The Southeast German Studies Workshop is an event dedicated to fostering creative, interdisciplinary dialogue among faculty members, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students interested in the history, society, and cultures of German-speaking Central Europe . Modeled on the highly successful Midwest German History Workshop, the Southeast workshop will bring together scholars from about a dozen institutions in our region, including South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. This workshop is being generously funded by grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, the USC Walker Institute for International Studies, and the departments of European Studies, History, and German literature at South Carolina.


The workshop will be held over a two-day period, with a keynote address by Prof. Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University, on Thursday, March 6; a series of three workshop sessions Thursday afternoon and Friday morning; and a capstone strategy session on Friday afternoon. Instead of reading formal papers, participants are submitting 1-3 page “position papers” to maximize the opportunities for discussion and debate. This year’s themes include issues of growing interest to the German Studies scholarly community:

• Cultural Histories of Intimacy
• Consumption and Consumer Regimes
• Transnational Germany
  

The keynote address and the workshop are free and open to the public; more detailed information about these events may be found by following the links to the left. All participants in the workshops will be expected to read the position papers before the conference, since there are no formal conference papers being delivered. If you are interested in attending one or more panels of the workshop and would like to receive access to the papers, please contact Professor Tom Lekan at lekan@sc.edu.