Upcoming Conferences and Events

2008

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

May 13, 2008
Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective
Students in Revolt
A film screening at the Goethe Institut

May 14, 2008
Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective
One, Two, Three, Many 1968s? – Lessons and Legacies of the 1960s
A panel discussion at the German Historical Institute

May 15 - 17, 2008
Fire and Flammable Cities: Urban Environment and Culture in History
A Conference at the GHI
Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Greg Bankoff (University of Hull), Jordan Sand (Georgetown University)

May 19, 2008
Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective
Blow-Up
A film screening at the Goethe Institut

May 21, 2008
Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective
The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri)
A film screening at the Goethe Institut

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

May 23 - 24, 2008
Public Eating, Public Drinking: Places of Consumption from early Modern to Postmodern Times
A Conference at the GHI
Convener: Maren Möhring

May 28 - 31, 2008
Early Modern German History
Fourteenth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, at the Free University, Berlin
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Claudia Ulbrich (FU Berlin), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

May 30 - 31, 2008
Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989
A Conference at the GHI
Convener: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina), Sonya Michel (University of Maryland), Corinna Unger (GHI)

June 05 - 07, 2008
Why Terrorists Stop: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Global Comparison
A Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Dr. Alia Ayub (Hoover Institution, Stanford), Dr. Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch (University of Munich), Timothy J. Naftali (Hoover Institution, Stanford)

June 12 - 14, 2008
Civilising Nature: National Parks in Transnational Historical Perspective
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Conveners: Bernhard Gissibl (University of Mannheim, Germany), Sabine Hoehler (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Patrick Kupper (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

June 16 - June 27, 2008
Archival Summer Seminar in Germany (CfP)
Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI)

September 11, 2008
Ninth Gerd Bucerius Lecture
Speaker: Jutta Limbach

Fall 2008
Global Migration Systems of Domestic and Care Workers
Congerence (tba)
Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI), Valerie Preston (York University), Wenona Giles (York University), Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto)

Fall 2008
Poverty and its Representation in Historical perspective
Workshop (tba)
Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI), Christoph Ribbat

September 25 - 27, 2008
Human Breeding for the Improvement of the Nations: Proto-Eugenic Thinking before Galton.
A Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Maren Lorenz (GHI), Christoph Irmscher (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

October 03, 2008
German Unification Symposium
Speaker: Marianne Birthler

October 09 – 11, 2008
Nature’s Accountability: Aggregation and Governmentality in the History of Sustainability (CfP)
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Conveners: Sabine Höhler (GHI), Rafael Ziegler (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany)

October 23 - 26, 2008
Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Political Violence in the Nineteenth Century (CfP pdf-file)
Conference at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA
Convener: Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London), Claudia Verhoeven (George Mason University/EUI Florenz)

October 30 - November 01, 2008
A Whole New Game: Expanding the Boundaries of the History of Sports
Conference at the German Historical Institute (Washington, DC)
Conveners: Stefan Wiederkehr (GHI Warschau), Uta Balbier (GHI Washington)

November 20 - 22, 2008
Engineering Society: The “Scientification of the Social” in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1990
Conference at the University of Sheffield
Conveners: Kerstin Brückweh (GHI London), Dirk Schumann (Jacobs University Bremen), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI), Benjamin Ziemann (Univ. of Sheffield)

2009

April 29 - May 02, 2009
German History in the Nineteenth Century
15th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
Seminar at the GHI
Conveners: Chickering and Wetzell

March 19 - 21, 2009
Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries (CfP)
A Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI Washington), Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (History Department, University of Bremen), Mischa Honeck (Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg)

May 22 - 23, 2009
"A World of Populations": 20th Century Demographic Discourses and Practices in Global Perspective (CfP)
A Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Heinrich Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin), Corinna R. Unger (GHI)

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