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
SESSION TIMES
Friday, October 8, 2004
1. Jewish-Christian German �Mischlinge� from 1933 to the Present Salon V
2. Anti-Americanism in Germany Today: Something Old or Something New? Salon II
3. Goethe Across Cultural Boundaries Salon I
4. Media Culture and Austrian Identity in the 1950s and 1960s Salon VI
5. Varieties of Republican Practice Salon H
6. Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism, the Imaginary, and Legendary Spaces (I) Salon J
7. Athleticism, Sexuality, and Celebrity in Twentieth-Century Germany Salon K
8. Narrative Strategies in Minority Discourse Salon D
9. Facets of German Foreign and Security Policy Salon E
10. Aesthetics, Egoism, and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology Salon F
11. An die Musik - An die Moderne Salon G
12. Transformationsprobleme in den neuen Bundesl�ndern Jackson
13. Literary Texts and German Wartime Suffering: W.G. Sebald, G�nter Grass, Uwe Timm Jefferson
14. �Raum� und �Bev�lkerung� in den deutschen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
ca. 1900-1960 Lee
15. Citizen Activism and the Quest for the Sustainable City: Berlin, 1900 to the Present Madison
16. (Forg)Et in Arcadia ego: Travel, Writing, and the Formation of the Self Mt. Vernon 17. Marketing Socialism? The Dialectics of Culture and Consumption in the GDR Salon A
18. Images and Icons: Austria, Europe, and the USA Salon B
19. Reviving Typologies Past: Situating German National Character in the Twentieth and
Twenty-First Centuries Salon C
20. Forms of Lyrical Collectivity in Expressionism: Overcoming the Autonomous Self Manassas
Friday, October 8, 2004
Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
21. Europe and the US: How Serious is the Divide? Salon V
22. The Curse of Enthusiasm: Sublimity to Sadomasochism in Literature and Philosophy
Around 1800 Salon II
23. Portrayal of the Elderly in Austrian and German Literature Salon I
24. Germany and the EU Constitution I Salon VI
25. Sites of War and Holocaust: Moscow, Budapest, Turkey Salon H
26. Zwischen Tradition und Vision: Innovationskultur in Deutschland 1945-1990 Salon J
27. Theodor Herzl Revisited: 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod Salon K
28. Kriegsgefangenenpolitik im Zeitalter der Weltkriege Salon D
29. The Ethics of Modern Politics: Albert Schweitzer, Carl Schmitt, Hermann Broch Salon E
30. Rightist Politics in Weimar Manassas
31. Glaubensgewissheit und Kritik: Totalit�rismustheoretiker der deutschen Linken Salon G
32. Reportage and Illusion in Nineteenth-Century Prose and Poetry Jackson
33. German-Jewish Extraterritoriality: The Frankfurt School Revisited Jefferson
34. Rethinking the Restoration: Political Culture and Cultural Politics after Napoleon Lee
35. The South Tyrol Revisited - A Minority Conflict in the Twentieth Century Madison
36. The Stasi's Foreign Operations Revisited: What Do the New Files Tell? Salon F
37. Tourists in a Landscape: Tourism and Regional Identities in German-Speaking
Central Europe Mt. Vernon
38. Peep Shows, Horror Films, and Neo-Nazis: Christoph Schlingensief and the Politics
of Postmodern Aesthetics Salon A
39. From Luftschutz to Luftkrieg to Tr�mmer: Reflections of Arial Bombardment in
German Culture Salon B
40. Taboo, Disease, and Moral Corruption in the Middle Ages Salon C
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-Ulrich Treichel: A Conversation with the Writer Salon V
42. The US Elections and the Future of German American Relations Salon II
43. The Politics of Women's Fashion: The Interplay of Aesthetics and Power in German Mass Media Between
1918 and 1945 Salon I
44. The Dissolution of the Catholic Milieu: 1870-1960 Salon VI
45. Modes of Vergangenheitsbew�ltigung Salon H
46. Negotiated Identities: The Struggle to Define German and Immigrant Identities in the Twentieth Century Salon J
47. The Politics of Scholarship and Teaching German History: From Cold War to Globalism Salon K
48. Current German Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective Salon D
49. Religion and Politics: Secularism and Religious Identity in Europe and the United States Salon E
50. Mothers and Prostitutes: Women as Initiators and Subjects of Bourgeois Reform before 1914 Salon F
