SOCIETY for GERMAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

                PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN SOCIETY

                                     SYMPOSIUM

                                  MAY 4-5-6-7, 2006

                           LANCASTER HOST CENTER

                                   LANCASTER, PA

THURSDAY: MAY 4, 2006

3:00 TO 5:00 SGAS BOARD MEETING (MARIETTA ROOM)

5:00 TO 7:00 REGISTRATION

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM BEISAMMENSIN (CASH BAR)  VISTAS “C”

FRIDAY: May 5

7:30 to 12:00 REGISTRATION 

7:30 until 8:30 coffee and cakes PGS

8:30 to 8:45 WELCOMING REMARKS: DR. DON HEINRICH TOLZMANN (SGAS)
            DR. ROBERT KLINE (PGS)
            (WHEATLAND STATE ROOM)

8:45 to 9:30 OPENING ADDRESS:  DR HANS-DIETER STELL, DEPUTY CONSUL GENERAL of GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC (NYC)
                         (WHEATLAND STATE ROOM)

9:30 TO 11:30 FOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS:  THREE PAPERS IN EACH SESSION:

(1) ARCHITECTURE (WHEATLAND STATE ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Robert Reynolds

• Irwin Richman (Landis Valley) “German Architecture in America: Folk House, Your Haus, Bauhaus and More”

• Gregory D. Huber (Past Perspectives-Macungie, PA) “Difficulties Scholars Face on Studies of the Earliest Germanic Related Barns of the First Few Decades of the 18^th Century in Pennsylvania”

• Robert Wheelersburg (Elizabethtown College) “Carved in Stone: Pennsylvania German Tombstone Inscriptions”

  
  

(2) MILITARY (MARIETTA ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. David L. Valuska

• Christian Keller (Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, VA) “German Americans in the Civil War:”

• Roland Paul (Institute for Pfalz History) “Verein der 48ers of New York City”

• Paul Douglas Newman (University of Pittsburgh) “Pennsylvania Germans and the Fries Rebellion”

(3) CARL SCHURZ AND HIS TIMES (CORNWALL ROOM)

Moderator: Mr. Erik V.Fasick

• Heinz Stark (Center for Bavarian History) “Good Bye Bayern, Gruss Gott America:  The George Schramm Story”

• Marianne Bouvier M.D. (Pittsburgh, PA) “ Recent Literature on Carl Schurz and his influence on American Politics” This lecture will be in German.

• Fiona Deans Halloran (Bates College ) “Thomas Nast and Carl Schurz”

(4) EUROPEAN CONNECTION (HOPEWELL ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Bill  Roba

• Donald B. Kraybill (Elizabethtown College) “The Wenger Mennonites: A Growing Group of Pennsylvania Germans”

• Helmut Schmahl (University of Mainz) “German Historians view Pennsylvania German History”

• Steffen Wiegmann (Bremerhaven, Germany) “Deutsches Auswanderhaus”

11:45 TO 12:45 PM LUNCHEON AT THE HOTEL (on your own)

1:15 TO 4:30 OPTIONAL TOURS: LANDIS VALLEY, LANCASTER, EPHRATA CLOISTER, OR A GERMAN-AMERICAN POSTER PRESENTATION BY MARK LOUDEN (TICKETS AND DIRECTIONS FOR TOURS OBTAINED AT REGISTRATION DESK)

5:30 COCKTAILS AND WELCOME RECEPTION

7:00 VERSAMMLING AND AWARDS BANQUET (DISTLEFINK BANQUET ROOM “B”)
SPEAKER:  DONALD BREININGER – PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH DIALECT SPEAKER

SATURDAY: MAY 6

8:00 TO 10:00 REGISTRATION 

9:00 TO 11:00 FOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS: THREE SPEAKERS EACH

(1) GERMANS IN EARLY AMERICA (PARADISE ROOM)

Moderator: Mr. Troy Boyer

• Charles Johnson (Valdosta State University) “The Georgia Germans during the Colonial Era”

• William E. Petig (Stanford University) “The History of Die Losungen of the Moravian Church in Europe and America”

• Friederike Baer-Wallis (University of Georgia) “Germans and ‘anglicized’ Ex-Germans: Ethnic Identity Formation in Philadelphia’s German Community, ca 1780-1820”

(2) GERMAN INTELLECTUALS (CORNWALL ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Manfred Zimmermann

• William Donner  (Kutztown University) “Pennsylvania German Intellectuals in the late 19^th and early 20^th Centuries”

• Steven Rowan (University of Missouri-Saint Louis) “Baron F.W. von Egloffstein and the Exploration of the American Mountain West”

• James Campbell (The University of Toledo) “George Stuart Fullerton: an American in Munich 1900-1918”

(3) PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN LANGUAGE (HOPEWELL ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Robert Kline

• Achim Kopp (Mercer University) “Evidence of Convergence in Pennsylvania German”

• Richard Beam (Millersville University) “Pennsylvania German Dictionary Project”

• Jennifer Schlegel (Kutztown University) “Questioning and Contesting Authenticity in Pennsylvania German Dialect Classes”

(4) GERMAN INFLUENCE IN THE MIDWEST (MARIETTA ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. LaVern Rippley

• Joerg Meindl  (University of Kansas) “The Pennsylvania German Experience in Kansas”

• Gregory J. Hanson (Kutztown University) “Decline of the Use of German in Services in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 20^th Century”

• William D. Keel (University of Kansas) “Gerd Heinrich Hollenberg: The Founder of Hanover, Kansas-The Transplantation of Low German Culture to the American Frontier”

11:00 to 12:00 The Kutztown Pennsylvania Folk Festival, “Pennsylvania German Culture Today” Dave Fooks plus local Pennsylvania German artisans

12:00 to 1:20 LUNCHEON   PA DUTCH music by Keith and Karlene Brintzenhoff courtesy of THE PENNSYLVANIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

1:30 TO 2:30 BUSINESS MEETING: MARIETTA ROOM – SOCIETY FOR GERMAN-AMERICAN STUDIES; PARADISE ROOM PA GERMAN SOCIETY

2:45 TO 4:45 FOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS: THREE SPEAKERS EACH

(1) RELIGION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS (PARADISE ROOM)

Moderator: Rev. Wallace Bieber

• John Frantz (The Pennsylvania State University emeritus) “Men of the Cloth under the Wrong Sheets: Moral Lapses of Early Pennsylvania German Religious Leaders”

• Richard E. Wentz (The Arizona State University emeritus)”The Ordered Present- Harbaugh’s Eighteenth Century Fathers””

• Michael Showalter (Ephrata Cloister) “The Anabaptists”

(2) THE CHANGING PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN LANGUAGE (HOPEWELL ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Giles Hoyt

• Mark Louden (Max Kade Institute at The University of Wisconsin) “German-American Sound Recordings from PA, VA, WI, KS, and TX”

• Richard Page and Joshua R. Brown (The Pennsylvania State University)” The Big Valley Oral History Project”

• Randall P. Donaldson (Loyola College in Maryland) “Digital Access to the Past”

(3) PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN MATERIAL CULTURE (MARIETTA ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Simon Bronner

• Robert W. Reynolds (PA German Heritage Center at Kutztown University) “The David Hottenstein Mansion: Charting a future for an artifact and its context”

• Bruce Bomberger (Landis Valley Museum) “The Landis Brothers and Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation”

• June Lloyd (York County Heritage Trust) “Fraktur as Social History”

(4) PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BOOKS (CORNWALL ROOM)

Moderator: Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann

• Marion Lois Huffines (Bucknell University) “Language and Books at Blooming Grove: A Pennsylvania German Community Legacy”

• Dennis C. Landis (John Carter Brown Library) “Marks in Early Pennsylvania German Books”

• Daniel J. Grimminger (University of Pittsburgh) “America’s First Chorale Book and its Revelations about Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Germans”

5:00 TO 6:45 DINNER ON YOUR OWN IN THE AREA

7:00 to 8:30 SPECIAL PROGRAM: GERMAN AND PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT POETRY AND READINGS: Manfred Zimmermann moderator:  (GOOD SPIRITS ALCOVE)

SUNDAY: MAY 7

BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN

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