The German Studies Association is the national and international association of scholars in all fields of German Studies. Its interests span the period from early times to the present Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 
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2001 2001 General Conference Information 2001 Conference Registration Form 2001 Hotel Reservation Form (only valid together with Conference Registration) 2001 Airline Fare and Auto Rental Discounts 2001 Preliminary Conference Program Overview 2001 Preliminary Conference Program 2001 Preliminary Conference Program Index Other Conferences Future, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
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2001 Conference
Preliminary Program of the 25th Annual Conference Friday, October 5, 2001 1. The DAAD in the United States: Past, Present, Future Moderator: Klaus Berghahn, University of Wisconsin at Madison "American German Studies as a World War I Casualty: A Challenge for the Newly Founded DAAD" "The Impact of the DAAD on German Studies in the United States" "Perspectives on Current and Future Transatlantic Exchange" "Future Challenges for the DAAD in North America" Commentator: Britta Baron, DAAD New York 2. Parliamentary or Presidential System? Representative or Direct Democracy? Moderator: Karl Cerny, Georgetown University "A Latent Constitutional Conflict in Germany? Misconceptions of German Parliamentarism" "Direct Democracy as a Challenge to Representative Democracy?" Commentators: Heinrich Oberreuter, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tützing 3. Racial Science, Radical Theology, and Raunchy Pop Culture: Cultural Constructions of Jews And Race In Germany, 1870-1945 Moderator: Leonard Dinnerstein, University of Arizona "Debating Race and Culture: Central European Jews Face 'German Science'" "Antination or Antichrist? Reconciling Secular and Religious Anti-Semitism in German Protestantism, 1918-1945" "A Muscular Macher: The Popular Reception of Central Europe's 'Invincible' Jewish Strongman" Commentator: Paul Lerner, University of Southern California 4. Trial Records and Other New Sources on the Nazi Period Moderator: Katherine Roper, St. Mary's College of California "Nazi Crimes Before Austrian Courts: New Facts and Figures" "Nazi Persecution and Its Perpetrators as Reflected in U.S. Court Decisions" "New Records at the National Archives on the Last Stages of the Holocaust and Rescue Endeavors" Commentator: Henry Friedlander, City University of New York 5. Elites against Democracy--oder aus der Geschichte lernen? Moderator: Peter Hoffmann, McGill University "Changes in the Political Culture of German White-Collar Workers in the Twentieth Century" "'Juden raus, Lessing raus!' Der Fall Theodor Lessing als drohendes Vorspiel der Ereignisse von 1933" "Hans Rothfels: Geschichtspolitische Doktrinen im Wandel der Zeiten. Weimar - NS Diktatur Bundesrepublik" Commentator: Klemens von Klemperer, Smith College 6. Enabling the Shoah: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Holocaust from an International Perspective Moderator: John Delaney, Kutztown University "Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany, 1946-1959" "Bishop von Galen and the 'Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy'" "What was Left Unsaid: The Words and Deeds of Jean Girbeau, Bishop of Nîmes, 1939-1945" Commentator: Michael Phayer, Marquette University 7. Yiddish in 20th Century Germany and Austria Moderator: Jeffrey Grossman, University of Virginia "An Orthodox Jewish Germanophile in Defense of Yiddish: Joseph Wohlgemuth's WW I Contributions to Jeschurun" "The Fate of the Golem in Film and Fiction" "Re-inventing Berlin's Scheunenviertel: Martin Beradt's Novel, Die Strasse der kleinen Ewigkeit" Commentator: Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota 8. The Psychoanalytic Mirror: Reading Body, Family, and Gender Moderator: Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees, Western Washington University "'Für die Szene ist morgen noch Zeit': Familiendramen in Birgit Vanderbekes Erzählung Ich will meinen Mord" "The Athletic Man of Steel: Fascist and Communist Body Politics in Uwe Johnson's Das dritte Buch über Achim" "Reading and Gender in Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser" Commentator: Karin Bauer, Mc Gill University 9. Remembering 1968: Historical Memory and Political Culture Moderator: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University "Die neue Frauenbewegung und 1968: Soziale Bewegungen und kollektive Erinnerung" "'Der Kampf geht weiter': Negotiating the Narrative of '1968'" "Germany's Second Fischer Controversy: 68, Violence, and Historical Memory" Commentator: Konrad H Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10. "Über die Freundschaft". Beziehungsspiele, Handlungsräume: Freunde, Kameraden, Kumpel und Partner Moderator: Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga "'Die Freundschaft ist ein Jüngling . . .': Freundschaft und Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Aufklärung" "Disharmonien. Intime Freundschaften unter Genossen und Genossinnen" "Gefährten, Kameraden, Partner: Zum Wechselspiel von Liebe und Egalität" Commentator: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, State University of New York at Binghamton 11. Environments of Healing "Garden Cities for the Sick: The Hospitals at Berlin-Buch" "Wer heut ist gsund, ist morgen todt. Emblems of Sickness, Death, and Healing in the 'Hospital of the Holy Spirit' in Nuremberg 1626" "Symbolica in Thermas: Taking an Emblematic Cure" Commentator: Marion Gray, Kansas State University 12. Revisiting East German Subculture: Umsiedler, Fan and Film Collective Moderator: Anke Pinkert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Illegal 'Umsiedler' Activities: The Sub-Cultural Experiences of 'Re-settlers'" "Suberversion or Diversion?: Science Ficton Fandom in East Germany" "DEFA Futurm oder die Verfilmung der Zukunft: ein einmaliges Experiment im 'Ostblock' 1970-86" Commentator: Stefan Soldovieri, Northwestern University 13. The Politics of Confessional Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany Moderator: Maria Mitchell, Franklin and Marshall College "The Politics of Meat: The Schächtkommission and the German Kosher Butchering Debates, 1880-1914" "Diaspora and Nationalism: German Protestants and the Gustav-Adolf-Verein, 1832-1945" "Re-Positioning the Ghetto Walls: Jewish and Catholic Educational Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Germany" Commentator: Hillel Kieval, Washington University 14. The Kulturkampf as Historical Springboard Moderator: Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee "Science as Kulturkampf" "Colonial Kulturkampf" "German State Formation and Newcomer Protests: The PDS, the BHE, and the Catholic Center in Comparative Perspective" Commentator: Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University 15. The Formation of Taste in Storm and Stress Culture Moderator: Angela Borchert, University of Western Ontario "Frauenzimmerlektüre im 18. Jahrhundert: Kalender, Taschenbuch und Almanach" "The Formation of Epistolary Taste: 'Nicht Manie, sondernGeschmack'" "Colonizing the Bourgeois Subject: Self and Other in Sturm und Drang Drama" Commentator: Karl-Heinz Maurer, Knox College 16. Film Aesthetics and Ethics Moderator: Hillary Hope Herzog, University of Chicago "Jud Süss: A Jewish Mirror of History" "Notes on German Heritage Film" "Aimée und Jaguar and the Banality of Evil" Commentator: Angela H. Lin, Vanderbilt University 17. Berlin: Von der Teilung zur Einheit Moderator: Jonathan Huener, University of Vermont "Der Alliierte Kontrollrat und die Teilung Berlins" "Der Bau der Mauer 1961 und die Westmächte" "Der Fall der Mauer und Berlin als Hauptstadt" Commentator: Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. 18. German Drama and Theater Today Moderator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, State University of New York at Binghamton "Ödön von Horváth and Other Classical Modernists on the German Stage Today" "What If? Max Frisch's Biografie: Ein Spiel and Variations on Alternate Lives" "Language as Political Text in Marlene Streeruwitz's Play 'Sapporo'" Commentator: Astrida Tantillo, University of Illinois at Chicago 19. German Business and Politics Moderator: Louise Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami "Modell Deutschland und Betriebsverfassungsgesetz. Die Debatte über die Reform des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes im Jahre 2001" "Liberalisation of Services and Utilities in Germany: Tensions Between Federal Ministries, Regulators and the Competition Authorities" "The Borrowers Afield or the German Executive in America: The Daimler Chrysler Merger" Commentator: Gerhard Hirscher, Hanns Seidel Stiftung 20. Special Public Policy Issues Moderator: Andreas Sobisch, John Carroll University "Germany's American Inspiration: Economic Concerns and Immigration Policies in Berlin's Turkish Economy" "Agricultural Policies and Markets in Unified Germany" "The Clash of the German Hunting Community and the Anti-Hunting Movement: Its Political and Social Dimensions" Commentator: Steven Silvia, American University Friday, October 5, 2001 21. Roundtable on Germany and the EU after Nice Moderator: Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University 22. Nature in the Atomic Age: Environmental Perception and Ecological Moderator: Jeffrey Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire "Protecting Health and Prosperity: West Germany's Nature