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Dear colleagues, You are invited to register for the International Conference on 'The Two Unifications of Germany', to be held at Birmingham University's European Research Institute from Thursday, 19th to Saturday, 21st September 2002. The conference will present the results of an AHRB- funded comparative research project on the German unifications of 1870/71 and 1989/90 which has been in progress since April 2000 in the Departments of German Studies and Modern History, and the Institute for German Studies of the University of Birmingham. The current conference programme is posted below; updated versions can be viewed 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, please 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 17.15 Keynote address 19.30 Conference dinner FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2002 9.00 Plenary session Introductory lecture: Konrad Jarausch (Potsdam/Chapel Hill) 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), Title to be announced Laurence McFalls (Montreal), 'Illegitimate Unions?' c) Rolf Parr (Dortmund), 'Identität in der Differenz. Kollektivsymbolik und Interdiskursivität der zwei deutschen Vereinigungen' Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon), 'Culture Critique and the Two Unifications' 13.00 Lunch 14.00 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?' 15.50 Coffee 16.10-18.00 Plenary session Ronald Speirs (Birmingham), 'Deutsche Reichsgründung und deutsche Literatur' Manfred Durzak (Paderborn), 'Ingo Schulze und Michael Kumpfmüller. Der Roman der deutschen Wende' 19.00 Dinner. Reading by Friedrich Christian Delius followed by discussion SATURDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2002 9.00 Plenary session John Breuilly (Birmingham), 'Nationalism in the first German unification' Mary Fulbrook (UCL), 'Nationalism in the second German unification' 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) Simon Green (Birmingham), 'Unification and post-1990 Bavarian identities' Gert-Joachim Glaeßner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Title to be announced 13.00 Lunch 14.00-15.30 Round table and closing address ******************************************* 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/