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Past conferences and events organized by the GHI
2008
May 05, 2008
Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective
Viva Maria!
A film screening at the Goethe Institut
May 02, 2008
New Perspectives on National Socialism and Global War: A Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg
Conveners: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Philipp Gassert (GHI), Alan Steinweis (University of Nebraska)
April 24, 2008
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute and the German Empire – Race and Cotton in the Black Atlantic
GHI Lecture Series - Spring 2008
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)
April 17, 2008
Black Germans, Photography and the' Evidence' of History
GHI Lecture Series - Spring 2008
Tina Campt (Duke University)
April 12, 2008
1968 - 40 Years Later
Workshop at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie NY)
March 28 - 29, 2008
Modernization as a Global Project: American, Soviet, and European Approaches
A Workshop at the GHI
Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI), David Engerman (Brandeis University)
March 13, 2008
Of Borderstates and Leeches: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses
GHI Lecture Series - Spring 2008
Maria Diedrich (Universität Münster)
Febuary 21 - 23, 2008
Managing the Unknown: Natural Resources and Reserves in History
A Workshop at the GHI
Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Frank Uekötter (Deutsches Museum München)
February 01, 2008
Photo-Exhibition: Pilgrims on the Ohio
Opening Reception
January 30, 2008
Celebrating 325 Years: German Migration to the United StatesDiscussion
The Union League -
Lincoln Hall (Philadelphia)
January 29, 2008
Max Mohr: One Story, Two Tellings
At the Goethe Institute (Washington, DC)
January 25 - 27, 2008
Transregional and Transnational Families
A conference at the GHI
Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), David Sabean (UCLA), Christopher Johnson (Wayne State University),
Francesca Trivellato (Yale University),
Simon Teuscher (Universität Zürich)
January 05, 2008
Joint Reception of the German Historical Institute and the Conference Group for Central European History (for AHA members)
Convener: Richard Wetzell
2007
December 06 - 08, 2007
Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migration 1830s to 1930s
A Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Marcel van der Linden (Institute of Social History - Amsterdam, NL), Donna Gabbacia (Immigration History Research Center), Dirk Hoerder (Arizona State University)
December 06, 2007
The Regionalization of World Migration, 1840-1930
A Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Adam McKeown
November 29, 2007
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Stammheim and Majdanek: Prosecuting Terrorists and Nazis in 1970s West Germany
Speaker: Rebecca Wittman (University of Toronto)
November 16, 2007
16th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI and Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Conveners: Friends of the GHI, Anke Ortlepp (GHI)
November 15, 2007
21st Annual Lecture of the GHI
The Future of the Sovereign State: Some Historical Reflections on the German Case
Speaker: James J. Sheehan (Stanford University)
November 14, 2007
Terrorism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia:
New Research and Sources in Europe and the USA
Workshop at the Tulane University, New Orleans
Conveners: Anke Hilbrenner (University of Bonn), Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (University of Munic), Carola Dietze (GHI)
November 09 - 10, 2007
Practices and Power
in the Everyday Life of the Twentieth Century
Symposium in Honor of Alf Lüdtke at the
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Conveners: Kathleen Canning (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Geoff Eley (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Convener for the GHI: Carola Dietze (GHI)
November 09, 2007
Film Screening: Between the Lines
Woodrow Wilson Center
November 08, 2007
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Militant Subcultures: The Origins of West German Terrorism in the Late 1960s
Speaker: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)
November 01, 2007
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Terror and Security: Law Enforcement, the Media, and Social Change in West Germany during the 1970s
Speaker: Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld)
October 25, 2007
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Refusing to be “Good Germans”: New Left Violence as a Global Phenomenon
Speaker: Jeremy Varon (Drew University)
October 18 - 20, 2007
Fourth Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies(CfP)
Washington, DC
October 11 - 14, 2007
Medieval History Seminar
Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI), Karsten Plöger (GHI London)
October 09, 2007
Still a Community of Values?
