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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
  • Departure