Program
Friday, April 22, 1:30 - 9:30 pm
Andreas Daum, University at Buffalo
“The American-Canadian Conference in German and Modern European History: A New Transnational Project”
First Session: Cultural History of Germany and Austria
Moderator: Larry E. Jones, Canisius College
Geoff Hamm, University of Toronto
“Modernity and Tradition in the Prusso-German Officers Corps, 1861-1914”
Jonathan Koehler, University of Rochester
“Volkstümliche Art: David Josef Bach and the Workers’ Symphony Concert Association, 1905-1918”
Julia Goodwin, University of Rochester
“Cries of Anguish, Prayers of Hope: Music as Memorial in the Twentieth Century”
Remarks by
Patricia M. Mazón, University at Buffalo
“The Graduate Group for German & Austrian Studies at the University at Buffalo”
Christian G. Koelbl, Honorary German Consul for Buffalo and Western New York
Fred Friedman, Honorary Austrian Consul for Western New York
Second Session: The Colonial Dimension
Moderator: Charles T. Lipp, University at Buffalo
Martin Mulford, University of Rochester
“The Fourth Voice: European Settlers in German East Africa”
Deborah Neill, University of Toronto
“Health Care and Urban Apartheid: Segregating Medicine in German and French Colonial Cities, 1885-1914”
Conference Dinner with Keynote Talk
James Retallack, University of Toronto
“Paradigmatic Super-Weapons? Demagogy, Populism, and Proto-Fascism in German Historical Writing”
Saturday, April 23, 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Third Session: Europe in the Western New YorkOntario Region
Moderator: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester
Danille Battisti, University at Buffalo
“A Useful Comparison? Italian-American and Italian-Canadian Responses to the 1948 Italian Elections”
Steve Bunn, York University
“Germans into Nazis ... into Lumberjacks, into Germans: ‘Denazification’ in Northern Ontario POW Camps during World War II”
Perry Beardsly, University at Buffalo
“Internationalism in a Region: The Buffalo-Toronto Area, 1920-1950”
Fourth Session: Societies at War
Moderator: Pamela Swett, McMaster University
Oliver Griffin, St. John Fisher College
“German Perceptions of Russia during the Russo-Japanese War”
Lisa Todd, University of Toronto
“‘The Inner Enemy of the Hostess Bar’: Controlling Public Sexuality in World War I Germany”
Lunch
Business Meeting