Friday, February 10, 2006 (first session at10 am, see schedule below)
1644 International Institute
The workshop brings to campus two senior historians of Germany:  Heide Fehrenbach of Northern Illinois University, author of Cinema in Democratizing Germany (UNC Press, 1997) and Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America (Princeton UP, 2005); and Atina Grossmann of the Cooper Union, author of Reforming Sex (Oxford UP, 1995).
Broadly speaking, the workshop is an attempt to counter the tendency of historians of Germany to push questions of race/ethnicity to the margins of the field, or to assign race/ethnicity to specific, all-too-obvious moments (especially colonialism and the Third Reich).  The event is structured around four pre-circulated papers (two by the visiting historians and two by UM historians Rita Chin and Geoff Eley), which together lay out an argument about where the race/ethnicity debates go, how they resurface and are reconstituted in the post-1945 period, even if there is relatively little explicit discussion of the term “race.”  By bringing race/ethnicity into the “center” of German history, moreover, the workshop seeks to place the German case in dialogue with other national debates about race and difference—not only Britain, France, and other European countries which have struggled with diversity after the Second World War, but also the United States, Canada, and Australia. 
If you are interested in receiving the pre-circulated papers and participating in the workshop, please contact Natasa Gruden-Alajbegovic (nalajbeg@umich.edu) or Rita Chin (rchin@umich.edu).
After the Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Postfascist Germany
International Institute, SSWB 1644
Friday, February 10, 2006
10:00    Introduction & Welcome: Rita Chin

10:30    Session One—Chair, Kader Konuk (German/Comp. Lit.)
From Victims to “Homeless Foreigners”:  Jewish Survivors in Postwar Germany
Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
Comment, Shirli Gilbert (History/Society of Fellows)
Black Occupation Children and the Devolution of the Nazi Racial State
Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University
Comment, Matthew Countryman (History, AC)

1:30      Session Two—Chair, Damani Partridge (CAAS/Anthro.)
Guest Worker Migration and the Unintended Return of Race
Rita Chin (History)
Comment, Kathleen Canning (History)
The Trouble with “Race”:  Migration, Citizenship and National Identity in
Europe after 1945
Geoff Eley (German/History)
Comment, Genevieve Zubryzcki (Sociology)

4:00     Roundtable—Chair, Charlie Bright (History/RC)
Miriam Ticktin (Anthro./WS)
Kali Israel (History)
Roberta Pergher (History graduate student).
Sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Center for European Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Department of German and the Institute for Historical Studies.

Natasa Gruden-Alajbegovic
Administrator
Center for European Studies
European Union Center
University of Michigan
1080 S. University, Suite 4663
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
T (734) 647-2743  F(734) 763-4765
Email: nalajbeg@umich.edu
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