This will be of interest to GDR specialists.
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> From: Mark Roseman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: New Hampshire Symposium
> Date: 13 October 1999 11:34
> 
> Here is information about the final New Hampshire Symposium, which will
> take place this summer.
> 
> 40 Years GDR / 10 Years New Laender
> 
> East Germany before and since the Wende
> Outcomes and Prognoses
> 
> 
> World Fellowship Center
> Conway, New Hampshire/USA
> June 21-28, 2000
> 
> 
> The 26th New Hampshire Symposium will be the last! Not that there is not
> still work to be done
> in the analysis of East German society. But there is a consensus among
> recent participants that
> it is time to look at Eastern Germany in the larger framework
> f united Germany and Europe. And the Schmauchs, who have hosted the
> Symposium since its
> beginning in 1975, will be retiring as directors of the World Fellowship
> Center after summer
> 2000.
> 
> All those who have participated in the New Hampshire Symposia over the
> past 25 years are
> invited to return once more to the special environs of Conway and the
> World Fellowship Center
> for one last multi-disciplinary symposium devoted to East Germany.
> 
> The final New Hampshire Symposium will look back on 50 years of life in
> the GDR and in the new
> German states, and on our ways of perceiving and evaluating the same.
> The topic of the
> conference has been kept
> intentionally broad, so as not to exclude any past participants still
> working in the field from submitting a proposal.
> 
> The Symposium will have a double focus:
> 
> 1) What was the GDR? How has the Wende changed East German society? What
> can the future bring?
> 
> Political, social, economic, cultural, literary, communicative, and
> psychological aspects of GDR society (1949-1989) and of post-unification
> East Germany
> 
> 2) What was GDR studies? How has the Wende changed GDR/East German
> studies? What can be the role of GDR/East German studies in the future?
> 
> The critical re-evaluation of pre-Wende GDR scholarship (in the social
> sciences as well as in literary/cultural studies) and reflections on
> current approaches and methodologies; analysis of the ideological
> distortion and political instrumentalization of academic writing past
> and present; discussion
> of desiderata for future scholarship.
> 
> The 26th Symposium will be organized by a multi-disciplinary committee
> composed of the following East German specialists:
> 
> Overall co-ordination:  Margy Gerber (Taunusstr. 8, D-12161 Berlin, Tel.
> 030 8220672,
> [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask])
> 
> Political Issues:
> 
> 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])
> 
> Wolfgang Bergem (FB 1 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Bergische
> Universitaet Wuppertal, Gaußstr.
> 20, D-42097 Wuppertal ­ Fax: 0202 4392429; [log in to unmask])
> 
> Social Issues:
> 
> Volker Gransow (Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, York
> University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON/CN M3J 1P3 ­ Fax: 416 7365696;
> vgransow@ yorku.ca)
> 
> Gerd Antos (Germanistisches Institut, Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg,
> Universitaetsring 4, D-06099 Halle ­ Fax: 0345 5527107;
> [log in to unmask])
> 
> Cultural and Literary Issues:
> 
> Nancy A. Lauckner (Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures,
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 ­ Fax: 423 9747096;
> [log in to unmask] edu)
> 
> Birgit Dahlke (Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universitaet,
> Mossezentrum, Schuetzenstr. 18-25, D-10117 Berlin ­ Fax: 030 20196690;
> [log in to unmask])
> 
> Christiane Zehl Romero (Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages,
> Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 ­ Fax: 617 6273945; [log in to unmask]
> edu)
> 
> 
> Detailed proposals (title plus 1-2 pages) should be submitted to Margy
> Gerber and to the organizers of the appropriate area (one copy to each
> person) by December 1, 1999. Completed papers are due April 15, 2000.
> Their delivery time
> should not exceed 30 minutes. Papers may be given in either English or
> German. At Conway, each
> presenter must make available a short summary of his or her paper in
> the other conference language.
> 
> For more information on the program, contact Margy Gerber (see above for
> address which is valid
> until January 7, 2000; after that, Dept. of German, Russian, E. Asian
> Lang., Bowling Green
> State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 ­ Fax: 419 3722571; mger
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> Registration
> 
> Registration Fee, Room & Board for the whole week, all inclusive:
> $350 double occupancy / $50 surcharge for single; Children under 12 ­
> $100 for week; Students
> to age 21 ­ $160 for the week; Part-time participants will be charged a
> $50 registration fee
> and a $50
> daily rate.
> 
> 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]
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Dr Mark Roseman   email: [log in to unmask]
> Senior Lecturer, History Department, Keele University, Keele, Staffs,
> GB-ST5 5BG
> tel: +44(0)1782-583207          home (and faxmodem):+44(0)121 4440829
> sec/fax: +44 (0)1782-583195     mobile: 07712614135
> 
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