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Philanthropy, Patronage, & Urban Politics:
Transatlantic Transfers between Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th Century
An International Symposium of the University of Toronto in collaboration
with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
The Munk Centre for International Studies
1 Devonshire Place, North House, University of Toronto, May 3-5, 2001
Thursday May 3rd
7 p.m. Reception, Location T.B.A.
Keynote Speaker: Jon Dellandrea, Vice-President and Chief Development Officer,
University of Toronto "Philanthropy, the Private Sector, and Higher Education"
Friday May 4th
I Cultural Philanthropy and the Upper Classes
9:00 - 10:45 a.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: John Ingham, University of Toronto
Social Patriotism, Philanthropy, and Left Liberalisms: the Hamburg Volksheim,
1901-1914 ,Jennifer Jenkins, Washington University, St. Louis
Cultural Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Leipzig ,Margaret Menninger,
Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos
For the Love of Science? Ethnographic Museums and their Patrons in Imperial
Germany, Glenn Penny, University of Missouri at Kansas City
II Transatlantic Philanthropy in Comparative Perspective
11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: Christoph Mauch, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Charity, Philanthropy, Voluntarism and the Atlantic Culture, Peter Dobkin
Hall, Harvard University
"Civil Society" - "Civil Societies?" A Comparative Approach to Art Museum
Philanthropy at the Turn of the Century, Karsten Borgmann, Humboldt-Universitaet
Berlin
Philanthropic Behavior and the Shaping of Social Distinction in Canadian,
American, and German Cities, Thomas Adam, University of Toronto
III Jewish Philanthropy and Embourgeoisement
2:45 - 4:30 p.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
Jewish Philanthropists and Political Buergerlichkeit before 1914, Simone
Laessig, Technische Universitaet Dresden
From Rabbinical Study to Civic Responsibility: Gender and Jewish Associations
in Germany, 1750-1870, Maria Baader, University of Toronto
Between Integration and Separation: Jewish Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century
Cities - a German-American Comparison, Tobias Brinkmann, Leipzig
IV Philanthropy and the Scientific Enterprise
5:00 - 6:45 p.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: Gabriele Lingelbach, Universitaet Trier
Science and Philanthropy in Wilhelmine Germany, Eckhardt Fuchs / Dieter Hoffmann,
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Bildungsgeschichte, Berlin
The Disease of War. The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Sciences in Germany
during the Inter-War Period (1919-1939), Daniel Porsch, Universitaet Tuebingen
Small Atlantic World: U.S. Philanthropy and the Expanding International -Exchange
of Scholars after 1945, Oliver Schmidt, Bertelsmann Stiftung
Saturday May 5th
V Art, Culture, Politics: Practices of Inclusion & Exclusion
10:00 - 11:45 a.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: Jean Quataert, SUNY Binghamton
Celebrating the Ordinary? Patronage in Modern German and American Popular
Entertainment , Marline Otte, Tulane University
Aby Warburg and Art in Hamburg's Public Realm, Mark A. Russell, Toronto
Patronage, Privilege, and Political Elites in German Cities: Who Could Vote
for Whom?, James Retallack, University of Toronto
VI From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: Philanthropy and the
Third Sector
1:30 -3:30 p.m., Munk Centre Rm. 208N
Commentator: Roger Keil, The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies,
York University / University de Montreal
Self-Help, Philanthropy, and State Aid: Ideological Poles in the Emergence
of Co-operatives in Germany, 1848-1862, Brett Fairbairn, Centre for the Study
of Co-operatives, University of
Saskatchewan
Social Housing between Philanthropy and Social Welfare State, Susannah Morris,
London School of Economics
Voluntary Worlds: Nonprofit Organizations, "The Establishment," and Diversity
in the Great Cities of the United States, 1800-2000, David C. Hammack, Case
Western Reserve University
From Private Charity to Public Programs: A Study of the Toronto Social Planning
Council, 1957-1988, Susan McGrath, School of Social Work, York University
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