Saturday, January 10, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

72. “Babel before Bhabha”: Language and German Cultural Studies since 1800
Omni Shoreham, Calvert Room

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: David Hoyt, Northwestern University
Papers:

The Language of Cultural Difference: “Aryans,” German Orientalism, and Nineteenth-Century Philology
Tuska Benes, University of Pennsylvania

Mobilizing African Languages for the Nation: Soldiers and Civil Servants at the Department of Oriental Languages in Berlin, 1887–1914
Sara Pugach, Ohio State University at Lima

Language and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Prussian Poland
Róisín Healy, National University of Ireland at Galway
Comment: Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania