Living the German Revolution 1918-19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses
German Historical Institute London
17 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NJ
18 – 20 October 2018
Conveners: Christopher Dillon (King’s College London), Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL), Steven Schouten (University of Amsterdam) and Kim Wünschmann (LMU München)
Thursday,18October2018
13:30 Arrivalandregistration
14:00-14:15 Welcomeandintroductionbytheorganisers
14:15-16:00 PanelI:LivingatRevolutionaryFlashpointsChair:AdamSutcliffe(London)
WiebkeWiede(Trier):TheWilhelmshavenRevolts1917-1919:SocialConditionsandExperiencesoftheRevolutiononaNavalBase
ChristinaLipke(Hamburg):EverydayLifeinrevolutionaryHamburg1918/19ChristopherDillon(London):BeyondMunich:RevolutionaryFlashpointsinProvincialBavaria
16:00-16:20 Tea&Coffee
16:20-18:00 PanelII:PerspectivesonRevolutionaryViolence Chair:KimWünschmann(Munich)
AnitaKlingler(Edinburgh):AttitudestopoliticalviolenceinearlyinterwarBritainandGermany:GlasgowandMunich,1919ThomasBlanck(Cologne):RevolutionaryStatesofException:UrbanViolenceinMunichandFiume,1918-20
MarkJones(Berlin/Dublin):100JahreNovemberrevolution:ReflectionsuponthecentenaryofGermany's'forgottenrevolution'
18:30-20:00 KeynoteAddress Chair:ChristinavonHodenberg(London) BenjaminZiemann(Sheffield) HistoryintheActiveVoice:
RethinkingtheGermanRevolution1918/1919
followedbyareception
Friday,19October201809:30-11:30 PanelIII:WomenandtheGermanRevolution Chair:MarkHewitson(London)
IngridSharp(Leeds):BeyondRosaLuxemburg:WomenintheGermanRevolution1918/19
CorinnePainter(Leeds):WritingtheRevolution:LolaLandauandCläreJungMatthewStibbe(SheffieldHallam):Understandingsocialistwomen’sperspectivesonviolenceandtherevolution:Germany,1918-1920
11:30-12:00 Tea&Coffee12:00-13:30 PanelIV:GermanJewsandtheRevolution Chair:StevenSchouten(Amsterdam) KimWünschmann(Munich):HopesandFears:
GermanJewsandtheRevolution.MunichasaCaseStudy DanielSiemens(Newcastle):HeadstoneofEmancipation?
TheRevolutionof1918/19andtheGermanJews
13:30-14:30 Lunch14:30-16:00 PanelV:EmotionsandtheChroniclingofRevolutionaryHistory Chair:SebastianGehrig(London)
NadineRossol(Essex):WritingaboutaRevolution:EmotionsandAgencyofyoungPeopleintheGermanRevolution1918/19
16:00-16:30 Tea&Coffee
16:30-18:00 PanelVI:TheChurchesandtheRevolution Chair:JimBjork(London)
UlrikeEhret(Munich):ImpiousHopes?CatholicExperiencesoftheRevolution1918/1919inMunichBenediktBrunner(Mainz):AnunsettledChurch?TheGermanRevolutionanditsImplicationsforaNewOrderoftheProtestantChurchesinGermany
19:00 Conferencedinner
Saturday,20October2018
09:00-10:30 PanelVII:PublishingHouses,CultureandEducation Chair:PaulMoore(Leicester)
MargareteTiessen(Cambridge):‘FatefulEnormities’:TheBerlinPublishingHouseS.FischerandtheGermanRevolution
StevenSchouten(Amsterdam):LaboratoryforCulturalRenewal:The1918/19GermanRevolutionandtheFoundationoftheWaldorfSchool
10:30-11:00 Tea&Coffee
11:00-12:30 PanelVIII:RevolutionaryIdeasandPractices Chair:ChristopherDillon(London) DarrowSchecter(Sussex):TheGermanRevolution,CouncilDemocracy
andRadicalConstitutionalTheory
AndrewDonson(Amherst):Arbeitsunlust:ASocialandEconomicAnalysisofthe‘ReluctancetoWork’inGermany,1918/19
12:30-14:00 ConcludingRoundtableDiscussion Chair:StevenSchouten(Amsterdam)
Discussants:AnthonyMcElligott(Limerick),AndrewDonson(Amhurst),NadineRossol(Essex)
