1.  Zweiter Weltkrieg: Historie versus Legendenbildung 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Walker
Moderator: Geoffrey P. Megargee United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Commentator: Ronald Smelser Univ of Utah

Securing the Domestic Front in WW II: Wehrkraftzersetzung and the Reichskriegsgericht
Steven R Welch  University of Melbourne

Hitler als Kriegs- und Feldherr
J�rgen F�rster  Universit�t Freiburg

2.  Modernity and the Baroque 1: Nietzsche and Baroque Moralistik 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Juneau
ROUND TABLE

Another Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche, Gracian, and the Baroque
Kathleen Merrow  Portland State Univ

"Man gelte nicht fur einen Mann von Verstellung": The Right of Self-Representation in Gracian
Sebastian Neumeister  Institut fur Romanische Philologie, Freie Universitat Berlin

Allegory and Trauerspiel: Constantia and the Baroque Theater of Cruelty (Andreas Gryphius, Catharina von Georgien, 1657)
Jane O. Newman  Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

3.  Austrian Literature I: The Austrian Civil Imaginary 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    MacArthur
Moderator: Gerhard H. Weiss University of Minnesota
Commentator: Paul Michael L�tzeler Washington University

History and the Process of Civilization: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach�s "Das Gemeindekind"
Peter C Pfeiffer  Georgetown University

Transcending Central Europe: On Robert M�ller's Exoticism
Ulrich Bach  Stanford University

4.  Space and Identity in Turkish-German Cinema 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 650
Moderator: Julie Klassen Carleton College
Commentator: Richard W. McCormick University of Minnesota

Border Crossings and Identity in Recent Turkish-German Cinema
Tim Gruenewald  Universtity of Washington

Kanak Pride and Visual Alterity: Turks, Germans, and the Borders of Europe
Randall Halle  University of Rochester

5.  Germany and the Holocaust I: Re-viewing the Past 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-A
Moderator: Brad Prager University of Missouri, Columbia
Commentator: Barbara Mennel University of Florida, Gainesville

Narrative Transgression in Edgar Hilsenrath's "Der Nazi und der Friseur" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem Holocaust"
Erin McGlothlin  Washington University in St. Louis

"Beauftragter im Sinne der deutschen Geschichte": Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Der Untergang" (2004)
Michael D. Richardson  Ithaca College

6.  The Political Culture of Court Society I: Insult in Politics, Culture, and Academia in Eighteenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Crystal Ballroom
Moderator: Almut Spalding Illinois College
Commentator: James Goodale Bucknell University

Duplicitous Behavior: Anti-Habsburg Sentiment in Friedrich II of Prussia's Opera "Montezuma"
John Magnum  Los Angeles Philharmonic

Insult and Ridicule: Extraordinary Avenues of Comunication and Power at the Court of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia
Benjamin Marschke  Montana State University - Billings

7.  Living Space in Modern Germany 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Usinger
Moderator: Gregory A Eghigian Penn State University
Commentator: Andrew Stuart Bergerson University of Missouri, Kansas City

�Wohnung der Zukunft� or �Massenverwahrung�? The Rise of Functionalist Architecture, Material Rupture, and the Domestic Space in the New Apartments of East Germany
Eli Rubin  Western Michigan University

From Bauhaus to Bosporus: Everyday Space in the Work of Bruno Taut
Jennifer Jenkins  University of Toronto

8.  Fighting Fascism: Three Postwar Variations 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Schlitz
Moderator: Robert P. Ericksen Pacific Lutheran University
Commentator: Geoffrey J Giles Univ of Florida

Letters from Exile: The Briefwechsel of Hannah Arendt and Hermann Broch in their 1940s American exile.
Donald L. Wallace  University of California, San Diego

Reeducating Bremen
Bianka Adams  U.S. Department of Defense

9.  Diasporic Genealogies: Jewish Writing in Germany around 1800  
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Pabst
Moderator: Leslie Morris University of Minnesota
Commentator: Sven-Erik Rose Miami University

Mendelssohn�s Greek Roots
Liliane Weissberg  University of Pennsylvania

"There is neither truth nor falsity � there are just thoughts or no thoughts whatsoever:" Reading Maimon's Lebensgeschichte as Philosophy
Jason Peck  University of Minnesota

Voices from the Neighborhood: Hebrew, Yiddish and German Beginnings in Modern Jewish Literature
Andrea Schatz  Princeton University

10.  Occupied by the French 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Miller
Moderator: Karin Breuer Ithaca College
Commentator: Anthony J Steinhoff Univ. of Tennessee-Chattanooga

�Occupied� Alsace, 1914-1918
Christopher Fischer  Indiana State University

Reconciliation under Occupation: German and French Encounters after World War II
Elana Passman  Loyola College

11.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 1: Germany and Transnationalism: International Solidarity and National Identity in the German Democratic Republic  
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Mitchell
Moderator: Noel D. Cary College of the Holy Cross
Commentator: Lynne Fallwell Center for Worker Education

Geopolitical and Cognitive Mappings: Critical Solidarity with Latin America in East German Theater
Jamie Trnka  Cornell University

Instrumentalizing Peace: Music and the Peace Movement in East Germany and Poland during the Early Cold War
David Tompkins  University of Tennessee

12.  American Occupations: Germany 1945-1949; Iraq-- 2003-2005 (Session Sponsored by German Historical Institute, Washington, DC) 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Oak
Moderator: Christof Mauch GHI
Commentator: David P. Conradt East Carolina University

Emigre and Homeland Politicians
Reiner Pommerin  Technische Universit�t Dresden

Any Sense in the Parallels?
Robert Gerald Livingston  German Historical Institute

13.  After Fifty Years: Remembering Thomas Mann  
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Monarch
Moderator: Elisabeth W�gh�ll-Nivre Stockholm University
Commentator: Jennifer E Michaels Grinnell College

Goethe und Thomas Mann: Eine Wahlverwandtschaft zwischen Klassik und Moderne
Frederick A. Lubich  Old Dominion University

Thomas Mann's "Freud und die Zukunft": Ein Gleichnis
Diana Reese  Cornell University

14.  Refiguring the "New Woman" in the History of Germany's Long Twentieth Century 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-B
Moderator: Geoffrey C Cocks Albion College
Commentator: Meike G. Werner Vanderbilt University

�Neue Frau� und Frauenbewegung als Spannungsverh�ltnise: die 1920er, 1950er und 1970er Jahre
Irene Stoehr  

New Women and the �Crisis of Modernity� before and after the First World War
Kathleen Canning  University of Michigan

15.  Home and the Nation 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Lorie A. Vanchena Creighton University
Commentator: Dave Hamlin Fordham University

Die Kinderstube � Toys, Consumption and the Nationalization of Middle-Class Childhood
Bryan Ganaway  Presbyterian College

Preserving the Foundation: Imagining the Family after 1848
Jason Tebbe  University of Illinois

16.  "I Am the Last Prussian": Kuno Graf von Westarp and German Politics, 1900-1933 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-C
Moderator: Joseph W Bendersky Virginia Commonwealth University
Commentator: Barry Jackisch 

Die "Eigenart der Frauenarbeit": Kuno Graf von Westarp und die Frauenpolitik der DNVP
Kirsten Heinsohn  Institute for the History of German Jews

German Conservatism at the Crossroads: Kuno Graf von Westarp and the DNVP Leadership Crisis, 1928-1930
Larry E. Jones  Canisius College

17.  Genres of German and Jewish Connections 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 649
Moderator: Lisa Jennings Valparaiso University
Commentator: Frederick A. Lubich Old Dominion University

Performing "Jewishness" in the DEFA Film "The Actress"
Kai Herklotz  University of California, Irvine

Beschreibung eines Konflikts: Israel-Palestine in current German travel literature.
Joachim Warmbold  Tel Aviv University

18.  Germany's Crisis Areas 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 663
Moderator: Gerold Schmiedbach Industrie- und Handelskammer, Darmstadt
Commentator:  

Modernisierung des Landes Niedersachsen: Vorschl�ge f�r den Bund?
Wolfgang G. Gibowski  Vertretung des Landes Niedersachsens beim Bund

"Federalism, Fiscal Policy, Finanzausgleich: Recent Developments."
Wade Jacoby  Brigham Young University

19.  Women's Despair, Women's Genius 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Kilbourn
Moderator: James C Albisetti Univ of Kentucky
Commentator: Katrin V�lkner 

Weibliche Irrsterne": The Female Genius in 19th-Century Germany
Denise Della Rossa  Idaho State University

Die Frauenbewegung als Notlage? The Gendering of Despair in the Imperial Women�s Movement
Catherine Dollard  Denison University

