18th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: The Use of History

3/12/2010 - 3/14/2010

370 Dwinelle

The Use of History 18th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference University of California, Berkeley March 12-14, 2010

Friday, March 12

6:00 Film: The Baader-Meinhof Complex Pre-screening talk by Carrie Collenberg, California State University, Long Beach B-4 Dwinelle Hall (Level A)

Saturday, March 13 – 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F)

9:00-10:30 Panel I: The Use and Abuse of History

Josiah Simon, University of Oregon Der kritische Sammler

Ulrike Wagner, Columbia University The Migration of the Muses: Historical Scholarship and Transnational German Romanticism

Carolin Rocks, Washington University in St. Louis Geschichte im Widerstreit. Überlegungen zur Kants Geschichtsphilosophie

10:45-12:15 Panel II: Spectacles of History

Lauren Hamer, University of Texas, Austin Im Geist der Gegenwart: Fritz Burger and Art History Between the Wars

Sylke Kirschnick, University of Potsdam “Hereinspaziert!” ins Spektakel der Historie – Zirkuspantomimen als Propaganda und Anschauungsunterricht

Kathryn Malczyk, University of Pennsylvania “Ein wunderlîch geschiht:” The Complicated Alterity of Herzog Ernst’s Indian Princess

1:30-2:30 Panel III: Historical Linguistics, Historical Ideologies

Oskar Reichmann, University of Heidelberg Zur Interessesteuerung der Sprachgeschichtsschreibung

Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, University of Trier Sprache, Geschichte, Rasse: Bausteine einer unheiligen Allianz. Dargestellt am Beispiel Houston Stewart Chamberlains

2:45-3:45 Panel IV: Problems of Reinterpretation

Joseph D. Rockelmann, Purdue University The (Un)welcomed Metamorphosis of the GDR

Jennifer Pavlik, Washington University in St. Louis Hannah Arendt: Geschichten also (Gegen-)Geschichte(n)

4:00 Keynote address: John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History, UC Berkeley The Emergence of History as a Jewish Scholarly Pursuit

Sunday, March 14 – 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F)

9:00-10:30 Panel V: The Use and Abuse of History for Literature

Ben Robinson, Northwestern University Architecture, Aura, and Acknowledgement in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Jeanine Tuschling, University of Warwick Geschichte(n), die das Leben schreibt. Historizität und Erfahrung bei Elfriede Jelinek.

Martin M. Modlinger, University of Cambridge The Ethics of Historical Re-presentation: W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Truth of Fiction

10:45-11:45 Panel VI: …and Nietzsche Passes the Baton

Kevin P. Eubanks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Between Ontology and History: Thomas Mann and the Adorno-Heidegger Debate

David Brandon Absher, University of Kentucky Historicity and Revolution: A Reading of Heidegger and Marx

1:15-2:45 Panel VII: Remembrance and Revision

Annie Ring, University of Cambridge Double-Agents: Tales of Collaboration and Victimhood in Literature Remembering the Stasi

Michael St. Clair, UC Berkeley The Kossinna Syndrome

Priscilla Layne, UC Berkeley The Ethics of Provocation: Censoring the Past in German Cold War Punk

3:00 Roundtable discussion Closing remarks by Karen Feldman, UC Berkeley