The 39th Wisconsin Workshop organized by the Department of German — this year, a multidisciplinary conference co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the George L. Mosse Program in History, with additional support from the Anonymous Fund

April 12-14, 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Torchbearers on covers of the Munich art magazine Jugend by Fritz Erler (1896, left) and Richard Klein (1940, right)

Thursday, April 12, in Lowell Hall's Lower Lounge, 610 Langdon Street

7:00 p.m.
Rüdiger Lautmann – Department of Sociology, Universität Bremen
“Theatralizations of Gender: Media Messages and Cultural Theory”

8:30 p.m.
Reception in the Upper Lounge, Lowell Hall

Friday, April 13, in Memorial Library 126

9:00 a.m.
Jost Hermand – Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Politics of Outing: Revisiting the Heine-Platen Controversy"

10:45 a.m.
Robert Tobin – Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Whitman College
“Envisioning Gay Rights as ‘Human Rights’ in the Long 19th Century:
The Writings of H. Hössli, K. M. Benkert, and K. H. Ulrichs”
– lunch break –

2:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Schneider – Department of German Studies, Vassar College
“Rupture in the Ranks: Soldier Prostitution and Fantasies of Sex with Uniformed Men in Imperial Germany”

4:15 p.m.
Todd Presner – Department of Germanic Languages and Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA
“Muscle Jews and Airplanes: The Politics of Regeneration and the Great War”

Saturday, April 14, in Memorial Library 126

9 a.m.
Erik Jensen – Department of History, Miami University of Ohio
“First-Class Male: Sports and the Modern Man in Weimar Germany ”

10:45 a.m.
James Steakley – Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘Night of the Long Knives’: The Nazi ‘New Man’ and the Homosexual Purge of 1934”

– lunch break –

2:30 p.m.
John Borneman – Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
“Did Socialism Create a Different Closet? Reflections on East and West German Masculinities”

4:15 p.m.
Venkat Mani – Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Manliness and Cruelty. Kutluğ Ataman’s Lola und Bilidikid”