Conference

"Ethnic Encounters and Identities: German, American, and African Perceptions"

(July 5 to July 8, 2000, at the University of Leipzig)

Organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and the American Studies Institute, University of Leipzig

Conveners: Dr. Vera Lind, German Historical Institute; Prof. Hartmut Keil, University of Leipzig

Wednesday, July 5

5:00 - 6:00 pm Registration

6:00 - 7:00 pm Opening Lecture at Alte Boerse, Naschmarkt 1

George Fredrickson (Stanford University)

"American White Supremacy and German Antisemitism: Toward an Historical Comparison"

7:00 Dinner

Thursday, July 6 Seminar Building, University of Leipzig, room 00-91

9:00 - 11:00 am Session 1: Dealing with the 'Other': Ethnic Reactions

Chair: Wolfgang Helbich (University of Bochum)

Hartmut Keil (University of Leipzig)
"German-Americans and African Americans in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America"

Russell Kazal (University of Pennsylvania)
"From German Workers to White Ethnics: Religion, Race, and the Waning of German-American Identity in Philadelphia, 1900-1930"

Egbert Klautke (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
"Americanism and the 'Question of Race' -- On the Perception of Black Americans in German Debates about the USA, 1918-1933"

11:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 - 3:00pm Session 2: German Immigrants Confront the Issue of Race

Chair: Joerg Nagler (University of Jena)

Britta Behmer (University of Munich)
"´Da ist noch nicht der Schatten der Hoffnung`: Ottilie Assing's Reports on Slavery and Abolition"

Martin Oefele (University of Leipzig)
"German Officers in Colored Troops During the Civil War"

Andrea Mehrlaender (Stiftung Leucorea, Wittenberg)
"German Immigrants in the South During the Confederacy: Perceptions of Race and the Attraction of Whiteness"

Coffeebreak

3:30 -5:00 pm Session 3: The Black Image in German Popular Literature

Chair: Catrin Gersdorf (University of Leipzig)

Heike Paul (University of Leipzig)
"Reading Race in Early 19th Century German-American Travel Writing"

Jeffrey L. Sammons (Yale University)
"Portrayals of Blacks in Nineteenth-Century German Novels about the United States"

Friday, July 7 University of Leipzig, New Senate Room, Ritterstrasse

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9:00 am - 12:00 pm Session 4: Early Modern Perceptions

Chair: Guenther Heydemann (University of Leipzig)

Benjamin Braude (Boston College)
"How Ham Became a Jewish Mocker and then a Black Slave: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism"

Vera Lind (German Historical Institute Washington)
"Crossing the Atlantic Twice: Germans, Africans, Afro-Americans, and Late 18th Century Cultural Encounters involving Slavery, Race, and the Exotic"

Coffeebreak

Robin Blackburn (University of Essex)
"The Colonial Americas and the Plantation Revolution"

Jon Sensbach (Florida University)
"Germans and Africans in Early America: A Problem in Ethnic Encounters"

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm Session 5: Between the Wars: Cultural Encounters and Perceptions

Chair: Adam Jones (University of Leipzig)

Jeffrey T. Sammons (New York University)
"Myth and History : Blacks and the 1936 Olympic Games"

Carol Blackshire-Belay (Indiana State University)
" Searching for and Reclaiming the Past: Cultural Identity and Consciousness in the Afro-German Community"

Coffeebreak

4:00-5:30 pm Session 6: Liberators and Prisoners of War: The Impact of Race

Chair: Hannes Siegrist (University of Leipzig)

Maria Hoehn (Vassar College)
"When Jim Crow Came to the Heimat: German and American Racism in the Postwar Years"

Matthias Reiss (University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg)
"German Prisoners of War in the American South: Confronting Segregration and Discrimination"

Saturday, July 8 University of Leipzig, New Senate Room, Ritterstrasse

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9:00 - 10:30 am Session 7: Personal Relationships: Representations and Realities of Sex and Race

Chair: Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig)

Annette Brauerhoch (Columbia University)
"Counter-Culture? Images of Black G.I.s and German ´Fraeuleins` in post-war German and American films and literature"

Timothy Schroer (University of Virginia)
"'Bad Girls' and 'Boys Who Never Had it so Good': Race and Gender in American Occupied Germany"

Coffeebreak

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Concluding Session - Roundtable: Issues in the Study of "Race", Racism, and Antisemitism Introduction: Benjamin Braude

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Subject: FYI Konferenz "Ethnic Encounters and Identities"
Date: 14.06.2000

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