Melancholy, Reproduction, and Artistic Production in Franziska zu Reventlow's --Ellen Olestjerne-- and Gabriele Reuter's --Das Tr�nenhaus--
Lisabeth Hock  Wayne State University

20.  The Radio Play in Post-War German Society 
       Fri 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Regency
Moderator: Karen R. Achberger St. Olaf College
Commentator: Paula Hanssen Webster University

Memory and the Nibelungenlied in Peter Hirche�s N�he des Todes
Ginny Lewis  Northern State University

German radio play and the phenomenology of listening
Ingvild Folkvord  Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Ilse Langner�s H�rpsiel Iphigenie Smith kehrt heim: A Lesson in Distraction
Lynn Kutch  Lehigh University

21.  Elfriede Jelinek: Illness, Ethics, Translation 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Regency
Moderator: Paul Michael L�tzeler Washington University
Commentator: Nancy Nobile University of Delaware

The Ethical Dimension of Jelinek's Prose
Steve Dowden  Brandeis University

Translating Jelinek: The Art of Compromise
Bettina Brandt  Montclair State University

22.  Modernity and the Baroque 2:Gershom Scholem and the Heretic 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Juneau
Moderator: Sharon Gillerman University of Southern California
Commentator: Paul Reitter University of California, Berkeley

Perspectives on Scholem and Sabbatean Heresy
Matt Goldish  Department of History, Ohio State University

Heresy in the Seventeenth Century
Allison Coudert  Univ. of Ca., Davis

23.  The Politics and Ideology of the Radical Right, 1900 to 1934 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: Pieter Judson Swarthmore College
Commentator: Geoff Eley University of Michigan

"Race, Hygiene, and Bio-Politics in the Wilhelmine Right: Pan-German Nationalism and the Logic of Ethnic Cleansing"
Dennis Sweeney  University of Alberta

�Continuity and Change on the German Right: The Pan-German League and Nazism, 1918-1939�
Barry Jackisch  

24.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 2: Playing Indian? Native Americans and German Tourists, Hobbyists, and Activists in the Post-War Era 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Gerd Gem�nden Dartmouth College
Commentator: Rudy J. Koshar Univ of Wisconsin Madison

The Joys of Playing with fire: German and Other Identities on Indianist Playgrounds
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven  McGill University

Red Power: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich and Indian Support Groups in East and West Germany
H. Glenn Penny  University of Iowa

25.  Archivische Quellen zur/trotz �berwachung und Unterdr�ckung in Deutschland und �sterreich 1890 bis 1989 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Ronald Smelser Univ of Utah
Commentator: Evan B Bukey University of Arkansas

Quellen �ber nationalsozialistische �berwachung und Repression am Beispiel der Stadt Linz
Walter Schuster  Archiv der Stadt Linz

Literarische Gegenwelten. Das Archiv unterdr�ckter Literatur in der DDR
Matthias Dr. Buchholz  Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur

26.  Was macht eine CDU/CSU Regierung anders? 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Regency
ROUND TABLE

Wolfgang Bergsdorf  University of Erfurt

Roland Freudenstein  Hamburg State Govt.

David P. Conradt  East Carolina University

Ursula Maennle  Hanns Seidel Foundation

Clay Clemens  College of William and Mary

27.  Being/Becoming a Man: Varieties of Masculinity in Germany between 1740 and 1800  
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Miller
Moderator: R. Andre Wakefield Pitzer College
Commentator: Randolph Trumbach Baruch College

Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality: African Images in Early Modern German Society
Vera Lind  Northern Illinois University

Making the Classical Man: Masculinity and Education in Late-Eighteenth Century Schnepfenthal
Heikki Lempa  Moravian College

28.  Expelling the Past: Extreme Means as a Form of Vergangenheitsbew�ltigung in Contemporary Literature and Film  
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 664
Moderator: Albert Gouaffo Universit� de Dschang/Cameroun
Commentator: Richard Sperber Carthage College

Nations Built on Plaster Foundations Cannot Last: Kerstin Hensel's Post-Unification Novel Gipshut as a Dystopian Vision of the GDR and Reunified Germany
Jill Twark  East Carolina University

Cleansing the Social Body: Post-Unification Literary Attempts at Expelling the Stasi
Kristie A. Foell  Bowling Green State University

29.  Verwissenschaftlichungsprozesse in der deutschen Gesellschaft nach 1945 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Oak
Moderator: Alan Beyerchen Ohio State University
Commentator: Richard F. Wetzell German Historical Institute

The German Labor Administration�s First Crisis: The End of Totalerfassung and the Turn to Science, 1955 to 1970
David Meskill  Harvard University

HOMO MUNITUS: The East German observed
Gregory A Eghigian  Penn State University

Experten f�r Humankapital: Zur Verwissenschaftlichung betrieblicher Personalpolitik in westdeutschen Unternehmen, 1945�1980
Ruth Rosenberger  Universitaet Trier

30.  "Befangenheit ist das Normale"?: German/Jewish and Jewish/German Relations Today  
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: Jeffrey M Peck Georgetown Univ./AICGS
Commentator: Atina Grossmann The Cooper Union

What Am I Doing Here? Field Research in Germany�s Jewish Studies
Joachim Schloer  Universit�t Potsdam

What are We Doing Here? Constructing German Identities in Israel -- An Oral History Project
Anne Rothe  Wayne State University

The Schizophrenic Israeli Jew � The War After the War Against Nazi Germany
Moshe Zimmermann  Koebner Center for German History

31.  Die Besatzungspolitik der Siegerm�chte und die mentale Umkehr der Deutschen nach Krieg und Zivilisationsbruch 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 650
Moderator: Hans-Juergen Schroeder Universitaet Giessen
Commentator: Reiner Pommerin Technische Universit�t Dresden

Der sowjetische Weg zur Realisierung des Potsdamer Minimalkonsenses
Manfred Wilke  Freie Universit�t Berlin

Schl�sselregion Ruhrgebiet; Die britische Besatzungspolitik gegen�ber der der KPD (angefragt)
Till K�ssler  Ludwig-Maximilian-Universit�t M�nchen

32.  Spatial Economies in Berlin 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Craig Decker Bates College
Commentator: Karen Till University of London

�Berlin Discourse and the Spatial Turn in Cultural Studies�
Sabine Hake  University of Texas at Austin

�Staging the global city: Pollesch@Volksb�hne�
Katrin Sieg  Georgetown University

33.  German and Austrian Jewish Pacifist Writings in the First World War and Beyond 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 663
Moderator: Joachim Warmbold Tel Aviv University
Commentator: William Collins Donahue Duke University

The Jewish Experience, Pacifism, and Animal Rights. Elias and Veza Canetti, Claire Goll, and Gertrud Kolmar
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz  University of Illinois at Chicago

The Final Days of Teleological Optimism about the �Natural� Triumph of Pacifism: A Secular Jewish-German Pacifist in the World War I Era
Virginia Iris Holmes  Einstein Papers Project, Caltech

34.  Gods and the Divine in Medieval German Culture (sponsored by YMAGINA (Young Medievalist Germanists in North America)) 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Rasma Lazda-Cazers The University of Alabama
Commentator: Niklaus Largier UC Berkeley

Saints and Self-Portraits in the Pictorial Narratives of Artist Sibilla von Vondorf (c. 1440-1524)
Anne Winston-Allen  Southern Illinois University

Deixis und Wahrnehmung: Die Publikumslenkung durch den sp�tmittelalterlichen Spielproklamator
Glenn Ehrstine  University of Iowa

35.  J�disches Mitteleuropa � mitteleurop�isches Judentum  
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Winfried R. Garscha Zentrale oesterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz
Commentator: Gregory Weeks Webster University Vienna

Die j�dische Gemeinde von Graz
Gerald Lamprecht  Centrum f�r J�dische Studien

Mythos Czernowitz
Dieter A. Binder  University of Graz

36.  Misplaced: The Aesthetics of Dislocation in Contemporary German Cinema 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Pabst
Moderator: Christina Gerhardt University of California at Berkeley
Commentator: Carsten Strathausen University of Missouri at Columbia

Ossil�nder? The Foreign East in Hannes St�hr's Berlin is in Germany
Jennifer M. Kapczynski  Washington University

Free Fallin�: Tom Tykwer and the Aesthetics of Standstill
Lutz Koepnick  Washington University

37.  Western (re)visions of East German Culture: GDR Literature, Music and Art after the Wende 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Richard J Rundell New Mexico State Univ
Commentator: Bill Niven The Nottingham Trent University

Hanns Eisler in a Post-Communist Age
Vera Stegmann  Lehigh University

Reevaluating the Staatsk�nstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting
April Eisman  University of Pittsburgh

38.  Between Collaboration and Resistance: Different Experiences of the Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe  
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-B
Moderator: Jean Quataert Binghamton University
Commentator: Katherine Aaslestad West Virginia University

National War or Resistance Against Exploitation? The Impact of Military Recruitment, Economic Exploitation, and Religion in Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg
Ute Planert  Universit�t T�bingen

Commerce and Accommodation: Saxony under Napoleon
Robert Beachy  Goucher College

A Prussian �Sonderweg�? Experiences of French Occupation and Patriotic Mobilization in Prussia
Karen Hagemann  University of North Carolina

39.  Reading Hans Grimm 
       Fri 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: Anke Finger University of Connecticut
Commentator: John Noyes University of Toronto

Hans Grimm and Helene Voigt-Diederichs: A Friendship Between Writers
Meike G. Werner  Vanderbilt University

Hans Grimm und die �Lippoldsberger Dichtertage� zwischen 1934 und 1960
Anne Chr. Nagel  

40.  Scientific Temporalities in the Nineteenth Century: Progress, Technology, and Myth 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Suite 650
Moderator: Lisabeth Hock Wayne State University
Commentator: George S Williamson University of Alabama

Herder's anthropology in Marx's early conception of Man
Bradford Whitener  Lewis & Clark College

Revolutions in High-Speed Communication: Kleist, Fontane, and the Telegraph
John Lyon  University of Pittsburgh

The Myth in the Form: Storm's Schimmelreiter and Late 19th-Century Culture
Derek Hillard  Kansas State University

41.  Modernity and the Baroque 3: Carl Schmitt and the Christian-Jewish Tradition 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Juneau
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach Princeton University
Commentator: Peter Caldwell 

Grotius and Schmitt on War: Readings and Controversies
Martin Van Gelderen  European University Institute

Hobbes and Schmitt on Sovereignty and Protection
Peter Schroeder  University College London

42.  Exoticism, Imperialism and Travel Literature 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Wright-B
Moderator: Sukanya Kulkarni University of Toronto
Commentator: John Noyes University of Toronto

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: De-Exoticizing Oriental Women in Ida von Hahn-Hahn's "Orientalische Briefe"
Ulrike Brisson  

Monistic Visions and Colonial Consciousness: Ernst Haeckel's "Indische Reisebriefe"
Perry Myers  Albion College

"Traveling Without Baggage�: The Authority of V�lkerschauen in Fin-de-si�cle Germany
David Kim  Harvard University

43.  Rosenstrasse Revisited - Mixed Marriage, Deportation, and Street Protests in Nazi Germany, March 1943 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Regency
Moderator: Henry Friedlander Brooklyn College, CUNY
Commentator: Evan B Bukey University of Arkansas

Auschwitz und die Berliner "Fabrikaktion" Februar/Maerz 1943
Joachim Neander  Independent Scholar Krak�w

Der Protest in der Rosenstrasse 1943 und die Kirchen
Antonia Leugers  TU Dresden

The Meaning of Dr. Gerhard Lehfeldt's Contemporary Report Relating to the Rosenstrasse Protest and its Postwar Fate
Nathan Stoltzfus  Florida State Univ

44.  German Refugee Intellectuals After 1933: New Approaches 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Andreas Daum University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Commentator: Georg Iggers SUBY/Buffalo

Franz Borkenau: Between Communism and Anti-Communism, 1900-1957
Mario Kessler  Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung

J�rgen Kuczynski: A German-Jewish Marxist Scholar in British Exile
Sven Axel Fair Schulz  

45.  The Political Culture of Court Society II: Sexual Politics at Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Courts 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Crystal Ballroom
ROUND TABLE

The Gender and Politics of Access: Habsburg Elites and the Theresian Court
Rita Krueger  Temple University

Impotency and Promiscuity: The Problem of Royal Sexuality in Prussia and France, 1740-1797
Thomas Biskup  Universitaet Potsdam

Women at Court: Female Office Holders at the Seventeenth-Century Viennese Court
Katrin Keller  Institut fuer Geschichte-Wien

Networks of Royal Sisters as Sites of Cultural Transfer: The Case of Four Danish Princesses
Mara Wade  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

46.  New Research on Art in Nazi Germany 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Marion F. Deshmukh George Mason Univ
Commentator: Paul B Jaskot DePaul University

The Use of Art in Nazi Germany�s Foreign Relations
Keith Holz  Western Illinois University -- Macomb

Gerdy Troost: Hitler�s Other Chosen Architect
Despina Stratigakos  Harvard University

Franz Radziwill�s "Still Life with Fuschia" and the Problem of Inner Emigration
James Van Dyke  Reed College

47.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 3: Transnational Approaches to Cold War Germany 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Jennifer Jenkins Washington University in St. Louis
Commentator: Konrad H Jarausch Univ of North Carolina

Hygienic Modernity and Decolonization during the Cold War
Young-Sun Hong  State University of New York, Stony Brook

�Wir und die farbige Welt�: Religion and Race in West German pacifism, 1945-1969
Andrew Oppenheimer  University of Chicago

"One, Two, Many": Cuba in West Berlin
Jennifer Hosek  Stanford University

48.  Zwischenzeiten/Zwischenr�ume: Arresting Historical Time in 20th-Century Film and Literature 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: Folke-Christine Moeller-Sahling University of Southern Indiana
Commentator: John E. Davidson Ohio State University

�Is ne lange Geschichte [�] Mu�te schon n bi�chen Zeit haben.� Time and Storytelling in Uwe Timm�s Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Nikhil Sathe  Ohio University

�Leere Zwischenzeiten�: Waiting in the Liminal Space of the Magic Mountain
Jennifer William  Purdue University

�Seit gestern ist morgen auch noch ein Tag.� � Zum Zeitkonzept in Jurek Beckers Roman Jakob der L�gner
B�rbel Such  

49.  Islam in Germany Today 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Miller
Moderator: Gerald R Kleinfeld German Studies Association
Commentator: David P. Conradt East Carolina University

How Turks became Muslims in Germany
Michael Werz  Hessen Universities Consortium

Der Islam im Westen, Der Westen im Islam - Beispiel Deutschland
Peter Graf  University of Osnabr�ck

50.  Aesthetics and Self-Awareness in Early Modern Germany 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Schlitz
Moderator: Hans Adler University of Wisconsin-Madison
Commentator: Gerald L. Soliday University of Texas-Dallas

"German" Taste? Nationalization of Aesthetic Judgment and Musical Style in Early-Eighteenth-Century Music Discourse
Rebekah Pryor Pare  University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Inspiration of a New Landscaping Ideal: Joseph Addison and his Positive Impact on Kant
Yu Liu  Niagara County Community College

Watching Buildings in Goethe and Benjamin
Daniel Purdy  Penn State University

51.  The Many Forms of Memory Work 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Pabst
Moderator: Thomas Sebastian Trinity College
Commentator: Michael T Jones Univ of Kentucky

The New Ruin: Bernd and Hilla Bechers' Industrial Photography
Kathryn Steinbock  University of Michigan

Grenz�berschreitungen in Christoph Heins Nachwendetexten
Axel Hildebrandt  Mount Holyoke College

52.  Sexuality in Austria in the Twentieth Century 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: Guenter Bischof Univ of New Orleans
Commentator: Dagmar Herzog Graduate Center, City University of New York

Sexual Encounters Across (Former) Enemy Borderlines, Part 1
Ingrid Bauer  University of Salzburg

Sexual Encounters Across (Former) Enemy Borderlines, Part 2
Renate Huber  Johannes Kepler University of Linz

A Scandal in the Seminary
Pieter Judson  Swarthmore College

53.  German and Yiddish: New Contexts 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Oak
Moderator: Hinrich C Seeba University of California
Commentator: Leslie Morris University of Minnesota

Aron Bernstein and Berthold Auerbach: Jewish Ghetto, German Dorf
Sarah Bailey  University of California, Berkeley

Home Affront: German and Yiddish Inter-War Encounters in D�blin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
Samuel Spinner  Columbia University

The Yiddishizing of Heinrich Heine: The Case of Moyshe Leyb Halpern
Jeffrey Grossman  University of Virginia (on leave)

54.  Berlin as Musical Weltstadt 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Walker
Moderator: Marc Silberman Univ of Wisconsin
Commentator: David C Large Montana State University

Musical Weltstadt or Den of Iniquity? Berlin from 1870 to 1945
Pamela Potter  Univ of Wisconsin

Jonny spielt auf: Entartete Musik? Ernst Krenek's Opera and the Berlin Context
Jennifer Ward  University of Wisconsin

Musical Rivalry and Tradition in the Two Berlins, 1945-1990
Elizabeth Janik  Old Dominion University

55.  Postwar Concerns 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Thomas Kovach University of Arizona
Commentator: Scott Denham Davidson College

Siddartha and the Baal Shem: Orientalism, Modernism, and Redemption in the Work of Martin Buber and Hermann Hesse
Robert W Whalen  Queens University of Charlotte

Mothers Care? Models of Motherhood and their Ethical Implications in post-WWII women�s literature
Michelle Mattson  Rhodes College

56.  Disappearing Nations in German (Language)Literature 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Suite 663
Moderator: John Zilcosky
Commentator: Christopher Clark Department of German, NYU

The Disappearance of Nations in Libuse Monikova's Fiction
Dawn McKenna  University of Toronto

Re-Constituting Memory and History: Ilse Tielsch's Trilogy of Novels
Xenia Harwell  Adjunt , Univ. of Notre Dame

57.  Female Men and Male Women: Masculinity and Its Discontents 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Monarch
Moderator: Sabine Hake University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Kevin Amidon Iowa State University

Male Maternity, �Blackness�, and Modernity in Marinetti�s �African� novel �Mafarka the futurist�
Christine Kanz  Universit�t Bern

"Girlkultur": Colonial Masculinity in the Metropolis
Jonathan Wipplinger  University of Michigan

Of Racecar Drivers and Rogues: Lesbian Masculinity in the Weimar Republic
Amy Young  Fort Hays State University

58.  Germany in Europe 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Duane Swank Marquette University
Commentator: Wade Jacoby Brigham Young University

Deutschlands Beitrag zur Herausbildung einer europ�ischen Diplomatie
Claudia Dunlea  Florida Atlantic University

German Social Democratic �Chauvinism� and the Idea of Europe, 1914-1924
Tania Maync  University of Chicago

What�s for Dinner? Variations in European Support for Genetically Modified Food
Alice Holmes Cooper  Univ of Mississippi

59.  Conceptualizing Contingency: G�nderrode, Goethe, Kant, and Kleist 
       Fri 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM    Suite 664
Moderator: Stephan K. Schindler Washington University
Commentator: Elke Siegel Yale University

Contingency, Economics, and Style in Kleist's Journalistic Writings
Zachary Sng  Brown University

Eine Art Wahnsinn: Contingency and Intellectual Intuition in Goethe�s Theory of Metamorphosis
Jocelyn Holland  

Contingency and Creativity: Kleist and the Self-Programming of Modern Art
Edgar Landgraf  Bowling Green State University

60.  New Directions in the History of Modern German Religion, Religious Identities, and Religious Culture. 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: Till Van Rahden Universitaet Koeln
Commentator: Michael B. Gross East Carolina University

Rethinking the Notion of the Secular City in late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Anthony J Steinhoff  Univ. of Tennessee-Chattanooga

"Lived Religion� in German Catholicism, 1870-1914: A Challenge to the Ecclesial Paradigm
Jeffrey Zalar  Georgetown

61.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 4: Resistance Without Borders: Transnational Protest in the 60s and 70s 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Andrea Gogr�f Voorhees
Commentator: Belinda Davis Rutgers University

The Transnational Move �from Protest to Resistance�
Karin Bauer  McGill University

Conservative Backlash or Permanent Emergency: Negotiating Spatio-Temporal Disorders in the Aftermath of the German Autumn 1977
Maria Stehle  Connecticut College 5576

Transnational Acts: Emine S. �zdamar�s Prose Theatre of Protest Memories
Claudia Breger  Indiana University, Bloomington

62.  "Fireworks on the Danube": A Commemorative Trip to the Donautal to Mark the 60th Year since Liberation  
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Pabst
Moderator: Nancy E Rupprecht Middle Tennessee State University
Commentator: Robert Herzstein University of South Carolina

From Baroque Eden to Seat of Early Nazi Movement
Anna Rosmus  Independent Scholar

Aus der Geschichte lernen - Wirkungen des 8. Mai 1945
Heinrich Oberreuter  Universitt Passau

63.  Goethe and Schiller at War  
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Karin Schutjer University of Oklahoma
Commentator: Elisabeth M. Krimmer University of California, Davis

The Erotics of War in Goethe�s �Kriegsgl�ck�
Patricia A. Simpson  MSU- Bozeman

War Play: Friedrich Schiller and the Battles of History
Jan Mieszkowski  Reed College

64.  Generational Holocaust Writing: A Comparative Approach 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Oak
Moderator: Bettina Brandt Montclair State University
Commentator: Erin McGlothlin Washington University in St. Louis

Holocaust Memories: Second Generation Literature in the U.S., Germany, and the Netherlands
Pascale Bos  University of Texas at Austin

Is there a Post-Holocaust Generation?
Gary Weissman  University of Cincinnati

Gender and Generations: Consequences of the Holocaust
Jaye A. Houston  claremont graduate university

65.  The Early Poetry of Bertolt Brecht: The Figures of God, the Criminal, and the Corpse 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Timothy B. Malchow Valparaiso University
Commentator: Marc Silberman Univ of Wisconsin

Murder and Morality in Brecht�s Early Poetry
K. Scott Baker  University of Missouri - Kansas City

The Philosophy of De-Composition: Brecht�s Poetic Corpses
Volker Kaiser  University of Virginia

66.  Feminine Identity in Baroque Literature 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Schlitz
Moderator: Barbara Becker-Cantarino Ohio State University
Commentator: Volker Langbehn San Francisco State University

Theodosia: A Voice of Mercy in Andreas Gryphius� Trauerspiel Leo Armenius?
Karina Marie Ash  University of California at Los Angeles

A Whore, a Hag, a Witch and a Devil: Narrative Discourse in Grimmelshausen�s Landstorzerin Courasche
Veronika Tuckerova  City University of New York (CUNY)

67.  Real and Imagined Spaces of the Viennese Concert Hall 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Nicholas Vazsonyi Univ of South Carolina
Commentator: Steven Whiting University of Michigan

Politics at the Philharmonic: On Music Reception and Constructions of Social Identity in Liberal Vienna
David Brodbeck  Univ. of California, Irvine

Gustav Mahler�s Landscapes: Constructions of Space in Music and the Visual Arts in Fin-de-Si�cle Vienna
Laura Dolp  

68.  German Anthropology in the Early Twentieth Century: Race, Culture, Empire 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Wright-B
Moderator: Suzanne Marchand Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Commentator: H. Glenn Penny University of Iowa

Academic and Administrative contexts in the Development of fieldwork in German New Guinea
Buschmann Rainer  California State University Channel Islands

From Theory to Action: German Anthropology in the Third Reich
Gretchen Schafft  American University

69.  Law and Agency in the Early Modern State 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Miller
Moderator: Gerald L. Soliday University of Texas-Dallas
Commentator: Ann Goldberg University of California, Riverside

Negotiating Inheritance in the Prague Courts in the Late Sixteenth Century
James Palmitessa  Western Michigan University

The Problem of Perjury in the Eighteenth Century
Eileen Crosby  Center for European Studies, Harvard University

70.  Diplomacy and Memory in Postwar West Germany 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Regency
Moderator: Richard S Levy University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: Daniel E. Rogers University of South Alabama

"A Prolonged Power Struggle: Ausw�rtiges Amt, Ministry of Finance, and the Question of Compensation for Victims of NS-Persecution"
Susanna Schrafstetter  University of Nebraska-Lincoln

"Reagan in Bitburg 1985: Transatlantic Politics of Memory"
Raimund Lammersdorf  Bayerische Amerika-Akademie/Bavarian American Academy

71.  Perceptions of Death in Twentieth-Century Germany 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Suite 650
Moderator: Alon Confino Univ of Virginia
Commentator: Frank Biess University of California-San Diego

Resignifying Death and the Making of East and West Germans
Monica Black  University of Virginia

Terror and Democracy: Living with War and Death in Post-war Germany
Svenja Goltermann  Universit�t Bielefeld

72.  Federalism, Party Politics, and Public Policy in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Gunther M Hega Western Michigan University
Commentator: Matthew Doppke University of Notre Dame

PISA and the German States
Elisabeth Muhlenberg  University of Illinois at Chicago

Important or Impotent? Radical-Right Political Parties and Policy Making in the German and Austrian L�nder
Marcella Myers  Western Michigan University

Reforming Federalism and Education Policy in Germany and Switzerland
Gunther M Hega  Western Michigan University

73.  Revisiting Questions of Gender, from Wilhelmine through Nazi Germany 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Walker
Moderator: Donald G Schilling Denison University
Commentator: Julia Roos University of Minnesota

Ambiguous Screening of Sexuality in the Third Reich
Christelle Le Faucheur  University of Texas, Austin

Gender and Labor through the Looking-Glass: The Impact of Work on Women�s Reproductive Lives in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Patricia Stokes  Ohio University

74.  Politics, Literature, and Culture 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Kerstin Mueller Vassar College
Commentator: Kristie A. Foell Bowling Green State University

From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: A Challenge for Working-Class Literature
Martin M. Kley  University of Texas at Austin

"Only in My Name." German Individualist Anarchism and the Crisis of the Left
Constantin Parvulescu  University of Minnesota

From Industrial to Post-Industrial Production: A Challenge for Working-Class Literature
Martin M. Kley  University of Texas at Austin

Literatur als Antifiktion - Authentische Schreibweisen in Prosa der 70er Jahre
Christoph Zeller  Vanderbilt University

75.  Bernhard Schlink: Questions and Answers 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: Diana Reese Cornell University
Commentator: Mila Ganeva Miami University

Bernhard Schlink�s �Der Vorleser� � Arthurian Romance Revisited?
Peter Boehm  

Bernhard Schlink's "Selb" Detective Stories
Volker Neuhaus  

76.  Turks, Jews, Germans 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Rita Chin University of Michigan
Commentator: Rita Chin University of Michigan

The Turkish, Jewish, German Triad in the Novels of Senocak, Kara, Billar and Rabinovici
Y. Michal Bodemann  University of Toronto

Ideal Workers, Ideal Wives: The Gendered Nature of Guestworker Integration in West Germany
Julia Woesthoff  Michigan State University

77.  "Wer was wissen will, muss zahlen": Historie und aktueller Paradigmenwechsel in der deutschen und �sterreichischen Hochschul(finanzierungs)politik 
       Fri 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM    Juneau
ROUND TABLE

Ernst Aichinger  Austrian Cultural Forum

Sylvia W�lfel  Studentenstiftung Dresden

josef leidenfrost  bmbwk

J�rgen Nautz  Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and University of Vienna

78.  Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. A Roundtable on the 2005 BBC/PBS Documentary 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Monarch
ROUND TABLE

Doris L. Bergen  Univ of Notre Dame

Henry Friedlander  Brooklyn College, CUNY

Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.  Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation

Christopher Browning  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

79.  Modernity and the Baroque 4: Benjamin and Martyrdom 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Juneau
ROUND TABLE

Walter Benjamin and Martyrdom: Retrieving What the Enlightment Dismissed
Elizabeth Stewart  Dept. of English, Yeshiva University

Martyrdom as a Phenomenon of Transition. Martyrdom and Prostitution. Relics and Merchandise
Gabriele Sorgo  

Laeuterung durch Leiden. Beschreibungen von Konversionen bei Hinrichtungen in den Litterae annuae SJ (Boehmen und Oesterreich).
Gernot Heiss  University of Vienna

80.  Crossing Borders: Transnational German Studies I  
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Oak
Moderator: Gisela Brinker Gabler Binghamton University
Commentator: Patricia A Herminghouse University of Rochester

Internationalization and Transnationalization of German Studies
Elzbieta Dzikowska  University of Wroclaw

Von Verlusten, Wiederentdeckungen und Umorientierungen: �ber Literatur in Zeiten der Europ�ischen Universit�tsreform
Rita Svandrlik  Universit� di Firenze

81.  Redemptive Wagner: Performance, Politics, and Love 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Miller
Moderator: David Brodbeck Univ. of California, Irvine
Commentator: Nicholas Vazsonyi Univ of South Carolina

Aesthetic Revolution and Racial Redemption: Wagner�s Siegfried and the Politics of Cultural Despair
F. Corey Roberts  Northern Illinois University

The Feuerbach Ending
Greg Vitercik  Middlebury College

82.  Representations of the RAF 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-C
Moderator: Jennifer Hosek Stanford University
Commentator: Karin Bauer McGill University

RAF-Narratives between Personal Memory and Public History
Sabine von Dirke  University of Pittsburgh

On the RAF Exhibit at the Kunstwerke Berlin
Christina Gerhardt  University of California at Berkeley

83.  The Political Culture of Court Society III: Rulers and Representations 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Crystal Ballroom
ROUND TABLE

Spiel der Macht: Theater und hoefische Kommunikation
Helga Meise  Departement d'Etudes Germaniques

"Rites de Passage" and/or "Instruments of Power"? Funeral Ceremonies of German Rulers Around 1800
Hubertus Bueschel  University of Bielefeld

The Figure of the Ruler in Machiavelli and Marlowe, Shakespaere and Gryphius: Revising the Medieval Picture?
Michael Szurawitski  Abo Akademi University

84.  Changing Perceptions in German Security Policy and Thinking 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Regency
Moderator: Jutta Helm Western Illinois University
Commentator: Gale A Mattox 

"Mismanaging National (In)Security: Muslims, Migration and Malaise in Post-911 Germany"
Joyce M Mushaben  University of Missouri St Louis

National Security and the Generation of �68
Elizabeth L.B. Peifer  Auburn University Montgomery

85.  Serial Thrills: Public Spaces and Public Personas in the Life and Work of Vicki Baum 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Pabst
Moderator: Esther Bauer University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Commentator: Jill Suzanne Smith Union College (NY)

"Life Without a Secret:" The Creation of Vicki Baum"
Nina Sylvester  UCLA

�Vicki Baum: Fashion and the Masquerade of Femininity�
Lorna Sopcak  Ripon College

86.  Science for All? Wissenschaft and the Public in the Wilhelmine Era 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-B
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach Princeton University
Commentator: Beth Irwin Lewis 

Nature domesticated? German Aquarium-Keeping before World War I
Lynn K. Nyhart  U.W.--Madison

Meat makes meat? Debating Diet and the Social Question in Wilhelmine Germany
Corinna Treitel  Washington University in St. Louis

87.  Bertha von Suttner: Nobel Peace Award Recipient 1905 - A Reappraisal of Her Achievement and Legacy 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Usinger
Moderator: Ernst Aichinger Austrian Cultural Forum
Commentator: Sandi E. Cooper The College of Staten Island

"Bertha von Suttner and Her Significance for the Second Wave of Austrian Feminism"
Christine Klapeer  University of Innsbruck

"Bertha von Suttner's Peace Prize: The History of a Controversial Nobel Prize"
Regina Braker  Eastern Oregon State College

88.  Weimar Modernism I: Gender and Politics 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 663
Moderator: Jaimey Fisher University of California, Davis
Commentator: Nele Hempel University of Memphis

Political Romanticism? Carl Schmitt and the Agonies of Weimar
Michael T Jones  Univ of Kentucky

The �Other State� of Reportage: Erik Reger�s _Union der festen Hand_
Devin Fore  Columbia University

Maternalism as Social-Critical Discourse in Early Expressionism
Douglas B. McBride  Hunter College, CUNY

89.  Recycling the Past (Sponsored by: YMAGINA (Young Medievalist Germanists in North America)) 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 650
Moderator: Sara S. Poor Princeton University
Commentator: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand Appalachian State University

Negotiating Identity: Contemporary German Art and the Medieval Past
Rasma Lazda-Cazers  The University of Alabama

Das Mittelalter im Zeichen Europ�ischer Geschichtspolitik
Rainer Gruhlich  

90.  Austria, Germany, Israel: The First Years 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    MacArthur
Moderator: Guenter Bischof Univ of New Orleans
Commentator: Klaus Larres 

"He'll become an anti-Semite here anyway." Karl Hartl, the first Austrian diplomat in Israel, 1950 � 1955
Rolf Steininger  Universit�t Innsbruck

The United States and the Establishment of West German-Israeli Diplomatic Relations
Hanns Juergen Kuesters  

91.  G�nter Grass: Issues of Time and Memory 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Walker
Moderator: Thomas Sebastian Trinity College
Commentator: Jill Twark East Carolina University

Reading the Urban Time/Space: Danzig/Gdansk as a Transnational Memoryscape in Grass� Unkenrufe and Chwin�s Hanemann
Joanna Stimmel  Middlebury College

Collapse of Chronology in G�nter Grass's Ein weites Feld and Im Krebsgang
Gary Lee Baker  Denison Univ

92.  Homoerotics and the Sexual "Other": Policing German Cultural Identity through Imperial, Reformist, and National-Socialist Discourses 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Wright-A
Moderator: Celia Applegate Univ of Rochester
Commentator: Jean Quataert Binghamton University

"Racializing Sex: Homosexuality, Colonialism and German National Identity"
Daniel J. Walther  Wartburg College

"The Rites of Artgenossen: Organizing Homosexual Political Culture in Weimar Germany"
Glenn Ramsey  

93.  Strategies of Survival and Advancement in German Dictatorships: Professionals in Industry in Nazi Germany and the GDR 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Schlitz
Moderator: Andrew Port Wayne State University
Commentator: Andrew Port Wayne State University

Shadows of the Past: National Socialist Backgrounds of the GDR�s Functional Elite
Axel Salheiser  Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena

�Wunderwaffen of a Different Kind: Nazi Scientists in East German Industrial Research�
Dolores L. Augustine  St. John's University, New York

Continuities in the Identity Construction of Industrial Chemists, 1940 - 1970
Georg Wagner-Kyora  Universit�t Hannover

94.  Violence and Representations of Violence from an Interdisciplinary Perspective 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Susanne Baackmann
Commentator: Albrecht Classen University of Arizona

‘Das innere Bewu�tsein der Liebe f�r seine Pflicht mache den tapfern Mann.’ Sentimental masculinity in warfare and German aesthetic discourse.
Michael Gratzke  Department of German, University of St Andrews

Gewalt und Krieg aus interdisziplin�rer Sicht: Uwe Timms Roman Morenga als Beispiel
Monika Albrecht  Sungshin Women's University

95.  Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Advice for Fellowship Applicants (ABD, Postdoc) 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Kilbourn
ROUND TABLE

Veronika Fuechtner  Dartmouth College

Wedigo de Vivanco  Freie Universitaet Berlin

Katherine Roper  Saint Mary's College of California

Konrad H Jarausch  Univ of North Carolina

96.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 5: Is there a German Diaspora? 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Mitchell
Moderator: Nancy R. Reagin Pace University
Commentator: Stefan Senders Hobart and William Smith Colleges

"German Jews in London: Reconsitution of a Traumatized Community"
Marion Berghahn  

"Preserving the German Diaspora in Africa: The Cooperative Work of the Colonial Frauenbund and the Weimar Colonial Bureaucracy"
Krista Molly O'Donnell  William Paterson University

97.  Gender and Nation: Constructing Identity in (Auto)Biography 
       Sat 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM    Suite 649
Moderator: John Pustejovsky
Commentator: Francien Markx Ohio State University

German National Discourse in Amalia Schoppe's (1791-1858) Autobiographical Writings
Folke-Christine Moeller-Sahling  University of Southern Indiana

"Mein g�nzlicher Mangel an ausschlie�ender Vaterlandsliebe." Nation und Geschlecht in Friederike Bruns Autobiographie
Gudrun Loster-Schneider  Universit�t Mannheim

98.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 6: Counter-Knowledges: Black European Studies in the Netherlands and Germany 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Sara Lennox University of Massachusetts
Commentator: Fatima El-Tayeb University of California San Diego

Racism and Research: the Dutch Case
Philomena Essed  University of Amsterdam

Definitionen Europas? Wei�e Ursprungsmythen, Nation und Rassifizierung im Kontext der EU-Erweiterung(en)
Peggy Piesche  Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

99.  Modernity and the Baroque 5: Heidegger and Baroque Catholicism 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Juneau
Moderator: Rudiger Campe Department of German, The Johns Hopkins University
Commentator: Anson Rabinbach Princeton University

Abraham a Sancta Clara: Ein Barockprediger auf der Buhne
Ulrike Gleixner  

Baroque Catholicism and Its Critics
Marc Forster  Connecticut College

100.  Crossing Borders: Transnational German Studies II 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Oak
Moderator: Patricia A Herminghouse University of Rochester
Commentator: Gisela Brinker Gabler Binghamton University

German Studies in Ireland and Great Britain: Changing Contexts and New Opportunities
Christiane Schonfeld (o = o-umlaut)  National University of Ireland

Australian Germanistik in an Age of Globalisation: Navigating the Local and the Global
Alison Lewis  

101.  Sex and Commerce in Three Postwar Regimes 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Walker
Moderator: Till van Rahden
Commentator: Uta G. Poiger University of Washington, Seattle

Unifications � East German letters to Beate Uhse
Dorothee Wierling  

Advertising Indecency: The Erotica Industry and the Limits of Federalism in the Early Federal Republic
Elizabeth Heineman  University of Iowa

102.  Kleinkunst: Voices between Literature and Politics 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Jennifer William Purdue University
Commentator: Mary Paddock Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Voces populi: Voices in the Satire of Gerhard Polt
Christopher Wickham  University of Texas at San Antonio

Degenhardt's Rollenlieder
Richard J Rundell  New Mexico State Univ

103.  The Political Culture of Court Society IV: The Politics of Splendor organized by: Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (SGRABL)  
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Crystal Ballroom
ROUND TABLE

The Splendor of Illustration in Early Modern Funeral Books of the German Empire
Jill Bepler   Herzog August Bibliothek

Staging Shias in Silesia: Andreas Gryphius�s Catharina von Georgien
Bethany Wiggin  University of Pennsylvania

"A luster, which no age can diminish": Splendor in the Promotion of Natural History
Cecilia Pick  Eastern Oregon University

104.  Reassessing German Popular Culture in the 20th century: A Preoccupation with Borders  
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: Anja Restenberger Georgia State University
Commentator: Esther Bauer University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Reinventing the Communist Science Fiction Novel in East Germany: Continuities and Discontinuities
Sonja Fritzsche  Illinois Wesleyan University

The Popularity of Adventure Novels in Wilhelmine Germany: Imperial Desires & the �Political Unconscious�
Sukanya Kulkarni  University of Toronto

105.  The New German Man: The (Re-)construction of Masculinities in Interwar Germany 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Robert Goodrich Northern Michigan University
Commentator: Raffael M Scheck Colby College

Vom Eros zur Politik � Hans Bl�hers M�nnerbundkonzeption zwischen Antifeminismus und Antisemitismus
Claudia Bruns  Universit�t Trier

The Party Does Indeed Fight Like a Man: The Construction of a Masculine Ideal in the German Communist Party, 1919-1933
Sara Sewell  Virginia Wesleyan College

106.  Roundtable: The 2005 National Elections in Germany (Sponsored by the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation) 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Monarch
ROUND TABLE

Carl Lankowski  Foreign Service Institute, US Dept of State

Heinrich Bortfeldt  FHTW Berlin

Dieter K. Roth  Univ. Heidelberg

R�diger Lentz  Deutsche Welle B�ro Washington

107.  Weimar Modernism II: Visual Cultures 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: Fatima Naqvi Rutgers University
Commentator: Angelika Fuehrich Johns Hopkins University

The Bauhaus Parties: Where Popular Culture and Modernism Mingled
Susan Funkenstein  University of Wisconsin-Parkside

�Das Klingelzeichen der Geschichte�: Benjamin, Broch and the Legacy of the Kaiserpanorama
Ilinca Iurascu  University of Pennsylvania

�Looking at Kandinsky in 1914: Abstraction Experienced through Empathy�.
Riccardo Marchi   University of South Florida

108.  Forging National Culture: From Schottelius to Friedrich Schlegel 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Suite 663
Moderator: Nancy Kaiser University of Wisconsin-Madison
Commentator: Hans Adler University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Laws of Epic Poetry and the Imaginary Epic Community in the Poetics of Goethe and Schiller.
Charlton Payne  University of California, Los Angeles

Rewriting Lessing's Freimaurergespraeche: Herder's and F. Schlegel's Historical Turns in regard to Lessing's Ernst und Falk
Monika Nenon  University of Memphis

109.  Simon Wiesenthal, the Eichmann Trial, and the Dealing with Austria�s Nazi Past after the State Treaty of 1955 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Kurt Tweraser University of Arkansas/Fayetteville
Commentator: Patricia Heberer Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Simon Wiesenthal's Contribution to the History of Austrian Nazism
Gerhard Botz  University of Vienna

The Eichmann Trial and Austria�s Nazi Past
Winfried R. Garscha  Zentrale oesterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz

110.  After the Avant-garde: New Perspectives on Experimental Film from the GDR, the FRG, and Austria 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Pabst
Moderator: Richard Langston The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentator: Randall Halle University of Rochester

Kirsten Winter's Film Experiments: History and Media-Theory
Larson Powell  Texas A&M; University

�Blackbox DDR�- Experimental GDR Film around the �Wende�
Reinhild Steingrover  Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester

111.  French Eagles and Germania: Mobilizing the "Third Germany" during the First French Empire 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Schlitz
Moderator: Linda S. Frey University of Montana
Commentator: Geoffrey Wawro University of North Texas

Vaterland or La Patrie: France's "German" Departments during the End of the French Empire, 1813-1814
Harold D. Blanton  US Naval War College

A Matter of Timing: The "German" Victory of 1814 and Napoleon's First Abdication
Michael V. Leggiere  Louisiana State University in Shreveport

112.  The Politics of Nineteenth-Century German Jewry 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Jeffrey Grossman University of Virginia (on leave)
Commentator: Keith Pickus Wichita State University

Jews, Germans of Jewish Descent, and German Colonialism, 1884-1910
Christian Davis  Salem College

Slandering the Slanderers: Hirsch Hildesheimer and Jewish Self-Defense in the Early Kaiserreich
Barnet Hartston  Eckerd College

