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Events & Conferences Event History 2009 Lectures
Events & Conferences Event History 2009 Lectures
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Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture: Banking Crises in Three Countries: An Historical and Comparative Perspective December 10, 2009 Award presentation and lecture at the GHI Speaker: Richard Tilly 'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics December 03, 2009 Daniel Hough (Sussex) Twenty-third Annual Lecture of the GHI November 12, 2009 Lecture by: Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University) Commentator: Thomas Lindenberger (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna) On shoelaces, fishing manuals, and the fear of misspeaking November 05, 2009 Katrin Askan (Berlin) William R. Smyser - Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: "A Hell of a Lot Better than a War" October 29, 2009 Room LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress Book presentation and panel discussion, sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and the GHI Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR) October 15, 2009 Charles S. Maier (Harvard University) Popular Culture, Memory, and German Unification: Heiner Carow's "The Mistake" October 05, 2009 Barton Byg (Amherst, MA) Please note: The lecture will take place at the Goethe Institut Washington DC (directions) The Diplomatic Path to German Unity: A Tribute to American Friends October 02, 2009, 2-4 pm Speaker: Dr. Frank Elbe East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall September 17, 2009 Katherine Pence (Baruch College New York, NY) Lecture by Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University September 16, 2009, 6 pm Grolier Club, New York (NY) The Current Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies June 04, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) Adam S. Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) Death or Rebirth? The End of the Bretton Woods System, 1968 – 1973 May 21, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) James J. Boughton (International Monetary Fund) Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009 May 6, 2009 Lecture at the Library of Congress Speaker: Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo) This lecture is part of the event series Alexander von Humboldt - Remapping Global Perspectives, in cooperation with Dr. Frank Holl and the German Embassy, the Goethe-Institut Washington DC, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Associates The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920’s April 30, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) Eugene N. White (Rutgers University) The Great Depression: Can It Recur? April 23, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) Harold James (Princeton University) The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy March 26, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) Richard E. Sylla (New York University) 'Kasseler Neger - Kasseler Mohren?' Silenced Narratives of the African Diaspora in Germany March 20, 2009 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Maria I. Diedrich (Universität Münster) Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America March 13, 2009 Speaker: Leon Dash (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Tenth Gerd Bucerius Lecture March 12, 2009 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II January 13, 2009 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Harvard Sitkoff (University of New Hampshire) |