HISTORY, MEMORY, POLITICS
HISTORY, MEMORY, POLITICS
HISTORY, MEMORY, POLITICS
New Perspectives on The Age of Ideologies and its Aftermath
A Conference in Honor of Jeffrey Herf's Retirement
University of Maryland, College Park, Taliaferro Hall, Ira Berlin Room, Room 2110
Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of History and Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies; Üniversitat Bielefeld; and Professur für Zeitgeschichte
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
10:00am
Opening remarks from Christina Morina and Samuel Miner, conference organizers
10:30am-12:00pm
Panel I – Fascist and Antifascist Lives
Christopher Donohue (NHGRI History of Genomics Program, Washington, DC):
"Ernst Nolte and the Phenomenology of Reactionary Modernism in Post-war German Far-Right Thought."
Melissa Kravetz (Longwood University Department of History, Longwood, VA; Co-Chair of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies):
"A Reliable and Unreliable Narrator: Gerhart Seger's Anti-Fascist Work in America.”
Samuel Miner (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich):
“Ordering Work for the Volksgemeinschaft: Hans Carl Nipperdey and the Continuities of German Labor Law.”
Commentator: Suzanne Brown-Fleming (Director International Academic Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial
and Museum, Washington, DC)
1:30pm-3:00pm
Panel II – Memory and Justice
Jeremy Best (Iowa State University Ames, Iowa):
“Telling the Story of World War II: The Wehrmacht, the U.S. Army, and Wargames.”
Steven Remy (City University of New York, New York, NY):
"'An observer would be under the impression that the Germany of 1933-1945 is being preserved':
Postwar internment, memory work, and reintegration in the BRD".
Paul Schmitt (Of Counsel (Attorney), DC Area International Law Firm):
"International Criminal Tribunal Verdicts as a First Draft of History: Nuremberg, the ICTY, and the ICC."
Commentator: Norman Goda (University of Florida Department of History;
Director Center for Jewish Studies, Gainesville, Florida)
3:15pm
Zoom remarks from Anetta Kahane (Amadeu Antonio Foundation, Berlin)
3:30pm-4:30pm
Panel III – Historians as Policymakers
Nicholas J. Schlosser (US Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC):
“The Intellectuals and the Global War on Terrorism.”
Commentator: Piotr Kosicki (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
4:30pm-5:15pm Video Greetings
5:30pm-7:00pm
Roundtable Discussion
Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
Richard Breitman (American University, Washington, DC)
Panel Moderation: Christina Morina (University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld)