WEDNESDAY, A.M. – 10TH NOVEMBER 2010
9:30: REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS (ARTS FOYER)
10:00: WELCOMING ADDRESS (ARTS LECTURE THEATRE):
Professor Felicity Rash; Dr Daniel Wildmann
SESSION 1
10:30: Jan Vermeiren (University College London): Germania Irredenta: The Place of Großdeutschland in Weimar Nationalism
11:00: Helen Roche (University of Cambridge): “In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt” (Goebbels): The Leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan Nationalist Paradigm
11:30: Stefanie Schrader (Freie Universität Berlin): “German, Völkisch and Free” – The Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
12:00: Simone Borgstede (Universität Lüneburg): Dr. Ernst Henrici – Just a “Well-known Arsonist” of the German Kaiserreich or Foreman in the Production of an Aryan Volksgemeinschaft?
SESSION 2:
10:30: Christopher König (University of Kampen, Netherlands): Arthur Bonus: A Religious Author between Liberal Protestantism and Radical Nationalism
11:00: Daniel Siemens (Universität Bielefeld): Religious Ideas and Nationalistic Propaganda: The War Sermons of Ludwig Wessel and German Political Culture 1914-1934
11:30: Isabelle Engelhardt (Universität Düsseldorf): A Political Catholic View: Discourses on “the Jew Question” and “Deutschtum” in the Daily Paper Germania 1918-1933
12:00: Diana Jane Beech (University of Cambridge): Landesbischöfe Marahrens, Meiser and Wurm and the Impact of the Judenfrage on the German Protestant Church
12:30 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS)
WEDNESDAY, P.M. – 10TH NOVEMBER 2010
SESSION 3:
1:30: Stefan Hüpping (Universität Osnabrück): “An Issue of Antisemitism” – Adolf Bartels vs. Friedrich v. Oppeln-Bronikowski
2:00: Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University, Australia): A Jewish Question? The Expulsion of Non-Germans from Prussia, 1881-1886
2:30: Brian Crim (Lynchburg College, Virginia): The Case for “Situational Antisemitism”: Antisemitic Discourse and the German Paramilitary Community, 1919-1933
3:00: Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann (Universität Trier): Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Hitler’s Chief Ideologue, Alfred Rosenberg: Two Cornerstones of the Racial Discourse of the 20th Century
SESSION 4:
1:30: Lara Day (University of Edinburgh): Writing German Identity on the Landscape: Paul Schultze-Naumburg’s Die Entstellung unseres Landes
2:00: Tracey Reimann-Dawe (Durham University): Anglo-German Tensions on African Soil and the Rise of German Nationalism during the German Colonial Era
2:30: Elaine Martin (National University of Ireland Maynooth): “Colonial Fantasies” in Interwar German Literature
3:00: Tamara Gella (Orel State University, Russia): National and Colonial Ideas in English Liberals’ Political Discourse of the Late 19th Century
3:30: COFFEE / TEA
SESSION 5:
4:00: Nicolas Bechter (Universität Wien): Anti-Semitism and Romantic Anti-Capitalism in the Austrian Parliament between 1870-1914
4:30: Christine Achinger (University of Warwick) & Marcel Stoetzler (The University of Manchester): The Convergence of ‘Civic’ and ‘Ethnic’ Nationalism in Liberal Antisemitism: The Cases of Freytag and Treitschke
5:00: Michael Carter-Sinclair (King’s College London): Antisemitism and German Nationalism in Vienna: The Long Period to 1938
5:30: Christopher Hutton (The University of Hong Kong): Race Theory as a Critique of Nationalism in the Context of European Anti-Semitism
SESSION 6:
4:00: Jens-Uwe Guettel (The Pennsylvania State University): “How Petty do the Romans’ Creations Appear Compared to the Global Achievements of the Anglo-Saxons”: England in German Nationalist and Expansionist Discourse, 1871-1914
4:30: Mara Degnan-Rojeski (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania): From Nationalism to National Socialism: The English-language Propaganda of the Deutscher Fichte Bund
5:00: Grzegorz Krzywiec (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): On the Term ‘Judaization (Verjudung/Zażydzenie)’ in Political Catholicism. Some Cases of East Central European Elective Affinities
5:30: Lisa Konietzni (Universität Düsseldorf): The Linguistically Reflexive Discussion of the CV-Zeitung about Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Metaphors and Compounds
6:30: KEYNOTE ADDRESS (ARTS LECTURE THEATRE): RUTH WODAK (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY): The Discourse of Syncretic Antisemitism: “Anything Goes!”
8:00: CONFERENCE DINNER
THURSDAY, A.M. – 11TH NOVEMBER 2010
SESSION 7:
9:00:Christian Koller (Bangor University): The Concept of ‘Fremdherrschaft’ in German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourses, 1871-1945
9:30: Lisa Zwicker (Indiana University): Student Antisemites: The Union of German Students [Verein deutscher Studenten], 1880-1914
10:00: Ulrich Charpa (Universität Bochum): Music and Science. On Some Similarities between Antisemitic Discourses in German-speaking Contexts
10:30: Stephanie Seul (Universität Bremen): Discourses of the British Press on German Anti-Semitism in the Early Weimar Republic, 1918-1923
SESSION 8:
9:00: Jonas Karlsson (Yale University): The Struggle for Victimhood: The Case of Bernhard Förster
9:30: Falco Pfalzgraf (Queen Mary): Juden, Neger und Zigeuner. Minority Groups in German Fibeln 1933-1945
10:00: Katharina Barbe (Northern Illinois University): Puzzles as Text and Discourse
10:30: Nicola Hille (Universität Tübingen): “Greetings from Marienbad”: Anti-Semitic Postcards in the Kaiserreich
11:00: COFFEE / TEA
11:30: KEYNOTE ADDRESS (ARTS LECTURE THEATRE): ANDREAS MUSOLFF (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA): How to Identify the Enemy of the German Body Politic: Carl Schmitt’s Nationalist “Concept of the Political”
12:30: LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS)
THURSDAY, P.M. – 11TH NOVEMBER 2010
SESSION 9:
1:30: Lara Trubowitz (The University of Iowa): Wyndham Lewis and the Artfulness of Antisemitism, or Redefining British Tolerance in an Era of Refugees
2:00: David Lebovitch Dahl (University of Copenhagen): Varieties of Nationalist Antisemitism in Germany and England: A Comparison between the Discourses of the Jesuit Journals Stimmen der Zeit and The Month 1918-1939
2:30: Ulrike Ehret (Universität Erlangen): The Crux with Modernity: The Nationalism and Antisemitism of the Catholic Right in Germany and England
3:00: Magnus Brechtken (The University of Nottingham): English-German Anti-Semitism and the Idea of ‘Compulsory Segregation’
SESSION 10:
1:30: Egbert Klautke (University College London): Wilhelm Wundt and the Mind of the Nation during the First World War
2:00: Felix Wiedemann (Freie Universität Berlin): The Double Orient: Jews and Arabs in the Racial Theory of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß
2:30: Karin Stögner (Central European University, Budapest): On Antisemitism and Nationalism at the Fin de Siècle: Walter Benjamin’s Critique of German Youth Movement
3:00: Ana Petrov (University of Belgrade): Being German, Being ‘More Rationalized’: The Case of Max Weber’s Concept of Rationalization in Music
3:30: COFFEE / TEA
SESSION 11:
4:00: Daniel Tilles (Royal Holloway, University of London): “Jewish Decay Against British Revolution”: The British Union of Fascists’ Antisemitic Discourse in the Context of Fascist and British Nationalist Thought
4:30: Russell Wallis (Royal Holloway, University of London): Memory and Nationalism on the British Left: The Good and Bad German Controversy in Britain
SESSION 12:
4:00: Martin Weidinger (Universität Wien): Fridericus, Bismarck and Cromwell: Historical Narratives as Part of a Nationalist Project?
4:30: Birte Förster (Technische Universität Darmstadt): Inventing their Tradition – Right-wing Female Leaders and the Queen Louise-Myth, 1923-1936
from 5:00: CLOSING REMARKS & WINE RECEPTION (ARTS FOYER)