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Years of United Germany: The Effects of Unification
A
One-Day Conference at the University of Waterloo
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Sponsored
by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the Goethe-Institut,
and the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany
1:30-3:00pm
- Session 1 - Davis Centre 1302
- Changing
German: Exponate, E-Mails, Eingaben
Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo
In
post-unification Germany, we have seen new words, grammar rules,
text types, ways of talking and writing, and heated debates
about them, but is the result a unified language?
- Reading
the Landscape of German Literature since the Wende
Ute Lischke, Wilfrid Laurier University
This
paper addresses the repercussions of the social transformation
since 1989 in German literature, including the reception of
German literature at home and abroad.
- Unification:
Hour Zero for a New German Cinema?
Gabriele Mueller, McMaster University
After
having been declared dead in 1990, German cinema seems to
be finding audiences again nationally and internationally.
Is this the emergence of a “New” New German Cinema?
3:00-3:30pm
- Refreshments - Davis Centre 1302
3:30-5:00pm
- Session 2 - Davis Centre 1302
- The
Impact of Reunification on East German Youth
Alan McDougall, University of Guelph
This
paper examines the political, socio-economic, and cultural impact
of reunification on young East Germans, focusing in particular
three themes: unemployment; the rise of neo-Nazism; and cultural
assimilation with the West.
-
The Stasi Files as a Source of Unity? Reflections on the Stasi
Archives since 1990
Gary Bruce, University of Waterloo
Did
the opening of the Stasi files hinder the smooth integration
of East and West Germany? An examination of the manner in
which the archive has operated and the role that coming to
terms with the past has played, and continues to play, in
unified Germany.
-
Germany Reunified: Shifting the Focus to Europe
Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo
Reunification
has forced Germany to re-think itself and its role in the
wider world to a degree unprecedented since 1945. It has thrown
into question many fundamental assumptions about German identity,
and Germany's position within the expanded EU and the rest
of the world.
8:00-9:30pm
- Session 3 - MacKirdy Hall at St. Paul's College (Room 201)
- Remarks
on the Effects of Unification
Sabine Sparwasser, Chargé d’Affaires/Acting Ambassador,
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ottawa
9:30-10:30pm
- Reception
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