Dear All,
This message comes to us from the new German-studies list which I have just
joined. I wonder whether you want me to continue to forward from this list,
since many of you might be on it as well
Andrea

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> From: Duncan Large <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: (Fwd) CFP: 1999 New Hampshire Symposium
> Date: 06 November 1998 12:59
> 
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> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> 25th New Hampshire Symposium
> 
> >From Unification to Unity?
> East Germany 10 Years after the Fall of the Wall
> 
> June 23 - 30, 1999
> World Fellowship Center
> Conway, New Hampshire (USA)
> 
> 
> The 25th New Hampshire Symposium will concern itself with change and
> continuity in East Germany since November 1989. It will be devoted to a
> retrospective of the years 1989-99, that is, to a stock-taking of the
> transformation process and the progress made toward East German
integration
> into the Federal Republic. The following questions will serve as the
common
> denominator for the various topics and approaches: What are the criteria
> for judging the East German transformation? How have the lives of the
East
> Germans changed in the past ten years? Which aspects of society remain
the
> same? What changes can be seen in values and in the use of concepts? Is
> unity synonymous with uniformity or is there room for difference and
> diversity? How much inner unity is necessary in a pluralistic democracy
> such as the FRG? What is the influence of the GDR past, the west-oriented
> German present and the increasing Europeanization of Germany on East
German
> identity? What resources and possibilities does East Germany have in the
> larger European context?
> 
> On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Symposium's founding, a
> special session will be devoted to a discussion of the development and
work
> of the conference since 1975.
> 
> The approach of the conference is multi-disciplinary. Political
scientists,
> sociologists, economists and other social scientists, as well as
> Germanists, linguists, specialists in the arts and media, and other
> interested persons, including non-academic practitioners in the various
> areas are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the
> following seminars:
>  
> I. The Rhetoric of Change and the Transformation as Reality - Brigitte
> Rauschenbach (Goethestr. 82, D-10623 Berlin -
[log in to unmask]);
> Rainer Karlsch (Institut fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte,
Humboldt-Universitaet,
> Spandauer Str. 1, D-10178 Berlin - Fax: 030 20935659;
> [log in to unmask])
> 
> The conceptual construction of the new reality, conceptual change and
> conceptual confusion; appraisal of 10 years of change in the East:
> political, economic, mental and social aspects of the transformation
> process (intentions, interests, instruments, results). 
> 
> II. Value Change, Value Loss and Value Conflict in East Germany -
Wolfgang
> Bergem (FB 1, Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Bergische Universitaet
> Wuppertal, Gaussstr. 20, D-42097 Wuppertal - Fax: 0202 4392429;
> [log in to unmask]); Laurence McFalls (Departement de science
> politique, Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville,
> Montreal, Quebec/CN, H3C 3J7 - Fax: 514 3432360; [log in to unmask]
> ca)
> 
> Empirical investigations and theoretical explanations of changes in value
> and attitude patterns; devaluation and reevaluation of personal
experience
> and knowledge; competing values such as morality/ instrumental
rationality,
> freedom/equality; communication of values through socialization (i.e.,
> media, school); possibility and necessity of basic value consensus for
the
> regulation of conflict in a pluralistic democracy.
> 
> III. Historicization and Mythicization of the (GDR) Past - Roger Woods
> (Department of German, University of Nottingham, University Park,
> Nottingham, NG7 2RD UK - Fax: 115 9515812; 101522.522@ compuserve.com);
> Wolfgang Bialas (Institut fuer Philosophie, Universitaet Potsdam,
Postfach
> 601553, D-14415 Potsdam - [log in to unmask] de)
> 
> Analysis and evaluation of contemporary historiography since 1989
(academic
> and government-sponsored appraisals of the GDR past, history from 
below",
> biography research, the GDR in comparison with other former Soviet-block
> states and the preunification FRG); artistic/literary treatments of the
GDR
> past; analysis of processes which turn the past into the present
(political
> and commercial instrumentalization, individual confrontation with the
past,
> resurfacing of suppressed experience).
