CfP: GSA Panels "Biographical Writing"

Mary Lindemann and Ben Marschke are organizing panels on "biographical writing in the twenty-first century" for the 2023 German Studies Association conference (5-8 Oct., in Montreal).  

These panels will address how scholars have recently approached the writing of biographies, whether of canonical figures, lesser known people, or even unknown people.  

Small Screen Orientalisms in the German-Speaking Contexts

deadline for submissions: 

March 1, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Christian David Zeitz, University of Toronto

contact email: 

christian.zeitz@mail.utoronto.ca

Panel Proposal

Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association

October 5-8, Montréal, Québec, Canada

 

Author: 
Sarah Jost, Gabriela Wachter, eds.
Reviewer: 
Noah Soltau

Soltau on Jost and Wachter, 'Die verschwundene Arbeit: In Fotografien aus Berliner Sammlungen und Archiven'

Sarah Jost, Gabriela Wachter, eds. Die verschwundene Arbeit: In Fotografien aus Berliner Sammlungen und Archiven. Berlin: Parthas Verlag, 2008. 309 pp. EUR 29.80 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86601-385-8.

Reviewed by Noah Soltau (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) Published on H-German (November, 2010) Commissioned by Benita Blessing

Work on Film: Berlin's Bygone Businesses

Author: 
Rüdiger Graf
Reviewer: 
Peter C. Caldwell

Caldwell on Graf, 'Die Zukunft der Weimarer Republik: Krisen und Zukunftsaneignungen in Deutschland 1918-1933'

Rüdiger Graf. Die Zukunft der Weimarer Republik: Krisen und Zukunftsaneignungen in Deutschland 1918-1933. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008. 480 pp. ISBN 978-3-486-58583-4.

Reviewed by Peter C. Caldwell Published on H-German (November, 2008) Commissioned by Eve M. Duffy

The Many Futures of the Weimar Republic

Author: 
Jürgen Gerhards
Reviewer: 
Dieter K. Buse

Buse on Gerhards, 'The Name Game: Cultural Modernization and First Names'

Jürgen Gerhards. The Name Game: Cultural Modernization and First Names. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2005. Foreword. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7658-0297-2.

Reviewed by Dieter K. Buse (Department of History, Laurentian University) Published on H-German (January, 2008)

The Name in the Game is No Longer German

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