Crossing German Borders: New Approaches to German Transnational Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Crossing German Borders: New Approaches to German Transnational Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Organizer
Alois Maderspacher (Wolfson College, Cambridge) David Motadel (Pembroke College, Cambridge) Tom Neuhaus (St John's College, Cambridge) Mehmet Yercil (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Venue
St. John's College, Cambridge
Location
Cambridge
Country
United Kingdom
From - Until
10.09.2007 - 11.09.2007
By
David Motadel

Historians of Germany have often been criticized for putting too much emphasis on domestic issues and ignoring Germany's position in a global framework. In recent years, however, more and more scholars have begun to pay attention to how Germans interacted with non-Germans inside and outside of Germany. This has led to a number of unresolved questions. How was German identity constructed and negotiated and what did 'Germanness' mean for travellers, settlers, and explorers? How were political, economic, administrative and cultural networks between Germany and other parts of the world maintained? How does German imperialism/colonialism compare with other imperialisms/colonialisms? This conference will provide a forum for graduate students from a variety of areas of history to discuss many of the theoretical issues involved in the concept of 'transnational' history and underpin it with empirical evidence gathered from their research.

The conference fee is £12 for graduate students, £20 for Junior Research Fellows and early career academics, £55 for standard applications. Registration forms are available on our webpage.

Programm

Day 1: Monday, 10 September

10:30 - 11:00 Registration and Coffee

11:00 - 11:20 Introduction by Richard Evans (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge)

11:20 - 12:00 Keynote address by Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 Imperial Germany I: Identities Across Borders,
Chair: Indra Sengupta (German Historical Institute, London)

Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg): "German officers in early colonial India"

Daniel R. Steinbach (Trinity College, Dublin): "Power from the past: The construction and function of a colonial 'Heimat history'"

Jasper M. Heinzen (Darwin College, Cambridge): "'We Hanoverians are all so glad to be half-English': Hanover and the legacy of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union, 1866-1918"

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:30 Imperial Germany II: Managing Imperialism,
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (German Historical Institute, London)

Niall Williams (National University of Ireland, Galway):
"German colonialism and the Volga Germans, 1890-1914"

Mehmet Yercil (Clare Hall, Cambridge): "Deutsche Bank vs. the Ottoman administration: Agricultural development pursuits in Anatolia, 1890-1914"

Jason Hansen (University of Illinois): "Transnational nation: The Alldeutscher Verband and the cultural effort to construct a global Germany"

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Imperial Germany III: Trans-National Debates,
Chair: Andreas Eckert

Manuela Bauche (University of Leipzig): "Debating malaria: Race, class and scientific factions between German metropole and colonies"

Norman Domeier (European University Institute, Florence): "A global scandal? The Eulenburg affair in Germany, 1906-1909"

Chris Geissler (Jesus College, Cambridge): "Textualizing Germanness: The anti-slavery debate and the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 1888-1889"

18:30 - 19:00 Plenary Session: Indra Sengupta, Benedikt Stuchtey, Andreas Eckert

19:30 - 21:00 Dinner

Day 2: Tuesday, 11 September

9:00 - 10:30 Interwar Germany: Legacies of Imperialism,
Chair: Christopher Bayly (St Catharine's, Cambridge)

Mark Jones (European University Institute, Florence):
"The memory of colonial war in the Weimar Republic"

Susann Lewerenz (University of Oldenburg): "On the construction of Germany and its others in 'exotic' popular entertainment (1920-1940)"

Andreas Fleiter (University of Bochum): "Race, crime, and colonialism: The repercussions of German colonialism on German criminology and criminal justice"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Germany and Eastern Europe, Chair: Richard Evans

Ewa Kokoszycka (European University Institute, Florence):
"Health and the nation: How the Polish Diaspora in Berlin confronted 'Germanness' at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries"

Gerhard Wolf (University of Hamburg): "National Socialist Germanisation policy in the annexed parts of western Poland".

Sacha Davis (University of New South Wales): "Germanness from the periphery: the Transylvanian Saxons, Germany and the Germans abroad, 1919-1933".

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Situating Germany in the Postwar World, Chair: Andreas Eckert

Nick Rutter (Yale University): "The Better Germans: German Selbstdarstellungen at the World Youth Festival, 1951-1973"

Joshua Rogers (Balliol College, Oxford): "Transnational perspectives on Germanness after 1945: Cultural remigrants and the 'patriotism of scepticism'"

Reinhild Kreis (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): "'Bring or story around the world': American public diplomacy in Germany and German perceptions of the United States, 1960-1985"

Sebastian Tripp (Ruhr University, Bochum): "Germany and the transnational anti-Apartheid movement"

16:00 - 16:30 Plenary session and closing remarks:
Christopher Bayly, Richard Evans, Andreas Eckert

Contact (announcement)

crossing-german-borders@hist.cam.ac.uk

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/index.html
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