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Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the programme for the conference 'Two Nations, One People? THe German Cold War Experience' to be held 6-8 September in Liverpool. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Two Nations, One People? The German Cold-War Experience An International Interdisciplinary Conference, 6-8 September 2006, University of Liverpool Provisional Programme Day 1: Wednesday 6 September 2006 12.30h Registration 13.30h Welcome by the organizers 14.00h ‘Unusual Censor Readings: GDR Science Fiction and the Ministry of Culture' Patrick Major(University of Warwick) 14.30h ‘Günter Grass and the Cold War’ Frank Brunssen(University of Liverpool) 15.30h ‘From Bulwark of Peace to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase, 1960s-1970s’ Michelle A. Standley (New York University) 16.00h ‘American Popular Music in West Germany between Weimar Conservatism and Cold War Liberalism’ Christoph Müller (University College Dublin) 16.30h ‘Dissing the State: Hip Hop in the GDR as a Case of Americanization’ Leonard Schmieding (Leipzig University) 17.30h Keynote Lecture: ‘Beauty and Consumption in Cold War Germany’ Uta G. Poiger (University of Washington) 18.30h Formal Welcome and Reception Day 2: Thursday 7 September 9.00h ‘Fighting the First World War in the Cold War: East and West German Historiography on the Origins of the First World War,1949-1961’ Matthew Stibbe(Sheffield Hallam University) 9.30h ‘The Controversy over the German Question and the Oder- Neisse Border: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962’ Sheldon Anderson(Miami University, OH) 10.00h ‘Reassessing Superpowers Rivalry and the German Question’ Megas Achilleas(University of Leeds-POLIS) 11.00h ‘Images in the Cold War in Germany, 1945-1965’ Inge Marszolek(University of Bremen) 11.30h ‘The Cold War in a Museum: the East German Museum für Geschichte, 1952-1990’ David Marshall (University of Tennessee) 12.00h ‘Cultural Cold War Between the States. GDR and FRG at the Olympics’ Christiane Rösch(University of Heidelberg) 13.30h Lunch (own arrangements) 14.00h ‘Commemorating Luther: Contested Memories and the Cold War’ Jon Berndt Olsen(University of North Carolina) 14.30h ‘The Third World Origins of the Consensual Turn: West German Labour Internationalism and the Cold War’ Quinn Slobodian(New York University) 15.00h ‘Honecker's Balls and the Testicles of the West: West Berlin,Sport and the Four-Power Agreement’ Chris Young (Pembroke College,Cambridge) 16.00h Screening: Berlin Airlift (British Control Commission for Germany, 1949) & One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) 19.00h Buffet Day 3: Friday 8 September 2006 9.00h ‘Films From the “Other Side”: The Influence of the Cold War Conflict on the West German Feature Film Import in the GDR’ Rosemary Stott (London Metropolitan University) 9.30h ‘Entertaining the Cold War: Inter-German Film Relations, Consumer Culture, and the Modernization of the Post-War German Musical’ Stefan Soldovieri (University of Toronto) 10.00h ‘Projections of History: East German Film-makers and the Berlin Wall’ Séan Allan (University of Warwick) 11.00h Keynote FILM: ‘Funerals in Berlin: The Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces of the Cold War’ James Chapman(University of Leicester) 12.00h Discussion 12.30h Departure Abstracts and further details about the event are available on the conference website: <http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/conferences/TwoNations/index.htm> The conference venue is: Blackburne House conference centre. A map is available: <http://www.blackburnehouse.co.uk/contact_us.asp> The basic conference fee is £50, with a discounted rate of £30 for postgraduate students. This does not cover accommodation, which regrettably is not available on site. Details of hotels and B&Bs are available on: <http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/accommodation>. We would recommend the nearby Feathers Hotel: <http://www.feathers.uk.com/feathers/index.htm> In the event of enquiries, please contact the organisers: Mr Tobias Hochscherf: [log in to unmask] Mr Christoph Laucht: [log in to unmask] Dr Andrew Plowman: [log in to unmask]