Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands

Participants Tom Brady Professor of Early Modern European History, University of California, Berkeley; author of Communities, Politics, and Reformation in Early Modern Europe (Keynote Speaker) William Donahue Professor of German, Rutgers University; author of The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé (Keynote Speaker) Andrew Hewitt Professor of German, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde Clayton Koelb Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UNC, Chapel Hill; author of Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels Konrad Jarausch Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, UNC, Chapel Hill; author of Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories Jennifer Jenkins Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto; author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture & Liberal Politics in Fin-De-Siècle Hamburg Jan-Dirk Mueller Professor of Medieval Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; author of Spielregeln für den Untergang: die Welt des Nibelungenliedes Sigrid Weigel Professor of Comparative Literature, Technische Universität, Berlin; Director, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin; author of Body- and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

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