Thursday, April 25, 2024
Location: Drift 21, room 005
8:30 AM Registration and coffee
9:00 AM Introduction and welcome
Jochen Hung, Nicholas Baer, Britta Schilling
9:15 AM Keynote lecture
● Uta Poiger (Northeastern University), Weimar and Now: Culture, Race, Politics
10:45 AM Break
11: 00 AM Panel 1: What is Weimar Culture? Moderated by Hanco Jürgens (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam)
● Moritz Föllmer (University of Amsterdam), German Culture: Continuities and Discontinuities from the 1920s to the 1940s
● Jochen Hung (Utrecht University), The Making of “Weimar Culture”, 1918-1977
12:15 AM Lunch
1:45 PM Panel 2: Colonial Fantasies Moderated by Britta Schilling (Utrecht)
● Marit de Wit (Utrecht University), From Weltpolitik to World Cultures: Wilhelm II and Weimar from the Dutch Provinces
● Sabine Hanke (University of Tübingen), Worlds of Sawdust and Wonder: Provincializing Weimar Culture Through the Lens of the Circus
● Molly Harrabin (University of Warwick), Colonial Fantasies in Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919)
3:45 PM Break
4:15 PM Panel 4: Provincializing the New Woman Moderated by Jochen Hung (Utrecht)
● Katerina Korola (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), The New Woman as Ethnographer: Lola Kreutzberg in the Dutch East Indies
● Mary Hennessy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Austria’s New Woman as Worker: On Mela Hartwig’s Am I a Redundant Human Being? (1931)
Friday, April 26, 2024
Location: Drift 23, room 0.12
9:30 AM Panel 5: Provincializing Weimar Body Culture Moderated by Jochen Hung (Utrecht University)
● Miles Taylor (University of California, Berkeley), Modern Mountains: Nature, Mass Culture, and Film as Art
● Florian Wieler (Freie Universität Berlin), Provincializing Weimar Watersports
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Panel 6: The Provincial Gaze Moderated by Anna Gonchar (TU Munich)
● Meindert Peters (University of Oxford), Bodies of the Provincial Imaginary
● Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois Chicago), Exhibiting the Provinces as Evidence of Police Progress
12:15 PM Lunch
After lunch we reconvene at Drift 21, 005
1:45 PM Panel 7: Culture, Class and Politics in the Provinces Moderated by Nicholas Baer (Berkeley)
● Frank Kessler (Utrecht University) and Sabine Lenk (Marburg University), “Quod non est in Berlino, non est in mundo”: Views from the Periphery
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM Panel 8: Weimar Music in the Provinces and Around the Globe Moderated by Hanco Jürgens (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam)
● Adele Jakumeit (University of Göttingen), Avant-garde from the Province? The Handel Opera Revival of the 1920s
● Friedemann Pestel (University of Tübingen), Weimar Culture on Tour: Cultural Demobilisation, International Musical Life, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1927‒1933
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM Panel 9: Photographic Archives and Paths of Exile Moderated by Nicholas Baer (Berkeley)
● Rebekka Grossmann (Leiden University), Focus China: Weimar German Journalists and Writers in East Asia
● Mila Ganeva (Miami University), Exile as Province: The Afterlife of Elli Marcus’s Photography of Weimar Theater
5:30 PM Closing remarks
Jochen Hung, Nicholas Baer, Britta Schilling
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