Conf. Ann: In Search of Revolution, 1916 - 1923: Germany and its European Context - Köln 03/13
Prof. Dr. Klaus Weinhauer, Fakultät für Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität der Bundeswehr München; Prof. Dr. Anthony McElligott, Department of History, University of Limerick; PD Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg 21.03.2013-23.03.2013, Köln, Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Apostelnkloster 13-15, 50672 Köln
When compared to the state of research on the First World War as well as on the Weimar Republic the German Revolution as an integral part of the revolutionary era from 1916 to 1923 in Europe as a discrete field is understudied. Since the path-breaking studies of the 1960s (Tormin, von Oertzen, Kolb, Rürup) research on the German Revolution has broken little new ground. Moreover, up to the present day the historiography of the German Revolution has not moved beyond the politically and ideologically biased patterns of interpretation that characterized the debates in the following two decades. These debates themselves mirrored the conflicts and divisions within a broadly defined left, which themselves were based on the earliest interpretations of the revolution dating back to the beginning of the 1920s. The paradigm created by this discourse continues to dominate approaches to the revolution of 1918.
The wider developments in scholarly methodology and concepts over the past three decades which have infiltrated most areas of historical research today have by-passed the German Revolution. It is now almost fifty years since the debates kicked-off by Tormin et al. were inaugurated.
This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to do two things: We want to broaden the scope of the debate on the German Revolution beyond its present narrow political parameters by incorporating its social/cultural, literary/discursive, political/legal and commemorative/memory aspects. Related to this, we want to re-historicize the German Revolution by reinserting it into the era of revolutionary ferment in Europe between 1916 and 1923 through comparative analysis, which also aims at integrating colonial influences.
Papers and discussion will be in English.
Funded by: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Universität der Bundeswehr München, University of Limerick
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Programme
Thursday, 21 March 2013
10 - 11.30 Welcome
Keynote lecture:
Peter Brandt (Hagen): German Revolution 1918/19. State of Research
11.30 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 16.00 Panel 1
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich) /Comment: Dirk Schumann (Goettingen)
Hikel, Christine (Munich)
(In)Security: Political Assassinations and Attempts at Revolution and in the Early Weimar Republic
Jones, Mark (Florence)
Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-19
Rossol, Nadine (Essex)
"Unable of securing order...?" The Police and the German Revolution
1918/19
Flores, Norma Lisa (Bowling Green, Ohio)
In the Wake of General Hysteria: The Spartacist Uprising, the Palmer Raids, and the Impasse of 1919
16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea
16.30 - 18.00 Panel 2
Chair: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg) /Comment: Robert Gerwarth (Dublin)
Canning, Kathleen (Ann Arbor)
Citizenship and Gender in the Aftermath of War and Revolution in Germany, 1914 - 1930
Marhoefer, Laurie (Syracuse)
Fomenting Sexual Revolution in Germany, 1916-1921
19.30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 22 March 2013
10.00 - 12.00 Panel 3
Chair: Anthony McElligott (Limerick)/Comment: Kathleen Canning (Ann
Arbor)
Foellmer, Moritz (Amsterdam)
In Search of the Revolutionary Subject in Germany, 1918/19
Grimmer, Ian G. (Burlington, Vermont)
Intellectual Workers and Cultural Revolution: Räte geistiger Arbeiter in Central Europe, 1918-1919
Tworek, Heide J. (Cambridge)
Spreading the Revolution: News Agencies and Politics in Weimar Germany, 1918-20
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Panel 4
Chair: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg)/Comment: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich)
Haller, Oliver (Waterloo, Ontario)
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Dolchstoßlegende
Danylow, Peter (Hamburg)
The Barricades of Hamburg (Larisa Rejsner) - (de)constructing revolutionary truth
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/Tea
15.30 Roundtable: In Search of Revolution, 1916-1923: Germany and its European Context
Introduction: Anthony McElligott (Limerick)
Saturday, 23 March 2013
9.00 - 12.00 Panel 5
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich) /Comment: Stefan Berger (Bochum)
Boysen, Jens (Warschau)
Simultaneity of the un-simultaneous: German social revolution and Polish national revolution in Germany 1918/19
Grafl, Florian (Gießen)
Labour Leaders, Gun Men, Bomb Droppers - Revolution in its Everyday Setting during the Years of the Pistolerismo in Barcelona
Stern, Sara Sophie (Tuebingen)
Rebellious Regions in Revolutionary Times. Riots and Strikes in German and British Mining Regions in the Early 1920s
Ehret, Ulrike (Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Revolution, Nationalism and Street Violence in Munich and London
1917-1939
To attend the conference please contact Carmen Ludwig:
ludwig [at] zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Weinhauer, Fakultät für Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität der Bundeswehr München; klaus.weinhauer [at] unibw.de
Prof. Dr. Anthony McElligott (Department of History/ University of Limerick) Anthony.mcelligott [at] ul.ie
PD Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg) heinsohn [at] zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de
URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=21266
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Soz-u-Kult]