Buffalo, NY, 2005

On April 22-23, historians from the United States and Canada will launch the first American-Canadian Conference in German and Modern European History. The ACC aims to provide an annual forum bringing together faculty and graduate students from Western New York and Ontario. With this transnational conference, we hope to establish an ongoing exchange of ideas and discuss current research projects from a broad range of scholarly perspectives. The ACC also wants to enhance a sense of a region that has long been a site of cross-border transfer and offers a rich environment for the study of German and European history.

The ACC is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY); the Graduate Group for German & Austrian Studies at the University at Buffalo; and the History Department at Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y. All sessions take place on the campus of Canisius College.

Program

Friday, April 22, 1:30 - 9:30 pm

Andreas Daum, University at Buffalo
“The American-Canadian Conference in German and Modern European History:
A New Transnational Project”

First Session: Cultural History of Germany and Austria

Moderator: Larry E. Jones, Canisius College

Geoff Hamm, University of Toronto
“Modernity and Tradition in the Prusso-German Officers Corps, 1861-1914”

Jonathan Koehler, University of Rochester
“Volkstümliche Art: David Josef Bach and the Workers’ Symphony Concert Association, 1905-1918”

Julia Goodwin, University of Rochester
“Cries of Anguish, Prayers of Hope: Music as Memorial in the Twentieth Century”

Remarks by

Patricia M. Mazón, University at Buffalo
“The Graduate Group for German & Austrian Studies at the University at Buffalo”

Christian G. Koelbl, Honorary German Consul for Buffalo and Western New York

Fred Friedman, Honorary Austrian Consul for Western New York

Second Session: The Colonial Dimension

Moderator: Charles T. Lipp, University at Buffalo

Martin Mulford, University of Rochester
“The Fourth Voice: European Settlers in German East Africa”

Deborah Neill, University of Toronto
“Health Care and Urban Apartheid: Segregating Medicine in German and French Colonial Cities, 1885-1914”

Conference Dinner with Keynote Talk

James Retallack, University of Toronto
“Paradigmatic Super-Weapons? Demagogy, Populism, and Proto-Fascism in German Historical Writing”

Saturday, April 23, 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Third Session: Europe in the Western New York—Ontario Region

Moderator: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester

Danille Battisti, University at Buffalo
“A Useful Comparison? Italian-American and Italian-Canadian Responses to the 1948 Italian Elections”

Steve Bunn, York University
“Germans into Nazis ... into Lumberjacks, into Germans: ‘Denazification’ in Northern Ontario POW Camps during World War II”

Perry Beardsly, University at Buffalo
“Internationalism in a Region: The Buffalo-Toronto Area, 1920-1950”

Fourth Session: Societies at War

Moderator: Pamela Swett, McMaster University

Oliver Griffin, St. John Fisher College
“German Perceptions of Russia during the Russo-Japanese War”

Lisa Todd, University of Toronto
“‘The Inner Enemy of the Hostess Bar’: Controlling Public Sexuality in World War I Germany”

Lunch

Business Meeting