Conference Group for Central European History
Conference Group for Central European History at the AHA 2002
Dear Colleagues,
I look forward to seeing you at the Conference Group's business meeting and Bierabend, Saturday, January 5, 2002. Both events will take place at the American Historical Association convention in San Francisco (Thursday, January 3 to Sunday, January 6, 2002). The business meeting will convene at 5:00 p.m. in the Monterey II Room, Nikko Hotel. Business to be conducted includes the election of new officers (current officers are listed below) and the announcement of the winner of the biennial article prize. There will also be continuing discussion of the search for a new editor and home of CEH. As most of you know, editor Ken Barkin has announced his retirement as of June 2004. The Bierabend will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the adjacent Monterey I Room, Nikko Hotel. I am pleased that the Conference Group is the co-sponsor of eight sessions on Central Europe at this year's AHA meeting and the direct sponsor of four additional panels. You will find links to these sessions as well as a panel jointly co-sponsored with the SAAH below.
Kees Gispen
Contents
2002 AHA meeting
Joint sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
Sessions of the CGCEH
Joint
session of the CGCEH and the SAHH
Conference Group for Central European History
Current Officers
Archives Committee
Nominations Committee
Editorship
of Central European History to become vacant
Announcements
Transatlantic
Doctoral Seminar
Fritz Stern
Dissertation Prize winners
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
I. Joint Sessions of the CGCEH and the AHA
The Conference Group is pleased to co-sponsor the following, joint sessions with the American Historical Association.
Friday, January 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 22. Overcoming the Physical Frontier, Reerecting the Mental
Frontier: New Perspectives on German Reunification
Parc 55, Barcelona II
Chair: | Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Papers: | The Fall of the Berlin Wall Hans-Hermann Hertle, Zentrum fur Zeithistoriche Forschung Potsdam Myths, Images, and Self-Images: The Protagonists of German Unification Alexander von Plato, Fernuniversität Hagen The Exchange of Elites in the East and German Reunification Dolores L. Augustine, St. John’s University The International Consequences of German Reunification Mary Elise Sarotte, University of Notre Dame |
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Comment: | Charles S. Maier, Harvard University |
Friday, January 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 27. Sound Film and the Politics of National
Stereotyping in Interwar Central Europe
Nikko, Monterey I
Chair: |
Linda Schiele Schulte-Sasse, Macalester College |
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Papers: | Aristocrats, Gypsies, and Cowboys All: Film Stereotypes and
Hungarian National Identity in the 1930s David S. Frey, Columbia University Czechoslovakia and the Politics of National Stereotyping in Early Sound Film Nancy M. Wingfield, Northern Illinois University Vamps, Girls, Mothers, Wives—Stereotypes of Womanhood in National Socialist Entertainment Films Jana Bruns, Stanford University |
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Comment: | Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington |
Friday, January 4, 2:30-4:30
AHA Session 36. Roundtable: The Alsatian Frontier in the Imagination of France
and Germany
Hilton, Union Square 5/6
Chair: | Peter G. Wallace, Hartwick College | |
Panel: | Samuel H. Goodfellow, Westminster College Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College Wendy L. Norris, University of Chicago Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Saturday, January 5, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
AHA Session 60. Tearing Down Walls: New Approaches in the History of East and
West Germany
Nikko, Mendocino I
Chair: | Robert G. Moeller, University of California at Irvine | |
Papers: | German History as Post-War History: War, Memory, and Citizenship
in the Two Germanies after 1945 Frank Biess, University of California at San Diego One Film—Two Audiences—Many Messages: Wolfgang Staudte’s Movies in East and West Germany Ulrike Weckel, Technical University Berlin and University of Michigan Between the Blocs: “The East” and “the West” in the Perceptions of the West and East German Generations of “1968” Detlef Siegfried, University of Copenhagen |
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Comment: | Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington at Seattle |
Saturday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
AHA Session 103. New Perspectives on the Third Reich and the Holocaust
Nikko, Monterey I
Chair: | Patricia Heberer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | |
Papers: | New Approaches to the History of the Holocaust Peter B. Black, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Writing the Business History of the “Third Reich” Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley Rethinking the “Climate of Fear” and “Environment of Terror” in Nazi Germany Robert Gellately, Clark University |
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Comment: | Jonathan Petropolous, Claremont McKenna College |
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 109. Witnesses to Empire: Germans and European Imperialism
before 1871
Hilton, Union Square 17/18
Chair: | Suzanne L. Marchand, Louisiana State University | |
Papers: | Ex-centric Observers: Germans in Dutch, Russian, and British
Imperial Service, c. 1660–1860 Juergen K. Osterhammel, Konstanz University and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study The Anxieties of Empire and German Culture: Herder’s 1769 Journey to France Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes College Castigating Company Raj: Georg Forster and Matthias Sprengel on British Colonialism, 1781–1802 Gita Dharampal-Frick, Independent Scholar |
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Comment: | James J. Sheehan, Stanford University |
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
AHA Session 118. Symbolism, Festivity, and Identity at the German-German
Frontier
St. Francis, Elizabethan Room B
Chair: | David Clay Large, Montana State University | |
Papers: | “Reach Out to Each Other in Brotherhood”: History and
Identity at the 1956 German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in
Leipzig Molly Wilkinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Contested Terrain: The Brandenburg Gate, the National Flag, and Competing German Identities, 1956–59 Margarete Myers Feinstein, Indiana University South Bend Playing Politics: Division, Détente, and the Munich Olympics of 1972 Noel D. Cary, College of the Holy Cross |
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Comment: | Doris L. Bergen, University of Notre Dame |
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
AHA Session 136. Questions of German Modernity: Governance,
Colonialism, and Social Reform
Hilton, Union Square 21
Chair: | Jean Quataert, State University of New York at Binghamton | |
Papers: | Governing the Social in Wilhelmine Germany: Rethinking
German Modernity Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta Neither Singular nor Alternative: Modernity and Narratives of the German Welfare State Young-Sun Hong, State University of New York at Stony Brook Settlements, “Inner Colonialization,” and Visions of Greater Berlin in Late Imperial Germany Kevin D. Repp, Yale University |
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Comment: | Jean Quataert |
The Conference Group is pleased to sponsor the following sessions
Friday, January 4, 9:30-11:30Chair: | Jeremy P. Varon, Drew University |
Papers: | The Language of the Political
- The Politics of Language in 1970s West Germany Martin Geyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ’68 as Success? A Perspective from the Women’s Movement Sibylla Flügge, Fachhochschule Frankfurt a. M. Political Theater as a New Social Movement? Belinda Davis, Rutgers University |
Comment: | Michael Grüttner, University of California at Berkeley |
Friday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
CGCEH Session 2. The West German 1960s
Nikko, Mendocino II
Chair: | Michael Geyer, University of Chicago | |
Papers: | Bolt from the Blue or Historical Antecedents? The
Evolution of Liberal Democracy in the Federal Republic of
Germany in the 1960s S. Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Holocaust Memory and Transatlantic Public Relations in the 1960s Elizabeth Peifer, Troy State University From the Weimar Reformers to the West German Sex Wave Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa |
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Comment: | Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
Saturday, January 5, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
CGCEH Session 3. The Frontier in the Fascist Imagination:
Boundary-Making and Boundary-Breaking in German National Socialism
Hilton, Union Square 19
Chair: | Richard Bessel, University of York | |
Papers: | The Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany David Blackbourn, Harvard University A Global Dominion? The Limitless Frontiers of Hitler’s Germany Norman J. W. Goda, Ohio University “Beefsteak Nazis” and “Brown Bolshevists”: Boundaries and Identity in the Rise of National Socialism Timothy S. Brown, University of California at Berkeley |
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Comment: | Doris Bergen, University of Notre Dame |
Chair: | Heide Fehrenbach, Emory University | |
Papers: | National Cinema under Cold War Conditions: The Case
of East Germany’s DEFA Company, 1950s and 1960s Thomas Lindenberger, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam The End of the World as We Know It: Cold War Science Fiction, East and West Patrick Major, Warwick University From Roosevelt to the G.I.: The Images of the American in Soviet Films about World War Two from Stalinism to the Thaw Carola Tischler, Humboldt University, Berlin |
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Comment: | Heide Fehrenbach |
III. Joint Session of the CGCEH and the SAHH
The Conference Group and the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History are jointly co-sponsoring the following session:
Saturday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m.Chair: | Scott Spector, University of Michigan | |
Papers: | The “Imagined Territory” and Its Boundaries:
Discourses on Borders and National Space in
Czechoslovakia, 1918–38 Peter Haslinger, Collegium Carolinum in Munich Europe’s First Theme Park? Making the “Language Frontier” Visible in Imperial Austria, 1880–1914 Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College Negotiating the Frontier: The Changing Meaning of the German-Czechoslovak Borderlands after World War I Caitlin Murdock, Stanford University |
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Comment: | Andrea Komlosy, University of Vienna |
The full 2002 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
2001-January 2002)
President: Konrad Jarausch: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
University of Potsdam
Vice-President: David Crew, University of Texas at Austin
Vice-President Elect: David Blackbourn, Harvard Univesity
Immediate Past President: Mary Jo Maynes, University of Minnesota
At-Large Member (exp. January 2002): Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College
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
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
Nominations Committee
The Conference Group’s nominating committee is made up of the executive committee. The committee
nominated Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri-Columbia, for the position of
Vice-President Elect and Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State 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 welcomes members' suggestions for officers of the Conference
Group. The Executive Secretary recommends that Gerald Feldman and Roger
Chickering once again 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 officers for 2002.
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. This matter will again be discussed at the January business meeting.
Announcements
Transatlantic
Doctoral Seminar 2002
"German History 1945-1990"
Potsdam, May 1-4, 2002
The GHI, the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, and the Conference Group for Central European History are pleased to announce the Eighth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History. The 2002 seminar will take place at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam May 1-4, 2002.
The seminar will bring together young scholars from Germany and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. We plan to invite eight doctoral students from each side of the Atlantic to discuss their dissertation research projects. We welcome proposals on any aspect of German history during the years 1945 to 1990. Doctoral students who are working on comparative topics, projects in related fields-such as art history, legal history, and the history of science-or on the history of Austria or German-speaking Switzerland are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted in advance of the conference. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English. The organizers will cover travel and lodging expenses.
We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage but who will be granted their degrees after June 2002. Applications should include a short (2-3 pp.) project description, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of reference from the dissertation adviser. Questions may be directed to Dr. Richard Wetzell by e-mail at r.wetzell@ghi-dc.org
Applications must be postmarked by December 1, 2001, and should be sent to:
German Historical Institute
Young Scholars Forum
1607 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Tel. (202) 387-3355
Fax. (202) 483-3430
E-mail: b.thomas@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:
Eva Giloi Bremner, Princeton University
Ich kaufe mir den Kaiser! Royal Relics and the Culture of Display in
19th-Century Prussia
and
Jonathan Zatlin (University of California, Berkeley)
The Currency of Socialism: Money in the GDR and German Unification, 1971-1989
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 12/24/2001