PD Dr. Manfred Berg
Thursday, February 11, 2005
14:00-15:00 Arrival
15:00
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Berg, Leucorea Foundation Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, German Association for American Studies
PD Dr. Manfred Berg, Center for U.S. Studies, Leucorea Foundation Wittenberg
15:30
American History and International History
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula Lehmkuhl, Free University of Berlin
The American Welfare State in International Perspective
Dr. Anja Schüler, Humboldt University Berlin
Trouble in Sarkhan: "The Ugly American" Revisited
Dr. Andreas Etges, Free University of Berlin
16:30
Coffee Break
17:00
From 'Western Civ' to 'Cultural Wars': Teaching and Writing World
History at U.S. American Universities in the Twentieth Century.
PD Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs, University of Mannheim
18:30
Dinner
20:00
Keynote Lecture
Re-living the Past and Rethinking History
Professor David Thelen, Indiana University, Bloomington
Saturday, February 12, 2005
08:00
Breakfast
15:00
Workshops
I. Gender History
II. Political History and International Relations
III. Law and Politics in Society and Culture
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
History and Memory
Chair: Dr. Andreas Etges, Free University of Berlin
Building Bridges Over the Widening Gulf Between Academic and Public
History Professionals. Historical Memory and 1930s America.
Professor Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore/University of Halle-Wittenberg
Dr. Sabine Schindler, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Personality and Historiography: Eyewitnesses, Audiences, and Historians
Kristina Scholz, MA, Free University of Berlin
12:30
Lunch
14:30
Slavery and Abolition
Chair: Prof. Dr. Heike Bungert, University of Cologne/University of Bremen
Slavery and Racism: The Origins Debate Revisited.
PD Dr. Manfred Berg, Center for U.S. Studies, Wittenberg
Testing Freedom on the Frontier-Edward Coles and the Issue of Slavery in the Old Northwest
Dr. Astrid Eckert, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
16:30
Coffee Break
17:00
Ideologies of White Supremacy
Chair: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Fiction, Historical Criticism, and Race: Thomas Dixon's The Flaming Sword
Professor John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
White Resistance to Black Civil Rights
Professor Jane Dailey, University of Maryland, College Park/American Academy Berlin
18:30
Dinner
20:00
Business Meeting
Sunday, February 13, 2005
08:00
Breakfast
09:00
The Town and the City
Chair: PD Dr. Jürgen Martschukat, University of Hamburg
"A Remarkable Example for All Generations": The New England Town in American Historiography
Dr. Johannes Dillinger, University of Trier
"A Lady can't even walk without soiling her clothes!" Gender and Urban Space in New Orleans, 1900.
A. Nadine Klopfer, MA, University of Tübingen
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Culture and Religion
Chair: PD Dr. Volker Depkat, Free University of Berlin
The Forgotten Victorians or Why Historians Hate American 19th-Century Culture
PD Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht, University of Frankfurt/M.
Recent Developments in American Catholic Historiography
Prof. Dr. Michael Hochgeschwender, LM University of Munich
12:30
Concluding Remarks
12:45
Lunch, Departure