Special Discussion Session for Chairs/Heads of German Departments

Moderator: Britta Baron, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Thursday, September 18, 2003
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Magnolia

Screening of George Tabori: Der Schriftsteller als Fremder (2001)
A Film by Eberhard Görner, Berlin/Dresden

Friday, September 19, 2003
Sessions 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

1. German-American Relations in Crisis
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon B

TBA

2. Krieg und Krankenmord. Neue Forschungen zur nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon C

Moderator: Sheila Faith Weiss, Clarkson University

"Working towards Hitler's Doctor Karl Brandt: Reflections on the Origins and Development of the 'Euthanasia' Programme"
Ulf Schmidt, University of Kent at Canterbury

"Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Victims of 'Euthanasia' through the Example of Kaufbeuren"
Patricia Heberer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"Zentren und Peripherien des Krankenmords. Überlegungen zur regionalisierten "Euthanasie" 1942-1945"
Winfried Süß, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Commentator: Henry Friedlander, City University of New York

3. Revisiting Alltagsgeschichte. Praxis in Everyday Life and the Discipline of History I: Politics in Everyday Life
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon A

Moderator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

"Making the Cold War: Everyday Symbolic Practice in Postwar Berlin"
Paul Steege, Villanova University

"Inventing the German Resistance: Perceptions and Politics of Resistance in Postwar Germany"
Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University

"Life Bubbles from Below: Alltagsgeschichte and the Study of Class"
Maureen Healy, Oregon State University

Commentator: Dorothee Wierling, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg

4. Antisemitismus, Antifeminismus, Anti-Parlamentarismus. Politische Ausgrenzungsstrategien in Deutschland von 1890 bis 1933
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon B

Moderator: Meike G. Werner, Vanderbilt University

"'Die Gleichheit der Menschen kann nicht unser Ziel sein.' Ausgrenzungsstrategien des extremen Nationalismus in Deutschland zwischen 1890 und 1933"
Rainer Hering, Staatsarchiv Hamburg

"Strategien der Ausgrenzung im Kampf um Gleichheit? Die proletarische Frauenbewegung und der Antisemitismus zwischen 1890 und 1914"
Stephanie Braukmann, Universität Frankfurt

"Zwischen Partei- und Fraueninteressen. Die Konflikte konservativer Frauen mit dem Bund deutscher Frauenvereine in der Weimarer Republik"
Andrea Süchting-Hänger, Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Commentator: Raffael Scheck, Colby College

5. Indelible Images: The German Visual Archive after World War II
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon C

Moderator: Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan

"Buildings or Bodies? Using Photographs of the Bombing of Dresden, 1945-1975"
David F. Crew, University of Texas at Austin

"Bilder vom Unfassbaren: Die Dokumentarfilme von der Befreiung der Konzentrationslager und ihre Wirkung auf das deutsche Publikum, 1945/46"
Ulrike Weckel, Technische Universität Berlin

"Dislocations East and West: Images of Umsiedler and Vertriebene in Postwar German Cinema"
Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan

Commentator: Brigid Doherty, Princeton University

6. Millennial Masculinities: Marginal and Hegemonic Configurations in Recent German Film
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon D

Moderator: Claudia Breger, Indiana University

"German Masculinity: Enlightenment Under Siege"
Margaret McCarthy, Davidson College

"The Death Of Masculinity: Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik Films"
Kristin E. Thomas, Indiana University

"Sexual And Cultural Hybridity: Homosexuality, Transgenderism, and Turkish-German Masculinities"
Gary Schmidt, Grinnell College

Commentator: Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona

7. Beyond Berlin: German Cities Confront the Nazi Past
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon E

Moderator: Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Munich's Struggle to Create an NS-Dokumentationszentrum"
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Fairfield University

"The Reich Party Rally Grounds Revisited"
Paul Jaskot, DePaul University

"Memory and Modernity: The Zeche Zollverein in Essen"
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University of California, Berkeley

Commentator: David Clay Large, Montana State University

8. Women Authors Engaging Mythology: Grete Weil, Christa Wolf, and Ilse Langner
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College

"Building Cultural Bridges Through Myth: Grete Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone and Der Brautpreis"
Michelle Mattson, Iowa State University

"Feminist Mythopoesis? Cultural Translations in Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone and Wolf's Medea. Stimmen"
Susanne Baackman, University of New Mexico

"(Re)scripting Women's Lives: Ilse Langner's Tradition of Mythological Drama"
Lynn Kutch, Rutgers University

Commentator: Yvonne Ivory, Duke University

9. GDR Military Intelligence and the West
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Mimosa

Moderator: Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

"Die 'Westarbeit' des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit: Forschungsstand und Kontroversen"
Clemens Vollnhals, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, TU Dresden

"Intelligence from NATO - GDR Military Espionage against the West"
Bernd Schäfer, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

"GDR Military Intelligence - Denmark and the Baltic Sea Area"
Svend Aage Christensen, Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

Commentator: Vojtech Mastny, National Security Archive, Washington D.C.

10. The Poetics of Excess
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Cypress

Moderator: John Zilcosky, University of Toronto

"Mortal Words, Expiring Poems: Celan and Heidegger on Death as Possibility"
Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University

"The Dramaturgy of Excess: Wagner and the Allegorization of Operatic History"
David J. Levin, University of Chicago

"Aesthetics as Excess: Kant and the Turn to Aesthetics"
Michel Chaouli, Indiana University

Commentator: John Zilcosky, University of Toronto

11. Begegnungen mit George Tabori
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Oak

Moderator: Thomas Fox, University of Alabama

"Quintessential Tabori Yet Again/With a Twist: Eternal Feminity"
Birgit Tautz, Lawrence University

"George Tabori's Hybrid Spaces"
Barbara Fischer, University of Alabama

"Begegnungen mit Georg Tabori"
Eberhard Görner, Bad Freienwalde

Commentator: Thomas Fox, University of Alabama

12. The Private Sphere and Public Order: West German Debates about Education, Family, and Sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Azalea

Commentator: Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle

"Authority in the 'Blackboard Jungle': Parents and Teachers, Experts and the State, and the Evolution of West German Democracy"
Dirk Schumann, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

"Dismantling Patriarchy: Democracy, Fatherhood, and Judicial Politics-the Stichentscheid-Decision of 1959"
Till van Rahden, Universität zu Köln/University of Chicago

"Sexuality and Crime: Ex-Nazis, Re-emigré Jews, and the Liberalization of West Germany"
Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University

Commentator: Maria Höhn, Vassar College

13. Wer/Wem gehört: Music and German Identity in the Twentieth Century
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Julie Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London

"Endstation Moses und Aron: On Hearing (and) Schoenberg"
Kevin S. Amidon, Iowa State University

'The Invention of Tradition': Eisler, Steinitz, and Volkslieder in the GDR"
Joy H. Calico, Illinois Wesleyan University

"Perpetual Performance: Alban Berg's Lulu"
Angela H. Lin, Vanderbilt University

Commentator: Pamela Potter, University of Wisconsin, Madison

14. Parents, Children, and Gender in Modern Germany
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Christine Kanz, Universität Bern

"What does my child need?" Advice Literature for Mothers in Imperial Germany"
Carolyn Kay, Trent University

"Fathers in an Age of Motherhood: German Father-Diaries in the Nineteenth Century"
John Cornell, Butler University

"Daddy's Home: Re-creating the Family in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1949"
Benita Blessing, Ohio University

Commentator: Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

15. On German Orientalism
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Universität Greifswald

"The Oriental Archives of the Old Testament: Making the Enlightenment Bible Strange"
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University

"The Second Oriental Renaissance, 1880-1930"
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

"The Orientalist Style of Jung's Red Book Pictures"
Jay Sherry, Brooklyn, NY

Commentator: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

16. Beziehungsspiele­Handlungsräume: Freunde, Kameraden, Kumpel und Partner
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Silke Roth, University of Pennsylvania

"Die Freundschaft ist ein Jüngling' Freundschaft und Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Aufklärung"
Brigitte Schnegg von Rütte, Universität Bern

"Interventionen: Freundschaften zwischen Frauen und Männern im Umfeld der politischen Umwälzungen des 19. Jahrhunderts"
Elisabeth Joris, Universität Bern

"Gefährten, Kameraden, Partner: Zum Wechselspiel von Liebe und Egalität"
Dagmar Reese, University of Washington

Commentator: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, State University of New York, Binghamton

17. Was ist es wert zu wissen? Wissenschaftskritik, Bildung und Wahrheit bei Nietzsche
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Andrew Lees, Rutgers

"Bildungsverlust: Von Hegel zu Nietzsche"
Kai Hammermeister, Ohio State University

"Nietzsche, Wahrheit und 'Genetic Fallacy'"
David Weberman, Georgia State University

"Was ist es wert zu wissen? Friedrich Nietzsche über den 'kalten Dämon der Erkenntnis'"
Mirko Wischke, Universita Palackého, Czech Republic

Commentator: Gerhard Richter, University of Wisconsin

18. Music and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College

"The Spaces of Public Music-Making in Nineteenth-Century Germany"
Celia Applegate, University of Rochester

"Orchestra Wars: Civil Society, Official Culture and the Amateur Musician"
Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Southwest Texas State University

"Popular Song and the Political Public Sphere"
James M. Brophy, University of Delaware

Commentator: George S. Williamson, University of Alabama

19. Theorizing the Visual Field: Historical Constructions of Spectatorship
Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Richard Langston, University of North Carolina

"'SO ists! Die Sonn erstarrt für unsers Hauptes Glantz / Die Welt für unser Macht': Spectatorship and Subjection in German Baroque Drama"
Christopher Wild, University of North Carolina

"Das Publikum als Menschheitskörper. Zur imaginären Kollektivbildung in der Dramaturgie des 18. Jahrhunderts"
Helmut J. Schneider, Universität Bonn

"Shot/Reverse-Shot and the Conceit of the Absent Public"
Kenneth Calhoon, University of Oregon

Commentator: Hal Rennert, University of Florida

Friday, September 19, 2003
Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

20. Roundtable: How Did We Get to Here? A Retrospective on German-US Relations
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon B

Moderator: Michael Huelshof, University of New Orleans

Arthur Hanhardt, University of Oregon
Christian Søe, California State University, Long Beach
Dieter Roth, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen
Ronald Asmus, Council on Foreign Relations

21. Language and Genocide: German Official Discourses on the Holocaust
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon C

Moderator: Wendy Lower, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"The Language of Annihilation: Words and Meanings in German Police Reports"
Edward B. Westermann, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

"Determining 'People of German Blood,' 'Jews,' and 'Mischlinge': The Reich Kinship Office and the Competing Discourses of Nazism, 1941-1943"
Thomas Pegelow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Politics of Describing the Holocaust"
Daniel E. Rogers, University of South Alabama

Commentator: Francis R. Nicosia, St. Michael's College

22. Revisiting Alltagsgeschichte. Praxis in Everyday Life and the Discipline of History II: Agency in Everyday Life
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon A

Chair: Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois

"The Nazi Reformatio Vitae and the Ethics of Everyday Life"
Drew Bergerson, University of Missouri, Kansas City

"Agency and the Alltag of New Left Politics"
Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

"The Logic of Violence: Agency, Identity and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic"
Pamela Swett, McMaster University

Commentator: Mark Landsman, Columbia University

23. Reconfiguring German Studies in the Age of Normalisation
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Paul Cooke, University of Leeds

"A Crisis in German Studies?"
Frank Finlay, University of Leeds

"A Social Science-Based Approach to German Studies"
Jonathan Grix, University of Birmingham

"German Studies as a 'Kulturwissenschaft''
Lothar Probst, Universität Bremen

Commentator: John Davidson, The Ohio State University

24. Goethe and the Specular
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon C

Moderator: Tuska Benes, University of Pennsylvania

"Goethe, Friedrich, Runge: On Painting"
Beate Allert, Purdue University

"Goethe's Narcissistic I/Eye"
Evelyn Moore, Kenyon College

"The Gender of Hope: 1815"
Patricia Simpson, Montana State University

Commentator: John B. Lyon, University of Pittsburgh

25. Cinematic Flanerie: The Camera Gazing at the City
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon D

Moderator: Keith Bullivant, University of Florida

"The Object Looks Back: Cinema, Animism, and Modernity"
Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley

"The Exploded Panorama: Berlin Flanerie After the 1945 Collapse"
Jaimey Fisher, Tulane University

"Gendering Flanerie: Male and Female (Camera) Eyes Gazing at the City"
Peter Beicken, University of Maryland, College Park

Commentator: Nora Alter, University of Florida

26. (Re)Inventing Austria Inside and Out
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Volker Langbehn, San Francisco State University

"Austria: Land of Music and Skiing"
Anita Mayer-Hirzberger, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien

"The Mozart Republic"
Cornelia Szabo-Knotik, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien

"Austria: Made in Hollywood"
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Commentator: Douglas Brent McBride, Hunter College, CUNY

27. Capitalism, Commercialism, and Marketing around 1900
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Carolyn Kay, Trent University

"Spectacle, Fantasy, and a Cultural Critique of Wilhelminian Capitalism"
David Hamlin, Brown University

"Colonizing the Consumer Imaginary: German Advertising and the African Colonial Subject around 1900"
David Ciarlo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Marketing German Identity: The Wagner Industry"
Nicholas Vazsonyi, University of South Carolina

Commentator: Eric A. Kurlander, Stetson University

28. German-Jewish-American Relations in the Postwar Era: New Research on the Local Level
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Barbara Dietz, Eastern European Institute, Munich

"From Schieder to Pate? The Rothfelsstreit and Conservative Academic Internationalism in Contemporary Perspective"
John L. Harvey, The Pennsylvania State University

"The Black Market in Postwar Germany: Probing the Realities and Stereotypes of the Interaction among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans and Americans"
Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum College

"German-Jewish Émigrés in the Occupation of Germany: Impact, Perceptions, and Receptions"
Steven P. Remy, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Commentator: Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union

29. The Presence of the Past (1945-1989) in Contemporary German Literature
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Cypress

Moderator: Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University, St. Louis

"Flight and Expulsion in Recent Novellas by Grass and Treichel"
Stephan Braese, Universität Bremen

"The Double Presence of the Past in Barbara Honigmann's Alles, alles Liebe!"
Petra S. Fiero, Western Washington University

"'Grenzenlos erleichtert'? ­ An Artist at the Wende in Judith Hermann's Sonja"
Nancy M. Nobile, University of Delaware

Commentator: Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown University

30. Three Small Parties That Matter: The Greens, the FDP, and the PDS in German Politics
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Oak

Moderator: Christian Søe, California State University, Long Beach

"Power, Identity, and Party Organization: The Greens, 1998-2003"
E. Gene Frankland, Ball State University

"Testing the Will to Believe: The FDP and the Rise and Fall of Project 18"
Christian Søe, California State University, Long Beach

"Die PDS in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Zwischen Regieren und Opponieren"
Udo Michallik, CDU-Landtagsfraktion Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Commentator: Mary N. Hampton, University of Utah

31. Monarchy, Democracy and the Nation
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Azalea

Moderator: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College

"Ernst Moritz Arndt in der deutschen Nationalversammlung"
Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Universität Greifswald

"The Cologne Cathedral, the Paulskirche Parliament and Monarchic Nationalism in 1848: The Political Ambiguity of German Nationalism"
Volker Depkat, Universität Greifswald

"Die verletzte Ehre der Nation: Der 'wahre Anlass' für den deutsch-französischen Krieg"
Birgit Aschmann, Universität Kiel

Commentator: James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky

32. Zionists, Germans, and the East
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Douglas McGetchen, University of California, San Diego

"Herzl and Buber: Zionism in the Context of Germany's Relationship to the Middle East"
Nina Berman, The Ohio State University

"Ostjuden, Orientals, and the Future of Zionism: Arnold Zweigs De Vriendt kehrt heim"
Laurel Plapp, University of California, San Diego

"Images of the East on the Magic Mountain: Symbolic Geographies and the Dialectical Imagination"
Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego

Commentator: Noah Isenberg, Wesleyan University

33. Constructions of Music and Race in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century German Thought
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Kevin Amidon, Iowa State University

"Music and Constructions of Race in the German South Seas"
Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan

"Otto Weininger and Musical Discourse"
Julie Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London

"The Concept of Race in Pre-1933 Musical Discourse"
Pamela Potter, University of Wisconsin

Commentator: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester

34. Aggression, Aggression-Controls, and Civilization
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Maribeth E. Polhill, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras

"Aggression -- its Consequences and Cure in Book 14 of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival"
Martin H. Jones, King's College, University of London

"Late-Medieval Deconstruction of the Cruel Husband: Poets against Male Aggression and Marital Abuse"
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

Commentator: Will Hasty, University of Florida

35. Local, National, and Transnational Public Spheres: The GDR Example
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: David Crew, University of Texas, Austin

"'Mach-Mit': Activities in the Local Public Sphere"
Adelheid von Saldern, Universität Hannover

"Politischer Skandal und Öffentlichkeitswandel in der späten DDR"
Martin Sabrow, Zentrum für Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung Potsdam

"Transparent Man" on Transnational Display: Exhibiting East Germanness in the Third World
Young-Sun Hong, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Commentator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

36. The Influence of the Churches on German Society in the 1960s - 1980s
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University

"The Changing Role of the Catholic Church in West German Politics"
Maria D. Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College

"Der westdeutsche Protestantismus auf dem Weg in die Minderheit"
Gerhard Ringshausen, Universität Lüneburg

"American Liaison Officers to Churches in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s"
Gerhard Besier, Universität Heidelberg

Commentator: Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.

37. Föderalismus und Diktatur. Das Beispiel Sachsens im 20. Jahrhundert
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Heinrich Oberreuter, Universität Passau

"'Gaupartikularismus' im Führerstaat? Sachsen im Dritten Reich 1933-1945"
Thomas Schaarschmidt, Universität Leipzig

"Zwischen Föderalisierung und Liquidierung: Sachsen 1945-1952"
Mike Schmeitzner, Hannah-Arendt-Institut Dresden

"Die Neubildung Sachsens 1989/90. Friedliche Revolution und Föderalisierung"
Michael Richter, Hannah-Arendt-Institut Dresden

Commentator: Günther Heydemann, Universität Leipzig

38. Air War and Literature
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Wilfried Wilms, Union College

"'It Began with Coventry': On Justifying Area Bombing"
William Rasch, Indiana University

"Resistance to Memory: A Case for Public Forgetting"
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

"Towards an Understanding of German Literary Responses to the Air War"
Susanne Vees-Gulani, University of Michigan

Commentator: Patrizia McBride, University of Minnesota

Friday, September 19, 2003
Sessions 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

39. Re-evaluating Semisovereignty in Post-Unification Germany
Sponsor: Association for the Study of German Politics
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Salon B

Moderator: Burkard Eberlein, York University

"Semisovereignty in the 1990s: From Asset to Liability?"
Simon Green, University of Birmingham

"Federalism and Semisovereignty"
Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham

"Environmental Policy: The Law of Diminishing Returns?"
Charles Lees, University of Sheffield

"European Policy"
William Paterson, University of Birmingham

Commentator: Donald Kommers, University of Notre Dame

40. Panel Discussion: German Media Theory: The Digital, the Global, and Beyond
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Salon C

Moderator: Sabine Hake, University of Pittsburgh

"Contaminated Theoryscapes, Or: Cross-Atlantic Mediations of German Film Studies"
Claudia Breger, Indiana University, Bloomington

"Communication Medium Rare: Niklas Luhmann's and Hartmut Winkler's "Medium" Theories"
Michael Geisler, Middlebury College

"Narrative Film/Theory Reconsidered"
Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, St. Louis

"Seeing Reality"
Nora M. Alter, University of Florida

"Der Stand der Dinge": Film + German Studies = German + Film Studies?
Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

41. Writing Military History in the 20th Century
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Audubon A

Moderator: Volker R. Berghahn, Columbia University

"'The war was lost when the Battle of the Marne was lost': Writing the History of the Battle of the Marne"
Annika Mombauer, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

"Fighting Historians and Writing Historians in Germany: The example of World War I"
Christoph Cornelissen, Universität Düsseldorf

"Defending the Past and Preparing for the Future: Naval Historiography in the Inter-War Period"
Michael Epkenhans, Otto-von-Bismarck-Foundation, Friedrichsruh

"Das Militärgeschichtliche Forschungsamt als eine Einrichtung moderner militärgeschichtlicher Forschung und Vermittlung historischer Bildung in den Streitkräften"
Gerhard P. Gross, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam

Commentator: Gerhard Hirschfeld, Universität Stuttgart

42. Women against Peace? Female Support of War Efforts and Cold War Strategies in Twentieth Century Germany
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Doris L. Bergen, University of Notre Dame

"A General's Daughter, a Soldier's Mother: Lily Braun's Love for War, 1914-1916"
Dorothee Wierling, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg

"Photojournalist in Nazi-Occupied Europe: The Wartime Career of Lieselotte Purper"
Elizabeth Harvey, University of Liverpool

"'einen Soldaten für die Front freimachen.' Oral History-Projekt mit ehemaligen Wehrmachthelferinnen, 'ganz normalen' Frauen"
Rosemarie Killius, Universität Frankfurt

" 'Friedensklärchens' Feindinnen ­ ein Frauennetzwerk des Kalten Krieges"
Irene Stoehr, Universität Hannover

Commentator: Christine von Oertzen, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

43. International Reactions to the Holocaust since the 1960s
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Audubon C

Moderator: Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska

"'The ordinary people will ensure that justice be done': Anglo-German Negotiations for the Compensation of Victims of National Socialist Persecution"
Susanna Schrafstetter, University of Glamorgan

"'Can a man not change?': Nazi Crimes and the Rotary Club Controversy of 1976"
S. Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University

"Martyrdom and Memory: John Paul II at Auschwitz"
Jonathan Huener, University of Vermont

"Auschwitz und die Deutschen im Spiegel polnischer Schullektüren"
Joachim Neander, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Commentator: Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland

44. German-Turkish Culture and the New Europe
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Audubon D

Moderator: Michelle Mattson, Iowa State University

"Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Hof im Spiegel (2001):Towards a New Critical Grammar"
Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University

"Writing Against the Grain: Zafer Senocak as Public Intellectual and Writer"
Matthias Konzett, Yale University

"Who's Afraid of a Uniform? Redressing Authority in Film Comedy"
Deniz Göktürk, University of California, Berkeley

"Elusive Turks. Characterization and Interpretation of Turks in Austria by Frischmuth and Rabinovici"
Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago

Commentator: David Ciarlo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

45. Ruins Of Modernity I
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Julia Hell, University of Michigan

"A Photographic Genre: Depopulated Cities"
Neil Hertz, Johns Hopkins University

"Ridges and Ruins: Generic Topographies in German Film History"
Eric Rentschler, Harvard University

"Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction in Post-War Germany"
Helmut Puff, University of Michigan

Trabants, Studebakers, and Modernist Pasts in Germany and the U.S."
Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Commentator: AndreasHuyssen, Columbia University

46. Modell Deutschland: The State of the Debate
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University

"Rethinking Modell Deutschland: Macro vs. Micro-Level Reform of the German Political Economy"
Michael Huelshof, University of New Orleans

"Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland"
Christopher Allen, University of Georgia

"From Conflict to Integration - The Austrian Social Partnership and the
German Collective Bargaining System in Comparison"
Jürgen Nautz, Universität Kassel/Universität Wien

"Germany's Poor Economic Performance in the Last Decade: It's the
Macroeconomy, not Institutional Sclerosis"
Achim Truger, WSI Institute of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation

Commentator: Reiner Pommerin, Technische Universität Dresden

47. Heinz Schlaffer's Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Nina Berman, The Ohio State University

"What is German Literature? A Twenty-First-Century Perspective on the 'Early Modern' Period"
Barbara Becker-Cantarino, The Ohio State University

"Literary History and Memory Loss"
Russell A. Berman, Stanford University

"Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur: Einsprüche aus feministischer Sicht"
Inge Stephan, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

"The Best, the Worst, and the Topography of Fascination"
Niklaus Largier, University of California at Berkeley

Commentator: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton University

48. Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers as a Work of Literature
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Oak

Moderator: Helmut Pfanner, Vanderbilt University

"Der Glückliche und die Unglücklichen: Beobachtungen zu Martin Walsers
Tod eines Kritikers"
Heike Doane, Independent Scholars' Association

"Ist Tod eines Kritikers ein Schlüsselroman?"
Stefan Neuhaus, Universität Bamberg

"Ethics and the Teufelsdreieck of Tod eines Kritikers"
Sheila Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio

"Walser's Tod eines Kritikers in the Context of His Earlier Work"
Gerald A. Fetz, University of Montana

Commentator: Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

49. Sport, Culture and Politics in the Postwar German-speaking World
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Cypress

Moderator: Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds

"Kaiser Franz and the Communist Bowl: Cultural Memory and Munich's Olympic Stadium"
Christopher Young, University of Cambridge

"'Aus! Aus! Aus! Deutschland ist Weltmeister!!!' Die Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 1954 und der Selbstfindungsprozess der Bundesrepublik"
Arthur Heinrich, Bonn

"'His Rise is the Rise of Our Entire State': Champion Cyclist Täve Schur as Socialist Hero in the 1950s GDR"
Molly Wilkinson Johnson, University of Alabama, Huntsville

"The 'Austrification' of Soccer and Skiing .On Sport Space and National Identity"
Roman Horak, Universität Wien

Commentator: Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan

50. "Asozialität": Discourses and Governance between Democracy and Dictatorship in 20th Century Germany
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Azalea

Moderator: Claudia Koonz, Duke University

"Vagabonds, Prostitutes, and the Concept of the Asocial, 1900-1929"
Warren Rosenblum, Webster University, St. Louis

"'Asoziale' im Nationalsozialismus"
Wolfgang Ayass, Universität Kassel

"Abweichendes Verhalten, Modernisierung des Sozialstaats und das Ende des Arbeitshauses in der alten Bundesrepublik"
Wilfried Rudloff, Hochschule für Verwaltungwissenschaften Speyer

"The 'Negative Milieu' of State Socialism: Ascribing "Asozialität" in the East German welfare dictatorship"
Thomas Lindenberger, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

Commentator : Sandrine Kott, Université de Poitiers/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

51. Crisis of Judgment I: In the Eye of the Law: Perception, Surveillance and Spectacle In the Eye of the Law: Perception, Surveillance and Spectacle
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University

"Sovereign Photography: Carl Schmitt's Der Begriff des Politischen and Erich Salomon's Berühmte Zeitgenossen in unbewachten Augenblicken"
Daniel Magilow, University of North Texas

"Bending the Law: The Crisis of Justice in the Weimar Republic"
Benjamin Hett, Harvard University

"Social Judgment and Sensory Discipline in Weimar Visual Culture"
Sara Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Kafka's Surveyor and Legal Revelation from Benjamin to Derrida"
David Brenner, Kent State University

Commentator: Benjamin Robinson, Northern Illinois University

52. German Social Democracy and the Transfer of Policy to East Central Europe
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: William Paterson, Institute for German Studies

"Who Learns from Whom? The SPD and Frameworks for Transferring Policy"
Daniel Hough, University of Nottingham

"German Social Democracy Looking to the East"
James Sloan, Institute for German Studies

"Learning from the West? German Social Democracy and the Polish SLD"
Piotr Buras, Institute for German Studies

Commentator: Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Washington, D.C.

53. Genetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century Germany
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

"Familiengeheimnisse: Geneologie, Rassenforschung und Politik in Deutschland, 1890-1933"
Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Universität Bielefeld

"'The Sword of Our Science' as a Foreign Policy Weapon: The Political Function of Human Geneticists in the International Arena during the Third Reich"
Sheila Faith Weiss, Clarkson University

"The Genetics of Mind. The Rise of Constructivism in the German Debate on Biological Sciences"
Jörn Ahrens, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Commentator: Carola Sachse, MPG Präsidentenkommission "Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus"

54. Vom Winde verweht?: German Scientists and Engineers Abroad
after 1945
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Michael Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum

"'We can get real advantages. And if we don't, someone else will.' Zur Abwanderung deutscher Naturwissenschaftler nach 1945"
Burghard Ciesla, Berlin

"Normaler Technologietransfer? Deutsche Raketenwissenschaftler in Ägypten 1957-1963"
Matthias Uhl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Berlin

"Die Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Spanien im 20. Jahrhundert"
Albert Presas i Puig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

"The 'Great Eastward Trek': Soviet Captivity and the Formation of an East German Technical Elite"
Dolores Augustine, St. John's University

Commentators: Dieter Hoffmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin and Michael Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum

55. Film, Television, and Cultural Politics
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn

"Home is on the Havel: DEFA's Revisioning of the "Heimatfilm" in Alter Kahn und junge Liebe (Hans Heinrich 1957)"
Stefan Soldovieri, University of Toronto

"The Scandal That Never Was: Disability in Fassbinder's Chinesisches Roulette"
Carol Poore, Brown University

"Offering an Alternative to the Mainstream: Formal Innovation in Alexander Kluge's Television Discourse"
Tim Grünewald, University of Washington

Commentator: David Bathrick, Cornell University

56. Lost in Space?: Travel at the Turn of the 21st Century
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Alexander Honold, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

"Time Travel: Touring Sights of Remembrance in Sebald's Austerlitz and Die Ausgewanderten"
Bianca Theisen, The Johns Hopkins University

"Virtual Travel"
Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri

"The Art of Losing One's Way: Sebald and the Travel Writing Tradition"
John Zilcosky, University of Toronto

"Labyrinths"
Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara

Commentator: Helmut Schneider, Universität Bonn

57. Text, Time, and Image in Walter Benjamin
Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: David Hamlin, Brown University

"A Matter of Distance"
Gerhard Richter, University of Wisconsin

"Melancholy and The Theory of Images in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project"
Beatrice Hanssen, University of Georgia

"Walter Benjamin and the 'temporal turn' in 20th Century Thinking"
Dietmar Köveker, Université de Montréal

"'Stillstellung' vs. 'Verflüssigung': Constellations of Image and Text in Walter Benjamin and Peter Weiss
Sven Kramer, University of Toronto

Commentator: David Weberman, Georgia State University

Saturday, September 20, 2003
Sessions 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

58. Recent Developments in Eastern German Political Leadership
Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon B

Moderator: Jennifer A. Yoder, Colby College

Berlin and Brandenburg: Two Different Models of State Leadership?
Meredith Heiser-Duron, Foothill College

After Gera: The New National Leadership of the PDS and Its Challenges
Jonathan Olsen, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

Leading the Bundestag: The Schroeder Approach
Werner J. Patzelt, Technische Universität Dresden

Commentator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University

59. Roundtable: How Much German in German Studies?
Sponsor: American Association of Teachers of German
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Salon C

Moderator: Margit Sinka, Clemson University

Robert Di Donato, Miami University, Ohio
William Collins Donahue, Rutgers University
Sabine Gross, University of Wisconsin
Hal Rennert, University of Florida

60. Visions and Revisions of Violence: Constructions of Modernism in West Germany
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Audubon A

Moderator: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, Saint Louis

"Speculators of the Negative"
Kai Evers, Middlebury College

"French (Object) Lessons: Border Crossings, the Crisis of the Subject and the False Promise of Violence in New Realism"
Richard Langston, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

"Verbal Terrorism: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Machine Gun Poetics of the Late 1960s"
Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Cardiff University

Commentator: Mariatte Denman, Duke University

61. Public Policy in Germany
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Audubon B

Moderator: Forest Grieves, University of Montana

"Bridging the Knowledge ­ Policy Gap? The Role and Significance of Think Tanks in German"
Martin Thunert, University of Michigan

"European Integration and Public Sector Reform: Towards a New Public Management in Germany?"
Eckhard Schröter, University of California, Berkeley

"Germany's Non-Wars Against Smoking: Why Germany Lags in Tobacco Control"
Alice H. Cooper, University of Mississippi
Paulette Kurzer, University of Arizona

Commentator: Arthur Gunlicks, University of Richmond

62. Masculinities in Margins: Gender and Masculinity in Central Europe between 1800 and 1914
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Audubon C

Moderator: Vera Lind, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

"Men Dancing, Men Walking. Defining Male Habitus in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany"
Heikki Lempa, Moravian College

"Mens sana in corpore sano: Masculine Ideals in the German Turnverein and Czech Sokol"
Claire Nolte, Manhattan College

"Masculinity and Morality: Catholicism, Confessional Conflict, and the Debate over Clerical Celibacy in Imperial Germany"
Derek Hastings, University of Chicago

Commentator: Till van Rahden, Universität Köln

63. Nazi Cinema Studies: What Is at Stake?
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Audubon D

Moderator: Yvonne Houy, Pomona College

"The Nazi Avant-Garde: The Kultur and Unterricht Films of Wilfried Basse"
Andrew Gaskievicz, Mansfield University

"The Sixth Jew: Hans Zerlett's Robert und Bertram (1939) and Problems of Spectatorship in Third Reich Film Studies"
Valerie Weinstein, University of Nevada, Reno

"Ferdinand and the Führer"
Theodore Rippey, Bowling Green State University

Commentator: David Imhoof, Susquehanna University

64. Ruins of Modernity II
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Audubon E

Moderator: Katja Garloff, Reed College

"Ruined Railways and the German/Jewish Question in Freud and Sebald"
Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles

"Layered Time: Ruins as Lacunas and as Presence in Israeli and German Landscapes"
Amir Eshel, Stanford University

"Dead Bodies and Ruins, or Reflections on the Post-Fascist Gothic"
Julia Hell, University of Michigan

"Writing Against Ruins: Hanne Darboven and the Vergegenwärtigung of Modernity"
Brigid Doherty, Princeton University