Historical Reflections on the Normative Basis of the West
A lecture by Heinrich August Winkler (Humboldt University Berlin)
The lecture will take place at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Kenney Auditorium
October 04 - 06, 2007
"A Humanitarian as Broad as the World": Abraham Lincoln's Legacy in International Context
Conference at the GHI
Conveners:
Gabor Boritt (Gettysburg College),
Uwe Lübken (German Historical Institute),
Jörg Nagler (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
October 04 - 06, 2007
Caribbean Encounters: A German Missionary´s Discovery of the New World
GHI sponsored Panel at the German Studies Association (San Diego, CA)
Panelist: Gisela Mettele (GHI)
October 03, 2007
Hertie Lecture
Speaker: Bärbel Bohley
Convener: Anke Ortlepp (GHI)
September 27, 2007
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Ideology and Terror in the Red Decade: Reflections on Communism, Anti-Zionism, and the Memory of Terrorism’s Victims
Speaker: Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland)
September 13 - 15, 2007
Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Uwe Lübken (GHI) and Christof Mauch (University of Munich)
September 13 - 14, 2007
Pleasure, Power and Everyday Life under National Socialism
Conference at the GHI Paris
Conveners: Fabrice d'Almeida (IHTP, Paris), Corey Ross (Univ. of Birmingham), Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)
September 07, 2007
The Palucca School in Dresden – Photographs by Günter Bersch
Exhibition opening at GHI
September 06 - 08, 2007
Reading Hamburg: Anglo-American Perspectives
Hamburg verstehen:
Anglo-amerikanische Perspektive (Program as a pdf file)
Conference at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH)
Conveners: Axel Schildt (FZH/Universität Hamburg), Christoph
Strupp (GHI), Dorothee Wierling (FZH/Universität Hamburg)
July 21, 2007
Michael Frayn's "Democracy"
Panel Discussion with the audience at the
Olney Theater (Olney, MD)
Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI), Gisela Mettele (GHI)
July 12 - 14, 2007
Local, Regional and Global Constructions of Christianity: Religious Communication Networks, 1680-1830
Conference at the GHI London
Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Gisela Mettele (GHI)
June 26, 2007
Here Comes the New Photographer!: The 1929 Film und Foto Exhibition and Photography's Emergence as a Language
Speaker: Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee)
A lecture at the GHI.
June 25 - July 06, 2007
Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI)
June 22, 2007
Inward Turn – Photographs by Lotte Jacobi
Exhibition opening at GHI
June 21 - 23, 2007
Toward a New Transatlantic Space? Changing Perceptions of Identity, Belonging, and Space in the Atlantic World
Conference in Leipzig
Conveners: Hartmut Keil (Leipzig), Corinna Unger (GHI)
June 12, 2007
Foto and Modernity: An Overview
Speaker: Matthew S. Witkovsky (National Gallery of Art)
A lecture at the GHI
June 05 - 09, 2007
GHI Panel
at the Fourth Conference of the European Society for Environmental History in
Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Panelists: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Dorothee Brantz (State University of New York, Buffalo), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University), chaired by Christof Mauch (GHI/LMU Munich)
May 20 & 27, 2007
Either Or
A discussion at the Theater J
Jointly sponsored by the GHI, the Goethe-Institute and Theater J
May 22, 2007
Eighth Gerd Bucerius Lecture
Speaker: Joschka Fischer
May 18 - 19, 2007
The Uses of Immigrant Letters
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Wolfgang Helbich (Bochum), Anke Ortlepp (GHI)
May 17 - 19, 2007
Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 - 1820
Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Karen Hagemann (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
May 11 - 12, 2007
Mass Migration and Urban Governance: Cities in the United States and in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Marcus Gräser (University of Frankfurt/NEH-GHI Fellow), Daniel Czitrom (Mount Holyoke College, NEH Fellow), Gisela Mettele (GHI)
GHI Spring Lecture Series 2007
Empire in German and American History
begins March 01, 2007
All lectures to take place at the GHI (Washington, DC)
May 04, 2007
Mies van der Rohe’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
An exhibition of photographs by Colin Loughlin
Opening Reception at the GHI
Convener: Kelly McCullough
May 02 - 05, 2007
German History, 1945-1990
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)
May 02, 2007
New European Dynamics in Promoting Science and Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States and Europe
Panel Discussion at the German Embassy
Convener: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Volker Rieke (Deutsche Botschaft), Marion Müller (DFG)
April 30, 2007
'The Life of Others'? The GDR Revisited
Panel and Discussion at the GHI
Convener: Bernd Schäfer (GHI)
April 21, 2007
Epitaph for the Bonn Republic: Habermas' Mature Political Theory, 1985-1995
German History Seminar at the GHI
Speaker: Matthew Specter (Duke University)
Convener: Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University)
March 29 - April 01, 2007
Beyond the Nation: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective
Young Scholars Forum
Conveners: Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington) and Uwe Lübken (GHI)
March 22 - 25, 2007
Environmental History and the Cold War
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: John McNeill (Georgetown University), Corinna Unger (GHI)
March 21, 2007
Max Weber – A Passionate Thinker (Max Weber - Die Leidenschaft des Denkens, 2005)
with author Joachim Radkau and Lawrence Scaff
Lecture and Discussion at the Goethe-Institut
Convener: Gisela Mettele
February 21, 2007
Arnold Brecht (1884-1977). Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York
Book Presentation (Berlin, Germany)
Conveners: Corinna Unger (GHI) and Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hamburg)
February 16 - 18, 2007
Histories of the Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective
Conference at the University of California, San Diego.
