GERMANY AND THE WORLD IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

A series of Anglo-German exchange seminars hosted by Cambridge University and the Universities of Freiburg and Konstanz and the Free University of Berlin

The seminars are funded by the German Academic Exchange Service as part of its programme ‘Promoting German Studies in the UK’. They are open to academic staff and postgraduate students from any British or German university. The first seminar will take place at King’s College, Cambridge from 29 to 31 March 2011. Further seminars in the series will be held in Germany in September 2011, and at Cambridge and again in Germany in 2012. Each seminar will address a different topic under the general heading of the series, linking historical perspectives with contemporary debates. Travel, accommodation and maintenance costs for participants will be covered.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seminar 1: Migration, Mobility and Movement in Modern German History

Migration is one of the major phenomena of modern German history. Over the last decade scholars have shown a rapidly growing interest in the topic, studying migration in its various forms of mobility and movements, including labour migration, colonial migration, forced migration, ‘displacement’ and population exchanges, and political refugees. They have addressed the relationship between minorities and the majority society as well as into diaspora communities and their entanglements within the wider world. More generally, this research can be seen as part of a wider and growing interest in the global dimensions of German history. The conference will address the histories of people who crossed German borders in the 19th and 20th centuries. We welcome papers on the following themes:

* Germans in the world
* Non Germans in Germany
* Changing German borders
* Integration, acculturation, segregation and assimilation
* Displacement and Diaspora.
* Identity, memory, citizenship and nationhood

The seminar will have a limit of 30 participants. Decisions on acceptance of papers are made by the organizers and are final. Papers will be pre-circulated. The conference languages are German and English.

Proposals of 500 words, accompanied by a short CV, should be sent by 14 December 2010 to: bk289@cam.ac.uk

Finished papers of no more than 6,000 words should be submitted online by 1 March 2011.

Richard J. Evans, Victoria Harris, Barbara Koenczoel, David Motadel, (Cambridge University).