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"Views from Abroad - Die DDR aus britischer
Perspektive"
Centre for East German Studies, Reading University
Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin
Deutschland Archiv
University of Bath
July 13-15 2006 (University of Reading)
Thursday 13 July
2.00-3.00 Arrival
3.00-3.30 Researching
the GDR before 1989
David Childs
(Nottingham)
3.30-4.00 The
normalisation of GDR historiography? Historical
controversies since
1990
Mary Fulbrook (UCL)
4.00-4.30 Post-unification
perspectives on GDR culture in UK
German Studies
Dennis Tate (Bath)
5.00-6.30 Discussion:
GDR Studies in GB
Friday 14 July Section 1:
History/Politics
Section 2: Culture and
Film
9.00-10.15 Section 1 Comparative
perspectives/the economy
Instruments of terror
or Stalinist denazification?
Contemporary British
insights into German opinion on the
"Speziallager" in the
SBZ
Andrew Beattie
(Sydney/Nottingham Trent)
Battleground Germany:
public health work and political
programmes 1945-49
Jessica Reinisch
(Birkbeck, London)
Central Planning in the
GDR: Fact or Fiction?'
Mark Allinson
(Bristol)
Moderator: Winfried
Heinemann
Section 2 Sicherungsbereich
Kultur
Cracks in the cement?
East German theatre and the
construction of the
Berlin Wall
Laura Bradley (Edinburgh)
Das Institut für
Literatur 'Johannes R. Becher' und die
Autorenausbildung in
der DDR
David Clarke (Bath)
Jurek Becker als
Staatsfeind: Diskurse und Rituale in der
papierenen Welt des OV
'Lügner'
Beate Müller
(Newcastle)
10.15-11.00 Discussion
11.30-12.15 Section 1 Minorities
The Domowina, the
'Sorbische Volksversammlung' and the
dismantling of the
Communist structures of the GDR's
minorities policy
Peter Barker (Reading)
Vietnamese Contract
Workers in the GDR: 1980-89
Mike Dennis
(Wolverhampton)
Moderator: Matthias
Judt
Section 2
Autobiographical writing
“Zwischen Wahrheit und
Lüge?": The Publication of Stefan
Heym's Lassalle in
Autobiography and Archives
Sara Jones (Nottingham)
The Self as Protagonist:
Christa Wolf's prose of the
everyday as an
alternative autobiographical project
Renate Rechtien (Bath)
12.15-1.00 Discussion
2.00-3.00 Section 1
Youth/Sport
Folk Devils and Moral
Panics. Images of Wayward Youth
in the GDR.
Mark Fenemore (Manchester
Metropolitan)
'Sport ist nicht Selbstzweck,
sondern Mittel zum Zweck':
The Role of Sport in
the German Democratic Republic
Jonathan Grix
(Birmingham)
Moderator: Dorothee
Wierling
Section 2 DEFA 1
Memories are made of
this: gender, history and identity in
East German Cinema
Sean Allan (Warwick)
Was bleibtŠThe Legacy of
East Germany's Film Culture
Daniela Berghahn
(Oxford Brookes)
3.00-3.30 Discussion
3.30-4.30 Section 1 The
1980s
Dissident women in the
1980s
Jeanette Madarasz (UCL)
Young identities and
the Wende
Anna Saunders (Bangor,
Wales)
Section 2 DEFA 2
'From Models to Victims? The
Representation of women in
East German cinema.'
Andrea Rinke (Kingston)
Ein Kino der Pflicht und der
Kür? The function of the
Western Feature Film
Import for the Cinema of the GDR
Rosemary Stott
(Reading/London Metropolitan)
'Willkommen in der
Wirklichkeit'?: Youth and Criminality
in the New
Bundesländer in Post-Wende Film
Owen Evans (Swansea)
Moderator: Ulrich
Pfeil
4.30-5.00 Discussion
5.30-7.00 Plenary
session
Organisations/journals and GDR
Studies
8.00 Conference Dinner
Guest speaker: Peter
Millar (Correspondent in the GDR in
the 1980s and author
of the novel Eiserne Mauer)
Saturday 15 July
9.00-10.00 Section 1
The Writing on the
Wall: Totalitarianism in East Germany
(1949-89)
Peter Grieder (Hull)
Cold Warriors and Warm
Fronters: British-GDR relations
during the Second Cold
War 1979-89
Stefan Berger
(Manchester)/Norman Laporte (Glamorgan)
Section 2
The image of the worker
in Socialist Realist Art: a proposed
source for Tübke's
"Gruppenbild" of 1972
Jonathan Osmond
(Cardiff)
The pleasures and
perils of visual culture: sex, race and
gender in East German
nude photography
Josie McLellan
(Bristol)
10.00-11.00 Discussion
11.30-1.00 Plenary: Future
GB-German contacts and GDR studies
--
Dr Peter Barker,
Director of the Centre for East German Studies,
Dept. of German Studies,
University of Reading,
PO Box 218,
Whiteknights,
Reading RG6 6AA
Tel: 0118 3787947
Fax: 0118 3788333
Email: [log in to unmask]
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