A fluid notion of the German nation has a long history. It was well established by the end of the eighteenth century, and it continued to inform the actions of a diverse range of Germans well into the twentieth. Indeed, as Europe pressed outward with its trade networks and colonial efforts during the age of empire and industry, Germans were spread across much of the globe. There is little doubt that the cultural notion of the German nation that many Auslandsdeutsche took with them was much less bounded by geography than it is today. Nor is there any doubt that it was inclusive enough to accommodate multiple levels of distinction, hybridity, and state affiliations.
The point of this meeting is not simply to find a way to write Germans outside the national borders back into German history. Instead, the goal of this meeting is to move towards a new approach to narrating German histories. It is less bounded by political borders and chronologies, and more willing to recognize that German histo-ries unfolded in a wide variety of different regimes and spaces, taking shape around German communities that lived inside small and large political entities and well beyond the confines of territories that we would recognize as German on a map.
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
14:30-15:00 h – Welcome Reception
15:00-15:30 h – Introductory Remarks H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa) Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)
15:30-16:30 h – Opening Lecture
David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University)
Germany in the World, 1880-1930
16:30-17:00 h – Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 h – Panel 1: Some Politics of Being
German
Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin)
Ursula Lehmkuhl (Universität Trier)
Narrative tropes as a transatlantic bonding instrument: Political Liberalism and the “Revolutionsnarrativ” in the letters of the German
Bohn family, 1852 to 2005
Ruth Wittlinger (Durham University)
Germans in the post-Soviet space: Current Challenges and Theoretical Perspectives
Philippa Söldenwagner (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Whose colony is it anyway? The ambivalent relationship between colonial authorities and German settlers in German East Africa before
World War I
Thursday, 11 July 2013
9:00-10:30 h – Panel 2: Ethnic Discourses: Some Other Politics of being German
Chair: Max Paul Friedman (American University, Washington D. C.)
Malte Fuhrmann (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
“To Raise a German Progeny in the Orient”: Auslandsdeutsche in Ottoman Polyethnic Cities
Hoi-eun Kim (Texas A&M University)
Restless Souls: German Expatriates and the Construction of Germanness in Modern Japan
Frederik Schulze (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
On the real, unreal, and Brazilianized Germans: Being "German" in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, circa 1900
10:30-11:00 h – Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 h – Panel 3: Places, Spaces, and the search for Heimat
Chair: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University)
Lize Kriel (University of Pretoria)
Heimat in the veld? German South African imaginings of women and home
Peter Monteath (Flinders University)
Australian Heimat? The Invention of Germanys in Nineteenth-Century South Australia
Philipp Nielsen (Max Plank Institute for Human Development Berlin)
How the Search for the German Heimat Turned into a Way to Escape it: Jewish Agricultural Ventures in Germany and Latin America between
1900 and 1945.
12:30–14:30 h – Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 h – Panel 4: Continuities and Ruptures in the age of World War
Chair: Maiken Umbach (University of Nottingham)
Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)
Burgfrieden overseas? German communities in South America during the First World War
Daniel Steinbach (Trinity College Dublin and University of Exeter)
Colonials in Conflict: Intersections of National Identity and European Solidarity in German East Africa during the First World War
15:30–16:00 h – Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 h – Panel 5: Shifting Structures and Alternative Imaginings
Chair: Neil Gregor (University of Southampton)
Carl Bethke (Universität Tübingen)
From "Assimilation" to "Volksdeutsche": Meaning and consequences of the Trianon Treaty for the Swabians in Vojvodina (Yugoslavia)
Jürgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina at
Charlotte)
A Clash Between Nationalisms: Germans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1945
Friday, 12 July 2013
9:30-10:30 h – Panel 6: Germanness Across
Borders
Chair: Hannes Grandits (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Nicholas Sveholm (University of Indiana) Germanness as Sanctuary: Children's Erholungs- reisen to Transylvania and the Banat, 1917-1924
H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa)
Nodal Points: German Schools in Latin America, 1880-1932
10:30-11:00 h – Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 h – Roundtable with all Participants
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