Conveners: Frank Biess (UC California, San Diego), Robert Moeller (UC California, Irvine), Gisela Mettele (GHI)
February 14, 2007
Presentation of the Helmut Schmidt Prize of the ZEIT Stiftung Hamburg
awarded to Volker Berghahn (Columbia University)
Laudator: Gerald Feldman (Berkeley)
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)
To take place at the German Historical Institute.
January 29, 2007
The Five Germanys He Has Known: Symposium in Honor of Fritz Stern
Event at the Westin Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC
Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI) in collaboration with Jeff Andersen (BMW Center for German and European Studies) and Jackson Janes (AICGS)
2006
GHI Fall Lecture Series
Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present
begins Sept. 21, 2006
All lectures to take place at the GHI (Washington, DC)
December 14, 2006
Religion in the United States and Germany
Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), Rainer Praetorius (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)
A lecture at the GHI
December 07, 2006
Media in the United States and Germany
Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg), Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary College, University of London)
A lecture at the GHI
November 30, 2006
Labor and Industry in the United States and Germany
Colleen Dunlavy (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
A lecture at the GHI
November 17, 2006
Honoring Konrad Jarausch
Event at the GHI
Conveners: Gerald Feldman (Friends of the GHI) and Christof Mauch (GHI)
November 17, 2006
Fritz Stern Dissertation Award and Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Gerald Feldman (Friends of the GHI) and Christof Mauch (GHI)
November 16, 2006
Annual Lecture at the GHI
Europe as a Community of Memory?
Speaker: Aleida Assmann and Peter Novick
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)
November 09, 2006
The Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Daniel Letwin (Pennsylvania State University), Gabriele Metzler (University of Tübingen)
A lecture at the GHI
November 05, 2006
A Resource Rediscovered: The Reopening of the German Society of Pennsylvania Library.
Symposion at the Joseph B. Horner Library
Conveners: Hardy von Auenmüller (German Society of Pennsylvania) and Dirk Schumann (GHI)
November 02, 2006
Empire and Nation: Studies from the United States and Germany
Thomas Bender (New York University, NY), Michael Geyer (University of Chicago, IL)
A lecture at the GHI
October 26, 2006
Discipline: Schools, the Military, and the Shaping of Future Citizens in Germany and the United States, 1890 – 2000
Dirk Schumann (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Judith Sealander (Bowling Green State University)
A lecture at the GHI
October 26, 2006
Franz Steiner Prize Award
Event in Stuttgart
Conveners: Ulrich Bachteler (James F. Byrnes Institute), Christof Mauch (GHI), Thomas Schaber (Steiner Verlag)
October 20, 2006
Edmund Spevack Memorial Event
Parsing Prussian Personality: Christian Thomasius and the Psychogram
Speaker: Mack Walker (Johns Hopkins University)
Conveners: David Blackbourn (Harvard University), Christof Mauch (GHI)
Adams House, Harvard University
October 05, 2006
Mass Politics in Germany and the United States: Paradoxes of Participation
Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)
A lecture at the GHI
October 03, 2006
German Unification Symposium
Bridging the Oder: Reflections on Poland, Germany, and the Transformation of Europe
Speakers: Gesine Schwan and Janusz Reiter
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)
September 21, 2006
Migration in Germany and the United States
Tobias Brinkmann (University of Southampton), Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College, OH)
A lecture at the GHI
September 14, 2006
Writing presidential biographies, doing research in Presidential Libraries
Workshop at the GHI (part of Bucerius Archives Seminar) with Robert Dallek
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)
September 06, 2006
Between Heaven and Earth: Anselm Kiefer’s Purgatory
A lecture by Dorothea Dietrich (Corcoran College of Art + Design)
September 2006
Bucerius Seminar: American History and American Archives
Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison
Conveners: Kathleen N. Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI)
June 26, 2006
World Rivers in History
Plenary Session at the Great Rivers Conference. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)
June 22 - 25, 2006
Pückler and America - Program. (pdf file)
A conference in cooperation with the Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau in Bad Muskau, Germany.
