Annual General Meetings
2008 German History Society Annual Meeting and Conference
25 October 2008
"Africa in Germany, Germany in Africa"
- 10.00
- German History Society AGM
- 11.15
- Tea/Coffee break
- 11.30
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Vera Lind (Northern Illinois University)
"Born in Moor-Land, Born Again in Germany, Made White in Spirit from Original Sin": Africans and Germans in the Eighteenth Century - 12.00
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Bernhard Gißibl (Universität Mannheim)
"German Colonialism and African Environments" - 12.30
- Discussion
- 13.00
- Lunch
- 13.45
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Jörgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield)
"Between Amnesia and Denial. Genocide, colonialism and German national identity" - 14.15
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Larissa Förster (Universität Köln)
"The memory of colonialism among German-speaking Namibians" - 14.45
- Discussion
- 15.15
- Tea / Coffee break
- 15.30
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Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Universität Kassel)
"The Colonies in Motion: German Colonial Cinematography" - 16.00
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Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt Universität/Freie Universität Berlin)
"Wie geht die deutsche Hauptstadt mit ihrem kolonialen Erbe um? - Einige historische und aktuelle Reminiszenzen" - 16.30
- Discussion
AGM minutes
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