| THURSDAY, September 6, 2007 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 PM |
Registration at Seven Hills Conference
Center |
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM |
Introduction |
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Speakers: |
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Volker Langbehn & Mohammad Salama |
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Opening Remarks |
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Speakers: |
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Dr. Paul Sherwin, (Dean of the College of
Humanities, SFSU) |
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Dr. Joel Kassiola, (Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, SFSU) |
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Dr. Ulrich Everding, (Director of Goethe-Institut San Francisco) |
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Dr. Robert Corrigan, (President of San
Francisco State University) |
| 2:00 - 4:00 PM |
1. Topic: Reflections on German
Colonial Studies |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Angelika von Wahl, (Departments of Political Science and International Relations, SFSU) |
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Speakers: |
1. |
Dr. Birthe Kundrus,
"German Colonialism: Some Reflections on Wege, Irrwege
and Sonderwege"
(Institut für Sozialforschung Hamburg) |
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2. |
Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl, "Ethnology and the Ambiguity of German Colonialism" (Frobenius-Institute, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a. M.) |
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3. |
Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer,
"Between amnesia and denial.
Genocide, colonialism and German national identity" (Dept. of History,
University of Sheffield, UK) |
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4. |
Dr. Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, "The purpose of German colonialism or Bismarck's long shadow" (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Luis Madureira, (Dept.
of Spanish and Portugese, University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 4:00 - 4:30 PM |
Coffee/Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 4:30 - 6:30 PM |
2.Topic: Modernity |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Paul Sherwin, (Dean of the
College of Humanities, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Shaun Irlam, "States
of Emergency: Deutsch Südwest and the Rise of Bio-political Modernity"
(Dept. of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Buffalo) |
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2. |
Dr. Catherine Repussard,
"Colonial
Culture and Modernity"
(German Studies, Université Marc Bloch, France) |
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3. |
Dr. Heike Schmidt,
"The Crisis of German Modernity in the Colony: Honour, Propriety, and
Rumour in German East Africa, c. 1890-1916"
(Dept. of History, Florida State University) |
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4. |
Dr. Brett M. Van Hoesen,
"Modernity and Weimar Re-Visions
of Germany's Colonial Past: The Photomontages of Hannah Höch and László
Moholy-Nagy"
(Dept. of Art History, University of Nevada, Reno) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Jan Plug, (Department
of English, University of Western Ontario London) |
| 7:00 - 9:30 PM |
Reception with sit-down dinner and key note
speaker |
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Key note speaker: |
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Dr. Geoff Eley,
(Department of History, University of Michigan) "Writing the History
of German Colonialism: How Different, How Generic?" |
| FRIDAY, September 7, 2007 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 AM |
3. Topic: Seeing is believing - Ways of
seeing Colonialism |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Klaus Scherpe, (German
Studies, Humboldt Universität Berlin) |
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1. |
Dr. David Ciarlo, "Advertising
and the Optics of Colonial Power" (Dept. of History, MIT) |
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2. |
Mr. Felix Axster,
"Of Heben and Sinken: Visualization of colonial mimicry on German postcards"
(Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation
in Köln) |
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3. |
Mr. Dominik Nagl, "German, but not Germans - Subjects, Citizens and Nationality in the German Colony"
(John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin) |
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4. |
Mr. Jeff Bowersox, "Where
Profit meets Pedagogy" (Dept. of History, University of Toronto) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Mary Scott, (Dept.
of Humanities, SFSU) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 AM |
Coffee / Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 11:15 AM - 1:15 PM |
4. Topic: [T]elos[V]ision--TV,
Exhibitions, Film and Spectacularizing Colonialism |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Elisabetta Nelsen, (Dept.
of Foreign Languages and Literatures, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Wolfgang Struck,
"Reenacting Colonialism.
