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Conference at the University of Toronto, 19-20 September 1998
HOMEPAGE AND DETAILED PROGRAM:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/Memory/
remembrance, popular representation, local identity, national solidarity.
These perennial themes of German history are to be addressed at this conference by a diverse group of scholars from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. The discussions will focus on social, economic, and political modernization, struggles for emancipation, the formation of regional identities, and the cultural codes that determine the prospects for national integration.
Participants were asked to consider these themes in a comparative framework that includes local, regional, national, and international perspectives. In order to make the discussions more cohesive, many comparisons are drawn outward from one region of Germany that was economically very advanced but, for much of the modern era, politically backward: the Kingdom (later Free State) of Saxony. Other contributions consider how localism and regionalism present methodological challenges to scholars undertaking research across disciplinary boundaries. Such reassessments are especially timely on the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions, in light of the dramatic events of 1989/90, and on the eve of the new century.
Linked events on 18 September will be held at York University, Toronto, and the Goethe-Institut Toronto (see below, following the main program).
Attendance at this conference is open to all students, scholars, and interested members of the public. No formal registration is necessary, but those who plan to attend may wish to purchase the Conference Reader, which was sent to all invited delegates in early August. This reader (220 pp.) will be available for purchase (C$ 20 or US$ 15) on-site at the conference or through the post (add an additional $5 for postage). To obtain a reader by post, contact james.retallack@utoronto.ca No oral presentation of papers will be made at the conference. Instead, each session will open with remarks by a single commentator, who will address all the papers included in the session. That commentary will be followed immediately by general discussion.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Main Program
Saturday, 19 September, 9:00 a.m. - Sunday, 20 September, 1:30 p.m.
SESSION I. OPENING REMARKS (Sat. a.m.)
James Retallack, University of Toronto
Thomas Goebel, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
SESSION II. LOCALISM, REGIONAL IDENTITY, AND THE MEDIATED NATION (Sat. a.m.)
Lawrence LeDuc, University of Toronto
Celia Applegate, University of Rochester
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University
James Retallack, University of Toronto
Siegfried Weichlein, Humboldt University Berlin
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, University of Bielefeld
Erwin Fink, University of Toronto
SESSION III. LIBERALS AND SOCIALISTS: REMEMBERING OR MAKING REVOLUTION? (Sat. a.m.)
Modris Eksteins, University of Toronto, Scarborough College
Jennifer Jenkins, Washington University, St. Louis
Christian Jansen, Ruhr-University Bochum
Karsten Rudolph, Ruhr-University Bochum
Thomas Adam, University of Leipzig
Robert Beachy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem
Pall Bjoernsson, University of Rochester
SESSION IV. FROM NEIGHBOURHOOD TO NATION (Sat. p.m.)
Michael Kater, York University, Toronto
Roger Chickering, Georgetown University
Celia Applegate, University of Rochester
Karl Heinrich Pohl, University of Kiel
Brett Fairbairn, University of Saskatchewan / Free University Berlin
H Glenn Penny III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Barry Jackisch, SUNY, University at Buffalo
SESSION V. WAR, CRISIS, AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM (Sat. p.m.)
Thomas Goebel, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
Bernd Weisbrod, University of Goettingen
Christoph Nonn, University of Cologne
Benjamin Lapp, Montclair College, New Jersey
Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, Buffalo
Claus-Christian Szejnmann, Middlesex University
Ulrich Hess, University of Leipzig
SESSION VI. RELIGION, CIVIC CULTURE, AND EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENTS
(Sun. a.m.)
Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
Jacques Kornberg, University of Toronto
Simone Laessig, Technical University Dresden
Andreas Neemann, University of Tuebingen
Marven Krug, amazon.com, Seattle
Marline Otte, University of Toronto
Till van Rahden, University of Bielefeld
Richard Steigmann-Gall, University of Toronto
SESSION VII. WRITING REGIONAL HISTORY TODAY (Sun. a.m.)
Stuart Robson, Trent University, Peterborough
Christoph Nonn, University of Cologne
Thomas Kuehne, University of Konstanz
Thomas Mergel, Ruhr-University Bochum
Roger Chickering, Georgetown University
Bernd Weisbrod, University of Goettingen
SESSION VIII. FINAL THOUGHTS: MEMORY AND THE MEDIATED NATION (Sun. p.m.)
Wilhelm Bleek, Ruhr-University Bochum
Volker Gransow, York University, Toronto
Michael Kater, York University, Toronto
Lucian Hoelscher, Ruhr-University Bochum
LINKED EVENTS:
CANADIAN CENTRE FOR GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES, YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO
Associated Program, Friday, 18 September, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Symposium: "Remembering Repressions. Memory of Dictatorships: National Socialism, the GDR, and German Political Culture Today"
Volker Gransow, CCGES, York University
Sigrid Meuschel, University of Leipzig
GOETHE-INSTITUT TORONTO
Cultural Program, Friday, 18 September, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Public Forum: "Divided Memories"
Peter Hubrich, Goethe-Institut Toronto
Sigrid Meuschel, University of Leipzig
CONFERENCE CONVENERS:
James Retallack, University of Toronto
Thomas Goebel, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
James Retallack
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