| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, April 16, 2010 | 9:00AM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
| Friday, April 16, 2010 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
| Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Rethinking German Imperialism
Friday, April 16, 2010
Munk Centre for International Studies, Room 108N
Welcome
9:30-9:45
Panel One: Germany as a Global Power
9:45-12:00
“The Quest for ‘World Empire’ and the Transformation of the German Right, 1890-1918”
Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta
Dennis Sweeney is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009) and numerous articles on labor relations, industrial culture, social reform movements and the German state, social democracy, liberalism, radical nationalism, and Pan-German imperialism. He is currently writing a monograph on the German Right, colonial empire, and the invention of the racial state from 1890 to 1923.
Comment: Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
Panel Two: The Debate on Empire
1:30-3:30
“Empire by Land or Sea? Germany’s Imperial Imaginary, 1871-1945”
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History. His earliest works were Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980, 1991) and The Peculiarities of German History (German edn. 1980, English 1984) jointly authored with David Blackbourn. His general history of the Left in Europe, Forging Democracy, appeared in 2002, and a study of contemporary historiography, A Crooked Line, in 2005. With Keith Nield, he published The Future of Class in History: What’s Left of the Social? In 2007. He is currently finishing Genealogies of Nazism: Conservatives, Radical Nationalists, Fascists in Germany, 1860-1945. A volume of essays, Cultures of German Colonialism: Race, Nation, and Globalization, 1884-1945, coedited with Bradley Naranch, will be published by Duke University Press. He joined the Michigan History Department in 1979 and is currently serving as Chair.
Comment: Doris Bergen, University of Toronto
Coffee Break: 3:30—4:00
Panel Three: Keynote Address: Germany’s Colonial Policy
4:00-6:00 pm
Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
“Germany’s Overseas Imperialism: Colonial Policy in Berlin”
Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, University College, Oxford
Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann is Professor of Modern History at Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford. He was born in Germany and studied there until he was awarded a scholarship to Oxford in 1962. After that he made his career in England. Last year he published in German Imperialismus vom Grünen Tisch. Deutsche Kolonialpolitik zwischen wirtschaftlicher Ausbeutung und “zvilisatorischen” Bemühungen (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2009). An English translation should follow soon.
Comment: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Munk Centre for International Studies, Room 108N
Panel Four: Weltpolitik and Orientpolitik
10:00-12:00
“Germany’s Oriental Question”
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Jennifer Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hamburg (Cornell University Press, 2003) and writes on modernism, civil society, transnationalism, orientalism and imperialism in twentieth-century Germany. She is currently working on her book project Excavating Zarathustra: Germany and Iran in the Twentieth Century, an exploration of German globality on the Persian frontier in the age of empire.
Comment: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University
Panel Five
1:00—3:00
Roundtable Discussion
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