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Newsletter of the Eastern German Studies Association |
#25 (April 1999) |
This is the on-line version of the April 1999 EGSA newsletter.
Over 50 people participated in the EGSA conference. Attentive readers will note a new abbreviation, EGSA instead of EGSG. The members decided to change the name to Eastern German Studies Association, since President Laurence McFalls reported that the funding sources he found for the conference were initially not sure what to make of a group, whereas they knew what an association was.
The conference had the usual wide range of papers concerning Eastern Germany. If sufficient money remains, a selection will be published. Lively discussion followed most papers, and all agreed that Laurence McFalls had done an excellent job of organizing the gathering.
At the business meeting, Scott Gissendanner reported that we finally have U.S. IRS approval and that the EGSA is solvent. The treasurer's report is as follows:
| Balance: 4/1996 | $2.631.17 | |
| INCOME | ||
| Dues | 855.00 | |
| Interest and other income | 293.29 | |
| EXPENSES | ||
| Newsletter Postage | 330.00 | |
| Travel grant 1995 | 200.00 | |
| IRS Penalty | 31.25 | |
| Deposit, Ritz-Carlton | 750.00 | |
| CURRENT BALANCE | 2,468.21 | |
| AFTER DEPOSIT RET | 3,218.21 |
The members approved up to $800 in travel grant for graduate students or underemployed participants who had not received other travel support.
Laurence McFalls, who had assumed leadership in 1995 on a platform of working to end the then EGSG, having fulfilled at least part of his promise by encouraging the new name "Eastern German Studies Association," was re-elected president for 1998-2001. Scott Gissendanner, Ellen Anderson and Randall Bytwerk were re-elected as well. New executive committee members are Bradden Weaver and Meredith Heiser. Henry Krish continues by virtue of his status as past president.
After considerable discussion, the members agreed that the Eastern German Studies Association continues to serve a useful role in the scholarly landscape, though it might make sense to "move" the organization to Canada, perhaps placing it under the aegis of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. The executive committee was voted the authority to make such changes as it thought best for the organization's future.
The next EGSA conference will be in 2001, probably in Montreal or Toronto.
The call for papers for the 25th New Hampshire Symposium is available.
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Programme
The Centre is very grateful for the support given by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung which made the organisation of the conference possible.
Friday 17 September
Saturday 18 September
Further details of the conference can be obtained from:
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ICESTORM International, a new company, in collaboration with the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts, is making available a large variety of DEFA films on video, some with English subtitles. Films already available include Die Mörder sind unter uns, Einer trage des anderen Last..., Jakob der Lügner and Spur der Steine. For further information, contact Hiltrud Schulz or write:
Samuel N Koltinsky writes: "I
am an American who has lived and worked in the New States since the fall
of the wall. I just finished producing and directing a 58 minute documentary
on Weimar to be released worldwide in Spanish, French, German, and English.
With several anniversaries this year, Goethe, Bauhaus, Weimar Republic,
Reunification, Culture City of Europe, I felt it was long time overdue to
tell Weimar's story. Maestor Kurt Masur is also featured several times in
the documentary. If you would like more information, please contact me.
I will be leaving for Germany next Thursday to start on a two part documentary
on German's 50th Anniversary. Later this year I will be shooting another
documentary on Dresden and the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche."
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New ReadingMarilyn Rueschemeyer, ed., Women in the Politics of Post-Communist
Eastern Europe, London and Armonk, New York:M.E.Sharpe Publishers, 1998.
The book includes an extensive article on women in eastern Germany by
Marilyn Rueschemeyer and an historical overview on women in western Germany
by Eva Kolinsky.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Bjorn Wittrock, editors,
Participation and Democracy East and West, London and Armonk New
York, M.E.Sharpe Publishers, 1998. This book contains a chapter on eastern
Germany by Marilyn
Rueschemeyer and on western Germany by Bernhard Wessels.
Rosewitha Skare & Rainer B. Hoppe (eds), Wendezeichen? Neue Sichtweisen auf die Literatur der DDR, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 00046) Rodopi, 1999. 243 pages. ISBN 90-420-0645-5 32,- DM.
Gerhard Wettig, Bereitschaft zu Einheit in Freiheit? Die sowjetische Deutschland-Politik 1945-1955 (Munich, Olzog, 1999).
W.H. Berentsen, "Socioeconomic Development in Eastern Germany in Comparative Perspective: 1989-1998", Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 40 (1), 27-43.
Marilyn Rueschemeyer, "Social Democrats After the End of Communist Rule: Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic," Sociological Analysis, Vol. 1, No.3, September 1998, pp.41-59.
Adrianus Schriel, "The History of the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam and its Reflection of the Cultural Politics of the German Democratic Republic," Dissertation, University of Georgia.
The latest issues of the SAPMO library's list of its holdings include:
Randy Bytwerk can provide a photocopy for those find a particular issue interesting.
CWIHP Bulletin 11 (among other things with several Khrushchev conversations on the 1958/62 Berlin Crisis) has appeared. You may request a copy via email, or visit the CWIHP web site.
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President:
Laurence McFalls
Department de science politique
Université de Montreal
C.P. 6128
succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7
Canada
Email: laurence.mcfalls@umontreal.ca
Past-President:
Henry Krisch
Dept. of Political Science
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269-102
Phone: (860) 486-5334
Fax: (860) 486-3347
Email: henryk@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Treasurer:
Scott Gissendanner
bei Gnielka
Potsdamer-Str. 82
15711 Koenigs Wusterhausen
Germany
Email: gissendanner@t-online.de
Membership:
Newsletter:
Randall Bytwerk
CAS Department
Calvin College
3201 Burton SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Phone: (616) 957-6286
Fax: (616) 957-6601
Members- at-Large:
In -progress version of the April 1999 EGSA Newsletter
Last updated 7 April 1999
Web Page by Randall Bytwerk
Calvin College
URL: <http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/egsg/latest.htm>