Conference Group for Central
European History
Newsletter
Fall 1998
Dear Colleagues,
The business meeting of the Conference Group will take place during the annual meeting
of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., Thursday, January 7 to Sunday,
January 10, 1999. The business meeting will convene Saturday, January 9, 1999, at 5:00
p.m. in Room 8219 of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (formerly the
Sheraton). Business to be conducted includes the election of new officers of the
Conference Group and the announcement of the winner of this year’s book prize. In
2000, the Conference Group will once again award its article prize.
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Immediately following the business meeting, the Conference Group will hold its annual Bierabend,
which will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Colorado Room, a two-three minute
walk from Room 8219. I hope many of you will attend and look forward to seeing you
in Washington.
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Please note that the above times for the business meeting and the Bierabend represent a
change from past practice. The new times were adopted on an experimental basis, to
free the Saturday evening for other activities and to learn whether the new time will
increase attendance.
Kees Gispen
Contents
1999 AHA meeting
Joint session
of the CGCEH and the AHA
Other AHA
sessions of interest to member of CGCEH
Call
for papers for the AHA meeting in the year 2000
Conference Group for Central European History
New
publisher for Central European History
Archives Committee
Nominations to the Executive
Board
Transatlantic
Doctoral Seminar
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Joint Session of the CGCEH and the AHA
The joint session of the Conference Group and the AHA will take place from 2:30-4:30 p.m., Saturday, January 9, in the Marriott Hotel, Balcony B, Marriott Ballroom
Session 100: Religion, Gender and Social Conflict in the Holy Roman Empire
Chair: David Luebke, University of Oregon
Church and Piety as Arenas of Conflict in the Early Modern German Village
Heide Wunder, Universität-Gesamthochschule Kassel
Pilgrimage and Social Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Rebekka Habermas, Universität Bielefeld
Confessional Identity and the Territorial Church in Protestant Germany
Robert von Friedeburg, Universität Bielefeld
Comment: Marc R. Forster, Connecticut College
Other AHA Sessions with Central European Themes
(A complete description of each AHA session, including those listed below, can be found at the following address: http://chnm.gmu.edu/aha.)
Society for Austrian and Habsburg HistoryOff-Site Session
Workshop: The Holocaust
Participants in each session (maximum 50) will receive a pass to the museum’s permanent exhibition and will be able to visit other special exhibitions. In Session I, "Teaching about the Holocaust," staff of the museum’s Education Division will discuss Holocaust education in the United States, present information on museum programs and resources for educators, demonstrate a variety of museum materials, and present an overview of teaching guidelines and questions of methodology to consider. For Session II, "Artifacts and Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum," staff of the Division of Collections will present information about the museum’s artifacts and its archival collections, including photo, film and video, oral history, and library. Presenters will discuss the acquisition of materials and plans for future collections. Participants will receive instructions for a self-guided visit of the library and various archives.
Directions: Take the Red Line to Metro Center. Walk downstairs and take the Blue or Orange Line two stops to Smithsonian Station. Exit the Metro via Independence Avenue. Turn left and walk to 15th Street. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is across the street, the second building in from Independence Avenue. Allow 35 minutes travel time.
Session 49. Academics and the Mediation of Culture in the Postwar Germanies
Fr. 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott,
Johnson Room
Session 74. Comparative Studies
of Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century: East Central Europe, 1945–48
Sa. 9:30 a.m., Marriott, Maryland Suite A
Session 76. Military Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany
and Imperial Japan
Sa. 9:30 a.m., Marriott, Balcony C, Marriott
Ballroom
Chair: John Fout, Bard College
General Ludwig Beck: Between Loyalty and Resistance
Peter Hoffmann, McGill University
Escaping Death: Opposition and Resistance within the Japanese Army
Theodore Cook, William Paterson College
Heroes of the Resistance or Traitors to the Reich? German Deserters in World War II
Steven Welch, University of Melbourne
Comment: Kathy Williams, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
Saturday Luncheon. AHA Modern European History Section
Sa. 12:15-1:45 p.m., Marriott, Marshall Room
Presiding: John
Toews, University of Washington, section chair
James Cronin, Boston College, section secretary-treasurer
Holocaust History and Survivor Memories: Studying the Starachowice Labor Camp
Christopher Browning, Pacific Lutheran University
The luncheon is open to all. Tickets can be
purchased at the annual meeting at the meal ticket cashier’s window or at the door.
