Program

October 14th 2021

Maison des sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine, salle Jean Borde

Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac

9.00 Opening

9.30-12.15

Social and Political Aspects of the Debate on Integration

Chair : Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Bordeaux Montaigne)

9.30 Daniel Nagel (Universität Mannheim) : Germans? Americans? German-Americans? Ethnicity and Identity of the German Forty-Eighters since the 1850s

10.15 Sarah Marciano (Université de Paris) : Desertion, Emigration and Expatriation : German-Americans and Citizenship at the end of the 19th century

Coffee Break

11.30 Walter D. Kamphoefner (Texas A&M University) : The German-American Experience in World War I: A Reassessment

Lunch break 12.15-13.30

13.30-16.30

Identities and Linguistic Concerns

Chair : Pierre-Yves Modicom (Bordeaux Montaigne)

13.30 Astrid Adler, Albrecht Plewnia (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) : The Status of German in the U.S. at the Turn of the Century – Census Data as a Sociolinguistic Source

14.15 Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin) : On determining the Influence of Standard German on Texas German before 1918

Coffee Break

15.30 Mark Louden (University of Wisconsin-Madison/Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies) : Pennsylvania Dutch Language and Identity at the Turn of the 20th Century

18.00 Screening of the film Hiwwe wie Driwwe. Pfälzisch in Amerika

Goethe-Institut Bordeaux

October 15th 2021

Maison des sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine, salle Jean Borde

Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac

9.30-12h30

Cultural Dimensions of Integration

Chair : Bernadette Rigal-Cellard (Bordeaux Montaigne)

9.30 Jana Weiß (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) : An 'American Way of Gemütlichkeit'? The Rise and Fall of German-American Brewers – A Case Study of the Midwest

10.15 Christine Roger (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne): « Ueber’n großen Teich » : Deutschamerikanisches Theater in New York und Berlin um 1900

Coffee Break

11.30 Anke Ortlepp (Universität zu Köln) : Let's get to it and get it done : German Americans Women's Clubs in the 19th Century

Lunch Break 12.30-14.00

14.00-17.00

Integration and Assimilation according to the German-American Historiography

Chair : Hélène Camarade (Bordeaux Montaigne)

14.00 Tristan Coignard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne/IUF): Herausforderungen der Integration aus der Perspektive der deutschamerikanischen Geschichtsschreibung um 1900: Heinrich Armin Rattermann (1832-1923) und Julius Goebel (1857-1931)

14.45 Odile Schneider-Mizony (Université de Strasbourg) : Heinz Kloss als Deuter der deutsch-amerikanischen Sprachgeschichte

Coffee Break

16.00 Ghislain Potriquet (Université de Strasbourg) : How Heinz Kloss learned history on the job : from the Deutschamerikanertum to the American Bilingual Tradition