Friday, 19 February 1999
until 14.00 hrs -- Arrival
14.30 hrs -- Coffee
15.00 hrs -- Welcome
U.S. SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE 1950S
15.30 hrs
Liberal Anticommunism and Civil Rights: The NAACP and the Cold War
Manfred BERG, Berlin
16.30 hrs
Break
THE NEW EVANGELICALISM: THE SOCIAL GOSPEL OF THE
50S?
17.00 hrs
Billy Graham, The NEW Evangelicalism and American Society
Berit BRETTHAUER, Berlin
"Vital Center" Liberalism and the New Evangelicals
Axel R. SCHÄFER, Halle-Wittenberg
18.30 hrs
Supper
20.00 hrs
Shooting the Fifties: The Rise and Fall of American Photography
Christoph RIBBAT, Bochum
Saturday, 20 February 1999
8.15 hrs
Breakfast
9.00 hrs
Workshop Sessions
WORKSHOP I -- SOCIAL HISTORY, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY
Organizer / moderator: Michael Wala
Jens Fügener, Jena
"Praised but not adopted...": Internal Improvements and Nationsbildung in
der frühen Republik (1815-1850)
Comment: Jürgen Heideking, Köln
Marek Czaja, Erlangen-Nürnberg
German Social Democrats in America: The Political Activities of German Social
Democrats at the End of the 19th Century and Their Image of the United States
Comment: Axel R. Schäfer, Halle-Wittenberg
Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht, Halle-Wittenberg
German-American Cultural Relations, 1871-1914
Comment: Reinhard R. Doerries, Erlangen-Nürnberg
Axel Jansen, Frankfurt
Individual Redemption on a New Frontier: Explaining the Success of American
Volunteer Ambulance Services in France, 1914-1917, and its Implications for
American Society
Comment: Olaf Stieglitz, Bremen
WORKSHOP II -- RACE RELATIONS
Organizer / moderator: Manfred Berg
Uwe Wenzel, Chemnitz
Blacks and Interracial Cooperation: African American Interest Groups and
the Fight for Civil Rights in the 1930s and 1940s
Martin =D6fele, München
"To End this Unholy Rebellion": German Emigrants as Officers of the United
States Colored Troops in the Civil War
John David Smith, München; Raleigh/NC
"Black Judas": William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro
WORKSHOP III -- GENDER STUDIES
Organizers / moderators: Christiane Harzig / Eva B=F6senberg / Olaf Stieglitz
Anette Bickmeyer, Hannover
"The Best Way to Explain It Is to Do It". Ida Cannon and the Professionalization of Medical Social Work During the Progressive Era
Gudrun Christine Schimpf, Mannheim
Vergleich zwischen der deutschen und der amerikanischen Wahlrechtsbewegung
12.30 hrs
Lunch
U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE 1950S
15.00hrs
"As Women Go, so Goes the Country": The American League of Women Voters and
Democratization Efforts in Post-War Germany and Japan, 1949- 1956
Catherine E. RYMPH, Greifswald (Fulbright Lecturer)
16.00 hrs
Coffee
16.30 hrs
U.S. Diplomats in Germany and the People in the GDR - Friends at a
Distance?
Anjana BUCKOW, Halle
17.15 hrs
About Alpha and Omega: U.S. Views of Egypt's President Nasser in the
Fifties
Iris BOROWY, Rostock
18.30 hrs
Supper
20.15 hrs
Business Meeting der DGFA-Historiker
Sunday, 21 February 1999
8.15 hrs Breakfast
9.00 hrs
How to Explain the Nature of the Beast?
The Study of American Foreign Policy in the 1950s
The Cult of National Security: NSC 68 and the Ideology of America's Cold
War Foreign Relations
Frank SCHUMACHER, Bochum
The 'Swashbucklers' Learn Their Painful Lesson of Lobbying: The Cause of
the Oil Import Quota
Petra DOLATA. Bochum
Taming the Beast with the Help of Talcott Parsons? Agents, Structures, and
the Cultural Approach to Diplomatic History
Ursula LEHMKUHL, Bochum
10.30 hrs
Break
11.00 hrs
The U.S. Supreme Court in the 1950s
Michael DREYER, Jena
12.30 hrs Lunch -- Departure
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michael Wala
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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