Dear Colleagues,

Excuse me for writing hurriedly in English.

At the suggestion of Gerhard Lauer, I want to call your attention to a conference to take place at Bard College in Annandale, New York, USA, August 13-15. The conference is called "Contested Legacies: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural Emigration to the US and UK, 1933-1945." A general prospectus and preliminary program are available at <http://www.bard.edu/contestedlegacies>

Contested Legacies" is a conference that reflects on both the work of thinkers and artists forced to flee Hitler&#8217;s Germany and on fifty years of scholarship. The title refers to the claims and counterclaims of the emigrants about the intellectual legacies they brought with them into exile. Additionally, "Contested Legacies" is about the debates generated by the emigrés' rich and diverse achievements, continuously contested within the emigré cohort itself and then among succeeding generations of their followers and detractors. The conference program assembles an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational group of participants consisting of almost forty scholars, the three-day conference will take place in the context of the Bard Music Festival&#8217;s exploration of Gustav Mahler and His World&#8212;another contested legacy. "Contested Legacies" is a sequel to "No Happy End," an earlier workshop that defined the terms of the common project.

Available without cost is a 64-page booklet that contains the nineteen papers presented at the preliminary workshop, "No Happy End" in February 2001, as well as a more careful statement of the rationale for the forthcoming conference. Send your request to <kettler@bard.edu>.

The following is the list of presenters at "Contested Legacies":

List of Participants in the Conference, Contested Legacies.
April 9, 2002

Peter Baehr, Lignan University, Hong Kong
Reinhard Blomert. University of Graz, Austria
Jonathan Bordo, Trent University, Canada
Paul Breiner. State University of New York/Albany, USA
Hauke Brunkhorst. Flensburg, Germany.
Hubertus Buchstein. University of Greifswald, Germany
Catherine Epstein. Amherst College, USA
Christian Fleck. University of Graz, Austria
Lawrence J. Friedman. University of Indiana, USA
Judy Gerson, Rutgers University
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
John Gunnell. State University of New York/Albany, USA
Joerg Hackeschmitt, Berlin, Germany
Daniel Herwitz, Durban University, South Africa
Wolfgang Heuer, Hannover University, Germany
Jack Jacobs. John Jay College/City University of New York, USA
Russell Jacoby. University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Laurent Jeanpierre, Sorbonne, France
Mario Kessler, Potsdam, Germany
David Kettler. Bard College, USA.
Claus Dieter Krohn. University of Lueneburg, Germany.
Martha Langford. Ottawa, Canada
Reinhard Laube, Göttingen University, Germany
Gerhard Lauer, Munich, Germany
Richard Leppert, Minneapolis MN
John McCormick, Yale University, US
Neil McLaughlin. McMaster University, Canada.
Gregory Moynahan. Bard College, USA.
Berndt Nikolai. University of Trier, Germany.
Margaret Olin, Institute of Fine Arts, Chicago
Ernst Osterkamp. Humboldt University,Germany.
Paul Roazen, University of Toronto, Canada
Larry Scaff, Wayne State University
James Schmidt. Boston University, USA.
Joanna Scott, Eastern Michigan University, US
Alfons Soellner, Dresden, Germany
Michael P.Steinberg, Cornell University
Mihaly Vajda. University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Suzanne Vromen, Bard College
Anna Wesselly. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Janet Wolff, Columbia
Irving Wohlfarth, Rheims, France/Bremen, Germany
Jerry Zaslove, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Eli Zaretsky, New York University.

David Kettler
Scholar in Residence, Bard College, USA
Professor Emeritus, Trent University, Canada