Park Program, 1950s-60s" "Borderland Ecology: Rhine River Cleanup and the Imagined Community of Europe, 1945-1970" "'Better Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow': The Movement to Halt Nuclear Power on the Rhine in the 1970s and 1980s" Commentator: Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh 23. The Schroeder Government: Domestic and Foreign Policy Moderator: Forest Grieves, University of Montana "The Europe of Berlin" "The Chancellery under Schroeder" "The Political Economy of Gerhard Schroeder: Negotiating the New Rhenish Consensus" Commentator: Clay Clemens, College of William & Mary 24. Sexuality and Ethnicity in the SS Moderator: David Marwell, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York "'Meine Ehre heißtLiebe'? The Problem of Homosexuality in the SS "Family Ties: Volksdeutsche Relatives of Men in the SS" "A 'De-Radicalization' of Polenpolitik: Economics and the Evolution of SS Deportation Policy in the Warthegau, 1939-1941" Commentator: Geoffrey Cocks, Albion College 25. Round Table on New Paradigms in German Jewish Studies Moderator: Jeff Peck, York University/University of Montreal Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute 26. "Sternianer in Deutschland am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts: Th. G. von Hippel, Jean Paul, Hegel" Moderator: Roswitha Burwick, Scripps College "von Hippel und die Frauen: Zur Dialektik des Jungesellendaseins" "Laurence Sterne im Spiegel der Erzählkunst Jean Pauls" "Die Phänomenologie des Geistes als Lebenslauf der 'Sophia' von Hippel und Hegel" Commentator: Bernd Hüppauf, New York University 27. Berlin 2001: Literature, History, Politics Moderator: Uta Larkey, Goucher College "Berlin Reinvented: Urban Memory as Architectural Citation" "'Erst mit der Mauer stockte der Zufluß an Monstren': Rudolf Virchow's Pathological-Anatomical Collection in Recent Berlin Literature and Art" "Ästhetischer Raum Berlin: Peter Schneiders Roman Eduards Heimkehr" Commentator: Benjamin Robinson, Ohio State University 28. Catholic Conservatism from Weimar through Hitler Moderator: Patricia von Papen, Gutsverwaltung von Papen "Franz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Politics of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic" "A Lion in the Darkness: The Inner Emigration of Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen" "The Nazi Trial of Prince Max Karl von Hohenlohe-Langenburg" Commentator: Eric Kohler, University of Wyoming 29. Germany's Relations to the East Moderator: David Keithly, Defense Intelligence College "Germany and the East" "Gaining Weight While Keeping a Balance: The New German-Russian Relationship" "Germany, Central Europe, and the Euroregions" Commentator: James Sperling, University of Akron 30. A DDR Retrospective Moderator: Bernd Schäfer, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. "New Walls for Old Borders: An Oral History Project Report on 10 years after German Reunification" "Closure on the Century of Dictatorship? The Work and Findings of the Second Enquete Commission 'Überwindung der Folgen der SED Diktatur im Prozess der deutschen Einheit' of the Deutsche Bundestag, 1995-98" Commentator: Raimund Lammersdorf, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 31. The Composition of Difference: Culture, Identity and Imagination in Germany and Austria, 1900-1930 Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz, University of Illinois at Chicago "Ideologische Implikationen der Graphologie in Thomas Manns Frühwerk" "Resisting 'bad taste': Arthur Schnitzler and the Question of Sentimentality" "'Mein Alabama': Race, Representation, and Culture in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf" Commentator: Laura C. Deiulio, Washington University 32. The Matter of Middlebrow Culture: Leisure Time, Self-Improvement, and National Identity Moderator: Katrin Völkner, Center for Public Intellectuals, Chicago "The Cultural Significance of Singing: Nina D'Aubigny von Engelbrunner's Advice to Women" "The Americanization of Marlitt: Transatlantic Middlebrow Culture" "Heroes of Their Own Stories: Julius von Wickede and the Project of Bourgeois Germany" Commentator: Mary Lee Townsend, University of Tulsa 33. Internationalizing Reform in the National Age: Race and Gender in a Transatlantic Reform Community, 1880s to the 1930s Moderator: Juliane Jacobi, Universität Potsdam "Looking into the British Mirror: German Women Social Reformers Traveling to England, 1880s to1910s" "'How Advanced America Is!' The German Women's Movement and American Social Reform." "Race and Transatlantic Reform: W. E. B. DuBois, Germany, and American Progressivism" Commentator: Andrew Lees, Rutgers University at Camden 34. Unintended Consequences: American Denazification and Democratization Policies, 1943 - 1952 Moderator: Larry Wilcox, University of Toledo "Die amerikanische Demokratie als Vorbild für die Demokratizierung in Deutschland, 1947-1952" "Holocaust Denial and the Failure of Denazification: An Exploratory Essay" "Die Internierungshaft in der US-Zone 1945-1952 im Wandel der Sicherungsverwahrung zur Demokratisierung am Beispiel der internierten Frauen" 35. Consumerism, Trancendance and German Culture Moderator: Alon Confino, University of Virginia "On the Unruliness of Things" "'The Pathos of the Profane': Spirituality, Consumer Objects and Nazi Culture " "Sexual Consumer Goods and the Search for Nonmaterial Pleasure in West Germany " Comment: Nancy Reagin, Pace University 36. Nation and History Moderator: Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Wofford College "Zu Schand und Ehr . . . Literatische Diskurse nationaler Identitätsbildung im George-Kreis" "Excluding the Political: Agamben on Benjamin and Schmitt" "Projections of Patriotism: German Directors in Hollywood during the '90s" "Die verratene Revolution: Geschichte und Aktualität im Schinderhannes-Roman von Gerd Fuchs" Commentator: Michelle Mattson, Iowa State University 37. Roundtable on Die Deutsche Verlagsszene nach der Wende Moderator: Keith Bullivant, University of Florida Barbara Stang, Aufbau Verlag Berlin 38. Germany and the Middle East, 1919-1943 Moderator: Milan Hauner, University of Wisconsin at Madison "'Wenn die Kontinente erwachen, werden die Inselweltreiche zerstört:' Germany and the De-stabilization of the East, 1919-1923" "Griechenland oder der Orient? Klassische Archäologie und Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde in der Weimarer Republik" "Friedrich Grobba und die deutsche Nahostpolitik der Weimarer Republik und des Dritten Reiches" Commentator: Francis R. Nicosia, Saint Michael's College, Vermont 39. German Catholics in the Twentieth Century Moderator: Volker Ackermann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf "Catholic Nobles and the Creation of the Bildungsadel in Jahrhundertwende Munich" "The Vistula is not the Rhine: German Catholics and the Polish and French Brethren" "German Catholics and the Ecumenical Challenges of the Postwar Refugee Crisis" "Pius XII and German Refugees after World War II" Commentator: Christopher Kopper, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis 40. Life into Literature, Literature into Life Moderator: John A. McCarthy, Vanderbilt University "Rousseau's Autobiography: Goethe's Life" "Self-Blame in the Confessions of Young Goethe" "'To Write is to Be is to Write': Goethe, Life, and Literature" Commentator: Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa Luncheon Speaker: "Holocaust Assets and German Business History: Beginning or End?" Friday, October 5, 2001 41. Making the Race Pure: Policies and Practices of Nazi Antisemitism Moderator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University "'Nazi 'chic'? Creating a Purely German Fashion" "Constructing Outcasts: the Nazi Campaign of Jewish Criminalization" "'Proof of Origin': Enforcing Racial Acceptability and Genocide" "Anti-Semitic Scholarship in the Third Reich: Methodological and Rhetorical Strategies" Comentator: Gordon R. Mork, Purdue University 42. East Germany Revisited: Civic and Monetary Dimensions of German Transformation Moderator: Stephen Padgett, University Strathclyde "Social Capital Formation in East Germany" "The Role of the PDS in East German Interest Articulation" "Economic Winners and Losers in Eastern Germany" Commentator: Laurence McFalls, Université de Montréal 43. Russland und Deutschland in Europa Moderator: Arthur B. Gunlicks, University of Richmond "Russland und Deutschland in Europa" "Zum Stand der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen" "Zu einigen Voraussetzungen einer europäischen Friedensordnung" "Deutschland, Russland und Ostmitteleuropa: gestern, heute, morgen" Commenator: Erich Pohl, Universität Heidelberg 44. Individuality and Early Modern Autobiography Before 1750 Moderator: Vera Lind, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. "Individuality and Autobiography in Early Modern Germany: A Reflection on Merchant 'Ego-Documents'" "Master Johann Dietz: The Author As His Own Fictional Counterpart" "The Body, 16th-Century Autobiography, and Individuality" Commentator: Kaspar von Greyerz, Universität Basel 45. Austrian Studies in North America: The Research Centers as Facilitators Moderator: Gerhard Weiss, University of Minnesota "Center Austria, University of New Orleans" "The Canadian Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta" "The Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota" Commentator: Lonnie Johnson, Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright) 46. Political Theory Moderator: Forest Grieves, University of Montana "The Paradox of Kant's Individual Autonomy and National Self-Determination" "The Political Theory of Alfred Weber" "The Citizen Shopper: Consumption as Civilizing Process in Germany" "Addresses Unknown: Hermann Cohen and J. G. Fichte on Germany's Originary Future" Commentator: Hugh West, University of Richmond 47. The Weimar Republic and Eastern Europe Moderator: Wolf Grüner, Universität Rostock "Weimar Germany and the Reintegration of Russia into Europe" "Patriotism, Politics, Profits: Weimar German Europe and the Quest for Polar Redemption" "German Foreign Policy and the Danzig Question: Whose Germans are these, anyway?" Commentator: Edmund Clingan, University of North Dakota 48. Perceptions of Nation: Regionalism and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Germany Moderator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan "Collective Memory and National Identity: Remembering the Wars of Liberation in Hamburg, 1813-1913" "Chronicles of (Re)Defining Regional and National Identity: Theodor Fontane on the Schleswig-Holstein Question" "Model for the Empire: Public Festivals and German Nationalism in German Southwest Africa, 1894-1914" Commentator: James M. Brophy, University of Delaware 49. Theory and Praxis of Gender and Memory in 20th Century German Culture Moderator: Katherine Roper, Saint Mary's College of California "Rhetoriken der Pornografisierung in Erzählungen über den NS-Terror" "'Deutschlands bleiche Mütter': Geschlechtsspezifische Repräsentationen in "The Discourse of Silence: Gender and Memory in Der Ruf" "Memory, Gender, and Identity: Contemporary German-Jewish Women's Commentator: Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College 50. Erziehungswissenschaft und Lehrerausbildung in Deutschland zwischen Politiserung, Professionalisierung und Reformpädagogik Moderator: Ann T. Allen, University of Louisville "Deutsche Erziehungswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert: Sonderweg und Normalisierung" "Images of America in the Current Educational Discourse in Germany" "Aktuelle Tendenzen der Lehrerausbildung in Deutschland zwischen Professionalisierung und Reformpädagogik" "Professionalität und Geschlechterdifferenz: Frauen und Männer in Schulleitung und Unterricht an Gymnasien" Commentator: Jürgen Herbst, University of Wisconsin at Madison 51. Youth Rebellion and State Violence: A Comparative View on Post War Europe Moderator: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University "Genoa, Italy, 1960: Youth Antifascism and the Police" "Aufklären zersetzen, liquidieren: Policing Juvenile Rowdytum in Eastern Germany, 1956-1969" "Youth Gangs, Students and Police in Western Germany, 1965-1973" "Don't Try This at Home: Youth Revolt of the 1960's in Austrian Media Discourses" Commentator: Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis 52. Hope and the Holocaust in German Culture Moderator: Johannes F. Evelein, Trinity College "Der Holocaust aus der Sicht der Tora" "'Wohin schwankt ihr eh noch der Atem schwand?' German Poetry from Theresienstadt (1942-45) and the Question (s) of Interpretation" "Heaven and Hell: The Two Endings of Edgar Hilsenrath's Novel Der Nazi und der Friseur" "Harlequin's Hope and Despair: Carnival and Fascism in the Visual Art of Albert Block and Anselm Kiefer" Commentator: Na'ama Sheffi, Tel Aviv University 53. Formen der Ausgrenzung von Juden in Osterreich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert Moderator: Norman Goda, Ohio University "Antisemitismus und Antimasonismus - Von der kirchlichen zur säkularisierten "Ausgrenzung und Emigration - Die akademischen Karrierechancen von österreichischen "Dimensionen des Holocaustmahnmals am Wiener Judenplatz " Commentator: Bruce B. Campbell, College of William and Mary 54. Cross-Cultural Encounters: Hollywood Adaptations of Austrian Literature Moderator: Beate Müller, University of Newcastle "Reinventing Arthur Schnitzler: Jacques Feyder's Daybreak" "Working with Hollywood's Production Code: Max Ophüls' Adaptation of Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)" "Adaptation/Genre and Conversion/Faith in The Song of Bernadette" "Vienna Noir, Black Market and Doppelgänger in Reed's THE THIRD MAN (1949) and Bachmann's 'Der dritte Mann' (1971)" Commentator: Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University 55. Deutsche nationale Identität am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts Moderator: Gregg Kvistad, University of Denver "'Leitkultur', 'Nationalstolz', 'Verfassungspatriotismus' Elemente deutsche Identität "Ost-West Gegensätze in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" "Jüdische Identität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" Commentator: Gerald R. Kleinfeld, Arizona State University 56. German Literature Crossing Borders Moderator: Gerd K. Schneider, Syracuse University "Hilda Cohen. Poetry as Sustenance in the Inferno: A Teenager in the Holocaust" "Unsettling Austria: Geography, Genre, and German in Handke's Die Wiederholung" "Canetti on Safari" "Dislocated Texts: Günter Grass' Encounters with German Literature Abroad" Commentator: Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology 57. The Enigmatic Hans Fallada: Reception, Memoir and Archival Ownership Moderator: Mark W. Clark, University of Virginia's College at Wise "Fallada's Rude Awakening: A Reappraisal of the Reception of 'Wir hatten mal ein Kind'" "Die Fallada-Odyssee. Beschädigungen" "Inner Emigration and Inner Borders: A New Reading of Hans Fallada's Altes Herz geht auf die Reise" "Hans Fallada's Arrest at Easter 1933: Fact and Fiction" Commentator: Veronika Fuechtner, University of Chicago 58. Goethe-Effects Moderator: Volker Kaiser, University of Virginia "The Ottilie-Effect: Contradistinctions of Class-Specific 'Habitus' in "Dining Out: Walter Benjamin Meets Goethe" "Die stumme Forderung des Bandes: Zur Funktion des Fetischs in Goethes "The Work of Art in 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'" Commentator: Erhard Bahr, University of California at Los Angeles Business Meeting of the Association Cocktail Party of the Association Banquet of the Association Twenty-Five Years of GSA: A Celebration Saturday, October 6, 2001 59. The Holocaust in the Courtroom: The Historian's Role Moderator: Martin Dean, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum "Beyond Reasonable Doubt? The Problem of Criminal Justice in an Australian War Crimes Trial" "The Challenge of Preparing Holocaust Cases for Trial" "Historians and Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Zundel and Irving Trials" Commentator: Peter Black, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 60. Historical Narratives in Postwar German Culture I Moderator: Omer Bartov, Brown University "The Past Recaptured: Günter Grass and Alexaner Kluge at the Turn of the Century" "The War Reconsidered-W.G. Sebald and Dieter Forte" "Authenticity and Its Discontents. The Figure of Jewish Emigrant in Postwar German Literature" "Inside/Out: Spaces of History in Edgar Reitz's Heimat" Commentator: Jonathan Skolnik, University of Oregon 61. New Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century in Prussia Moderator: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College "Unruhige Öffentlichkeit: Social Unrest and Popular Protest in the Prussian Rhineland, 1815-1848" "Der Regierungsstil Friedrich Wilhelms IV. zwischen Tradition und Moderne : Revision eines Bildes" "Faktor Preußen. Politisches System und Strukturen Preußens als Kern des 'deutschen Sonderwegs'" Commentator: Jürgen Kocka, Freie Universität Berlin 62. The Politics of Persuasion: Cultures of Advertising in 20th Century Germany Moderator: Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin "The Nazi Ad-Man: Ideology and the Refashioning of German Advertising after 1933" "'The Consciousness Industry': Advertising and Mass Psychology in Postwar West Germany" "Selling Socialism: Advertising in East Germany 1971-1989" Commentator: Claudia Koonz, Duke University 63. Aufbruch der Universitäten in die Wissenschaftsgesellschaft Moderator: Annette Stross, Humboldt Universität Berlin "Reformansätze an Universitäten" "Der Streit um die Zukunft der deutschen Universitäten" "Fit für die Globalisierung! Der Studiengang Internationale Beziehungen an der TU Dresden" Commentator: Ann Phillips, United States State Department 64. Crime, the Criminal, and Society Moderator: Thomas Bredohl, University of Regina "Moosbrugger's Murder and World War One: Musil's Literary Ethics in the Man Without Qualities" "Good Times for Detection? Fritz Lang's Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse" "Nazi Crime Fiction: The Case of the S-Bahn Murderer" Commentator: Sydney Norton, University of Southern Indiana 65. Constructing Memory Moderator: Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana "From Deconstructivist Architecture to the Constructon of Cultural Memory: Libeskind's Jewish Museum" "Forests and Cultural Memory or Tracking Through the Woods with Günter Grass and Anselm Kiefer" "Benjamin Remembering his Childhood" Commentator: Daniel Reynolds, Grinnell College 66. Körpergeschichten/Körperkulturen in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Moderator: Bruce Campbell, College of William and Mary "Entweihte Körper. Kriegsversehrung und katholische Geistlichkeit im Ersten Weltkrieg" "'Zeuge pflichtbewußt'. Sexualität, Körperdisziplin und Biopolitik zwischen Kaiserreich "Körperkultur 1895-1936: A Tale of Two Movements" Commentator: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan 67. Holocaust Era Assets and Forced Labor Discourse in Austria: Opening the Moderator: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna "Forced Labor (Zwangsarbeit) in Ostmark's Wartime Economy, 1939-1945: A Critical View on the Public Debate and the Scientific Discourse" "The Changing Structures of Banking Business in Austria: Liquidation and Aryanization of Jewish Owned Banking Institutions and Loot of Jewish Assets" "Restitution Policy in Austria: Latest Findings on Measures and Practice of 'Reparation'" Commentator: Matthew Paul Berg, John Carroll University, Cleveland 68. Alternative Religiosities in Modern Germany: Mythology, Occult, and the Volk Moderator: Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University "The Old Faiths and the New: Secularization and Sacralization in Nineteenth-Century Germany" "Religion in a Secular Age: The Occult in Germany and Britain at the Fin de Siècle" "Religion und völkische Weltanschauung" Commentator: Doris L. Bergen, University of Notre Dame 69. History in Remission: Urban Politics in 1990s Berlin Moderator: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University "The Castle's Two Bodies. Metonymies of History" "Demolition, Traffic, Montage: Tempo Alexanderplatz" "Themepark Memory: The Imaginary Jewish Past of the Hackesche Höfe" Commentator: Peter Rehberg , Cornell University 70. Laughter in Modern Germany Moderator: Andreas Daum, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC "'Berliner Witz' und die Erfindung der Großstadt im Gelächter" "Gefährliche Lächerlichkeit. Ironie, Spott und der Entwurf von Identität in der Moderne" "Lachend die Wahrheit sagen? Kabarett und Medienöffentlichkeit in der DDR und in Ostdeutschland" Commentator: Mary Lee Townsend, University of Tulsa 71. Writing Death: Literature and Mortality at the Turn of the Century Moderator: Jenifer Ward, Gustavus Adolphus College "'Writing Death: Literature and Mortality at the Turn of the Century:' Music, Poetry, and Death in Hofmannsthal and Adorno" "Dead Children: Filicide, Suicide, Writing" "The Case against Immortality: Kafka's Last Testament Revisited" Commentator: Charity Scribner, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen 72. Stabilizing Boundaries: Nature, Material Culture, and Political Identity in Germany Moderator: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester "'Through the Upper Gate': Town, Country, and Nature in the Holy Roman Empire, 1600-1750" "Gäa and the State: Science, Nature, and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany" "Living on the Edge: The Politics and Practice of Daily Life on the Saxon-Bohemian Border, 1900-1933" Commentator: Kathryn M. Olesko, Georgetown University 73. Ennui, Murder, Suicide, and Salvation in 18th-Century Germany Moderator: Alexander Mathäs, University of Oregon Boredom and Literary Production at the Weimar Court, or 'Wie ist eine unoccupierte Gesellschaft für die Langeweile zu bewahren?'" "Suicide by Proxy: Religious Child Sacrifice in Eighteenth-Century Germany" "The Manipulation of Death: Execution as Suicide in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" Commentator: Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Ohio State University 74. The German Middle Ages: The Spiritual Moderator: Gabriele Strauch, University of Maryland "Ascetism, Meditation, and Mysticism in Fourteenth-Century German Dominican Convents" "The Body as Crossroads: Intersecting Discourses on Self, Culture, and Authority in Mechthild von Magdeburg's Das Fließende Licht der Gottheit" "Oswalds Tochter, Nicolaus Cusanus, und das 'richtige' Klosterleben" "Parallelisms in Form: Christenmensch unde Jude in Die Erlösung" Commentator: Sara S. Poor, Stanford University 75. Germany and France Moderator: James McAdams, University of Notre Dame "Franco-German Relations in Transition" "Neue deutsche Europapolitik? Deutsche Führungsambitionen und deutsch-französische Verstimmungen" Commentator: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Bonn 76. Challenges to German Citizenship? Moderator: Christian Soe, California State University at Long Beach "Youth Perceptions of Security and Citizenship in Germany" "Redefining Membership: The Impact of the New Citizenship Law" "The Case of Trade Unions in Germany" Commentator: Charles Lees, University of Sussex 77. Lessing and the Political Moderator: William Rasch, Indiana University "Against Universal Friendship: Ernst und Falk and the Necessity of Conflict" "Lessing's Politics of Providence: Philotas and Minna von Barnheim" "Genre, State Power, and Aesthetic Impasses in Lessing's Emilia Galotti" Commentator: Patrizia McBride, University of Minnesota 78. Aspects of Lutheran Culture in the Early 16th Century Moderator: Sabine Mödersheim, University of Wisconsin "Der Freiheitsbegriff Martin Luthers. Haben die Bauern ihn missverstanden?" "Music, Propaganda and the German Reformation" "Die Konzilsfrage in der deutschen reformatorischen Publizistik 1520-1563" Commentator: Charles Herbert, American University Saturday, October 6, 2001 79. 125 Years of Konrad Adenauer: Visions and Achievements Moderator: Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, Konrad Adenauer Foundation "Konrad Adenauer Bemerkungen zur Biographie und zu seinem "Konrad Adenauer aus jüdischer Perspektive" "Bedeutung Konrad Adenauers für das politische System der Bundesrepublik" Commentator: Clay Clemens, College of William and Mary 80. Contemporary German Cinema: Questions of Subjectivity and Genre Moderator: Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland "Sex Lessons: The Function of Erotic Imagery in DEFA Films" "Female Spectatorship and National Cinema in Post-Unification German" "Frauen und Gewalt: Volker Schlöndorffs Die Stille nach dem Schuss, The Handmaid's Tale und Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum" Commentator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, State University of New York at Binghamton 81. Rethinking Nazi Ideology, Nazi Practice Moderator: Evan Bukey, University of Arkansas "Ideology without a Center? Defining 'Germanness' in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" "'The True God': Hitler's Conceptions of Christ" Commentator: Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University 82. The Politics of the Alma Mater: A New Look at German Universities and Students, 1810-1934 Moderator: Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Masculinity and the Modern Research University in Germany, 1810-1900" "The Secular, Kulturprotestant, University and Student Life, 1890-1914" "Die 'Machtergreifung' als Generationskonflikt. Zur Lage der deutschen Hochschulen 1933/34" Commentator: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University 83. Twentieth-Century Germany from the Year 2000: New "Grand Narratives" Moderator: Glenn Cuomo, New College, University of South Florida "Twentieth-Century Germany as History: New Narratives of Catastrophe and Happy Ending?" "Empire and Commodity Culture in 20th-Century Germany" "Nation, Spectacle, and Automobility in Germany's Twentieth Century" Commentator: Mary Nolan, New York University 84. Perpetrators, Survivors, Aftermath: New Studies of the Holocaust Moderator: Klaus Larres, Queens University of Belfast "The Parisian Institut d'Etude des Questions Juives, 1941-1942" "Zivilcourage im Dritten Reich: Retterinnen und Hilferinnen aus den Reihen der Wehrmacht" "1 DM für die in Auschwitz vergaste Ehefrau: Rabbi Lazar Salzberg und die Passauer Neue Presse" Commentator: Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina 85. Historical Narratives in Postwar German Culture II Moderator: Katja Garloff, Reed College "Excessive Cure: Tracing War Trauma in Early DEFA Films" "Schamkultur statt Schuldkultur. Letzte Texte Heiner Müllers 1990 bis 1995" "Whose Voice? Whose Story? Whose Suffering? Marcel Beyer's Flughunde [Karnau's Tapes] as New German Memory" "The Present is a Foreign Country: The Uncanny Re-Articulation of Time in/after 1989" Commentator: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University 86. Rechtsextremistische Parteien Moderator: Gerard Braunthal, University of Massachusetts "Soll die NPD verboten werden?" "Extremistische Parteien in den Medien" "Die Extreme Rechte und der Konjunkturzyklus, 1949 - 1999" Commentator: Jay J. Rosellini, Purdue University 87. Die Frauenfrage als Heiratsfrage: Marriage, Morality, and Maidenhood in Imperial Germany Moderator: Nancy R. Reagin, Pace University "Shrews, Romantics, and Maiden Aunts: The Old Maid as Cultural Icon in Imperial Germany" "'Marriage-Mad Wenches'on the Namibian Frontier: Marital and Career Opportunitues and Wilhelmine Women's Colonization" "'Marriage is the Front, Prostitution the Back of the Same Coin': Public Debates about Marriage and Prostitution in Imperial Germany" Commentator: Raffael Scheck, Colby College 88. Cultures of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Infertility in Twentieth-Century Germany Moderator: Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University "Cultures of Hope and Fear: Traditional and Modern Beliefs about Pregnancy in Germany, "Where Have All the Babies Gone? The Sexual Revolution and the Critique of Population "Reproducing German Turks: Infertility and Inequality in Germany's Contemporary Social Commentator: Greg Eghigian, Penn State University 89. Class: The New Taboo Moderator: Monika Shafi, University of Delaware "Are they Represented? Working Class and Science Fiction" "Anna Seghers's Visual Depiction: In Defense of Truth, Beauty, and the Working Class" "The Flaneur Revisited, or: The Invisibility of Class in the Writing