Germany and its former colonies in recent TV productions"
(Institute for German Literature and Media, Universität Erfurt) |
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2. |
Dr. Katherine Pence,
“The
German Product Invasion in Africa”
(History Dept., Baruch College) |
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3. |
Dr. Eckard Michels, “Germany’s
Colonial Past as TV Scandal: The WDR documentary “Heia Safari(1966/7)"
(School of Lang. & Ling. & Culture, Birkbeck College London) |
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4. |
Dr. Clara Ervedosa, "Fulfilling the colonial cliche. The Orient
discourse in Migrant literature in German" (Germanic Studies, University
of Sheffield) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Loretta Stec, (Dept.
of Women Studies, SFSU) |
| 1:15 - 2:15 PM |
Lunch (provided) |
| 2:15 - 4:15 PM |
5. Topic: Race, Gender, and the Colonial
Nation |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Klaus Scherpe,
(German Studies, Humboldt
Universität Berlin) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Dennis Sweeney, “Pan-German
Empire: Volk, Race, and Colonialism in the Ideology of the radical Right,
1891-1920”
(Dept. of History and Classics, University of Alberta) |
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2. |
Dr. Anne Fleig, "Constructions of the Other: Race, Class, Gender, and Religion in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities" (Dept. of German, Leibniz University Hanover) |
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3. |
Dr. Ulrike Stamm,
“Early
Colonialism and Gender” (German Studies, Humboldt Universität,
Berlin) |
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4. |
Ms. Britta Schilling,
"Dreams of Empire:
Women and the (Re-) Construction of Colonial Discourse in Germany and
Britain, 1919-1945"
(Dept. of History, Oxford U., UK) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Andreas Michel, (Department
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) |
| 4:15 - 4:30 PM |
Coffee / Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 4:30 - 6:30 PM |
6.Topic: Literature and Colonialism |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Dane Johnson, (Dept.
of Comparative and World Literature, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Sabine Wilke, “Negotiating
White Colonial Identities in German Literature”
(German Studies, University of Washington, Seattle) |
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2. |
Dr. Thomas Schwarz, “Colonial
disgust”
(German Studies, University of Pune, India) |
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3. |
Dr. Ulrich Bach, "Imaginary
Colonialism: Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (1902)"
(Dept. of Modern Languages, Texas State University-San Marcos) |
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4. |
Ms. Eva Blome, “Laboratories
of “Race Mixing”. Politics and Poetics in (Post-) Colonial
Germany"
(Universität Konstanz) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Trevor Getz, (Dept.
of History, SFSU) |
| SATURDAY, September 8, 2007 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 AM |
7. Topic: Colonialism and Print Culture |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Bérénice Le Marchand,
(Dept. of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Oliver Simons, “Mapping
Colonial Spaces”
(German Studies, Harvard University) |
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2. |
Dr. Hazel Hahn, “News from Empires: Representations
of the Other and the exotic in French, British, and German illustrated
media; 1880-1910”
(History Dept., Seattle University) |
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3. |
Dr. Bradley D. Naranch, “Covering
the colonies: Hugo Zöller, overseas journalism, and German empire-building,
1884-1890”
(Dept. of History, College of William and Mary) |
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4. |
Ms. Itohan Osayimwese, "A
Strange Industry: Building Handbooks for Settlers in the German Colonies,
their Content and Significance"
(Dept. of Architecture, U. of Michigan) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Fred Astren, (Jewish
Studies, SFSU) |
| 11:00- 11:15 AM |
Coffee / Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 11:15 AM - 1:15 AM |
8. Topic: Genocide |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer,
(Dept. of History, University of Sheffield, UK) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Thaddeus Sunseri,
"Exploiting
the Urwald: German Experiences in Poland and Africa, c. 1900-1930"
(Dept. of History, Colorado State University) |
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2. |
Dr. Shelley Baranowski, “Against
human diversity as such” - Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third
Reich” (Dept. of History, University of Akron) |
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3. |
Dr. Hansjörg Bay,
"From
Waterberg to Auschwitz? Colonial War and the Shoah in Contemporary German
Literature“
(German Studies, Universität Erfurt) |
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4. |
Dr. Kristin Kopp, "Colonial
Rhetoric and Poland“ (German Studies, University of Missouri, Columbus) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Kitty Millet, (Jewish