Commentator: Thomas Pfau, Duke University

65. Too Little Too Late? Nazi Art Theft and Restitution Efforts after World War II: The Case of Austria
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Magnolia

Moderator: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans

"The Austrian Federal Office for Heritage Protection: Assisting in the Looting during the War, Administering Restitution after the War"
Robert Holzbauer, Bundesdenkmalamt/Archiv, Vienna

"Coming to Terms with the Past: The Collections of Albin-Egger-Lienz Paintings in East Tyrol"
Martin Kofler, Innsbruck

"Historical Truth Impossible? Nazi-Looted Schiele Paintings and the New York and Los Angeles Court Cases"
Oliver Rathkolb, Universität Wien

Commentator: Jonathan Petropoulos, Claremont McKenna College

66. Constructions of Urban Turkish Gender Identities in Germany
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Mimosa

Moderator: Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University

"The King of Marxloh: Ahmet Öner, Boxing, and Turkish-German Regionalism"
Ole Gram, University of Minnesota

"Practices of Resistance: Turkish Women in Duisburg-Marxloh and the Production of Neighborhood Space"
Patricia Ehrkamp, Miami University, Ohio

"Kurz und Schmerzlos and the Critique of Subaltern Masculinity"
Robert R. Shandley, Texas A&M University

Commentator: Michelle Mattson, Iowa State University

67. Kriegsherren: Protagonisten deutscher Militärpolitik in Kaiserreich, Republik und Diktatur
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Oak

Moderator: Jay W. Baird, Miami University (Ohio)

"Ludendorff: Hitlers Vater?"
Tobias Jersak, Universität Stuttgart

"Groener: Preussens Erbe und Weimars Auftrag"
Johannes Huerter, Institut für Zeitgeschichte

"Halder: Der verhinderte Generalstabchef"
Christian Hartmann, Institut für Zeitgeschichte

Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

68. Imagining the German East, 1871-1921
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Azalea

Moderator: Marline Otte, Tulane University

"Escaping Germany or Saving Germany? Separatism in the Eastern Borderlands, 1918-1921"
James E. Bjork, Colgate University

"Teaching Germanness: Schooling a New Generation of Germans on the Eve of World War I"
Elizabeth A. Drummond, University of Southern Mississippi

"Poland or Prussia? Creating a Heimat in the German East, 1871-1914"
Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of New Orleans

Commentator: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee

69. Language and German Conceptions of Culture in 1800
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Barnet Hartston, Eckerd College

"The 'Living Word': Hamann, Herder, and the Historicization of Linguistic Community"
Tuska Benes, University of Pennsylvania

"Schleiermacher and the Emergence of Linguistic of Anthropology"
Chad Wellmon, University of California, Berkeley

"The German Study of Sanskrit in the Nineteenth Century"
Douglas T. McGetchen, University of California, San Diego

Commentator: Sara Pugach, The Ohio State University

70. The German Student Movement and America
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Detlef Junker, Universität Heidelberg

"Right or Left? Perceptions of America in the West German Student Movement of the 1960s"
Wilfried Mausbach, Universität Heidelberg

"New Left Alliances: German-American Networks in the Student Movements of the Early 1960s"
Martin Klimke, Universität Heidelberg

"Angela Davis and the West German Feminist Movement."
Carla MacDougall, Rutgers University

Commentator: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

71. The Politics of the Modern Self
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Andreas Daum, University of Buffalo (SUNY)

"The Occult Self"
Corinna Treitel, Wellesley College

"The Problem of the Individual in an Ethical Gesellschaft"
Tracie Matysik, University of Texas, Austin

"Sexual Subjectivity and the Modern Optimism for Social Reform"
Kristin McGuire, University of Michigan

Commentator: Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta

72. Image, After-Image, Affect: Art and the Real, 1750-1830
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Franz Futterknecht, University of Florida

"Learning to See: 18th Century Visual Knowledge"
Claire Baldwin, Colgate University

"Vision and Affect: Embodied Spectatorship in 18th-Century Writing"
Brigitte Peucker, Yale University

"Fugitive Images and Visual Memory in Goethe's Discourse on Color"
Clark S. Muenzer, University of Pittsburgh

"Sculptural Ornament and the Language of 'Verwilderung' in Clemens Brentano"
Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: Jay Sherry, Brooklyn, NY

73. Gender and Class Conflict in Early 19th-Century Literature
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Christine Anton, Berry College

"The Gender of German Romanticism"
Martha B. Helfer, University of Utah

"Overcoming Tragedy: Theater and Bourgeois Power in Karl Gutzkow's Richard Savage"
K. Scott Baker, Pacific University

"Towards a Critique of Violence in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug"
John B. Lyon, University of Pittsburgh

Commentator: Patricia Simpson, Montana State University

74. (Post)Soviet Jewish Immigration To Germany
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Jeffrey Peck, York University

"The Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union to Germany: History, Politics and Integration Patterns"
Barbara Dietz, Eastern European Institute, Munich

"Are Russian Jews Postcolonial? Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Germany and their Literature"
Oliver Lubrich, Freie Universität Berlin

"From Victims of Anti-Semitism to Postmodern Hybrids: Representations of (Post)Soviet Jews in Germany"
Robin Ostow, University of Toronto

Commentator: Galili Shahar, Freie Universität Berlin

75. Distinction, Consensus and the Role of Consumer Goods in the GDR
Sat 8:30-10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Adelheid von Saldern, Universität Hannover

"Showcase Showdown: Tensions Over Global and Domestic Consumption in the GDR"
Katherine Pence, Baruch College, CUNY

"A Consensus of Modern Socialist Wohnkultur? The Example of Plastic Consumer Goods in the Home in the German Democratic Republic from the 1950's to the 1970's"
Eli Rubin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Race and Economy in Soviet-Style Regimes: The East German Case, 1971-1989"
Jonathan Zatlin, Boston University

Commentator: Patrice Poutros, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

Saturday, September 20, 2003
Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

76. Roundtable: The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: What Applicants Need to Know
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon B

Moderator: Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester

Wedigo de Vivanco, Freie Universität Berlin
Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina
Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University
Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan

77. Gerhard Schröder and German-American Relations
Sponsor: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon C

Moderator: Gerald R. Kleinfeld

"Partnerschaft mit Spannungen: Gerhard Schröder und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen"
Uwe-Karsten Heye, Consul-General, Federal Republic of Germany, New York

Commentator: Gerald R. Kleinfeld; Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University

78. Rising Stars, Falling Stars: The Future of Austrian Party Politics After the November 2002 Elections
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon A

Moderator: Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University

"Liberal and Conservative: The Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) in Search of a Double-Headed Profiling"
Emil Brix, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

"Beyond Left and Right: Who Are the Forces of Political Changes in Austria Today?"
Eric Frey, Managing Editor, Der Standard, Vienna

"'Knittelfeld:' The Self-Destruction of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ): Mischief or Misfortune?"
Lothar Höbelt, Universität Wien

Commentator: Lonnie Johnson, Fulbright Commission, Vienna

79. Topographies of Jewish and German Identities in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Amir Eshel, Stanford University

"The Non-Place of East Central Europe: Repetition, Echo, Text"
Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota

"The-Name-of-the-Father: Figurations of Identity in Contemporary German Literature"
Galili Shahar, Freie Universität Berlin

"Double-Vision: Oscillating Places and Identities"
Sebastian Wogenstein, Universität Tübingen

Commentator: Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University, St. Louis

80. Public Opinion, Public Performance, and the Transformation of Politics in the Federal Republic, 1949-1969
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon C

Moderator: Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College

"Advertising, Public Opinion Research, and the Americanization of Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957"
Mark E. Spicka, Shippensburg University

"Westbindung as Performance: Kennedy, de Gaulle, LBJ, and the West German Experience with Charismatic Leadership"
Andreas Daum, State University of New York, Buffalo

"Selling Social Triage: Public Relations and Civil Defense in West Germany, 1955-1965"
Nicholas J. Steneck, The Ohio State University

Commentator: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

81. Radio and Newsreel Propaganda in Nazi Germany
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon D

Moderator: David Bathrick, Cornell University

"Representations of Jews on the Volksempfänger"
Inge Marszolek, Universität Bremen

"His Master's Voice: Goebbels, World War II, and the Jews"
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland

"Documentary Film and the Limits of Propaganda in the Third Reich"
Kay Hoffmann, Documentary Film Center, Stuttgart

Commentator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

82. Soziale Wohlfahrt zwischen privater und staatlicher Verantwortung in Deutschland ­ Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Brett T. Fairbairn, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan

"'In Deutschland scheint die Zivilgesellschaft zwar eine Zukunft aber keine Vergangenheit zu haben': Der Stellenwert der sozialen Philanthropie im Deutschen Kaiserreich"
Thomas Adam, University of Texas at Arlington

"Mäzententum in Weimar ­ eine unbekannte Größe"
Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

"Der Spendenmarkt in der Bundesrepublik: Zur Geschichte der Philanthropie in Deutschland 1945-1989"
Gabriele Lingelbach, Universität Trier

Commentator: Jean H. Quartaert, Binghamton University

83. Representations of Terrorism in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Jay Rosellini, Suffolk University, Boston

"Terrorism in the German Novel: F.C. Delius' "Deutscher Herbst" Trilogy"
Keith Bullivant, University of Florida

"The Terrorist's Face: Personalizing Terrorism in German Film"
Richard Rundell, New Mexico State University

"The Phantom Effect": The Return of the Dead in Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 Cycle
Eric Kligerman, University of Florida

Commentator: Michael Geisler, Middlebury College

84. Who Are the Victims? Czech and Polish Discourses on the Vertreibungen.
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Pavel Cernoch, Charles University

"The Czechs and Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia"
Oldrich Tuma, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague

"We Both Committed Wrongs, But Victimhood Is Ours! Polish Perspectives on the German Expulsions"
Pawel Lutomski, Stanford University

"When Victims are Perpetrators and Perpetrators Victims: Czechs and Germans Face the Legacy of a Tragic Decade"
Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University

Commentator: Ann Phillips, U..SA.I.D., Washington

85. Telling Pasts: Memory, Identity, and Gender in Recent German Narratives
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Cypress

Moderator: Christine Haase, University of Georgia

"Desire and Perpetrator Memory in Lukas Hartmann's Die Frau im Pelz"
Mariatte Denman, Duke University

"Memory and (Auto)biography in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe"
Brigitte Rossbacher, University of Georgia

"Body Memory, History, and Healing in Christa Wolf's Leibhaftig"
Anna K. Kuhn, University of California, Davis

Commentator: Azade Seyhan, Byrn Mawr College

86. Diplomats, Soldiers and Spies: Nazi Atrocities and their Legacy through the Eyes of State and Military Professionals
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Oak

Moderator: Katherine Roper, St. Mary's College

"A German Diplomat and the Fate of German Jews: The Case of Heinrich Wolff"
Francis R. Nicosia, St. Michael's College

"Military Necessity and Reprisals: The Case of Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel"
Peter Hoffmann, McGill University

"A Nazi Spy: Wilhelm Höttl, the Holocaust and Allied Postwar Intelligence"
Norman J.W. Goda, Ohio University

Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

87. The Artist and the Metropolis
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Azalea

Moderator: Norbert Puszkar, Austin Peay State University

"The Arrested Gaze: Shocking Shop Windows in Mackay and Mann"
Yvonne Ivory, Duke University

"Georg Simmel, Grossstadterfahrung, and the Debate About Culture"
Fritz Wefelmeyer, University of Sunderland

"Transformed Spaces: Tonio Kröger Discovers a Volksbibliothek"
Perry Myers, Baylor University

Commentator: Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego

88. Revisiting the Canon: Contributions by Women Writers
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Derek Hillard, Kansas State University

"Renaissance Redux: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's 'Künstlernovelle' Agave"
Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown University

"The Making (and Unmaking?) of an Austrian Icon: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach"
Linda Kraus Worley, University of Kentucky

"Hedwig Dohm's Prose Works Revisited"
Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, University of Montana

Commentator: Martha B. Helfer, University of Utah

89. Goethe and the Enlightenment
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Deborah Hertz, Sarah Lawrence College

"Re-Coding the Semantics of Intimacy: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
Patrick Fortmann, Harvard University

"Faust As Metaphor for the Enlightenment: Goethe, Kant, Schelling"
Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross

"The Realzeitung and the Inferiority Complex in Vienna's Enlightenment"
Heather Morrison, Louisiana State University

Commentator: Franz Futterknecht, University of Florida

90. Protest, Political Tradition, and the Cold War in Germany
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Jeremy P. Varon, Drew University

"Pacifism and Peace Advocacy from Weimar to Bonn"
Andrew Oppenheimer, The University of Chicago

"Political and Social Traditions in the Protests against Nuclear Weapons in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1957-1964"
Holger Nehring, University College, Oxford

"Traditionsbildung und Gegenwartsverortung in der westdeutschen 'Gegenkultur' der späten 1960er Jahre"
Detlef Siegfried, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg

Commentator: Thomas Lindenberger, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

91. The State and the Self in the German Democratic Republic
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Katherine Pence, City University of New York

"The Problem of Privacy: State, Citizen, and GDR Domestic Life"
Paul Betts, University of Sussex

"'Messe Uncles' and 'Messe Air': The Leipzig Trade Fairs as Ideal and Experience in Late Socialism"
Daphne Berdahl, University of Minnesota

"The Travels of Gudrun Linke: Ideology, the Stasi, and the Making of a Self in East Germany"
Alon Confino, University of Virginia

Commentator: Mary Nolan, New York University

92. On Wissenschaft, Philosophy, and Politics in the Early 19th Century
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Robin E. Judd, Ohio State University

"Vom falschen Umgang mit der Natur: Zu den Abweichungen von Goethes geologischem Entwurf im literarischen Spätwerk"
Michael Mandelartz, Meiji University, Tokyo

"Naturphilosophie und Politik am Beispiel von Lorenz Oken"
Klaus Ries, Universität Jena

"Kastanienwäldchen or University: A 19th-Century Theory of German Studies"
Donovan J. Anderson, University of Dallas

Commentator: Volker Depkat, Universität Greifswald

93. New Directions in the History of Anti-Semitism
Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 AM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Meike G. Werner, Vanderbilt University

"Anti-Semitism as Speech Act"
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University

"Anti-Liberalism and Anti-Semitism in Catholic Germany, 1871-1914"
Siegfried Weichlein, Humboldt Universität Berlin

"Nationalism and Anti-Semitism: The Case of Paul de Lagarde"
Ulrich Sieg, Universität Marburg

Commentator: Doris L. Bergen, University of Notre Dame

94. Rhetorical and Political Modes of Reconstruction in Postwar German Science
Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Mark Walker, Union College

"Reconstructed Science? Heisenberg and Instrumental Rationality between the Third Reich and the Federal Republic"
Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley

"Target Heidelberg: Chemical Warfare Research of Nobel Prize Laureate Richard Kuhn in the Nazi-Era and its Postwar Exploitation through Allied Military Intelligence"
Florian Schmaltz, MPG Forschungsprogramm

"The Quest for Recognition. The Compensation of Refugee Scientists in Postwar West Germany"
Michael Schüring, MPG Forschungsprogramm

Commentator:

Saturday, September 20, 2003
Sessions 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

95. Love It or Leave It? Amerikakritik and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Salon B

Moderator: Carole Fink, The Ohio State University

"Missverständnis Amerika. Antiamerikanismus als Projektion"
Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina

"Fremde Freunde? Das Bild der USA in Deutschland nach dem 11. September 2001"
Alexander Stephan, The Ohio State University

"'Moralische Vergiftung der Seele': Anti-Americanism in Postwar Austria"
Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans

Commentator: Frank Trommler, The University of Pennsylvania

96. Emerging Issues in German Security
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Salon C

Moderator: Tom Dyson, London School of Economics

"Crisis in Trans-Atlantia: The U.S., Germany, and NATO"
Mary Hampton, University of Utah

"German Security Policy: The Logic of Appropriateness; the Logic of Outcomes"
Jim Sperling, University of Akron

"The Trans-Atlantic Crisis and German Security Through the Lens of the German Media"
Malte Lehming, Der Tagespiegel

Commentator: Ann Phillips, U.S.A.I.D.

97. The Near, the Far and the In-Between: Immigration, Integration, and Turkish Identity
Sponsor : Conference Group on German Politics
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Audubon A

Moderator: Silke Roth, University of Pennsylvania

"Split Personalities or Dual Identities: Generational Change among Turkish-German Youth"
Joyce Marie Mushaben, University of Missouri, St. Louis

"For Us or Against Us: Assessing Immigrants' Reactions to the 2000 Naturalization Reforms"
Peter Doerschler, Pennsylvania State University

Commentator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University

98. The Pasts of Contemporary German Cinema
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Richard Rundell, New Mexico State University

"Hitler's Willing Weightlifter: Germany's Past in Werner Herzog's Invincible"
Brad Prager, University of Missouri, Columbia

"So-called 'Terrorists': Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuss"
Michael Richardson, Ithaca College

"Reworking the 90s: Erleuchtung garantiert"
Roger Cook, University of Missouri, Columbia

Commentator: David A. Brenner, Kent State University

99. Behavioral and Rationalist Methods in the Study of German Politics
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Audubon C

Moderator: William Patch, Grinnell College

"The East German Transition Game"
Kurt-Henning Tvedt, European University Institute, Florence

"Austria's Path to Dictatorship: The Strategies of the Elites (1927-1933) "
Ingar Benonisen, University of Bergen, Norway

"Bordering East and West: Division and Reunification among Neighbors"
Edith Replogle Sheffer, University of California, Berkeley

Commentator: Thomas Saalfeld, University of Kent at Canterbury

100. (National) Identities and (Gender) Boundaries in Film
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Audubon D

Moderator: Carol Poore, Brown University

"Transnational Cinema in Vienna and Budapest 1934-1937"
Angelika Führich, The Johns Hopkins University

"Cold War for Cultural Control: The Battle Over the Film Industry in Early Postwar Austria"
Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University

"Castration Anxiety Revisited: Germany as 'Mother' in Kutlug Altman's Film Lola & Bilidikid"
Caroline Rupprecht, Queens College, CUNY

Commentator: Stefan Soldovieri, University of Toronto

101. Re/Membering Veterans: Trauma and Community among Germany's War Victims, 1914-1939
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Robert Whalen, Queens University

"Re-Arming the Disabled: Medicine and the Wiedereingliederung of the War Wounded, 1916-1922"
Heather R. Perry, Indiana University

"The Militant Hysteric: Trauma, Politics, and the Memory of World War I, 1918-1939"
Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University

"Montaging Masculinity: Soldier Portraits and the Weimar Photomontages of Marianne Brandt"
Elizabeth Ott, University of Michigan/Freie Universität Berlin

Commentator: Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr

102. Germany and the World Wide Web: Theory, Ethics, and Use of the Internet in Germany
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Jörg Waltje, Ohio University

"Political and Theoretical Dimensions of Cybermanifestos in German-speaking Countries"
Scott G. Williams, University of Texas at Arlington

"Online Journalism Ethics in Times of Global Conflicts: Attitudes and Opinions of German and U.S.-American Web Journalists"
Bernhard Debatin, Ohio University

"Simultaneous Use of Internet and Television News on the Iraq Conflict:
Patterns and Preferences of News Media Use in Germany and the U.S. "
Denise Matthews, University of Georgia

Commentator: Werner Patzelt, Technische Universität Dresden

103. The Evolution of German Capitalism: Still a Coordinated Market Economy?
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Gregg Kvistad, University of Denver

"Leaving Tradition behind: Deutsche Bank, Allianz, and the Dismantling of 'Deutschland AG'"
Jürgen Beyer, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln

"State of the Corporation: State Power, Politics, and Policymaking and Corporate Governance in the United States, Germany, and France"
John Cioffi, University of California, Riverside

"Institutional Change in the German System of Industrial Relations"
Britta Rehder, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln

Commentator: Richard Deeg, Temple University

104. Austria-Hungary in 1914: Accidental Death or Terminal Disease?
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Cypress

Moderator: Emil Brix, Austrian Foreign Office

"Austria-Hungary and the Great Powers"
Holger Afflerbach, Emory University

"Anxious Warriors: The Austrian Military"
Günther Kronenbitter, Universität Augsburg

"Domestic Arrangements: Well-tempered Discontent or rien ne va plus?
Lothar Höbelt, Universität Wien

Commentator: Sam Williamson, University of the South

105. Transatlantische Beziehungen in der Ernährungspolitik Deutschlands, der Schweiz und den USA im 20. Jahrhundert
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Oak

Moderator: Susanne Heim, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

"Quakers and the German Idea of Welfare, 1918-1933"
Keith R. Allen, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

"Begegnung zweier Wissenschaftskulturen. Die Reisen deutscher Ernährungwissenschaftler in die USA im Rahmen der deutschen Auslandshilfe und ihre Folgen für die bundesdeutsche Ernährungsaufklärung und ­beratung"
Ulrike Thoms, Humboldt-Universität/Freie Universität Berlin

"Food Habits, Nutritional Science, and Rationing Systems during World War II:
A Comparison between Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.A."
Jakob Tanner, University of Zurich

Commentator: Susanne Heim, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

106. Textures of the Modern ­ The Emergence of "Fordist" Vienna
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Azalea

Moderator: Mary Nolan, New York University

"Vienna after 1945: Urban Fordism in the Shadow of Amnesia"
Wolfgang Maderthaner, Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Wien

"Youth Culture as a Media Event"
Siegfried Mattl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien

"Burda Fashions: Home-Dressmaking in Austria from 1950 to 1970"
Margarethe Szeless, Forschungsprojekte "Wiener Beiträge zur Moderne"

Commentator: Dr. Lutz Musner, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien

107. Fury: Aspects of Medieval German Literature
Sponsor : Young Medievalist Germanists in North America (YMAGINA)
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Glenn Ehrstine, University of Iowa

Arofels swert daz lieht gevar: Rage, Revenge, and the Question of Willehalm's Sanctity
David Neville, Washington University, St Louis

Von zürnenden küneginnen und siechen ungesunden: Fury in medical discourse and the Nibelungenlied
Marian E. Polhill, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras

The Fire-Breathing Dietrich von Bern: Fury and Degenerate Heroism in the Rosengarten
William Layher, Washington University, St Louis

Commentator: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Goshen College

108. Aspects of Goethe
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Elizabeth A. Drummond, University of Southern Mississippi

"The Education of Representation: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre"
Monica Birth, The Johns Hopkins University

"Fausts Verjüngung"
Franz Futterknecht, University of Florida

"Schiller's Skull and the Correspondence: Goethe's Contextualization of the Briefwechsel"
Gail K. Hart, University of California, Irvine

Commentator: Donovan J. Anderson, University of Dallas

109. European Scholars and Ethnopolitics during Third Reich
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota

"Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp and the Fate of Jews and Russian Germans in Ukraine"
Samuel D. Sinner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Romanian-German Collaboration: The Case of Sabin Manuila"
Viorel Achim, Bucharest

"Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler als ethnopolitische Experten in der SS: Wilfried Krallert und Fritz Valjavec"
Michael Fahlbusch, Basel

Commentator: John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley

110. Marginalization and Assimilation of Jews and Protestants in 19th-Century Germany
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Suzanne Marchand, Lousiana State University

"Between Belief and Practice: Religion and German Jewish Life 1840-1914"
Robin E. Judd, The Ohio State University

"The Schwabes of Ovelgönne: Schutzjuden and Social Mobility in the Era of the French Revolution and the Vormärz"
James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky

"Protestant Ghetto? A Re-examination of Confessional Relations in 19th-Century Germany"
Rebecca Ayako Bennette, Harvard University

Commentator: Andrew Lees, Rutgers University

111. Reshaping Space and Society in Germany, 1900-1960
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Nathan Stolzfus, Florida State University

"How Green Was the Garden? Revisiting the German Garden City Movement"
Jeffry M. Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire

"Modernizing the Waters: Planning and Pollution in the Lower Elbe Region"
Charles Closmann, University of Houston

"Rationalizing Nature: Landscape Planning and Environmental Reform in Weimar Germany"
Thomas Lekan, University of South Carolina

Commentator: Nathan Stolzfus, Florida State University

112. The Public Sphere and Political Theater
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: David Hamlin, Brown University

"The Architectonics of Public Science: Rudolf Virchow's Pathologisches Museum"
Thomas O. Haakenson, University of Minnesota

"Funerals as Political Theater: Interring Kaiser Wilhelm I and Wilhelm Liebknecht"
Michael L. Hughes, Wake Forest University

"Hugenberg's First Big Mistake: The Misfiring of German Nation-Building in Posen Province in the Late Kaiserreich"
Roland Spickermann, University of Texas, Permian Basin

Commentator: Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

113. Women's Work: Philanthropy and Cultural and Historical Mediation
Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Nicholas Vazsonyi, University of South Carolina

"Philanthropy as an Agent for Social Change? The Charity Work of Empress Frederick of Germany and Its Impact"
Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University

"Women Travelers in the 19th Century: Cultural Mediators or Reinforcers of Imperialist Thought?"
Monika Fischer, Hunter College

"Capitalist Enterprise, Women's Work, and the Mediation of German History: Mrs. Chapman Coleman, Luise Mühlbach, and D. Appleton & Co."
Lynne Tatlock, Washington University, St. Louis

Commentator: Linda Kraus Worley, University of Kentucky

Saturday, September 20, 2003
Sessions 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

114. Recent Developments in German Foreign Policy
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Salon C

Moderator: Gerlinde Bernd, University of California, Davis

"German Views of Turkey's EU Application"
Emil Nagengast, Juniata College

"German-US Relations from Pre-Bush to Post-9/11 Bush: Why They Matter to the Transaltantic Relationship"
Michaela C. Hertkorn, New York University

"The Politics of German Defence Policy: Cognition, Contingency, and the Role of Policy Leadership in Bundeswehr Reform"
Tom Dyson, London School of Economics

"German-French Leadership in the European Union: "Stotternder Motor" ohne Alternative? "
Wolfram Hilz, TU Chemnitz

Commentator: Graham Timmins, University of Stirling

115. Hans Rothfels als Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Historikerleben zwischen Deutschland und den USA vor und nach 1945
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Audubon A

Moderator: John L. Harvey, The Pennsylvania State University

"Hans Rothfels in Königsberg und Berlin: Vom Revisionismus zum Volkstumskamp?"
Ingo Haar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

"Hans Rothfels im Chicagoer Exil: Traditionsbewahrung oder Transformation?"
Peter Thomas Walther, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften

"Hans Rothfels in Tübingen und München"
Karl Heinz Roth, Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Commentator: Hartmut Lehmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte

116. Jews and the Boundaries of Normality in Early 20th Century Germany and Austria
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Julia Roos, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

"Returning to Normal/Repossessing the Past? Property, Memory and Austrian Jewish Identities"
Lisa Silverman, Yale University

"Inventing the Kleptomaniac: The Pathologies of Female Consumption in Weimar Germany"
Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

"Acting Out and Being Gone: Suicide and Early Psychoanalysis"
Darcy Buerkle, Smith College

"German-Jewish Anti-Zionist Voices before 1945: The Example of Joseph Roth"
Jody Lewen, Patten College at San Quentin State Prison

Commentator: Ann Goldberg, University of California, Riverside

117. Dissonances in Visual Culture and Modernity: Architecture, Film, and Photography
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Audubon C

Moderator: Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College

"Modernity as a Home: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism"
Patrizia McBride, University of Minnesota

"Returning the Gaze; Textuality and Mechanical Reproducibility in Peter Altenberg's Appropriated Photographs"
Alys X. George, Stanford University

"Ernst Jünger, Photography, and the Imperial Gaze of the Worker"
David C. Durst, American University in Bulgaria

Commentator: Larson Powell, Texas A&M University

118. Revisiting East German Popular Culture: Science Fiction, the Comic Book, and Romance Film
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Audubon D

Moderator: Anke Pinkert, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Science Fiction in the Soviet Sector: Ludwig Turek's The Golden Ball"
Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University

"DDR-Populärkultur 1949-1990 zwischen Karl Marx and Karl May"
Thomas Kramer, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

"'Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet': East German Romantic Drama and the Politics of Everyday Life"
Jennifer Creech, University of Minnesota

Commentator: Peggy Piesche, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

119. The Quest for a Credible Anti-Semitism: "Judenforschung" in the Third Reich
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

"A Case Study: The Two Faces of an Anti-Semite"
Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute

"The Dissemination of Racial Phobia as Knowledge"
Claudia Koonz, Duke University

"Vernichten und Erinnern: 'Judenforschung' als Musealisierungsstrategie"
Dirk Rupnow, Simon Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Universität Leipzig

Commentator: Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

120. Gender Relations in the New Millennium: "The More Things Change."
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Jutta Helm, Western Illinois University

"The European Union Directive on Sexual Harassment and Politics against Sexual Harassment in the Member States"
Kathrina Zippel, Northeastern University

"Gender-Mainstreaming: A New Feminist Paradigm for Germany? "
Silke Roth, University of Pennsylvania

"What Gender are MdL? Explaining Why Eastern and Western Parties Did (or Did Not) Adhere to Voluntary Gender Quotas for the Landtage between 1990 and 2000"
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami

Commentator: Joyce Marie Mushaben, University of Missouri, St. Louis

121. Roundtable: Austrian Studies: Partners in the Quest to Understand Europe
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Josef Leidenfrost, Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

Emil Brix, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Christoph Ramoser, Austrian Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture
Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Gerald R. Kleinfeld, German Studies Association

122. Zur politologischen Aktualität philosophischer Positionen
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Cypress

Moderator: Hans Adler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Kants Beitrag zur europäischen Verfassungsdebatte"
Helmut Wagner, Freie Universität Berlin

"Jürgen Habermas: Das doppelte Missverständnis - Zur Interpretation der Bundesrepublik Deutschland"
Hans Dieter Zimmermann, Technische Universität Berlin

"Ernst Nolte: Verteidiger der liberalen Systems? "
Volker Kronenberg, Universität Bonn

"Cultural Criticism and Politics in Max Weber and Hannah Arendt"
Winfried Thaa, Universität Trier

Commentator: Olaf Leisse, Universität Erfurt

123. Metaphor, Ritual, and Rätsel in Post-Romantic German Literature
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Oak

Moderator: Donovan Anderson, University of Dallas

"Metaphor as Metatext in Gottfried Keller's Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe"
Christine M. Goulding, California State University, Chico

"The Rites of Childhood: Ritual Re-enchantments in Post-Romantic Culture"
Derek Hillard, Kansas State University

"Kleist abgeschaut: Zufall oder 'Gottes furchtbare Hand'--Die Bestrafung des Abel Hradschek in Fontanes Kriminalnovelle Unterm Birnbaum"
Christine Anton, Berry College

Commentator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University, St. Louis

124. Geschichtsphilosophien und Geschichtstheorien im 20. Jahrhundert
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Azalea

Moderator: Larry Frohman, State University of New York, Stony Brook

"Überlegungen zu einer geschichtsphilosophischen Erklärung des National-sozialismus"
Wolfgang Bialas, University of California, Irvine

"Krise der Geschichtsphilosophie - von Lukács zur Kritischen Theorie"
Manfred Gangl, Université d'Angers/MSH Paris

"Zur Problematik des Historismus und der 'Überwindung des Historismus' in der Weimarer Republik"
Gérard Raulet, École Normale Supérieure, Paris-Lyon

"Critical Reflections on the Politics of Modernity in the Philosophical Anthropology of Helmuth Plessner"
Andy Wallace, California State University, Sonoma

Commentator: Richard Wolin, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

125. Encountering the East in Medieval Literature
Sponsor : Young Medievalist Germanists in North America (YMAGINA)
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Sara S. Poor, Princeton University

"Imperialist Propaganda and the Middle High German Crusader Lyric"
Jerold C. Frakes, University of Southern California

"Military Intelligence in Konrad's Rolandslied"
Samuel Willcocks, University of Pennsylvania

"Des Turken Vasnachtspil: Encountering the East at the Nuremberg Carnival"
Glenn Ehrstine, University of Iowa

Commentator: Rasma Lazda, University of Alabama

126. The State and Civil Society in Postwar Germany
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Maria Höhn, Vassar College

"Collective Action and Expellee Integration in Post-1945 Germany"
Pertti Ahonen, University of Sheffield

"West German Politicians and the Re-establishment of the German Jewish Community"
Jay Howard Geller, University of Tulsa

"German Schoolteachers and the Creation of the German Democratic Republic"
Charles B. Lansing, Yale University

Commentator: Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

127. Germany and The Prospect of War in the Age of Normalization ­ International Perspectives
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

"The Presentation of German Wartime Suffering in Recent German Fiction"
Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds

"Through the Eye of a Camera: Crime, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Wehrmacht
Exhibition"
Bill Niven, The Nottingham Trent University

"Nie wieder Krieg! ­ Nie wieder Auschwitz!: Fighting for Normality in the Balkans"
Karoline von Oppen, University of Bath

"Germany and the Iraq Crisis, 2001-2003"
Sebastian Harnisch, Universität Trier

Commentator: Elliot Neaman, University of San Francisco

128. New German Studies and the Global Metropolis: Berlin and Its Others
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Perry Myers, Texas A&M University

"'The Outer Edge of the Wave': Berlin, Mutability, and Globalization"
Janet Ward, University of Nevada Las Vegas

"Berlin der 20er Jahre im interkulturellen Flanieren"
Ryozo Maeda, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

"Global Berlin and Other Simulations"
Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Commentator: Peter Beicken, University of Maryland, College Park

129. Enlightenment and Interpretation: China in Leibniz and Wolff
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: François Raffoul, Louisiana State University

"Rationality, Experience, and Cultural Exchange in Leibniz"
Franklin Perkins, DePaul University

"Reason and Interpretation: Leibniz, Wolff, and the Chinese"
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Toledo

"Wolff's China Speech in Halle: Its Significance and Impact"
Martin Schönfeld, University of South Florida

Commentator: Daniel Selcer, Duquesne University

130. Identitätskonstruktionen in Ostdeutschland: Die Präsenz der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa

"The National People's Army Since Unification: East German Army Officers in the New German State"
Andrew Bickford, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

"Die Erfindung der Ostdeutschen"
Ina Dietzsch, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

"Arbeiterliche Identität ohne Erwerbsarbeit"
Sylka Scholz, Universität Potsdam

Commentator: Daphne Berdahl, University of Minnesota

131. Beyond Bonn and Berlin: The International Implications of Ostpolitik
Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

"German Ostpolitik and the Middle East"
Carole Fink, The Ohio State University

"United States-West German Tensions over Ostpolitik, 1969-1971: Start-up Problems or the Manifestation of Deeper Differences?"
Ruud van Dijk, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

"'Hotbed of Hypocrisy': The Superpowers and Ratification of the Eastern Treaties, 1972"
David Geyer, US Department of State

Commentator: Bernd Schäfer, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

131a. Party Organization and Party Behavior
Sat 4:00 PM ­ 5:45 PM Salon B

Moderator: Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi

"Behavior in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Socialist Party of Austria, 1945-1959"
John Leslie, University of California, Irvine

"The Christian Democratic Union as a Corporatist Catch-All Party: Explaining the CDU's Frauenpolitik"
Sarah Elise Wiliarty, Wesleyan University

German Social Democracy in the Twenty-First Century"
Gerard Braunthal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Commentator: Christopher Allen, University of Georgia

Sunday, September 21, 2003
Sessions 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

132. Turning Points in German History
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon C

Moderator: Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

"1848"
Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge

"1900"
James Retallack, University of Toronto

"1923"
Karl Heinrich Pohl, Universität Kiel

Commentator: Siegfried Weichlein, Humboldt Universität Berlin

133. Der Elysée-Vertrag von 1963: Dreh- und Angelpunkt der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg?
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon B

Moderator: Dirk Schumann, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

"Annäherung im Zeichen des Misstrauens. Die deutsch französischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen nach 1945"
Stefan Martens, German Historical Institute, Paris

"Die diplomatischen und militärpolitischen Dimensionen des Elysée-Vertrages
Grundlage für gemeinsame Konzeptionen und ein abgestimmtes Vorgehen?"
Ulrich Pfeil, German Historical Institute, Paris

"Gab es einen ,kulturellen Teil' im Elysée-Vertrag von 1963?"
Corine Defrance, CNRS, Paris

"Der Elysée-Vertrag von 1963. Ein Erinnerungsort der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen?"
Robert Frank, Paris I, Sorbonne

Commentator: Colette Mazzucelli, Columbia University

134. Preserving Order and Decency: State Policing of Deviant Behavior and Radical Thinking in Cold War Germany
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon A

Moderator: Annette F. Timm, University of Calgary

"Subversive Sun Seekers: Policing Deviant Masculinity Among Wismut Miners, 1953-58"
Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

"Radicals in a Democracy: The Life and Death of the K-Gruppen"
Elizabeth L.B. Peifer, Troy State University

"Coming to Terms with International Crime in the Federal Republic in the 1970s"
Robert P. Stephens, Virginia Tech

Commentator: Detlef Siegfried, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg

135. German Intellectuals between Renewal and Restoration, 1945-1970
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon B

Moderator: Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota

"Catastrophe and Democratic Renewal: German Left-Intellectuals before the Cold War, 1945-1948"
Sean A. Forner, University of Chicago

"The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany"
A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney

"The Generation Gap in Postwar Journalism: Media Elites and the Democratization of West Germany, 1945-1970"
Christina von Hodenberg, University of California, Berkeley

Commentator: Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College

136. The Specter of Terrorism: The Red Army Fraction in the 1970s and Beyond
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon C

Moderator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

"Of Walls and Veils: The Red Army Faction's Carcereal Politics of the 1970s"
Jeremy P. Varon, Drew University

"'Sympathy with the Devil': The Radical Left and Terrorism During the 'German Autumn'"
Karrin M. Hanshew, University of Chicago

"Prada-Meinhof: Avant-Garde Goes Radical Chic"
Charity Scribner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Commentator: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University

137. The Monumental, the Recycled, and the Pornographic Past: Television Histories in Austria and Germany
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon D

Moderator: Inge Marszolek, Universität Bremen

"Monumentales Geschichtsfernsehen: Die ORF Dokumentarreihe Österreich II (1982-1986)"
Vrääth Öhner, Universität Wien

"Geschichte mit Bildern ­ Bilder der Geschichte: Produktion und Archivierung von Filmaufnahmen aus dem Nationalsozialismus und ihre Wiederverwertung im bundesdeutschen Fernsehen"
Judith Keilbach, Freie Universität Berlin

"The Radicalization of German Memory in the Age of its Commercial Reproduction: Hitler and the Third Reich in the TV Documentaries of Guido Knopp"
Wulf Kansteiner, SUNY Binghamton

Commentator: Michael Geisler, Middlebury College

138. Popularizing German History in the 1950s
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Audubon E

Moderator: Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University

"From Wunderkinder to Kellerkinder: History and Identity in German Films of the 1950s"
Katrin Schroeter, University of New Mexico

"The Case of Richard Sorge: Secret History in 1950s Spy Fiction"
Cornelius Partsch, Mount Holyoke College

"'Einwohner von Trizonesien': (Re)Making History in 1950s German Schlager"
Sunka Simon, Swarthmore College

Commentator: Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington

139. Sozialdemokratische Kanzler und Amerika: Transatlantische Beziehungen in der Ära Brandt, Schmidt and Schröder
Sponsor: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Magnolia

Moderator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University

"Zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise, Doppelbeschluss und Spannungen im Ost-West-Verhältnis nach dem sowjetischen Einmarsch in Afghanistan: Helmut Schmidt und die transatlantischen Beziehungen"
Karl Kaiser, DGAP Forschungsinstitut

"Vom Mauerbau zur Ostpolitik: Willy Brandt und Amerika"
Daniela Münkel, Universität Hannover

Commentator: Dieter Dettke, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Washington

140. W.G. Sebald in His Own Words
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Cypress

Moderator: Gerald A. Fetz, University of Montana

Gordon Turner, University of East Anglia
Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati
Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois

141. Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in Literature
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Oak

Moderator: Scott Roulier, Lyon College

"Death in the Name of God and Civilization 1 Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest"
Volker Langbehn, San Francisco State University

"The Limits of Violence: Döblin's Colonial Nature"
Larson Powell, Texas A&M University

"'Much Addicted to Thieving': Western Representations of Easter Islanders and their Mimetic Subversion in Uwe Timm's Kopfjäger"
Richard Sperber, Carthage College

"Benjamin's Übersetzung in Postcolonial Thought"
Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton University

Commentator: Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville

142. Childhood in Central Europe 1749-1832 I
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Azalea

Moderator: Anthony Krupp, University of Miami

"Childhood Onstage: J. W. Goethe, G. Büchner, and Beyond"
Eric Denton, Wheaton College

"Naive Modernity: J. H. Campe's Aesthetics of Enlightenment Childhood"
Angela Borchert, University of Western Ontario

"The Child as Pedagogical Victim: K. P. Moritz's Project for Educational Reform"
Robert Weston, Columbia University

Commentator: Andreas Gailus, University of Chicago

143. Ambiguities of Enlightenment: History, Literature, Philosophy
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Hal Rennert, University of Florida

" Joseph II in Cultural History"
Ritchie Robertson, Oxford University

"Lessing on Tragedy and the Tragic"
Steve Dowden, Brandeis University

"Communicative Reading in the German Enlightenment"
Jane V. Curran, Dalhousie University

Commentator: Deborah Hertz, Sarah Lawrence College

144. Sexual Conflict and Sexual Identity: Feminists, Homosexuals, and Misogynists 1900-1954
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Tracie Matysik, University of Texas, Austin

"The Wrath of the 'Countess Merviola': Homosexual Response to Public Attack in Germany and Austria, 1900-1908"
Scott Spector, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

"'A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Misunderstanding': Men and Women View Women and Men in German Sex Reform Before World War I"
Edward Ross Dickinson, University of Cincinnati

"Rereading Weininger: Margarete Susman's Reflections on Sex and Gender"
Barbara Hahn, Princeton University

Commentator: Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University

145. Liberal Philosophy of Culture with a European Intention
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Richard Crouter, Carleton College

"Cultural History and Political Transformation: Ernst Troeltsch and the Religious Implications of Germany's Political Future"
Gangolf Hübinger, Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

"Naturgesetz und Humanität in der Weltpolitik"
Brent Sockness, Stanford University

"Reflecting on Wartime Experience: Ernst Troeltsch's Search for a 'European Cultural Synthesis'"
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Universität München

Commentator: Walter W. Wyman, Jr, Whitman College

146. On History, Philosophy, Politics, and Literary Production
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Elizabeth A. Drummond, University of Southern Mississippi

"Jakob Burkhardt and Adalbert Stifter: Cultural History as an Aesthetic Refuge "
Kathrin Maurer, University of Arizona

"Within the Flow of History: Wilhelm Dilthey, George Eliot, and 19th-Century Historicism"
Michael Carignan, Elon University

"Bismarck, Fontane, and the Polish Question"
Agnieska B. Nance, University of Texas, Austin

Commentator: Harry Ritter, Western Washington University

147. Globalisation and Rising Competitiveness in Higher Education: Recent Developments in Europe
Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Lonnie Johnson, Fulbright Commission, Vienna

"More Autonomy for European Institutions of Higher Education: Can Organisational Reforms (also) be Justified from a Pedagogical Point of View? "
Gertrude Brinek, Universität Wien

"Brave New World of Supply and Demand in Higher Education: The Changing Status of Students and University Services, Fees and Liability"
Josef Leidenfrost, Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

"Entrepreneurial Universities in Europe: State of the Art, Changes to Come"
Leopold März, Universität für Bodenkultur

Commentator: Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University

Sunday, September 21, 2003
Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

148. Deutsch-französische Beziehungen anlässlich des 40-jährigen Jubiläums des Elysée-Vertrages
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon B

Moderator: Wolfram Hilz, TU Chemnitz

"Die Beziehungen zwischen der DDR und Frankreich 1949­1989"
Manfred Wilke, Berlin

"Frankreich und die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands 1989/90"
Jürgen Aretz, Secretary of State, Thuringia

"Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich und die deutsch-französische Hochschule"
Josef Klein, Koblenz

"Der deutsch-französische Kulturkanal ARTE"
Wolfgang Bergsdorf, Erfurt

"Intellektuelle in Deutschland und Frankreich"
Johannes Thomas, Paderborn

Commentator: Andreas Daum, State University of New York, Buffalo

149. Germany's Central and Eastern European Neighbors
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon C

Moderator: Pawel Lutomski, Stanford University

"Germany and Central Europe: Hegemony Re-examined"
Michael Baun, Valdosta State University

"Former Enemies, Future Friends: The Czech-German Relationship in the EU"
Pavel Cernoch, Charles University

"Germany and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe after Enlargement:
Towards Europeanized Re-politicization? "
Kai-Olaf Lang, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

"German Ostpolitik beyond the Cold War: Relations with the New Russia"
Graham Timmins, University of Stirling

Commentator: Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University

150. Aspekte der neuen Bundesländer
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon A

Moderator: Rob Willingham, University of Texas, Austin

"Von der Planwirtschaft in die Marktwirtschaft. Betriebe und Belegschaften im Transformationsprozess der 1980er zu den 1990er Jahren"
Günther Heydemann, Universität Leipzig

"Das Parteiensystem in den neuen Bundesländern"
Eckhard Jesse, Technische Universität Chemnitz

"Jugendliche in den fünf neuen Bundesländern"
Lothar Mertens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

"Die PDS am Ende?"
Heinrich Bortfeldt, Fachhochsule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin

Commentator: Andreas Sobisch, John Carroll University

151. Realms of Imagination: Race and Space in German Colonialism
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon B

Moderator: Birthe Kundrus, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

"Shopping for Exoticism: The Umlauff Enterprise (1868-1943) and Its Trading in Ethnic Artifacts"
Britta Lange, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

"Colonial Mapping in Berlin"
Alexander Honold, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

"Gender, Mobility and the Transfer of Culture - Raggy in South West Africa"
John K. Noyes, University of Toronto

Commentator: Kristin Kopp, Harvard University

152. Comparative Perspectives on Sinti German and Black German Experience
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon C

Moderator: Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Neither Foreigners nor Aliens: The Intermingling Stories of Sinti Germans and Black Germans"
Nicola Laure al-Samarai, Technische Universität Berlin

"Alternate Historiography: Comparative Studies of Sinti German and Black German Narratives"
Peggy Piesche, University of Leiden, Netherlands

"Pushing the Limits of Multiculturalism: Liberal Media and Radical Refugees in Hamburg"
Fatima El-Tayeb, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Commentator: Deniz Göktürk, University of California, Berkeley

153. German Cinema of the 1990s: Visions and Revisions of Tradition
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon D

Moderator, Robert Di Donato, Miami University

"Visions and Revisions of the Heimatfilm in the 1990s"
Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma

"Western and Eastern: The Western Genre in Contemporary German Film"
Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College

"Cleaning up the Post-Wall Rubble: Berlin Films of the 1990s"
Mila Ganeva, Miami University

"'In the Shadows of Consensus': New German Cinema and Films of the late 1990s"
Anke Pinkert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator: Cecilia Novero, Pennsylvania State University

154. Mapping Multicultural Identities
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Audubon E

Moderator: Dieter Sevin, Vanderbilt University

"The Search for an Afro-German Identity: May Ayim's Poetry and Essays"
Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College

"Memories of Migration in Germany and the US: Intersections between Özdamar's Karawanserei and Morrison's Beloved"
Agnes C. Mueller, University of South Carolina

"Chance Encounters or The Surrealist Beauty of Contemporary
'Germanophone' Writings: Tawada Yoko, Emine Özdamar and Herta Müller"
Bettina Brandt, Montclair State University

Commentator: Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University

155. Deutsche Wirtschaftseliten im 20. Jahrhundert
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Magnolia

Moderator: Frank Buscher, Christian Brothers University

"Der Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller"
Christoph Biggeleben, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

"Die Wirtschaftselite als Persönlichkeit: Zur Selbstdarstellung von Unternehmern und Managern des Ruhrgebiets während der Zwischenkriegszeit"
Stefan Unger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

"Der Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie"
Werner Bührer, Technische Universität München

"Der Wandel des Unternehmer-Begriffs in der deutschen Wirtschaftselite 1945-1970"
Morten Reitmayer, Universität Trier

Commentator: Volker Ackermann, Universität Düsseldorf

156. Governing the Body: Twentieth-Century Legislation on Abortion and Sexual Reproduction
Sponsor: Women in German
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Mimosa

Moderator: Carolyn Kay, Trent University

"Abortion 1930: Politics of Medical Discourse for the Welfare of its Nation? "
Friederike Emonds, University of Toledo

"Representation of Paragraph 218: The Abortion Clause in Weimar Film and Fiction"
Cornelie Usborne, University of Surrey

"Feminism and Abortion Reform in the 1960s and 1970s: A Comparison Between Sweden and West Germany"
Lena Lennerhed, Södertörn University College, Sweden

"Embryonenschutz und weibliche Selbstbestimmung ­ ein Widerspruch? "
Sigrid Graumann, Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Berlin

Commentator: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University

157. Das Präsidialgewalt in der Weimarer Republik
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Cypress

Moderator: Larry Eurgene Jones, Canisius College

"Friedrich Ebert als Reichspräsident"
Walter Mühlhausen, Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte

"Was the Brüning Cabinet 'Presidential?'"
William Patch, Grinnell College

"Die charismatische Überhöhung der Präsidialgewalt unter Hindennburg"
Wolfram Pyta, Universität Stuttgart

Commentator: Dieter K. Buse, Laurentian University

158. The Federal Republic and European Integration History: New Itineraries
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Oak

Moderator: Wolf D. Gruner, Universität Rostock

"Adenauer's Willingness to 'Pay for Europe'"
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Federal Republic and European Defense, 1950-1965: Between Sin, Redemption, and Nuclear Ambitions"
Matthias Schulz, Vanderbilt University

"Consensus for Integration: Public Opinion and European Integration in the Federal Republic, 1945-1966? "
Jeffrey Vanke, Guilford College

Commentator: John R. Gillingham, University of Missouri, St. Louis

159. Childhood in Central Europe 1749-1832 II
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Azalea

Moderator: Angela Borchert, University of Western Ontario

"Palingenesis in Print: Juvenalia, Rebirths, Sequels in Herder and Jean Paul"
Kelly Barry, Columbia University

"Professor of the History of Myself: The Autobiography of Childhood in Goethe and Jean Paul"
Paul Fleming, New York University

"Können wir werden, was wir waren? Concepts of Childhood in Tieck and D. Schlegel"
Lanlan Xu, Georgetown University

Commentator: Anthony Krupp, University of Miami

160. Literature and Class Conflict in Weimar
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 1

Moderator: Richard Sperber, Carthage College

"Harry Domela: Der falsche Prinz. 'Der Kaiser ging und ein Obdachloser reist als sein Enkel durch die Weimarer Republik'"
Norbert Puszkar, Georgia State University

"Thomas Mann and the Sources of Democratic Doubt"
Scott Roulier, Lyon College

"From Education to Action: The Political Function of Brecht's Lehrstücke in Weimar Germany"
F. Corey Roberts, Indiana University

Commentator: Glenn Cuomo, New College of Florida

161. Crisis of Judgment II: Illegal Precedents: Adjudicating Sovereignty in Literature and Law
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 2

Moderator: Beatrice Hanssen, University of Georgia

"Matriarchal Magic: Bachofen in Weimar"
Michael Jones, University of Kentucky

"Choosing Between Christ and Barabas: Max Weber and Political Decision in the Weimar Republic"
John Foster, University of Washington

"Political Junkies: Bad Examples and the Crisis of Judgment in Weimar Modernity"
Benjamin Robinson, Northern Illinois University

"Violence and the Crisis of Judgment during the Early Period of the Weimar Republic"
Peter Garloff, Yale University

Commentator: William Scheuerman, University of Minnesota

162. Savior, Victim, Sexual Revolutionary: The Threat and Power of the Independent Woman in Reconstruction Germany
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 3

Moderator: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University

"Finding a Way Home: Civilian Evacuees, the Family, and Victim Status in Postwar Germany and France"
Julia S. Torrie, St. Thomas University

"Victims, Whores, or Fallen Girls? Allied and German Attitudes Towards Female VD Cases in Occupied Germany"
Annette F. Timm, University of Calgary

"The Beate Uhse Myth: Marketing and the Creation of a Post-Fascist Sexual Sensibility in West Germany"
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa

Commentator: Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

163. The Freikorps: Construction of a Myth and its Political Legacy
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 5

Moderator: Michael Epkenhans, Otto-von-Bismarck-Foundation, Friedrichsruh

"'You had a great cause': Settlement and Memory of the Freikorps in the Baltics, 1919-1935"
Ari Sammartino, University of Michigan/German Historical Institute

"German Freikorps in the East: War, Memory, and Fiction"
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"The Freikorps as Model and Myth in German Political Life, 1918-1935"
Bruce Campbell, College of William and Mary

Commentator: James Diehl, University of Indiana

164. The Transatlantic Dimension of German Democracy: Individual Mediators and the Re-establishment of Civic Culture, 1945-1955
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 6

Moderator: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Historians and Political Scientists as Mediators? Concepts of Democracy on the Transatlantic Highway"
Arnd Bauerkämper, Freie Universität Berlin

"Amerikanische Verfassung und deutsches Grundgesetz. Der Staatsrechtslehrer Hermann von Mangoldt im Parlamentarischen Rat"
Markus M. Payk, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

"German Journalists and 'the Boundless Continent' after 1945: America as a Theme in the Narrative Refashioning of the Political Self"
Michaela Hoenicke Moore, University of North Carolina

Commentator: Mark E. Spicka, Shippensburg University

165. National Socialism and the Intergenerational Alliances
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 7

Moderator: Harry Ritter, Western Washington University

"'My father wasn't a murderer!' Belated Rehabilitations of the 'War Generation'"
Margit Reiter, Universität Wien

"Belated Reparation? Philo-Semitism in the Second Generation"
Helga Embacher, Universität Salzburg

"Borrowed Images. Family Narratives in Perpetrator and Victim Societies, and How the Third Generation Visualizes Events that Happened Long before Their Birth"
Daniela Ellmauer, Universität Salzburg

Commentator: Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn

166. Die DDR zwischen Moskau und Bonn 1949-1989: Aussenpolitik, Wirtschaft, Propaganda
Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Fleur de Lis 8

Moderator: Clemens Vollnhals, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, TU Dresden

"'Von der Sowjetunion lernen?' Wirtschaftspropaganda in der DDR"
Hans-Jürgen Schröder, Universität Giessen

"Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations and the Decision to Build the Berlin Wall"
Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University

"Profit und Propaganda. Energieversorgung zwischen Röhrenembargo und 'Druschba'"
Hanno Sowade, Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

"'Aus der Konfrontation erwachsen und in die Konkurrenz geboren': Die Aussenpolitik der DDR 1949 bis 1990"
Joachim Scholtyseck, Universität Bonn

Commentator: Christian F. Ostermann, Cold War International History Project

167. Living with Europe: Germany and the Politics of Constraint
Sun 10:30 AM ­ 12:15 PM Tulane Ballroom

Moderator: Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan

"Living with Europe: Power, Constraint, and Contestation"
Kenneth Dyson, University of Bradford

"The Europeanization of the Federal Government: Bureaucratic Fusion versus Governmentall Bifurcation"
Klaus Goetz, London School of Economics

"On the Cusp of Accommodation and Transformation: The Europeanization of German Foreign and Security Policy"
Alister Miskimmon, Royal Holloway College, University of London

"The Bundestag: Europeanization, Institutional Incrementalism, and Behavioral Reticence"
Thomas Saalfeld, University of Canterbury

Commentator: Gregg Kvistad, University of Denver

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