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Germany and Exile - Post-World War II Migrations of Culture, Art and Thought Department of German and Scandinavian University of Oregon, Eugene Dates: 25 February 2011 – 27 February 2011 Keynote Speaker: Jules Simon, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico at El Paso This conference will approach the issue of exile from two different angles. On one hand, it will explore literature, film, art, music and thought by and about immigrants to, and “foreigners” in, the German-speaking lands, and the hyphenated identities they have developed and experienced since World War II: Turkish-Germans, Afro-Germans, Japanese-Germans, Italian-Germans, Polish-Germans, Jewish-Germans, Germans of Sinti and Roma culture and so on. On the other hand, the conference will strive to analyze “German” thought and culture that has been developed outside of German speaking countries, e.g., by writers, thinkers and artists who left these lands, voluntarily or otherwise, but held on to or are holding on to their German identity. How do these writers and thinkers deal with their exile, and how does it influence their relation toward “Germanness” and a German cultural identity? How has it helped shape the way others view German culture and thought? The focus of the conference will be not only on cultural response to recent immigration and population movements—brought about earlier by the guest-worker policies of the Cold-War era West Germany (from the mid-1950s on), and then by the dissolution of stringent borders around the development of German thought outside of Germany—but also on notions of “Germanness” independent of the country of origin or “Vaterland.” Both perspectives provide a framework for the question of what defines "Germanness.” We invite graduate students from all disciplines to submit proposals for 20-minute papers. Possible topics include: - German intellectuals in exile - Being in exile in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Lichtenstein - Ideas and images of migration in German culture - Language as a unifying force - The legacy of German thought and culture in exile - Definitions of “Germanness” - The German image or images of Germany - Images of exile in or from Germany - Cultural trends and influences, such as new cultures in Germany - The “other” within—religious-cultural questions, e.g., Judaism or Islam in Germany - Walls in our heads: German unification and the question of Leitkultur —German identities - Real and imaginary borders in Germany - Concepts of “Vaterland,” “Muttersprache,” “Heimat”