2023 Fellows' Symposium
Oct 11, 2023 - Oct 12, 2023
Symposium at the GHI
The annual fellows' symposium provides a forum for GHI visiting fellows, research staff, alumni, and cooperation partners to discuss their ongoing research projects.
Program
Welcome & Introductions
Simone Lässig (Director, GHI Washington)
Panel 1
Moderator: Bryan Hart (Program Officer - Fellowships, GHI Washington)
Amy Kerner (Tandem Fellow, GHI Washington Pacific Office Berkeley / Previously: UT Dallas)
Human Rights Activism and Forced Disappearance from Argentina’s 1976 Coup to the International Criminal Court
Ezra Rudolph(GHI Visiting Fellow / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Not in our Names! Survivors of Terrorism as Public Stakeholders in Germany and the United States since the 1980s
Panel 2
Moderator: Isabel Richter (Head of Office, PRO GHI Washington)
Mimi Cheng (GHI Visiting Fellow / Previously: Freie Universität Berlin)
China on the Horizon: Art, Science, and Cartographies of Empire
Jonathan Dentler (GHI Visiting Fellow / Institut Catholique de Paris)
Submerged Ties: The Atlantis Myth and the Lure of Analogy, 1860-1970
Axel Jansen (Deputy Director, GHI Washington)
Conservative Religion and American Biomedicine: The Vatican Endorses Adult Stem Cell Research, 2008-2013
Panel 3
Moderator: Marleen Kern (Intern, GHI Washington)
Maximilian Klose (GHI Visiting Fellow / Previously: University of Freiburg)
Men of Empires – Empires of Men: Masculinity in US-German-Japanese Relations, 1868-1914
Fabio Santos (Tandem Fellow, GHI Washington Pacific Office Berkeley / Freie Universität Berlin)
Fugitive Freedoms and Multidirectional Mobilities in the Caribbean
Jeroen Dewulf (Director, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley)
“Wouldn’t it be Smarter to Let the Malay Colonize Europe?” Postcolonial Critique, Anti-Globalism, and Racism in the Travel Books of the Bohemian-German Author Richard Katz (1888-1968)
Panel 4
Moderator: Simon Krahé (Intern, GHI Washington)
Jana Keck (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Migrant Connections: A Digital Research Infrastructure for Historical Research on German Migration to the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Wouter Kreuze (Gerda Henkel Digital History Fellow at GHI & RRCHNM / Previously: University College Cork)
The Genesis of a News System: The Travel Routes of the Handwritten Newsletter Network
Amanda Madden (Assistant Professor, George Mason University / Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)
Mapping Violence in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1700: The Curious Case of the Anti-bandito Stones