Conference Schedule - The Federal Republic

Friday, March 31, 2023
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

1 – 1:10 PM | Welcome & Introduction
    • Yair Mintzker, Princeton University
    • Harold James, Princeton University

1:10 – 2:55 PM | Panel 1 | Geographies
    • Astrid M. Eckert, Emory University | "West Germany from the Periphery"
    • Michael Brenner, American University/LMU Munich | "From Buchenwald to Föhrenwald: Jewish Geography in Postwar Germany"
    • Chair: Yair Mintzker, Princeton University

2:55 – 3:30 PM | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

3:30 – 5:15 PM | Panel 2 | Histories
    • Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego | "The Federal Republic as Myth and History"
    • Jack Guenther, Princeton University | "Postwar Hamburg and the German Past"
    • Chair: Iryna Vushko, Princeton University


Saturday, April 1, 2023
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

9 – 10:45 AM | Panel 3 | Internationalisms
• Stephen G. Gross, New York University | "Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change"
• Tiffany N. Florvil, University of New Mexico | "Rethinking Late Modern Black Internationalisms in Germany"
• Chair: Jack Guenther, Princeton University

10:45 – 11 AM | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

11 AM – 12:45 PM | Movements
    • Jennifer Evans, Carleton University | "Queer Kinship After Fascism"
    • Anna von der Goltz, Georgetown University | "Rethinking Generational Histories of the 1960s and of the Federal Republic"
    • Chair: Harold James, Princeton University

12:45 – 1 PM | Closing Remarks

1 – 2 PM | Lunch
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

Conference Concludes