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SESSION TIMES

Friday, October 5, 2001
Sessions 8:30 AM ­ 10:15 AM

1. The DAAD in the United States: Past, Present, Future Salon V
2. Parliamentary or Presidential System? Representative or Direct Democracy? Salon II
3. Racial Science, Radical Theology, and Raunchy Pop Culture:
Cultural Constructions of Jews and Race in Germany, 1870-1945 Salon I
4. Trial Records and Other New Sources on the Nazi Period Salon VI
5. Elites against Democracy--oder aus der Geschichte lernen? Salon A
6. Enabling the Shoah: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Holocaust from an International Perspective Salon B
7. Yiddish in 20th Century Germany and Austria Salon C
8. The Psychoanalytic Mirror: Reading Body, Family, and Gender Salon H
9. Remembering 1968: Historical Memory and Political Culture Salon J
10. "Über die Freundschaft". Beziehungsspiele, Handlungsräume: Freunde, Kameraden, Kumpel und Partner Salon K
11. Environments of Healing Salon D
12. Revisiting East German Subculture: Umsiedler, Fan and Film Collective Salon E
13. The Politics of Confessional Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany Salon F
14. The Kulturkampf as Historical Springboard Salon G
15. The Formation of Taste in Storm and Stress Culture Jackson
16. Film Aesthetics and Ethics Jefferson
17. Berlin: Von der Teilung zur Einheit Lee
18. German Drama and Theater Today Madison
19. German Business and Politics Mt. Vernon
20. Special Public Policy Issues Manassas

Friday, October 5, 2001
Sessions 10:30 a.m. ­ 12:15 p.m.

21. Roundtable on Germany and the EU after Nice Salon I
22. Nature in the Atomic Age: Environmental Perception and Ecological Politics, 1945-1989 Salon II
23. The Schroeder Government: Domestic and Foreign Policy Salon V
24. Sexuality and Ethnicity in the SS Salon VI
25. Round Table on New Paradigms in German Jewish Studies Salon A
26. "Sternianer in Deutschland am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts: Th. G. von Hippel, Jean Paul, Hegel" Salon B
27. Berlin 2001: Literature, History, Politics Salon C
28. Catholic Conservatism from Weimar through Hitler Salon H
29. Germany's Relations to the East Salon J
30. A DDR Retrospective Salon K
31. The Composition of Difference: Culture, Identity and Imagination in Germany and Austria, 1900-1930 Salon D
32. The Matter of Middlebrow Culture: Leisure Time, Self-Improvement, and National Identity Salon E
33. Internationalizing Reform in the National Age: Race and Gender in a Transatlantic Reform Community, 1880s to the 1930s Salon F
34. Unintended Consequences: American Denazification and Democratization Policies, 1943 - 1952 Salon G
35. Consumerism, Trancendance and German Culture Jackson
36. Nation and History Jefferson
37. Roundtable on Die Deutsche Verlagsszene nach der Wende Lee
38. Germany and the Middle East, 1919-1943 Madison
39. German Catholics in the Twentieth Century Mt. Vernon
40. Life into Literature, Literature into Life Manassas

Friday, October 5, 2001
Sessions 2:00 p.m. ­ 4:30 p.m.

41. Making The Race Pure: Policies And Practices Of Nazi Antisemitism Salon V
42. East Germany Revisited: Civic and Monetary Dimensions of German Transformation Salon VI
43. Russland und Deutschland in Europa Salon A
44. Individuality and Early Modern Autobiography Before 1750 Salon B
45. Austrian Studies in North America: The Research Centers as Facilitators Salon C
46. Political Theory Salon H
47. The Weimar Republic and Eastern Europe Salon J
48. Perceptions of Nation: Regionalism and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Germany Salon K
49. Theory and Praxis of Gender and Memory in 20th Century German Culture Salon D
50. Erziehungswissenschaft und Lehrerausbildung in Deutschland zwischen Politiserung, Professionalisierung und Reformpädagogik Salon E
51. Youth Rebellion and State Violence: A Comparative View on Post War Europe Salon F
52. Hope and the Holocaust in German Culture Salon G
53. Formen der Ausgrenzung von Juden in Osterreich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert Jackson
54. Cross-Cultural Encounters: Hollywood Adaptations of Austrian Literature Jefferson
55. Deutsche nationale Identität am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts Lee
56. German Literature Crossing Borders Madison
57. The Enigmatic Hans Fallada: Reception, Memoir and Archival Ownership Mt. Vernon
58. Goethe-Effects Manassas

Saturday, October 6, 2001
Sessions 8:30 a.m. ­ 10:15 a.m.

59. The Holocaust in the Courtroom: The Historian's Role Salon I
60. Historical narratives in Postwar German Culture I Salon II
61. New Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century in Prussia Salon V
62. The Politics of Persuasion: Cultures of Advertising in 20th Century Germany Salon VI
63. Aufbruch der Universitäten in die Wissenschaftsgesellschaft Salon A
64. Crime, the Criminal, and Society Salon B
65. Constructing Memory Salon C
66. Körpergeschichten/Körperkulturen in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Salon H
67. Holocaust Era Assets and Forced Labor Discourse in Austria: Opening the Last Chapter of NS-History? Salon J
68. Alternative Religiosities in Modern Germany: Mythology, Occult, and the Volk Salon K
69. History in Remission: Urban Politics in 1990s Berlin Salon D
70. Laughter in Modern Germany Salon E
71. Writing Death: Literature and Mortality at the Turn of the Century Salon F
72. Stabilizing Boundaries: Nature, Material Culture, and Political Identity in Germany Salon G
73. Ennui, Murder, Suicide, and Salvation in 18th-Century Germany Jackson
74. The German Middle Ages: The Spiritual Jefferson
75. Germany and France Lee
76. Challenges to German Citizenship? Madison
77. Lessing and the Political Mt. Vernon
78. Aspects of Lutheran Culture in the Early 16th Century Manassas

Saturday, October 6, 2001
Sessions 10:30 a.m. ­ 12:15 p.m.

79. 125 Years of Konrad Adenauer: Visions and Achievements Salon I
80. Contemporary German Cinema: Questions of Subjectivity and Genre Salon II
81. Rethinking Nazi Ideology, Nazi Practice Salon V
82. The Politics of the Alma Mater: A New Look at German Universities and Students, 1810-1934 Salon VI
83. Twentieth-Century Germany from the Year 2000: New "Grand Narratives" Salon A
84. Perpetrators, Survivors, Aftermath: New Studies of the Holocaust Salon B
85. Historical Narratives in Postwar German Culture II Salon C
86. Rechtsextremistische Parteien Salon H
87. Die Frauenfrage als Heiratsfrage : Marriage, Morality, and Maidenhood in Imperial Germany Salon J
88. Cultures of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Infertility in Twentieth-Century Germany Salon K
89. Class: The New Taboo Salon D
90. Science, Ethics, and the Law in Imperial Germany Salon E
91. Commissioning History: Accounting for Austria's World War II Past Salon F
92. Sites of Identity: The Negotiation of Local and National Identity in Cologne from Vormärz to Weimar Salon G
93. Subnational Government and Politics in the 1990s Jackson
94. The German Middle Ages: The Physical Jefferson
95. New Challenges in Transatlantic Relations Lee
96. German Political Parties after 1998 Madison
97. Reconceptualizing Europe: Dimensions and Dilemmas of EU Enlargement Mt. Vernon
98. Social Break and Cultural Change in Eastern Germany at the Turn of This Century Manassas

Saturday, October 6, 2001
Sessions 1:45 p.m. ­ 3:30 p.m.

99. Strategies of Domination and Resistance Salon I
100. Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord : Homosexuality on Trial in Weimar Germany Salon II
101. Misdeeds, Motivations and Memories: Wartime Criminality and Postwar Apologia Salon V
102. Military and Memory in Post War West-Germany Salon VI
103. Roundtable on Globalization and German Studies Salon A
104. Arab-Germans and Muslims in Contemporary Germany Salon B
105. The Historical Avant-Gardes and the Ethnographic Imagination Salon C
106. Building a Socialist Countryside: Communist Policies and Popular Reaction in the German Democratic Republic Salon H
107. "Germania in Cyberspace": The Information Age in German-speaking Countries Salon J
108. Jews in the Early German Democratic Republic: Tolerance, Repression, and Memory Salon K
109. Race, Racial Thinking, and German Colonialism Salon D
110. Learning to Be Loyal: Attempts to Create Dynastic Devotion in Central Europe Salon E
111. Roundtable on Die Berliner Republik Salon F
112. Coming to Terms with the Past Salon G
113. More than Cloth: Noble Fashion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Jackson
114. The Submerged Worlds of Central European Romanticism Jefferson
115. Schiller's An die Freude in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony :
Text and Musical Performance and their Cultural Contexts Lee
116. Gender: Questions of Socio-Sexual Identity in Early Modern Writings" Madison
117. Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung (GfD) und German Studies Association (GSA): Geschichte und Herausforderung Mt. Vernon
118. Between Dialog and Dialectic: Germans, Jews, and the Discourse of Enlightenment Manassas

Saturday, October 6, 2001
Sessions 3:30 p.m. ­ 5:15 p.m.

119. Nazi Propaganda Offensive Against the Jews, 1933-1945 Salon I
120. Transatlantischer Perspektivenwechsel bei Theater und Medien im Übergang zum 21. Jahrhundert Salon II
121. Germany and Europe in the New Century Salon V
122. Turn-of-the Century Aesthetics Revisited: Self, Identity and Audience in Arthur Schnitzler Salon VI
123. Monarchy and Its Discontents in Prussia's Long Nineteenth Century Salon A
124. Roundtable on German Modernities: Historicizing Concepts of Change and Continuity Salon B
125. Post-Unification Images of Berlin: Reading Subtext(s) of The City Salon C
126. Reconsidering the Front Community: Masculinity and National Loyalty During World War I Salon H
127. Germany and European Integration Salon J
128. Colonial Fantasies, Historical Legacies: Susan Zantop in Memoriam Salon K
129. Theodor Adorno in 2001 Salon D
130. Exile and Imagination Salon E
131. The "Multicultural Subject" and the Politics of Identity Salon F
132. The Space formerly known as the GDR: Writing East Germany after Reunification Salon G
133. Entwicklungstendenzen von Politik und politischer Partizipation in Deutschland Jackson
134. Ghettoization in the Third Reich: New Areas and New Interpretations Jefferson
135. Gender and Bio-Politics, 1900-1933 Lee
136. Knowledge Formation in the 18th Century: The Rise of Disciplines Madison
137. Urban Epistemologies: The Case of Berlin Mt. Vernon
138. Modernist Ethics: Irony or Tragedy? Manassas

Sunday, October 7, 2001
Sessions 8:30 a.m. ­ 10:15 a.m.

139. Nazis, War, and Jews Salon I
140. Social Reform and Social Science in the Kaiserreich Salon II
141. Polycracy and Networks of Cooperation Salon V
142. German Universities in Transition: From "Stronghold of National Socialism' to Postwar Reckoning Salon VI
143. Neoconservatism and Nazism: Brothers, Allies, or Enemies? Salon A
144. Leitkultur: Eine Diskussion aus internationaler und kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht Salon B
145. Questions of German Modernity Salon C
146. Popular Culture and the Memory of Nazism in Postwar Germany Salon H
147. Immigration and Citzenship: Policies and Cultures Salon J
148. Reexamining the Legacies of the Third Reich: West German Debates on National Socialism during the 1960s Salon K
149. Pariah Pleasures: The Circus, the Tattoo and the Horse in Germany Since the 1880's Salon D
150. The Power of Money in the Nineteenth Century Salon E
151. New Perspectives on Heinrich Kleist Salon F
152. Beyond Human and Machine: Technology and Literary Texts from Romanticism to Contemporary Literature Salon G
153. Media of Memory: Representations of Nazism in German Radio, Theater, and Television Jackson
154. Roundtable on Publishing Our Profession: The State of Our Journals I Jefferson
155. Imagination in the Works of Elfriede Jelinek, Anna Mitgutsch, and Elisabeth Reichart Lee
156. Redefining German Security: Policy Implications of German Military Reform for U.S.-German Security Relations Madison
157. Berlin from the Blockade to German Unity Manassas

Sunday, October 7, 2001
Sessions 10:30 a.m. ­ 12:15 p.m.

158. Changing Partners: German-American Relations and the Second Bush Presidency Salon I
159. German Feminisms in the New Europe: Paradigm Shifts, Challenges, and Opportunities Salon II
160. Changing Historical Narratives on the Fate of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States Salon V
161. Germany in the Cold War Since the 1960s Salon A
162. Austria after February 2000: From "Konsensdemokratie" to "Konfliktdemokratie" Salon B
163. The PDS in Germany's Evolving Party System Salon C
164. German Writing in a Minor Key: The Literary Hybridity of Hilsenrath, Zenocak, Tabori, and Özdamar Salon H
165. Soldiers and Society: From Mercenaries to the Citizen-Soldier in Germany, 1780-1848 Salon J
166. Krisenerfahrung in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts Salon K
167. Women, Literature, and Politics Salon D
168. Post-war Women Authors Explore the Place of the Individual in History Salon E
169. Cultural Memory and Historical Representation in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany Salon F
170. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: New Perspectives Salon G
171. SS Principals and the Evolution of the SS Imperium Jackson
172. Roundtable on Publishing Our Profession: The State of Our Journals II Jefferson
173. The Legacy of Thomas Bernhard Lee
174. The Critique of a Form/Category: "Testimony" and "Memory" in German Studies Madison
175. Aesthetics and Politics in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture Manassas
176. Relationships and Social Crisis Salon VI

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