Conference Group for Central European History

Friday, January 9

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Governor’s Conference Room.
Session 1, joint with the AHA. Race, Colonialism, and Global Conflict in Germany, 1884–1918

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Harding Room.
Session 2, joint with the AHA. Still Fighting: A Comparative View of National Cultures and the Public Memory of the Second World War

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room.  
Session 3. Radicalizing the Nation: The Impact of the First World War on German Nationalism and Political Culture

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham Hampton Room.
Session 4, joint with the AHA. The Role of Art and Music in the Construction of National and Regional Identity, 1870–1914

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Palladian Ballroom.
Session 5, joint with the AHA. War Crimes Trials as Sources for Writing History

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room.
Session 6. Violence and Peace: Postwar Reconstructions in Twentieth-Century Germany

Saturday, January 10

9:30–10:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Calvert Room.
Session 7, joint with the AHA. “Babel before Bhabha”: Language and German Cultural Studies since 1800

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Wardman Towers, Nathan Hale Room.
Session 8, joint with the AHA and the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History. Nature and Magic in Early Modern Central Europe

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Delaware Suite A.
Session 9, joint with the AHA. Patrolling Borders, Ascribing Identities: Population Reclassification in World War II Era Europe

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room.
Session 10. From Enemy to Ally: Reconciliation Made Real in Postwar Germany

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Wardman Towers, Nathan Hale Room.
Session 11, joint with the AHA. Defeating the Capitalist West! Questions of East German Political Economy, 1952–89

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room.
Session 12. War and Society in East Central Europe, 1740–1806

5:00–6:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Director’s Room.
Business meeting

6:00–8:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Executive Room.
Bierabend

Sunday, January 11

8:30–10:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.
Session 13, joint with the AHA. A Bitter Ambiguity: Restitution and Reconciliation in Post-Defeat Germany, Italy, and Japan

8:30–10:30 a.m. Hilton, Monroe Ballroom West.
Session 14, joint with the AHA. Jewish-Christian Germans (“Mischlinge”) and Jews Married to Aryans in World War II and the Holocaust—Roundtable

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 373.
Session 15, joint with the AHA. Icons of Victory and Defeat: Returning Veterans in Japan, Germany, and the United States after World War II

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D.
Session 16, joint with the AHA. Survival in an Age of Rubble: Black Market Activities in the Postwar Germanies

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Marriott, Hoover Room.
Session 17, joint with the AHA and the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History. The Generation of 1914 East-Central Europe: War, Politics, Modernism