Conference Group for Central European History
Dear Colleagues,
I look forward to seeing you at the Conference Group's business meeting and Bierabend, Saturday, January 4, 2003. Both events will take place at the American Historical Association convention in Chicago (Thursday, January 2 to Sunday, January 5, 2003). The business meeting will convene at 5:00 p.m. in the Hilton Hotel, Private Dining Room 3, also on Saturday, January 4. Business to be conducted includes the election of new officers (current officers and nominees are listed below), the announcement of the winner of the biennial book prize, and the future editorship of Central European History. The Bierabend will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the adjacent Private Dining Room 2. I am pleased to announce that the Conference Group is the co-sponsor of fourteen sessions on Central Europe at this year's AHA meeting. You will find links to these sessions below.
Kees Gispen
Contents
2003 AHA meeting
Joint sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
Conference Group for Central European History
Current Officers
Archives Committee: update
on former Stasi records
Nominations Committee
Editorship
of Central European History
Disposition
of back issues of Central European History
Announcements
Fritz Stern
Dissertation Prize winners
CGCEH at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
I. Joint Sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
Please click here to see the details of all joint sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA.
Friday, January 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 8. The
German Diaspora in East Central Europe: Assimilation, Dissimilation, and
Expulsion
Palmer House, Private Dining Room 18
Friday, January 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 16. Twentieth-Century
Sex and the State: Austro-Germanic Bodies, Sex, and the Nation
Hilton, Boulevard Room C
Friday, January 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 23. "Forget
the German Enlightenment. I Need a Job.": The Logic of Neglected
Things
Hilton, Conference Room 4D
Friday, January 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 27. Inventing
a Tradition: Cremation in Britain, Germany, and the United States, 1880-1970
Palmer House, Private Dining Room 9
Friday, January 3, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
AHA Session 44. Göttingen
University ca. 1945: A Close Look at Transition
Hilton, Joliet Room
Saturday, January 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 78. Masculinity
in Crisis, Masculinities in Flux: Fatherhood, Manhood, and Male Identity in
Post-War Germany
Hilton, Conference Room 4D
Saturday, January 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 85. Beyond
Berlin: The Politics of Culture in Modern Germany
Palmer House, LaSalle Room 5
Saturday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
AHA Session 94. Dreaming
"Truth" to Power: Psychoanalysis, State, and Society in Berlin,
Vienna, and New York, 1899-1999
Palmer House, State Ballroom
Saturday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
AHA Session 104. German/Swiss
and American Interaction in Higher Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
Palmer House, Private Dining Room 18
Sunday, January 5, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 123. The
Power of Violence in Late Imperial Austria-Hungary
Hilton, Astoria Room
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 126. The
Global Spaces of German Thought: Nation, Region, and Earth in the
Twentieth Century
Hilton, Private Dining Room 2
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 130. Negotiation
Conflicts in Sixteenth-Century Germany: Pastoral Activity during
Confessional Transformation
Palmer House, Parlor B
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 142. Local
Conflicts, Global Rivalry: Central Europeans in the Cold War
Palmer House, Private Dining Room 4
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
AHA Session 165. Images
of German Nationhood: Alternative Narratives
Hilton, Boulevard Room B
The full 2003 AHA program can be found on line, at the following address: http://www.theaha.org/annual/2003/index.htm
Conference Group for Central European History
Current Officers (January
2001-January 2002)
President: David Crew, University of Texas at Austin
Vice-President: David Blackbourn, Harvard University
Vice-President Elect: Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri, Columbia
Immediate Past President: Konrad Jarausch: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
University of Potsdam
At-Large Member (exp. January 2003): Doris Bergen, University of Notre Dame
At-Large Member (exp. January 2004): Peter Black, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
At-large Member (exp. January 2005): Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University
Editor of Central European History, Kenneth Barkin, University of
California, Riverside
Executive Secretary and Treasurer, Kees Gispen, University of Mississippi
Archives Committee
David Barclay (Kalamazoo College), Chair (contact David at: barclay@kzoo.edu)
John Connelly, University of California at Berkeley
Carole Fink, Ohio State University
Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida (ex officio)
Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Barclay files this update on access to the former Stasi records:
The continuing controversy about access to Stasi
records overshadowed other archive-related issues in 2002.
In March, the Bundesverwaltungsgericht
confirmed a lower-court decision forbidding publication of Stasi
materials concerning ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
According to the court, Stasi documents
concerning persons of contemporary historical significance (Personen
der Zeitgeschichte)
could only be published with the permission of such persons.
Marianne Birthler, director of the “Birthler-Behörde,”
was one of many who regretted the consequences of this decision for scholarly
research on both post-1949 German states. (For details, see the Süddeutsche
Zeitung of 9-10 March 2002.)
In an effort to modify or reverse the effects of this decision, the
governing coalition was joined by the FDP in supporting a Novelle
to modify the older legislation on access to Stasi
records. The “5. Änderungsgesetz
zum Stasiunterlagengesetz”
passed the Bundestag and Bundesrat in July and went
into effect in September; the CDU/CSU voted against the measure in the
Bundestag, while the PDS abstained. Of
particular importance is the Novellierung
of Paragraphs 32 and 32a, which deal with access to materials concerning persons
of contemporary historical significance. The
new Gesetzesnovelle
makes it possible for scholars and journalists to continue to work in relevant Stasi
records, although future legal challenges are certainly possible.
For details of the new legislation and for a chronology of the entire
dispute, see the excellent Web site of the Birthler-Behörde
at www.bstu.de
Nominations Committee
The Conference Group’s nominating committee is made up of the executive committee. The committee
earlier this year nominated Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, for the position of
Vice-President Elect and Kevin Repp, Yale University, for a
three-year term on the executive committee. These nominations will
be voted on at the January business meeting in Boston.
The Executive Committee is soliciting recommendations for a CGCEH member to fill a slot on the board of Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Preferably, the nominee will reside in the Washington, DC area, to facilitate attendance of board meetings. This issue will be discussed and voted on at the January business meeting.
Editorship of Central
European History
The editor of Central European History, Ken Barkin, will
complete his term of office in the spring of 2004. The future of the
editorship will be one of the items on the agenda of the business meeting.
Disposition
of back issues of Central
European History
The executive secretary in the spring of 2002 received the remaining
stock of back issues of CEH (vols. 1-23) from Emory University.
After availability of the back issues was publicized in the spring 2002 CGCEH
Newsletter and on H-German, 37 complete sets of back issues were prepared and
donated free of charge to the following institutions (recipients paid shipping
and handling charges): Anderson University; Australian
Announcements
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize Winners
The Friends of the German Historical Institute are pleased to announce the winners of this year's Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize:
Julia Roos, Carnegie Mellon University, "Weimar's Crisis Through the Lens of Gender: The Case of Prostitution"
and
Rebecca Wittman, University of Toronto, "Holocaust on Trial? The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in Historical Perspective"
The editor of this Newsletter may be reached at the following address:
Department of History
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
662-915-7148
662-915-7033 fax
hsgispen@olemiss.edu
This page was last edited on 12/06/2002