of Urban Experience" 90. Science, Ethics, and the Law in Imperial Germany Moderator: Kevin Repp, Yale University "Darwinism, Monism, and the Secularization of Ethics in Imperial Germany" "Sex, Order, and Freedom: Evolutionary Sexual Ethics and Christian Responses in Germany, 1900-1913" "How to Punish in the Age of Science? German Debates on the Implications of Science for Criminal Justice, 1880-1914" Commentator: Kathryn M. Olesko, Georgetown University 91. Commissioning History: Accounting for Austria's World War II Past Moderator: Günter Bischof, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans "The Austrian Historical Commission: Chances and Problems" "The Schaumayer Commission for the Settlement of Slave and Forced Labor Related "The Austrian Life Insurance Sector and the Nazi Regime" "Independent Business History and the Holocaust Era Assets Debate: The Austrian Commentor: Kurt Tweraser, University of Arkansas 92. Sites of Identity: The Negotiation of Local and National Identity in Cologne from Vormärz to Weimar Moderator: James Steakley, University of Wisconsin at Madison "Imagining the Cologne Cathedral in the Vormärz" "Confessionalizing Catholic Home Space in Cologne during the Kaiserreich" "The Transformation of Political-Cultural Identities: Street Pageantry and Working-Class Identity in Cologne, July 1932" Commentator: Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 93. Subnational Government and Politics in the 1990s Moderator: Jutta Helm, Western Illinois University "Parties, Interest Groups, and Elite Decision-Making in Germany's Landtage" "Parties and Elections in the Länder" "Representative and Direct Democracy at the Local Level in the 1990s" Commentator: Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham 94. The German Middle Ages: The Physical Moderator: Sara S. Poor, Stanford University "Gender and Forensic Oratory in Konrad von Würzburg's The Knight of the Swan" "Das Lachen der Cunneware: Gesten in der höfischen Dichtungen des Mittelalters" "The Vestimentary Code: Courtly Identity as Literary Play in Gottfried von Strassburg's Trista" Commentator: Kathryn Starkey, University of North Carolina 95. New Challenges in Transatlantic Relations Moderator: Gerald R. Kleinfeld, Arizona State University "Electronic Privacy and Transatlantic Relations: Data Protection Across the Pond" "Bananas, Beef, and Beans: The Role of Germany in U.S.-European Trade Disputes" "NATO and ESDI: From Tension to Transcendence" Commentator: Marc Morjé Howard, University of Maryland 96. German Political Parties after 1998 Moderator: Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Heinrik-Böll-Stiftung "CDU in Crisis: Varying Fortunes East and West" "Die PDS nach dem Rücktritt von Gysi und Disky" "Colored, Tinted and Cracked Lenses: Red and Green Positions and Policies on Human Intervention in the Balkans" Commentator: Joyce Mushaben, University of Missouri at St. Louis 97. Reconceptualizing Europe: Dimensions and Dilemmas of EU Enlargement Moderator: Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi "EU Enlargement and Social Citizenship: Transforming Welfare States in East Central Europe in the Context of European Integration" "Raising the Bar: The Use of Regime Thresholds in Southern Europe, Eastern Germany, and Eastern Europe" "Exogenous Influence in Path Dependent Transformation Processes. The Effects of German Foreign Direct Investments on Work Organization and Labor Relations in Hungary" Commentator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University 98. Social Break and Cultural Change in Eastern Germany at the Turn of This Century Moderator: Jean Godsall-Myers, Widener University "Zwischen kulturellen Identitäten und ökonomischen Pragmatismus: Lokale Akteure in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften" "Cultural Lag in Postsocialism? Oder wie verläuft die kulturelle Modernisierung?" "Der Widerspruch zwischen Öffnung und Schliessung" "Reclaiming Myself as Subject: Power and Performance in Testimonial Narratives" Commentator: Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, St. Joseph's University Luncheon Speaker: Sara Lennox University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Globalization, Gender, and German Studies" Saturday, October 6, 2001 99. Strategies of Domination and Resistance Moderator: Elke Segelke, Illinois State University "The Fascist Dramaturgy: Riefenstahl's Tableau Vivant" "Old Masters and the Discourse of Male Mastery in Thomas Bernhard" "Analyzing Strategies of Domination in Torkan's Tufan: Brief an einen islamischen Brüder" Commentator: Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University 100. Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord: Homosexuality on Trial in Weimar Germany Moderator: Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati "Sexual Science Fiction: Alfred Döblin and Hans Magnus Hirschfeld" "Männer, Frauen, Freundschaft und Feindschaft: The Homosexual in Weimar Literature" "Rewriting the Story of Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord: Postwar Adaptations of Döblin's Text" Commentator: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona 101. Misdeeds, Motivations and Memories: Wartime Criminality and Postwar Apologia Moderator: Doris Bergen, University of Notre Dame "Conflict or Cooperation? Reassessing German Army Opposition to SS Crimes in Poland in 1939" "'It's As If It Had Never Been': The Motivations of 'Euthanasia' Perpetrators and Their Memories in the Postwar Period" "Memory as Shield: The Wehrmacht Generals' Postwar Recollections" Commentator: Ronald Smelser, Unversity of Utah 102. Military and Memory in Post War West-Germany Moderator: Jörg Echternkamp, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam "German War Films of the 1950s and the Shaping of Public Memory" "The German Military and their Tradition" "'Nicht alles anders, aber vieles besser machen?' Offiziersgenerationen Commentator: Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina 103. Roundtable on Globalization and German Studies Moderator: Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester Jeff Peck, York University/Université de Montréal 104. Arab-Germans and Muslims in Contemporary Germany Moderator: Deniz Göktürk, University of California at Berkeley "Arab-German Writers" "Islam in Public Schools?" "How Ethnic Is It? Reflections in the Works by Arab-German Writers of the Second Generation" Commentator: Marilya Veteto-Conrad, Northern Arizona University 105. The Historical Avant-Gardes and the Ethnographic Imagination Moderator: Wilfried Wilms, Union College "Primitivism, Avant-Gardism, Enlightenment" "After the Avant Garde" Commentator: Robert Shandley, Texas A&M University 106. Building a Socialist Countryside: Communist Policies and Popular Reaction in the German Democratic Republic Moderator: Rolf Steininger, Universität Innsbruck "From Factory to Farm: Mobilizing Workers to Modernize East German Agriculture" "Collectivization and Memory. Views of the Past and Reactions to the Transformation of Rural Society in the GDR from 1952 to the early 1960's" "The Land Reform and the Village Milieu: Some Remarks on Continuity and Change in Rural Society in the SBZ" 107. "Germania in Cyberspace": The Information Age in German-speaking Countries Moderator: Marton Marko, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "The Structural Transformation of the Virtual Public Sphere" "Was Goethe Right about 'das Maschinenwesen'? Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication in German-speaking Cultures" "The ,Third Culture' and the ,Fourth Estate': Cyberspace and the Politics of the German Press" Commentator: Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University of St. Louis 108. Jews in the Early German Democratic Republic: Tolerance, Repression, and Memory Moderator: Mario Kessler, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam "(Re-)Building of the East German Communities in the late 1940s and early 1950s" "Jews in Leipzig: Identity, Persecution and the State in the Early German Democratic Republic" Commentator: Jeffery Herf, University of Maryland 109. Race, Racial Thinking, and German Colonialism Moderator: Krista Molly O'Donnell, William Patterson University "Mind, Matter, and Race in the Era of German Idealist Philosophy" "Blurred Genres and Critique of Colonialism in Wilhelm Raabe's Stopfkuchen' "Geographies of Orientalism and Racism in Deutsch Ostafrika" Commentator: Joanne Cho, William Paterson University 110. Learning to Be Loyal: Attempts to Create Dynastic Devotion in Central Europe Moderator: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University "The Siegesdenkmal in Freiburg: Displaying the Ambivalent Nature of South German National-Dynastic Loyalties after 1871" "Promoting 'Austrian' Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1849-1916" "Böhmerdeutsche or Germans in Bohemia? Deutscher Michel and the 'Wacht am Rhein' in Pan-German Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century" Commentator: Lorie A. Vanchena, Creighton University 111. Roundtable on Die Berliner Republik Moderator: Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Joachim Gauck, Ehemaliger Bundesbeauftragter für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR 112. Coming to Terms with the Past Moderator: Christian Soe, California State University at Long Beach "Vergangenheit als Gegenwartsbewältigung: Coming to Terms with Nazi Gold, Slave Labor and Non-Neutrality" "Occidentalism, History and Memory" "Competing Memories? A Quantitative Study of the Impact of the Past on Contemporary German Political Culture" Commentator: Jutta Helm, Western Illinois University 113. More than Cloth: Noble Fashion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Moderator: Marion Gray, Kansas State University "Kleidung, Macht, Ordnung: Adlige Selbstdisziplinierung zwischen Anpassung und Ökonomie am Wiener Hof" "'Vestis virum facit': Fashion, Identity, and Ethnography on the Seventeenth-Century Grand Tour" "Die ritterschaftlichen Uniformen im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert: Ein letzter Versuch zur Bewahrung der Exklusivität?" Commentator Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University 114. The Submerged Worlds of Central European Romanticism Moderator: Gerlinde Ulm Sanford, Syracuse University "Buried Treasure: Mining as Transformation in German Romanticism" "Intimacy and Exclusion in Heine's Die Bäder von Lukka" "Song Cycle as Confessional: A New Interpretation of Schubert's Heine Settings" Commentator: Jeffrey L. Sammons, Yale University 115. Schiller's An die Freude in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Moderator: Greg Wolf, St. Louis University "'Be considerate and obedient': Beethoven's Reading of Schiller's An die Freude as an Act of Disobedience" "'Polemik im Conzertsaal': Mahler, Beethoven, and the Viennese Critics" "Beethoven, the Beer-Hall, and Hitler? On Adorno and the Ninth Symphony" Commentator: Sanna Pederson, Wesleyan College 116. Gender: Questions of Socio-Sexual Identity in Early Modern Writings" Moderator: Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Ohio State University "The Sodomite's Clothes: Gift Giving and Sexual Excess in Early Modern Germany and Switzerland" "On Eulenspiegel, Faust, Gretchen, Nele, and Laura Salman" "Ladies -- Maids -- Witches: Johannes Prätorius (1630-80) on Women" Commentator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University of St. Louis 117. Deutschland im europäischen Integrationsprozess der letzten zehn Jahre Moderator: Manfred Wilke, Frei Universität Berlin "Die Euroregionen an den deutschen Aussengrenzen: Die politischen Rahmenbedingungen für die Entwicklung grenzüberschreitender Zusammenarbeit Deutschlands im zusammenwachsenden Europa" "Das Beschäftigungsproblem in Deutschland seit dem Wegfall der EU-Binnengrenzen aus prozesstheoretischer und prozesspolitischer Sicht" "USA-Deutschland-Russland und der Prozess der europäischen Integration seit der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands" Commentator: Karl Cerny, Georgetown University 118. Between Dialog and Dialectic: Germans, Jews, and the Discourse of Enlightenment Moderator: Bernd Fischer, Ohio State University "Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800, or David Friedländer and the Jewish Critique of Modernity" "Jewish Dislocation and the Discourse of Enlightenment: the Cases of Salomon Maimon and Heinrich Heine" "From Monologue to Dialogue, or Enlightenment after Anti-Enlightenment" Commentator: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Saturday, October 6, 2001 119. Nazi Propaganda Offensive Against the Jews, 1933-1945 Moderator: Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron "Anti-Semitism as Hatred and Explanation: Goebbels' Major Public Statements" "Words of Action: Nazi Instruction Manuals for Party Speakers" "Newscasts of Racial Hatred: The Role of National Socialist Newsreels as Instruments of anti-Semitic Propaganda" "Nazi Anti-Semitism in East Upper Silesia: An Analysis of District Newspapers" Commentator: Jay W. Baird, Miami University of Ohio 120. Transatlantischer Perspektivenwechsel bei Theater und Medien im Übergang zum 21. Jahrhundert Moderator: Pia Kleber, University of Toronto "Perspektiven deutscher Medien im Übergang zum 21. Jahrhundert" "Theaterentwicklung in Deutschland und Osteuropa" "Robert Lepage und Robert Wilson in Deutschland" "'Big Brother' in Deutschland und den USA" Commentator: Gitta Honegger, Catholic University 121. Germany and Europe in the New Century Moderator: Karen Donfried, Library of Congress "Is Germany a Good European? Or, Has Europe Been Good for Germany?" "Germany and European Defense and Security Policy" "Germany and East Central Europe" Commentator: Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan 122. Turn-of-the Century Aesthetics Revisited: Self, Identity and Audience in Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont "Schnitzler's Fink und Fliederbusch: Will the Real Character Please Stand Up?" "Acting Out the Self in Arthur Schnitzler's and Egon Schiele's Moving Portraits" "The Audience in Schnitzler's Works" "Gesellschaftskritik in zensurierten Reigen-Parodien" Commentator: Iris Bruce, McMaster University 123. Monarchy and Its Discontents in Prussia's Long Nineteenth Century Moderator: Dieter K. Buse, Laurentian University "Monarchy, the Power Balance, and Political Culture in Prussia, 1786-1848" "Lions, Buffaloes, and Baboons! Bettina von Arnim's Reception of the 'Tierkreis' Motif in Her Political Writings" "Constitutionalism or Staatsstreich? Bismarck, Crown Prince Frederick William, Crown Princess Victoria and the Succession Crisis of 1880-1885" Commentator: Brian Vick, Stanford University 124. Roundtable on German Modernities: Historicizing Concepts of Change and Continuity Moderator: Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College Kathy Pence, Adrian College and Harvard University 125. Post-Unification Images of Berlin: Reading Subtext(s) of the City Moderator: Gerald A. Fetz, University of Montana "Living Berlin: Autobiography and the City" "Falling apart in Reunified Berlin: Helga Reidemeiser's Lights from Afar" "The Changing Topography of Berlin in Peter Schneider's Eduards Heimkehr" "'If Berlin were Istanbul . . .': Sascha Stone's City Photomontages" 126. Reconsidering the Front Community: Masculinity and National Loyalty During World War I Moderator: Helmut Pfanner, Vanderbilt University "Christmas in Enemy Territory: Soldiers' Ritual and the Front Community" "A Palpable Sense of Betrayal: German Soldiers and the Strikes of January 1918" "Masculinity and Femininity in the Representations of War: Soldiers and Mothers in Commentator: Maureen Healy, Oregon State University 127. Germany and European Integration Moderator: Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi "Einbindung Deutschlands in die Europäische Integration--Die Geburtshelferrolle des Amerikanischen Hegemons" "Surrendering Hegemony: Germany's Role in European Monetary Integration" "European Integration and German-Polish-Economic Relations: A Key to European Stability in the Twenty-First Century" Commentator: Wayne Thompson, Lexington, Virginia 128. Colonial Fantasies, Historical Legacies: Susan Zantop in Memoriam Moderator: Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University "The Significance of Colonial Racial Politics for German History: A Sketch" "Colonial Fantasies / Colonial Histories: From Fiction to Fact to Fiction Again" "Nefertiti in Berlin: Colonial Fantasies in German Archaeology" "German Fascism, Women Writers: The Aesthetics and Politics of Translation" Commentator: Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College 129. Theodor Adorno in 2001 Moderator: Peter Hohendahl, Cornell University "The Splendor and Grandeur of the Uncommodified Intellectual, or Adorno has no "'Melange': Of Reason and Race in Adorno" "Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: A Bridge Linking German Studies and Literary Analysis" "Weiss/Adorno: German Literature at the Crux of Globalism" Commentator: Gerhard Richter, University of Wisconsin 130. Exile and Imagination Moderator: Douglas Brent McBride, College of St. Benedict "Fritz Strich and the Mission of Jewish Writers in German Literature" "The Exile as Historian" "Cities, Islands, Idylls: German Exile Narratives and the Spatial Conception of Displacement" "'Wir wandern singend durch die Welt': German-speaking Cinema in Exile (1934-37)" Commentator: Luke Springman, Bloomsburgh University 131. The "Multicultural Subject" and the Politics of Identity Moderator: Volker Langbehn, Iowa State University "'Tor zur Welt' or gated community? Ethnic diversity in early 20th century Hamburg" "Biedermann vs. Brandstifter, or: The Question of Identity for an African Asylbewerber" "'wasser in der wüste'. Neue Erzählstrategien Schwarzer deutscher Autorinnen" "Spectacles of Multiculturalism in the 'New Berlin'" Commentator: Kathrina Zippel, Columbia University 132. The Space formerly known as the GDR: Writing East Germany after Moderator: Jutta Arendt, College of the Holy Cross "'Contradictions are Our Hope!': Sonnenallee and Epic Filmmaking" "Contravening Human Nature in the GDR: Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir" "The Cabinet of Dr. Honecker: Law and Order in Andreas Kleinert's Wege in die Nacht" "GDR Censorship and the German Public Sphere(s): Jurek Becker's Banned Book Schlaflose Tage" Commentator: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College 133. Entwicklungstendenzen von Politik und politischer Partizipation in Deutschland Moderator: Gerhard Hirscher, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung "Grundfragen deutscher Politik vor dem Wahljahr 2002" "Entwicklungstendenzen im deutschen Parteiensystem" "Oppositionsstrategie in Deutschland" "Deutschlands aussenpolitische Orientierung und transatlantische Verankerung" Commentator: Reinhard Meier-Walser, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung 134. Ghettoization in the Third Reich: New Areas and New Interpretations "The Case of the Lodz Ghetto" "Nazi Ghettoization Practices