51. Germans and the Wider World, 1804-1918 Salon G
52. Semantik der Befriedung deutscher Nachkriegsgesellschaften im Vergleich Jackson
53. Trends in Recent Austrian Literature Jefferson
54. Specters of Violence Lee
55. Human Experimentation During the Weimar Republic and the Hitler Regime Madison
56. Language, Image, and Self-Reflexivity Mt. Vernon
57. Across the Divide: Germans and Slavs in the Twentieth Century Manassas
58. Modernism after Postmodernism: New German Critique at 30 Salon A
59. Holocaust Memory Exhibited: Perspectives and Challenges of the Museum Salon B
60. Berlin and Beyond: Constructing Recent History in Film and Literature Salon C
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 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
61. Innovation and Performance: Internet Technology and German Studies Salon V
62. Models of Value: Literature and Economics in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany Salon II
63. Roundtable in Honor of Professor Wolf D. Gruner: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europ�ische
Einigung: 1949-2000 Salon I
64. New Perspectives on Democratization: Race and Ethnicity Across the 1945 Divide McLean
65. German Identity in the Middle Ages Salon H
66. Between Hitler Youth and Democracy: German Youth Literature and Politics Salon J
67. The Continuing Evolution of the PDS Madison
68. Deutsche Geschichtsbilder Salon D
69. Colonized Politics: Resistance, Reform, and Radicalism in the German Debate over Empire, 1890-1917 Salon E
70. Closing the Circle: Did Nazi Victims Pay the Cost of Their Own Persecution? Salon F
71. Austria: Roth, Mayr�cker and Ransmayr Salon G
72. Women and Popular Literature: 1866-1925 Jackson
73. The Effect of the First World War on the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic Jefferson
74. Going to Court: Crime, Honor, and Justice in German History Lee
75. Post-Fascist Health Regimes Salon K
76. Archives in Germany and Austria: Issues and Problems Mt. Vernon
77. Courtship, Kinship, and the Fate of Loved Ones Through German Family Letters, 1786-1946 Manassas
78. Berlin Temporalities: Views of the (Post-)Modern Urban Condition Salon A
79. Biosciences, Literature and Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Inter/Disciplinary and Inter/National Exchanges Salon B
80. Attraction/Expulsion: 1950s West German Cinema and the Encounter with the East Salon C
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 Salon V
82. Mutability and Survival Salon II
83. Nostalgia, Technology, and the Subjects of History Salon I
84. Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism, the Imaginary, and Death (II) McLean
85. Reconstructing German-American Relations Salon H
86. Geschichte und Geschlecht in der Literatur Salon J
87. Troubled Borders: Germany and Eastern Europe and the Balkans Salon K
88. Teaching Nazi Values at Home and Abroad Salon D
89. Roundtable: Making It Real: Intellectual Exchange, Virtual Space, and the Public Sphere Salon E
90. Germany and the EU Constitution (II ) Salon F
91. Colonialism and German Literature Salon G
92. The American and Soviet Occupations of Germany (1945-49): Political and Cultural Reconstruction Jackson
93. Austrian Diplomacy and Foreign Policy after 1918 Jefferson
94. Religious Modernity in Germany: Reconfiguring Religious Subjectivity Circa 1820 Lee
95. Dimensionen der Verst�ndigung: Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Beziehungen mit der Weimarer Republik Madison
96. German Scholars Between Coercion and Conformity: Progressive Academics in the Third Reich Mt. Vernon
97. Strange Kin/Foreign Bodies in Early Nineteenth-Century Literature Manassas
98. Scholarly Production in the Electronic Age Salon A
99. Shaping National Memory in Contemporary German Cinema Salon B
100. National Socialism in Photography and Film Salon C
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) Salon V
102. Schiller: Constructs of Subjectivity Salon E
103. Roundtable: The Return of the Aesthetic Salon I
104. German-American Relations McLean
105. Roundtable: Publishing in Austrian Studies Salon H
106. The Dilemma of the Socialist Artist: Hanns Eisler's Exile and Return Salon J
107. Small Countries Under German Occupation: Denmark and Estonia in World War II Salon K
108. Defining an Image: Writers Negotiating the Twenty-first Century Public Sphere Salon D
109. Nazi Ethics Salon II
110. Der Nato-Doppelbeschlu� Salon F
111. Inquests, Museums & Monuments, Restitution: On Different Ways of Copying with the Burdens of the Past Salon G
112. Political Party Finance and Corruption Jackson
113. From Museum to Mausoleum: Death and Human Remains in 20th Century Exhibitions Jefferson
114. Ethnic Cooperation and Its Discontents: The German-Slavic Fault Line in the Modern Era Lee
115. �A renewal of German spiritual life�? The Gruppe 47 Revisited Madison
116. Race and Sex in Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature Mt. Vernon
117. The State Within Striking Distance: Law Enforcement and Popular Attitudes Toward Police
and Tax Collectors Manassas
118. GDR Dreamworlds Salon A
119. The Weimar Republic: Photography, Film, and Music Salon B
120. Non-Germans in the History of Germany: Germany in the History of Non-Germans Salon C
Saturday, October 9, 2004
Sessions 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
121. New Approaches in Holocaust Film and Television Studies Salon V
122. Roundtable: US-German Security Relations After 9/11 Salon II
123. When Life Follows the Image: Imagined Continuities after 1945 Salon C
124. The Genre of Memory: Writing Everyday Life in Recent Texts by Christa Wolf, Uwe Timm, and
Tanja D�ckers McLean
125. Hauptstadt-Konzeptionen, Hauptstadt-Wahrnehmungen: Berlin, Bern, Wien Salon H
126. Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature Salon J
127. Contemporary German Literature: Tawada and Senocak Salon K
128. Politics and the Power of Language Salon D
129. Gender Aspects in the Perception and Prosecution of War Crimes After World War II Salon E
130. Anti-Semitism, Liberalism, and Zionism, 1811-1896 Salon F
131. Between Accommodation and Opposition: The SED and East German Jews Salon G
132. From Goethe's Faust to Hegel on Faust Salon I
133. Questions of Public Policy (I ) Jackson
134. Cultural Reform, Imperialism, and the State in Wilhelmine Germany Jefferson
135. Austrian Nazi Putsch in July 1934: Its Victims and Perpetrators Lee
136. Germans at Risk: Discourses on Modernity, Risk, and Selfhood in the Twentieth Century Madison
137. Public and Private Issuing Banks in Central Europe Mt. Vernon
138. Righting Transgressions: Fictional, Non-Fictional and Historical Narratives of Homosexuality
and the Political Right Salon A
139. Crime and (Dis-)Integration of Weimar Communities Salon B
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Sessions 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
140. Literary Responses to Terrorism Salon V
141. The Crimes of the Wehrmacht: New Perspectives Salon II
142. Recent Developments in the German Party System Salon I
143. The German, Polish and Czech Debates on a Center Against Expulsions Salon VI
144. Cultural Consumers and Consumer Culture, 1868-1915 Salon H
145. Hans Rothfels als politischer Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert Salon J
146. Self Deceptions in Germany: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Salon K
147. The Sexual Underworld: Reading Male Prostitution and Pimping in Early-Twentieth-Century Germany Salon D
148. Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Courts in War and Peace Salon E
149. Disposable Writing / Disposable Writers: German and Austrian Jewish Women Writing before the Shoah Salon F
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
150. Feminism and Interdisciplinarity Salon V
151. Forced Emigration and Restitution in Austria and Germany Salon II
152. Case Studies of the German Resistance Salon I
153. Autobiography/Biography/Memory: German-Jewish Writers Salon VI
154. German New Testament Research and National Socialism Salon H
155. Visions of �Normalcy� in Weimar and the Third Reich: New Approaches to the Culture of Everyday
Life in Germany Salon J
156. Questions of Public Policy (II) Salon K
157. Reviewing the Popular: New Perspectives on German Film Studies Salon A
158. Travel, Exile, Displacement: Coordinates of Modern Homelessness in the Twentieth Century Salon D
159. Roundtable organized by Mary Hampton / Part II of Session 63 Salon E
160. Salon F
END OF SESSIONS