IAMHIST 2018 Masterclass and Symposium
January 10-13, 2018
The National WWII Museum – 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Day 1: Wednesday, January 10th – Museum Public Program “Destination Casablanca by Meredith Hindley”
5:00 pm American Sector Happy Hour and Early Bird Dinner (at own expense)
6:00 pm Author introduction of film “Casablanca”
6:15 pm Screening of Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA 1942, 102 mins.)
8:00 pm Author comments on book and film with Q&A
8:15 pm Book Signing
Day 2: Thursday, January 11th – Masterclass
9:00 – 9:15 am Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:30 am Session 1
11:00 – 11:15 am Coffee/Tea
11:15 am – 12:45 pm Session 2
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch by American Sector Catering
2:00 – 3:30 pm Session 3
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee/Tea
4:00 – 5:30 pm Session 4
5:30 – 6:00 pm Concluding Remarks
6:00 – 7:00 pm Round Table Discussion: What can IAMHIST or the National WW2 Museum offer to students at Master and PhD level?
Day 3: Friday, January 12th – One-Day Symposium “Winning Peace: Reconstruction and Democratization after WWII
08:30 – 08:45 am: Opening Remarks
08:45 – 10:30 am Session 1 – Re-education and Social Engineering from the end of WWII to the Postwar Years
Chair: Leen Engelen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
08:45 – 09:05 am Emily Oliver (Warwick University, UK): “From Liberators to Occupiers: The Projection of Britain on the BBC German Service following World War II”
09:05 – 09:25 am Harald Leder (LSU): “Soldiers as Educators? The GYA: Army Assistance to German Youth Activities in Nuremberg”
09:25 – 09:45 am James Chapman (University of Leicester): “Humphrey Jennings and Reconstruction Documentaries about Britain (A Diary for Timothy) and Germany (A Defeated People).
09:45-10:05 am Tomoyuki Sasaki (College of William & Mary): “Democracy, Law, and Imperialism: Thoughts on American Bases in Postwar Japan”
10:30 – 10:45 am Coffee/Tea
10:45 am – 12:30 pm Session 2 – Redrawing the Boundaries in the Early Cold War
Chair: Katharina Niemeyer (UQAM, Canada)
10:45 – 11:05 am Günther Bischof (University of New Orleans): “Selling the European Recovery Program: The Marshallplan’s Use of Modern Media“
11:05 – 11:25 am David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins): “The Marshall Plan’s special propaganda effort in Italy“
11:25 – 11:45 pm Tobias Hochscherf (Univ. of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany): “Between Profits and Cold War Politics: The Big Lift (1950) and Hollywood’s German Charm Offensive”
11:45 – 12:05 pm Jan Uelzmann (Georgia Institute of Technology): “Staging Democracy in Postwar West Germany: Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963”
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch by American Sector Catering
1:30 – 3:00 pm Session 3 – Researching and Presenting History
Chair: Paul Lesch (CNA, Luxemburg)
1:30 – 1:50 pm Rob Citino (National WWII Museum): “How to Exhibit Democratization and Peace in a War Museum to the General Public?
1:50 – 2:10 pm Nick Cull (Univ. of Southern California): “Made in Germany: the occupation/reconstruction as a formative experience for American Public Diplomacy“
2:10 – 2:30 pm Lora Vogt (National World War I Museum and Memorial): “Remembering War without Eye Witnesses”
3:00 – 4:00 pm Tour of The National WWII Museum
4:00 – 6:00 pm Screening of Beyond all Boundaries at 4 pm (please be there 5 minutes before the screening!)
6:00 – 7:00 pm Happy Hour Mixer at the American Sector