113.  Victims and Perpetrators: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Rosmarie T. Morewedge Binghamton University, SUNY
Commentator: Margaret McCarthy Davidson College

Remembrance in Berlin-Sch�neberg: Two Art Installations thematizing Victim/Perpetrator Relationships
Margit M Sinka  Clemson University

Patterns of Loss: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War
Susanne Vees-Gulani  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Victims or Perpetrators: (Re)Presenting the Mass Rape of German Women in 1945
Laurel Cohen-Pfister  Gettysburg College

114.  �sterreichs Gr�nderv�ter nach 1945: Mythos und Legendenbildung einer Politikergeneration 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Wright-B
Moderator: Guenter Bischof Univ of New Orleans
Commentator: Andreas Pribersky Vienna University

Karl Renner - zweimal Staatsgr�nder 1918 und 1945
Wilhelm Brauneder  Institut f�r Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte

Von der Schenkenstra�e auf den Ballhausplatz: Leopold Figls Weg 1945-1955
josef leidenfrost  bmbwk

Bruno Kreisky: Ambivalente Images eines �sterreichischen Politikers
Maria Mesner  Vienna University

115.  Memory, International Justice, and the Nazi Past 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Walker
Moderator: Petra Tjitske Kalshoven McGill University
Commentator: Mark Ruff St. Louis University

"Memory as Diplomatic Leverage: Bishop Theophil Wurm and War Crimes Trials, 1948-52"
JonDavid Wyneken  Concordia University-Portland

"Remembering Hitler�s Europe: Pro-Nazi Spaniards since 1945"
Wayne Bowen  Ouachita Baptist University

116.  Three Examples of the Jewish Experience in Germany, 1914-1950 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Regency
Moderator: Geoffrey J Giles Univ of Florida
Commentator: Francis R Nicosia Saint Michael's College

Berlin Underground: Hidden Jews in WWII Berlin
Uta Larkey  Goucher College

Holocaust Survivors Reconstructing Gender in the Displaced Persons Camps of Germany, 1945-1951
Margarete Myers Feinstein  University of California, Los Angeles

117.  The Cultures of Berlin Psychoanalysis 1918-1943 
       Sat 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM    Miller
Moderator: Sara Hall University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: Darcy Buerkle Smith College, Dept. of History

Psychoanalysis in Berlin: The Work of Karl Abraham
Andr�s Nader  University of Rochester

Psychoanalysis, Sexology and Radical Feminism: Karen Horney in Berlin
Samara Heifetz  New York University

Nordic Souls and a Jewish Science: Arnold Zweig and Berlin Psychoanalysis in Palestine
Veronika Fuechtner  Dartmouth College

118.  Women's Economic Citizenship: Jewish and Non-Jewish Women Entrepreneurs in Germany and Austria from the 1920s to the 1960s 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Elizabeth Heineman
Commentator: Kathleen Canning University of Michigan

Jewish and Non-Jewish Female Entrepreneurs and Businesswomen in Berlin 1918 -1933
Ulrich Baumann  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Founding and Taking over a Business: Non-Jewish Women Entrepreneurs in germany, 1920s to 1950s
Christiane Eifert   Universitaet Bielefeld

119.  Modernity and the Baroque 6: Norbert Elias and Court Society 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Juneau
ROUND TABLE

Die Geburt der Moderne im Lichte der Theorien von Norbert Elias, Max Weber und Michel Foucault
Alois Hahn  Universitat Trier

Norbert Elias, Baroque Ceremonial and the Cultural Turn
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger  Universitat Munster, Historisches Seminar

The Baroque Court and Critical Perspectives on the Modern
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly  University of Oxford

120.  Crossing Borders: Transnational German Studies III 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Oak
Moderator: Jennifer E Michaels Grinnell College
Commentator: Sabine G�lz University of Iowa

Germanistik in Slowenien aus literaturdidaktischer, geschlechtsspezifischer und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
Neva Slibar  University of Ljubljana

Germanistik in Kamerun zwischen Lehre und Forschung: Eine Bestandaufnahme in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
Albert Gouaffo  Universit� de Dschang/Cameroun

121.  The Role of the Funktionspartei in German Coalitions: Is the Model Working? 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Erich G Pohl Universit�t Heidelberg
Commentator: Wolfgang Bergsdorf University of Erfurt

The Greens as �Funktions- oder Programmpartei�? Red-Green and Beyond
E. Gene Frankland  Ball State University

122.  Prussia and the French Imperium 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Suite 650
Moderator: Marsha L. Frey Kansas State University
Commentator: Matthew Levinger Lewis & Clark College

Scharnhorst and His Writings: Military Reformer or Radical Revolutionary?
Charles E. White  

123.  Schmitt, Strauss and the American Political Right 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: John Namjun Kim University of California at Riverside
Commentator: Carsten Strathausen University of Missouri at Columbia

"Redesigning Democracy: The Resurgence of Carl Schmitt and American Political Thought"
Peter Uwe Hohendahl  Cornell University

"The Cosmopolitan State of Exception: Schmitt, Agamben, and the Global Force of Law"
Max Pensky  Binghamton University

"Exterminating the Enemy: Schmitt, Strauss, and the Neoconservatives"
shadia drury  University of Regina

124.  L'Eminence Grise: Multiple Directions Behind the Scene 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Todd Herzog University of Cincinnati
Commentator: Lutz Koepnick Washington University

Baker, Dietrich, and National/International Politics
Patrice Petro  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Post-War French Interventions
Nora M Alter  University of Florida

125.  Reading Fairy Tales Against the Grain 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Suite 663
Moderator: Steve Dowden Brandeis University
Commentator: Nancy Kaiser University of Wisconsin-Madison

The �Wild Man� and Fairy Tales by Women Authors
Linda Kraus Worley  University of Kentucky

Who Needs A Man Anyway? Reading "Rapunzel" and Her Sisters Against the Grain
Bettina Matthias  Middlebury College

126.  Germany and the Holocaust II: Identification and the Screen 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Walker
Moderator: Irene Kacandes Dartmouth College
Commentator: Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey State University of New York, Binghamton

Performance and Projection: Screening Theresienstadt
Brad Prager  University of Missouri, Columbia

In the Nazi Cinema
Michael Rothberg  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

127.  Hamburg: 18th-Century Communication and Information Hub 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Miller
Moderator: Katherine Aaslestad West Virginia University
Commentator: Mara Wade University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Communicating Networks: Ferdinand Beneke (1774-1848) and His Diaries
Frank Hatje  Universitaet Hamburg

The Hamburg Hub of International Plots to Rescue Lafayette
Paul Spalding  Illinois College

128.  Cultures of Contest: Sport and Society from Republic to Reich 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Pabst
Moderator: Erik Jensen Miami University
Commentator: Julia Sneeringer Queens College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Modern Athletic Body and the Modernist Apparatus of Vision
Michael Mackenzie  DePauw University

Sports and the Complexities of Nazification: The Example of G�ttingen between the World Wars
David Imhoof  

129.  Between History and Literature: Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Germany 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Regency
Moderator: Bettina Arnold
Commentator: Brent O. Peterson Lawrence University

Archeology as Spectacle: Heinrich Schliemann's Media of Excavation
Kathrin Maurer  University of Arizona

Archaeology and the Discovery of Bavaria�s Ancient Pasts
Brent Maner  Kansas State University

130.  Post-Holocaust German/Jewish Relations: Explorations in Recent German Literary Culture 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Kristin Kopp University of Missouri, Columbia
Commentator: Anne Rothe Wayne State University

Martin Walser�s Inability to Mourn
Thomas Kovach  University of Arizona

Shattered Dreams: The Discourse on the German-Jewish Symbiosis in Victor Klemperer�s Diaries
Arvi Sepp  University of Antwerp / Justus Liebig University of Giessen

131.  Naturalizing and Nationalizing Germany�s Borderlands, 1850-1930 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Monarch
Moderator: Katherine Pence Baruch College - CUNY
Commentator: Celia Applegate Univ of Rochester

Disciplining the Wild East: Prussian Foresters, Polish Peasants, and the Ethnic Frontier, 1871-1914
Jeffrey K. Wilson  University of New Orleans

The Problems of Place: Saxon Border Communities in the Great Depression
Caitlin Murdock  California State University, Long Beach

132.  Staging the Woman in the Long Nineteenth Century I 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Suite 664
Moderator: Friederike B Emonds University of Toledo
Commentator: Edgar Landgraf Bowling Green State University

Performing Femininity: The Pedagogical Project of Caroline Rudolphi's *Gem�lde weiblicher Erziehung* (1807)
Beatrice Guenther  Bowling Green State University

"Ihr Damen! Beispiel nehmt an diesem Frauenzimmer!" The Performance of Femininity in Elise Hahn-B�rger's DIE ANTIKE STATUE AUS FLORENZ.
Wendy Arons  University of Notre Dame

133.  The Power of Guilt and the Difficulty of Forgiveness: Responses to a Tradition 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Schlitz
Moderator: John Pustejovsky
Commentator: Volker Kaiser University of Virginia

The Tradition as Stronghold Against Excesses. Gadamer�s Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Light of the German Experience During the Time of Nazism
Sebastian Luft  Marquette University

Victims and Perpetrators: Changing Perceptions of Guilt in Germany�s Public Memory
Holger Afflerbach  

134.  Religion and Culture, Religion and Politics: Examples from the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Postwar Eras 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Mark Ruff St. Louis University
Commentator: Gerhard Besier Hannah-Arendt-Institut f�r Totalitarismusforschung an der TU Dresden e. V.

Wilhelmine Catholic Cinema and the Catholic Working Classes
Robert Goodrich  Northern Michigan University

135.  Left, Right and Center: German Politics from 1914 to 1934 
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Wright-B
Moderator: James C Albisetti Univ of Kentucky
Commentator: Larry E. Jones Canisius College

Nationalist Socialism and Social Democracy The Junge Rechte in Weimar Social Democracy and the Rise of National Socialism
Stefan Vogt  Universiteit van Amsterdam

Unlikely Opponents: Nazi Hostility Toward Their Conservative Coalition Partner in 1933
Hermann Beck  University of Miami

136.  Beyond "Landeskunde": Teaching Culture in the German Classroom (Sponsored by AATG)  
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Kilbourn
Moderator: George Peters Michigan State University
Commentator: Peter C Pfeiffer Georgetown University

Putting Culture into Context: Service Learning, German and Intercultural Competence
Isolde Mueller  St. Cloud State University

Understanding Modernity through 18th & 19th Century German Literary and Discursive Texts
Terri Hennings  Academic Year in Freiburg

137.  The Media of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Germany  
       Sat 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Katherine Roper Saint Mary's College of California
Commentator: Elizabeth A Drummond University of Southern Mississippi

Art History as Cultural Geography: The Development of Byzantine Architectural History in 19th-Century Germany
Jeanne-Marie Musto  Bryn Mawr College

Prussians and Poles: the Story of a Failed Marriage in Fontane�s Vor dem Sturm
Agnieszka B. Nance  Tulane University

138.  Privacy and Politics in Post-1945 Germany 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Schlitz
Moderator: Heide Fehrenbach Northern Illinois University
Commentator: Dagmar Herzog Graduate Center, City University of New York

"Private Rights in the GDR"
Paul Betts  University of Sussex

"Fatherless Society"-the Promise of Democratic Child-Rearing. Alexander Mitscherlich and West German Political Culture, 1950-1970
Till van Rahden  

139.  Modernity and the Baroque 7: Hofmannsthal and Geselligkeit 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Juneau
ROUND TABLE

Die Zerstoerung von Traditionen auf dem Theater. Zu einigen Aporien Hofmannsthals am Beispiel seines Trauerspiels "Der Turm"
Christoph Konig  Deutsches Literaturarchiv

Unbinding the Baroque: Richard Alewyn's Readerly Reception of Hofmannsthal
Max Reinhart  University of Georgia

Imperial Fantasies: Overcoming the Baroque in Central Europe and the Rise of Early Modern Studies
James A. Parente  University of Minnesota

140.  Austrian Literature II: Cultural Revisions  
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    MacArthur
Moderator: Joseph W Moser University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentator: Stephan K. Schindler Washington University

Leiblichkeit, Name und Menschenrecht bei Hermann Broch
Thomas Sebastian  Trinity College

Bastardizing Ovid with Jelinek: The Feminist Poetics of Friederike Mayroecker
Fatima Naqvi  Rutgers University

Robert Schindel at 60: The Problem of the Holocaust Survivor as Literary Star
Hillary Herzog  University of Kentucky

141.  Representing the City 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Wright-A
Moderator: Rita Svandrlik Universit� di Firenze
Commentator: Muriel A. Cormican University of West Georgia

Marking the Postwar City: Art, Space and Memory in Divided Berlin
Claudia Mesch  Arizona State University

Vienna and New York as Postmodern Urban Texts: Lilian Faschinger's "Wiener Passion" and Paul Auster's "Smoke"
Eva Kuttenberg  Pennsylvania State University, Behrend

142.  Reframing Memory and Rethinking the Unmasterable Past? 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Wright-C
Moderator: Jutta Helm Western Illinois University
Commentator: Eli Rubin Western Michigan University

Breaking Taboos: Changing Public Memory and its Interaction with Contemporary Politics
Mary Hampton  Air Command & Staff College DEI

History on Display in the Former German Democratic Republic:The East German Museum fuer Deutsche Geschichte, 1952-1990
David Marshall  University of Tennesse, Knoxville

143.  Perpetrator Stories: The Uses of German History in Contemporary German Literature and Film 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Usinger
Moderator: Susanne Lenne Jones University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Commentator: Susanne Vees-Gulani University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Nazis in Vegas: Enraptured Fascist Bodies on Screen at the Millennium
Richard Langston  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Nazi-Fathers to �Good Germans�: Recent Texts about the Nazi Period by Uwe Timm and Peter Schneider
Katharina Gerstenberger  University of Cincinnati

Private History, Public Memories? The Nazi Past in Recent German Film
John E. Davidson  Ohio State University

144.  Environmental Changes and Critical Responses in Preindustrial and Industrial Settings 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Regency
Moderator: Dorothee Brantz German Historical Institute/ SUNY Buffalo
Commentator: Christof Mauch GHI

Taxes, Settlers, Fields and Trees: Environmental CHange in the Village of Schlalach 1760-1800
Marion Gray  Western Michigan University

Urban Environmental Activism: Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s
Keith Alexander  German Historical Institute/ Shepherd University

145.  Anticatholicism and Liberalism: Jewish, Freigeistig and Transconfessional Positions in the German Kulturkampf 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Crystal Ballroom
Moderator: Michael Geyer Univ of Chicago
Commentator: Uffa Jensen University of Sussex

�The Anticlericalism of Freigeistig Democrats and Materialist Socialists from 1869 to 1880: A Fourth Confession in the German Kulturkampf?�
Todd Weir  Columbia University

"Jews and the German Kulturkampf: Anticlerical and Anti-Catholic Themes in the Writings of Jewish Liberals of the 1860s and 1870s"
Alexander Joskowicz  University of Chicago

146.  The Voices of Pop Culture 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Suite 649
Moderator: Anke Biendarra University of California, Irvine
Commentator: Sabine von Dirke University of Pittsburgh

Mythos RAF: Institutional Censorship, Politics and Pop
Ilka Rasch  University of Michigan

Autoren, DJs und DJ-Autoren: Literarische Rhythmen in der deutschen Popliteratur
Florence Feiereisen  University of Massachusetts

147.  German Imaginings in Texts about the Americas from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Miller
Moderator: Ulrike Gleixner
Commentator: Merry Wiesner-Hanks Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Pocahontas � fr�he deutsche Versuche, einen amerikanischen Mythos zu erz�hlen
Stephan Kraft  Germanistisches Seminar der Universitaet Bonn

Mysterious Conspiracies: The Society of Jesus in Nineteenth-Century German-American Novels (Klauprecht, Boernstein, Von Reizenstein)
Gerhild Scholz Williams  Washington University

148.  Towards a Transnational and Interdisciplinary German Studies 7: Networks of Empire: German Encounters with the Wider World, Part I 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Mitchell
Moderator: Angelica Fenner University of Toronto
Commentator: Eric D Weitz University of Minnesota

Hypotheses and early findings on some European ideological origins of fundamentalist Islam and secular totalitarianism in the Middle East
Jeffrey Herf  

The 'other' empire: Zanzibar and German East Africa
Jennifer Kopf  University of Kentucky

The Clash of Civilizing Missions: German Views of the French Empire between the Two World Wars
Daniel Becker  Brandeis University

149.  J.M.R. Lenz's Family Politics 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Golda Meir
Moderator: Liliane Weissberg University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Patrizia C. McBride University of Minnesota

�Weg mit den V�tern!� -- Weg mit den V�tern?" The �Apotheosis� of the Father in Lenz� Die beyden Alten (1776)
Christine Lehleiter  Indiana University

Alienation, Dramatic Form, and Family Concept in J.M.R. Lenz
Karl-Heinz Maurer  Rhodes College

150.  Austria and the Rheinbund in 1809 
       Sat 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM    Suite 663
Moderator: Michael V. Leggiere Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Commentator: John Gill National Defense University

"I Know the Heart of a Soldier, I Don't Know That of a Traitor": The Westphalian Officer Corps and the War of 1809
Michael F. Pavkovic  Hawai'i Pacific University