Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference

German Studies Association

Preliminary Conference Program

This Program is Preliminary

Times and Session Placement May Change

Some Titles and Presenters May Change

 

Friday, October 8, 2004

Sessions   8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

1.           Jewish-Christian German �Mischlinge� from 1933 to the Present

              Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM  Salon V

 

Moderator: Henry Friedlander, CUNY

 

�The Fate of Civilian � Mischlinge ' under National Socialism�

James F. Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham

 

�The � Mischlinge ' and the Wehrmacht�

Bryan Mark Rigg, Southern Methodist University

 

�From Mischling Outcast to Liberator of Germany - The Journey of K. Frank Korf�

Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University

 

Commentator: Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University

2.         Anti-Americanism in Germany Today: Something Old or Something New?

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon II

Moderator: Gerald R. Kleinfeld

 

�Krieger oder B�ndnispartner - Muster der Amerikaberichterstattung im sicherheitspolitischer Kontext. Eine Inhaltsanalyse von FAZ und S�ddeutsche Zeitung von 1989 bis 2000�

Helmut Scherer, Hochschule f�r Musik, Hannover

�Die Tradition des �deutschen Weges': Neutralistische und antiamerikanische Bestrebungen bei SPD und Gr�nen�

Alexander Gallus, Technische Universit�t Chemnitz

�Antiamerikanismus im deutschen politischen Sprachgebrauch�

Josef Klein, Universit�t Koblenz-Landau

Commentator: David Conradt, Eastern Carolina University

3.         Goethe Across Cultural Boundaries

            Sponsor: Goethe Society of North America

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon I

Moderator: Claire Baldwin, Colgate University

�Communication and Control: Goethe, Translation and Literature in an Age of Mass Media�   

Andrew Piper, Columbia University

�Memorable Encounters: Napoleon, Dumas, and Goethe�   

Karin Barton, University of Toronto

�Goethe's Affinities / Sebald's Coincidences�  

Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati

Commentator: Gesa Dane, Universit�t G�ttingen

4.         Media Culture and Austrian Identity in the 1950s and 1960s  

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon VI

Moderator: Kurt Tweraser, University of Arkansas

�Labels as Libels: The Distorted Reception of Heimito von Doderer's Novels

in the United States, 1961-1966�

Vincent Kling, La Salle University

�Thomas Bernhard im Spiegel der Presse der f�nfziger und sechziger Jahre�

Joseph Moser, University of Pennsylvania

�A Curious Blind Spot: Friedrich Torberg's Journal Forum and the Austrian Avant-Garde of the 1950s and 60s�

Felix Tweraser, Utah State University

Commentator: Steven Beller, George Washington University

5.          Varieties of Republican Practice

              Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon H

Moderator:   Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University

  �Of Republican Liberty and the Upstalsboom : Continuity and Discontinuity in the Symbolic Practice of Republicanism (East Frisia, 1725-1727)�

David Luebke, University of Oregon

�J.G. B�sch's Sociable Economics of the Commercial Republic�

Kimberly Garmoe, University of California, Los Angeles

�Pragmatic Rural Republican Practice in Schwyz (Switzerland) 1790-1833�

Marc Lerner, University of California, Los Angeles

Commentator: Wijnand W. Mijnhardt, Utrecht University

6.         Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism, the Imaginary, and Legendary Spaces (I)

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon J

Moderator: Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois).

"Hannah Arendt's Concept of Totalitarianism and the Post-Stalinist Constellation."

Sigrid Meuschel, Universit�t Leipzig

"The Totalitarian Imaginary and Its After-Life."

Julia Hell University of Michigan

"Legendary Spaces: Empire and World Revolution in Arendt, Kipling and Brecht."

Russell A. Berman, Stanford University

Commentator: Andrew Hewitt, University of California-Los Angeles

7.         Athleticism, Sexuality, and Celebrity in Twentieth-Century Germany

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon K

Moderator: Daniel Mattern, University of Notre Dame

�Sweat and The Self-Made Star: Sex, Gender and The Sensationalism of Sports in The Weimar Republic�

Erik Jensen, Colby College

�Piloting Germans to Seventh Heaven: Beate Uhse, the Luftwaffe, and Eroticism in the Federal Republic�

Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa

�Steroids and Sex: Female Sports Stars in the GDR�

Molly W. Johnson, University of Alabama at Huntsville

Commentator: Richard F. Wetzell, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

8.        Narrative Strategies in Minority Discourse

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon D

Moderator: Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts Amherst  

  �Narrators in Love: Amorous Voices in Zaimoglu and Pirin�c i�

Gerd Bayer, Case Western Reserve University

  �Characters Running out of Time in Veza Canetti's Works�

Claude Desmarais, York University, Canada

  �Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement�

Bettina Brandt, Montclair State University

Commentator: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

9.         Facets of German Foreign and Security Policy

            Sponsor: CGGP

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon E

Moderator: James Sperling, University of Akron

�Germany in Afghanistan: Implications for Germany's Changing Security Perspective�

Phyllis A. Berry, Georgetown University

�Centralization -- An Inevitable Side-Effect of Security Strategies? �

Rainer Praetorius, Helmut-Schmidt-Universit�t/Universit�t der Bundeswehr Hamburg

�What's New in the Berlin Republic?   United Germany's New Self-Confidence�

Ruth Wittlinger, University of Durham

Commentator:   Wallace Thies, Catholic University ,

 

10.       Aesthetics, Egoism, and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon F

Moderator: Peter Bergmann, University of Florida

�Critical Dialogues Toward Autonomous Art: Friedrich Schlegel, Oscar Wilde, and their Resistant Interlocutors�

May Mergenthaler, Princeton University

�From Selfhood to Self-Interest: The New Bildungsroman of Keller and Stifter�

Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University

�Ethics and Perception in Franz Brentano's Philosophy�

Michael Gubser, Creative Associates International, Washington, D.C.

Commentator: Kelly S. Meyer, Washington College

11.        An die Musik - An die Moderne

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon G

Moderator: Noah Isenberg, The New School

�Not with a Whimper but with Music: Echoes of Tieck and Lenau in Hofmannsthal's Geiger von Traunsee �

Jocelyn Holland, University of California at Santa Barbara

�Resonanzk�rper: Musik und Hysterie in Hugo von Hofmannsthals Elektra

Elke Siegel, New York University

�Dauerkatastrophe aus Schaum und Geschmetter:   Zur musikalischen Poetik in Thomas Manns Zauberberg �

Elizabeth Strowick, Universit�t Greifswald/Yale University

Commentator: Paul Fleming, New York University

12.      Transformationsprobleme in den neuen Bundesl�ndern

            Sponsor: Gesellschaft f�r Deutschlandforschung

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Jackson

Moderator: Esther Jonas-M�rtin, Universit�t Potsdam

�Die Rolle der DDR-Oppositionellen: 15 Jahre nach der �Wende'�

Eckhard Jesse, Technische Universit�t Chemnitz

�Die demographische Krise in Ostdeutschland�

Tilman Mayer, Universit�t Bonn

�Die �Westflucht' junger Menschen aus den funf neuen Bundesl�ndern�

Lothar Mertens, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Commentator: Andreas Sobisch, John Carroll University

13.       Literary Texts and German Wartime Suffering: W.G. Sebald, G�nter Grass, Uwe Timm

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Jefferson

Moderator: Cynthia Chalupa, West Virginia University

�Against the Integration of Atrocity into Disaster: W.G. Sebald's Work of Memory�

Karen Remmler, Mount Holyoke College

�G�nter Grass's Im Krebsgang and Recent Discourse on German Wartime Suffering�

Timothy B. Malchow, Valparaiso University

��Ein Fressen f�r mein MG'; The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders (2003)�

Nikhil Sathe, Ohio University

Commentator: Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota

14.        ��Raum' und �Bev�lkerung' in den deutschen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, ca. 1900-1960�

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Lee

Moderator: Dr. Ingo Haar, Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin

�Identifikation statt Repr�sentation: Die zwangsweise Homogenisierung der Bev�lkerung im nationalsozialistischen Gau Josef B�rckels (1933-1945)

Wolfgang Freund, Universit�t des Saarlandes

�Ostforschung im Wandel: Die deutsche Minderheit in Polen (1918-1945) �

Winson W. Chu, University of California

�� Grenze' als soziales Konzept: Assimilation und Dissimilation in der Bev�lkerungsgeschichte (ca. 1918-1960) �

Alexander Pinwinkler, Universit�t Salzburg

Commentator: Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota

15.       Citizen Activism and The Quest for the Sustainable City: Berlin, 1900 to the Present

            Sponsor: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Madison

Moderator: Janet Ward, University of Nevada Las Vegas

�Green-Alternative Politics in West Berlin, 1978-1990�

Keith D. Alexander, German Historical Institute

�Citizen Participation, Land-Use Planning, and Community: Berlin and Beyond�

Carol J. Hager, Bryn Mawr College

�Save the Gr�newald: Environmentalism in the Kaiserreich�

Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of New Orleans

Commentator: Thomas M. Lekan, University of South Carolina

16.      (Forg)Et in Arcadia ego: Travel, Writing, and the Formation of the Self

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Patricia R. Stokes, Ohio University

�Traveling between France and Germany: Germaine de Sta�l as Cultural Historian�

Donovan Anderson, University of Dallas

�The Wandering, Wondering Jew: Eduard Gans's Letters from Abroad�

Daniel H. Magilow, University of North Texas

�Negotiating Linguistic Identities: Developments in Emine S. �zdamar's Writings�

Maike Ahrends, Ohio University

Commentator: Bernhard Debatin, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University

17.      Marketing Socialism? The Dialectics of Culture and Consumption in the GDR

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon A

Moderator: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University

  �Vorw�rts und nicht vergessen!�: The Pleasures of Socialist Consumption in Slatan Dudow's Destinies of Women �

Elizabeth Mittman, Michigan State University :

  ��Das Licht von Havanna trinken': or How Pan-Socialist Exchange Trumps West German Consumerism in DEFA's �� und deine Liebe auch �

Jennifer Hosek, University of California, Berkeley :

� GDR Rock Goes West: Finding a Voice in the West German Market�

Edward Larkey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Commentator: Katherine Pence, Baruch College

18.       Images and Icons, Austria, Europe, and the USA

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon B

Moderator: Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University

�Iconclash: Europa, aus der Perspektive des �sterreichischen Fernsehens betrachtet�

Vr��th �hner, Demokratiezentrum Wien

�Revealing Cross-Cultural Encounters�Celluloid Americans in Hollywood's Austria�

Jacqueline Vansant , University of Michigan-Dearborn

��Christentum' und �Abendland': Zum Gebrauch religi�s-kultureller Bilder und Metaphern durch politische Parteien�

Sieglinde Rosenberger, Universit�t Wien

Commentator: Eric Frey, Der Standard , Wien

19.       Reviving Typologies Past: Situating German National Character in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon C

Moderator: Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University

�Reviewing German National Character in Early 20 th Century Film�

Brent O. Peterson, Lawrence University

�The Reluctant Conqueror:   German Character and the Relaxing American�

Gary L. Baker, Denison University

�Questioning Character: Hybrid Cultures, History and Identity in Twenty-First Century Germany�

