Dear all,

A reminder that the final deadline for registration for the conference
German History from the Margins is Friday, 23rd August.

Please see conference outline and booking form below, or go to:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~nr2/Conference.htm

For further information or to send in the booking form, please contact
Dr Nils Roemer ([log in to unmask]) or   
Prof. Mark Roseman ([log in to unmask])
History Department
University of Southampton 
Southampton S017 7BJ, UK 

Best wishes,

Mark Roseman

GERMAN HISTORY FROM THE MARGINS

September 13th-15th 2002, University of Southampton 
in association with the German History Society
with major funding support from the Thyssen Foundation and additional
support from the British Academy, the Hartley Institute, Southampton
and the Royal Historical Society

An invitation to take part in the conference:

GERMAN HISTORY FROM THE MARGINS: MINORITIES IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY

This international conference is being hosted by the Department of
History, University of Southampton, with major funding support from
the Thyssen Foundation and additional support from the British
Academy, the Hartley Institute, Southampton and the Royal Historical
Society.
The conference 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.
The programme and a booking form are overleaf

For further information or to send in the booking form, please contact
Dr Nils Roemer ([log in to unmask]) or   
Prof. Mark Roseman ([log in to unmask])
History Department
University of Southampton 
Southampton S017 7BJ, UK 
PROGRAMME

Friday Afternoon, September 13th

Registration, Avenue Campus 12.30-14.00

Welcome 14:00 - 14:15, Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus

Panel: Jews and Other Germans 14:15-16:15
Chair: Nils Roemer
·     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
 
Tea 16:15-16:45

Keynote Lecture 16:45- 18:15
Chair: Geoff Eley
Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University): Prussia from the Margins
 
Dinner 19:00 

 
Saturday: September 14th
Morning

Panel: Ethnic and regional identities in party politics 9:00-11:00
Chair: Paul Smith
·     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  (Stetson 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
 
Coffee 11:00-11:30

Panel: Poles, Jews and Germans in the 20th Century 11:30-13:15
Chair: Patrick Stevenson 
·     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 

Lunch 13:15
Afternoon
Panel:  Those 'Other' Others - Gender And Ethnic Divisions 14:30 -
16:30
Chair: TBA
·     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
 
Coffee 16:30 - 1700

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Saturday: September 14th

Evening

The Parkes Centre lecture:  17:00 - 18:30
Chair: Peter Pulzer
Till von Rahden  (University of Cologne): "Germans of the Jewish
Stamm": Visions of Community between Nationalism and Particularism,
1850 to 1933
 
Conference Dinner  20:00

 
Sunday September 15th
Morning

Panel: Texts And Others 9:00 - 11:00
Chair: Rodney Livingstone
·     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): "Toward a 'chaotic'
approach to Jews in History".
 
Coffee 11:00-11:30

Panel: Margins after the Holocaust 11:30 - 13:15
Chair: Neil Gregor
·     Alice von Plato (University of Hannover): Leinefelde.  The
foundation of the first Socialist Townin the Catholic Enclave of the
Eichsfeld, GDR (1969)
·     Karen Schönwälder, Berlin; '"Europeans" and "Afro-Asians":
West Germany's selective migration policy'.
·     Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria (Institut für Geschichte der
Medizin, Freie Universität Berlin): Germany's Brown Babies,1945-1960 -
Symbol of Democracy
 
Lunch 13.15

Afternoon
Final Panel: 'Centredness' and plurality in Germany and elsewhere
14:30 - 16:00
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
·     Geoff Eley: The 'centredness' of modern German History
·     Discussion: Karen Schönwälder, Berlin; Mark Levene, University
of Southampton, Nicholas Stargardt, Magdalen College, Oxford 
16:00 tea
 
Registration Form for German History Society Conference

German History Society members and postgraduates pay no fees.  
Fees for non-members £25.00. 

Delegates can choose whether they wish simply to pay for coffee and
tea (over the two days) and organize their own accommodation and
meals, or to take full or part advantage of the conference provision.
Bookings must be accompanied by a cheque for the full amount of your
booking/ credit card details.   Cheques should normally be made out in
sterling and drawn on a UK clearing bank.  It will generally not be
possible to refund fees in the case of non-attendance.
If you would like a receipt please enclose a SAE

NAME

ADDRESS

Institution:    Email:

Please register me for the following accommodation/meals: (please see
note overleaf)

Step 1: Fees

I am a German History Society Member or post-graduate and pay no fees
I am paying fees of 25.00 

Step 2: either choose one of the standard packages:-

Standard Package: Accommodation Friday 13th and Saturday 14th
September, dinner Friday and Saturday night, lunch Saturday and
Sunday, coffees and teas at conference.         £93.00*	

En suite Package: Ensuite accommodation Friday 13th and Saturday 14th
September, dinner Friday Saturday night, lunch Saturday and Sunday,
coffees and teas                £115.00  

Or assemble your own package:-

Basic (minimum) package (refreshment breaks over two days)
£10.00        	
Plus any of the following (please tick any that apply)
Standard bed and breakfast (for two nights)
£45.00 
En suite bed and breakfast  (for two nights)
£67.00 
Dinner Friday
£10.00
Buffet lunch Saturday
£6.50
Conference Dinner Saturday
£15.00 
Buffet lunch Sunday
£6.50
*The first ten post-graduates to register for the conference will
receive the standard package for only £63.00.  Please contact us to
check if there are still places on this offer.

Step 3: choose your payment method 
I enclose a sterling cheque/ bankers draft payable to University of
Southampton in the amount of:
________
or

Please debit my credit/debit card for the following amount (please
note there is a 1.5% handling charge for credit card and a 26p
transaction charge for debit cards)
________

I attach my card details below
Credit Card details

(Please note there is a 1.5% handling charge for credit card and a 26p
transaction charge for debit cards).  

Name on card 

Address where card is registered        	
	
Contact telephone number in case of any queries	

Card type	

Card number	

Expiry date	

Issue number (if appropriate)	

Signed	



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
Home: 13, Colebrook Avenue, Southampton SO15 5NS. Tel
+44(0)23-80340898
 


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
Home: 13, Colebrook Avenue, Southampton SO15 5NS. Tel
+44(0)23-80340898