Individuals who only want to hear the speech are invited to arrive at 1:00 p.m.
Session 89. The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness
Sa. 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott, Taft Room
Chair: Alon Confino, University of Virginia
Home, Nation, Empire: Domestic Germanness and Citizenship in Colonial Southwest
Africa
Krista O’Donnell, William Paterson College
The Imagined Hausfrau: German Women and National Identity in Africa and Eastern
Europe
Nancy Reagin, Pace University
Reaching Out: The Politics of the Russian German Diaspora
Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New
York
Comment: Benjamin Lapp, Montclair State University
Session 99. Political Economies of Science in Early Modern Europe
Sa. 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott, Room 8216
Chair: Harold J. Cook, University of Wisconsin
at Madison
The Commerce of Nature
Pamela H. Smith, Pomona College
The Inventory of "Natural Riches" in the Early Modern German States
Alix Cooper, University of Puget Sound
"Merchant’s Logick": Commercial Rationalities in Eighteenth-Century
Medicine
Andrea Rusnock, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Comment: Harold J. Cook
Session 101. Christian Democracy and European Reconstruction, 1945–60
Session 117. Secrecy and Political Culture in Premodern Europe
Su. 8:30 a.m., Marriott, Roosevelt Room
Session 119. The Integration and Disintegration of German Jews, 1871–1945
Session 120. Reconstructing National Identities in Post–World War II Europe: West Germany, France, and Great Britain Compared
Session 123. Defining Moral and Legal Responsibility in Germany, England, and the United States
Session 125. The Memory of Expulsion and the Expulsion of Memory in Post–World War II Europe: The Cases of Germany, Poland, and Greece
Session 142. Antisemitic Scholarship in Nazi Germany
Call for papers for the AHA meeting in the Year 2000
Editor's Note:
The information reproduced immediately below was copied unchanged from the AHA's web page
Author: The AHA
Date: September, 1998
Column: AHA Activities
Editor's Note: For guidelines and helpful suggestions regarding submission of proposals, see Patrick Manning's Preparing Your Proposal for the Year 2000 Annual Meeting .
The annual meeting of the Association for the year 2000 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, January 6-9, 2000. The Program Committee welcomes proposals by all members of the Association (academic and nonacademic), by scholars in foreign countries and in related disciplines, and by affiliated societies. The program for the annual meeting seeks to promote excellence in research and teaching and discussion of significant professional issues, rights, and responsibilities. The Program Committee seeks presentations that address the entire community of historians and provide opportunity to examine the larger concerns of the profession. In particular, this year's committee is eager to encourage the participation of established scholars and to include time periods, regions, topics, and approaches that have been underrepresented in recent AHA meetings.
The AHA annual meeting for the year 2000 offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on the state of the discipline and the profession at the beginning of the 21st century. To encourage participation by all segments of the historical community, the Program Committee has chosen a broad theme, History for the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change. The committee hopes that a majority of the panels and papers will contribute to the discussion of this theme and will give preference to those panels and papers that in the course of their discussions of substantive issues in particular fields reflect upon broader issues of historiography, interpretation, methodology, and perspective. The Program Committee for the year 2000 consists of Claire Moses, chair (Univ. of Maryland at College Park), James Henretta, cochair (Univ. of Maryland at College Park), Michael Bernstein (Univ. of California at San Diego), Palmira Brummet (Univ. of Tennessee), Barbara Hanawalt (Univ. of Minnesota), Albert Hurtado (Arizona State Univ.), John Kizca (Washington State Univ.), Sucheta Mazumdar (Duke Univ.), Peter Reill (UCLA), Claire Robertson (Ohio State Univ.), Carolyn Williams (Univ. of North Florida), and Jessica Young (Oak Park River Forest High School, Oak Park, Ill.)
There is only one deadline for submission: February 15, 1999. Any proposal postmarked after that date will not be considered. The committee encourages the submission of entire panels or workshops and will give preference to complete proposals (those that include all presenters, chair, and commentator). It will consider single-paper submissions but may have difficulty finding places for such proposals on the program. There will be no "poster sessions."
In preparing a proposal, you should consult the following items in this issue of Perspectives: "Preparing Your Proposal" (page 35) and "Program Committee Guidelines" (page 36). Proposers of panels or individual presentations must use the cover sheet and checklist form on page 18 (or a photocopy).Additional copies of all materials are available from Andrew Schulkin at the AHA office, 400 A St., SE, Washington, DC 20003-3889. (202) 544-2422, ext. 104. Fax (202) 544-8307. E-mail: aschulkin@theaha.org.
All materials can also be found on the AHA's home page on the World Wide Web: go to http://chnm.gmu.edu/aha and click "Annual Meeting."
All persons appearing on the program must be members of the AHA, the exceptions being foreign scholars and scholars from other disciplines. Only in exceptional circumstances will individuals be allowed to appear consecutively in the 1999 and 2000 programs.
Please mail four copies of the complete proposal (including the cover sheet and the items specified in the checklist) to Claire Moses, 2101 Woods Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4525.
The e-mail addresses for the cochairs are: Claire Moses: cm45@umail.umd.edu; James Henretta: jh53@umail.umd.edu.
Conference Group for Central European History
Miscellaneous Announcements
Publisher
of Central European History changes ownership
This past summer, Humanities Press, Inc. sold Central European History and the
book series, Studies in Central European History (Thomas Brady and Roger Chickering,
editors), to Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. The journal and the book series will
now be handled out of a new office located in Boston. There is no change with regard
to Central European History's editorial control, which remains with Editor Ken
Barkin and the current editorial board.
The new address for Humanities Press, Inc., is:
Humanities Press, Inc.
112 Water Street
Suite 400
Boston, MA 02109
Toll-free: 877-999-7575
Phone: 617-742-5277
Fax: 617-263-2324
Subscriptions to CEH (which include membership in the Conference Group) can henceforth be paid with MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Diners Club and JCB. Subscription prices for individuals will increase marginally and be announced in a direct mailing by the publisher.
A revised publication schedule of CEH for the remainder of 1998
and early 1999 is as follows:
Vol. 30 (1997), No. 4: September 1998
Vol. 31 (1998) Nos. 1-2 (combined): December 1998
Vol. 31 (1998), No. 3: December 1998
Vol. 31 (1998), No. 4: December 1998
Vol. 32 (1999), No. 1: March 1999
Archives Committee
The Conference Group’s Archives Committee consists of the following individuals.
For further information, please contact the committee's chair, Alan Steinweis.
| Carole Fink Department of History The Ohio State University Columbus, HO 43210 fink.24@osu.edu |
Gerhard Weinberg Department of History University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 gweinber@email.unc.edu |
| Geoffrey Giles Department of History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7320 ggiles@history.ufl.edu |
Alan Steinweis Department of History University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0327 aes@unlinfo.unl.edu |
| David Barclay Department of History Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 barclay@kzoo.edu |
John Connelly Department of History University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 jfconnel@uclink.berkeley.edu |
1998 Nominations Committee
The Nominations Committee (Charles Ingrao, Irmgard Steinisch, and Jonathan Petropoulos)
propose that the following individuals be nominated for positions on the Executive Board.
Vice-President elect: Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Universität Potsdam)
Three year term on the executive board: Pieter M. Judson (Swarthmore College)
In addition, the Executive Secretary recommends that Gerald Feldman and Konrad Jarausch again be nominated to continue serving as the Conference Group’s delegates to Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
These or other nominations will be discussed at the January business meeting, which will elect next year’s officers.
Transatlantic Doctoral
Seminar in German History 1999
Germany in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1850
Washington, D.C., April 21-24, 1999
The German Historical Institute in Washington, the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, and the Conference Group for Central European History are pleased to announce the fift Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History. The conference is once again supported by the German-American Academic Council and will convene in Washington, D.C., between April 21 and 24, 1999.
The seminar is meant to bring together young scholars from Germany and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. We plan to invite eight scholars from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their doctoral projects. The discussions will be based on papers submitted in advance of the conference. The languages of this seminar will be German and Englisch. We shall cover travel costs and lodging expenses.
The theme of this conference will be "Germany in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1850." We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose work falls principally in this era and who will not have finished their degrees before June 1999. Applications should include a short (2-3pp) project description, a résumé, and a letter of reference from the major advisor.
Please send applications by December 1, 1998 to:
German Historical Institute
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminars
Attn: Baerbel Thomas
1607 New Hampshire Ave.
NW, Washington, DC 20009
ph. 202-387-3355
fax: 202-483-3430
The editor of this Newsletter may be reached at the following address:
Department of History
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
601-232-7148
601-232-7033 fax
hsgispen@olemiss.edu
This page was last updated on October 20, 1998.