Jill Gillespie, Denison University

Commentator: Rachel Halverson, Washington State University

20.       Forms of Lyrical Collectivity in Expressionism: Overcoming the Autonomous Self

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Manassas

Moderator: Neil H. Donahue, Hofstra University

� Menschheitsd�mmerung : The Aging of the Canon�

Michael Francis Sharp, University of the Pacific

�Choric Consciousness in Expressionist Poetry�

Jamie Rolleston, Duke University

�Performing the Poem-Rituals of Activism in Expressionist Poetry�

Klaus Weissenberger, Rice University

Commentator: Margarete Devinney, Temple University

Friday, October 8, 2004

Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

21.      Europe and the US: How Serious is the Divide?

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Arthur B. Gunlicks, University of Richmond

�Germany in Transatlantic Relations: Reliable Partner or Emerging Maverick?�

Regina Karp, Old Dominion University

�Europe, the US, and Security Policy�

David Keithly, Armed Forces Staff College

�Bridging the Gap Between Old Europe and the US�

Mary Stegmeier, University of Virginia

Commentator: Clay Clemens, College of William and Mary

22.       The Curse of Enthusiasm: Sublimity to Sadomasochism in Literature and Philosophy Around 1800

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University

�Melancholy and the Sublime in Kant's Early Aesthetics�

Eric Baker, University of Minnesota

�The Pleasure of Pain:   Sadomasochistic Behavior in Karl Philipp Moritz's Anton Reiser �

Stephanie Hilger, College of the Holy Cross

�Male Hysteria in Ludwig Tieck's William Lovell �

Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois

Commentator: Matt Erlin, Washington University

23.       Portrayal of the Elderly in Austrian and German Literature

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon I

Moderator: David Chisholm, University of Arizona           

  �Demographischer Wandel: Von der Alterspyramide zum Alterspilz�

Gerd K. Schneider, University of Syracuse

  �The Portrayal of Aging in the Works of W. G. Sebald�       

Gerald A. Fetz, University of Montana

                                   

�Hohes Ziel oder Verfall? Zur Darstellung des Alters in der modernen zeitgen�ssischen Lyrik�

  Gerlinde Ulm Sanford, Syracuse University

Commentator: Mary Paddock, Smith College

24.       Germany and the EU Constitution (I)

            Sponsor: ASGP

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon VI

Moderator: Emil Kirchner, University of Essex

�Multilevel Constitutionalism -- The Role for German Ideas in the Constitutional Configuration of the EU�

Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham

�Germany and the Institutional Architecture of the EU�

Andreas Maurer, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

�Is Germany Taking the Lead? The Development of the EU's New Constitutional Provisions in CFSP/ESDP and JIA�

Vanda Knowles, University of Birmingham

Commentator:   Charles Lees, Sheffield University

25.       Sites of War and Holocaust: Moscow, Budapest, Turkey

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Raffael Scheck, Colby College

�Germany and The Question of Turkish Entry into World War Two�

Dihran M. Kaligian, Wheaton College

�The Holocaust And The Battle for Moscow in The Winter of 1941-42�

Martin Dean, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

�Neueste Forschungen zu Holocaust und Widerstand Budapest 1944/45: Paul Esterhazy in Budapest 1944/45�

Stefan August Lutgenau, Stiftung Bruno Kreisky Archiv

Commentator: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

26.       Zwischen Tradition und Vision: Innovationskultur in Deutschland 1945-1990

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon J

Moderator: Gerhard Besier, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

�Pr�zision als Wille und Vorstellung. Carl Zeiss und die deutsche Innovationskultur in Ost und West�

Manuel Schramm, Technische Universit�t Dresden

�Zwischen sozialistischer Automatisierung und deutscher Innovationskultur- Ostdeutsche Werkzeugmaschinenentwicklung im deutsch-deutschen Kontext�

Uwe Fraunholz, Technische Universit�t Dresden

�Paradigmenwechsel und Innovationsblockaden - Manfred von Ardenne als Seiteneinsteiger in die Krebsforschung�

Gerhard Barkleit, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

Commentator: Thomas Wieland, Technische Universit�t M�nchen

27.       Theodor Herzl Revisited: 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University

�Theodor Herzl: Jude, Mitteleurop�er oder �sterreicher?�

Steven Beller, Washington, D.C .

�Theodor Herzl und die �Neue Freie Presse�

Andreas Unterberger, Wien

�Theodor Herzl in Wien -- eine Spurensuche�

Kurt Scholz, Wien

Commentator: David Sorkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

28.       Kriegsgefangenenpolitik im Zeitalter der Weltkriege

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon D

Moderator: G�nter Bischof, University of New Orleans

�Aspekte der Kriegsgefangenenpolitik des Deutschen Reiches im Zweiten Weltkrieg�

Rudiger Overmans, Milit�rgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam

�Von der dumpfen Masse zur bolschewistischen Gefahr - Russische Kriegsgefangene in Deutschland 1914-1921�

Uta Hinz, Universit�t D�sseldorf

�Sowjetische Kreigsgefangene 1941-1945�

Rolf Keller, Nieders�chsische Landeszentrale f�r Politische Bildung, Hannover

Commentator: Rafael Zagovec, Universit�t Heidelberg

29.       The Ethics of Modern Politics: Albert Schweitzer, Carl Schmitt, Hermann Broch

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon E

Moderator: Maria Mitchell, Franklin and Marshall Colle ge

�Ethical Colonialism in Practice and Imagination: The Case of Albert Schweitzer�

Joanne Miyang Cho, William Pa t terson University of New Jersey

�Hermann Broch's Ethical Politics: The Cultivation of Broch's Political Theory in Vienna 1900�

Donald L. Wallace, University of California, San Diego

�Catholicism, Jews, Secularization: Carl Schmitt Turns to Bruno Bauer�

Joseph W. Bendersky, Virginia Commonwealth University

Commentator: Troy Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University

30.        Rightist Politics in Weimar

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Manassas

Moderator: Larry Wilcox, University of Toledo

�Against Invisible Powers: Myth, Struggle and Sacrifice in the Young German Order�

Clifton Ganyard, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

�Is the Jungdeutscher Orden Anti-Semitic or Not? The Role of Anti-Semitism in a German Veteran Organization 1918-1933�

Brian E. Crim, Department of Defense

�Catholics on the Right: The Reich Catholic Committee of the German National People's Party, 1920-1933�

Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College

Commentator: Andrew Donson, Marquette University

31.           Glaubensgewissheit und Kritik. Totalit�rismustheoretiker der deutschen Linken

                Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon G

Moderator: Steve Remy, Brooklyn College

�Von Marxismus zum Antitotalit�rismus: Ernst Fraenkel und Richard L�wenthal�

Uwe Backes, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

�Glaube und Gewissheit: �ber Arthur Koestlers Bekehrung zum Kommunismus�

Lothar Fritze, Technische Universit�t Chemnitz

�Roter und brauner Faschismus? Die ratekommunistische Totalit�rismustheorie Otto Ruhles�

Mike Schmeitzner, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

Commentator: Susan Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

32.       Reportage and Illusion in Nineteenth-Century Prose and Poetry

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Jackson

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

�Heinrich Heine's Journeys in the World of Prose�

Naama Rokem, Stanford University

�Morality and �the Problem of Socrates' in The Birth of Tragedy �

Susan-Judith Hoffmann, McGill University

��Denn nichts tritt hervor in eigner Gestalt': Nietzsche and Celan on Illusion�

Derek Hillard, Kansas State University

Commentator: Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University

33.       German-Jewish Extraterritoriality: The Frankfurt School Revisited

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Jefferson

Moderator: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, St. Louis

�The Transposition of Judaism in Horkheimer's Last Years�

David Weberman, Georgia State University

�Die Heimat der Sprache. �ber Wahrheit und Erkenntnis bei Adorno im Anschluss an Benjamin�

Mirko Wischke, Palacky University, Czech Republic

�Homeless Images: Kracauer's Theory of Extraterritoriality�

Gerhard Richter, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Commentator: Sven Kramer, University of Toronto

34.       Rethinking the Restoration: Political Culture and Cultural Politics after Napoleon

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Lee

Moderator: James M. Brophy, University of Delaware

�Festivities at the Congress of Vienna: Gender, Class and Restoration Political Culture�

Brian Vick, University of Sheffield

�Holy Alliances: Community Formation after the Napoleonic Wars�

Susan A. Crane, University of Arizona

�After the Death of Kotzebue: Heroism, Villainy, and the Making of German Culture�

George S. Williamson, University of Alabama

Commentator: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College

35.       The South Tyrol Revisited -   A Minority Conflict in the Twentieth Century

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Madison

Moderator: Klaus Larres, University of London

�Italian Fascism and Minorities: The Case of South Tyrol�

Hans Heiss, S�dtiroler Landesarchiv Bozen/Bolzano

�1945/46: South Tyrol and the Cold War�

Rolf Steininger, Universit�t Innsbruck

�1992: End of A Conflict, The Settlement of the Dispute between Austria and Italy�

Michael Gehler, Universit�t Innsbruck

Commentator: Wolfgang Schlauch, University of New Mexico

36.       The Stasi's Foreign Operations Revisited: What Do the New Files Tell?

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon F

Moderator: Joachim Scholtyseck, Universit�t Bonn

�Operation �Rosenholz'�

Robert Gerald Livingston, German Historical Institute

�Was ist Rosenholz? Welche Wirkungen wird es haben?�

Helmut Muller-Enbergs, BstU

�What Do the New Files Tell About Scientific-Technical Intelligence?�

Kristie Macrakis, Michigan State University

Commentator: Benjamin Fischer, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA

37.      Tourists in a Landscape: Tourism and Regional Identities in German-Speaking Central Europe

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, Universit�t Bochum

�Regional Tourism and the Saxon Countryside: Science, Taste, and Perceptions of Nature, 1770-1830"

Denise Phillips, University of Tennessee

�Frontier Fighter for the Nation in Bohemia: The Fremdenverkehrs-Instruktor �

Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College

�Defining the Native Land: Heimat , Tourism, Landscape, and Identity in Saxony, 1880-1933"

Caitlin Murdock, California State University, Long Beach

Commentator: Thomas Lekan, University of Southern Carolina

38.       Peep Shows, Horror Films, and Neo-Nazis: Christoph Schlingensief and the Politics of Postmodern Aesthetics

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon A

Moderator: Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University

  �Schlingensief's Peep Show: A Postmodern Politics of Phantasmagoria�

Richard Langston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

�Ossis, Wessis, and Chainsaw:   Christoph Schlingensief's Politics of Violence�

Kristin E. Thomas, Indiana University

��Nazis rein - Nazis raus': Christoph Schlingensief's Hamlet and the Politics of Social Intervention�

Mark W. Rectanus, Iowa State University

Commentator: Randall Halle, University of Rochester

39.       From Luftschutz to Luftkrieg to Tr�mmer : Reflections of Arial Bombardment in German Culture

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon B

Moderator: Mary-Beth O'Brien, Skidmore College

�Civil Defense as Civic Theater: The � Luftschutztrupp Ekkehard � in the Weimar Republic�

Bruce Campbell, College of William and Mary

�Mass Bombings and German Civil Defense in World War II: A Literary Approach�

Susanne Vees-Gulani, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  ��Hausschl�ssel brauchen wir nich' mehr!': The Trouble With Rubble�

Wilfried Wilms, Union College

Commentator: William Rasch, Indiana University

40.        Taboo, Disease, and Moral Corruption in the Middle Ages

            Sponsor: Young Medievalist Germanists in North America

            Friday 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon C

Moderator: James Rushing, Rutgers University-Camden

� m�n vleisch ist s� unreine : Purity and Danger in the Courtly World� Scott E. Pincikowski, Hood College

� �ich will sie m�nen s�chen bringen : Die S�ndhaftigkeit der Lepra�

Mirjam Eisenzimmer , University of Washington

� Crossing the Danube into the Red Sea: Michael Behaim's Dracula �

Samuel Willcocks , University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: Stephen Mark Carey, Emory University

 

Luncheon

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Salon III

Speaker: Eva Novotny, Ambassador of Austria

�Austria and the Enlargement of the European Union�

 

 

Friday October 8, 2004

Sessions 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

41.       Roundtable: The Fiction, Poetry, And Criticism Of Hans-Urich Treichel: A Conversation with the Writer

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Steve Dowden, Brandeis University

Jane Curran, Dalhousie University

Amir Eshel, Stanford University

Karen Painter, Harvard University

Michele Ricci, University of Miami

Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig

42.       Roundtable: The US Elections and the Future of German-American Relations

            Sponsor: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Jackson Janes, AICGS

Ronald Asmus, German Marshall Fund

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

Karen Donfried, Department of State

Bowman Miller, Department of State

43.       The Politics of Women's Fashion: The Interplay of Aesthetics and Power in German Mass Media Between 1918 and 1945

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon I

Moderator: Bettina Matthias, Middlebury College

  �Fashioning the Girl: Between the pages of Die Dame and The Artificial Silk Girl �

Nina Sylvester, UCLA

�Teaching Women How to Look Chic': Fashion Journalism at Ullstein House (1918-1933 )�

Mila Ganeva , Miami University

�State Imperatives and Political Fallout:   Fashioning Women in the Third Reich� 

Irene Guenther, Houston Community College N.W.

  �A Thin Line Separates Glamour from Decadence: The Construction of the Modern-Looking National Socialist Woman in Party Propaganda and Popular Entertainment�

Yvonne Houy, Pomona College

Commentator: Sabine Hake, University of Pittsburgh

44.       The Dissolution of the Catholic Milieu, 1870-1960

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon VI

Moderator: Michael Phayer, Marquette University

�Ecclesia Impotens? Intellectual and Cultural Discipline in The Catholic Milieu, 1870-1914�

Jeffrey T. Zalar, Valparaiso University/Pepperdine University

�Focusing on The Family: Recasting the Catholic Working-Class Community in The Weimar Era�

Raymond C. Sun, Washington State University

�Nursemaid or Nemesis? The Catholic-Nazi Relationship Revisited�

Derek Hastings, Oakland University

�The Erosion of The Catholic Milieu in Post-1945 West Germany�

Mark Ruff, Concordia University, Portland

Commentator: Antonius Liedhegener, Universit�t Jena

45.        Modes of Vergangenheitsbew�ltigung

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Guillaume de Syon, Albright College

�Bauhaus Master Josef Albers in Dewey's Realm: German Artist �migr�s at Black Mountain College after 1933�

Karl-Heinz Fuessel, Technische Universit�t Berlin

�Seife Aus Judenfett - zur Wirkungsgeschichte einer Urban Legend�

Joachim Neander, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

�Jewish Remigration to West Germany after 1945. A Philosophical Inquiry�

Peter Boehm, Canisius College

�The Photo Journal of Corporal Postenrieder: A Case Study of Vergangenheitsbew�ltigung�

Jeff Kleiman, University of Wisconsin

Commentator: Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara

46.      Negotiated Identities: The Struggle to Define German and Immigrant Identities in the Twentieth Century

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon J

Moderator: Rita Chin, University of Michigan

�Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance and its Relation to Jewish Identity during the Third Reich�

John Cox, University of North Carolina

�Life Before Documents: The Deutscher K�nstlerbund and the Struggle for Artistic Autonomy in West Germany�

Heather E. Mathews, University of Texas, Austin

�Monumental Art or Monumental Propaganda? How East German Artists Negotiated for Autonomy in Public Memory Projects�

Jon Berndt Olsen, University of North Carolina

�The Perils of Making and Marketing �Turkish Lifestyle' in Germany�

Jeffrey Juergens, Pitzer College

Commentator: Kimberly Redding, Carroll College

47.        The Politics of Scholarship and Teaching German History: From Cold War to

            Globalism

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Gerhard Weiss, University of Minnesota

�Traps and Gaps in the Study of Germans in the Post-WWII Soviet Union�

Irina Mukhina, Boston College

�The SPD Between Rival Consensus Ideologies: Representation of the SPD in East and West German History Textbooks�

Brendan M. Walsh, Loyola Marymount University

�World History: Making Sense of the Present, Thoughts on Curricula and Textbooks�

Hanna Schissler, Georg-Eckert-Institut, Braunschweig

�Global and Regional, The Dynamics of Women's and Gender Studies in Central and Eastern Europe�

Susan Zimmermann , Central European University

 

48.       Current German Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

            Friday 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon D

Moderator: Christian S�e, California State University, Long Beach

�Different Eyes: Why the Europeans and the Americans Couldn't Agree About the Invasion of Iraq�

Elliot Neaman, University of San Francisco

�Human Rights and Security in Germany,   1990-2003: Policy Developments in Historical and Political Context�

Henry Krisch, University of Connecticut

�Foreign Policy as Domestic Policy: Anti-Americanism in the New Germany�

Michael Werz, Universit�t Hannover

�Vom Transatlantischen B�ndnis zum �Deutschen Weg'�

Andrea Woeldike and Thomas von der Osten-Sacken

Commentator: Christian S�e, California State University, Long Beach

49.       Religion and Politics: Secularism and Religious Identity in Europe and the United States

            Sponsor: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon E

Moderator: Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

�Churches and Politics in Germany, East and West�

Markus Meckel, MdB

�Politics, Religion and Policymaking in the US and Germany�

Karsten Voigt, German Foreign Office

�Secularism and Religious Identity in the US and Europe�

Radek Sikorski, New Atlantic Initiative

�Catholicism, Policymaking, and Secularism�

J. Bryan Hehir, Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Commentator: Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

50.      Mothers and Prostitutes: Women as Initiators and Subjects of Bourgeois Reform Before 1914

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon F

Moderator: Andrew Lees, Rutgers University at Camden

�Die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Demokratiebewegung, fr�her Frauenbewegung und Kindergartenbewegung im Spiel der Frauen-Zeitung von Louise Otto�

Kata M�nchow, Universit�t Halle-Wittenberg

�The Dutiful Child: Christian Mothers' Advice on Parenting in Imperial Germany�

Carolyn Kay, Trent University

�Particularism, Federalism, and Prostitution: Hamburg's Legal and Political Struggle to Defend Regulated Prostitution, 1871-1876�

Julia Bruggemann, DePauw University

�Between Tradition and Modernity: Agnes Neuhaus and the Katholischer F�rsorgeverein f�r M�dchen, Frauen und Kinder in Dortmund�

Ute Chamberlin, Arizona State University

Commentator: Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

51.       Germans and the Wider World, 1804-1918

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon G

Moderator: John S. Lowry, Eastern Kentucky University

�Alexander von Humboldt in the United States: Reinterpreting a Scientific Biography�

Andreas Daum, SUNY Buffalo

� � Forschungsfahrten und Forschungswarten': Exploration Narratives and National Self-Representation�

Lee W. Holt, University of Texas at Austin

��als sei man allein noch lebendig in einer ausgestorbenen Welt': An Analysis of Elisabeth von Heyking's China Texts�

Mary Rhiel, University of New Hampshire

�The Americanization of Defeat: The Case of the Kapps, Friedrich and Wolfgang, 1848/1918"

Peter Bergmann, University of Florida

Commentator: Troy R. E. Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University

52.       Semantik der Befriedung deutscher Nachkriegsgesellschaften im Vergleich

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Jackson

Moderator: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

�Die Zivilisierung des B�rger: Semantische Strategien der gesellschaftlichen Befriedung nach den antinapoleonischen Kriegen�

Karen Hagemann, University of Glamorgan

�Nationsbildung und europ�ische Friedensordnung: Zur Deutung von Krieg und Frieden nach den Kriegen von 1859 bis 1870/71�

Christian Jansen, Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum

�After the First World War: Catastrophe and the Claims of Citizenship�

Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan

�Frieden durch Vergessen? Die Stilisierung der deutschen zu �Opfern kriegerischer Gewalt' nach 1945"

Thomas K�hne, Universit�t Bielefeld

Commentator: Benjamin Ziemann, Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum

53.      Trends in Recent Austrian Literature

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Jefferson

Moderator: Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester

�Hinter dem Niemandsland: Narrating Identities Across the Austrian-Czech Borderland�

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College

�Negotiating a Jewish Identity: Anna Mitgutsch's Depiction of Jewish Life in Austria in Haus der Kindheit �

Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College

�Postmodernist Aspects in Evelyn Schlag's Writings�

Beverley Driver Eddy, Dickinson College

�The Architecture of Literary Space: Identity Construction and Memory Reconstruction in the Novels of Austrian Postwar Women Writers�

Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner, Wofford College

Commentator: Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University

54.       Specters of Violence

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Lee

Moderator: Wilfried Wilms, Union College            

  �Torture in German Literature From Enlightenment to Early Realism�

Sven Kramer, University of Toronto

  �Nie wieder Krieg! - Unfortunately�

William Rasch, Indiana University

�BRD, 1977: The State of Violence and Law�

Petra Rethmann, McMaster University

�The End of Violence: Of Death, Funerals, and Resurrections�

Karin Bauer, McGill University

Commentator: Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh

55.       Human Experimentation During the Weimar Republic and the Hitler Regime

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Madison

Moderator: James A. Jones, University of Arkansas

�Julius Moses and Excessive Medical Experimentation in the Late Weimar Republic�

Wolfgang Eckart, Universit�t Heidelberg

�Flying Bodies - Enforcing States: German Aviation Research 1920 - 1947 and the Nuremberg Medical Case�

Karl Heinz Roth, Stiftung f�r Sozialgeschichte, Bremen

�Annihilation and Healing: Bilingual Edition of the Files of the Nuremberg Medical Trial�

Angelika Ebbinghaus, Stiftung f�r Sozialgeschichte, Bremen

�The Nuremberg Medical Trial: Who Were the Defendants?�

Horst Freyhofer, Plymouth State University

Comment: Susan E. Lederer, Yale University

56.        Language, Image, and Self-Reflexivity

             Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

�Forbidding Images: Moses and Laoco�n 1939/1766�

Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University

� Comprehending Romantic Incomprehensibility: A Systems Theoretical Perspective�

Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University

� Apes, the True Incroyables? Luciane's Monkeys ( Elective Affinities , II.4)

and Goethe's Recension einer Anzahl franz�sischer satyrischer Kupferstiche of 1797 �

Peter J. Schwartz, Boston University

��Verf�hrung ist die wahre Gewalt': Zu Lessings Emilia Galotti (1772)�

Gesa Dane, Universit�t G�ttingen

Commentator: Kelly Barry, Columbia University

57.       Across the Divide: Germans and Slavs in the Twentieth Century

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Manassas

Moderator: Virginia R. Mitchell, Central Connecticut State University

�Visions of Continental Empire: Siberia in the Interwar German Imagination�

James E. Casteel, Rutgers University

�The Civilizing Mission Between German Colonialism and The Nazi Occupation of Poland�

David Furber, SUNY College, Cortland

�Young Russian-Jewish Immigrants and their German World�

Y.M. Bodemann, University of Toronto

Commentator: Hunt Tooley, Austin College

58.       Modernism after Postmodernism: New German Critique at 30

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon A

Moderator: David Bathrick, Cornell University

�On the Possibility of Post-Minimal Modernism�

Brigid Doherty, Princeton University  

  �Wie modern war die Postmoderne? Wie postmodern war die Moderne?�

Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner, Europa-Universit�t Viadrina

  �Environment -- Since 1973�

Reinhold Martin, Columbia University

"Farewell to Whose Idea?"

