Conference Group for Central European History
Conference Group for Central European History at the AHA 2001
Dear Colleagues,
We look forward to seeing you at the next business meeting of the AHA’s Conference Group for Central European History and the Bierabend that traditionally follows. As most of you know, the CGCEH brings together Central Europeanists who attend the AHA, awards prizes to books and articles on the history of Central Europe, and publishes Central European History. The next AHA annual meeting will be held in Boston, from Thursday, January 4 to Sunday, January 7, 2001. We are very pleased to be co-sponsoring a large number of sessions on Central Europe at this year’s meeting. Below you will find links to these and other sessions of interest. The Conference Group’s business meeting will convene Saturday, January 6, 2001, at 5:00 p.m. in the Beacon Room A, Sheraton.
Business to be conducted includes the election of new officers of the Conference Group (current officers are listed below) and the announcement of the winner of this year’s book prize. In 2002, the Conference Group will once again award its article prize. We will also begin a discussion of a process for finding a new editor and home for CEH since the current editor, Ken Barkin, will be completing his term in 2004.
Immediately following the business meeting is the Bierabend, at 6:00 p.m. in the adjacent Beacon Rooms B/C, Sheraton. We hope many of you will attend and look forward to seeing you in Boston.
Kees
Gispen, Executive Secretary, Treasurer, and Newsletter editor
M.J. Maynes, President
Contents
2001 AHA meeting
Seven
joint sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
Joint session of the CGCEH and the
SAHH
Other AHA sessions
with Central European Themes
Conference Group for Central European History
Current Officers
Archives Committee
Nominations Committee
Recommendation for naming the CGCEH Book Prize
Editorship
of Central European History to become vacant
Announcements
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize winners
University
of Minnesota Summer Institute in German Studies
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Seven Joint Sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
The Conference Group is pleased to announce it is the co-sponsor of the following, joint sessions with the American Historical Association. (Session 120 is also co-sponsored by the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, and session 140 by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.)
Session 8. Germans and Others in the
Twentieth Century
Friday, January 5, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Sheraton, Hampton Room
Chair: | Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Papers: |
The Debate on Civilization: Troeltsch, Schweitzer, and Jaspers Talking about Race after National Socialism: African American GIs
in 1950s West The Conditions of Inclusion: Germans, Turks, and the Debate about
Gender Roles in the Postwar Federal Republic |
|
Comment: | David S. Luft, University of California at San Diego |
Session 31. The German and Austrian–German Historical Narrative
Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sheraton, Beacon Room B
Chair: | Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville | |
Papers: |
Friedrich Meinecke and the Limits of Historicism A Closer Look at the "Soteriological" Narrative of the
German Reformation The "Soft Law" of the Austrian Historical Narrative
under the Habsburgs |
|
Comment: | Georg G. Iggers, State University of New York at Buffalo |
Session 33. The Intersection of Personal Narratives and Collective
Historical Narratives in Twentieth–Century Germany
Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Westin, Essex Ballroom North
Center
Chair: | Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland at College Park | |
Papers: |
Remembering and Revisiting the Past: Collective Memory and
German Women's Private Memories of the Third Reich Narratives of Defense and Justification: Heidelberg University
Professors and the Nazi Past, 1945–55 Biography and Communist Purges: The Case of East German Old
Communists Conflicting Narratives? The First Postwar Generation in East
Germany and the Nazi Past |
|
Comment: | Mary Jo Maynes, University of Minnesota |
Session 97. "The Wall in the Mind?" Narratives and
Representations of Self in a Divided Germany
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J
Chair: | Richard Wetzell, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. | |
Papers: |
The Cold War in Mind: A Case of Schizophrenia in Soviet.
