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Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Moderne (18.-20. Jh): Tagung zur Historischen Kriminalitätsforschung der Neuzeit
December 6 - 8, 2012
Conference at the Bildungsstätte Liborianum Paderborn
Conveners: Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Universität Gießen) and Richard Wetzell (GHI)

The End of the Social-Democratic Era? Crisis in the Conceptualization of Social Justice in the 1970s and 1980s
December 6, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Martin Geyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Twenty-First Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
November 9, 2012
Symposium at the GHI

Twenty-Sixth Annual Lecture of the GHI
The Straits of Europe: History at the Margins of a Continent
November 8, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Johannes Paulmann (Universität Mainz)

Translating Potential into Profits: Foreign Multinationals in Emerging Markets since the 19th Century
November 2 - 3, 2012
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Matthias Kipping (Schulich School of Business, Toronto) and Christina Lubinski (GHI)

The Secret of Greatness: Frederick II of Prussia
November 1, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Jürgen Luh

Parallels, Networks, and Convergences: Women and Social Justice in Transnational Perspective
October 25, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Sonya Michel (University of Maryland)

Franz Steiner Prize Ceremony 2012
October 17, 2012
Stuttgart, Germany

Markets, States, and Social Justice in the Era of High Industrial Capitalism: Contrasts and Connections across the Atlantic
October 11, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)

German Unification Symposium/Hertie Lecture: 1989 - New Lives, New Truisms
October 3, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Ingo Schulze

The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History
September 20 - 22, 2012
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Marcus Gräser (Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz/GHI), Jörg Nagler (Universität Jena), Don Doyle (University of South Carolina)

Immigration and Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference
September 13 - 14, 2012
Conference at University of Maryland, College Park
Conveners: David B. Sicilia (University of Maryland, College Park), David F. Barbe (University of Maryland, College Park), and Hartmut Berghoff (German Historical Institute)

Transnationalism, Entrepreneurship, and Development
September 13, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Alejandro Portes (Princeton University)

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Retrospect and Prospect
September 09 - 11, 2012
Conference at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Conveners: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Michael Marrus (University of Toronto), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

The Idea of Social Justice, Genuine or Spurious?
September 06, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Wilfried Hinsch (Universität zu Köln)

Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2012: American History in Transatlantic Perspective
September 05 - 15, 2012
Convener: Mischa Honeck

Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Perspective
June 21 - 23, 2012
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Regina Blaszczyk (GHI Fellow) and Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

The Cold War and American Music, 1945-2000
June 22 - 23, 2012
Conference at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich
Conveners: Michael Kimmage (Catholic University), Christof Mauch (LMU-Munich), Berndt Ostendorf (LMU-Munich), Ernest Suarez (Catholic University), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI Washington)

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
June 18 - June 30, 2012
Seminar in Germany
Convener: Clelia Caruso (GHI)

More Atlantic Crossings? Europe's Role in an Entangled History of the Atlantic World, 1950s-1970s
June 07 - 09, 2012
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Jan Logemann (GHI), Mary Nolan (NYU), Daniel Rodgers (Princeton)

The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany
Exhibition
Organized by Martin Klimke

American Campaign Mobilization in the Age of New Media
May 31, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Kate Kenski (University of Arizona)

Colonialism as Counterrevolution: Rethinking the Pre-colonial
May 21, 2012, 4 pm, University of California, San Diego
Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)
Commentator: Rebecca Plant (UC San Diego)

The Second Generation: German Emigré Historians in the Transatlantic World, 1945 to the Present
May 18 - 19, 2012
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Andreas Daum (State University of New York, Buffalo), Hartmut Lehmann (Universität Kiel), James J. Sheehan (Stanford University), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI)

The GHI at 25: A Celebration
May 17, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

Hard on the Eyes: A Photographer and His Subject
May 7, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Werner Sollors (Harvard University)

Global Empire and Naval Ambitions in Wilhelmine Germany
May 7, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine
Speaker: Dirk Bönker (Duke University)
Commentator: Edward Dickinson (UC Davis)

BAA Summer Academy: Democratic Cultures Past and Present - Perspectives from Washington, DC
May 4 - 13, 2012
Seminar at the GHI and American University

Americanizing the Electoral Process? Elections in the Federal Republic of Germany
May 3, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Frank Bösch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam)

18th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1770-1914
May 2 - 5, 2012
Seminar at the GHI
Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture
April 26, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Gerhard A. Ritter

Race War and Cultural Genocide in German Southwest Africa
April 23, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine
Jürgen Zimmerer (Universität Hamburg)
Commentator: Robert Moeller (UC Irvine)

Voters Without Democracy: Elections in Imperial Germany
April 12, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: James Retallack (University of Toronto)

Which Way to Expand? And How? Imperial Rivalries in the ‘Third Reich'
April 9, 2012, 4 pm, University of California, San Diego
Speaker: Dirk van Laak (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Commentator: Uta Poiger (Northeastern University)

The Experiences of Modern European Jews: National, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Conference at The Bronfman Center
March 21 - 23, 2012
This Workshop was made possible by grants from New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the German Historical Institute (Washington, DC), the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts, and the German Academic Exchange Service (New York)

Moving Images: Two Centuries of Campaign Posters in the United States and Germany
March 22, 2012 - December 14, 2012
Exhibition at the GHI
Organized by Bryan Hart, David Lazar, and Jan Logemann

Mobilizing the Nineteenth-Century American Electorate: The Elections of 1828 and 1840
March 22, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Michael Holt (University of Virginia)

Models of Mobility: Systemic Differences, Path Dependencies, Economic, Social, and
Environmental Impact (1900 to tomorrow)
March 23 - 24, 2012
Workshop at York University
Conveners: Matthias Kipping (Schulich), Christina Kraenzle (CCGES), and Christina Lubinski (GHI)

Youth Makes History
Lecture at the GHI
March 23, 2012
Speaker: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

Adolescent Ambassadors: 20th Century Youth Organizations and International Relations
March 23 - 24, 2012
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Mischa Honeck (GHI) and Gabriel Rosenberg (Duke University)

In the Wake of Empire: German Missionaries in China and the Consequences of Failure
March 5, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine
Speaker: Albert Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
Commentator: Quitao Guo (UC Irvine)

The Globalization of African-American Business and Consumer Culture
February 24 - 25, 2012
Workshop at the GHI
Convener: Joshua Davis (GHI)

A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gützlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851
February 13, 12pm, 2012, University of California, Irvine
Speaker: Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
Commentator: Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)

Living the Margins: Illegality, Politics of Removal and Statelessness
February 09 - 11
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Kathleen Canning und (University of Michigan), Barbara Lüthi, Jana Häberlein (Universität Basel), and Miriam Rürup (GHI)

Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia: Creating the Color Line and the National Line
January 12, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota)

Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back? The Afterlives of German Colonialism
January 26, 2012
Lecture and Panel Discussion at the GHI
Speaker: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Panelists: Martin Andjaba (Embassy of Namibia), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), and Cyprian Fisiy (World Bank)