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Writing East German History: What Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make? December 05 - 07, 2008 Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Conveners: Uta Balbier (GHI), Benita Blessing (Ohio University), Geoff Eley (University of Michigan), and Heather Gumbert (Virginia Tech University) Between Science and Politics: Economics and National Socialism Dezember 04, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Jan-Otmar Hesse (University of Göttingen) The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship between the U.S. and Europe December 02, 2008 Discussion at the GHI Dr. Thomas Bagger (Deputy Head of the Political Division, German Embassy, Washington DC), Emily Schmidt (CDS International) Introduced by Dr. Philipp Gassert (GHI) Engineering Society: The "Scientification of the Social" in Comparative Perspective 1880-1990 November 20 - 22, 2008 Conference at the University of Sheffield Conveners: Kerstin Brückweh (GHI London), Dirk Schumann (Jacobs University Bremen), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI), and Benjamin Ziemann (Univ. of Sheffield) The Economic Development of Germany in the 'Third Reich' November 20, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Christoph Buchheim (University of Mannheim) African American Civil Rights and Germany November 19, 2008 - January 15, 2009 Exhibition at the GHI Martin Luther King Jr. and Germany in the 1960s November 19, 2008 Panel discussion at the GHI Inaugural Lecture Hartmut Berghoff November 14, 2008 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Hartmut Berghoff (Director GHI) November 14, 2008 Event at the GHI The Natural Sciences and Democratic Practices: Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Max Planck November 13, 2008 22nd Annual Lecture of the GHI Speaker: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (University of Cologne) Commentator: Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley) Global Migration Systems of Domestic and Care Workers November 12 - 15, 2008 Conference at York University, Toronto Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI), Valerie Preston (York University), Wenona Giles (York University), Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto)
November 07 - 08, 2008
October 30 - November 01, 2008Workshop at the GHI Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI) Commercial Advertising in Nazi Germany November 06, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Pamela Swett (McMaster University) A Whole New Game: Expanding the Boundaries of the History of Sports Conference at the GHI Conveners: Stefan Wiederkehr (GHI Warschau), Uta Balbier (GHI Washington) Konkurrenz und Konvergenz: Die USA und Deutschland im Wettlauf um die Moderne October 30, 2008 Symposium at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg Convener: Christoph Strupp (FZH Hamburg) October 23 - 26, 2008 Conference at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA Convener: Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Mareike König (GHI Paris), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London), Claudia Verhoeven (George Mason University/EUI Florenz) Symposium in Memoriam of Gerald D. Feldman October 23 - 24, 2008 Berlin Franz Steiner Prize Award 2008 October 23, 2008 Stuttgart Corporate Freedom of Action in Nazi Germany October 16, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) October 09 - 11, 2008 Conference in Cologne Conveners: Jost Dülffer (University of Cologne) and Marc Frey (Jacobs University, Bremen) Nature's Accountability: Aggregation and Governmentality in the History of Sustainability October 09 - 11, 2008 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Sabine Höhler (GHI), Rafael Ziegler (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany) What is a European Classic of Contemporary History? October 08, 2008 Luncheon at the GHI with Dr. Nicolas Berg (Universitaet Leizig) and Dr. Jan-Holger Kirsch (Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam) Making History in Kohl's Republic: The Politics of the Past in the 1980s and 1990s October 04, 2008 GHI-sponsored panel at the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Paul (MI) October 03, 2008
Speaker: Marianne Birthler (Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR)
"Nature Incorporated": Business History and Environmental Change October 01, 2008 GHI sponsored panel at the 47. Deutscher Historikertag Travel for Everyone? Tourism in the USA and Germany in the Twentieth Century October 01, 2008 GHI sponsored panel at the 47. Deutscher Historikertag Human Breeding: Proto-Eugenic Thinking before Galton September 25 - 27, 2008 Workshop at the GHI Conveners: Maren Lorenz (GHI), Christoph Irmscher (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana) Enticement and Deprivation: Consumption under Hitler September 18, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press - Ninth Gerd Bucerius Lecture September 11, 2008 Lecture at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, Washington DC Speaker: Jutta Limbach (Former Chief Judge, German Supreme Court and former President of the Goethe-Institut) Competing Modernities: The United States and Germany, 1890 to Present June 20, 2008 Book presentation at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin Archival Summer Seminar in Germany June 16 - 27, 2008 Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI) Civilising Nature: National Parks in Transnational Historical Perspective June 12 - 14, 2008 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Bernhard Gissibl (University of Mannheim, Germany), Sabine Hoehler (GHI), Patrick Kupper (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Why Terrorists Stop: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Global Comparison June 05 - 07, 2008 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Alia Ayub (Hoover Institution), Carola Dietze (GHI), Christof Mauch (University of Munich), Timothy J. Naftali (Hoover Institution) Terrorism - Yesterday and Today June 05, 2008 Lecture at the GHI Speakers: Stefan Aust (Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel, 1994-2008), Bruce Hoffmann (Georgetown University) Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 May 29 - 31, 2008 Conference at the GHI Convener: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina), Sonya Michel (University of Maryland), Corinna Unger (GHI) Early Modern German History May 28 - 31, 2008 Fourteenth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, at the Free University, Berlin Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Claudia Ulbrich (FU Berlin), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) Public Eating, Public Drinking: Places of Consumption from early Modern to Postmodern Times May 23 - 24, 2008 Conference at the GHI Convener: Maren Möhring Hitler's Black Victims: Black Resistance and Oppression under Nazism May 22, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Clarence Lusane (American University) Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) May 21, 2008 Film screening at the Goethe Institut Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Blow-Up May 19, 2008 Film screening at the Goethe Institut Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment, and Culture in History May 15 - 17, 2008 Conference at the GHI Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Greg Bankoff (University of Hull), Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) One, Two, Three, Many 1968s? – Lessons and Legacies of the 1960s May 14, 2008 Panel discussion at the GHI Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Students in Revolt May 13, 2008 Film screening at the Goethe Institut "I Prefer Panthers to Pigs": German Students, Black Panther GIs and the 1970/71 Racial Crisis in the 7th Army May 08, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Maria Höhn (Vassar College) Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Viva Maria! May 05, 2008 Film screening at the Goethe Institut New Perspectives on National Socialism and Global War: Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg May 02, 2008 Conveners: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Philipp Gassert (GHI), Alan Steinweis (University of Nebraska) Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute and the German Empire: Race and Cotton in the Black Atlantic April 24, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) Black Germans, Photography and the 'Evidence' of History April 17, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Tina Campt (Duke University) 1968 - 40 Years Later April 12, 2008 Workshop at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie NY) Modernization as a Global Project: American, Soviet, and European Approaches March 28 - 29, 2008 Workshop at the GHI Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI), David Engerman (Brandeis University) Of Borderstates and Leeches: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses March 13, 2008 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2008 Lecture Series) Speaker: Maria Diedrich (Universität Münster) Managing the Unknown: Natural Resources and Reserves in History Febuary 21 - 23, 2008 Conference at the GHI Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Frank Uekötter (Deutsches Museum München) Photo-Exhibition: Pilgrims on the Ohio February 01, 2008 Opening Reception Celebrating 325 Years: German Migration to the United States January 30, 2008 Panel discussion at The Union League, Lincoln Hall (Philadelphia) Max Mohr: One Story, Two Tellings January 29, 2008 Goethe Institute (Washington DC) Transregional and Transnational Families January 25 - 27, 2008 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), David Sabean (UCLA), Christopher Johnson (Wayne State University), Francesca Trivellato (Yale University), Simon Teuscher (Universität Zürich) Joint Reception of the German Historical Institute and the Conference Group for Central European History (for AHA members) January 05, 2008 Convener: Richard Wetzel |