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Subject:

Eastern German Studies Association conference (Montreal, 12-15 September 2002)

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Source: <http://www.calvin.edu/cas/egsg/2002.htm>.
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Eastern German Studies Association
Seventh Triennial Conference

"East(ern) Germany between Tradition and (Post) Modernity"
Montréal, 12-15 September 2002

Preliminary Program


Thursday, September 12

17:00 Greetings and Reception
Place: Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université de
Montréal, 3744 rue Jean-Brillant, suite 525

Friday, September 13

9 :00 Keynote address: Prof. Gerhard Lehmbruch (Universität Konstanz),
"Appropriating Federalism: East German Elites and Institutional Transfer"

9:45 — 12:00 Panels (see below)

12:00-13:00 Lunch (provided)

13:00-17:00 Panels
Place: Room M-415, Pavillon Principal, Université de Montréal

Saturday, September 14

9:00 — 12:00 Panels

13:30 — 17:00 Panels
Place: Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes

Sunday, September 15

9 :00-12 :00 Panels (if necessary)

Conference Hotels: A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a
special conference rate of $85 CDN at the Hôtel Terrasse Royale for paper
presenters. Additional rooms (unfortunately it is still highest season in
Montréal) are available at the Hôtel Versailles Park Plaza for $195. For
instructions to make reservations, please contact
[log in to unmask] as soon as possible.


Panel Themes, Presenters, Paper Titles
(order and timing to be confirmed upon definitive confirmations by participants)


Eastern German Feminism? An alternative modernity?

Jennifer Madarasz (University College London), "An alternative approach to
modern emancipation: Women in the GDR during the 1970s and 1980s"

Joel Morton (St. Lawrence University, New York), "Bending Gender Studies
to the East: A Post-Socialist Hybrid?"

Elizabeth Mittman (Michigan State University), "From Multivocality to Cultural
Hybridity: Evolving Identities in Independent Women’s Press"

Discussant: TBA


Tradition, Modernity, Postmodernity in the GDR

Florian Kreutzer (Rice University, Houston, TX), "'Beruf' in a State Socialist
Society"

Ellie Kennedy (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.) "Performative Theory and
the Picaresque in Kerstin Hensel’s Tanz am Kanal"

Dieter Segert (Berlin), "Der ‘Spätsozialismus’: ein Geburtsort der
postsozialistischen Differenz"

Jonathan Zatlin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), „Appealing to
Authority: Citizens’ Petitions in the GDR and the Rhetoric of Decline"

Discussant: Marc Howard (University of Maryland)


The PDS and Postcommunist Party Politics

Jacek Lubecki (Millikin University, Illinois), "Between Legacies of Latifundism
and New European Regionalism: PDS Electorate in an East European
Historical and Comparative Perspective"

Peter Thompson (University of Sheffield, UK), "The PDS and the Primacy of
Politics"

Meredith Heiser (Foothill College, California), "Regional and Leadership
Tensions within the PDS"

Jörg Jacobs (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/O), "Past and Present
Sources of Support for Communist Successor Parties: the PDS in
Comparative Perspective"

Discussant: Henry Krisch (University of Connecticut)


Minorities in the East: Between Integration and Exclusion

Anna Saunders (University of Bristol, UK), "Eastern Germany: Home to a
Xenophobic Tradition?"

Scott Gissendanner (Technische Universität Chemnitz), „Everyday Racism in
the City: Are East Germans more Racist than West Germans?"

Christopher Kopper (University of Pittsburgh), "The East German Sorbs and
the Challenge of Globalization: The Cultural Survival of an Ethnic Minority"

Discussant: Laurence McFalls (Université de Montréal)


The Generation Gap and Social Change in Eastern Germany

Andreas Hadjar (Technische Universität Chemnitz), "Elbow Mentality among
Adolescents in Eastern and Western Germany"

Asta Heller (New York), "Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Eastern
Germany: Generational Differences"

Bernd Linder (Haus der Geschichte, Leipzig), "The Unguided Generation: On
the Sequence of Generations in the GDR and its Structural Consequences
for the Post-revolutionary Era"

Axel Fair-Schulz (State University of New York, Buffalo), "East Germany and
its Public Intellectuals: The Case of Jürgen Kuczynski"

Mary Fulbrook (University College London), "From Generation to Generation"

Discussant: Marilyn Rueschemeyer (Rhode Island School of Design)


Shock Therapy Revisited: Catching Up or Caught Out?

Harald Michel (Institute for Applied Demography, Berlin), "The Shock is
Followed by the Implosion: East German Population Development Since
Unification"

Thomas Steger (Technische Universität Chemnitz), "The Axman’s Anxieties:
Layoff Processes in the East German Transformation from the Boss’s
Perspective"

Ramona Alt (Technische Universität Chemnitz), "Between Tradition and New
Departures: Symbols in the East German Transformation Process"

Vanessa Beck (Westminster Business School, London, UK), "Can
Unemployment Result in Social Capital? Indications from East German
Women"

Discussant: Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto)


A Different Picture: Eastern German Cinema Then and Now

Janina Falkowska (University of Western Ontario), "Eastern German Cinema
in the New Europe"

Roswitha Skare (University of Tromsö, Norway), "Vergangenheitsbearbeitung
in Literatur und Film? Zu Thomas Brussigs Helden wie wir und Sonnenallee"

Karen Kramer (Stanford University in Berlin), „DEFA in Denim: Costume
Codes in East(ern) German Cinema"

Reinhild Steingröver (University of Rochester), „Last Features: DEFA’s
Transitional Films, 1990-92"

Discussant: Philippe Despoix (Freie Universität Berlin)


Eastern German Identities between Fiction and Fragmentation

Paul Cooke (University of Wales Aberystwyth), "Surfing for Eastern
Difference: Ostalgie, Identity and Cyberspace"

Karen Leeder (Oxford University), "´Freedom without Loveª: Four Stories of a
New German Identity"

John Rodden (University of Texas, Austin), "Education, Youth Policy, and
East German Identity: Problems and Prospects"

Wendy Schrank (University of Notre Dame, Indiana), "Constructing National
Identity through Sport: East German Swimmers, 1972-89"

Discussant: TBA


Dealing with the Past…Again

Anne Rothe (UCLA), "A Double Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Remembering
East Germany’s Collective Memory of the Third Reich"

Astrid Köhler (University of London), "Does it matter who speaks? Questions
of Voice in East German Prose Fiction before and after Unification"

Annette Weinke (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Helmut Kohl vs.
Bundesbeauftragte: the Political and Cultural Implications of the On-Going
Debate over the Stasi Files"

Discussant: Dietmar Köveker (Université de Montréal)

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