FYI for those interested. This conference will be held July 5-8 in Leipzig, Germany. Marian Douglas, near Kosovo - dasha@unet.com.mk (Skopje, Macedonia) African American Broyles Family of Greeneville, east Tennessee ............... "Ethnic Encounters and Identities: German, American, and African Perceptions" July 5 - 8, 2000, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany. Organized by German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and American Studies Institute, University of Leipzig. Contact: Dr. Vera Lind, German Historical Institute, e-mail: lind@idt.net ; or Prof. Hartmut Keil, University of Leipzig, e-mail: hkeil@rz.uni-leipzig.de Some presentations are as follows. This is not all of them: Professor Keil, Univ. of Leipzig: "German-Americans and African Americans in Mid-19th Century America" Robin Blackburn, Univ. of Essex, Britain: "The Colonial Americas and the Plantation Revolution" Jon Sensbach, Univ. of Florida: "Germans and Africans in Early America: A Problem in Ethnic Encounters" Martin Oefele, Univ. of Leipzig: "German Officers in Colored Troops during the Civil War" Prof. Vera Lind, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC: "Crossing the Atlantic Twice: Germans, Africans, Afro-Americans, and Late 18th Century Cultural Encounters involving Slavery, Race, and the Exotic". Session on "German immigrants confront the issue of race", chaired by Prof. Joerg Nagler, University of Jena. Britta Behmer, Univ. of Munich, on Germans and slavery and abolition. Andrea Mehrlaender, Stiftung Leucorea, Wittenberg: "German Immigrants in the South During the Confederacy: Perceptions of Race and the Attraction of Whiteness". Jeffrey L. Sammons, Yale Univ.: "Portrayals of Blacks in 19th-Century German Novels about the United States". Jeffrey T. Sammons, New York Univ.: "Myth and History : Blacks and the 1936 Olympic Games". Carol Blackshire-Belay, Indiana State Univ.: " Searching for and Reclaiming the Past: Cultural Identity and Consciousness in the Afro-German Community". "Liberators and Prisoners of War: The Impact of Race" - chaired by Hannes Siegrist, Univ. of Leipzig. Matthias Reiss, Univ. of the Bundeswehr Hamburg: "German Prisoners of War in the American South: Confronting Segregration and Discrimination". Maria Hoehn, Vassar College, on 'Jim Crow' and German and American racism in the postwar years. George Fredrickson, Stanford Univ.: "American White Supremacy and German Antisemitism: Toward an Historical Comparison". Another session is on "personal relationships, representations and realities of sex and race"; and the last session will be a roundtable discussion on "issues in the study of "race", racism, and antisemitism", introduced by Benjamin Braude. Other conference session leaders include Catrin Gersdorf, Adam Jones, both of University of Leipzig; Wolfgang Helbich, University of Bochum; Matthias Middell, and Gunther Heydemann, also at University of Leipzig. For more information contact: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Keil Institut fur Amerikanistik Augustusplatz 9 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49(0)341-9737330 Fax: +49(0)9737339 E-mail: hkeil@rz.uni-leipzig.de or Dr. Vera Lind German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington D.C. 20009 Phone: +1(202) 387-3355 Fax: +1(202) 483-3430 E-mail: lind@idt.net