Conference Program:
Friday, October 19, 2007
9:00 a.m.
Welcome Addresses
Gilles Bousquet, Myra Marx Ferree
9:15 to 10:45 a.m.
The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective
Joe Salmons, Rob Howell, Stephan Elspass, Angela Bagwell, Mike Olson
Video-link with Carol Pfaff and Paul Roberge
Democracy and the EU
Nils Ringe, Bernhard Maleck, George Ross, David Art
11:00 to 12:30 p.m.
Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers
Jamie Peck, Volker Eick, Nik Theodore
Video-link with Eric Sheppard and Helga Leitner
Beyond National Identity - Debating Cosmopolitanisms
Klaus Berghahn, Venkat Mani, Damani Partridge, Jeremi Suri
12:30 to 2:15 p.m
Lunch Break
2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Gender and Genre: Women's Voices and Democratic Rights
Myra Marx Ferree, Eva Maleck-Lewy, Ute Gerhard
Video-link with M. J. Maynes and Marynel Ryan
Social Europe and the Future of the Welfare State
Jonathan Zeitlin, Markus Gangl, Timo Weishaupt, Martin Heidenreich, Jenny Buchkremer
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: “The ‘German Problem’ and the Atlantic Future”
Red Gym, ‘On Wisconsin’ Room
by Ronald Steel, Professor of International Relations and History, University of Southern California.
6:00 p.m.
Reception
Saturday, October 20, 2007
9 to 10:30 a.m.
Gender, Politics and Social Transformation
Susan Rottmann, Jessica Brown, Anne Genereux, Jennifer Holland
Democracy and Human Rights Challenges
Heinz Klug, Wolff-Michael Mors, Andrea Kramer
10:45 to 12:15 p.m.
War and Peace in a United Europe
Klaus Berghahn, Eric Weitz, Ivana Bradaric, Wendy M. Christensen, Eric Roubinek, Adam Sechooler
Memory, Media, and German War Suffering
Marc Silberman, Anke Pinkert, Lynn Wolff, Jennifer Kapczynski
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Wrap-Up Roundtable: Future Directions for Research and Collaboration
Myra Marx Ferree, Ulrich Grothus, Sabine Engel, Klaus Berghahn, Eric Weitz, Elizabeth Covington
