Thursday 6 April 2017
12:30 – 13:20
Registration
13:20 – 13:35
Welcome & Introduction
13:35 – 15:15
Panel 1: The Young GDR
Chair: Marcel Thomas (Bristol) / Discussant: Anna Saunders (Bangor)
Cornelia Bruhn (Jena): Singing for socialism and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany: The FDJ-Singebewegung
Pia Deutsch (Warwick): Being trapped in “Zwischenzeit”. The Concept of youth after 1989
Mary Frank (Bristol): Can theory help translators? Can translators help theory? Thick and thin approaches to a text from the German Democratic Republic
Daniel Kubiak (Humboldt, Berlin): “How the Western norm just knows the ‘Others’”
15:15 – 15:50
Coffee & Tea Break
15:50 – 17:20
Panel 2: The Counter-cultural GDR
Chair: Stefanie Kreibich (Bangor) / Discussant: Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent)
Anne Pfautsch (Kingston, London): GDR Social Documentary Photography as ‘Gegenöffentlichkeit’ – GDR Social Documentary Photography as counter-public
Alex Brown (Birmingham): Communist-oriented opposition in the GDR?
Marlene Schrijnders (Birmingham): Endzeitopia: Forever Celebrating The End. Post-punk, goth and avant-garde in East Germany
19:00 – 21:00
Conference Dinner
Gorad Restauraunt, Pontio (second floor)
Friday 7 April 2017
09:00 – 10:40
Panel 3: The Post-war GDR
Chair: Marlene Schrijnders (Birmingham) / Discussant: Joanne Sayner (Newcastle)
Alexander Walther (Jena): Beyond Anti-Fascism: The Shoah & the GDR
Anja Thiele (Leipzig): Jewish memory of the Holocaust in GDR fiction
Katharina Lenski (Jena): Neue Wege. DDR als Post-War-Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts? Methodologische Aspekte der Erforschung der DDR.
Marcel Thomas (Bristol): Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee & Tea Break
11:10 – 12:50
Panel 4: The Socio-Cultural GDR
Chair: Alex Brown (Birmingham) / Discussant: Debbie Pinfold (Bristol)
Mary Ikoniadou (Manchester Metropolitan): Propagating internationalism while funding patriotism. The case study of Pyrsos magazine amongst the GDR’s foreign-language periodical press.
Constanze Knitter (Mainz): Town twinnings between France and the GDR
Cormac Ó Callanáin (Edinburg): Space, Sound and Technology at Rundfunk DDR
Kate Hiepko (Manchester): Managing the ‘Pissing Evil’ in a Welfare Dictatorship: the history of diabetes prevention, care and rehabilitation in the former German Democratic Republic
12:50 – 13:50
Lunch
13:50 – 15:30
Panel 5: The Post-Wende GDR
Chair: Pia Deutsch (Warwick) / Discussant: Sara Jones (Birmingham)
Patrick Wittstock (Berlin): Rightwing-extremism – an east-German problem?
Philipp Ebert (Cambridge): Transitional Justice and public opinion in reunited Germany, 1989-2004
Thomas Carhart (Freiburg): The East Germans and their “Absentee Landlords“ - The myth of the non-resident owner as “Nutznießer“
Maria Hetzer (Warwick / Siegen): Memories and practices in changing rural areas
15:30 – 15:40
Concluding Comments
15:40
End of Conference