Conference Program
Histories of the Aftermath: The European "Postwar" in Comparative Perspective
International Conference at the University of California, San Diego
February 16-17, 2007
Conveners: Frank Biess (UC San Diego) and Robert Moeller (UC Irvine)
- Thursday, February 15
- Arrival and Check-In
- 7.00 Dinner
- Friday, February 16
- 8.30 Breakfast
- 9.00 Welcome
- 9.15-10.45: Panel I: Defining the Postwar
- Chair: Robert Moeller (History, UCI)
- Norman Naimark (History, Stanford)
- Frank Biess (History, UCSD)
- Sarah Farmer (History, UCI)
- Comment: Phil Nord (History, Princeton), Martha Lampland (Sociology, UCSD)
- 10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
- 11.00-1.00 pm: Panel II: Public and Private Memory
- Chair: Jonathan Wiesen (History, Southern Illinois University)
- Michael Hayse (History, Stockton College)
- Dorothee Wierling (History, University of Hamburg)
- Lisa Kirschenbaum (History, West Chester University)
- Samuel Moyn (History, Columbia)
- Comment: Elazar Barkan (International and Public Affairs, Columbia), Susan Derwin (Literature, UCSB)
- 1.00 pm-2.00 pm Lunch
- 2.00-3.30 pm: Panel III: Making Peace at Home: Gender and Sexuality
- Chair: Robert Edelman (History, UCSD)
- Heide Fehrenbach (History, Northern Illinois)
- Paul Betts (History, Sussex)
- Anna Krylova (History, Duke)
- Comment: Deborah Hertz (History, UCSD), Choi Chatterjee (History, CSU-LA)
- 3.30-4.00 Coffee
- 4.00-6.00: Panel IV: Mass-Mediating War: How Movies Shaped Memory in the Postwar
- Chair: Paul Pickowicz (History, UCSD)
- Robert Moeller (History, UCI)
- Christian Delage (History, CNRS Paris)
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Italian Studies, NYU)
- Denise Youngblood (History, Univ. of Vermont)
- Comment: Kai Evers (German, UCI); Geoff Eley (History, Univ. of Michigan)
- 7.00 Dinner
- Saturday, February 17
- 8.30 Breakfast
- 9.00-10.30: Panel V: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Military Culture and Collective Security
- Chair: Jane Caplan (History, Oxford)
- Klaus Naumann (History, Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
- Pieter Lagrou (History, Universite de Bruxelles)
- Mikhail Tsypkin (National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School)
- Comment: John Connelly (History, UC-Berkeley); Peter Gourevitch (Political Science, UCSD)
- 10.30-11.00 Coffee
- 11.00-1.00 pm: Panel VI: Nations and Citizenship
- Chair: Charles Maier (History, Harvard)
- Patrick Patterson (History, UCSD)
- Fatima El-Tayeb (Literature, UCSD)
- Sonya Rose (History, Univ. of Michigan)
- Katherine Lebow (History, Univ. of Virginia)
- Comment: Pamela Radcliff (History, UCSD); Jan Gross (History, Princeton)
- 1.00-2.00 pm: Lunch
- 2.00-4.00 pm: Concluding Roundtable: The View From Outside Europe — and from Outside the Discipline
- Chair: Gisela Mettele (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)
- Jane Caplan (History, Oxford)
- William Chandler (Political Science, UCSD)
- Lisa Yoneyama (Literature, UCSD)
- Charles Maier (History, Harvard)
- Paul Pickowicz (History, UCSD)
- 6.00 pm Dinner
- Sunday, February 18
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