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Italy and Germany have been described as "late nations". Since the end of the 19th century, traditional historiography emphasized the obvious similarities in the processes of nation building with regard to the political dimension as well as to the parallel historical roles of "great men" such as Bismarck and Cavour. Only more recent comparative studies, which highlighted the differences in national cultures, social and economic aspects, have revealed the image of a parallel history as one-sided and superficial. Based on the analytical category of gender, the international conference of the DFG-Network "Gender - Nation - Emancipation. Women and families in the 'long' Nineteenth Century in Italy and Germany" aims at a critical reassessment of the apparently parallel development from national-liberal ideologies towards an imperialistically charged nationalism and the eventual participation in the First World War from a new and transnational perspective. The common focus of the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars is on social, cultural, as well as political participation and exclusion in the processes of nation building, nationalism and war. The notion of nation will be discussed in terms of its inherent aggression as well as a synonym for bourgeois society. Within this approach, Jewish history is understood as an integral part of so-called "general" history. Chronologically and thematically, the conference concentrates on the years between 1848, as the "spring of nations" and as the beginning of the first women's emancipation movements, as well as on the crucial period of the First World War. Special importance will be attached to the experience and memory of women and families in the war, starting from hitherto unknown or neglected ego-documents such as diaries, memoirs and war correspondence within families. In this way, the conference seeks to examine the discursive relationship between war and emancipation, as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagoniststorn by national, political and Jewish loyalties, thus stimulating the current historiographical reassessment of the First World War in terms of gender as well as Jewish history.program_gender_nation_emancipation------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday, 23 November, 14.30-19.0014.30Martin Baumeister - RomaWelcome14.45Ruth Nattermann, Philipp Lenhard - MünchenIntroduction15.00Amerigo Caruso - SaarbrückenComparative, Transnational and Still National: Reassessingthe Interpretative Traditions of Italian and German Nation BuildingI - Constructing Family and NationChair: Sylvia Schraut - München15.45Marcella Simoni - VeneziaThe Morenos between Family and Nation. Notes for the Historyof a Mediterranean Jewish Family (Livorno-Tunis, 1850-1912)16.10Giulia Frontoni - HamburgPortrait of a Political Lady. Family Ties and German National Activismaround 184816.35Comment: Marion Kaplan - New YorkDiscussion17.15Break18.00Keynote LectureIlaria Porciani - BolognaRethinking Family and NationThursday, 24 November, 9.00-18.00II - Emancipation Discourse and Religious TerminologyChair: Marion Kaplan - New York9.00Philipp Lenhard - MünchenThe Legacy of Adam and Eve. Gender Education in Jewish"Catechisms" in 19th Century Germany9.25Silvia Guetta - FirenzeThe Transformation of Jewish Education in 19th Century Italy.The Meaning of "Catechisms"9.50Susannah Heschel - Hanover/New HampshireDo Religions Have a Gender? Orientalism in the Modern JewishImagination10.15Comment: Gadi Luzzatto Voghera - MilanoDiscussion10.45BreakIII - Religion, Education and Culture of National IdentityChair: Martin Baumeister - Roma11.15Liviana Gazzetta - PadovaWomen for the Homeland. Comparing Catholic andProtestant Female Education in Italy (1848-1908)11.40Sylvia Schraut - MünchenReligion and Homeland. Comparing Catholic andProtestant Female Education and Cultural Models in Germany (1871-1914)12.05Comment: Till Kössler - BochumDiscussion12.45LunchIV - Ideologies and Politics of Women's Emancipation MovementsChair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum - Berlin14.30Anne-Laure Briatte-Peters - ParisDenomination Matters. Strategies of Self-Designation of theGerman Women's Movement14.55Magdalena Gehring - DresdenThe International Congress for "Frauenwerke und Frauenbestrebungen"in Berlin (1896). Positions of Italian and German Women in theDiscussions on Emancipation15.20Comment: Ute Planert - KölnDiscussion15.50BreakV - Concepts and Conflicts of EmancipationChair: Ute Planert - Köln16.15Angelika Schaser - HamburgEmancipation, Religious Affiliation, and Family Status around 190016.40Anna Seitzer - RegensburgThe "New Ethic". Helene Stöcker's Conception and Understandingof Emancipation17.05Perry Willson - Dundee/Scotland, UKRemembering (and Forgetting) 'emancipazionismo'.Historians, Collective Memory and the Italian Women's Movement17.30Comment: Rosanna De Longis - RomaDiscussionFriday, 25 November, 9.30-16.30Women and Families in the Great War. Italian, German and TransnationalPerspectivesVI - Transnational Ego-DocumentsChair: Carolin Kosuch - Roma9.30Martin Baumeister - RomaBetween Cosmopolitanism and War Patriotism.The War-Time Diaries by Robert Davidsohn9.55Marie-Christin Lux - BerlinBetween Motherhood and Patriotic Duty. Marital Correspondencesas a Key Source for the Understanding of French-Jewish Women'sPerspectives on the First World War10.20Andrea Sinn - Elon/NCConfronting War - Pursuing Peace? Tracing the Everyday Realitiesof War in German Women's Diaries and Memoirs (1914-1918)10.45Comment: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum - BerlinDiscussion11.15BreakVII - War and ViolenceChair: Lutz Klinkhammer - Roma11.40Nadia Maria Filippini - RomaHunger, Rape, Escape: Multiple Aspects of Violence againstWomen and Children in the Italian Front Territory12.05Christa Hämmerle - Wien"Ich begleite Dich durch Schutt und Trümmer ..." Non/communicationof War Violence against Civilians in Ego-documents (Austria-Hungary)12.30Comment: Daniel Steinbach - Exeter/UKDiscussion13.00LunchVIII - War Experience and MemoryChair: Gideon Reuveni - Sussex14.00Tullia Catalan - TriesteThe Building of the Enemy in two Jewish Writers:Carolina Coen Luzzatto and Enrica Barzilai Gentilli14.25Ruth Nattermann - MünchenHeroic Fathers, Patriotic Mothers, Fallen Sons. National Belongingand Political Positioning in Italian-Jewish Families' Versions of theGreat War14.50Gerald Lamprecht - GrazCommemorating the Fallen Jewish Soldiers.Jewish War Memorials in Interwar Austria15.15Comment: Ulrich Wyrwa - BerlinDiscussion15.45Concluding remarks and final discussion:Patrizia Dogliani - Bologna