WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
Dear colleagues,
Just a reminder to those planning to attend the conference at
Birmingham on 'The Two Unifications of Germany' on 19-21
September: the deadline for booking accommodation on campus is
Monday, 24 June. Those wishing only to register for the conference can
do so up until Friday, 23 August.
The current conference programme is posted below, and at
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/unifications/confprog.htm . Registration
forms can be downloaded at
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/unifications/registration.htm . If you
have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me (tel: 0121 414
6178).
With best wishes,
Elystan Griffiths
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Two Unifications of Germany: A Comparative Analysis
International Conference at the European Research Institute, University
of Birmingham
Thursday, 19th to Saturday, 21st September 2002
THURSDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2002
19.00 Conference dinner
FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2002
9.00 Plenary session
Introductory lectures:
Konrad Jarausch (Potsdam/Chapel Hill)
Johannes Paulmann (Bremen)
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Parallel sessions
a) Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt), 'The Structure of German
National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871'
James Retallack (Toronto), 'Regions and Rights: Anticipating the
Bismarckian Errata'
b) Jonathan Grix (Birmingham), 'East German Distinctiveness in
Unified Germany?'
Laurence McFalls (Montreal), 'Illegitimate Unions?'
c) Rolf Parr (Dortmund), 'Identität in der Differenz. Kollektivsymbolik
und Interdiskursivität der zwei deutschen Vereinigungen'
Manfred Durzak (Paderborn), 'Ingo Schulze und Michael
Kumpfmüller. Der Roman der deutschen Wende'
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Tour of the Barber Institute Art Gallery
15.10 Coffee
15.30-17.20 Parallel sessions
a) Elystan Griffiths (Birmingham), 'Provincialism, Periphery and the
Heroic Outsider: German Unification in the Works of Spielhagen,
Heyse and Freytag'
John Osborne (Warwick), 'Theodor Fontane: Post-war novelist'
b) Corey Ross (Birmingham), 'Historians, Unification, and the New
National Paradigm'
Karoline von Oppen (Bath), 'From the 'Vielvölkerstaat
Bundesrepublik' [1980] to 'Das Gelobte Land' [2000]: [West] German
Journals and Unification'
c) Maiken Umbach (Manchester), 'Was German federalism different?
Constitutions, courts and the cityscape in Hamburg and Barcelona in
the later nineteenth century'
Abigail Green (Oxford), 'How did German federalism shape
unification?'
19.00 Dinner. Reading by Friedrich Christian Delius from his novel
'Die Birnen von Ribbeck' followed by discussion
SATURDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2002
9.00 Plenary session
16.10-18.00 Plenary session
Ronald Speirs (Birmingham), 'Deutsche Reichsgründung und deutsche
Literatur'
Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon), 'Culture Critique and the Two
Unifications'
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Parallel sessions
a) Michael Butler (Birmingham), 'Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser,
Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification'
Jan-Werner Müller (Oxford), 'On Constitutional Patriotism'
b) Erwin Fink (Toronto), 'For Country, Court and Church: The
Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German
Unification'
Simon Green (Birmingham), 'Unification and post-1990 Bavarian
identities'
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Plenary session
John Breuilly (Birmingham), 'Nationalism in the first German
unification'
Mary Fulbrook (UCL), 'Nationalism in the second German unification'
15.30 Coffee
15.50 Round table and closing address
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Dr Elystan Griffiths,
Research Fellow,
AHRB Project 'The Two Unifications of
Germany',
Department of German Studies (Room 533),
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
B15 2TT.
0121 414 6178
Project website: http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/unifications/
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