Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands

Schedule

Friday April 2, 2004
The Carolina Inn (The Chancellor East Room), Chapel Hill

5:15 Registration table open
5:30–7:30 Welcome, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University

Introduction of Keynote Speaker by Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago
First Keynote Address:
"Slouching toward Berlin, or, Have the Germans a Useful Past?"
Thomas A. Brady Jr., UC Berkeley

Reception

7:30–9:30 Dinner in small groups, Chapel Hill

The organizers will reserve tables at a variety of Chapel Hill restaurants; at registration, participants can sign up to join any dinner group. We will keep a range of tastes and budgets in mind when making our reservations.

Saturday April 3, 2004
Bryan Center (lower level, von Canon Hall), Duke University

9:00–9:30     Coffee
9:30–11:00   First session (Moderator: Jutta Eming, Freie Universität, Berlin; & Max Kade
                   Visiting Professor of German at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill)

"Mittelalterlich als Selbstbeschreibungskategorie der Moderne"
Jan-Dirk Mueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
"Shakespeare, the Germans, and the Paradigm of Aesthetic Modernity"
Clayton Koelb, UNC Chapel Hill

11:00–11:30 Coffee
11:30–1:00 Second session (Moderator: Tom Robisheaux, Duke University)

Sonderforschungsbereich 573b
Markus Friedrich and Arndt Brendecke, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

1:00–2:30 Lunch ($10)

2:30–4:00 Third session (Moderator: Jonathan Hess, UNC-Chapel Hill)

"Terminal Modernity: Fascism as a Sign of History"
Andrew Hewitt, UCLA
"Historians and Modernity: Contending Interpretations"
Konrad Jarausch, UNC Chapel Hill

4:00–6:30 Break

6:30–7:45 Banquet ($ 25)

8:00–10:00 Introduction of Keynote Speaker by Angelika Bammer, Emory University

Second Keynote Address:
"The Modernist Fallacy"
William Donahue, Rutgers University

Sunday April 4, 2004
The Carolina Inn (North Parlor), Chapel Hill

9:00–9:30      Coffee
9:30–10:45    Fourth Session (Moderator: Malachai Hacohen, Duke University; National
                    Humanities Center Fellow)

"The Martyr and the Sovereign: Scenes from a Modern Tragic Drama, Read Through Schmitt and Benjamin"
Sigrid Weigel, Technische Universität & Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin
"Modernization and Its Histories: German Cityscapes Before and After 1945"
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto

10:45–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:00 Closing discussion (Facilitated by Tom Robisheaux, Duke University)

An informal lunch at the Carolina Inn will follow the conference. This lunch will give participants an opportunity to follow up on any open issues, such as a conference volume.