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Table of Contents:
- EGSA News
- Conference Announcements and Reports
- Miscellaneous News
- New Reading
- Requests and Queries
- EGSA Officers for 1998-2001
EGSA News
Next (and last?) EGSA Conference in Fall 2002
For those who like to plan ahead, the next and possibly final
EGSA conference is being planned for Fall 2002. More details
will follow.
1998 EGSA Conference Book
Proofs have been read for the collected papers of the 1998 conference, and the book should appear this spring.
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Conference
Announcements and Reports
First summer East German Film Institute
The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts is sponsoring a conference this summer from 25-30 June 2001 with the theme "Interdisciplinary Approaches to DEFA Film." The deadline for applications to participate is 23 March 2001. For further details, contact Brenda Bethman or visit the DEFA Film library web site.
12th Annual Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference at Yale
This conference, subtitled "The Visual Turn" will be held in New Haven from 6-8 April 2001. For details, see the conference web site.
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Miscellaneous News
Dave Reidy has a list of books on the GDR for sale. If your bookshelf is missing some classics, here's a chance to fill the gaps.
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New Reading
New Books
Heneghan, Tom, Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall (New York: New York Institute of Finance/Prentice Hall Press, 2000), an account of the decade between the fall of the Wall and the German government's move to Berlin.
McAdams, A. James , Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Pritchard, Gareth, The Making of the GDR, 1945-1953 (Manchester University Press, 2000). A study of the Stalinization of the GDR.
Robinson. David W. Deconstructing East Germany: Christoph Hein's Literature of Dissent Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999).
Sarotte, M. E., Dealing with the Devil. East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Vogt, Timothy, Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany: Brandenburg, 1945-1948 (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Articles
Recent Theses and Dissertations:
Ahonen, Pertti Tapio, "The Expellee Organizatons and West German Ostpolitik, 1949-1969," Yale
Calico, Joy Haslam, "The Politics of Opera in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1961" Duke
Henderson, Cary Lee, ""Lidiia Chukovslaia and Christa Wolf: (RE)Writing History" SUNY Stony Brook
Kastner, Jill Davey colley, "The Ambivalent Ally: Adenauer, Eisenhower and the Dilemmas of the Cold War, 1953-1960" Harvard
Leggett, Mark Felton, "A Comparison of Develpmental and Familial Attributes in Former East and West German Adolescents," Alabama
Mac Con Uladh, Damian, "The National-Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) and the Building of the GDR, 1948-1958", MA thesis, (National University of Ireland, Galway), 2000.
McAdams, Kay Lynn, "Equal and Different? Women Workers and Labor Unions in Postwar East and West Germany, 1945-1955"
Theriault, Barbara, 'The Conservative Revolutionaries': The Protestant and Catholic Churches in East Germany After Radical Political Change" University of Erfurt, 2001.
VanDijk, Rutger, "East and West and the Division of Germany, 1945-1953: A Reassessment of the 'Missed Opportunities' for Unification" Ohio
SAPMO Bibliotheksbriefe
The latest issues of the SAPMO library's list of its holdings include:
- #9/2000: Aus der Arbeit der Enquete-Kommission Aufarbeitung von Geschiche und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland" (1992-1994)
- #10/2000: Anna Seghers
- #11/2000: Die SED und die Kirche
- #12/200: Frauen in der DDR in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren
- #1/2001: Schöner unsere Städte und Gemeinden--Mach mit!
- #2/2001: Gedenk- und Erinnerungsstätten der deutschen
Arbeiterbewegung
Randy Bytwerk can provide a photocopy for those find a particular issue interesting.
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Requests and Queries
Lois Weinthal, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, writes: "I will be in Germany this summer for six weeks researching the relationship between architecture, interior domestic spaces and the way politics and economics have shaped these spaces in the former east Germany before, during and after the Berlin Wall. I would like to ask other members of EGSA if they know of any people they could put me in contact with who have access or are familiar with the large Socialist housing projects built in the 1970's such as Marzahn and Hellersdorf."
I would appreciate knowing if it is possible to do this. Thank you.
Best,
Lois Weinthal
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EGSA Officers for 1998-2001
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)429-8552
Fax: (860) 486-3347
Email: henryk@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Membership and Treasurer:
- Meredith Heiser
- 707 Laurel Ave.
- Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Email: mah2369@fhda.edu
- 707 Laurel Ave.
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Randall Bytwerk
CAS Department
Calvin College
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Ellen Anderson
Vassar College
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In -progress version of the April 2001 EGSA Newsletter
Last updated 2 May 2001
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