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GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE October 7-10, 2010 Oakland, California Celia Applegate President, German Studies Association, 2009–2010 Cover photo: The Oakland Marriott City Center is adjacent to Oakland’s historic downtown area. Photo by David E. Barclay Program of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference German Studies Association October 7-10, 2010 Oakland, California Oakland Marriott City Center Courtyard Marriott Oakland Downtown 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: [email protected] Help Desk: [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) Executive Committee: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2012) Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College (2012) Pieter Judson, Swarthmore College (2011) Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis (2012) Mary Lindemann, University of Miami (2012) 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) 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 University European Studies/Le Centre canadien United States Holocaust Memorial d'études allemandes et européennes at Museum York University and Université de University of Arkansas, Fulbright College Montréal University of California–Berkeley/ Carolina-Duke Ph.D. in German Studies Institute for European Studies Center for Holocaust Studies of the University of Colorado University of Vermont University of Florida/Center for Cornell University European Studies Freie Universität Berlin University of Minnesota/Center for Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-Bonn Austrian Studies Georgetown University/Center for University of Minnesota/Center for German and European Studies German and European Studies German Historical Institute University of Minnesota/Dept. of Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Grinnell College University of Montana Hannah-Arendt-Institut, TU Dresden University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Harvard University/Center for European University of Pennsylvania Studies University of Richmond Hoover Institution, Stanford University University of South Carolina Illinois College University of Wisconsin/Center for Indiana University, Institute of European Studies German Studies Vanderbilt University Kalamazoo College Western Washington University Konrad Adenauer Foundation Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein (ZZF) Potsdam Leo Baeck Institute, New York Former Presidents of the Association David Kitterman, 1976-78 Reece Kelley, 1979-80 Charles Burdick, 1981-82 Wulf Koepke, 1983-84 Konrad Jarausch, 1985-86 Ehrhard Bahr, 1987-88 Ronald Smelser, 1989-90 Frank Trommler, 1991-92 Jay W. Baird, 1993-94 Jennifer E. Michaels, 1995-96 Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1997-98 Gerhard H. Weiss, 1999-2000 Henry Friedlander, 2001-02 Patricia Herminghouse, 2003-04 Katherine Roper, 2005-06 Sara Lennox, 2007-08 Editors of German Studies Review Gerald R. Kleinfeld, 1978-2001 Diethelm Prowe, 2001- Executive Director Gerald R. Kleinfeld, 1976-2005 David E. Barclay, 2006- German Studies Association The German Studies Association is the national and international association of scholars in all fields of German Studies. Its interest spans the period from the earliest times to the present Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary organization, the Association welcomes as members all those whose interests involve specific or broad aspects of history, literature, culture studies, politics and government, relating to German-speaking Europe. Members of the Association receive the German Studies Review, the Newsletter, the Conference Program, and all other publications. Further information about the Association and its activities can be found on the Web site, at www.thegsa.org Membership in the Association: A membership form is available on line on the Association Web site. Members are encouraged to review their membership record regularly, and to update it. Changes of address should be entered on line. German Studies Review: The scholarly journal of the Association is the German Studies Review, pub- lished three times each year, in February, May, and October. The GSR con- tains articles and book reviews in history, literature, culture studies, politics and government, or interdisciplinary topics. Publication is in the language of submission, English or German. Members of the Association are the primary book reviewers. The Editorial Board of the GSR includes: Ehrhard Bahr (University of California, Los Angeles) Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University) Norman Goda (University of Florida) Lonnie Johnson (Austrian-American Education Commission) Larry Eugene Jones (Canisius College) Frederick A. Lubich (Old Dominion University) Alexander Mathäs (University of Oregon) Jennifer E. Michaels (Grinnell College) Maria Mitchell (Franklin & Marshall College) Nancy E. Rupprecht (Middle Tennessee State University) Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institut) James Sperling (University of Akron) Alan E. Steinweis (University of Vermont) Helga Welsh (Wake Forest University) Ulf Zimmermann (Kennesaw State University) Members and non-members are invited to submit manuscripts to the Editor, Professor Diethelm Prowe. Information about submission of manuscripts is contained on the GSA Web site. Prof. Diethelm Prowe, Editor German Studies Review Department of History Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057-4025 [email protected] Members of the Association interested in reviewing books for the GSR should write to the new Book Review Editor: Prof. Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler Book Review Editor, GSR Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1015 [email protected] ACLS: The German Studies Association is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), whose web site is at www.acls.org. GENERAL INFORMATION OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Dear Friends and Members of the German Studies Association, This year the German Studies Association will be meeting in Oakland, California, at the Oakland Marriott City Center, with some sessions across the street at the Courtyard Marriott Oakland Downtown. This will be the first time in more than two decades that the GSA has met in the San Francisco Bay Area. The home of literary luminaries such as Jack London and Gertrude Stein, Oakland remains a major Pacific port city. The conference hotel is close to such attractions as Jack London Square, Lake Merritt, and the Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Marriott City Center is located close to a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) underground station; using BART, conference attendees can reach downtown San Francisco in twelve minutes and downtown Berkeley in eleven minutes. We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to join us in Oakland. The sections below contain information on conference registration, hotel reservations, travel to Oakland, and the like. As in previous years, many events at the Oakland conference will take special note of a number of important anniversaries and com- memorations. Of special importance is the twentieth anniversary of German unification in 1990; and several events are also anticipating the 2011 bicentennial of Heinrich von Kleist’s death. The GSA conference will include a number of sessions and events sponsored by groups such as the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Coalition of 8 General Information Women in German, the DAAD, the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the German Historical Institute in Washington, the GSA Working Group on World War I, the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung, the Goethe- Institut Boston, the Goethe Society of North America, the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt Potsdam, YMAGINA (Young Medievalist Germanists in North America), and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam. This year we are also extremely pleased to welcome the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin to our conference. Continuing the trend of recent years, this year’s conference will include many clusters of sessions organized around specific themes or problems, usually interdisciplinary in nature. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of German unification, we are presenting – for the first time in recent conference history – four debates on the results of German unification, as well as two sessions on “German Reunification Revisited”