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What Would Helmut Schmidt Do? Leadership in a Time of Crisis December 15, 2011 Lecutre at the GHI Speaker: Theo Sommer 2011 Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture December 8, 2011 Award presentation and lecture at the GHI Speaker: Charles Maier (Harvard University) Love and War. Or: How to Make Use of Transnational History for German Colonialism? December 1, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Birthe Kundrus (Universität Hamburg) From Mass Murder to Exhibition: Museum Representations in Transatlantic Comparison November 17 - 18, 2011 Conference at the GHI Conveneres: Jürgen Matthäus (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC), Miriam Rürup (GHI Washington), Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar), Georg Wamhof (Washington, DC) Forced Labor for the “Final Victory:” Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, 1943-1945 November 17, 2011 - December 31, 2011 Exhibition at the GHI Organized by Miriam Rürup Twentieth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize November 11, 2011 Symposium at the GHI Twenty-Fifth Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute November 10, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Mark Mazower (Columbia University) "Trust, but Verify" - Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War November 07 - 09, 2011 Conference at the GHI and Wilson Center Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI), Reinhild Kreis (University of Augsburg), Sonya Michel (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) Emotions in History
October 21 - 22, 2011November 07, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speakers: Ute Frevert Rethinking German Colonialism in a Global Age November 03, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin) Transatlantic Tourism October 28 - 29, 2011 Workshop at the GHI Convener: Frank Schipper (GHI) Tensions of Empire and the Production of Silence: Colonial Scandals in the German Empire at 1900 October 27, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Rebekka Habermas (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Uncertain Knowledge: Practices, Media, and Agents of (Non-)Affirmation in 19th and 20th Century American History Conference at the GHI Convener: Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore College), Sebastian Jobs (GHI Washington/Universität Rostock), Olaf Stieglitz (University of Erfurt) The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack Obama and Uncertain Knowledge October 21, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University) Modern Colonialisms and Agrarian Anxieties: How Did Industrialization Matter? October 20, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Kenneth Pomeranz (Univeristy of California, Irvine) Medieval History Seminar 2011
September 15 - 17, 2011October 13 - 16, 2011 Seminar at the GHI Convener: Miriam Rürup (GHI Washington) and Jochen Schenk (GHI London) Unternehmer und Migration October 06 - 07, 2011 34. Wissenschaftliches Symposium der Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte in Frankfurt/M. Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI, Universität Göttingen), Andreas Fahrmeir (Universität Frankfurt/M.) Germany Has Come of Age: Lessons from the Past and Worldwide Responsibilities October 03, 2011 German Unification Symposium/Hertie Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Günter Nooke Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations, Non-Governmental Actors, and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990 September 29 - 30, 2011 Conference at Jacobs University Bremen Conveners: Marc Frey (Jacobs University), Sönke Kunkel (Jacobs University), Corinna R. Unger (Jacobs University) The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History Conference at the Friedrich-Schiller-University at Jena, Germany Conveners: Jörg Nagler (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena), Marcus Gräser (GHI), Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Sydney) An American in Deutschland: Photographs by Leonard Freed September 15, 2011 - November 15, 2011 Photo Exhibition at the GHI Curated by Paul M. Farber and Martin Klimke Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2011: American History in Transatlantic Perspective Convener: Mischa Hoeneck Europe - Migration - Identity: Summer Seminar August 25 - 27, 2011 Seminar at the University of Minnesota Conveners: Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota), and Jan Logemann (GHI) First Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society, Inc. August 19 - 21, 2011 Convention at the GHI Convener: Martin Klimke (GHI) Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experiencein Germany and the U.S. August 19, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Noah Sow Roots Germania - A Personal Search for Identity August 18, 2011 Film Screening and Panel Discussion at the GHI Speakers: Pia Bungarten and Mo Asumang The Cold War: History, Memory, and Representation July 14 - 16, 2011 Conference at the Europäische Akademie Berlin Convener: Andreas Etges (FU Berlin) Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2011