Michael Steinberg, Cornell University

Commentator: Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

59.         Holocaust Memory Exhibited: Perspectives and Challenges of the Museum

              Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon B

 

Moderator: Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota

�The Jewish Museum in Vienna: An Anti-Heimat Museum?� Robin Ostow, University of Toronto

�Ethics Is an Optics: Anxiety and the Gaze in Renais� Nacht und Nebel and Celan's Engfuehrung � Eric Kligerman, University of Florida �Whose Trauma Is It? Identification and Secondary Witnessing in the Age of Post-Memory� Elke Heckner, University of Oregon �What's the Story? Oral History and the United States Holocaust Museum Permanent Exhibition� Joan Ringelheim, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Commentator: Dirk Rupnow, Universit�t Leipzig

60.       Berlin And Beyond: Constructing Recent History in Film and Literature

            Friday 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM   Salon C

Moderator:   Edward Larkey, University of Maryland, Baltimore

�In the Shadow of Exceptionalism: National Symbols and Collective Identity in Post-Unification Germany�

Michael E. Geisler, Middlebury College

"Beyond �Ostalgie': Politics of Memory in Recent East German Writing"

Angelika F�hrich, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

�Filmic Erasures of the Wende but Retention of its Aftermath: Berlin is in Germany and Good Bye Lenin �

Margit M. Sinka, Clemson University

�Literarische Orientierungsbilder in neuester Berlin-Prosa:   Ausdruck multikultureller Zugeh�rigkeit�

Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, Saint Joseph's University

Commentator:   Christian Rogowski, Amherst College

 

 

BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Salon V

All Members are Invited to Attend

 

NO-HOST RECEPTION

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Arlington Foyer

 

BANQUET OF THE ASSOCIATION

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Salon I, II, III

Speaker: David Calleo, The Johns Hopkins University

�Germany, Europe, and the United States: The Future of Transatlantic Relations�

 

Saturday, October 9, 2004 Sessions

Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

61.        Innovation and Performance: Internet Technology and German Studies

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon V

Moderator, Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh

�Virtual Jewry: Constructing New Identities Through IT�

Jeffrey Peck, York University/AICGS

�The Fictive Equalizer: Adjusting the �Tone' of Literature in the Electronic Medium�

Michel Chaouli, Indiana University

�Internet Unlimited: Chances and Pitfalls for the Profession�

Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: Roberto Simanowski, Brown University

62.      Models of Value: Literature and Economics in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon II

Moderator: Stephanie Hilger, College of the Holy Cross

  �Problematizing the Economic Reform Treatise in J. M. R. Lenz's Der Landprediger �

Karin A. Wurst, Michigan State University

�From Mimesis to Imagination: The Cultural Implications of the German Debate over Physiocracy�

Richard T. Gray, University of Washington

�Literature and Luxury Consumption in E. T. A. Hoffmann�

Matt Erlin, Washington University

Commentator: Stephan Schindler, Washington University

63.      Roundtable in Honor of Professor Wolf D. Gruner: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europ�ische Einigung,

            1994-2000, (I)

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon I

Chair: Donald Hancock, Vanderbilt University

Matthias Schulz, Vanderbilt University

Hanns J�rgen K�sters, Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Mary Hampton, Air Command and Staff College

64.       New Perspectives on Democratization: Race and Ethnicity across the 1945 Divide

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   McLean

Moderator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

�Human Rights, Reparations and the �Jewish Problem': Competing Claims in Postwar Occupied Germany�

Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union

�Mischlingskinder and the Postwar Taxonomy of Race�

Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University

�Debating Multiethnic Democracy in the Federal Republic: The Question of Turkish-German Women�

Rita Chin, University of Michigan

Commentator: Claudia Koonz, Duke University

65.             German Identity in the Middle Ages

                  Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon H

Moderator: Scott E. Pincikowski, Hood College

�The Myth of the German Savage in Medieval Czech Chronicles�

Joel Seltzer, Yale University

�Being German: The Conceptualization of a German Identity in Sebastian Franck's Germaniae chronicon �

Julie Tanaka, University of California, Berkeley

�Mythifying/mystifying the Middle Ages: Germanness and Early Twentieth-Century Appropriations of Meister Eckhart.�

Will Crooke, University of California, Berkeley

Commentator:   James Rushing, Rutgers University-Camden

66.       Between Hitler Youth and Democracy:   German Youth Literature and Politics

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon J

Moderator: Douglas Brent, Hunter College

� Hilf mit! Propaganda in the Classroom�

Gerhard Weiss, University of Minnesota

�Democratic Values and Children's Literature�

Eva-Marie Metcalf, University of Mississippi

� Gegenwartsbew�ltigung : Right-wing Extremism in Young Adult Literature�

Gisela Moffit, Central Michigan University

Commentator: Gerald Fetz, University of Montana

67.        The Continuing Evolution of the PDS

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Madison

Moderator: Thomas A. Baylis, University of Wisconsin, Madison

�Die PDS nach der Europawahl 2004"

Heinrich Bortfeldt, FHTW Berlin

�Die Entzauberung der PDS: The PDS as a Land-Level Opposition, Toleration, and Governing Party, 1990-2002"

Louise Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami

�The PDS in the Sixth Year of Red-Green Government: Reflections on the �Vacuum Thesis'�

David F. Patton, Connecticut College

Commentator: Jennifer Yoder, Colby College

68.      Deutsche Geschichtsbilder

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon D

Moderator: Clay Clemens, College of William and Mary

�Die SED Herrschaft: Die Sicherung durch die Sowjetische Besatzungsmacht im June 1953"

Manfred Wilke, Freie Universit�t Berlin

�Der Bombenkrieg�Das Ende Historischer St�dte�

Joerg Friedrich

�Helmut Kohl�Ein Mythos der CDU�

Wolfgang Bergsdorf, Universit�t Erfurt

Commentator: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

69.       Colonized Politics: Resistance, Reform and Radicalism in the German Debate over Empire, 1890-1917

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon E

Moderator: Ute Frevert, Yale University

�Political Outsiders or Imperialist Reformers?   Center-left Opposition, Colonial Sex Scandals, and the Rhetoric of Race, 1890-1902"

Bradley D. Naranch, Johns Hopkins University

�From Atakpame to Heirachabis: African Resistance, the Catholic Center and the Reichstag Dissolution of 1906"

John S. Lowry, Eastern Kentucky University

�The Empire of Ambitions: Professors, Colonial Policy and the Radicalization of German Weltpolitik, 1904-1917"

Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University

Commentator: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University

70.       Closing the Circle: Did Nazi Victims Pay the Cost of Their Own Persecution?

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon F

Moderator: Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

�Blocked Accounts: Were the Assets of Aryanization Used to Finance the Persecution of Jews in France?�

Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Centre Marc Bloch

�Creative Cost Accounting: How T4 Victims Helped to Fund Nazi "Euthanasia" Policy�

Patricia Heberer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

�Head Money for Destruction? Deportations and Jewish Assets in Slovakia, 1941-1943�

Hans Safrian, Universit�t Wien

Commentator: Alfred Mierzejewski, University of North Texas

71.       Austria: Roth, Mayr�cker, and Ransmayr

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon G

Moderator: Jill Gillespie, Denison University

Gerhard Roth's Reise in das Innere von Wien (1991): Marginal Viennese �Landscapes� and Austrian identity

Angela Gulielmetti, Hendrix College

Communicating with Tradition: The Drawings of Friederike Mayr�cker

Fatima Naqvi, Rutgers University

Media and the Archaeology of Austrian History: Gerhard Roth's Die Archive des Schweigens and Christoph Ransmayr's Die letzte Welt

Anita McChesney, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon

72.      Women and Popular Literature, 1866-1925

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Jackson

Moderator: Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University

�Biography: Making Women's History Public�

Denise M. Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame

�Women's Popular Literature and Community Construction: The Creation of Collective Identity through Narrative in the Berliner Dienstboten-Zeitung (1898-1900)�

Julia Karolle, John Carroll University

� Backfisch in the Big City: Else Ury's Nesth�kchen Books and the Education of Young Girls in the Weimar Republic�

Jennifer Redmann, Kalamazoo College

Commentator: Brent Peterson, Lawrence University

73.       The Effect of the First World War on The Political Culture of the Weimar Republic

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Jefferson

Moderator: Julia Sneeringer, Queen's College, CUNY

�The First World War and the Young Nationalist Militants of the Weimar Republic�

Andrew Donson, Marquette University

�Conservative Kulturpolitik in the Wake of War and Revolution: The DNVP and Cultural Politics, 1918-1924�

Barry A. Jackisch, Gannon University

�Scapegoats for A Lost War: Demobilization and The Politics of the Streets in Munich during the Kapp Putsch�

Adam R. Seipp, University of North Carolina

Commentator: Annemarie H. Sammartino, Oberlin Colle ge

74.       Going to Court: Crime, Honor, and Justice in German History

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Lee

Moderator: David Sabean, University of California, Los Angeles

�Self-confessed Sodomites and Bloodthirsty Murderers: Working the Criminal Justice System in Eighteenth-Century Germany�

Kathy Stuart, University of California, Davis

�Honor Disputes, Defamation, and the Law in Imperial Germany�

Ann Goldberg, University of California, Riverside

�Nazi Perjury: Problems of Evidence in the Land of the Big Lie�

Benjamin Hett, Hunter College

Commentator: Kenneth Ledford, Case Western Reserve University

75.       Post-Fascist Health Regimes

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon K

Moderator: Cora A. Granata, California State University, Fullerton

�Sex Therapy or the Collective Remedy? Fixing the Broken Marriage in the GDR of the 1960's�

Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University

�Out of Africa: Forging the Socialist New Man in the Era of Decolonization�

Young-Sun Hong, SUNY- Stony Brook

�Visiting Doktor Wald: Outdoor Recreation and Public Health in 1960's East Germany�

Scott Moranda, University of Wisconsin

Commentator: Annette Timm, University of Calgary

76.      Archives in Germany and Austria: Issues and Problems

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Mt. Vernon

           

Moderator: Ronald M. Smelser, University of Utah

�Current issues and problems of German Archives�

Rainer Hering, Staatsarchiv Hamburg

�Schlaglichter auf archivische Quellen zur Geschichte der DDR�

Matthias Bucholz, Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur

�Archivwesen in �sterreich�

Susanne Claudine Pils, Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv

Commentator: Evan Burr Bukey, University of Arkansas

77.      Courtship, Kinship, and the Fate of Loved Ones Through German Family Letters, 1786-1946

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Manassas

Moderator: Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

�Correspondence as Ritual: Making Communities in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg�

Tamara Zwick, University of California, Los Angeles

��Based on Love': The Courtship Letters of Hendele and Jochanan, 1803-1804�

Marion Kaplan, New York University

�Leaving No Stone Unturned: A German-Jewish Family's Struggle to be Reunited, 1938-1946�

Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Commentator: Uta Larkey, Goucher College

78.       Berlin Temporalities:"Views of the (Post-)Modern Urban Condition

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon A

Moderator: Markus Joch, Humboldt Universit�t, Berlin

  �City Faces, City Fates: Representing the Urban in (some) Berlin Films�

Peter Beicken, University of Maryland, College Park

  �Ein Hollywood aus Versatzst�cken hei�ester europ�ischer Geschichte�: Durs Gr�nbein's Berlin As Quasi-Cinematic Spectacle

Rolf Goebel, University of Alabama

  �Total War and Totalities of Urban Change�

Janet Ward, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Commentator: Nora Alter, University of Florida  

79.       Biosciences, Literature and Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Inter/Disciplinary and Inter/National Exchanges

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon B

Moderator: Claudia Breger, University of Indiana

  �Poetic Philosophy of Mind�

Thomas Eder, Universit�t Wien

� Liebe Perla and the Nazi Analogy in Bioethics Debates�

Sara Eigen, Vanderbilt University

  �'Nasty Nazis and Extreme Amis': Eugenics, Cloning, and the Exchange of National Signifiers in Current German and American Popular Culture�

Elizabeth Bridges, Indiana University

Commentator: Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri

80.       Attraction/Expulsion: 1950s West German Cinema and the Encounter with the East

            Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Salon C

Moderator: Friederike Eigler, Georgetown University

  �Close Encounters: Russians and Romance in the 1950s War Film�

Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Washington University,   St. Louis

  �Producing a Nostalgic Eastern Europe in Kurt Hoffmann's Ich denke oft an Piroschka (1955)�

Kristin Kopp, Harvard University

�Flashback: Refugees and Expellees in Nacht fiel �ber Gotenhafen (1959)�

Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Commentator: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Saturday, October 9, 2004

Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

81.        Seeing Sex, Reading Sexuality: Scientific Knowledge and Emerging Narratives of Sexuality: Berlin 1900-1930

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz, University of Illinois, Chicago

��Biological Value,' �Race Welfare,' and the Evolutionary Narrative: Homosexuality in the Archiv f�r Rassen- und Gesellschaftsbiologie, 1904-1916"

Kevin S. Amidon, Iowa State University

�Celluloid, Real and Representation: Til Brugmann's The Department Store of Love �

Thomas O. Haakenson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

��Danger Zones': Defining and Differentiating between �Homosexuality' and �Criminal Behavior'�

David James Prickett, Humboldt Universit�t, Berlin

Commentator: Scott Spector, University of Michigan,   Ann Arbor

82.       Mutability and Survival

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University

  �Through Death: Karoline von G�nderrode's Poetics of Immortality�

Kelly Barry, Columbia University

�Observing the Causes of Change�

Dorothea von M�cke, Columbia University

�Mutable Identities: W.G. Sebald's Revision of the Baroque�

Bianca Theisen, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Claire Baldwin, Colgate College

83.       Nostalgia, Technology, and the Subjects of History

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon I

Moderator: Frederick Lubich, Old Dominion University

�Blaubart und Co: Konfigurationen des m�nnlichen Monsters bei Veza Canetti und Ingeborg Bachmann�

Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington

�Paradises Lost: Marlene Streeruwitz's Novel Lisa's Liebe and the Problem of Nostalgia�

Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College

�After History: Tom Tykwer's Escape Fantasies�

Heidi M. Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University

Commentator: Karin Bauer, McGill University

84.      Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism, the Imaginary, and Death (II)

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   McLean

Moderator: Sigrid Meuschel, Universit�t Leipzig

�Arendt on Ideology: What to Make of the Term?"

Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

�The Fabrication of Corpses: Arendt and Heidegger on Mass Death�

Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles

��Another Planet?' Hannah Arendt, the Totalitarian Experience, and Imagining the World of the Camps�

Amir Eshel, Stanford University

Commentator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

85.        Reconstructing German-American Relations

             Sponsor: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Jeffrey Peck, AICGS/York University

�Trade and Financial Relations in German-American Relations: More Change than Continuity?�

Amy Houpt Medearis, EU Commission

�Political and Security Cooperation in German-American Relations: Beyond Rhetoric and Electoral Politics�

Cathleen Fischer, AIGCS

�Redefining Germany, Redefining America?   Implications for German-American Relations�

Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University

Commentator: Jeffrey Peck, AICGS/York University

86.      Geschichte und Geschlecht in der Literatur

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon J

Moderator: Christine von Oertzen, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

�Libussa: Das Scheitern der �anderen Frau' bei einer Erfolgsschriftstellerin der Restaurationszeit

Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa

�Frauen, die Geschichte machen: Das zweifache Leben der Effi Briest �

Ulrike Gleixner, Technische Universit�t Berlin

� In Stahlgewittern : Ein rite de passage f�r phantastische M�nner�

Gabriele K�mper, Technische Universit�t Berlin

Commentator: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan

87.      Troubled Borders: Germany and Eastern Europe and the Balkans

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College

�German Suffering?: Post-1989 Representations of the Czech-Sudeten German Conflict in J�rg Bernig's Niemandszeit , Jan Hebejk's Musime s� pom�hat , and Libuse Mon�kov�'s Verkl�rte Nacht

Valentina Glajar, Texas State University, San Marcos

�Konflikterinnerungen und Erinnerungskonflikte zwischen Polen und Deutschen�

Elzbieta Dzikowska, University od Wroclaw, Poland

  �'Das Handwerk des Berichtens' - Die Medienkritiker Handke und Gstrein als Balkan-Kundschafter� 

Jay Julian Rosellini, Suffolk University

Commentator: Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago

88.      Teaching Nazi Values at Home and Abroad

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon D

Moderator: Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Middle Tennessee State University

�Nazi Efforts to Propagandize Teachers of German 1933-1941�

Susan L. Pentlin, Central Missouri State University

�Anti-Semitism and Racial Education in the Pre-War Hitler Youth�

Nancy E. Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University

�Teaching the Allgemeine SS about Jews: Preparing for the Holocaust?�

Johnpeter Horst Grill, Mississippi State University

Commentator: Karin Doerr, Concordia University

89.       Roundtable: Making It Real: Intellectual Exchange, Virtual Space, and the Public Sphere

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon E

Moderator: Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina/Zentrum f�r Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

Paul Steege, Villanova University

Andrew Bergerson, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dirk Schumann, German Historical Institute

90.      Germany and the EU Constitution (II)

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon F

Moderator: Vanda Knowles, University of Birmingham

�Die EU Verfassung - Deutsche Perspektive�

Roland Freudenstein, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

�Die EU Verfassung - Oesterreichische Perspektive�

Heinrich Neisser, Universit�t Innsbruck

�Germany and the Future of European Integration�

Emil Kirchner, University of Essex

Commentator: Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham

91.       Colonialism and German Literature

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon G

Moderator: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

"Goethe's Aesthetics of Bildung and Colonialism"

John Noyes, University of Toronto

��A darkness that gives back nothing': Colonialism in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz �

Judith Ryan, Harvard University

�German Literature of the 1990s from a Postcolonial Perspective�

Monika Albrecht, Independent Scholar

Commentator: Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

92.       The American and Soviet Occupations of Germany (1945-49): Political and Cultural Reconstruction

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Jackson

Moderator: James F. Trent, University of Alabama

�Cultural Wars in Occupied Western Germany: American Actions in the German Fine Arts at the Start of the Cold War (1945-1949)�

Cora Goldstein, California State University, Long Beach

�The Soviets and the Eastern Part of Germany, 1945-1949"

Reiner Pommerin, Technische Universit�t Dresden

�German War Crimes Trials under Allied Occupation, 1945-1949"

Devin O. Pendas, Boston College

Commentator: Christian S�e, California State University, Long Beach

93.        Austrian Diplomacy and Foreign Policy after 1918

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Jefferson

Moderator: Eva Nowotny, Austrian Embassy

�Between Mussolini and Hitler: Austrian Foreign Policy Between the Wars�

Alexander Lassner, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base

�Between East and West: The Origins of Post- World War II Austrian Foreign Policy During the Occupation Decade 1945-1955�

G�nter Bischof, University of North Carolina

�Von der alliierten Besatzung zur Europ�ischen Union: �sterreichs Au�enpolitik von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart�

Michael Gehler, Universit�t Innsbruck

Commentator: Thomas Nowotny, Austrian Embassy

94.       Religious Modernity in Germany: Reconfiguring Religious Subjectivity Circa 1820

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Lee

Moderator: Derek Hillard, Kansas State University

��Eine fast komplette Sammlung von Wunder': Clemens Brentano and the Stigma of Religious Modernity�

Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania

�Resituating Aesthetic Autonomy: Johanna Schopenhauer's Die Tante and Religious Modernity�

Aoife Naughton, Tulane University

�Tradition and the Quest for Radical Exteriority: the Location of Science in Early Wissenschaft des Judentums �

Sven-Erik Rose, Miami University

Commentator: George Williamson, University of Alabama

95.       Dimensionen der Verst�ndigung: Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Beziehungen mit der Weimarer Republik

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Madison

Moderator: Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University

�Der Weg zur deutsch-franz�sischen Verst�ndigung aus niederl�ndischer Sicht, 1918-1925�

Ries Roowan, Universit�t Amsterdam

�Geistige Demobilisierung und intellektuelles Locarno: Franz�sische Intellektuelle und ihr Streben nach Verst�ndigung mit Deutschland in der Zwischenkreigszeit�

Gaby Sonnabend, Kommission f�r Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Bonn

�Chancen und Probleme der Verst�ndigung mit Deutschland aus der Sicht des Volkerbundsekretariats, 1918-1926�

Joachim Wintzer, Kommission f�r Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Bonn

Commentator: William Glenn Gray, Purdue University

96.       German Scholars Between Coercion and Conformity: Progressive Academics in the Third Reich

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Steven Remy, Brooklyn College

�Das Janusgesicht der Volkswissenschaften�

Michael Fahlbusch, Universit�t Basel

�Conditions of Liberty: The Ordoliberals and the Labor Market in the Third Reich�

David Meskill, Harvard University

�Living With Hitler: Liberal Democratic Resistenz and Collaboration, 1933-1934�

Eric Kurlander, Stetson University

Commentator: Charles Maier, Harvard University

97.       Strange Kin/Foreign Bodies in Early Nineteenth-Century Literature

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Manassas

Moderator: Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois

�Mammals, Mothers and Bottle-feeding in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften �

Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri

�Artificial Procreation and Racial Anti-Semtisim in Achim von Arnim's Die Majoratsherren �

Katja Garloff, Reed College

  �Uncanny Kinship: Unhomely Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Realism�

Anette Schwarz, Cornell University

Commentator: Michel Chaouli, Indiana University

98.        Scholarly Production in the Electronic Age

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon A

Moderator: Angelika Epple, Universit�t Hamburg

�Editing A Scholarly Print Journal in An Electronic Era�

Kenneth F. Ledford, Case Western Reserve University

�Neue Publikationsmodelle f�r die Zeitgeschichte�

Maren Brodersen and Jan-Holger Kirsch, Zentrum f�r zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

�More than Just an Electronic Bulletin Board? H-German and Electronic Publishing�

Susan Boettcher, University of Texas, Austin

Commentator: Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College

99.       Shaping National Memory in Contemporary German Cinema

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon B

Moderator: Bruce Campbell, The College of William & Mary

  �Looking at the Past in Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie, �

John Blair, State University of West Georgia

  � Ostalgie and the Shaping of National Memory in Helden wie wir und Sonnenallee �

Muriel Cormican, State University of West Georgia

  � Ostalgie and the Re-Making of German National Identity in Good Bye, Lenin! �

Mary-Beth O'Brien, Skidmore College

Commentator: Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

100.     National Socialism in Photography and Film

            Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon C

Moderator: Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona

�Serializing Hitler's Women�

Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, State University of New York, Binghamton

"Working in Weimar Women: Carl Froehlich's Frauenarbeitsdienstfilm, Ich f�r dich, du f�r mich (1934)"

Valerie Weinstein, University of Nevada Reno

�In Search of a Face for the Modern F�hrer : The Hitler-Hoffmann Rednerposen �

Frances Guerin, University of Kent Canterbury

Commentator: Barbara Mennel, University of Florida

 

 

Luncheon

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Salon III

Speaker: Sten Nadolny, German Author

"Meine besten Bücher - die ungeschriebenen?"

