H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 29 March - 5 April
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 29 March - 5 April
Recent Discussions
CFP: Enemy Encounters – Online Conference 19th-20th July 2021 (Imperial War Museum / AHRC Project 'Strange Meetings: Enemy Encounters 1800–2020') (Deadline 10 May 2021)
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Call for Papers
Date:
July 19, 2021 to July 20, 2021
ANN (Conference): Americans in Vienna, 1945-1955, 27 April 2021
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Conference
Date:
April 27, 2021
CFA: 2021 Awards: Coordinating Council for Women in History (Deadline 15 May 2021)
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Prize
Date:
May 15, 2021
CFA (Fellowship): Anne Jacobson Schutte and Miriam Chrisman grants for research (Deadline 15 May 2021)
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Grant
Date:
May 15, 2021
CFP (Conference): MACHT. MODE. MÄNNER. Eine Tagung zwischen (Gesprächs)stoff, (Text)ilien & Haute-(Kultur) (english version in text) 12-13 July 2021 (Deadline 26 April 2021)
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Call for Papers
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March 31, 2021 to April 26, 2021
CFP (Conference): „All Ihre Briefe....“ Written, collected, conveyed - Rahel Varnhagen and the Varnhagen Collection / Schreiben, Sammeln, Überliefern – Rahel Varnhagen und die Varnhagensammlung
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Call for Papers
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May 10, 2021
ANN: BAFTSS New Connections Talk: A Failed Film Project in Austria: Interwar Star Franziska Gaal’s Unmade Post-War Comeback 23 April 2021, 2 pm (BST)
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Seminar
Date:
April 23, 2021
ANN: Expert Panel and Seminar: "Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe" 17 April 2021
The expert panel and seminar "Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe" takes place on April 17, 2021 at Central European University in Vienna. The event takes place online.
ANN: "Sudden, Unexpected, and Contrary to All Calculation": Coping with Plague in Antiquity, 20 April 2021
"Sudden, Unexpected, and Contrary to All Calculation": Coping with Plague in Antiquity
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Margaret Setje-Eilers
Setje-Eilers on Thomas, 'Peter Lorre: Face Maker, Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe'
Sarah Thomas. Peter Lorre: Face Maker, Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 213 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85745-441-6; ISBN 978-0-85745-442-3.
Reviewed by Margaret Setje-Eilers (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Reviewer:
Larson Powell
Powell on Garncarz and Ligensa, 'The Cinema of Germany'
Joseph Garncarz, Annemone Ligensa, eds. The Cinema of Germany. 24 Frames Series. London: Wallflower Press, 2012. xii + 264 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-905674-90-9; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-905674-91-6.
Reviewed by Larson Powell (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
From National Art to National Entertainment: Rewriting German Film History
Reviewer:
Roberta Pergher
Pergher on Clifford, 'Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy'
Rebecca Clifford. Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 304 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-967981-2.
Reviewed by Roberta Pergher (Indiana University) Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
The Virtues of Victimhood--Contemporary Uses of Holocaust Memory
Reviewer:
Harriet Scharnberg
Scharnberg on Brasse, 'Wilhelm Brasse: Photographer 3444, Auschwitz, 1940-1945'
Wilhelm Brasse, photographer. Wilhelm Brasse: Photographer 3444, Auschwitz, 1940-1945. Compiled by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Illustrations. 128 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84519-539-7.
Reviewed by Harriet Scharnberg Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Photographing Mass Murderers and Their Victims
Reviewer:
Michael Rowe
Rowe on Bennette, 'Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification'
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. x + 368 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06563-5.
Reviewed by Michael Rowe (King's College London) Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Reviewer:
Richards O. Plavnieks
Plavnieks on Montague, 'Chelmno and the Holocaust: A History of Hitler's First Death Camp'
Patrick Montague. Chelmno and the Holocaust: A History of Hitler's First Death Camp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 416 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3527-2.
Reviewed by Richards O. Plavnieks (Stetson University) Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Reviewer:
Melanie Kourbage
Kourbage on Petts, 'Pagan and Christian: Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe'
David Petts. Pagan and Christian: Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe. Debates in Archaeology Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. 144 pp. $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7156-3754-8.
Reviewed by Melanie Kourbage (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Reviewer:
Michael McConnell
McConnell on Weiss-Wendt and Yeomans, 'Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945'
Anton Weiss-Wendt, Rory Yeomans. Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 416 pp. $50.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-4507-5.
Reviewed by Michael McConnell (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) Published on H-German (September, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Racial Science on the Frontiers of Hitler's Europe
Reviewer:
H. Glenn Penny
Penny on Ciarlo, 'Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany' and Myers, 'German Visions of India, 1871-1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich'
David Ciarlo. Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 419 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05006-8.Perry Myers. German Visions of India, 1871-1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 304 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-29971-0.
Reviewer:
Margaret E. Menninger
Menninger on Kirchhof, 'Das Dienstfräulein auf dem Bahnhof: Frauen im öffentlichen Raum im Blick der Berliner Bahnhofsmission 1894-1939'
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof. Das Dienstfräulein auf dem Bahnhof: Frauen im öffentlichen Raum im Blick der Berliner Bahnhofsmission 1894-1939. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 274 pp. $79.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-515-09776-5.
Reviewed by Margaret E. Menninger (Texas State University) Published on H-German (May, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross