Research on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic
The proceedings of the conference ‘The German Archipelago. German Minorities and Interwar Eugenics’, hosted at Balliol College, Oxford, on 16 – 19 December 2011, are now available on pulse-project.org.
Panels of the conference included ‘Eugenics and National Identity’ and ‘Volksdeutsche and Nazi Germanys’ Racial Policy’, among others.
Cultural Narratives of Race in the German Empire: 1871-1945
International Symposium
University of Edinburgh, September 13th, 2012
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[via German Studies] Colleagues might be interested in the following conference at National University of Ireland Maynooth. No registration required, no conference fee; all guests welcome.
Weimar Colonialism (12.-14. April 2012)
Venue: Iontas Building, North Campus, Seminar Room (1.33), 1st floor
25 – 27 April 2013, at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
In the first half of the 20th century, but especially during the 1920s, the publisher Ullstein occupied a central role in German print media. With its innovative business methods, modern printing technology and American-style advertising methods, Ullstein became a dominant force in German culture.
The conference “Der ganze Verlag ist einfach eine Bonbonniere.” Der Ullstein Verlag in der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts aims to bring together research on inividual Ullstein publications, significant journalists, editors, authors and publicists working for the company, and its wide social, cultural, political and economic role in history.
Proposals for papers of thirty minutes are invited on any of the above-mentioned topics. Proposals should be no longer than 3,500 characters long.
Offers of papers should be sent by 30 May 2012 to David Oels (oels[at]uni‐mainz.de) or Ute Schneider (uschneid[at]uni‐mainz.de)
The aim of this international conference organized by the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic, the Centre of Central European Studies (the collectiv department of the Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and CEVRO Institut College) and the Anna and Jaroslav Krejčí Research Endowment Fund is to delimit and define the space for women to assert themselves in public affairs and politics during the last three decades of the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, under the First Czechoslovak Republic and Austrian Republic. The conference is organized under the auspices of Mrs. Miroslava Němcová, the chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic.
24 May 2012-25 May 2012
Veue: Parliament of the Czech Republic, Sněmovní 1, Prague 1
Deadline: 31 March 2012
Nationalist Economy. On the introduction of racist parameters in economies in Europe between the wars 1918-1939
When Werner Sombart published his study “Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben” 100 years ago, he paved the way for an anti-Semitic tendency towards viewing Jews as a distinct, peculiar group within the German economy. A short time later, with the outbreak of the First World War, the liberal global economic system which was based on principles of free trade and most favoured nation treatment and negotiated in gold parities finally collapsed. In its place, economic regimes were installed in Europe which not only jealously guarded their borders by means of customs duties and currency and transfer restrictions but also increasingly sought to reserve trade, industry and agriculture for certain sections of the population, defined by their social or ethnic identity.
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In Search of Revolution 1916-1923: Germany and its European Context
When compared to the state of research on the First World War as well as on the Weimar Republic the German Revolution as an integral part of the revolutionary era from 1916 to 1923 in Europe as a discrete field is understudied. This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to do two things: Firstly, we want to broaden the scope of the debate on the German Revolution beyond its present narrow political parameters by incorporating its social/cultural, literary/discursive, political/legal and commemorative/memory aspects; and secondly, related to this, we want to re-historicize the German Revolution by reinserting it into the era of revolutionary ferment in Europe between 1916 and 1923 through comparative analysis, which also aims at integrating colonial influences. To this end we wish to invite scholars working on Germany, Europe and Britain & Ireland in this period to submit proposals for contributions that might open the field towards a new interdisciplinary and transnational paradigm of revolution in this period.
THE ETHICS OF SEEING: 20TH CENTURY GERMAN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY RECONSIDERED
Conference at the German Historical Institute London, May 23-25, 2013
Recent years have witnessed new interest among historians to integrate
visual sources and changing modes of visual perception into their work.
While the presence of visual sources in mainstream monographs was quite
common in 19th century historiography, this tendency dropped off markedly
over the course of the 20th century. In the last fifteen years or so,
however, historians working in various contexts have begun to rethink
historical periods – and history-making itself – through the lens of
visual history as a rich field of scholarly inquiry in its own right.
But to date this burgeoning field associated with the ‘visual turn’
largely exists as a set of isolated studies that rarely relate to one
another; the proposed conference is an effort to bring together a range of
scholars in the field to explore the interface of visuality and history in
20th century Germany. Of central consideration here is how and why
photographic images have shaped popular memories and understanding of key
historical events over the last century; in relation to German history,
this is certainly evident with the both world wars, the 1923 Inflation,
the pageantry surrounding the Third Reich, the Holocaust, Nazi defeat,
divided Berlin, 1968, the 1972 Olympics as well as the dismantling of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
Deadline: 15 January 2012
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Call for papers for a panel, “From Frontgemeinschaft to Volksgemeinschaft? Marginalized War Veterans in postwar Germany,” at the German Studies Association meeting, October 4 – October 7, 2012, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Deadline: January 15, 2012
Germany’s defeat in 1918 as well as “front experience” left an indelible mark on the postwar German veterans’ culture. War veterans had been traditionally accorded immense social prestige in modern Germany. After the First World War, however, the veterans’ movement was increasingly clad in a nationalist mantle that excluded many groups blamed for Imperial Germany’s defeat – Jews, socialists, communists, and pacifists. Moreover, many former soldiers from Alsace, Lorraine, or the territories ceded to Poland and Belgium became pariahs under their new governments. Despite the different national and political contexts, all these individuals shared several similarities that were shaped by the experience of war, defeat, and questioned patriotism.
I am looking for one or two more papers on post-WWI German war veterans for a panel at the upcoming 2012 GSA meeting. Specifically, the panel shall address those former soldiers ostracized from the mainstream veterans’ community due to racial or political reasons, or rendered “homeless” in an actual and spiritual sense through postwar territorial settlements.
Please send a 1-2 page paper proposal by January 15, 2012 to Michael Geheran at <mgeheran@clarku.edu.edu>
International Conference August 1 – 4, 2014
Perspectives on the ‘Great’ War / Rückblick auf den Ersten Weltkrieg
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: An interdisciplinary conference will be hosted at Queen Mary, University of London to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. The parties presently involved are the School of Languages Linguistics and Film (QMUL); the School of History (QMUL); the Leo Baeck Institute (London); the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (QMUL); and the German Department (UCL).
Keynote speakers will include:
– Professor Christopher Clark (Cambridge)
– Professor Jonathan Steinberg (Pennsylvania)
– Professor Samuel Williamson (Sewanee History Project)
It is intended that the conference be truly international and interdisciplinary. Subject sections will include political, military and social history; historiography; colonialism; discourse analysis and cultural history. We welcome all suggestions for the conference as well as offers to chair sections and round-table discussions.
Please address all initial enquiries to: Professor Felicity Rash f.j.rash@qmul.ac.uk or Dr Falco Pfalzgraf f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk
The German History Society in the UK and Ireland, which publishes the journal German History, is inviting panel proposals for its third Annual Conference. The 2012 Conference, generously supported by the German Historical Institute London, will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh. The Society invites historians of Germany from all parts of the world to submit panel proposals on what they regard as cutting-edge research topics in German history ranging from the middle ages to contemporary Germany. Panels will last for 90 minutes and should have three speakers and a chair. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 MARCH 2012. The Society’s Committee will select proposals and inform applicants during May 2012.
Postgraduate students are explicitly encouraged to participate in panels or to submit their own panel proposals.
The German History Society is organizing its second Annual Conference on 08.09.2011-10.09.2011 at the German Historical Institute London and King’s College London. There is a special panel dedicated to Weimar history on 9 September from 10.45 – 12.45:
Panel 2: Weimar Publics: Plurality, Contingency and Discourses Past
Chair: Bill Niven
Venue: King’s Building, Room K6.63 (16F)
Jochen Hung (IGRS, University of London), ‘E Pluribus Unum? The Public Sphere of the Weimar Republic’
Tara Windsor (University of Birmingham), ‘“… the German PEN has become a battlefield.” Weimar Writers, the PEN Club and Cultural Diplomacy after the First World War’
Knut Langewand (University of Warwick), ‘“Wie eine große Ansteckung, die jeden überfällt” – Public Intellectuals and the “Sick Republic”’
The academy of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese is hosting a conference on the development of Catholic theology in the first half of the 20th century:
Nach dem Antimodernismus? Wege der katholischen Theologie 1918–1958
While this upcoming conference is focusing on the period from 1914-1918, its range of topics might also be interesting for Weimar scholars:
The First World War in a Gender Context. Topics and Perspectives
Vienna, 29.09.2011 – 01.10.2011
This international conference intends to reflect on the necessity and potential of a gendered history of the First World War, focusing on five selected topics that appear to be constitutive for the field: the complex relationship between home front and front line, experiences of violence, forms of visualization of the war, peace efforts, and the impact of war on concepts of citizenship.
Writing German History: A Century of Extremes
5 May 2011, 18:00 – 20:30
with Gerald Steinacher; Tom Weber; Mary Fulbrook; Roger Moorhouse; and Richard Overy (Chair)
History Today, Oxford University Press and The Institute of Historical Research
invite you to hear a panel of historians of Germany discuss ‘Writing German History: A Century of Extremes’.
Venue: The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, London)
The lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the Macmillan Hall.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to coleen.hatrick[at]oup.com
(tel: 01865 353240)
