Thursday, October 7, 1999

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

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

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

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

Session 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

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

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

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

LUNCHEON 
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Rutherford

Peter Schneider
Schriftsteller
�Eduards Heimkehr�

Sessions 2:00 PM-4:30 PM

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

4:30 PM-6:00PM
Rutherford

BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

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

BANQUET
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Rutherford 

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

Saturday, October 9
 

Sessions 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

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

Session 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

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

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

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

LUNCHEON
12:20 PM-1:40 PM
Rutherford

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

Sessions 1:45 PM-3:15 PM

85. �Das Schweigen zum Sprechen bringen�: The Impact of World War II on Three Generations
      in Austria�Soldiers in the German Army, Their Children and Grandchildren                  Brampton A
86.  Does the Past Have A Future?                                                                                  Liberty
87. New Perspectives on the German Resistance Against 
     National Socialism                                                                                                     Mimosa
88. Rethinking Critical Positions Through Goethe                                                               Barrington
89. Societal Change and Political Responses in Germany                                                  Knollwood A
90. Twentieth Century Thinkers: Freud, T. Mann, Benjamin                                                 Westover
91. Limits of Herrschaft in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Empire                          Thornton
92. Coming to Terms with the Female Sonderfall: Women�s Work 
      and Gender Politics in East and West Germany                                                           Jarrett
93. East German Responses to the Holocaust Greenwood
94. Mixing Memory and Desire: West German Cultures of the 1950s                                    Bellevue
95. Violence and Identity in Contemporary Literature                                                           Glenmar B
96. Austria in the Nazi Era                                                                                                Westover
97. The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty                                                                      Glenmar A
98. Resistance or Integration: The Language of Emancipation in
      Imperial Germany                                                                                                       Brampton B
99. Jewish German Intellectuals Since 1945: Return, Dissent, Revival                                   Swanton
100. Liberalism and Liberal Culture in Imperial Germany                                                       Barrington
101. Moving from Self to Selves: German Women Writers of the
       Nineteenth Century                                                                                                    Knollwood B
 

Sessions 3:15 PM-4:45 PM

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

Session 4:30 PM-6:30 PM

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

Sunday, October 10

Sessions 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

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

Sessions 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

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


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