Conveners: Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI, Auburn University), Cord Panning (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)
June 19 - 30, 2006
Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
Convener: Anke Ortlepp (GHI)
May 13, 2006 - June 30, 2006
Elzbieta Sikorska: Forest Drawings
Exhibition at the GHI
May 31, 2006
Seventh Gerd Bucerius Lecture
My Relationship to Beethoven
Speaker: Kurt Masur (Leipzig, London, Paris)
May 25, 2006
Two Nation’s Natures: Environment in America and Germany Christof Mauch (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
A lecture at the GHI
May 18, 2006
Markets and Consumer Culture in Germany and the United States
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute, Florence), Paul Nolte (The Free University, Berlin)
A lecture at the GHI
May 15, 2006
Meinecke's Protégé: German Emigré Historians Between Two Worlds
Gerhard A. Ritter (University of Munich)
comment by James J. Sheehan (Stanford University)
A symposium at the GHI
May 13, 2006 - June 30, 2006
Elzbieta Sikorska: Forest Drawings
Exhibition at the GHI
Opening Reception - Saturday, May 13, 2006
May 12 - 13, 2006
German Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: The European and Global Response
Conference at Mershon International Center (Ohio State University, Columbus)
Conveners: Carole Fink (OSU), Bernd Schäfer (GHI)
May 11, 2006
Gender and the Family in Germany and the United States
Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara), Christiane Eifert (University of Bielefeld)
A lecture at the GHI
May 05 - 07, 2006
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Environment (login: conference papers)
Conference at the GHI (Washington, DC)
Co-conveners: Karen Oslund, Niels Brimnes (U. of Aarhus, Denmark), Christina Folke Ax and Niklas Thode Jensen (U. of Copenhagen, Denmark)
May 04, 2006
German Imperial Biographies: Soldiers, Scientists, and Officials and the 'Arendt Thesis' (login: conference papers)
Workshop at the GHI (Washington, DC)
Conveners: Eric D. Weitz (U. of Minnesota), Jürgen Zimmerer (U. of Essen), Karen Oslund (GHI)
May 02 - 03, 2006
Jews and Modernity: Beyond the Nation
Conference at the Canadian University Conference Centre in Berlin (Germany)
Conveners: Derek Penslar (U. of Toronto), Tobias Brinkmann (U. of Southampton), Simone Lässig (GHI, Washington, DC)
April 29, 2006
Controlling the Streets of Nazi Germany (presentation by Nathan Stoltzfus)
German Histroy Seminar at the GHI
Conveners: Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University), Christof Mauch (GHI)
April 26 - 29, 2006
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History
German History, 1930 - 1960
Seminar at the University of Freiburg
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown Univ.), Ulrich Herbert (Univ. of Freiburg), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)
April 22, 2006
Imagining the Nation: Visual Representation of Race
from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
Offsite session of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH)
April 20 - 22, 2006
Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World
Conference at King’s Manor, York (UK)
Conveners: Richard J. Bessel (U. of York) , Claudia Haake (U. of York) , Dirk Schumann (GHI), Karina Urbach (GHI London)
April 13, 2006
Modern Constitutional Law and Legal Culture in Germany and the United States
Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg), Dieter Gosewinkel (Berlin Center for Social Science Research)
A lecture at the GHI
April 06, 2006
Cinema and the Urban Imagination in Germany and the United States
Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley)
A lecture at the GHI
March 30 - April 02, 2006
Philanthropy in History: German and American Perspectives
Conference at the GHI (Washington, DC) in cooperation with the Stiiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft
Conveners: Simone Lässig (GHI), Gabriele Lingelbach (Universität Trier), Thomas Adam (University of Texas, Arlington, TX)
March 30, 2006
Sacred Space: Women, Philanthropy, and the Public Sphere
Kathleen D. McCarthy (CUNY)
A lecture at the GHI
March 24 - 26, 2006
Western Integration, German Unification and the Cold War: The Adenauer Era in Perspective
Conference at the Georgetown University (Riggs Library)
Conveners: Jost Dülffer (BMW Center of German and European Studies), Bernd Schäfer (German Historical Institute)
March 24, 2006
Max Liebermann (1847-1935) and the Course of German History: An Artist’s Career from Empire to Third Reich
Symposium at the GHI, in cooperation with George Mason University and the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC
Conveners: Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University) and Kelly McCullough (GHI).
March 22 - 25, 2006
Crossovers: African Americans and Germany
Conference at the University of Münster
Conveners: Maria Diedrich (University of Münster), Larry Greene/Jürgen Heinrichs (Seton Hall University), Anke Ortlepp (GHI)
March 16 - 18, 2006
Jesters, Jokes, and Laughter: The Politics of Humour in the 20th Century
Conference at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Conveners: Martina Kessel (University of Bielefeld), Patrick Merziger (Free University Berlin), Dirk Schumann (GHI)
February 24 & 25, 2006
The Lights are going out all over Europe: A Danse Macabre (opens as a pdf-file in a new window)
a performance at the GHI by Theater Sündenfall (Munich, Germany)
February 20, 2006
DADA: The Geographic Dimension
A lecture at the GHI by Timothy Benson (Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
February 16, 2006
Knowledge: Science & Education in Germany and the United States
Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), Christoph Strupp (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)
A lecture at the GHI
January 19, 2006
Being Jewish in the New Germany
Reception at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace
