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Book Discussion Roundtable with H-German
September 24, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Book Discussion: Germany – A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000
This book shows how the concept of the German nation developed and changed over half a millennium, demonstrating that nationalism was only one possible way of imagining the nation. Using evidence from maps and literature, material culture, and high politics, this book precisely delineates constantly altering constellations of national imaginings and charts epistemological ruptures between chronologically distinct and essentially different ways of defining the nation. Modern nationalism is part of this larger story, but only a part, and one, moreover, with both productive and extremely destructive dimensions to it. The book also suggests that while Germany has not left the age of nationalism, it has made considerable progress in this direction, the partial successes of right-wing populism notwithstanding. For this reason, it makes sense to speak of the German nation before, during, and after nationalism.
HELMUT WALSER SMITH is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. From 2005-2008, he was Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt. His recent book publications include: Germany – A Nation in its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism (2020); The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, editor (2011); and The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (2008).
EVENT TIME & PLACE
Friday, 24 September 2021
2:00–4:00 pm I Zoom Seminar
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Moderator: KAREN HAGEMANN, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History
Introduction: JASPER HEINZEN, Review Editor of H-German, University of York, Dept. of History) I MATTHEW UNANGST, Review Editor of H-German, Jacksonville University, Dept. of History
Comments: TERENCE V. MCINTOSH, Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History I JOHN BREUILLY, Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics, Dept. of Government I KONRAD H. JARAUSCH,
Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History I EVE ROSENHAFT, Professor
Emerita of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool
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CONTACT: Karen Hagemann I UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History, email: hagemann@unc.edu
CONVENERS: Duke University: Dept. of German Studies I Dept. of History I The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Carolina Seminars I Carolina Center for Jewish Studies I Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures I Dept. of History