Swen Steinberg, Queen's University Kingston / German Historical Institute Washington
THURSDAY, 25 MAY, 2023
9:30 a.m. Welcome from James Retallack, University of Toronto, and Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute Washington (Munk School)
10:00-11:30 a.m. Session 1: Work, Class, and Race
Moderator: Swen Steinberg, Queen’s University, Kingston
Work, Class, Race, and Violence in German Southwest Africa before 1914
Steven Press, Stanford University, Stanford
Different Worlds of Work? Actors, Interests, and the Concepts of Work, Care and Violence Along the Global Commodity-chain of Diamonds from Colonial Namibia, 1908-1913
Mona Rudolph, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Comment: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, Adelaide
11:30-1:30 p.m. Break
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session 2: Labour Movements and European Emergencies
Moderator: Janine Murphy, Memorial University, St. John’s
Emergency Politics and the Rise of the Labor Movement in France, Germany, and Italy (1848-1898)
Amerigo Caruso, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
German Social Democrats in July 1914: The Anti-war Protests Reconsidered
Andrew Bonnell, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Comment: David Blackbourn, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
3:00–3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session 3: Blood, Sweat, and Food
Moderator: Jens-Uwe Guettel, Pennsylvania State University, State College
Liberated from Work or Deprived of a Livelihood? Food and the Future of the Peasantry in Social Democratic Thought
Carolyn Taratko, Universität Erfurt
Becoming the Third Pillar of Socialism: German Social Democracy and Consumers’ Co-operatives at the Turn of the Century
Philipp Urban, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Comment: Celia Applegate, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
5:00-6:15 p.m. Break
6:15-7:45 p.m. Keynote Address (Debates Room, Hart House, 1 Hart House Circle)
Moderator: Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute, Washington
“A Workers’ Emperor and a President Worker? Germany’s August Bebel and Brazil’s Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in Comparative Perspective”
Speaker: John D. French, Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, Duke University, Durham
FRIDAY, 26 MAY, 2023
10:00-12:00 a.m. Session 4: Resistance in the Workplace, Resistance to the State (Munk School)
Moderator: Philipp Urban, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Joining the Histories of Labour and Security: Class Formation, Negative Integration, and State Security in Britain and Germany
Christine Krüger, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Establishing Order in the Workplace: Legal Negotiations of Industrial Relations in Nineteenth-century Germany
Johanna Wolf, Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt a.M.
Work and Work Ethics of a Craftsman, Businessman, and Socialist Politician: August Bebel’s Relationship to Work and Labour
Jürgen Schmidt, Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier
Comment: Stefan Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
12:00-1:30 p.m. Break
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session 5: Emotional Work: Class Antagonisms and Violence
Moderator: Amerigo Caruso, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
The Invective Power of Work: Emotions in the Formation of (Working) Class – In-groups and Outsiders in the German Empire
Dagmar Ellerbrock, Technische Universität Dresden
‘Now the only thing left for us to do is to take the path of violence’: Resistance and Rebellion in the German Empire from 1900 to 1914 and Beyond
Jens-Uwe Guettel, Pennsylvania State University, State College
Comment: Anja Kruke, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn
SATURDAY, 27 MAY, 2023
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session 6: Class, Religion, and Modernization (Munk School)
Moderator: Carolyn Taratko, Universität Erfurt
Precarious Integration: The Making and Unmaking of Working-Class Gymnasts in the Transatlantic German Gymnastics Movement, 1860–1900
Janine Murphy, Memorial University, St. John’s
August Bebel, Islam, and the Pre-History of Socialist Modernity
Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, Adelaide
Comment: Andrew Bonnell, University of Queensland, Brisbane
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00-12:30 p.m. Roundtable
Moderator: Stefan Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Jürgen Kocka (Freie Universität Berlin), James Retallack (University of Toronto), David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University), and the audience
12:30-1:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Program (as PDF for download): https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Conference_Program_Work__Class_and_Social_Democracy_.pdf