Occupied Germany and the Challenges of Historical Pathography Making up Consumers: Men and Women through the Lens of
German Market Research, 1930s–1960s The End of Socialism and the Reinvention of the Self: A
Study of the East German Psychotherapeutic Community in Transition |
|
Comment: | Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton Universit |
Session 120. Popular Loyalties, National Identities, and
Historians' Narratives of the Fate of the Habsburg Monarchy
Sunday, January 7, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Sheraton, Beacon Room B
Joint Session with the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History
Chair: | Gary B. Cohen, University of Oklahoma at Norman | |
Papers: |
"Ethnicity" as National Argument Between National and Ethnic Identity: The Role of the Jews
as a Foundation for Habsburg Continuity, 1900–19 Praga Magica: Imagination, Poetics, and Historical
Narrative in the Identities of a Habsburg City |
|
Comment: | Gary B. Cohen |
Session 129. Terror and Population Politics under Nazi and Soviet
Power: Comparative Explorations
Sunday, January 7, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon I
Chair: | Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University | |
Papers: |
Exterminate a Significant Portion of the Population:
Population Politics in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia When Soviets Met Nazis, 1939–53 The Permeable Borders of Race and Nation: Comparing
Population Politics under Nazi and Soviet Power Selective Terror in the Third Reich |
|
Comment: | Stephen Kotkin Mary Nolan, New York University |
Session 140. The Holocaust Narrative: New Sources and New Approaches
Sunday, January 7, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom
Salon C
Joint Session with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United
States Memorial Holocaust Museum
Chair: | Richard Breitman, American University | |
Papers: |
Forgotten Perpetrators: Women in the SS German Soldiers and the Holocaust: Constructing a
Perpetrators' Perspective from Photographs and Documents Holocaust History: Appraising the Value of Regional
Approaches |
|
Comment: | Peter Black, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Joint Session of the CGCEH and the SAHH
The Conference Group and the Society for Austrian and
Habsburg History are jointly sponsoring the session,
A Roundtable on Jörg Haider, the Freedom Party, and the
Historical Traditions of the Austrian Right,
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sheraton, Liberty Room A
Chair: Gary
B. Cohen, University of Oklahoma
Panelists: Lonnie R. Johnson, Austrian Fulbright Commission
Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College
Bruce F. Pauley, University of Central Florida
Max E. Riedlsperger, California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo
Other AHA Sessions with Central European Themes
Session 72. The Memory of Nazism in Postwar Western Popular CultureChair: | Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont | |
Papers: |
The World the Nazis Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory
of Nazism in Postwar Anglo–American Popular Culture Watching Germans Watching Television: Nazism and the Holocaust in
the Eyes of the Consumers of German Public Television Mouse, Maus, and Mickey Mouse: Representing the Holocaust in an
Age of Total Commodification |
|
Comment: | Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland at College Park |
Session 98. Narratives of National Embodiment and Belonging: Women's
Citizenship in Germany, France, and America
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sheraton, Fairfax Room B
Chair: | David F. Crew, University of Texas at Austin | |
Papers: |
Political Rights and Ethnic Duties: A Comparative History of the
Development of the Citizenship Rights of Married Women in Germany,
France, and the United States Bodies, Subjectivities, and Citizenships in Germany after the
First World War Law, Culture, and Gender: Citizenship and National Identity in
Fin–de– siècle France and Germany |
|
Comment: | Kenneth F. Ledford, Case Western Reserve Universit |
Session 101. Narrating Justice and Atrocity: War Crimes Trials and
the Politics of Memory in the Postwar World
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Westin, Essex Ballroom North West
Chair: | Jeffry Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire | |
Papers: |
Search for Justice: Ideals and Realities in the Tokyo War Crimes
Trials The Shock of the Old: The Ulm Einsatskommando Trial and the Return
of the Repressed in Postwar Germany Telling the Story: Survivor Testimony and Narration of the
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial |
|
Comment: | Moishe Postone, University of Chicago |
Session 136. Nature in Modern German History: New Approaches and
Counternarratives
Sunday, January 7, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon K
Chair: | Celia Applegate, University of Rochester | |
Papers: |
Commerce and Ecology: The Reengineering of the Rhine River in the
Age of Coal and Chemicals, 1815–1914 Nature in a Divided Land: Concepts of Nature and the Practice of
Conservation in East and West Germany, 1949–Early 1960s Social Hiking: The Naturfreunde Organization and the Socialist
Appropriation of Nature in Weimar Germany, 1919–33 |
|
Comment: | David Blackbourn, Harvard University |
Session 143. Confessions of Suicide in Early Modern Germany and
Switzerland
Sunday, January 7, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon I
Chair: | Michael McDonald, University of Michigan | |
Papers: |
Suicide in Lutheran Northern Germany: Gender, Discourse,
Experience Calvinism and Suicide: The Case of Early Modern Geneva Catholic Suicide: A Contradiction? |
|
Comment: | H. C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia |
The full 2001 AHA program can be found on line, at the following address: http://www.theaha.org/annual/program/index.html.
Conference Group for Central European History
Current Officers (January
2000-January 2001)
President: Mary Jo Maynes, University of Minnesota
Vice-President: Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
University of Potsdam
Vice-President Elect: David Crew, University of Texas at Austin
Immediate Past President: Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, New York University
At-Large Member (exp. January 2001): Mary Lindemann, Carnegie-Mellon University
At-Large Member (exp. January 2002): Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College
At-Large Member (exp. January 2003): Doris Bergen, University of Notre Dame
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) has agreed to take over the chair of the
archives committee. Besides David, the committee includes the following members:
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
For contact information, please see the Fall 1998 Newsletter (http://home.olemiss.edu/~hsgispen/cgceh/Fall98Nwsltr.html)
Nominations Committee
As reported in the spring 2000 Newsletter, the Conference Group’s 2000
nominating committee is made up of the executive committee. The committee
nominated David Blackbourn, Harvard University, for the position of
Vice-President Elect and Peter Black, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
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 welcomes members' suggestions for officers of the Conference
Group. The Executive Secretary recommends that Gerald Feldman and Roger
Chickering be renominated 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.
Recommendation for naming the Conference Group's Book Prize
In the course of 2000, the Executive Committee again discussed the possibility of
associating our book prize with the name of an historian; the committee proposes to name
the book prize for Hans Rosenberg. This recommendation will be discussed
and voted on at the time of the January business meeting in Boston
Editorship
of Central European History to become vacant
The editor of Central European History, Ken Barkin, will
complete his current and last term of office in the spring of 2004. The
Executive Committee welcomes suggestions from members and readers of CEH for
a new editor, in hopes that beginning the process now insures a timely
transition to a worthy successor and new institutional home for the
journal. This matter will be discussed at the January business meeting.
Announcements
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German
History
"Germany in the Age of Total War, 1914 -1945"
Washington, D.C., April 25-28, 2001
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 Seventh 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. from April 25 to 28, 2001.
The seminar brings together young scholars from Germany and North America who are nearing the completion of their doctoral degrees. We plan to invite eight doctoral students from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their research projects. The discussions will be based on papers submitted in advance of the conference. The languages of the seminar will be German and English. We shall cover travel costs and lodging expenses. The theme of this year's conference will be "Germany in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945."
We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose work falls principally in this era and who will not have finished their degrees by June 2001. Applications should include a short (2-3 pp.) project description, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of reference from the major advisor.
Please send applications by December 1, 2000, to:
German Historical Institute
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
Attn: Baerbel Thomas
1607 New Hampshire Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009-2562
ph. (202) 387-3355
fax (202) 483-3430
e-mail: bkthomas@idt.net
web site: www.ghi-dc.org
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:
H. Glenn Penny III (University of Missouri,
Kansas City)
"Cosmopolitan Visions and Municipal Displays:
Museums, Markets, and the Ethnographic Project in Germany, 1868-1914"
and
Frank P. Biess (University of California, San
Diego)
"The Protracted War: Returning POWs and the Making of East and West German
Citizens, 1945-1955"
Summer Institute in German Studies
The
Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota in
conjunction with the University of Munich and the University of Potsdam is
planning a:
Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies
The institute is designed to provide a unique forum in which graduate-level students in Germany and the United States can collaborate in the exploration of advanced topics relating to Germany and its role in Europe. It is envisioned that 12 Germans and 12 Americans will participate in this intensive experience each summer as a way of examining more deeply topics that will enrich their theses and dissertations in German studies.
The
first round of three yearly institutes will address key issues in
twentieth-century German history.
– Germany in the Century of
American and Soviet Power (2001)
– Violence and Normality in the
Century of Total War (2002)
– Multiple Memories of the
Twentieth Century (2003)
The focus of each of these institutes is on Germany and its role in Europe. But each topic also lends itself to comparison with developments in the United States. American views of Germany; the role of violence in American society; conflicting American memories of World War II -- these themes will place both German and American patterns under the revealing light of comparative history. As sub-themes of their general topics, each of the institutes will develop the comparative dimension.
Each summer the institute will be co-taught by two faculty members, one from the University of Minnesota and one from either the University of Potsdam or the University of Munich. The third faculty member will attend the seminar for a few days at the outset and offer guest lectures and lead a few of the discussions. In 2001, the faculty will be Eric D. Weitz (Minnesota) and Martin Geyer (Munich), and Konrad Jarausch (Potsdam and North Carolina) as guest lecturer.
The
Summer Institute in German Studies will be held every July and will last three
weeks. It will be held alternating
years in Minnesota and Germany. In
Summer 2001, the Institute will meet at the University of Minnesota, July 9-27.
The Institute will provide substantial support to its participants in
order to guarantee that qualified graduate students will be able to enroll in it
regardless of income. Pending final
funding decisions, each participant will receive partial or full support for the
following:
Transportation
to the Institute site
Housing/per diem subsidy
Waiver of graduate tuition at the University of Minnesota
Use of computers, e-mail connections, and Internet access at
Institute site
Use of library and archival materials at Institute site
The Institute will carry University of Minnesota Graduate School credit. Participation will be open to graduate students in History and related disciplines at universities in North America and Germany. Participants will selected on a competitive basis by a joint committee composed of faculty and staff from the University of Minnesota, the University of Potsdam, and the University of Munich.
For further information, please contact one of the following:
Center
for German and European Studies Fax:
612.625.0528 |
Eric
D. Weitz fax:
612.624.7096 |
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
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