Thursday, October 5, 2017
10:30–10:45 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction
10:45 a.m.–11:45
Chair: Philipp Felsch (Berlin)
Peter Mandler (Cambridge): The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
Susanne Schmidt (Cambridge): The Line between Journalism and Social Science
12:00 - 13:00
Chair: Ethel Matala de Mazza (Berlin)
Hansjakob Ziemer (Berlin): The World in the Feuilleton: Leopold Katscher and Observing the Social around 1900
Robert Zwarg (Marbach): The Imaginary Feuilleton: The Uneasy Relationship between Essay and Journalism
14:00-15:00
Chair: Alrun Schmidtke (Berlin)
Erika Milam (Princeton): A Vernacular History of Cold War Human Nature
Nick Hopwood (Cambridge): Proof and Publicity in Claims to Human In Vitro Fertilization
15:30–16:30 p.m.
Chair: tba.
Moritz Neuffer and Morten Paul (Berlin/Konstanz): Theory and Its Audience (Or Lack Thereof)
Marcel Lepper (Marbach): Speed and Delay: Circulation of Ideas in the 1990s
18:00
Public keynote lecture (Jacob und Wilhem Grimm-Zentrum, Auditorium)
Stefan Collini (Cambridge), The Idea of the “Reading Public”: Intellectual History or Cultural Criticism?
Comment by Eva Geulen (Berlin)
Friday, October 6, 2017
9:30–10:30 a.m.
Chair: Felix Lüttge (Berlin)
Sophie Junge (Zürich): Traveling Images: Circulating “the Colony” in the Illustrated Press around 1900
Rolf Lindner (Berlin): “…to See and Make Others See the Life of the City”: The Birth of Urban Sociology from the Spirit of Journalism
11:00–12:00
Chair: Philipp Goll (Siegen)
Anke te Heesen (Berlin): The Black Sheep Among the Contemporary Historian’s Sources:
Early Oral History and the Elite Interview
Katharina Kreuzpaintner (Berlin): “Through the Eyes of Young People”: Urban Ethnography in West German Television, c. 1970
12:15–13:00
Final discussion