Program of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference German Studies Association October 8-11, 2009 Washington, D. C. Crystal Gateway Marriott German Studies Association Main Office: 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 USA Tel.: (269) 337-7056 Fax: (269) 337-7251 www.thegsa.org e-mail:
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[email protected] Officers: President: Celia Applegate (University of Rochester), 2009-10 Vice President: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University), 2009-10 Secretary-Treasurer: Gerald A. Fetz (University of Montana), 2009-11 Executive Director: David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College) GSA Board: Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto (2009) Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College (2011) Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona (2009) Joyce M. Mushaben, University of Missouri St. Louis (2011) David Patton, Connecticut College (2010) Patricia Simpson, Montana State University (2010) Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan—Dearborn (2011) Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University (2009) Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ex officio non-voting (2010) Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College, ex officio non-voting Institutional Patrons American Friends of the McGill University Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Max Planck Institut für Geschichte American Institute of Contemporary Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsinstitut German Studies Potsdam Austrian Cultural Institute Nanovic Institute for European Studies at Austrian Fulbright Commission the University of Notre Dame The Canadian Centre for German and Northern Arizona