German History in the North

German History in the North

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Manchester Metropolitan University
PLZ
M15 6BG
Ort
Manchester
Land
United Kingdom
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In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
10.05.2024 - 10.05.2024
Von
Craig Griffiths, History, Manchester Metropolitan University

One-day conference on a diverse range of topics in German History, especially featuring scholars based in the North of the UK, and with a keynote by Professor Christina von Hodenberg.

German History in the North

The conference takes place at Manchester Metropolitan University and is organised by Craig Griffiths and Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío. The conference features historians from all career stages, including several PhD students.

In the spirit of previous German History in the North conferences, we particularly encourage the participation of researchers based in the North of England and the UK, although we welcome any researcher with or without institutional affiliation, based in the UK or overseas. Registration is free.

Programm

https://haccmmu.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/ghin-2024-conference-programme.pdf

10.30 – 11.00 Tea and Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Panel One: Masculinity, Sex, and the Archive

Paola Medina-Gonzalez (University of Warwick)
Cruel Insults to Memory: Nazi Martial Cross-dressing and Protean Masculine Performance

Leonie Bausch (University of Nottingham)
Dating across the Divide: Casual Sex and Intimate Socialising in French-Occupied Germany after the Second World War

Annalisa Martin (University of Greifswald)
Becoming Marc-of-Frankfurt: Male Sex Work and the Archive

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Panel Two: Transnational Perceptions and Entanglements

Kieran Kerr (Liverpool John Moores University)
Fin-de-Siecle British Perceptions of Austria-Hungary

Charlotte Faucher (University of Bristol)
German Cultural Diplomacy and European Competition, 1870-1940

Rory Hanna (University of Sheffield)
The ‘Sit-Down Strike’ in West German Student Demonstrations, 1957-1963: Tracing the Transmission of a Protest Method

3.00 – 3.30 Tea and Coffee

3.30 – 5.00 Panel Three: Border-crossing Imaginaries and Contested Citizenship

Chris Law (Newcastle University)
Peering over the Berlin Wall: East German Border Guards and Western Cultural Consumption during the Cold War

Nikolaos Papadogiannis (University of Stirling)
A Yardstick for ‘Integration’? Female Migrants and Postmigrants, Intimacy, and Transcultural Relations in West Germany in the 1980s

Anna McEwan (University of Glasgow)
Socialist Sisterhoods, Subjectivities and Citizenship: Lessons from the Democratic Women’s League of Germany (1971-2000)

5.00 – 5.30 Tea and Coffee

5.30 – 7.00 Keynote lecture and book launch

Christina von Hodenberg (Director, German Historical Institute)
The Other ‘68: A Social History of West Germany’s Revolt

7.00 – 8.30 Conference Dinner

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