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Beyond Glitter and Doom. New Perspectives of the Weimar Republic A conference at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London [IGRS <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/how-to-find-us.html> ] Co-Ordinators: Jochen Hung (IGRS, London), Katharine Tubb (University of Glasgow) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS, London) Thursday, 30 September 2010 09.15 Registration 09.40 Welcome and Introduction 09.45 Keynote Lecture David Midgley (Cambridge): Beyond the Clichés. On the Specificity of Weimar Culture 10.30 Keynote Lecture Moritz Föllmer (Leeds): Which Crisis? Which Modernity? New Perspectives on Weimar Germany 11.15 Coffee Challenging Crisis and Doom 11.45 Michael Dreyer (Jena): Hugo Preuß and Weimar as a 'wehrhafte Demokratie' 12.15 Russell Spinney (Maryland): Re-thinking the Emotional Narratives of the Weimar Republic through Displays of Fearlessness 12.45 Jochen Hung (London): Questionning the Generational Concept in Weimar Research 13.15 Discussion 13.30 Lunch (own arrangements) 15.00 Keynote Lecture Debbie Lewer (Glasgow): Art and the Cultural Politics of the 'Medieval' in the Weimar Republic 15.45 Tea Aesthetics 16.15 Anke Finger (Connecticut): Everyday Modernism: Sensing the Weimar Republic in Literature and other Arts 16.45 Nadine Rossol (Essex): Republican State Re-presentation and Public Performance Culture in Weimar Germany 17.15 Nicola Creighton (Belfast): Contingency: the Great Challenge of Weimar 17.45 Discussion 18.00 Break/Postgraduate Workshop 19.30 Conference dinner at the Amalfi Restaurant (three courses with choice and coffee; for further details please see registration form) Friday, 1 October 2010 09.30 Keynote Lecture Gustav Frank (Munich): Abseits der Republik? Nachexpressionistische Komplexität der Künste 10.15 Coffee Parallel Session I: Gender 10.45 Aneka Meier (Pennsylvania): The Legendary New Woman of Weimar - Revisited 11.15 Jill Suzanne Smith (Maine): Prostitutes in the Weimar Republic: Moving beyond the Victim-Whore Dichotomy 11.45 Mihaela Petrescu (New York): Jazz, Gigolos, and 'Eintänzer': Dance and Masculinity during the Weimar Republic 12.15 Silke Helling (Hamburg) and Cornelia Baddack (Cologne): Geschlecht, Staat und Partizipation: Else Frobenius und Katharina von Kardoff-Oheimb 12.45 Discussion II: Questioning 'Neue Sachlichkeit' 10.45 Reinhard Zachau (Tennessee): Fallada's Modernist Novel Characters in Wolf among Wolves, and Little Man, What Now? 11.15 Bernhard Heinrich (Schweinfurt): Falladas 'kleine Frauen': Lebensentwürfe in der Krise 11.45 Geoff Wilkes (Queensland): Behind the Glitter: the Critique of the Cultural Mass Market in Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel 12.15 Discussion III: Public Environment 10.45 Hansjakob Ziemer (Berlin): Listening to Society: Concert Hall Experiences as Social Practices in the 1920s 11.15 Michael Schwalb (Cologne): Begrenzt haltbar: die Kroll-Oper als republikanisches Laboratorium 11.45 Kerstin Barndt (Michigan): Present Futures. 'Werkbund' and Building Exhibitions in Weimar Germany 12.15 Mark Hobbs (Glasgow): Exploring Weimar Berlin's History through its Geography 12.45 Discussion 13.05 Lunch (own arrangements) IV: Visual Arts 14.30 James van Dyke (Missouri): Felixmüller's Failure: Painting and Poverty 15.00 Elinor Beaven (Cambridge): The Art of Domesticity? Exploring Alternative Models of Artistic Practice through the Weimar 'Künstlerpaar' 15.30 Katharine Tubb (Glasgow): The Garçonne, the Girl, and the Biedermeier Babe? Weimar Dress and the Ghosts of Fashions Past 16.00 Discussion V: Politics and the Novel 14.30 Florian Krobb (Maynooth): Catholicism, 'Conservative Revolution' and the Fairy Tale: the Case of Wilhelm Matthiessen 15.00 Marion Löffler (Vienna): Was sagt das Publikum? Theoretische und literarische Beiträge zur politischen Kultur der Weimarer Republik 15.30 Nicholas Martin (Birmingham): Stranger than Fiction: Literary Transformations of War Experience in the Weimar Republic 16.00 Discussion VI: Film 14.30 Brigitte Braun (Trier): Spiegelungen der eigenen Gegenwart im historischen Film der Weimarer Republik 15.00 Joel Westerdale (Massachusetts): The Canon of Early Weimar Cinema Reloaded 15.30 Matthias Uecker (Nottingham): 'Das Leben [...] So ist es und nicht anders': Constructions of Normality in Menschen am Sonntag 16.00 Discussion 16.15 Break 16.20 Keynote Lecture Anthony McElligott (Limerick): Rethinking the Weimar Republic as Paradigm: Authority/less and Authoritarianism 17.05 Closing Discussion 17.30 Wine 18.00 End of Conference Further details and registration Further information and registration forms are available at http://w01.igrscms.wf.ulcc.ac.uk/index.php?id=494. Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 17 September 2010. Conference Fees 2 Days: £55.00 Standard Rate; £45.00 Reduced Rate; £30.00 Student Rate 1 Day: £30.00 Standard Rate; £25.00 Reduced Rate; £20.00 Student Rate Dinner on Thursday, 30 September: £30.00 Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only; Student Rate: Students with proof of status only A limited number of student bursaries of £100 each are available to be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If you wish to apply, please register as usual and tick the appropriate box on the registration form. Please ensure proof of student status is enclosed with payment. Registration form <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/events/conference/WeimarConfRegistrationForm.pdf> - How to find us <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/how-to-find-us.html> - Where to stay <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/accommodation.html> - Conference website <http://weimarperspectives.wordpress.com/> This conference is organised under the auspices of the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London and sponsored by the Royal Historical Society and the German History Society Jane Lewin Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London School of Advanced Study Room ST 272, Senate House Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk