Thursday September 29, 2022:
Rackham Assembly Hall (4th Floor)
Welcome Remarks: 3:30 PM
Melanie Tanielian (Michigan) Welcome
Anne Berg, (UPenn) and Kathleen Canning (Rice): Introductory Remarks
Session I (4:00PM-5:00PM) Michigan: Geoff Eley’s Michigan Legacies
Reflections by: Howard Brick, Rita Chin, Terry McDonald, Scott Spector, Margaret Somers
Chair: Helmut Puff
Session II (5:00PM-6:00PM): Defining the Terms: from Peculiarities of German History to Becoming National
David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt) and Ron Suny (Michigan)
Chair: Jane Caplan
Reception (6:30PM-8:00PM): 1010 Weiser Hall (10th Floor)
Friday September 30, 2022, 1014 Tisch
Breakfast: 9:00AM -9:30AM
Session III (9:30AM-11:15AM): On Modernity and Such: Race, Nation, Empire
Panelist: Edin Hajdarpasic (Loyola, Chicago); Young Sun Hong (University of Stony Brook), Lenny Urena (University of New Mexico), Lora Wildenthal (Rice), Angela Zimmerman (George Washington University)
Chair: Susan Thorne (Duke)
Session IV (11:30AM-12:30PM): Mentoring Across Borders: Geoff Eley as Doktorvater
Panelist: Matthew Hershey, PhD Candidate(UM), Emilie Duranceau-Lapointe, PhD Candidate (UM), Pragya Kaul, PhD Candidate (UM)
Chair: Marti Lybek (UW-LaCrosse)
Lunch Break 12:30PM-2:00 PM
Session V (2:15PM–4:15PM): The Visual, the Social and the Material
Panelists: Becky Conekin (Yale), Harold Marcuse (UCSB), Kathy Pence (Baruch College), Bill Schwarz (QMUL), Dennis Sweeney (University of Alberta), Alice Weinreb (Loyola, Chicago)
Chair: Jennifer Jenkins (Toronto)
Keynote
“Where To Begin?”
Jane Caplan (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union (3rd Floor)
5:00 pm
Reception (6:00PM- 7:30PM): Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
Saturday, October 1, 2022, 1014 Tisch
Session VI (10Am -12:00PM): Fascisms: How to Use the Other F-Word
Panelists: Erica Carter (King’s College, London), David Crew (University of Texas-Austin), Dirk Moses (City College of New York), Johannes von Moltke (Michigan)
Chair: Tara Zahra (University of Chicago)
Lunch Break 12:00 PM- 1:30PM
Session VII (1:45 – 3:15 PM): Democracy: between Ideology and Everyday Life
Panelists: Manuela Achilles (University of Virginia), Andy Donson (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Thomas Lindenberger (Hannah Arendt Institute Dresden); Ian McNeely (Oregon), Annemarie Sammartino (Oberlin), David Spreen (Harvard)
Chair: Steve Soper (University of Georgia-Athens)
Session VIII (3:45 – 5:30 PM): Pasts and Futures: On the Urgency of History
Panelist: Belinda Davis (Rutgers), Jessica Dubow (Sheffield), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), Tracie Matysik (University of Texas), Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool)
Chair: Warren Rosenblum (Webster University)
Concluding Remarks (5:30-6:30pm)