GHI Lecture Series - Spring 2008

African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

March 13, 2008
Of Borderstates and Leeches: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses
Maria Diedrich (Universität Münster)

April 17, 2008
Black Germans, Photography and the' Evidence' of History
Tina Campt (Duke University)

April 24, 2008
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute and the German Empire – Race and Cotton in the Black Atlantic
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)

May 08, 2008
"I Prefer Panthers to Pigs": German Students, Black Panther GIs and the 1970/71 Racial Crisis in the 7th Army.
Maria Höhn (Vassar College)

May 22, 2008
Hitler's Black Victims: Black Resistance and Oppression under Nazism
Clarence Lusane (American University)

All lectures will be held at the German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Lectures begin at 6:30 p.m.
refreshments will be served beforehand from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle (Use Q Street/North Exit)

RSVP (acceptances only)
Phone: 202.387.3355 - Fax: 202.387.6437 - E-mail

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