Conference organizers
- Devin Pendas
- Mark Roseman
- Richard Wetzell
Beyond The Racial State was organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington.
With major assistance from:
- The Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
- The Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
- The German Academic Exchange Service
- The Center for Arts and Humanities, Indiana University
- West European Studies, Indiana University
- Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University
Beyond the Racial State
rethinking nazi germany
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 23-25, 2009
Race, Empire, Ethnicity
Friday 23 October 9:00 AM
Chair: Michel Chaouli, Indiana University
- Pascal Grosse, Berlin and University of Michigan
- Meanings of Race and bio-politics in modern Germany
- Jürgen Zimmerer, Sheffield University, UK
- The Nazi Empire in Colonial Perspective
- Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Reexamining the Völkisch Turn in Weimar Germany
- Discussant: Edward Ross Dickinson, UC Davis
Nazism and Race--The Big Picture
Friday 23 October 11:00 AM
Chair: Carl Ipsen, Indiana University
- Dirk Moses, University of Sydney
- Security and the Völkisch Imagination
- Mark Roseman, Indiana University
- Beyond the racial state
- Roberta Pergher, University of Kansas
- Looking at the 'racial state' through the window of fascist Italy
- Discussant: Claudia Koonz, Duke University
Race and Nazi Racial Policy
Friday 23 October 2:30 PM
Chair: Dirk Moses, University of Sydney, Australia
- Jürgen Matthäus, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Beyond the Jewish Question: Racial Policy in the Early Stages
- Richard Steigmann Gall, Kent State University
- Neither Aryan nor Semite: Mutability and Identity in the Third Reich
- Ben Thorne, Indiana University
- Common Problems, Different Solutions: The Role of Race in Solving the ‘Gypsy Problem’ in the Third Reich and Romania
- Discussant: Julia Roos, Indiana University
Evening address (Wylie Hall 005)
Friday 23 October 8:00 PM
Donald Bloxham in parallel with the Institute for Advanced StudyRace in Science and Scholarship
Saturday 24 October 9:00 AM
Chair: Jason McGraw, Indiana University
- Herwig Czech, Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna
- Nazi Medical Crimes, Eugenics, and the Limits of the 'Racial State' Paradigm
- Dirk Rupnow, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- Racializing Historiography: Anti-Jewish Scholarship, Definitions and Diagnoses of "Jewishness"
- Frieder Günther, Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, Stuttgart
- Order Beyond Race: Ideas of Radical Social Order in German Right-Wing Intellectual Debates 1920-1960
- Discussant: Richard Wetzell, German Historical Institute, Washington
Race and German Society
Saturday 24 October 11:00 AM
Chair: Julia Roos, Indiana University
- Eric Kurlander, Stetson University
- “A Space for Compassion.” Liberal Women and Progressive Social Policy in the Racial State
- Martina Kessel, Bielefeld University
- Trouble with Grandma. Racist Jokes during National Socialism
- Annette Timm, University of Calgary
- Gender, Sexuality and Race: Moving Beyond the Historikerinnenstreit
- Discussant: Marion Kaplan, NYU
Race, Citizenship and Empire in the East
Saturday 24 October 2:00 PM
Chair: Jeff Veidlinger, Indiana University
- Michael Meng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Eastern Europe as an Imperial Space
- Alexa Stiller, Bern University
- Race, Space, and Volk: Ideology and Pragmatism within the Nazi Germanization Policy in the Annexed Territories
- Gerhard Wolf, University of Sussex
- Negotiating 'Völkisch' and Racial Identities: The 'Deutsche Volksliste' in Annexed Poland
- Discussant: Doris Bergen, University of Toronto
Race in Wartime
Saturday 24 October 4:30 PM
Chair: Jim Diehl, Indiana University
- Nick Stargardt, Magdalen College, Oxford
- The Volk at war: What were Germans fighting for in World War II?
- Regina Mühlhäuser, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
- Sexuality, Violence, Race and Masculinity: Nazi efforts to control the sexuality of German soldiers in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945
- Richard Bessel, University of York, UK
- Racism, Nationalism, Violence and Pragmatism: The End of the Racial State in 1945
- Discussant: Devin Pendas, Boston College
Conference Dinner
Saturday 24 October 8:00 PM
Aftermath
Sunday 25 October 9:00 AM
Chair: Sara Friedman, Indiana University
- Devin Pendas, Boston College
- The Fate of a Man: The Murder of Dr. Hans Hannemann, April 25, 1945
- Rita Chin, University of Michigan
- The Nazi Legacy and the Problem of Race in West Germany
- Monica Black, Furman University
- Race myths in post-war Germany
- Discussant: Michelle Moyd, Indiana University
