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EGO-documents in German history
You are cordially invited to a symposium on Ego-documents to be held at the Wordsworth Room, First Court, St John's College Cambridge, on Friday, 27 March 2009, organised by Prof Mary Fulbrook (UCL) and Dr Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on behalf of the journal German History and the German History Society.
Programme
- 10.00
- Mary Fulbrook and Ulinka Rublack, Introduction
- 10.10
- Prof Lyndal Roper (Oxford) - Approaching Martin Luther's self
- 11.00
- Prof Kaspar von Greyerz (Basel) - Ego-documents: The last Word?
- 11.45
- Prof Claudia Ulbrich (FU Berlin) - Gender and Personhood: The Memoirs of the Countess of Schwerin (1731)
- 13.00
- Lunch
- 14.00
- Dr Mark Hewitson (UCL) - Witnesses of War: Soldiers and Selfhood in Germany, 1806-1929
- 14.45
- Dr Nick Stargardt (Oxford) - "Things worth fighting for": German soldiers in the Second World War
- 15.30
- Coffee
- 15.45
- Karolin Machtans (Cambridge) - Autobiography and Historiography: Raul Hilberg and Saul Friedländer
- 16.30
- Julia Wagner (UCL) - Explaining Auschwitz. Victims, prosecutors and Nazi hunters in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
- 17.15 - 18.00
- Concluding discussion
There is no payment for attendance, but people are requested to register with Ulinka Rublack.
