Dr. David Jünger
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
09:00–09:30 Reception and Introduction
09:30–11:00 Panel 1: First World War
Chair: Anna Ullrich
- Tim Grady (University of Chester): German Jews and the First World War: A Deadly Legacy
- Sarah Panter (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz: Beyond Marginalization: The (German-)Jewish Soldiers’ Agency in Times of War, 1914–1918
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 Panel 2: Theorising German-Jewish Agency
Chair: Gideon Reuveni
- Anthony Kauders (Keele University): Was heisst und zu welchem Ende brauchen wir agency in der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung?
- Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Jewish Difference as a Category of Analysis in German History
13:00–14:15 Lunch
14:15–16:30 Panel 3: Imperial and Weimar Germany
Chair: Miriam Rürup
- Philipp Nielsen (Sarah Lawrence College New York City): Creating a Space for a Jewish “new right” in Weimar Germany
- Stefan Vogt (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main): Zionism as Identity Politics: Making Sense of German Zionists’ Attempts to ‘Understand’ Antisemites
- Martina Steer (University of Vienna): Mendelssohn in Berlin. Memory and Agency on the Verge
17:00–18:30: Evening Lecture (in conjunction with the Art History Work in Progress seminar)
Venue: Building Arts C, Lecture theatre C133
Introduction: Gideon Reuveni
Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
- Michael Berkowitz (University College London): Improvisation and agency: between art history, photography, and public history
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
09:15–11:30 Panel 4: Nazi Germany
Chair: David Jünger
- Gabriele Anderl (Vienna): Deceptive Security. Austrian Jews vis-à-vis Nazi Germany. 1933–1938
- Martin Jost (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig): “It is not about your prestige, it is about our future”. Possibilities and Expectations of German Jews at the Évian Conference
- Kim Wünschmann (LMU Munich): Jewish Agency in the Extreme Situation: Writing about Antisemitic Terror in the Active Voice
11:30–12:00 Coffee Break
12:00–13:30 Panel 5: Culture as Agency
Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
- Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex): The Good, the Bad and the Marketplace: Boycott, Economic Rationality and Jewish Consumers in Interwar Germany
- Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton): Photography as Agency: Self-assurance through documentation in the works of Roman Vishniac and Abraham Pisarek
13:30–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:00 Final Discussion