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German History from the Margins: Minorities in Modern German History
An international conference hosted by the German History Society and the
Department of History, University of Southampton
Southampton, September 13th - 15th 2002
The conference German History from the Margins seeks to approach German
History since the Enlightenment through comparative study of its minorities.
The underlying aim is to challenge not only the idea of a homogeneous
national master-narrative, but also the view that national minorities can be
studied in isolation from one another.
With major funding support from the Thyssen Foundation. Additional
support from the British Academy, the Hartley Institute, Southampton
and the Royal Historical Society
Speakers include:
Geoff Eley
Atina Grossmann
Oded Heilbronner
Till van Rahden
Helmuth Walser Smith
Yfaat Weiss
The program is listed below.
In additional to those for German History Society members, special rates are
available to those who register before July 15th to post-graduates. For fees
and booking form, please see http://www.soton.ac.uk/~nr2/Conference.htm
Or for further details please contact:
Dr Nils Roemer ([log in to unmask])
Or
Professor Mark Roseman ([log in to unmask])
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GERMAN HISTORY FROM THE MARGINS
September 13th-15th 2002, University of Southampton
PROGRAMME
Friday Afternoon, September 13th
PANEL: JEWS AND OTHER GERMANS
Joachim SCHLÖR (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, Potsdam): German-Jewish
History seen from the borders
Jonathan SKOLNIK (University of Oregon, USA): "Jewish Pasts, German
Fictions: Historical Fiction and Minority Culture in 19th-century Germany"
Jean-Marc DREYFUS (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Center
for Advanced Holocaust Studies Washington DC, USA): Margin in the
margin? The Jews of Alsace in the Reichsland, 1871-1918
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Helmut Walser SMITH (Vanderbilt University): Prussia from the Margins
Dinner
Evening event:
Dr Deniz GÖKTÜRK (University of California, Berkley/University of
Southampton, School of Modern Languages): Dissolves of Past and Present:
Mapping 'The Empty Centre' of the Berlin Republic. Followed by film
Saturday: September 14th
Morning
PANEL: ETHNIC AND REGIONAL IDENTITIES IN PARTY POLITICS
Oded HEILBRONNER (R.Koebner Centre for German History, Hebrew
University Jerusalem): "Constructing 'the South': Resistance through rituals
and the making of Popular Liberal and National-Socialist subcultures:1860s-
1932"
Eric KURLANDER (Harvard University): Politics, Identity and Ethnic
Preoccupation: A Comparison of Majority and Minority Liberalism in
Schleswig-Holstein, Silesia and Alsace, 1898-1932
Frank BÖSCH (University of Göttingen): A Minority inside the Majority. The
Conservatives in Lower Saxony
PANEL: POLES, JEWS AND GERMANS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Winson CHU (University of California, Berkeley): "Volksgemeinschaften unter
sich": German Minorities and Regionalism in Poland, 1918-39
Yfaat WEISS (University of Haifa): Origins of the Nuremberg Laws
Ulrike MEINHOF, Craig ROLLO, Heidi ARMBRUSTER (University of
Southampton): Revisiting the Majority: Narratives of Identity on the German-
Polish and former German-German Border
Afternoon
PANEL: THOSE 'OTHER' OTHERS - GENDER AND ETHNIC DIVISIONS
Claudia PRESTEL (Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies, University
of Leicester): Life Stories: The new Jewish woman in the dominant culture of
the Wilhelmine Empire and Weimar Germany
Dagmar REESE (University of Washington, Seattle): On Being and Writing of
Minorities: Georg Simmel and his Visions on Gender
Atina GROSSMAN (New York University): Female Jewish DPs in post-45
Germany
THE PARKES CENTRE LECTURE:
Till van RAHDEN (University of Cologne): "Germans of the Jewish Stamm":
Visions of Community between Nationalism and Particularism, 1850 to 1933
CONFERENCE DINNER
Sunday September 15th
Morning
PANEL: TEXTS AND OTHERS
Troy PADDOCK (Department of History, Southern CT State University, New
Haven): Unsere Fremden: The depiction of ethnic non-Germans in
schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich
Katharine KENNEDY (Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, USA): "'Black-
Red-Gold Enemies': Catholics, Socialists, and Jews in Elementary
Schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich"
Stefanie BACH (Department of Modern Languages, University of
Strathclyde): Literary Representations of the Marginal: The case of the gypsy
figure in German literature of the late 18th century/early 19th century
Gideon REUVENI (Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur am
Historischen Seminar der Universität München): The absence of the Jew as
historical evidence. The struggle against the Schund- und Schmutzschriften
in Germany before 1933 as an example
PANEL: MARGINS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
Alice von PLATO (University of Hannover): Leinefelde. The foundation of the
first Socialist Townin the Catholic Enclave of the Eichsfeld, GDR (1969)
Karin HUNN (University of Freiburg): Turks in the Federal Republic of
Germany. The emergence of a minority in a "non-immigration country"
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de FARIA (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin,
Freie Universität Berlin): Germany's Brown Babies, 1945-1960 - Symbol of
Democracy
Afternoon
Final Panel: 'Centredness' and plurality in Germany and elsewhere
Geoff ELEY: The 'centredness' of modern German History
Discussion: Karen SCHÖNWÄLDER, Berlin; Mark LEVENE, University of
Southampton, Nicholas STARGARDT, Magdalen College, Oxford
Mark Roseman [log in to unmask]
History, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
Tel +44(0)23-80592152; Mobile +44(0)7712-614135; Fax +44(0)23-80593458
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