June 23 - 25, 2011June 27, 2011 - July 08, 2011 Seminar in Germany Writing Post-1970 History: Conceptualizing the Late Twentieth Century in German and American Historiography Workshop at the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Conveners: Ariane Leendertz (GHI Washington/LMU-München), Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University) Workshop with Veterans from the Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, DC June 21, 2011 Workshop at the GHI Convener: Martin Klimke Risk and Uncertainty in the Economy: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Perspectives
June 9, 2011June 19 - 22, 2011 Conference at Villa Vigoni, Italy Conveners: Jens Beckert (Max-Planck-Institut, Köln), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) Second Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History June 14 - 15, 2011 Conference at the USHMM and the GHI Conveners: Michael Brenner (LMU-München), Miriam Rürup (GHI) Where are the Intellectuals? The Absence of Great Minds from Today's Key Political Debates June 13, 2011 Panel Discussion at the GHI Speakers: Benjamin Barber (Demos), Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin), Christoph von Marschall (Der Tagesspiegel) The Night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union, England: Race Protest in the Subversive Special Relationship Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Stephen Tuck (University of Oxford) Feeding and Clothing the World: Cash Crops and Global History June 02 - 04, 2011 Conference at the GHI Convener: Shane Hamilton (University of Georgia), Ines Prodöhl (GHI) Cash, Crops, War and Peace June 2, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Patricia Clavin (Oxford University) Black Expatriates and Civil Rights Activism in 1950/60s Ghana May 26, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan) 17th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Early Modern German History May 18 - 21, 2011 Seminar at the GHI Convener: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) and Roger Chickering (Georgetown Univ.) Twelfth Gerd Bucerius Lecture May 10, 2011 Lecture at the Willard InterContinental Hotel Speaker: Gerhard Schröder Legal Tradition and Economic Success April 28, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Mathias Schmoeckel (University of Bonn) BUS-eum Exhibition: Held on the Homefront: German POWs in the USA, 1943-1946 April 27, 2011 Exhibition at the German School Washington Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic Reality April 28 - 30, 2011 Symposium at the GHI Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI, Washington D.C.), William J. Hausman (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA), Günther Schulz (University of Bonn) Global Perspective on the Black Freedom Struggle April 21, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg) Economic Crime and the State in the Twentieth Century, a German-American Comparison April 14 - 16, 2011 Workshop at the GHI Convener: Mario Daniels (GHI Washington) Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar 2011: Johann Georg Forster: A Biography April 9, 2011 Seminar at the GHI Speaker: Hugh West (University of Richmond) Gerald D. Feldman Lecture April 7, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Margaret Anderson (University of California Berkeley) Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 March 24, 2011 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Carol Anderson (Emory University) Secularization and the Transformation of Religion in the U.S. and Germany after 1945 March 17 - 19, 2011 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Uta A. Balbier (GHI), Wilhelm Damberg (Bochum University), Lucian Hoelscher (Bochum University), Mark Ruff (Saint Louis University) Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice in Modern Europe, 1870 - 1990 March 10 - 12, 2011 Conference at the GHI Convener: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington) and Kerstin Brückweh (GHI London) Radical Liaisons and Race: Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties March 08, 2011 Panel Discussion at the New School for Social Research, New York Speakers: Maria Höhn (Vassar College), Markin Klimke (GHI Washington), Jeremy Varon (New School for Social Research), and Norbert Frei (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) The German Foreign Service and its Nazi Past March 03, 2011 Panel Discussion at the GHI Speakers: Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Norbert Frei (Universität Jena/New School for Social Research), Peter Hayes (Northwestern University), Miriam Rürup (German Historical Institute), and Klaus Scharioth (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany) Going Global: Internationalization Pathways for Family Firms During the 19th and 20th Century February 18 - 19, 2011 Workshop at the GHI Conveners: Christina Lubinski (Harvard Business School, GHI) and Paloma Fernández Pérez (Dept. d'Història i Institucions. Econòmiques, Universitat de Barcelona) GHI Research Seminar January 12, 2011 Ethnizität, Regionalismus und Ökonomie: Die USA im transatlantischen Vergleich, 1820-1940 Marcus Gräser (GHI Washington) GHI Doctoral Seminar January 26, 2011 Seminar at the GHI |