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Death in Germany
Conference at the University of Virginia, November 7-9, 2003
Organized by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann
Sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
and the Page Barbour Lecture Series at the University of Virginia
Friday, November 7, 2003
9:00 - 10:30 Chair: Paul Betts
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, “Death and Killing on the Western Front”
Alon Confino, University of Virginia, “Some Thoughts about Death in the Third Reich”
10:45 - 12:15 Chair: Dirk Schumann
Svenja Goltermann, Universität Bremen, “The Imagination of Disaster: Death and Survival in Post-war Germany”
Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University, “Sex and Death”
2:00 – 3:30 Chair: Dagmar Herzog
Werner Kremp, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, “Towards a Political Thanatology”
Paul Betts, University of Sussex, “When Cold Warriors Die: The Commemorative Deaths of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht”
3:45 – 5:15 Chair: Martina Kessel
Kerstin Rehwinkel, Universität der Bundeswehr (Hamburg), “‘Apparent Death’ Discourse in Germany, 18th to 19th Century: Body, Science, and Society”
Simone Ameskamp, Georgetown University, “Phoenix and Prometheus - Cremation in Imperial and Weimar Germany”
Saturday, November 8, 2003
9:00 – 10:30 Chair: Peter Fritzsche
Martina Kessel, Universität Bielefeld, “Laughing About Death: Humor in both World Wars”
Habbo Knoch, Universität Göttingen, “Pictures of Death after both World Wars”
10:45 – 12:15 Chair: Svenja Goltermann
Richard Bessel, University of York, “Death in Germany: The Shock of 1945”
Monica Black, University of Virginia, “A Dialectic of Loss: Death in Postwar Berlin”
2:00 – 3:30 Chair: Michael Geyer
Daniel Steuer, University of Sussex, “European Melancholy: Sebald and Death”
Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Germany's Endings: 1945 Sixty Years Later”
3:45 – 5:15 Chair: Simone Ameskamp
Kay Schiller, University of Durham, “Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympic Games”
Felix Robin Schulz, University of York, “Death in East Germany, 1945-1990”
Sunday, November 9, 2003
9:00 – 11:00
General Discussion
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