Volker Benkert

Invited Talks

• “Amerikanische Perspektiven auf die Europäische Integration“, Lecture for the Excellence Program for Junior Leaders in the Bavarian State Chancellery. Vortrag im Rahmen des Exzellenz-Programms Europa für Nachwuchsführungskräfte im Rahmen der LEAT-Fortbildungen der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei, 02/25/2015
• „Die Konstruktion ostdeutscher Generationen. Ansätze der Generationenforschung“ Keynote at the Conference: „Die Generation der Wendekinder. Elaboration eines Forschungsfeldes“at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 02/26/2015
• „Neue Dimensionen der generationellen Auseinandersetzung mit dem DDR-Staatssozialismus“, Andrássy Universität Budapest, 03/17/2015
• “Vergangenheitsbewältigung im Fernsehen?” Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 6/18/2015
• Apologia and Redemption. German Victims and German Perpetrators in Contemporary German Film. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 10/1/2015
• The Last Generation of the GDR and the First Generation of the Berliner Republik"? Western New England University, 10/1/2015
• The Implosion and Afterlife of Communist East Germany, Northern Arizona University, 10/2/2015

Conference Papers

• "Die letzte DDR-Generation und das Nationalsozialistische Erbe“, Unsere Väter, unsere Mütter. Deutsche Generationen im 20. Jahrh. Conference, Tutzing 04/2015
• “Freiheit und Freedom passen halt nicht zusammen”, Feinde, Freunde, Fremde? Deutsche Perspektiven auf die USA nach 1945. Conference Tutzing 05/2015
• „The new Unspeakable and the Same Old Story. Apologetic and Redemptive Tropes in Recent German Film”, Beyond Speech. Silence and the Unspeakable across Cultures. Conference at the University of Manchester, UK, 05/2015
• „Digital Museums, Survivor Testimony, and Common Themes of Violence”. German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, 10/2015
• “Testimonies of Atrocity Survivors: Creating a Comparative Framework”, Conference on Colonial Conquest in the Nazi East and the American West. Value and Limits of Comparative Approaches. Northern Arizona University, 10/2015
• “Negotiated Spaces - Negotiated Careers – Negotiated Lives. East Germans and Late Socialism”, Conf. The Many Faces of Late Socialism, Univ. of Cologne, 05/2016.
• „Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.“ Apologie und Vergangenheitserlösung im Fernsehkrieg“, Conf. So war der deutsche Landser. Die populäre Darstellung der Wehrmacht. Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte und Zentrum für Militärgeschichte der Bundeswehr, München 06/2016.
• “Cultural Memory of the Holocaust on the Small Screen. Apologia and Redemption in German Contemporary Film”, Conf. British Association for Holocaust Studies, University College London, 07/2016.
• Volker Benkert. "Apologia and Redemption in the TV miniseries ‘Our Fathers, our Mothers". Terrortimes, Terrorscapes? Temporal, Spatial and Memory Continuities of War and Genocide in 20th Cen (Jul 2014).
• Volker Benkert. "Apologia and Redemption: Contemporary German Filmmakers and the Evolution of Perpetrators into Victims",. Historical Justice and Memory Conference, Dec 5-7, 2013, Columbia University New York (Dec 2013).
• Volker Benkert. "Manichean Memory. German Crimes, German Sufferings, and the Third Generation". German Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO (Oct 2013).
• Volker Benkert. "Performativer Wandel oder Generationelle Differenzierung? Die Letzte DDR-Generation und das Ende des Staatssozialismus". Akademie für Politische Bildung, Das letzte Jahrzehnt des Sozialismus in der DDR und der Sowjetunion (Jul 2013).
• Volker Benkert. Compartmentalized Memory: Coming to Terms with the Nazi-Past and the Discourse on German Sufferings". ASU Conafernce Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future (Nov 2012).
• Volker Benkert. "Jewish Studies in Contemporary Germany". ASU Jewish Studies, Revival of Jewish Studies in Eastern Europe (Nov 2012).
• Volker Benkert. "The Foreign Mirror. The last GDR Generation and its Encounter with the Nazi Past". German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, KY (Oct 2011).
• Volker Benkert. The GDR and the Process of Transformation after 1990 seen through the eyes of the last GDR Generation. German Historical Institute Washington. Conference History by Generations (Dec 2010).
• Lisa Parisi, Carolyn Moss and Volker Benkert. Through his Own Eyes: Victor Klemperer's Observations on Ordinary Germans and his Self-Perception as a German. 1933-1949. German Studies Association Conference Oakland, CA (Oct 2010).
• Volker Benkert. 1939-1989-2009. A Seventy Year Retrospective on Eastern Europe, Nov 9th 2009. ASU SHRPS. Launch (Nov 2009).
• Volker Benkert. Biographies in Transisiton. The last Children of the GDR. German Studies Association Conference (Oct 2009).
• Volker Benkert. Biographies in Transistion. The last Children of the GDR. ASU Faculty Brown Bag Talk (Apr 2009).