Welcome
- Gordon Weil, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Axel Hildebrandt, Moravian College and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College

Session I

8:30-9:30am

Moderator: Paul Peucker, Moravian College and the Moravian Archives

Timothy Davis, Lehigh University - "Jürgen Fuchs, Literatur und die DDR"

Maria Roman, Kutztown University
- "Suicide and the Artist: An Analysis of Das Leben der Anderen "

Lauren Rommal, Moravian College - "Das Leben als Frau in der DDR"

Session II

9:45-10:45am

Moderator: Angelika von Wahl, Lafayette College

Katia Ponomareva, Moravian College
- "Die Währungsunion von Ost- und Westdeutschland 1990"

Abigail Breckinridge, Dickinson College - "Implications for the Future of American Economic Dominance. The German Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis"

Susan C. Grunewald, Lafayette College
- "Post WWII Development in German Auto Industries"

Session III

11:00am - 12:00 Noon

Moderator: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College

Tara Finegan, Moravian College - "The Dependence of Immanuel Kant"

Jessica Bawgus, Bryn Mawr College - "Runs in the Blood:... LIVES OF MATHILDA"

Didem Uca, Bryn Mawr College - "Asoziale Tendenzen der Genialität"

Lunch

12:00 Noon - 12:45pm

Keynote Address

12:45-1:45pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS, PPHAC 102
Belinda Davis, Professor of German History, Rutgers University

"What was '1968', What was the 'Student Movement'?
Activism's Dimensions in West Germany"

Session IV

1:45-2:45pm

Moderator: Vera Stegmann, Lehigh University

Ryan J. Stevens, East Stroudsburg University - "Germany in Turmoil: Rise and Fall of RAF"

Laura Moser, Kutztown University
- "Generational Gaps and Painful Histories. Separating the Past from the Present"

Katey Fardelmann, Lehigh University
- "German Film. A Depiction of Growth of International Relations"

Session V

3:00-4:00pm

Moderator:  Sarah McGaughey, Dickinson College

Jonathan M. Kaplowitz, Lafayette College - "Catholic Church and Third Reich"
   
Kimberly McPhearson, Haverford College
- "A Pygmalion Community. The Communal Touch in Modern German and Austrian History"

Kirk Pastre, Moravian College - "Nazi Policies Toward Women, 1924-1945"

Session VI

4:15-5:30pm

Moderator: Lynn Kutch, Kutztown University

Andrew Velik, Kutztown University - "Building Unity, Building Cultures..."

Lindsey Lemmel, Moravian College - "Haneke, Hirschbiegel and Expressionism in Film"

Chris LaRose, Kutztown University - "Im Juli: Das große Bild"

Christopher T. Maslin, East Stroudsburg University
- "Weimar Cinema and Mood of Post WWI"