Thursday, 15 November
16:00 Arrival
17:00 Workshop Opening and Welcome Address
17:30 Introduction to the Workshop (Overview, Theses, Questions)
18:00 Discussion
19:30 Conference Dinner at Otito
Friday, 16 November
09:30 Panel I: Culture Industries (Chair: Johanna Heil)
- Davarian L. Baldwin: “‘The New Negro…does not seek philanthropy but an opportunity’: Black Culture Industries as a Site of Self Help in Interwar Chicago”
- Martin Klepper: “‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way:’ Gender, Race, Mobility, and Self-Help at the Stratemeyer Syndicate”
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Panel II: Psychological Advice and Eugenics (Chair: Eric Engstrom)
- Lisa Blackman: “Psychology-in-transition at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Self-help in-formation.”
- Kristina Graaff: “The Promise of (Self-)Control: Able-Bodiedness and Able-Mindedness in Interwar Advice Literature”
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel III: Economics, Eugenics, and Self-Help (Chair: Ewa Łuczak)
- Thomas C. Leonard: “Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era”
- Michell Chresfield: “To Improve the Race: Eugenics, Self-Help, and Racial Uplift”
18:30 Reception and Dinner at Café Weltgeist
Saturday, 17 November
09:30 Panel IV: Cinema, Reform, and Uplift (Chair: Anne Potjans)
- Miriam J. Petty: “‘Smuggled Like Contraband’: Picturing Black Uplift in 1930s Hollywood”
- Simon Rienäcker: “Watching Dancers, Spectating Spectators: Uplift, Self-Reflexivity, and Modernity in the Films of Oscar Micheaux”
12:00 Coffee and Snack Break
12:30 Panel V: Mass Circulation and Self-Improvement (Chair: Nitya Koch)
- Sue Currell: “Radical Remediation and Popular Self-Help: the Communist Magazine as Cure”
- Aleksandra Boss: “Pulp Fictions of the Self: Biography and Self-Improvement in 1930s Pulp Magazines”
15:00 Concluding Remarks