Conferences

We have two main conferences, The Minnesota Forum and the Graduate Student Conference. In addition, we organize and co-sponsor many one-time events.

The Minnesota Forum

The Minnesota Forum is an international conference at which advanced graduate students and department faculty, along with other national and international scholars, present lectures on issues of current importance. Past topics include:

Dilettantism & Innovation [2005]
Northern Light/Northern Darkness: Rethinking Modernism After the Demise of the ‘Master Narrative': Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950 [2002]
The Changing German/Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000 [2000]
Thirty Years After: 1968 and Its Legacies in Germany and the U.S.A. [1998]
The ‘Miracle Years' Revisited: Society and Culture in West Germany, 1949-68 [1996]
Xenophobia in Germany: National & Cultural Identities After Unification [1994]
Re-forming the Public Sphere in Germany [1992]

Graduate Student Conference

Graduate students in GSD organize a biennial conference featuring panels of students from Minnesota and from across the country. Students gain experience in how to organize an conference, present papers, and network with other graduate students from across the country.

Past topics

Common Senses: Perception and Perspective [2008]
Strangers in a Strange Land [2003]
The Politics of Pop: Popular Culture in German-speaking Countries [2001]
Interdisciplinarity: Plurality of Panacea? [1999]