in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust" "The Ghettoization in Hungary, 1944, and the Jewish Response" "Riga's 'Moskauer Vorstadt' 1941-1943: Towards a Definition of Ghetto in the Third Reich" Commentator: Hans Safrian, Historikerkommission der Republik Österreich 135. Gender and Bio-Politics, 1900-1933 Moderator: Jeffry Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire "Sexualkrise und Rasse: Feminist Eugenics at the Fin-de-Siècle" "Feminism and Eugenics in Germany and Britain, 1900-1933: A Comparative Perspective" "Castration of Sexual Delinquents in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany" "'Blocked Blood,' or 'having fallen pregnant:' Unwanted Pregnancies and their Terminations in Weimar Germany" Commentator: Andrew Lees, Rutgers University at Camden 136. Knowledge Formation in the 18th Century: The Rise of Disciplines Moderator: Mary Lindeman, Carnegie Mellon University "Humboldts Universität: ein poetisch-philologisches Projekt" "Kant and the Systematization of Philosophy" "Disciplining History: Schiller as Historian" "Vergleich, Apologie, Charakteristik: Zur Differenzanalyse eines literaturkritischen Fachprosadreiecks" Commentator: Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington University of St. Louis 137. Urban Epistemologies: The Case of Berlin Moderator: Lilian Friedberg, University of Illinois at Chicago "Eighteenth-Century Berlin and the Dialectics of Urban Sociability" "Berlin Alexanderplatz and the Narrative Epistemology of Weimar Police Authority" "In Search of Origins: A Journey through the Berlin Phonogram Archive" Commentator: Nancy C. Erickson, Bemidji State University 138. Modernist Ethics: Irony or Tragedy? Moderator: Sara Lennox, University of Massachusets "The Rebirth of Tragedy: Nietzsche's Play for Noble Spirits" "Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind: Modernist Aesthetics between Tragedy and Travesty" "A Eugenic-Aesthetic Peripetie: Gottfried Benn's Currency (1933-36)" "Ironic Impediments: Overcoming Modernism" Commentator: Astrid Klocke, University of California at Los Angeles Sunday, October 7, 2001 139. Nazis, War, and Jews Moderator: Wendy Lower, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum "Jews and War: U.S. Military Attachés in Nazi Germany" "Abschied von der 'Chaos-Theorie': Strukturen im Auflösungsprozeß der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager" "Nazi Vocabulary of the East in the Reichskommissariat Ostland" Commentator: James Tent, University of Alabama at Birmingham 140. Social Reform and Social Science in the Kaiserreich Moderator: Nancy M. Wingfield, Northern Illinois University "Common Ground: Prostitution and the Women's Movement of the 1880s" "Discourses on Work in Wilhelmine Germany, 1888-1900: From Arbeiterkaiser to Schutz der nationalen Arbeit" "Beyond Anti-Modernism and Pathological Modernity: German Social Science and Japan, 1880-1914" Commentator: Dieter K. Buse, Laurentian University 141. Polycracy and Networks of Cooperation Moderator: Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley "The 'End-Phase' of Mass Production and Flexible Barbarism: The Jägerstab and the German War Economy" "The Cooperation of the SS, Police and Government during the 'Ethnic Reconstruction' of the Occupied Territories" "From Emigration to Deportation: Co-operation and Rivalry Between the Financial Administration and the Security Police in the Confiscation of Jewish Assets, 1938-1943 " Commentator: Wolfgang Siebel, University of Konstanz 142. German Universities in Transition: From "Stronghold of National Socialism" to Postwar Reckoning Moderator: Reiner Pommerin, Technische Universität Dresden "The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena as a 'Stronghold of National Socialism'" "Denazification at Göttingen: A Strange Exercise in Transition " 143. Neoconservatism and Nazism: Brothers, Allies, or Enemies? Moderator: Walter Struve, City University of New York "Übereinstimmungen und Gegensätze zwischen NSDAP und DNVP 1929-1933" "The Ludendorff Movement during the Weimar Republic" "Carl Gustav Jung and German Neoconservatism" Commentator: Larry E. Jones, Canisius College 144. Leitkultur: Eine Diskussion aus internationaler und kulturwissenschaftlicher Moderator: Roswitha Burwick, Scripps College "Hamburger, Döner und Hämmchen. Essen, kulturelle Identität und Leitkultur" "Leitkultur oder Kanaksprak? Parallellaufende Diskurse in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit, Popkultur und Gegenwartsliteratur" "Radikalismus und Sensibilität pur: Repräsentation deutsch-türkischer Grossstadtkultur seit 40 qm Deutschland" Commentator: Yvonne Houy, Scripps College/Pomona College 145. Questions of German Modernity Moderator: Patricia Mazón, State University of New York at Buffalo "Governing the Social in Wilhelmine Germany: Rethinking German Modernity" "Neither Singular nor Alternative: Modernity and Narratives of the German Welfare State" "The Meanings of 'Reform' in Wilhelmine Germany" Commentator: Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College 146. Popular Culture and the Memory of Nazism in Postwar Germany "The World the Nazis Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of "Murder and Memory at the Munich Olympics." "Exhibiting the Nazi Past in Berlin: A Guided Tour" Commentator: Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University 147. Immigration and Citzenship: Policies and Cultures Moderator: Sascha Mueller-Kraenner, Heinrich Böll Stiftung "The Population Crisis Revisited: Nationhood, Welfare Statism and Democracy in Sweden and Germany" "Rhetorics of Integration in the U. S. and Germany: Americanization and Germanization" "Amerikanischer Multikulturalismus und deutsche Interkulturalität: Zur Rezeption der Migrationsliteratur in den USA und in Deutschland" Commentator: Peter O'Brien, Trinity University 148. Reexamining the Legacies of the Third Reich: West German Debates on National Socialism during the 1960s Moderator: Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln "NS---Vergangenheit in der populären Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre" "'Der Nazi-Kanzler': Kurt Georg Kiesinger und die Auseinandersetzungen um die NS-Vergangenheit in den späten 1960er Jahren." "Violence, the Rhetorics of Fascism, and the Radical Left: 1965-1977 West Germany." Commentator: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University 149. Pariah Pleasures: The Circus, the Tattoo and the Horse in Germany Since the 1880's Moderator: Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron "What Women See. Gender in the Circus" "The Trade of Tattooing in Germany, 1890-1933" "The German-American Equine Market: Sport, Culture, Mystique, and Money" Commentator: Deborah Cohen, American University 150. The Power of Money in the Nineteenth Century Moderator: Andreas Daum, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC "Assignaten in Goethes Faust II: Pros und Cons" "Breaking the Bank: Risk and Chance at the German Casino-Spas" "Ethnic Conflicts and Monetary Integration in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1914" Commentator: Troy R. E. Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University 151. New Perspectives on Heinrich Kleist Moderator: Todd Kontje, University of California at San Diego "Kleist's Penthesilea: Inscribing Self-Definition on the Female Body" "Binding, Bending, Breaking: The Politics of Caesura in Penthesilea" "From Zero to Infinity in Kleist" Commentator: Jeffrey Grossman, University of Virginia 152. Beyond Human and Machine: Technology and Literary Texts from Romanticism to Contemporary Literature Moderator: Astrida Tantillo, University of Illinois at Chicago "The Inorganic Body in Romanticism" "'Stimmtund stimmt nicht!' Treatments of Technology in Expressionist Drama" Commentator: Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincincinnati 153. Media of Memory: Representations of Nazism in German Radio, Theater, and Television Moderator: Heide Fehrenbach, Emory University "New and Familiar Tunes: Radio Presentations of the Past in Post-War Germany" "Korrekturen der Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Borcherts, Heimkehrer im Radio, Theater, Kino und Fernsehen" "Screen Memories: The Reinvention of Nazism and the Holocaust on West German Television" Commentator: Christhard Hoffmann, University of Bergen 154. Roundtable on Publishing Our Profession: The State of Our Journals I Moderators: Thomas Nolden, Wellesley College Kenneth D. Barkin, Central European History 155. Imagination in the Works of Elfriede Jelinek, Anna Mitgutsch,and Elisabeth Reichart Moderator: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College "Chasing Ghosts: Revisiting and Revising the Nightmare of History in Elisabeth Reichart's Nachtmär" "What shape history? Anna Mitgutsch's 'Haus der Kindheit'" "'Der Mythologe dagegen ist zur Metasprache verurteilt' (Roland Barthes): Elfriede Jelinek's Sarcastic Attitude Toward Gender and Language in Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen and Oh Wildnis, oh Schutz vor ihr" Commentator: Brett Wheeler, Georgetown University 156. Redefining German Security: Policy Implications of German Military Reform for U.S.-German Security Relations Moderator: Stephen Szabo, Johns Hopkins University "American Views of Bundeswehr Reform: Implications for the Atlantic Alliance" "Sensible but Sustainable? An Evaluation of the Bundeswehr Commission Reform Proposals" Commentator: Wallace Thies, Catholic University 157. Berlin from the Blockade to German Unity Moderator: Wedigo de Vivanco, Freie Universität Berlin "Ernst Reuter and the Berlin Blockade in the Context of Cold War History" "The Outgoing GDR as an Imploding State in 1990" "Der Mauerfall und der Ernstfall der deutsch-amerikanischen Allianz" Commentator: Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sunday, October 7, 2001 158. Changing Partners: German-American Relations and the Second Bush Presidency Moderator: Jackson Janes, Johns Hopkins University "Domestic Roots of Foreign Policy in German-American Relations" "The New Economic Dialogue in German-American Relations" "Clashing and Converging Societies: German-American Relations in Transition" Commentator: Stephen Szabo, Johns Hopkins University 159. German Feminisms in the New Europe: Paradigm Shifts, Challenges, and Opportunities Moderator: Barbara Drescher, University of Minnesota "Gender Democracy as a New Paradigm of the Women's Movement: Watered Down or Third Wave Feminism?" "'Mainstreaming' Sexual Harassment/ Feminist Politics of Mobbing and Anti-Discrimination in Germany" "Feminist Mobilization on Abortion: Transnational Issue, National Opportunities" Commentator: Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland 160. Changing Historical Narratives on the Fate of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States Moderator: Charles W. Ingrao, Purdue University "German Historiography on the Habsburg Monarchy since World War II" "Hungary, the Habsburgs, and Europe: The Habsburg Monarchy in Inter-war Hungarian "Defining the Nation Through Historiography: Polish Historians Look at Austria During the Partitions and Beyond" "The Habsburg Monarchy in the Historiography of Serb, Croats, and Bosniaks" Comment: Catherine Albrecht, University of Baltimore 161. Germany in the Cold War Since the 1960s Moderator: Raimund Lammersdorf, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. "The GDR and Poland's Response to Bonn's Ostpolitik" "Paying for the American Defense Guarantee? The Vietnam War's Influence on the West German--American Offset Negotiations in the late 1960s" "The Question of Bundeswehr Out-of-Area Activities, 1955-1999: From Strategic Necessity to Constitutional Doctrine and Back" Commentator: Bernd Schäfer, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 162. Austria after February 2000: From "Konsensdemokratie" to "Konfliktdemokratie" Moderator: Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University "From Quadripartite Tutelage 1945-55 to the Wise Men's Report 2000: The Perception of Austria's Stereotypic Behavioural Patterns and its 'National Character'" "The Second-and-a-Half Republic of Austria: The Dynamics of Change" "Modern Austria Between Consensus and Conflict: Historians as Creators of Myths" Commentator: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans 163. The PDS in Germany's Evolving Party System Moderator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University "East German Party Elites: The PDS and its Rivals" "The PDS: Leadership Strategies, Social Base and Electoral Dynamics" "Small Steps, Big Challenges: PDS Local Politics in Western Germany" Commentator: David Patton, Connecticut College 164. German Writing in a Minor Key: The Literary Hybridity of Hilsenrath, Zenocak, Tabori, and Özdamar Moderator: Joanne Cho, William Paterson University "Hybridity, Sex, Scatology and the Cultural Jew in Edgar Hilsenrath's Bronskys Geständnis" "Mule Minus Forty Million Acres: Topographies of Geographic Disorientation and Redface Minstrels in George Tabori's Weisman und Rotgesicht" "Hybride Identitäten: Zafer Zenocaks Romane Gefährliche Verwandtschaft und der Erottomane" "The Moral Work(ing) of Art in Özdamar's Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei" Commentator: Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Middle Tennessee State University 165. Soldiers and Society: From Mercenaries to the Citizen-Soldier in Germany, 1780-1848 Moderator: Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Ernst Moritz Arndt-Universität Greifswald "Schiller, der Herzog und der Soldatenhandel" "With or Without the Assistance of the People: The Archduke Carl's Theoretical and Practical Reaction to Popular Forces in the Revolutionary Period and After, 1793-1847" "'Was bedeutet Landwehr und Landsturm'. Overestimating Patriotism: The Prussian Citizen-Soldier in 1813" Commentator: Geoffrey D. W. Wawro, U. S. Naval War College 166. Krisenerfahrung in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts Moderator: Richard J. Rundell, New Mexico State University "The Insider as Outsider: Thomas Mann in Germany, 1945-1950" "Krisenerfahrung: der Fall Dieter Wellershoff" "Krisenerfahrung am Beispiel von zwei Autoren aus der DDR nach dem Ende der DDR" "Jelineks Haider. Zur Krise der literarischen Populismus-Kritik" Commentator: Michael E. Geisler, Middlebury College 167. Women, Literature, and Politics Moderator: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Southwest Missouri State University "The Perils of Politics: the Case of Daniela Dahn" "Reconfiguring the Past. Women's Memories of War: Bachmann's Der Fall "Artistic Intervention into Politics; Elfriede Jelinek's Political Essays and Her Play Das Lebewohl" "Schweizerinnen schreiben die Schweiz: Manifestations of an Emerging Political Agenda in the Fiction of Gertrud Leutenegger, Margrit Schriber and Laure Wyss" Commentator: Kerstin Gaddy, Catholic University 168. Post-war Women Authors Explore the Place of the Individual in History Commentator: Beth Moore, State University of New York at Binghamton "Feminism and Politics in Ilse Langner's Mythological Plays" "Searching for Missing Pieces Around Us: Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T. and Ingeborg Drewitz's Wer verteidigt Katrin Lambert?" "'Meine Geschichte und die große Geschiche': Individuelle Lebensgeschichte und politische Zeitgeschichte: Ingeborg Bachmann aus postkolonialer Sicht" "'Und wenn es doch wahr ist . . . ' The Radicalization of History in the 1960s: The Case of Ulrike Meinhof" Commentator: Helga Kraft, University of Illinois at Chicago 169. Cultural Memory and Historical Representation in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany Moderator: Arne Koch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "In Defense of Hellas: K. O. Müller and the Orientalization of German Nationhood, 1806-30" "Der letzte Ritter: Goethe's Goetz von Berlichingen" "The Middle Ages and the Orient in German Romantic Literature" Commentator: Brent Peterson, Ripon College 170. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: New Perspectives Moderator: Robert Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University "Dietrich Bonhoeffers Rolle in der protestantischen Kirche vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges" "Bonhoeffer and the Wartime Response of International Church Leaders to Nazism" "Bonhoeffer's Ethics and the Two Kingdoms Doctrine" Comentator: Peter Hoffmann, McGill University 171. SS Principals and the Evolution of the SS Imperium Moderator: Ronald Smelser, University of Utah "Heroic Imagery in the Literature of the Third Reich: Kurt Eggers and the SS Ideal" "Creating Conditions for a Final Solution? Reinhard Heydrich in 1940" "Odilo Globocnik, Nazi Eastern Policy, and the Implementation of the Final Solution" "Broker for the Unthinkable: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kruger, SS Genocide, and the Consequences of Commentator: George C. Browder, State University of New York at Fredonia 172. Roundtable on Publishing Our Profession: The State of Our Journals II Moderators: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University David Bathrick, New German Critique 173. The Legacy of Thomas Bernhard Moderator: Matthias Konzett, Yale University "The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek" "Deluge Fragments: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose" "Thomas Bernhard's Strange Attractors" "Dissenter, Critic, and Accomplice. Thomas Bernhard as a Participant in the Construction of Contemporary Austrian Culture" Commentator: Heidi M. Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University 174. The Critique of a Form/Category: "Testimony" and "Memory" in German Studies Moderator: Hans-Bernd Moeller, University of Texas at Austin "Making the Best of What you Have" "The Social Construction of the Self: Two Autobiographies of German Childhood" "Delinquents at the Bench History: Outlaw memories of German Underdevelopment" "Expulsion and Expropriation: Vergangheitsbewältigung in Ilse Tielsch's Erinnerung mit Bäumen" Commentator: Eva Kuttenberg, University of Dallas 175. Aesthetics and Politics in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture Moderator: Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Goethe Society in Weimar during the NS-Period" "Wie realistisch ist ästhetisches Denken? Zu den Entstehungsbedingungen von Schillers ästhetischer Theorie" "'Hüte dich vor dem Spielmann:' The Male Muses of Romanticism" Commentator: Nicholas Vazsonyi, University of South Carolina 176. Relationships and Social Crisis Moderator: Brigitte Peucker, Yale University "Love and Community after the War: The Literary Responses of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann to World War I" "Liebesfluchten and Paradiesträume: German-Jewish Love Affairs in Contemporary German Literature" "Love in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser" "The Beautiful Losers of '67 or How to fail and still come out as the winner Uwe Timm's Heisser Sommer" Commentator: Peter Arnds, Kansas State University |
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