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Deadline for registration: April 1, 2008 North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series 2008 WORKSHOP GERMANY'S 1968: A CULTURAL REVOLUTION? April 11-12, 2008 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Location: UNC at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall Four decades after the tumultuous events of the late 1960s, personal memories have started to fade and media myths have begun to dominate the understanding of the youth revolt. The emotional responses of participants who still identify themselves as having been either for or against the rebellion indicate that it made a deep imprint upon generational consciousness. But many recollections of involvement have become overlaid with a patina of media mythologization that both dramatizes and obscures what actually happened. This combination of increasing amnesia and persistent representation has made "sixty- eight" into an iconic term with rather contradictory associations of looming disorder or overdue liberalization. In order to resolve the contradiction, this workshop aims for a critical reappraisal of the causes, course and consequences of the events, commonly associated with the symbolic date of 1968 in the two Germanies. Drawing on fresh work of cultural scholars, political scientists and historians, it will examine the motives that fuelled the generational rebellion, analyze the new forms of political confrontation which activists developed and explore the cultural impact of the value changes that propelled their protest. Since the actual political events in Germany were minor compared with the upheaval in the US, France or Czechoslovakia, this workshop intends to discuss the notion that the changes symbolized by 1968 might instead indicate a cultural watershed between the Cold War Culture of the repressive "long fifties" and the liberating New Social Movements of the 1970s. Distinguished Keynote Speaker PETER SCHNEIDER An eyewitness of the West German student movement, Peter Schneider is the author of more than twenty books and a regular contributor to the New York Times. Among his works translated into English are "Lenz," "The Wall Jumper," "The German Comedy," "Couplings, and Eduard's Homecoming". His new book, "Rebellion und Wahn. Mein '68," is a critical reappraisal of 1968. Speakers Specialists both from and beyond North Carolina, these invited speakers to the 2008 Workshop will together contribute to an interdisciplinary dialogue around such topics as generational rebellion, political confrontation, and cultural transformation. - DAGMAR HERZOG (CUNY, Graduate School, History) - KONRAD JARAUSCH (UNC-Chapel Hill, History) - CLAUDIA MESCH (Arizona State University, Art History) - SIEGFRIED MEWS (UNC-Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages and Literatures) - MATTHIAS MIDDELL (University of Leipzig and Duke University, History) - JOHANNES VON MOLTKE (University of Michigan, German Studies and and Screen Arts and Culture) - ELIZABETH PEIFER (Auburn University at Montgomery, History) - SUSANNE RINNER (UNC-Greensboro, Germanic Languages and Literatures) - AXEL SCHILDT (University of Hamburg, History) - DETLEF SIEGFRIED (University of Copenhagen, History) - JEREMY VARON (Drew University, History) - HELGA WELSCH (Wake Forest University, Political Science) North Carolina German Studies Workshop Sponsors German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD NY), The Goethe Center Atlanta, The Max Kade Foundation, Robertson Foundation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Institute of the Arts & Humanities, Department of History, Center for European Studies, The Graduate School, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Department of Germanic Languages & Literature (Guy B. Johnson Fund)), Duke University (Department of Germanic Languages & Literature, Department of History). Program Friday, April 11, 2008 12:00 - 1:00 pm: REGISTRATION GRADUATE WORKSHOP 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm Organizers: MICHAEL MENG and BEN PEARSON (Grad. students, UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History) 1:00 pm WELCOME: MICHAEL MENG and BEN PEARSON KAREN HAGEMANN 1:15 -2:15 pm: CHANGING POLITICS Chair: FRIEDERIKE BRUEHOEFENER (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History) STEPHEN MILDER (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Thinking Globally, Acting (Trans-)Locally: Petra Kelly, Grassroots Opposition to Nuclear Power, and the development of the German Green Movement BEN PEARSON (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Changing the Guard? The "Long-1968" at the German Protestant Kirchentag COMMENT: AXEL SCHILDT (University of Hamburg, History) 2:30-3:30 pm: CULTURES OF 1968 Chair: Cyrus Shahan (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature) REBECCAH DAWSON (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature): "Wie der Ball über die Linie rollte": Sport and Spectatorship after 1968 ERIN HANAS (Duke University, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies): Wolf Vostell's Ideal Academy: Mobile, International, and Revolutionary COMMENT: JOHANNES VON MOLTKE (University of Michigan, Germanic Languages and LIteratures) COFFEE BREAK 3:45-4:45 pm: PROTEST AND MOVEMENTS Chair: MICHAEL MENG KIRKLAND ALEXANDER FULK (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Herbert Marcuse and the German Student Movement SARAH SUMMERS (UNC at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Rethinking Family and Work: The West German New Women's Movement and Public Debate over the Gendered Division of Labor, 1968-1984 COMMENT: DAGMAR HERZOG (CUNY, Graduate School, History) WORKSHOP OPENING and WELCOME 5:00 pm HOLDEN THORP (Dean of Arts and Sciences, UNC at Chapel Hill) N. GREGSON G. DAVIS (Dean of Humanities, Duke University) DICK LANGSTON (UNC at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages and Literatures) ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN (Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature) KEY NOTE ADDRESS 5:15 - 7:00 pm PETER SCHNEIDER: REBELLION AND DELUSION: A PERSONAL REPORT COMMENTS KONRAD H. JARAUSCH (UNC at Chapel Hill, History): SIXTY-EIGHT: BETWEEN MEMORY AND MYTH SIEFRIED MEWES (UNC at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages and Literatures): SIXTY-EIGHT: REWRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Chair: ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN (Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature) RECEPTION 7:15 pm DINNER 8.15 pm Saturday, April 12, 2008 WELCOME COFFEE 8:30-9:00 am PANEL 1: GENERATIONAL REBELLION 9:00-10:30 am Chair: KAREN HAGEMANN (UNC Chapel Hill, History) AXEL SCHILDT (University of Hamburg, History) DAGMAR HERZOG (CUNY, Graduate School, History) ELIZABETH PEIFER (University of Alabama at Montgomery, History) COFFEE BREAK PANEL 2: POLITICAL CONFRONTATION 11:00-12:30 am Chair: MICHAEL HUGHES (Wake Forest University, History) DETLEF SIEGFRIED (University of Copenhagen, History) HELGA WELSH (Wake Forest University, Political Science) JEREMY VARON (Drew University, History) LUNCH PANEL 3: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION 2:00-3:30 pm Chair: ANNA PARKINSON (UNC at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages and Literatures) CLAUDIA MESCH (Arizona State University, Art History) JOHANNES VON MOLTKE (University of Michigan, Germanic Languages and Literatures) SUZANNE RINNER (UNC at Greenboro, German Language and Literature) COFFEE BREAK ROUNDTABLE: THE LEGACY OF SIXTY-EIGHT 4:00 -5:30 pm Chair: DICK LANGSTON (UNC at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages and Literatures) WILLIAM DONAHUE (Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature) DAGMAR HERZOG (CUNY, Graduate School, History) MATTHIAS MIDDELL (University of Leipzig and Duke University, History) KONRAD H. JARAUSCH (UNC at Chapel Hill, History) PETER SCHNEIDER The workshop is open to the public. Organizers - Richard Langston (UNC Chapel Hill, German Languages) - Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, History) - Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill, History) - Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature) Registration The Workshop is open to all students, teachers, scholars as well as anyone in the general public interested in learning more about the student movements in Germany. Registration is required for all who wish to attend. Seating is limited. General registration costs $30 and includes catered meals for both Friday and Saturday. Reduced registration for students only is $15.00. Registration and accompanying check made payable to "Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures" must be received no later than April 1, 2008. To download and print out the registration and detailed mailing instructions, please visit the Workshop website: http:// www.german.duke.edu/ncgermanstudies/ Accomodation Visitors to Chapel Hill are strongly advised to make hotel reservations as soon as possible. For more information about local hotels, please visit the workshop website: http://www.german.duke.edu/ncgermanstudies/ Contact Dick Langston University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dept. Of Germanic Languages 438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Fax: 919-962-3708 Email: relangst@email.unc.edu For more information on the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series see: http://www.german.duke.edu/ncgermanstudies/ Steering Committee of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series: - Michael Gross (East Carolina University, History) - Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, History) - Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill, History) - Richard Langston (UNC Chapel Hill, German Languages) (Speaker) - Heather Perry (UNC Charlotte, History) - Michael Meng (UNC Chapel Hill, History) - Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature)
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