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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2002 Conference
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ONLY at Signature Destinations See Conference Airline Page on this Web Site Thursday, October 3, 2002 No Host Cocktail Party Friday, October 4, 2002 1. Roundtable on Terrorism and the Transatlantic Alliance Since 9/11 Jackson Janes, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies 2. The Romantic Eighteenth Century: Lessing, Winckelmann, Herder Moderator: Gail K. Hart, University of California, Irvine "Poison and the Discourse of Flattery: Lessing's 'Snow White'" "Giving Birth to the Feminine Gaze: Winckelmann and the Art of Antiquity" "The Drama in Rags: Shakespeare Reception between 1770 and 1800" Commentator: Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington, Seattle 3. Hölderlin and the Political Moderator: Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri at Columbia "The Geometry of Revolution: On Friedrich Hölderlin's Political Philosophy in Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland" "'The Violence of Language': Hölderlin, Heidegger, and the Political" "Hölderlin's Ruins: Adaptation and Responsibility in Brecht's Antigonemodell" Commentator: John B. Lyon, University of Pittsburgh 4. Das Fremde und das Eigene: Orientalism and Heimatliteratur Moderator: H. Glenn Penny, University of Missouri, Kansas City "Germans, Indians, and Other Jews: Hegel on Abstract Materiality in the Bhagavad-Gita" "No Monsters in the East: German Orientalism from a Danish Colony" "A New Perspective on Heimatliteratur: Heinrich Sohnrey in Light of Karl Polanyi" Commentator: [none] 5. The "Normality" of German Foreign Policy Moderator: Erich G. Pohl, Universität Heidelberg "A Long Way to 'Normality': Deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik im Wandel" "Is Germany's Foreign Policy 'Normal'"? "The Sudeten Germans and EU Enlargement" "Rwanda and the Politics of Memory" Commentator: Mary McKenzie, Grossmont College 6. Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Eastern States Moderator: Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi "The Development of Parliamentary Parties in Eastern German State Legislatures: 1990-2000" "Church, State, and City: Fighting over the Bäderregulung in Rostock, Germany" "Gründe für die jüngsten Erfolge der PDS" Commentator: Meredith Heiser, Foothill College 7. Das NPD-Verbot im Kontext des Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland Moderator: Lothar Mertens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum "Die Rolle der NPD im deutschen Rechtsextremismus" "Die Geschichte der NPD und ihre Radikalisierung seit der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre" "Das aktuelle NPD-Verbotsverfahren vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht" Commentator: Uwe Backes, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung an der Technischen Universität Dresden 8. New Perspectives on the Radical Right in Weimar Germany Moderator: Timothy Brown, University of California, Berkeley "'Officers and Warriors': Noblemen as Stormtroopers A Cultural Study on Leadership, Violence and Social Conflicts in the SA, 1921-1934" "Racism and Women's Rights in the Thinking of German Right-Wing Women, 1919-1933" Commentator: Bruce Campbell, College of William and Mary 9. Vom Volkstumskampf zur sozialistischen Brüderlichkeit? Deutsche und Tschechen im 20. Jahrhundert Moderator: Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina "Nationalitätenkampf: Deutsche und Tschechen in der Tschechoslowakei, 1918-1938" "Nationale Unterdrückung: NS-Politik im Reichsgau Sudetenland, 1938-1945" "Verordnete Freundschaft: Die SBZ/DDR und die Tschechoslowakei, 1945-1969" Commentator: Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University 10. Foundations of the Bundesrepublik: New Perspectives Moderator: Ronald Shearer, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi "Water in the Desert? The Influence of Wilhelm Röpke on Ludwig Erhard and the Social Market Economy" "Building a New Luftwaffe: The US Air Force and the Bundeswehr Planning for Rearmament, 1950-1960" "Auschwitz and the Nuclear Sonderweg: The Debate over Nuclear Weapons and the Shadow of the Nazi Past" Commentator: Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University 11. Conservatism, Radical Nationalism and the Jewish Question in Weimar and Nazi Germany Moderator: Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College "Against the 'Politics of Fulfillment': The Pan-German League, the DNVP, and the Nationalist Struggle against Locarno" " 'Von blauem zum reinen Blut': Funktion und Wirkung des Antisemitismus im deutschen Adel zwischen Kaiserreich und NS-Staat" "Carl Schmitt and the 'Jewish Question': New Evidence, Old Contradictions" "Kuno Graf von Westarp als konservativer Kritiker des dritten Reiches 1933 bis 1945" Commentator: Hans Mommsen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 12. Demythologizing Memory: Identity and Yearning in the Works of Cordelia Edvardson, Ruth Klüger, Lore Segal, Martha Blend, and Elfriede Jelinek Moderator: Brett Wheeler, Georgetown University "Revisiting Childhood in Exile: Longing and Identity in Lore Segal's Wo Andere wohnen and Martha Blend's Ich kam als Kind" "Elfriede Jelinek's Sportstück: Helden, - oder Heim, Herd und Haider?, "Women and Holocaust Memory: Mothers, Daughters and Language in Cordelia Edvardson's Gebranntes Kind sucht das Feuer and Ruth Klüger's weiterleben: eine jugend" Commentator: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College 13. "Papa's Kino" Goes to War: Movies and Memory in the Adenauer Era Moderator: Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle "The Heimatfilm as Historical Palimpsest: Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab (1952)" "The Second Defeat: The Presence of the American Military in the German Heimat" "What Did You Do in the War, Mutti? Courageous Mothers, Compassionate Commanders, and Stories of the Second World War" Commentator: Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University 14. Nazi Entertainment Cinema I: Machineries of Spectacle Moderator: H.-B. Moeller, University of Texas, Austin "The Sublime and the Spectacular: Stars in Third Reich Film" "Motors and Machines, Robots and Rockets: Homespun Sci-Fi Film in the Third Reich" "Schünzel vs. Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Witz" Commentator: Cary Nathenson, Center for Public Intellectuals 15. Bernhard Schlink Moderator: Jutta Arend, College of the Holy Cross "On the Impossibility of Behaving Well: Ethical Challenges for the Post-War Generation in the Prose of Bernhard Schlink" "Popular Realism and the Construction of Popular Memory: Bernhard Schlink's Perpetrator Formula" "'Truth is a Woman': Postmodernism, Post-Holocaust, and the Gender of Fascism in Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser" Commentator: Caroline Schaumann, Emory University Friday, October 4, 2002 16. Past Present: The Legacy of Nazism in Contemporary German Cinema Moderator: Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland "Reel Racism: Neo-Nazis and Skinheads in Contemporary German Cinema" "The Nasty Girl as Fact and Fiction" "My Mother's Courage: Michael Verhoeven and the Victims of the Holocaust" Commentator: Wulf Kansteiner, State University of New York, Binghamton 17. The Worlds of Victor Klemperer Moderator: Deborah Hertz, Sarah Lawrence College "Victor's Secret: Eva Klemperer's Life Between the Lines." " 'Ich triumphiere sozusagen': The History of the 'Zion-Kapitel' in LTI (1947-1957)." "'Warum begnüge ich mich mit Stillschweigen?' Victor Klemperer's political stance" Commentator: Omer Bartov, Brown University 18. On Berlin Ground Moderator: Noah Isenberg, Wesleyan University "Entering Germany: The Postwar Berlin of Tony Vaccaro and Billy Wilder" "Berlin as Project: The DAAD's Artist-in-Residence Program" "Tracing Trauma: Alan Cohen in Berlin" Commentator: Edward Dimendberg, University of Michigan 19. Nazi Entertainment Cinema II: (Dis)continuities Moderator: Erica Carter, University of Warwick "A Political Aesthetic of the 'Little Man': Heinz Rühmann's Nazi-Era Films" "Complicating the Picture: Hans Steinhoff's The Old and the Young King (1935) and Frank Beyer's The King and His Jester (1981)" Commentator: Ted Rippey, Bowling Green State University 20. Archive Ort des vergessens? Moderator: Ronald M. Smelser, University of Utah "Bewertung und Auswertung. Auswirkungen archivischer Arbeit auf die historische Überlieferungsbildung" Commentator: Henry Friedlander, Brooklyn College, City University of New York 21. How Jewish are German Studies? (I) Moderator, Amir Eshel, Stanford University "The Silent Generation: Jewish Refugees, Columbia University, and American Germanistik" "German Jewish Women Looking" "'How Jewish Is It?' Sexuality under and after National Socialism" "A 'Jewish Turn' in German Studies? An Empirical Assessment of Some Recent Trends" Commentator: Y. Michael Bodemann, University of Toronto 22. Roots of Civil Society: Political and Economic Competition in Austria and Czechoslovakia Moderator: Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College "Economic Nationalism in the Sudetenland, 1918-1938" "Nationale Teilgesellschaften der Habsburgermonarchie im Wettbewerb: Commentator: Günter Bischof, Center Austria, University of New Orleans 23. The Anti-Fascist Fight: Constructing the Fascists as Enemy from Weimar to Post-War Germany Moderator: Robert Goodrich, Northern Michigan University "Weimar Communist Visions of Masculine Militancy in the Anti-Fascist Struggle" "Cultivating Austrian Identity after Fascism: Social Democratic Perspectives on Staatsbürgerkunde in the Early Second Republic" "An Antifascist Education: Communicating Antifascism in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1949" Commentator: H. Glenn Penny, University of Missouri-Kansas City Moderator: Heinrich Oberreuter, Universität Passau "Totalitäres Denken - Konzeptionen und herrschaftspraktische Wirkungen" "Menschliches Handeln in der Diktatur: Untaugliche Rechtfertigungen und ungültige Entschuldigungsgründe" "Arrangement mit der Macht: Manfred von Ardenne - Wissenschaftler in drei Diktaturen" Commentator: Gerhard Besier, Universität Heidelberg 24a. Rufer im Streit: German Intellectuals in the Fray Moderator: Susan Anderson, University of Oregon "Memory, Moralism, and the Role of Intellectuals in the Unified Germany" "Against 'Eine Geschichtsphilosophie für Schöner Wohnen': Error, Athenticity and the Possibility of Cultural Memory in Martin Walser "Der 11. September und seine geistigen Folgen: Die Reaktion deutscher Intellektueller auf die Terroranschläge in den USA." Commentator: Susan Anderson, University of Oregon 25. Politicians, the State, and Corruption Chair: William Paterson, University of Birmingham, UK "A State without Servants?" "Challenges to Rechtsstaatlichkeit in the Berlin Republic: Reflections on the Kohl Affair and the Stasi Legacy in a Comparative Perspective" 26. The Challenges of Economic Governance in Unified Germany Moderator: Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University "Eurozone Battles: Germany, Economic Governance, and the ECB" "From Rhineland to Spreeland Capitalism: The Rise of Neoliberalism in Germany" "The German Alternative? The Tenacity and Virtues of National Models of Capitalism In a Global Economy" Commentator: Michael Huelshoff, University of New Orleans 27. Räume weiblichen Handelns: Weimar-Jena um 1800 Moderator: Walter Pape, Universität zu Köln "Politische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen weiblichen Handelns im Raum Weimar-Jena um 1800" "Handlungsräume von Frauen in Weimar um 1800" "Institutional Spaces and Women's Places: Mme. de Stael negotiates Weimar" Commentator: Roswitha Burwick, Scripps College 28. Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and Romanticism ex nihilo Moderator: Thomas C. Fox, University of Alabama "Have Enlighteners Pulled the Wool Over Our Eyes?: Rethinking the Pan-European Nature of the Enlightenment" "The Literary Affect" "Romanticism ex nihilo and Friedrich Schlegel's 'Organic' Poesy" Commentator: Anthony Krupp, University of Miami 29. Creating an Eternal Nation: Popular Science and Historical Knowledge in Imperial Germany Moderator: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University "Telling the Story of Ancient Germany: Prehistoric Archaeology as a Literary Source in Imperial Germany" "Sylvan Metaphors: Social and Racial Images of the 'German Forest,' 1848-1914" "Racializing the Nation: The Mobilization of Anthropology during World War I" Commentator: Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin, Madison 30. Sex