71. Rassismus und Gewalt im Nationalsozialismus Mimosa
72. Skepsis in Literatur und Philosophie Brampton A
73. The German Middle Ages in Modern Times Brampton B
74. German National Identity and Music in the Early GDR Swanton
75. City Scripts: Literary Institutions in Berlin, Düsseldorf,
Tiefurt/Weimar Bellevue
76. Die Zukunft der "Berliner Republik" Elizafield
77. Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary German-Language Theater Jarrett
78. Challenge and Adaptation in German Federalism Knollwood B
79. The Culture of Hypnosis Thornton
80. Beyond the National Narrative? Political Socialization in Germany, Russia,
and the United States: Schoolbooks and Curricula in Transition Glenmar A
81. Popular Culture: Humor, Science Fiction, Theater and the Movies Greenwood
82. Emigration als Chance: Theoretische Arbeiten deutscher
Jüdinnen nach 1933 Liberty
83. Sacred Cows and Gored Oxen: The German Economy in Flux Knollwood A
84. The 1848 Generation in Old and New Worlds Brampton C

LUNCHEON
12:20 PM-1:40 PM
Rutherford

Sybil Milton
Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg
"Sinti and Roma in Twentieth Century Austria and Germany"

Sessions 1:45 PM-3:15 PM

85. "Das Schweigen zum Sprechen bringen": The Impact of World War II on Three Generations
in Austria-Soldiers in the German Army, Their Children and Grandchildren Brampton A
86. Does the Past Have A Future? Liberty
87. New Perspectives on the German Resistance Against
National Socialism Mimosa
88. Rethinking Critical Positions Through Goethe Barrington
89. Societal Change and Political Responses in Germany Knollwood A
90. Twentieth Century Thinkers: Freud, T. Mann, Benjamin Westover
91. Limits of Herrschaft in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Empire Thornton
92. Coming to Terms with the Female Sonderfall: Women's Work
and Gender Politics in East and West Germany Jarrett
93. East German Responses to the Holocaust Greenwood
94. Mixing Memory and Desire: West German Cultures of the 1950s Bellevue
95. Violence and Identity in Contemporary Literature Glenmar B
96. Austria in the Nazi Era Westover
97. The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty Glenmar A
98. Resistance or Integration: The Language of Emancipation in
Imperial Germany Brampton B
99. Jewish German Intellectuals Since 1945: Return, Dissent, Revival Swanton
100. Liberalism and Liberal Culture in Imperial Germany Barrington
101. Moving from Self to Selves: German Women Writers of the
Nineteenth Century Knollwood B

Sessions 3:15 PM-4:45 PM

102. The German/Austrian Jewish Experience in Literature Bellevue
103. Social Activism and Women's Culture in the Nineteenth Century Glenmar A
104. Elites in Nazi Germany Elizafield
105. Negotiating Justice: Practice in the Courts of Early Modern Germany Bellevue
106. to be determined Barrington
107. Theater and Music, Brecht and Eisler Swanton
108. Female Voices, Versatile Angles-Intersections of Biography,
Poetics, and Reception in Modern Austrian Literature Knollwood B
109. Visions of History Thornton
110. German and American Responses to Globalization: Innovation, Taxation, Immigration Mimosa
111. Democracy as Experience: Changes in Germany's Political Culture Glenmar B
112. Cultural Divides and Historical Narrative: Interdisciplinary Reflections Liberty
113. Roundtable: Research Centers in Comparative Perspective. An International Discussion
of the German and European Studies Centers Brampton A
114. The Foreign Policy of Germany Under the Red-Green Coalition Brampton B
115. German Protestants Face German Guilt, 1945-1950 Jarrett
116. German-Soviet Economic Relations: The First Forty Years,1919-1949 Knollwood A
117. Comrades and Criminals: The Politics of War Crimes in Postwar Germany Westover

Session 4:30 PM-6:30 PM

118. Special Plenary Session of the Association:
The Future of German-American Relations
Prominent Individuals from the Public Sector-business, politics
and government-Analyze the Future of German-American
relations. Discussion follows. Rutherford

Sunday, October 10

Sessions 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

119. War Crimes and Political Culture in Germany and Austria
After World War I and World War II Liberty
120. Adorno and German Jewish Studies Brampton A
121. The Shifting Status of the Object: Ordering and Classifying
Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Brampton B
122. Dissolving Borders: The Germanies, the Low Countries, and
The Baltic 1550-1800 Knollwood B
123. Contemporary German Literature Jarrett
124. Social Capital vor Ort: Old and New Networks in the
Young Länder Rutherford
125. Visual Representation of Nazi Racism and Crimes Swanton
126. Royalty, Nobility, and Culture in the Kaiserreich Glenmar A
127. History and Memory in Postwar Germany: War, Scarcity, and U.S. Aid Greenwood
128. Denunciation in Germany, 1933-1989: A Comparison of
Conduct, Legal Standards, Official Regulation, and Agents Mimosa
129. Fictions of History: (Ab)use of History in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film Westover
130. Rebuilding Berlin-Architecture, Aesthetics, Power Elizafield
131. Faith and Politics in Imperial Germany Knollwood A
132. Reintroducing the Individual: German-American Relations
and the German Ambassadors in Washington, 1901-1933 Bellevue
133. Women's Responses to the Restoration Thornton
134. Sophie von La Roche Brampton C

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

135. Education from Biedermeier to Weimar Greenwood
136. Indigenous Police Under German Occupation:
The Reichskommissariat Ostland Brampton C
137. The Politics of the German Aristocracy, 1918-1945 Westover
138. "Überhaupt ist vieles viel verschiedener": Resistance in
East German Literature Elizafield
139. Towards a Cinema of Exile: Crossing Borders, Genders, and
National Identity Barrington
140. German Culture, Multiculture, and Imperialism Bellevue
141. to be determined
142. Germany and Europe: Between Party Politics and Statecraft Mimosa
143. In and Out of Austria: Kafka, Bachmann, and Society Brampton B
144. Cultural and Political Production in Weimar and Nazi Germany Thornton
145. Rethinking the Premodern Swanton
146. The Politics of Deviance: Psychiatry and Society from the
Kaiserreich to the Third Reich Elizafeld
147. Resacralizing the Secular: Protestantism and the Making of
Modern Germany Jarrett
148. Ten Years After the Wall: Political-Cultural Foundations of
The New German Capital Berlin Liberty
149. Technology in German Studies: From Theory to Practical Applications Glenmar B
150. Brecht in Berlin: Interdisciplinary Aspects Rutherford

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