Programme
Thursday, 21 March 2013
10 – 11.30 Welcome
Keynote lecture:
Peter Brandt (Hagen): German Revolution 1918/19. State of Research
11.30 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 16.00 Panel 1
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich) /Comment: Dirk Schumann (Goettingen)
Hikel, Christine (Munich)
(In)Security: Political Assassinations and Attempts at Revolution and in the Early Weimar Republic
Jones, Mark (Florence)
Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-19
Rossol, Nadine (Essex)
“Unable of securing order…?” The Police and the German Revolution 1918/19
Flores, Norma Lisa (Bowling Green, Ohio)
In the Wake of General Hysteria: The Spartacist Uprising, the Palmer Raids, and the Impasse of 1919
16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea
16.30 – 18.00 Panel 2
Chair: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg) /Comment: Robert Gerwarth (Dublin)
Canning, Kathleen (Ann Arbor)
Citizenship and Gender in the Aftermath of War and Revolution in Germany, 1914 – 1930
Marhoefer, Laurie (Syracuse)
Fomenting Sexual Revolution in Germany, 1916-1921
19.30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 22 March 2013
10.00 – 12.00 Panel 3
Chair: Anthony McElligott (Limerick)/Comment: Kathleen Canning (Ann Arbor)
Foellmer, Moritz (Amsterdam)
In Search of the Revolutionary Subject in Germany, 1918/19
Grimmer, Ian G. (Burlington, Vermont)
Intellectual Workers and Cultural Revolution: Räte geistiger Arbeiter in Central Europe, 1918-1919
Tworek, Heide J. (Cambridge)
Spreading the Revolution: News Agencies and Politics in Weimar Germany, 1918-20
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 4
Chair: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg)/Comment: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich)
Haller, Oliver (Waterloo, Ontario)
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Dolchstoßlegende
Danylow, Peter (Hamburg)
The Barricades of Hamburg (Larisa Rejsner) – (de)constructing revolutionary truth
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/Tea
15.30 Roundtable: In Search of Revolution, 1916-1923: Germany and its European Context
Introduction: Anthony McElligott (Limerick)
Saturday, 23 March 2013
9.00 – 12.00 Panel 5
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Munich) /Comment: Stefan Berger (Bochum)
Boysen, Jens (Warschau)
Simultaneity of the un-simultaneous: German social revolution and Polish national revolution in Germany 1918/19
Grafl, Florian (Gießen)
Labour Leaders, Gun Men, Bomb Droppers – Revolution in its Everyday Setting during the Years of the Pistolerismo in Barcelona
Stern, Sara Sophie (Tuebingen)
Rebellious Regions in Revolutionary Times. Riots and Strikes in German and British Mining Regions in the Early 1920s
Ehret, Ulrike (Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Revolution, Nationalism and Street Violence in Munich and London 1917-1939
To attend the conference please contact Carmen Ludwig: ludwig@zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de