and the City in the Imperial Period Moderator: Dieter Sevin, Vanderbilt University "Fictional Transgression in a Fictional Metropolis: Fontane's Irrungen Wirrungen" "Viewing the Urban Menagerie: Frank Wedekind's Lulu" "Lou Andreas Salome's Fenitschka: A Tale of Two Cities?" Commentator: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Vanderbilt University 31. Mennonites, Prostitutes, Catholics, and Jews: The "Other" and Nation- Moderator: Doris L. Bergen, University of Notre Dame "The First Duty of a Citizen: Mennonite Emancipation and Opposition to Prussian Military Service" "Prostitution and Nation-Building in Imperial Germany" "Nation-Building on the Periphery: Catholics and Jews in Hesse" Commentator: Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University 25. The German Economy and Transatlantic Relations since 9/11 Presentations and Discussion Moderator: Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich, Universität Hildesheim Jürgen Stark, Vice President of the Bundesbank Luncheon Speaker: Lilian Faschinger Friday, October 4, 2002 33. Uwe Timm Moderator: Richard J. Rundell, New Mexico State University "Uwe Timms 'Ästhetik des Alltags': ein Programm mimetischen Erzählens" "Uwe Timms Rot als dritter Teil einer 68er Trilogie" "Die Wiederkehr der Geschichte in Uwe Timms Johannisnacht als zufällige Wiederkehr der Erinnerung" "Uwe Timm als Drehbuchautor" Commentator: Michael E. Geisler, Middlebury College 34. Imagining Catastrophe II: German Culture After 1945 Moderator: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University "Death and Exile: Defunct Cemeteries in Barbara Honigmann and W. G. Sebald" "On Clocks, Diaries, and Ruins: W. G. Sebald and the Aesthetic of Melancholy" "Imagining Death: Gerhard Richter and W. G. Sebald" "Postwar German Fiction and the Moral Wilderness" Commentator: Todd Presner, UCLA 35. Representing Nazi Perpetrators and Victims Moderator: Jonathan Petropolous, The Claremont Colleges "Franz Radziwill's Sense of Victimization" "Gerhard Richter/Adolf Eichmann: Art and the Nazi Past in Post-War West Germany" "Picturing the Vanished: Shimon Attie and the Jews of Germany" "Reflections on the Jewish Museum's Mirroring Evil" Commentator: William Collins Donahue, Rutgers University 36. The Films of Michael Haneke Moderator: Nora Alter, University of Florida "Breaking the Code: Fragmentation and Disjuncture in Haneke's Code Unknown" "Sadistic Cinema: Violence and Affect in the Films of Michael Haneke" "Haneke's Soundtracks" "The High Culture Industry Meets the European Art Film: Michael Haneke's Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher" Commentator: Cynthia Walk, University of California, San Diego 37. Comic Books and Society: Mirror, Mirage or Moral Voice? Moderator: Kamakshi Murti, Middlebury College " 'Trash-Culture' for the 'Klassenkampf'? Functionalization and Representation of Multicultural Images in GDR Comics?" "The Cat's Out of the Bag, or: What an Ancient Greek Fable-Teller, A Turkish-German Novelist, and a Nazi Dictator Have in Common: FELIDAE as Comic" "Holocaust Avengers: Fact and (Science) Fiction" "The Reception of Japanese Manga in Germany: Media, Social Implications, and Cultural Translatability" Commentator: David Brenner, Kent State University 37a. Early Modern Laughter Rituals Moderator: Elizabeth I. Wade, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh "Grotesque Wedding Between Mocking Performance and Literary Text" "Fool's Performances in Literature: the Case of the Kalenberg Priest" "Ungezogene Artusritter in König Markes Schlafsaal: Funktionen des Lachens" Commentator: William Layher, Washington University 38. Paradigm Shifts Circa 1900 Moderator: Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana "Sacred Spring: A Theological Reading of Fin-de-siècle Vienna, the Birth of Modernism, and the Eruption of the Holy." "Plastic Dreams: Freud's Moses." "The Invention of the Non-Economic Around 1900." Commentator: Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana 39. Between Germany and South Africa: Intellectual Confrontations in and beyond the German Colonial Empire Moderator: Thaddeus Sunseri, Colorado State Univesity "Being German, Becoming Afrikaner: German Settler Identities in the South-Western Highlands of Tanzania, 1900-1940" "An Ethnography of Faith: Conceptions of Religiosity between German Missionaries and African Recipients of Mission" "From the Bantu to the Bushmen: Carl Meinhof, Nicholas van Warmelo, and the Politics of Linguistic Classification in Germany and South Africa, 1899-1935" Commentator: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University 40. Conservatism in West Germany from the 1950S to the 1970s Moderator: Hanna Schissler, Georg-Eckert-Institut Braunschweig und Universität "Jürgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Liberal State" "Conservatism and the 45er Generation of Intellectuals in West Germany" "Conservative Conversions: Reinhard Höhn in Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic" "The Hidden Conservatism of Karl Jaspers" Commentator: Jerry Muller, The Catholic University of America 41. Wehrmacht in der Nationalsozialistischen Diktatur Moderator: Jay W. Baird, Miami University (Ohio) "Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber an der Ostfront 1941-1942" "Front und Etappe im deutsch-sowjetischen Krieg 1941-1942" "Die geistige Kriegführung der Wehrmacht, 1939-1942" Commentator: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 42. Gustav Stresemann: Party Leader and Foreign Minister in Imperial and Weimar Germany Moderator: Raffael Scheck, Colby College " 'Insider' und 'Outsider'? Dresdener Prägungen des jungen Stresemanns" "Syndikus Parteiorganisator Politiker: Ein Multitalent in Aktion: Gustav Stresemann 1902-1914" "Stabilization from the Right: Gustav Stresemann and the Quest for Political Stability, 1923-1929" Commentator: Carole Fink, Ohio State University 43. De(con)structive Characters: Composing and Decomposing the Historical Moderator: Daniel L Purdy, Pennsylvania State University "Decomposed Narrative: Woman and the Mad Other or Reason in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands" "Writing Suicide: Gender, Agency, and the Aesthetics of Self-Annihilation in Texts by Inge Müller" "The Bloody Organs of Art: Viennese Actionism (1960s), the Pain of Painting and Painting Pain" "Primal Repetitions: Destructive Memory and the Death Drive Beyond Freud's, Jenseits des Lustprinzips" Commentator: Mila Ganeva, Miami University 44. Creating Citizens, Creating Aliens Moderator: Erich G. Pohl, University of Heidelberg "Closing the Nation: Nationalism and Statism in 19th and 20th Centuries Germany" "From National Citizens to Transnational Legal Subjects?: The Challenge of "Konflikt und Integration: Politische Selbst-und Fremdbilder über ethnische Minderheiten in Polen und Deutschland" "Recent American Assimilation Theories and the Current Integration Problems in Germany" Commentator: Peter O'Brien, Trinity University 45. Governance and Policy-Making in Germany Moderator: Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University "Policy-Making in Germany: The Case of Ausländerpolitik" "Disentangling the Reformstau: The Reform of Higher Education" "Machtwechsel in Deutschland: Rhythmen des Regierens" "The German Budgetary Process. Examining the Relative Importance of Government and Political Parties on the Budgetary Composition" Commentator: Clay Clemens, College of William and Mary 46. The PDS in the Berlin 2001 Election: Consequences for the Bundestagswahl 2002 Moderator: Marc Howard, University of Maryland "Regional Partner and National Pariah: The PDS and the Dual-Party Systems of Unified Germany" "Leadership, Economic Policy, and Coalition Policy in Berlin 2001-2002: Ramifications for the Bundestagswahl 2002 " "PDS Success in West Berlin 2001: Similarities and Differences in the Bundestagswahl 2002" Commentator: Daniel Hough, University of Birmingham 47. Identity, Cultural Belonging, and Germanness in the Wake of War: 1871-1950 Moderator: Donald Avery, University of Western Ontario "Envisioning the New Nation: German National Identity in 1871" "Thomas Mann: Deutscher, Denker und Europäer" "Britain's German Cousin: From Muse to Hun" Commentator: Kees Gispen, University of Mississippi, Oxford 48. Sturm und Drang and Cultural Studies Moderator: Patricia Simpson, Kenyon College "Sociality on Stage: Self-Stylization in Life and Performative Texts" "Little Lambs, Open Graves, and Blue Hearts: The Sentimental Circle in Darmstadt" "Passion, Power, and Homosociality in Götz von Berlichingen" "Outing an Eighteenth-Century Author: Karl Philipp Moritz and Anton Reiser" Commentator: Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Ohio State University 49. Re-Locating the Feminine Moderator: Beatrice Guenther, College of William and Mary "'Schein' or 'Sein,' That is the Question: Elisa von der Recke's Familienscenen oder Entwicklungen auf dem Maskenballe" "Fact or Fiction: Luise Mühlbach's Theory of Historical Fiction" "'Es ist gewiß, du bist nicht Ich...' Auf der Such nach sich selbst: Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Das Spiegelbild" "'Heimat in der Öffentlichkeit': An Exploration of Travel and Relocation in Franziska zu Reventlow's Von Paul zu Pedro" no commentator 50. Lessing Reception in the 20th Century Moderator: Sara Eigen, Vanderbilt University "Lessing and the Third Reich" "Alte und neue Lessingbilder" "Lessing's Aesthetics on Trial" "Lessing in the GDR" Commentator: Karl-Heinz Maurer, Knox College 4:30 PM 6:00 PM BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION
6:00 pm 7:00 pm NO HOST COCKTAIL RECEPTION
7:00 PM 9:30 PM BANQUET OF THE ASSOCIATION Presidential Address Saturday, October 5, 2002 51. Popular Music and Historical Memory in Post-War Germany Moderator: Jeffrey Adams, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "The Cultural Politics of Noise: The Early Recordings of Einstürzende Neubauten" "Retro-Nationalism: Rock Music in the Former German Democratic Republic" "Skinheads, 'Nazi Rock,' and Historical Memory in Reunified Germany" Commentator: Edward Larkey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 52. Queer Berlins: Screening Sexual and Ethnic Topographies Moderator: Heidi M. Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University "Masochism, Marginality, and Metropolis: Kutlug Ataman's Lola and Bilidikid" "Whose Holocaust? Margins, Markets, and Memorial in Aimée and Jaguar" "Gender Accidents: Sexuality, Loss, and Recuperation in Hedwig and the Angry Inch" Commentator: Claudia Breger, University of Indiana 53. There and Back Again: The Production of Knowledge in Turkish-German Encounters Moderator: Dieter Sevin, Vanderbilt University "The Enemy as an Example? 17th Century Ottoman Perspectives on Germans" "From Auerbach to Fricke: Establishing Germanistik in Istanbul, 1933-1950" "Minor(ity) Literature and the Discourse of Integration in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1978-1985" Commentator: Deniz Göktürk, University of California, Berkeley 54. The Cultural Politics of Publishing in Modern Germany Moderator: Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan "Books and Cultural Fragmentation in Germany, 1890-1933" "Translating Foreign Cultures: Nation, Alterity, and the Publisher Eugen Diederichs" "Redefining Editing: Intersections of Print, Visual, and Performance Culture" Commentator: Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania 54a. Harry Graf Kessler Moderator: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona "Revisiting Kessler's 1923 Williams College Lectures on Germany and Europe." "Kessler's Lebensabend auf Mallorca" "Kessler's Exiltagebücher und Autobiographie - das Vermächtnis eines Alteuropäers." Commentator: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona 55. From weiter leben to Still Alive: Ruth Klüger's Holocaust Remembrances Moderator: Ursula Mahlendorf , University of California, Santa Barbara "Ruth Klüger's weiter leben and Still Alive: From the Politics of Reconciliation to Personal Forgiveness" " 'Mit einem Jahrzeitlicht für den Vater': Memory and Poetry in the Writings of Ruth Klüger" "From weiter leben (1992) to Still Alive (2001): Ruth Klüger's 'German Book' for an American Audience?" Commentator: 56. Im Schatten der Niederlage: Deutsche Übergänge vom Krieg zum Nachkrieg Moderator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan "Repräsentanten der Not Christliche Wohlfahrtsorganisationen zwischen Krieg und Nachkrieg" "Repräsentanten des Ernstfalls Generäle als Russlandheimkehrer und Bundeswehroffiziere" "Repräsentanten der Kontinuität Angehörige des Bremer Bürgertums in Krieg und Nachkrieg" Commentator: Omer Bartov, Brown University 57. Zwischen Ohn- und Weltmacht: Die Bundesrepublik in der Ära Adenauer Teilsouverän und weltweit gefordert Moderator: Daniel E. Rogers, University of South Alabama "Verschafft Geld Macht? - Weltpolitische Dimensionen der Bonner Entwicklungshilfe für Südasien" "Scrambling for Africa: The German-German Rivalry South of the Sahara, 1958-1970" " 'Gemeinsame' oder 'richtige' Außenpolitik? Bedeutung und Rolle des auswärtigen Ausschusses des Bundestages 1949 bis 1961" Commentator: Lora Wildenthal, Texas A & M University 58. Modernity Begins at Home: Domesticity, Consumerism, and Technology Moderator: Brent Maner, Kansas State University "Taste in Everyday Life; Campaigns to Create Aesthetic Homes at the Fin-de-Siecle" "The Hausfrau as National Consumer: Household Technology and Modernity in 1920s Germany" "Healthy for Family Life: Television, Gender and Consumerist Modernity in West Germany's Economic Miracle" Commentator: Katherine Pense, Baruch College, CUNY 59. Holocaust und Finanzverwaltung: Neue Forschungen Chair: Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln " '... im Kampf gegen das Judentum in vorderster Front eingesetzt': Die Finanzverwaltung und die Verfolgung der Juden in Bayern" " 'Wie mir bekannt geworden ist, beabsichtigen Sie auszuwandern ...' 59a. Liberalism, Bismarck, and Gender Moderator: Harry Ritter, Western Washington University "Kaiserin Friedrich - Deutschlands liberale Alternative zu Otto von Bismarck? or: The Life of an Uncommon Woman in Imperial Germany" "German Liberals, the Well-Ordered Public, and the Patriarchal Nation, 1860-1920" "Kulturkampf und Geschlechterkampf: Liberalism, Anti-Catholicism and Misogyny in the Nineteenth Century" Commentator: Harry Ritter, Western Washington University 60. National Trauma in the Post-Colonial State: New Approaches to the Weimar Republic Moderator: Reiner Pommerin, TU Dresden " Rhetorics of Bolshevik Invasion and Russian Colonization in Weimar "The Changing Shape of the Nation: Weimar Negotiations with "The Rheinland Occupation and Fears of Reverse Colonization" Commentator: Reiner Pommerin, TU Dresden 61. Women in Right-Wing Movements: Zwischen 'Arterhaltung' und 'Karriereleiter' Moderator: Daniela Loewenthal, Brandeis University "Regendering Party Politics in Weimar Germany: The Case of Käthe Schirrmacher and the DNVP" " 'Unser Kampfplatz ist die Familie' Der Königin-Luise-Bund (1923 1934)" Commentator: Uta Larkey, Goucher College 62. Universitäten und Zivilgesellschaft: Persepktiven der aktuellen Universitätsreform in Österreich Moderator: Jürgen Nautz, Universität Kassel "Die 'autonomisierte' Universität und die Zivilgesellschaft" Universitäten in der Zivilgesellschaft: Braucht die Universität einen (neuen) Bildungsauftrag? "Studierende, Massenuniversitäten und die Zivilgesellschaft: Von demokratiepolitischen Idealen zu realpolitischer Zukunftsfähigkeit?" "Die erfolgreiche Zivilgesellschaft einst und heute" Commentator: Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University 63. Populism and Party Politics in Germany: Strategic Campaigning, Issue Salience, and the 2002 Bundestag Elections Moderator: Richard Moeller, Metropolitan State College of Denver "The Politics of the Heartland. German Populism in a European Perspective" "Squaring the Strategic Circle: Issue Salience, Populism, and Ideology in the 'West German' Party System" "The Eastern German Party System and the 2002 Federal Election: Parties, Personalities and Populism " Commentator: Peter Merkl, University of California, Santa Barbara 64. German Foreign Policy in a New World Moderator: Forest Grieves, University of Montana "Germany and Peacekeeping: Power Projection After Unification" "The United States and Germany: Changing Domestic Sources of Cooperation?" "Germany and the 'War on Terrorism': Domestic and International Factors Defining Germany's Role" "Political Culture Challenged - the Events of 9/11 and the Shaping of German Foreign Commentator: Gerlinde Bernd, University of California, Santa Barbara 65. Competing Voices of Patriotism in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany Moderator: Andrea Orzoff, New Mexico State University "Remembering a Different War: Catholic and Protestant Uses of Nationalist Rhetoric in the Commemorations of the