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Dear All, This message comes to us from the new German-studies list which I have just joined. I wonder whether you want me to continue to forward from this list, since many of you might be on it as well Andrea ---------- > From: Duncan Large <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: (Fwd) CFP: 1999 New Hampshire Symposium > Date: 06 November 1998 12:59 > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > 25th New Hampshire Symposium > > >From Unification to Unity? > East Germany 10 Years after the Fall of the Wall > > June 23 - 30, 1999 > World Fellowship Center > Conway, New Hampshire (USA) > > > The 25th New Hampshire Symposium will concern itself with change and > continuity in East Germany since November 1989. It will be devoted to a > retrospective of the years 1989-99, that is, to a stock-taking of the > transformation process and the progress made toward East German integration > into the Federal Republic. The following questions will serve as the common > denominator for the various topics and approaches: What are the criteria > for judging the East German transformation? How have the lives of the East > Germans changed in the past ten years? Which aspects of society remain the > same? What changes can be seen in values and in the use of concepts? Is > unity synonymous with uniformity or is there room for difference and > diversity? How much inner unity is necessary in a pluralistic democracy > such as the FRG? What is the influence of the GDR past, the west-oriented > German present and the increasing Europeanization of Germany on East German > identity? What resources and possibilities does East Germany have in the > larger European context? > > On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Symposium's founding, a > special session will be devoted to a discussion of the development and work > of the conference since 1975. > > The approach of the conference is multi-disciplinary. Political scientists, > sociologists, economists and other social scientists, as well as > Germanists, linguists, specialists in the arts and media, and other > interested persons, including non-academic practitioners in the various > areas are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the > following seminars: > > I. The Rhetoric of Change and the Transformation as Reality - Brigitte > Rauschenbach (Goethestr. 82, D-10623 Berlin - [log in to unmask]); > Rainer Karlsch (Institut fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Humboldt-Universitaet, > Spandauer Str. 1, D-10178 Berlin - Fax: 030 20935659; > [log in to unmask]) > > The conceptual construction of the new reality, conceptual change and > conceptual confusion; appraisal of 10 years of change in the East: > political, economic, mental and social aspects of the transformation > process (intentions, interests, instruments, results). > > II. Value Change, Value Loss and Value Conflict in East Germany - Wolfgang > Bergem (FB 1, Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Bergische Universitaet > Wuppertal, Gaussstr. 20, D-42097 Wuppertal - Fax: 0202 4392429; > [log in to unmask]); 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] > ca) > > Empirical investigations and theoretical explanations of changes in value > and attitude patterns; devaluation and reevaluation of personal experience > and knowledge; competing values such as morality/ instrumental rationality, > freedom/equality; communication of values through socialization (i.e., > media, school); possibility and necessity of basic value consensus for the > regulation of conflict in a pluralistic democracy. > > III. Historicization and Mythicization of the (GDR) Past - Roger Woods > (Department of German, University of Nottingham, University Park, > Nottingham, NG7 2RD UK - Fax: 115 9515812; 101522.522@ compuserve.com); > Wolfgang Bialas (Institut fuer Philosophie, Universitaet Potsdam, Postfach > 601553, D-14415 Potsdam - [log in to unmask] de) > > Analysis and evaluation of contemporary historiography since 1989 (academic > and government-sponsored appraisals of the GDR past, history from below", > biography research, the GDR in comparison with other former Soviet-block > states and the preunification FRG); artistic/literary treatments of the GDR > past; analysis of processes which turn the past into the present (political > and commercial instrumentalization, individual confrontation with the past, > resurfacing of suppressed experience). > > IV. East German Regions and European Integration: East German Identity in > the Context of European Integration - Petra Drauschke > (Sozialwissenschaft-liches Forschungszentrum Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., > Koepenicker Str. 127-129, D-10179 Berlin - [log in to unmask]; Margy > Gerber (Taunusstr. 8, D-12161 Berlin - [log in to unmask]); Joerg > Roesler (Mellenseestr. 5, D-10319 Berlin - Tel. 030 5124906) > > Conflicts between (East) German and European, Heimat and Fremde, regional > and global; (East) Germany and its East European neighbors (possibilities > and problems of cooperation, EU Eastern expansion); East German potential > and resources in the European transformation process. > > V. East German Literature, Theater, Film and the Arts in the Last Ten > Years: Transformations, Transitions and Continuities in Cultural Life - > Christiane Zehl Romero (Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages, > Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 - Fax: 617 6273945; [log in to unmask] > edu); Nancy A. Lauckner (Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, > University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 - Fax: 423 9747096; > [log in to unmask] edu) > > Identity discourses in literature and the arts: East German or regional vs. > national, European, or global identities; cultural diversity and > generational conflicts; literary/artistic historiography and mythmaking of > the GDR and the period since 1989; literary/artistic visions of a German > future; new trends and recent works. > > VI. Berlin - Unification Capital of Germany? - Birgit Dahlke (Institut fuer > deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universitaet, Mossezentrum, Schuetzenstr. > 18-25, D-10117 Berlin - Fax: 030 20196690; birgit=dahlke@ rz.hu-berlin.de); > Harald Michel (Privatinstitut fuer Angewandte Demographie, Sophienstr. 3, > D-10178 Berlin - Fax 030 28599626; ifad@ ifad.b.shuttle.de) > > Berlin as focal point and microcosm of political, social and cultural > German-German unification processes; the potential role of the capital in > the creation of a (new) German identity; changes in the cityscape and > infrastructure of Berlin, and the social, political and economic > consequences thereof; Berlin as an ethnic melting-pot; demographic change > and its effects; Berlin as media center; literary and artistic treatments > of Berlin issues. > > VII. Looking Back on 25 Years - Margy Gerber (Taunusstr. 8, D-12161 Berlin > - margygerber@ compuserve.com); Volker Gransow (Canadian Centre for German > & European Studies, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON/CN M3J 1P3 > - Fax: 416 7365696; vgransow@ yorku.ca) > > Panel discussion on various aspects of the 25-year history of the NH > Symposium. > > > Papers may be given in either English or German. Their delivery time should > not exceed 30 minutes. Detailed proposals (title plus 1-2 pages) must be > submitted to appropriate seminar organizers - one copy to each organizer - > by December 1, 1998. Completed papers are due April 15, 1999. Each paper > must be accompanied by a short summary in the other conference language. > For more information on the program, contact Margy Gerber (see above for > address which is valid until January 4, 1999; after that, Dept. of German, > Russian, E. Asian Lang., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH > 43403 - Fax: 419 3722571; [log in to unmask] 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] > > > Registration > > Registration Fee, Room & Board for the whole week, all inclusive: > $350 for double occupancy room/$50 surcharge for single room > > Part-time participants will be charged a $50 registration fee and a > $50 daily rate, which includes 3 meals and an overnight. > > > ------------------------------------------ > Dr Duncan Large > Department of German > University of Wales Swansea > Singleton Park > GB-Swansea SA2 8PP > Tel: (+44) (0)1792 205678, #4729 > Home Tel/Fax: (+44) (0)1792 204167 > http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/large.htm > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%