Studies, SFSU) |
| 1:15 - 2:15 PM |
Lunch (provided) |
| 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM |
9. Topic: Comparative Colonialism |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Sarah Curtis, (Dept.
of History, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Malte Fuhrman,
“Germany’s Adventures
in the Orient” - A History of ambivalent Semi-colonial entanglements”
(Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin) |
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2. |
Dr. Ulrike Lindner, “Process
of colonial identification: Perception of colonial rule and practice in
neighboring British and German colonies in Africa 1904-1914” (Historisches
Institut, Uni. Der Bundeswehr, München) |
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3. |
Dr. Perry Myers, "Re-defining
Colonial Space Beyond the “Scramble for Africa”: German Visions
of India During the Colonial Era”
(Dept. of Foreign Lang., Albion College) |
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4. |
Dr. Thoralf Klein,
"Ambiguities of "race":
Colonial Segregation in the German leasehold of Kiaochow (Jiaozhou), 1897-1914"
(Dept. of History, Universität Erfurt) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. James Daughton, (Dept.
of History, Stanford University) |
| 4:15 - 4:30 PM |
Coffee / Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 4:30 - 6:30 PM |
10. Topic: Literature and Colonialism
II |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Mohammad Salama, (Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Monika Albrecht, “Solidarity
of the White Race” - Postcolonial Whiteness in Germany after WWII?”
(University of Nottingham, UK) |
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2. |
Dr. Sara Lennox, “Was
will Bonn in Afrika?”
(German Studies, University of Mass., Amherst) |
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3. |
Mr. David Kim, “German
Postcoloniality? Translating Colonialism After Auschwitz”
(German Studies, Harvard University) |
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4. |
Dr. Nina Berman, "Swahili
Historiographic Poetry about the German Colonization of East Africa"
(Dept. of Comparative Studies & German, The Ohio State University) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Beverly Voloshin, (Dept.
of English, SFSU) |
| SUNDAY, September, 9, 2007 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 AM |
11. Topic: German Colonialism goes to
the movies |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Makiko Asano, (Dept. of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, SFSU ) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Wolfgang Fuhrmann,
“Patriotism, spectacle,
and reverie: German colonialism goes to the movies”
(Center for Cultural Research, Universität Kassel) |
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2. |
Dr. Christian Rogowski,
“The 'Colonial Idea' in
Weimar Cinema”
(Dept. of German, Amherst College) |
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3. |
Dr. Wolfgang
Eckart, “Medical
and Colonial Revisionism during the Nazi Period: the Propaganda Film Germanin
(1942/43)”,
(Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin ) |
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4. |
Dr. Deniz Göktürk, "Postcolonial Melancholia? From Taboo Memories to Kanaks with Cameras" (Department of German, UC Berkeley) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. John Kim, (Comparative Literature, German and Japanese, University of California, Riverside) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 AM |
Coffee / Tea Break and snacks (provided) |
| 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM |
12. Topic: Decolonizing Postwar Germany |
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Moderator: |
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Dr. Charles Egan, (Dept.
of Foreign Languages and Literatures, SFSU) |
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Speaker: |
1. |
Dr. Gregor Thum , “Postwar Exorcism: De-Colonizing a Pseudo-Colonial 'German East'"
(University of Pittsburgh, Department of History) |
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2. |
Dr. Thomas Lekan, “Decolonizing
the Wild: Bernhard Grzimek, Nature Tourism, and the Creation of Serengeti
National Park”
(Dept. of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia) |
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3. |
Dr. Jean-Paul Cahn, "The German Federal Republic and Decolonization. The specific case of the Algerian war (1954-1962)"
(Dept. of History, Sorbonne University, France) |
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4. |
Dr. Elliot Neaman, “The
German Student Movement and Neo-Colonialism”
(Dept. of History, University of San Francisco) |
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Respondent: |
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Dr. Saul Steier, (Dept.
of Humanities, SFSU) |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM |
Lunch Provided |
