The Centre is very grateful for the support given by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung which made the organisation of the conferencepossible.
Friday 17 September
10.00 - 10.30 am: Arrival and registration
10.30 - 11.00 am: Introduction: Professor John Sandford, University of Reading
11.00 - 11.45 am: Approaches to the History of the GDR: Professor Mary Fulbrook, University College, London
11.45 - 12.30 pm: The establishment of the Enquete-Commissions by the Bundestag: Dr DorotheeWilms (Member of the Commission and formerly Minister for Inner-German Relations
2.00 - 2.45 pm: The Work of the Commission and the 'Geschichtsdebatte' in Germany since 1989; Prof. Bernd Faulenbach, University of Bochum (Member of the Commission)
2.45 - 3.30 pm: Alternatives to the Enquete-Commissions: Speaker to be announced
4.00 - 4.45 pm: The PDS and the Commissions: Dr Peter Barker, University of Reading
4.45 - 5.30 pm: 'Angepasste Kirchenleitungen und aufmuepfige Basis? The Enquete-Commissions and the role of the Protestant churches in the GDR: Stephen Brown (University of Reading)
Saturday 18 September
9.30 - 10.15 am: Buchenwald Sachsenhausen and the Territorialisation of Memory: Dr Bill Niven, University of Nottingham Trent
10.15 - 11.00 am: " Original Sin or Working-Class Unity? Conflicting interpretations of the Formation of the SED: Prof. Henry Krisch, University of Connecticut, USA
11.30 - 12.15 pm: The work of the Enquete-Commissions: Markus Meckel MdB (Deputy Chair of the Commission)
12.15 - 1.00 pm: The Education system of the GDR and its legacy Prof. Dr Roswitha Wisniewski (Member of the Commission)
2.15 - 3.00 pm: The PDS. Marx's Baby or Stalin's Bathwater? Peter Thompson, University of Sheffield
3.00 - 3.45 pm: Socialist legacies and civil society in eastern Germany: Dr Jonathan Grix, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham
4.15 - 5.00 pm: GDR architecture in post-unification Germany: "Geschichtsaufarbeitung or aesthetic autonomy?": Dr Robert Halsall, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen
5.00 - 5.30 pm: Forum discussion
Further details of the conference can be obtained from:
Dr Peter Barker,
Copyright ©1996-2002, H-Soz-u-Kult · Humanities · Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte