Conference Schedule 2022:

Chair: Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen)

‘“Jenseits Meers”: Elizabethan England and the Sea in German Print’ – Kate Shore (Oxford)

‘The Baltic Networks of the Duchy of Courland in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic: Debunking National Narratives’ – John Freeman (Cambridge)

Chair: Matthew Stibbe

‘Rethinking Imperial Collapse’ – Jean-Michel Johnston (Cambridge)

‘Divorcing the dynasty: Revolution, state-building, and the fate of royal property, 1918-1930’–Jonathan Triffit (Independent Researcher)

‘Creating International Zones in the Wake of Empire’ – Anna Ross (Warwick)

Chair: Chris Dillon (KCL)

‘“When they said setting up a US court would cause difficulty, we never imagined anything like this”: The Contested Legitimacy of the United States Court for Berlin’ – Clare Copley (University of Central Lancashire)

‘From Community to Confrontation: Student Newspapers in Early West Germany’ – Rory Hanna (Sheffield)

‘Two Fathers and Train Drivers in Skirts: “Importing Identities” and Trans Moral Panics in the West German Press in the 1970s’ – Bodie Ashton (Erfurt)

Chair: Dr. Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London)

‘Half-Transformed Matter: Partially Processed Quartz Carvings and Faulty Bronze in Early Modern Germany (1500-1600)’ – Agnieszka Dziki (Warsaw)

‘God, Mining, and Alchemy in the 16th Century Illustrated Works by Martin Stürtz’ – Sergei Zotov (Warwick)

‘A Most Joyous Mining Town. Urban Resource Imaginaries in the 17^th Century’ – Mirjam Hähnle (GHIL)

Chair: Bodie Ashton (Erfurt)

‘Stories with no Archive – Women Zionists in West Germany’ – Tabea Richardson

‘Building a Feminist Archive: Archiv GrauZone, Gender and Reunification’ – Jane Freeland (GHIL)

‘Exile and the Archive: Writing Women’s Intellectual History at the Extremes’ – Emily A. Steinhauer (GHIL)

Chair: Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam)

‘The Man in his Primitive Palace: Carl Alexander Simon and the German Imagination of Southern Chile’ – Miguel Angel Gaete (York)

‘Images of German Colonies and People in Children’s Literature 1884-1918’ – Les Newsom (UCL)

‘Fritz Riebisch and the First German Colonial Traveling Exhibition (Dekowa), 1926-1931’ – Jeff Bowersox (UCL)

Chair: Stefan Hanß (Manchester)

‘Coping with Crisis: The Role of Permeable Corporeality in Accounts of Seventeenth-Century Warfare’ – Regine Maritz (Berne)

‘Skin, Materials and Medicine in Northern Renaissance Art’ – Amelia Hutchinson (Cambridge)

‘The Boundaries of Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ – Holly Fletcher (Manchester)

Chair: Anna Ross (Warwick)

‘Soldiers on the Labour Front: Military Strike-Breaking and Work Discipline in Wartime Berlin, 1917-18’ – André Keil (Liverpool John Moores University)

‘The Fight Against Work-Refusers in Occupied France and Belgium and in Munich/Upper Bavaria, 1916-18’ – Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University)

‘Feeding War or Revolution? The Strikes over Contraband Food in Summer 1918’ – Andrew Donson (University of Massachusetts, Amhurst)

Chair: Emily Steinhauer (GHIL)

‘“They will be ambassadors for peace and democracy”: Recuperative Holiday Initiatives for German Children in the Aftermath of the Second World War’ – Lorraine McEvoy (Trinity College Dublin)

‘Greek Women with Same-Sex Desires and Migration to West Germany, 1960s-1980s’ – Nikolaos Papadogiannis (St Andrews)

‘“Adiós, amigo Willy”. Transnational Ties and Personal Networks Between Germany and Spain: Democracy, Social Democracy and Internationalism in the late Cold War.’ – Marina Perez De Arcos (Oxford)

Chair: Marina Perez de Arcos (Oxford/LSE)

‘“The army of Austria […], in many ways is little better than a red guard”: The Austrian Officer Corps, Between Social Democracy and Monarchism in the Wake of the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, 1918-1927 – Eamonn Milliken (Maynooth)

‘Women’s Salons and Associations: Revolutionary Sociability in Munich during the German Revolution 1918-1919’ – Clotilde Faas (Neuchâtel)

‘Midwives and Strategies on Reforming Midwifery in Germany 1918-1945’ – Sophia Koenig (Leipzig)

Chair: Paul Moore (Leicester)

‘Spatial Perpetration: Dachau, the SS and the Limits of Architecture’ – Jessica Cretney (De Montfort University)

‘The Nation in the Barracks: Social Organisation among Norwegian Political Prisoners in Sachsenhausen’ – Karianne Hansen (Leicester)

‘Friendships as “Spaces” of Emotional Refuge in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp’ – Paul O’Shea (Leicester)

Chair: Jane Freeland (GHIL)

‘“An Hilde Eisler’s Magazin”. Scopes of (inter)action in the GDR Press Landscape’ – Lisa Städtler (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

‘“In the hope you will understand as a woman” – East German Women and the DFD Eingaben Process’ – Anna McEwan (Glasgow)

‘Disappearing Act: Lea Grundig and the Art of Communist Germany’ – Tina Mendelsohn (Oxford)

Chair: David Lederer (Maynooth)

‘A Male Consort in a Time of Turmoil: Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1736-45’ – Noé Vagner-Clévenot (Oxford)

‘Adam Bernd and the Pietist Representation of Mental Illness in Early 18^th-Century Germany – Thomas Appleby (Maynooth)

Chair: Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam)

Commentators: Moritz Föllmer (Amsterdam), Anita Klingler (Sheffield), Nadine Rossol (University of Essex)

Respondents: Chris Dillon (KCL), Benjamin Ziemann (Sheffield)

Chair: Paul Moore (Leicester)

‘The Zurich Moment of European Eugenics’ – Constantin Kilcher (Cambridge)

‘Denied a Certificate of Fitness to Marry: The Nuremberg Race Laws as a Threat to Black German Families’ – Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam)

‘”The Applicant for Naturalisation Should be Healthy and Able to Work”: “Health”, Discrimination, and the Afterlife of Eugenics in the Naturalisation Practice of West Germany – Nicholas Courtman (KCL)