German
History Society Annual Meeting and Conference
25 October 2008
“Africa
in Germany, Germany in Africa”
10.00
German History Society AGM
11.15
Tea/Coffee break
11.30
– 12.00 Vera Lind (Northern Illinois University)
"Born
in Moor-Land, Born Again in Germany, Made White in Spirit from
Original Sin": Africans and Germans in the Eighteenth Century
12.00
– 12.30 Bernhard Gißibl (Universität Mannheim)
"German
Colonialism and African Environments"
12.30
– 13.00 Discussion
13.00
– 13.45 Lunch
13.45
- 14.15 Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield)
"Between
Amnesia and Denial. Genocide, colonialism and German national
identity"
14.15
– 14.45 Larissa Förster (Universität Köln)
"The
memory of colonialism among German-speaking Namibians"
14.45-15.15
Discussion
15.15-15.30
Tea/Coffee break
15.30
– 16.00 Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Universität Kassel)
"The
Colonies in Motion: German Colonial Cinematography"
16.00
– 16.30 Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt Universität/Freie
Universität Berlin)
"Wie
geht die deutsche Hauptstadt mit ihrem kolonialen Erbe um? - Einige
historische und aktuelle Reminiszenzen"
16.30
– 17.00 Discussion
The
AGM/Conference will take place at the German Historical Institute,
17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
Please
contact the Secretary of the German History Society, Annika
Mombauer, for further details.
SEVENTH
WORKSHOP ON EARLY MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
Friday
24 October 2008
German Historical Institute London
Programme
9.30am
Arrival and Coffee
10.00
Welcome
10.15
Session 1
State
Formation on the Ground
Paul Warde (UEA), Locality-level State Formation in the South-west
of Germany
Robert
Spaulding (University of North Carolina), The Transformation of
the Rhine and the Formation of Modern Germany, 1648-1848
11.15
Coffee
11.30
Session 2
New Approaches to the Political
Alexander Schmidt (Jena), The Power of the Muses? French and German
Diplomats Assess High-culture in Napoleonic Germany
Estelle
Joubert (Toronto), German Opera and Politics from Enlightenment
to Napoleon
Katarzyna
Pekacka-Falkowska (Torun), Plague in Torun in the Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries - the Politicisation of Disease
12.45
Lunch
2.00
Session 3
Religion
and Politics
Scott Dixon (Queen’s Belfast), The Sense of the Past in
Reformation Germany: History and Historiography in the Work of
Johannes Letzner (1531-1613)
Jennifer
Smyth (Trinity College, Dublin), Unnatural Pharisees: Knowledge,
Clergy, and Laity in the Early Reformation
Jane
Finucane (Glamorgan), ‘Revolution’ in Magdeburg? War
and Constitutional Change 1629-31
3.30
Coffee
4.00
Session 4
Cultures
of Knowledge
Richard Kirwan (NUI, Maynooth), Representation and Social Action
at the University in the Holy Roman Empire 1500-1700
Stefan
Ehrenpreis (HU Berlin, Munich), Pedagogical Discourse and Primary
Schools in Germany and England, 1600-1750
How to take part
If you are interested in attending as a participant, please contact:
Dr
Michael Schaich
German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2NJ
Email: schaich@ghil.ac.uk
WORKSHOPS ON
EARLY MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
German Historical Institute London
General Aim
The first workshop ran in 2002 and has now established itself
as the principal forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of new
research on early modern German-speaking Central Europe. Previous
themes have included artistic and literary representations, medicine
and musicology, as well as political, social, economic and religious
history.
If you are
interested in future Workshops on Early Modern History, please
contact:
Dr Michael
Schaich
German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2NJ
Email: schaich@ghil.ac.uk
Workshop reports are published by the journal German History (see
right-hand column).
The German History
Society would welcome proposals for conferences for 2007/8.
Please
contact the Secretary for further details.
