Friday, 7.9.2007
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1
Chair: Jürgen Martschukat (University of Erfurt)
Mary Lindemann (University of Miami): The Mysteries of Hamburg: True Crime, Literary Representations, and History in the Eighteenth Century
Ann C. Le Bar (Eastern Washington University): Song, sociability and Hamburg Bürgerkultur from Keiser to Brahms
11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2
Chair: Frank Hatje (University of Hamburg)
Katherine B. Aaslestad (West Virginia University): Reading the Republic in Hamburg: Civic Identity between 1780 and 1815
Tamara Zwick (University of South Florida): Mutter Sieveking and the Fossilization of Old Ideas
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3
Chair: Frank Bajohr (FZH)
Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto): Modernist Culture and Public Life: Hamburg Before 1914
Maiken Umbach (University of Manchester): Hamburg's Built Environment and the Politics of a 'Second City' Around 1900
16:15 – 18:30 Panel 4
Chair: Rainer Hering (Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein / University of Hamburg)
Anthony McElligott (University of Limerick): Kommunal-politik in Altona, 1917-1937: What I now know and what I did then
Andrew Wackerfuss (Georgetown University): The Stormtrooper Family: How Sexuality, Spirituality, and Community Shaped the Hamburg SA
Geoffrey Giles (University of Florida): Pink Leadership for the Brown University? Homosexuality and the Nazification of the University of Hamburg
Saturday, 8.9.2007
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 5
Chair: Eckart Krause (University of Hamburg)
Carolyn H. Kay (Trent University): The Allure of the Pioneering Spirit: From Yale to Hamburg in Search of Alfred Lichtwark and Hamburg's Fin-de-Siècle Art
Emily Levine (Stanford University): Socrates in Hamburg?: Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, and Aby Warburg in Hamburg, 1919-1933
11:15 – 12:45 Panel 6
Chair: Elisabeth von Dücker (Museum of Work Hamburg)
Julia Bruggemann (DePauw University): Prostitution, State, and Society in Hamburg before 1914
Julia Sneeringer (Queens College): 'Assembly Line of Joys': Selling Hamburg and the Reeperbahn in the 1950s and 1960s
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 7
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld)
Clayton Whisnant (Wofford College): Between Persecution and Freedom: Hamburg's Gay Scene in the 'Golden 50s'
Robert P. Stephens (Virginia Tech): The Places in Between: Drugs, Hamburg, and Transnational History
16:15 – 17:45 Panel 8
Chair: Lars Amenda (FZH)
Frank Zelko (University of Vermont): "The Calabria of the North": Industrialization and Environmental Protest in Hamburg and its Hinterland
Charles Closmann (University of North Florida): Towards an Eco-History of Hamburg
18:00 – 18:45 Final Discussion
Chair: Christoph Strupp (FZH) / Dorothee Wierling (FZH)