Franco-Prussian War in Konstanz, 1870-1875" "Between Exclusion and Enfranchisement: Polish-Speaking Silesians and German Unification" "Patriotism and Poetry in the Early 1870s: Contesting the Discourse of German Unification" Commentator: Daniel Unowsky, The University of Memphis 66. Aesthetic Education and Secularization in the Enlightenment Moderator: Eric Denton, Wheaton College "Conversion: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Criticism of a 'New' Mode of Secularization" "Enlightenment Narratives of Maturation: Alexander Baumgarten's Aesthetica" "The Beautiful Soul: An Empty Aesthetic Creation" Commentator: Beate Allert, Purdue University 67. Marriage and Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century Moderator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University "Irrungen, (Ver-)wirrungen auch bei Keller?: Der spielerische Einsatz von Geschlecht und Sexualität in Kellers Novellen" "'In-sanity' in Hedwig Dohm's Novella, Werde wie du bist" "Arthur Schnitzler's Cowardly Men" Commentator: Laura Deiulio, College of William and Mary 68. Not So Plain as Black and White - New Perspectives on Afro-German History and Culture Moderator: Reinhild Steingröver, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester "Dangerous Liaisons: Race, Nation, and German Identity" "Narrating 'Race' in 1950s West Germany: The Phenomenon of the Toxi Films" "Type and Stereotype: Afro-Germans and the Media of the Kulturnation" Commentator: Russell Berman, Stanford University 68a. East Meets West: Dialogue on the Future of German Studies in Europe Moderator: Lothar Probst, Universität Bremen Joost Kleuters, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Saturday, October 5, 2002 69. The Nation on Display: Contemporary Museum Culture Moderator: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University "Embodying Progress in a Democratic Germany: "Millennial Visions. Museal Practice in Germany after 1989" "Crossing Lines: Respecularizing the Holocaust in the Works of Felix Nussbaum and Daniel Libeskind" Commentator: Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan 70. Judging the Past: Nazi Crimes and Judicial Proceedings in Germany and Austria Moderator: Norman J.W. Goda, Ohio University "Indicting Auschwitz? The Paradox of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial" "Death is a Master from Austria: The Vienna Trial of the Construction Engineers of Auschwitz in 1972" "Insulting History and Memory: German Law and Holocaust Denial" Commentator: Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln 71. Mimesis at Sixty Moderator: Kader Konuk, University of Michigan "Postcolonial Theory in Auerbach's Western Canon?" "Mimesis and Modernism" "Auerbach in Istanbul" Commentator: Ruth Starkman, University of California, Berkeley 72. Imagining Catastrophe I: German Culture After 1914 Moderator: Julia Hell, University of Michigan "Culture and Catastrophe in Thomas Mann's Zauberberg" "Personal Effects: Photography, Memory, and Narrative in Thomas Mann's Zauberberg and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz" "Seeing Catastrophe: Benjamin's and Canetti's Revision of Satire" Commentator: Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown University 73. Youth, Family, National Socialism in Film Moderator: Peter Beicken, University of Maryland "Family Values in NS Wartime Films: Zwei in einer großen Stadt and Die Degenhardts" "The Exile Returns as Conquering Soldier: Collisions of Past and Future in Wolf's Ich war neunzehn and Corti's Welcome to Vienna" "NS-Geschichte bei Schlöndorff: Sein Unhold im Lichte seiner früheren Filme" Commentator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, State University of New York, Binghampton 74. Germanizing the Polish Periphery: "Volkstumskampf" in Silesia, Masuria, and Poznania after the First World War Moderator: Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M " 'East Prussian' or 'Polish'? The Masurians in the Plebiscite 1920" "State, Region, and Nation on the Periphery: Poles, Germans, and Silesians in the Crisis of 1914 to 1921" Commentator: Richard Blanke, University of Maine 75. The Fight for the Files: Captured German Records after World War II |
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