Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economies, and International Relations, from the 18th to the 20th Century
Friday, May 3rd, 2013 – Saturday, May 4th, 2013
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 3, 2013 | 9:00AM - 5:30PM | External Event, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2098, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3K3 |
| Saturday, May 4, 2013 | 9:00AM - 3:00PM | External Event, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2098, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3K3 |
Description
To register please email: evan.dokos@mail.utoronto.ca and/or gavin.wiens@utoronto.ca
Conference Program:
9:00 a.m. Welcome
James Retallack (University of Toronto)
Sabine Sparwasser, Consul General, Federal Republic of Germany, Toronto
Randall Hansen, Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (University of Toronto)
Introduction Ute Planert (University of Wuppertal / University of Toronto)
9:45 – 11:45 a.m.
I A World in Upheaval, from the 1760s to the 1820s: The Germanies
Moderator: Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto)
The Habsburg Empire after 1763 and 1815: Restoration or Reconstruction? Charles Ingrao (Purdue University)
Saxony’s Rétablissement after 1763 Robert Beachy (Goucher College)
Prussia after 1763, 1806, and 1815: Uncontested Success? Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)
Identifying a Post-War Period and the German Confederation: Case Studies from the Hanseatic Cities, 1814-1830 Katherine Aaslestad (West Virginia University)
Comment: Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00–3:00 p.m.
II A World in Upheaval, 1760s to the 1820s: Europe, Britain, North America
Moderator: Adrian Shubert (York University)
Great Britain and the World after the Seven Years’ War Julia Angster (Universität Mannheim)
North America after 1763: Indigenous Perspectives Ulrike Kirchberger (Universität Bayreuth)
Losing an Empire, Re-Entering the Stage: France Sven Externbrink (Universität Heidelberg / Universität Innsbruck)
New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna: The Reorganization of Europe as a “Subject of Domestic Policy” Reinhard Stauber (Universität Klagenfurt)
Comment: Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto)
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
III Civil and Uncivil Wars: From the 1860s to the 1940s
Moderator: Deborah Neill (York University)
U.S. Reconstruction, Republicanism and Imperial Rivalries in the Caribbean after 1865 Christopher Wilkins (William Jewell College)
The Civil War in France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Postwar Reconstruction in the 1870s Elizabeth Vlossak (Brock University)
The International Red Cross, the League of Nations, and Humanitarian Assistance Regimes, 1918-1939 Kimberly Lowe (Yale University)
After the Spanish Civil War: Dictatorship and Reconstruction Adrian Shubert (York University)
Comment: Roger Chickering (Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University)
Friday evening, May 3rd
Venue: Hart House Debates Room, 2nd floor, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
6:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Five Postwar Orders, 1763-1945 James J. Sheehan, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
7:15 p.m. Reception
Saturday, May 4th
Venue: Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History,
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2098, 100 St George St, Toronto ON M5S 3G3
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
IV Central Europe and its Borderlands
Moderator: Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)
German State-Building in Occupied Poland: An Episode in Postwar Reconstruction, 1915-1918 Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University)
Foundation Massacres and Shatterzones: Violence and the Foundation of the Weimar Republic Mark Jones (University College Dublin)
Local Worlds and Reconstruction: The Case of Cologne after 1945 Jeremy DeWaal (Vanderbilt University)
Reconstruction and Representation: Democratizing Postwar Germany after 1945 Jörg Echternkamp (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam / Universität Halle)
Comment: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
V Empires and Economies: A New International Order After Total War?
Moderator: TBA
The End of Empires and the Triumph of the Nation State? 1918 and the New International Order Jörn Leonhard (Universität Freiburg / Harvard University)
The Making and Undoing of the French Union: The Impact of the Second World War on France’s Empire Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)
Domestic Growth and External Equilibrium: The Early Years of Transatlantic Economic Integration Simone Selva (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Comment: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto)
1:00 p.m. Lunch (on site)
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
VI Closing Roundtable
James Retallack (Moderator)
Katherine Aaslestad
Roger Chickering
Jörn Leonhard
James J. Sheehan Chi
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