November 19, 2009

Keynote Lecture

"Germany 1989: a new kind of revolution?"

Location: Walker Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall

Speaker: Dr. Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited more than thirty books in modern German history. Starting with Hitler's seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved to the social history of German students and professions German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, and the relationship between Honecker and Brezhnev.

A video of the keynote lecture can be found at: vimeo.com/album/154020

November 20, 2009

Note: All events and panels take place in Walker Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall

Welcome and Introduction

Time: 8:30 - 8:45 AM

Panel I: United Germany in a Unifying Europe

Time: 8:45 - 10:30 AM

This panel will focus on political issues and questions of international relations, particularly the role of Germany as an enlargement entrepreneur, the German position on bringing Turkey into the EU, and the extension of EU institutions to unified Germany and the former Soviet bloc states.

Rachel Cichowski, University of Washington, Political Science Department - "Unifying Rights: Germany and EU Legal Institutions"

Carl Lankowski, Foreign Service Institute - "On the German Economy and European Integration"

Beverly Crawford, UC Berkeley, German and European Studies - "The Normative Power of a Normal State: Power and Revolutionary Vision in Germany's Post-Wall Foreign Policy"

Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University, Germanic Studies - "Holes and Wholism: Europe Where Socialism Was"

Discussant: James Caporaso, University of Washington, Director, European Union Center for Excellence

Break

Time: 10:30 - 10:45 PM

Panel II: Culture and the Arts in the Berlin Republic

Time: 10:45 - 1:00 PM

Panelists will discuss contemporary culture and the arts, focusing on how German arts and letters have developed in the context of the “Berlin republic," the new society formed by the absorption of the former east into single polity.

Anke Biendarra, University of California - Irvine, Department of German - "Literary Wall Crossings: Narrating the Inner-German Border 20 Years After"

Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Modern Languages Department - "The Afterlife of the GDR and Its Culture"

Heinz-Peter Preusser, University of Bremen, Department of German Studies - "Dystopia and Escapism: on Juli Zeh and Daniel Kehlmann"

Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds, Department of German - "German Literature Since Unification"

Paul Cooke, University of Leeds, Department of German - "The Stasi, Ostalgie and Post-Unification Film Culture in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (2006)"

Moderator: Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, Department of Germanics

Lunch Break

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Panel III: Remaking German Society in the Context of Globalization

Time: 2:30 - 4:15 PM

A panel focusing on how German society has changed since the time of unification, in particular, how the various aspects of globalization including migration, transnational economic expansion, and challenges to the European welfare and work models have transformed Germany.

Patricia McManus, Indiana University, Department of Sociology - "Minorities, Multiculturalism, and National Identity in Unified Germany"

Steven Pfaff, University of Washington, Department of Sociology - "The Challenge of Muslim Integration in the New Germany"

Roy Gardner, Indiana University, Department of Economics - "The GDR as a Transition Economy"

Discussant: Uta Poiger, University of Washington, Department of History