> 
> IV. East German Regions and European Integration: East German Identity in
> the Context of European Integration - Petra Drauschke
> (Sozialwissenschaft-liches Forschungszentrum Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.,
> Koepenicker Str. 127-129, D-10179 Berlin - [log in to unmask]; Margy
> Gerber (Taunusstr. 8, D-12161 Berlin - [log in to unmask]); Joerg
> Roesler (Mellenseestr. 5, D-10319 Berlin - Tel. 030 5124906)
> 
> Conflicts between (East) German and European, Heimat and Fremde, regional
> and global; (East) Germany and its East European neighbors (possibilities
> and problems of cooperation, EU Eastern expansion); East German potential
> and resources in the European transformation process. 
> 
> V. East German Literature, Theater, Film and the Arts in the Last Ten
> Years: Transformations, Transitions and Continuities in Cultural Life -
> Christiane Zehl Romero (Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages,
> Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 - Fax: 617 6273945; [log in to unmask]
> edu); Nancy A. Lauckner (Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and
Literatures,
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 - Fax: 423 9747096;
> [log in to unmask] edu) 
> 
> Identity discourses in literature and the arts: East German or regional
vs.
> national, European, or global identities; cultural diversity and
> generational conflicts; literary/artistic historiography and mythmaking
of
> the GDR and the period since 1989; literary/artistic visions of a German
> future; new trends and recent works.
> 
> VI. Berlin - Unification Capital of Germany? - Birgit Dahlke (Institut
fuer
> deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universitaet, Mossezentrum, Schuetzenstr.
> 18-25, D-10117 Berlin - Fax: 030 20196690; birgit=dahlke@
rz.hu-berlin.de);
> Harald Michel (Privatinstitut fuer Angewandte Demographie, Sophienstr. 3,
> D-10178 Berlin - Fax 030 28599626; ifad@ ifad.b.shuttle.de)
> 
> Berlin as focal point and microcosm of political, social and cultural
> German-German unification processes; the potential role of the capital in
> the creation of a (new) German identity; changes in the cityscape and
> infrastructure of Berlin, and the social, political and economic
> consequences thereof; Berlin as an ethnic melting-pot; demographic change
> and its effects; Berlin as media center; literary and artistic treatments
> of Berlin issues.
> 
> VII. Looking Back on 25 Years - Margy Gerber (Taunusstr. 8, D-12161
Berlin
> - margygerber@ compuserve.com); Volker Gransow (Canadian Centre for
German
> & European Studies, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON/CN M3J
1P3
> - Fax: 416 7365696; vgransow@ yorku.ca)
> 
> Panel discussion on various aspects of the 25-year history of the NH
> Symposium.
>  
> 
> Papers may be given in either English or German. Their delivery time
should
> not exceed 30 minutes. Detailed proposals (title plus 1-2 pages) must be
> submitted to appropriate seminar organizers - one copy to each organizer
-
> by December 1, 1998. Completed papers are due April 15, 1999. Each paper
> must be accompanied by a short summary in the other conference language.
> For more information on the program, contact Margy Gerber (see above for
> address which is valid until January 4, 1999; after that, Dept. of
German,
> Russian, E. Asian Lang., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green,
OH
> 43403 - Fax: 419 3722571; [log in to unmask] For information about
the
> Symposium location, conference registration and travel arrangements,
> contact W. Christoph Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH/USA
> 03818 - Tel:  603 3565208; Fax: 603 3565252; [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> Registration
> 
> Registration Fee, Room & Board for the whole week, all inclusive:
> $350 for double occupancy room/$50 surcharge for single room
>                                 
> Part-time participants will be charged a $50 registration fee and a 
> $50 daily rate, which includes 3 meals and an overnight.
> 
> 
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> Dr Duncan Large
> Department of German
> University of Wales Swansea
> Singleton Park
> GB-Swansea SA2 8PP
> Tel: (+44) (0)1792 205678, #4729
> Home Tel/Fax: (+44) (0)1792 204167
> http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/large.htm
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