 

 

 

Saturday, October 9, 2004

Sessions 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

101.       Fellowships at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Advice for Applicants (ABD, 

              Postdoc, and faculty)

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester

Wedigo de Vivanco, Freie Universit�t Berlin

Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina

Sabine Wilke, University of Washington

Kevin Amidon, Iowa State University

102.    Schiller: Constructs of Subjectivity

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon E

Moderator: Eric Baker, University of Minnesota

� Anthropology   and Aesthetics in Early Schiller�

Alexander Math�s, University of Oregon

� Schiller's Schaub�hne : Wirkung , Didactics, and Fantasies of Coercion�

Gail K. Hart, University of California, Irvine

"Schiller's Universal History and the Primitive"

Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego

Commentator: Barbara Becker-Cantarino , Ohio State University

103.     Roundtable: The Return of the Aesthetic

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon I

Moderator: Julia Hell, University of Michigan

�Bringing Back Aesthetics and its Implications for the Avant-garde�

Nora M. Alter, University of Florida

�Beyond the Politics of the Sublime�

Andrew Hewitt, University of California

�The Beauty of Palm Trees�

Lutz Koepnick, Washington University

�Art and Aesthetic Experience�

David Pan, Penn State University

�Virtual Aesthetics: Art and Politics in the Digital Age�

Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri

104.     German-American Relations

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   McLean

Moderator: Peter Loedel, West Chester University

�Die Zukunft des geostrategischen B�ndnisses USA-Europa, oder: Wohin treibt die Bundesrepublik?�

Tilman Mayer, Universit�t Bonn

�Staatsgedanke und �Civil Society': Ideologischer Gegensatz im transatlantischen Verh�ltnis�

Hans-Ulrich Seidt, Freie Universit�t Berlin

�Capabilities Gaps and Capabilities Traps: A New Source of Conflict in Transatlantic and German-American Relations?�

James Sperling, University of Akron

Commentator: Peter Loedel, West Chester University

105.     Roundtable: Publishing in Austrian Studies

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Lonnie Johnson, Fulbright Commission, Vienna

G�nter Bischof, University of New Orleans

Gary Cohen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University

Charles Ingrao, Purdue University

Anton Pelinka, Universit�t Innsbruck

Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn

106.     The Dilemma of the Socialist Artist: Hanns Eisler's Exile and Return

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon J

Moderator: Vera Stegman, Lehigh University

�Musician and Poet in Exile: The Hollywood Elegies of Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht�

David Steinau, Susquehanna University

�Return from Exile? Hanns Eisler, Paul Hindemith, and German Music after the Third Reich�

Elizabeth Janik, James Madison University

�Negotiating the New Socialist Reality: Hanns Eisler and His Fellow Composers in the Early GDR�

David Tompkins, Columbia University

Commentator: Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University

107.     Small Countries Under German Occupation: Denmark and Estonia in World War II

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Mary Hampton, ACSC

�Serial Occupation: Comparing Soviet and German Occupations in Estonia in World War II�

Edgar Kaskla, California State University, Long Beach

�The Ambiguities of Accommodation: Denmark's Parliamentary Election under German Occupation�

Christian S�e, California State University, Long Beach

Commentator: James F. Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham

108.     Defining an Image: Writers Negotiating the Twenty-First Century Public Sphere

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon D

Moderator: Elke Frederiksen, University of Maryland

  �Manchmal f�hle ich mich ein wenig enteignet:� Barbara Honigmanns Auseinandersetzung mit der Rezeption ihrer Werke

Petra S. Fiero, Western Washington University

�Where Public and Private Intersect: The Intermingling of Spheres in Christa Wolf's Ein Tag im Jahr�

Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Southwest Missouri State University

�A Young German Author Hits the Multi-Media Road: Tobias H�lswitt's Saga�

Rachel J. Halverson, Washington State University

Commentator: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona

109.     Nazi Ethics

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Henry Friedlander, CUNY

�The Sources of Hitler's Ethic�

Richard Weikart, California State University, Stanislaus

�Love, Murder and Belief�

Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State University

�The Construction of A Culture of Impunity in National Socialist Germany�

Claudia Koonz, Duke University

Commentator: Greg Eghigian, Pennsylvania State University

110.     Der Nato-Doppelbeschlu�

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon F

Moderator: Ruth Wittlinger, Durham University

�Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der NATO-Doppelbeschluߔ

Harald Biermann, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte

�Die BRD un der NATO-Doppelbeschluߔ

Andreas R�dder, Universit�t Stuttgart

�Die DDR und der NATO-Doppelbeschluߔ

Joachim Schlotyseck, Universit�t Bonn

Commentator: Gale A. Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy

111.     Inquests, Museums & Monuments, Restitution: On Different Ways of Copying with the Burdens of the Past

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon G

Moderator: J �rgen Nautz , Universit�t Wien und Universit�t Kassel

�The Paradoxes of the Restitution Debates in the Czech Lands�

Lothar H�belt, Universit�t Wien

�Too Little, Too Late? The Perception Gap between Perpetrators and Vicitms in Post-War Austria and Elsewhere�

Eric Frey, Der Standard/The Financial Times

� Haus der Geschichte/der Toleranz at the Ringstrasse in Vienna, Topographie des Terrors at Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin: Two Attempts at Reconciliation With Twentieth-Century History�

Josef Leidenfrost, Bundesministerium f�r Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

Commentator: Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University

112.      Political Party Finance and Corruption

            Sponsor: ASGP

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Jackson

Moderator: William Paterson, University of Birmingham

�One Bad Apple or a Spoiled Barrel?   Kohl's CDU and the Party Finance Scandal�

Clay Clemens, College of William and Mary

�Party Financing and Corruption in Germany: The Case of the SPD�

Uwe Jun, Universit�t Potsdam

�Small and (Im)perfectly Behaved?   The Financing of Germany's Smaller Parties�

Dan Hough, University of Sussex

Commentator: Charles Lees, Sheffield University

113.       From Museum to Mausoleum: Death and Human Remains in Twentieth

              Century Exhibitions

              Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Jefferson

 

Moderator: Yvonne Ivory, Duke University

 

�Vernichten - Bewahren - Ausstellen. Die nationalsozialistische Konservierung des J�dischen im Museum�

Dirk Rupnow, Universit�t Leipzig

 

�Anthropologie am Naturhistorischen Museum. Zur Interaktion von Ausstellung, Sammlung und Forschung am Beispiel der NS-Zeit�

Margit Bremer, Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

 

�K�rperwelten as Spectacle: The Leichenfabrik , Globalization, and the Public Display of Human Corpses�

Peter M. McIsaac, Duke University

 

Commentator: Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan

114.     Ethnic Cooperation and Its Discontents: The German-Slavic Fault Line in the Modern Era

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Lee

Moderator: Hunt Tooley, Austin College

�Prussian Patriotism or German Nationalism? Political Consciousness in Poznania in the Nineteenth Century�

Virginia R. Mitchell, Central Connecticut State University

�Cooperatives as Local Sites of National Identity in Bohemia, 1870-1914�

Catherine Albrecht, University of Baltimore

�Uneasy Alliances or Comfortable Discord? Germans, Poles, and Jews in the Free City of Danzig�

Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University

Commentator: Roland Spickerman, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

115.     �A renewal of German spiritual life�? The Gruppe 47 Revisited�

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Madison

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

"Die Unschuld des Propheten. Das Beispiel Alfred Andersch"

Markus Joch, Humboldt Universit�t, Berlin

"Heinrich B�ll and the Reassessment of Gruppe 47"

Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

Respondent: Helmut Peitsch, Universit�t Potsdam

116.     Race and Sex in Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University

�Reading Race in Heinrich von Kleist's The Betrothal of San Domingo �

James Martin, Georgetown University

�The Formation of German Intermarriage Laws in Germany, 1870-1871�

Christopher Griffin, Florida State University

�Whiteness and Masculinity, 1800/1900: Narrative Enactments of an Ideal�

Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College

Commentator: Patricia A. Simpson, Montana State University

117.     The State Within Striking Distance: Law Enforcement and Popular Attitudes Toward Police and Tax Collectors

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Manassas

Moderator: James M. Brophy, University of Delaware

�Fighting Tradition, Disobedience, and Rural �Backwardness': Prussian Bureaucracy and the Rhineland, 1815-1890�

Walter Rummel, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz

�Tax Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Germany�

Gabriele Kersting, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Bonn

Commentators:

Ann Goldberg, University of California at Riverside

Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

118.     GDR Dreamworlds

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon A

Moderator:   Stefan Soldovieri, University of Toronto

  �Alternate Realities: GDR Science Fiction between Dream and Dystopia,�

Patrick Major, University of Warwick

�Outside Looking In: Sociologists, Painters and the East German Private Life,�

Paul Betts, University of Sussex

  �The Twilight of the Socialist-Realist Idyll: Gerhard Richter's Dresden Murals and the Post-Communist Conditions of Utopia,�

Jeanne A. Nugent, University of Pennsylvania

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

119.     The Weimar Republic: Photography, Film, and Music

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon B

Moderator: Barbara Hales, University of Houston, Clear Lake

�Imaging Truth and Fiction:   Documentary Photography, Avant-Garde Photomontage and Neocolonial Discourses in Weimar Germany�

Brett M. Van Hoesen , University of Iowa

�Swinging Between Stereotype and Subversion:  African-American Jazz Performers in Weimar and Nazi Germany�

Anna Dempsey, Cleveland Institute of Art

�Peter Lorre's Halo: The �Uncanny� as the Master Trope of Weimar Culture�

Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte

Commentator: Glenn Cuomo, New College of Florida

120.     Non-Germans in the History of Germany: Germany in the History of Non-Germans

            Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM   Salon C

Moderator: James Retallack, University of Toronto

�The Monk, the Apeman, the Nun, and Her Lover: Images (Literally) of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Germany�

Michael Gross, East Carolina University

�Felix von Luschan's American Field Research and Trans-Atlantic Racial Reform�

John David Smith, North Carolina State University

�The Serf, the Pole, and the Negro: Sociology and the Creation of Free Labor in Germany and the United States�

Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University

Commentator: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University

Saturday, October 9, 2004

Sessions 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

121.     New Approaches in Holocaust Film and Television Studies

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

�Holocaust Film before Holocaust (1978): Forging Postwar Memory?�

David Bathrick, Cornell University

�What is the Opposite of Genocide? The Helpless Pursuit of German-Jewish Reconciliation on West German Television�

Wulf Kansteiner, SUNY Binghamton

�Fiddler on the Cattle Car:   How Tragic is Comedy in Contemporary Holocaust Film?�

David Brenner, Kent State University

Commentator: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

122.     Roundtable: US-German Security Relations After 9/11

             Sponsor: CGGP

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Wolf D. Gruner, Universit�t Rostock

Mary Hampton, ACSC

Elizabeth Pond, Internationale Politik

Christian Hacke, Universit�t Bonn

Sebastian Harnisch, Universit�t Trier

123.     When Life Follows the Image: Imagined Continuities after 1945

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon C

Moderator: Jaimey Fisher, Tulane University

�Autofocus: The Private Language of German Reconstruction�

Marlene Otte, Tulane University

�Tipis in the Schwarzwald: Indianer, Erinnerungskultur, and Some Stabilizing Continuities in Germans' Collective Consciousness from the 1920's through the 1950's�

H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa

�Crime and Urban Angst in the Wake of World War II�

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum

Commentator: Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

124.     The Genre of Memory: Writing Everyday Life in Recent Texts by Christa Wolf, Uwe Timm, and Tanja D�ckers

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   McLean

Moderator:   Sandra Alfers, Mt. Holyoke College

�Auto/Biography and East German Everyday History: Christa Wolf's Ein Tag im Jahr �

Anna Kuhn, University of California, Davis

�Cultural Memory and Family Stories in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders �

Brigitte Rossbacher, University of Georgia

  �WW II in a Nutella -Jar: Tanja D�ckers's Third-Generation Narrative Himmelsk�rper �

Caroline Schaumann, Emory University

Commentator: Erin McGlothlin, Washington University, St. Louis

125.     Hauptstadt-Konzeptionen, Hauptstadt-Wahrnehmungen: Berlin, Bern, Wien

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Wedigo de Vivanco, Freie Universit�t Berlin

�Wien: Hauptstadt in der Mitte -- an der Peripherie -- jenseits der Grenze�

Wilhelm Brauneder, Universit�t Wien

�Bern: Hauptstadt der Schweiz, Regierungssitz, aber keine dominante Metropole�

Christian L�thi, Universit�t Bern

�Hauptstadt Berlin: Wege -- Irrwege -- Umwege�

Josef Leidenfrost, Bundesministerium f�r Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

Commentator: Lonnie Johnson, Austrian American Education Commission

126.     Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon J

Moderator: Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College

�Karoline von G�nderrode: On War�

Patricia A. Simpson, Montana State University

��Half-Asia' and the Local Women of the European Periphery�

Valentina Glajar, Texas State University, San Marcos

�Ladies, Maids, Femmes Enfants, and Dancers: Women in Peter Altenberg's Life and Poetic Program�

Agnieszka B. Nance, University of Texas, Austin

Commentator: Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa

127.    Contemporary German Literature: Tawada and Senocak

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, University of Montana

��Die Toten erz�hlen grunds�tzlich anders': Glimpses of Yoko Tawada's Dramatic World�   Hiltrud Arens, University of Montana

�Difference and Language in Yoko Tawada's Writing�

Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon

�Masochism and Masculinity in Zafer Senocak's Prose Tetralogy�

Margaret Bloomfield, University of Pittsburgh

Commentator: Barbara Hales, University of Houston, Clear Lake

128.      Politics and the Power of Language      

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon D

Moderator:

�From LTI to LQI: Victor Klemperer on Totalitarian Language�

John W. Young, Richmond Times-Dispatch

�New Controversies Over Collective Memories in Germany: Political and Ethical Implications�

Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University

�Autorit�t als Kraft und Reden als Taten:   Zum Einwirkungspotenzial der deutschen Bundespr�sidenten von Heuss bis Rau�

Maciej Mackiewicz, University of Poznan

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

129.      Gender in the Perception and Prosecution of War Crimes After World War II

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon E

Moderator: Katherine S. Roper, St. Mary's College of California

�Gender in the Perception and Prosecution of War Crimes: German and Austrian Discourses�

Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider,   Zentrale �sterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz

��Because a Viennese woman doesn't have it in her to be so brutal�': The Trial of a Female Concentration Camp Warden by the Vienna People's Court, 1946-1949�

Elissa Mailander Koslov, Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales

�Hitler's Henchwomen: The German Trials of Female Perpetrators of �Mercy Killing'�

Dick de Mildt, Institute of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam

Commentator: Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College, Maryland

130.     Anti-Semitism, Liberalism, and Zionism, 1811-1896

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon F

Moderator: Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University

�Gypsies, Jews, and Golems: Discourses of Anti-Semitism in Achim von Arnim's Isabella von �gypten �

Martha B. Helfer, University of Utah

�Liberalism, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism in the � Berliner Antisemitismusstreit ' of 1879-1880�

Marcel Stoetzler, Goldsmith College, University of London

� Vertraute Unheimlichkeit Theodor Herzl's Judenstaat

Ulrich Bach, University of California, Los Angeles

Commentator: Daniel H. Magilow, University of North Texas

131.      Between Accommodation and Opposition: The SED and East German Jews

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon G

Moderator: Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina/Zentrum f�r Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

�Ethnic Identity and Cold War Politics in the GDR�

Cora A. Granata, California State University, Fullerton

�East German Jewry and Political Patronage in the Early GDR�

Jay Howard Geller, University of Tulsa

�The Return and Rebuilding of Jewish Sites in Potsdam and East Berlin�

Michael L. Meng, University of North Carolina

Commentator: Jeffrey Peck, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

132.     From Goethe's Faust to Hegel on Faust

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon I

Moderator: Michael Gubser, Creative Associates International, Washington, D.C.

� Faust and the Law of the Father�

Kelly S. Meyer, Washington College

�The Aesthetics of Indeterminacy: Goethe and Caspar David Friedrich on the Depiction of Clouds�

Ulrich Baer, New York University

�Hegel's Critique of Faust I and Antigone �

Wing Sze Leung, University of Chicago

Commentator: Donovan Anderson, University of Dallas

133.       Questions of Public Policy I

              Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Jackson

 

Moderator: Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi

 

�German Local Politics since Unification�

Arthur Gunlicks, University of Richmond

 

�Federalism and Parliamentarism: The Landtage in Germany�

Werner Reutter, University of Minnesota

�Stand der aktuellen Diskussion um die Reform des F�deralismus in Deutschland�

Ursula M�nnle, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung

 

�Ludwig Erhard and the Social Market Economy�

Alfred C. Mierzejewski, University of North Texas

 

Commentator: Michael Hatch, University of the Pacific

134.     Cultural Reform, Imperialism, and the State in Wilhelmine Germany

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Jefferson

Moderator: David Blackbourn, Harvard University

�The Capital as Colony: Settlements, �Inner Colonization,' and Visions of Greater Berlin in Late Imperial Germany�

Kevin Repp, Yale University

�Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890-1914�

John V. Maciuika, University of Virginia

�Aesthetic Reform and Weltpolitik �

Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto

Commentator: Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

135.     Austrian Nazi Putsch in July 1934: Its Victims and Perpetrators

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Lee

Moderator: Dieter Binder, Universit�t Graz

�Der Juliputsch 1934 und der nationalsozialistische Terrorismus 1933-1938 in �sterreich: Neue Forschungsergebnisse�

Georg Kastner, Karl von Vogelsang-Institut

�Austrian Military Tribunals after the 1934 July Revolt: The Case of the Future Police Chief Leo Gotzmann�

Gregory Weeks, The International University

�Dealing with the ' Juliputsch ' in Post-War Austria: Regional Differences in Public Memory, Judicial Punishment, and Political Discourses�

Winfried R.Garscha, Dokumentationsarchiv des �sterreichischen Widerstandes

Commentator: Evan Burr Bukey, University of Arkansas

136.     Germans at Risk: Discourses on Modernity, Risk, and Selfhood in the Twentieth Century

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Madison

Moderator: Lynn Falwell, City College, CUNY

�Psychiatry, Cinema, and Urban Youth in Early 20th Century Germany�

Andreas Killen, Brooklyn College, CUNY

�Metropolitans at Risk: Narrating the Individual in Berlin in the 1930's�

Moritz F�llmer, Humboldt Universit�t Berlin

�Dangerous People and the Possibilities of Rehabilitation in Nazi and East Germany�

Greg Eghigian, Pennsylvania State University

Commentator: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University

137.     Public and Private Issuing Banks in Central Europe

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Mt. Vernon

Moderator: Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University

�Banks of Issue in Bavaria in the Nineteenth Century�

Margarete Wagner-Braun, Universit�t Regensburg

�Public and Private Issuing Banks in Germany from the Eighteenth Century Until the Foundation of the Reich:   A Summary�

Markus A. Denzel, Universit�t Leipzig

�Competitive Strategies for the Construction of Issuing Banks in Austria-Hungary in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Theoretical and Political Discourses�

J�rgen Nautz, Universit�t Wien und Universit�t Kassel

Commentator: Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

138.      Righting Transgressions: Fictional, Non-Fictional, and Historical Narratives of Homosexuality and the Political Right

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon A

Moderator: Hans-Peter S�der, Wayne State University

�Where the Oils are: Skinheads and Queer Desire in Recent German Cinema�

Christopher Clark, Lycoming College

�The Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Film: Towards a Theory of Fascist Performance�

Terri Ginsberg, University of California, Santa Cruz

�The Righting of Inversion and das Unglaubliche in Thomas Mann's Mario und der Zauberer �

Elena Mancini, Rutgers University

Commentator: Ralph M. Leck, National University

139.      Crime and (Dis-)Integration of Weimar Communities

            Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM   Salon B

Moderator: Martin H. Geyer, Universit�t M�nchen

�Family Misfortunes: Men, Women, and Murder in Weimar Germany�

Sace Elder, Eastern Illinois University

�Nationalist Murder and Democratic Sacrifice: The Death of Walther Rathenau�

Manuela Achilles, University of Michigan

�Supervision: Fantasies and Nightmares in Weimar Criminal Reform�

Warren Rosenblum, Webster University

Commentator: Maria Tatar, Harvard University

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Sessions 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

140.             Literary Responses to Terrorism

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon V

Moderator: Michael Geisler, Middlebury College

  �Rebels With a Cause: German Literary Biopics of the 1980's and 1990's�

Sigrid Nieberle, Universit�t Greifswald

  �The RAF as Historical Trauma and Pop-Icon in Literature since the 1980s�

Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh

  �German Literature after 9/11�

Agnes C. Mueller, University of South Carolina

Commentator: Elke Br�ns, Universit�t Greifswald

141.      The Crimes of the Wehrmacht: New Perspectives

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon II

Moderator:   Karen Hagemann,

�The Executions of Black Soldiers from the French Army by the Wehrmacht in 1940: The Question of Authorization�

Raffael Scheck, Colby College

�Crimes of the Wehrmacht? Verbrechen der Endphase in Franconia�

Stephen Fritz, East Tennessee State University

�Behind the Wire: The Wehrmacht and the Nazi Camp System�

Geoffrey Megargee, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Commentator: Doris Bergen, University of Notre Dame

142.     Recent Developments in the German Party System

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon I

Moderator: Jennifer Yoder, Colby College

�Party Crisis and Elite Response: Three German Cases�

Thomas A. Baylis, University of Wisconsin, Madison

�Contents of German Parties' �Euromanifestos', 1979-2004"

Andreas M. W�st, MZES, Universit�t Mannheim

�2004 State Elections in Th�ringen and Sachsen: Growing Signs of Regionalism?�

Meredith Heiser-Dur�n, Foothill College and Stanford University

Commentator:   David F. Patton, Connecticut College

143.     The German, Polish and Czech Debates on a Center Against Expulsions

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon VI

Moderator: Ann Phillips, USAID

�A Scarcely Scared Wound of Memory?   The German Debate About a Center Against Expulsions�

K. Erik Franzen, Collegium Carolinum

�German Debates about a �Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen' and Memorizing the Past through the Prism of Polish-German Relations�

Katrin Steffen, German Historical Institute, Warsaw

�A Center Against Polish-German Reconciliation?�

Pawel Lutomski, Stanford University

�The Center against Expulsions in the Context of the �Sudeten-German Question' Debate in the Czech Republic�

Michal Kopecek, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague

Commentator: Ann Phillips, USAID

144.      Cultural Consumers and Consumer Culture, 1868-1915

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon H

Moderator: Margarete Wagner-Braun, University of Regensburg

� Die Meistersinger as Infomercial: Richard Wagner's �Audience of the Future'�

Nicholas Vazsonyi, University of South Carolina

�Retailing �Race': The Tensions of Mass-Marketing Empire, Seen Through the Rise and Fall of the Deutsches Kolonialhaus GmbH (1896-1915)�

David Ciarlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

�Toying with Modernity?   Entrepreneurs, the Verein f�r Sozialpolitik, and the Future of Imperial Germany�

Bryan Ganaway, Presbyterian College

Commentator: J�rgen Nautz, Universit�t Wien und Universit�t Kassel

145.     Hans Rothfels als politischer Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert

Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon J

Moderator: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University

� Hans Rothfels in K�nigsberg und Berlin: Vom Revisionismus zum Volkstumskampf? �

Ingo Haar, Technische Universit�t Berlin

�Hans Rothfels im Chicagoer Exil: Traditionsbewahrung oder Transformation?�

Peter Thomas Walther, Institut f�r Geschichtswissenschaften, Berlin

� Hans Rothfels in T�bingen und M�nchen: Die Entwicklung der Zeitgeschichte in Westdeutschland �

Karl Heinz Roth, Stiftung f�r Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Commentator: Hartmut Lehmann, Max-Planck-Institut f�r Geschichte

146.     Self Deceptions in Germany: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

           Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon K

Moderator: Maria Mitchell, Franklin and Marshall College

�The Impossibility of Heroism�

Andrew Bergerson, University of Missouri-Kansas City

�The Pleasure of Being Duped�

Clancy Martin, University of Missouri-Kansas City

�The Possibility of Mourning�

Steven T. Ostovich, The College of St. Scholastica

Commentator: Sven Felix Kellerhoff, Die Welt

147.     The Sexual Underworld: Reading Male Prostitution and Pimping in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Salon D

Moderator: James D. Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison

�The Taming of the Pimp: Reevaluating Gender and Power in Berlin's Sexual Underworld�

Jill Suzanne Smith, Union College

�The Specter of the Blackmailer: Fraudulence, Authenticity, and Male Prostitution in German Sexological Writings�

Yvonne Ivory, Duke University

�Rupture in the Ranks: Soldatenprostitution , Masculinity, and Male Sexuality in Wilhelmine Germany.�

Jeffrey Schneider, Vassar College

Commentator: Andrew Hewitt, University of California, Los Angeles

148.    Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Courts in War and Peace  

           Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon E

Moderator: Charles Ingrao, Purdue University

�Festival Culture and the Imperial Court in the Seventeenth-Century�

Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Instituto Storico Austriaco, Roma

�Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Courts in Innsbruck�

Robert Rebitsch, Universit�t Innsbruck

�Royalty at War: Ferdinand III's Military Campaign vs. �Election Campaign' in 1636�

Lothar H�belt, Universit�t Wien

Commentator: Susanne Claudine Pils, Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv

149.      Disposable Writing / Disposable Writers: German and Austrian Jewish Women Writing Before the Shoah

            Sun 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   Salon F

Moderator: Joachim Warmbold, Tel-Aviv University

�Veza Canetti: A Writer Without Name and Audience�

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago

�Urban Affairs: On Gertrud Kolmar's Eine j�dische Mutter �

Monika Shafi, University of Delaware

�Clementine Kr�mer: A German-Jewish Activist-Writer and Bavarian Heimatdichterin �

Elizabeth Loentz, University of Illinois, Chicago

Commentator: Helga Kraft, University, Illinois at Chicago

 

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

150.       Feminism and Interdisciplinarity

            Sponsor: Women in German

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon V

Moderator: Sara Eigen, Vanderbilt University

�Concept Travel, or: Some Thoughts on How to Concoct Theoretical Identities in the Age of Methodological Globalization�

Claudia Breger, Indiana University

�Geography and the German Repression of Muslim Women's Movements in Colonial East Africa�

Jennifer Kopf, George Mason University

�Cultural Dynamics-Migrant Aesthetics: Third Geography and Globalization as Cross-Currents in American and German Literatures�

Erika Berroth, Minnesota State University

�Memory, the Maternal Voice, and Migration: Intercultural Cinema and the Aural Turn in Film Theory�

Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto

Commentator: Inge Stephan, Humboldt Universit�t Berlin

151.      Forced Emigration and Restitution in Austria and Germany

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon II

Moderator: Gregory Weeks, The International University

�Forced Migration and Scientific Change after 1933: A New View of the Authoritarian Personality Study�

Mitchell Ash, Universit�t Wien

�Freiwillige Emigration? Das Beispiel Franz Theodor Csokors�

Dieter Binder, Universit�t Graz

�Communist and Observant Jew: Paul Dessau in American Exile�

Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University

�Hauptaufgaben der Restitutionsarbeit der Stadt Wien�

Kurt Scholz, Wien

Commentator: Lonnie Johnson, Fulbright Commission

152.     Case Studies of the German Resistance

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon I

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

�The Fate of Major Joachim Kuhn as Prisoner-of-War in the Soviet Union, 1944-1956�

Peter Hoffmann, McGill University

�The Reception of the German Resistance in Israel: Hans von Dohnanyi as a Case Study�

Danny Orbach, University of Tel-Aviv

�The Commissar Order and the Seventeenth German Army Command under General Carl Heinrich von Stulpnagel: From Genesis to Implementation, 30 March 1941-31 January 1942�

Robert B. Bernheim, University of Vermont

�Widerstand und Nachrichtendienst�

Winfried Meyer, Gedenkst�tte und Museum Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg und Freie Universit�t Berlin

Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

153.      Autobiography/Biography/Memory: German-Jewish Writers

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon VI

Moderator: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona

  ��We are not historical but we have memories': How Life Stories Give Us an Understanding of the Past -- Hannah Arendt's Stories About Rahel Varnhagen and Walter Benjamin�

Helgard Mahrdt, University of Oslo

�The Dialectics of Vergessen and Erinnern in the Work of Anna Seghers and Walter Benjamin�

Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University

�Surviving to Excel: German-Jewish Autobiographies at the End of the Twentieth Century

�Frederick Lubich, Old Dominion University       

Commentator:             Heidi Swanson, Trinity College

154.     German New Testament Research and National Socialism

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon H

Moderator: Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State University

�Martin Dibelius: An Internationally Renowned German New Testament Scholar During National Socialism�

Gerhard Besier, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

�Philhellenism and Anti-Semitism as Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Scholarly Work of Carl Schneider�

Annette Merz, University of Utrecht

�Theological Research about Judaism in Different Political Contexts: The Example of Karl Georg Kuhn�

Gerhard Lindemann, Hannah Arendt Institut f�r Totalit�rismusforchung

Commentator: Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University

155.     Visions of �Normalcy� in Weimar and the Third Reich: New Approaches to the Culture of Everyday Life in Germany

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15PAM   Salon J

Moderator: Katherine Pence, Baruch College, CUNY

�Discourses of "Normalcy" in Weimar Politics�

Julia Sneeringer, Queen's College, CUNY

�Advertising, Aryanization, and Normalcy in the Early Third Reich: The Case of the Alsberg/ Kortum Department Store in Bochum�

J. Ronald Shearer, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

"You have Coca-Cola here, too?: Making 'Refreshment' Ubiquitous in Nazi Germany"

Jeff R. Shutts, University of British Columbia and Douglas College

Commentator: Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

156.      Questions of Public Policy (II)

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon K

Moderator: Werner Reutter, University of Minnesota

�The Politics of Climate Change in Germany�

Michael Hatch, University of the Pacific

��You are what you eat': Urban Citizenship and the Multiculturalization of the Berlin Economy�

Joyce M. Mushaben, University of Missouri, St. Louis

�Europeanisation of the German Educational System: From �Golden Lead' to Last Resort?�

Heiko Walkenhorst, University of Essex

Commentator:   Alice Cooper, University of Mississippi

157.     Reviewing the Popular: New Perspectives on German Film Studies

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon A

Moderator: Elizabeth Mittmann, Michigan State University

� Teaching the Light Fantastic: German Popular Film in the Classroom�

Christian Rogowski, Amherst College

�Good Bye Lenin? - Memory, History, and German Unification�

Reinhild Steingr�ver, Eastman School of Music

� Deutschlandbilder and German Popular Film: Imagining Transnational Circulation�

Randall Halle, University of Rochester

�Doris D�rrie -- Commercial Auteur�

Margaret McCarthy, Davidson College

Commentator: Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota

158.     Travel, Exile, Displacement: Coordinates of Modern Homelessness in the Twentieth-Century

            Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM   Salon D

Moderator: Patrizia McBride, University of Minnesota

  ��At the Gates to Europe': Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy and Existential Homelessness after World War I�

Bettina Matthias, Middlebury College

  �Visualizing Invisibility in Travel: Ruth Beckermann's Ein fl�chtiger Zug nach dem Orient�  

Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University

�Seeking Germany:   Travel, National Identity, and the Search for Self in Christian Kracht's Faserland �

Cynthia Chalupa, West Virginia University

�Radio Art, Documentary, and the Sounds of Displacement. Paunovi's Other Voices - Echoes from a Warzone. Vienna/Belgrade April 29, 1999 �

Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University

Commentator: Nikhil Sathe, Ohio University

159.             Roundtable in Honor of Professor Wolf D. Gruner: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europ�ische Einigung,

                  1949-2000, (II)

                   Sun 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Salon E

Chair: Gerald R. Kleinfeld , GSA

Hubert Zimmermann, Cornell University, Ithaca

John Gillingham, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Mareike K�nig, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris

Matthias Schulz, Vanderbilt University

160. Salon F

END OF SESSIONS