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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 December 4, 2009 Speaker: Alexander Engel (Georg-August University Göttingen) In cooperation with the Washington Area Economic History Seminar (WAEHS) at American University 'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics December 03, 2009 Daniel Hough (Sussex) GHI Doctoral Fellows Seminar December 03, 2009 Seminar at the GHI The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter December 2, 2009 Books Presentation at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Eighteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize November 13, 2009 Symposium at the GHI 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) Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions, and History October 30 - 31, 2009 Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE) Sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library and German Historical Institute Washington DC Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Roger Horowitz (Hagley), Philip Scranton (Hagley), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI) 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 This event is sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and the GHI Beyond the Racial State October 22 - 25, 2009 Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington Conveners: Devin Pendas (Boston College), Mark Roseman (Indiana University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) October 15 - 17, 2009 Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Conveners: Philipp Gassert (GHI), Ronald Granieri (Penn), Eric Jarosinski (Penn), Frank Trommler (Penn) Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR) October 15, 2009 Charles S. Maier (Harvard University) Medieval History Seminar October 08 - 11, 2009 Conference at the GHI London Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI), Jochen Schenk (GHIL) Film Series - Wende Flicks: Last Films From East Germany October 05 - November 30, 2009 Film Screenings at the Goethe-Institut Washington DC, introduced by members of staff of the GHI: Uta A. Balbier, Martin Klimke, Ines Prodöhl, Jan Logemann, Uwe Spiekermann, Anke Ortlepp and Richard F. Wetzell 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 German Unification Symposium/Hertie Lecture 2009 Speaker: Dr. Frank Elbe Germans' Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949 - 2009 October 01 - 03, 2009 Conference at the Wende Museum and the University of California at Los Angeles Conveners: Uta Balbier (GHI), Philipp Gassert (Augsburg), Justinian Jampol (Wende Museum), Robert G. Moeller (UC Irvine) African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century (CfP deadline: March 01, 2009) October 01 - 04, 2009 Conference, jointly organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) Conveners: Maria Höhn (Vassar College) and Martin Klimke (GHI) Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy in the 20th Century September 24 - 26, 2009 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Balbier (GHI) A Culture of Decline? Politics, Economy, and Social Life in East Germany September 24, 2009 Panel Discussion at Johns Hopkins SAIS jointly organized by AICGS and the German Historial Institute Yes, We Can! Political Rhetoric in the U.S. and German Elections September 23, 2009 Panel Discussion at the Goethe-Institut Washington East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall September 17, 2009 Katherine Pence (Baruch College New York, NY) GHI Doctoral Fellows Seminar September 17, 2009 Seminar at the GHI Lecture by Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University September 16, 2009, 6 pm Grolier Club, New York (NY) Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias in Modernity Workshop at the Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig September 10 - 11, 2009 Conveners: Arndt Engelhardt (DI) and Ines Prodöhl (GHI Washington) Leipziger Herbst: The Peaceful Revolution of 1989 September - December 2009 Exhibition at the GHI, organized in collaboration with the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig GHI Doctoral Fellows Seminar August 06, 2009 Seminar at the GHI "Public History" in Germany and the United States: Fields, Developments and Debates in Praxis and Theory
Global Challenge and Regional Response - Early-Twentieth-Century Northeast China's Encounters with the WorldJune 25 - 27, 2009 Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin Conveners: Andreas Etges and Paul Nolte (FU Berlin) and Anke Ortlepp (GHI) Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present June 25 - June 26, 2009 Workshop at the GHI Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2009 June 22 - July 03, 2009 June 17 - June 20, 2009
The Short- and Long-Term Economic Effects of German Exploitation in Occupied Countries during World War IIConference at Heilongjiang University, Harbin (China) June 18 - 20, 2009
Nuclear Armament, Peace Movements, and the Second Cold War: Workshop at the GHI Convener: Jonas Scherner (GHI) Haus des Rundfunks - Berlin's Broadcast House: An Audio Evening with Alex van Oss Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 6:30 - 8 pm Goethe-Institut Washington DC, GoetheForum 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) A World of Populations May 29 - 30, 2009 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Heinrich Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin) and Corinna R. Unger (GHI) Junior Scholars Conference on the Future of German-Jewish History May 21 - 22, 2009 Conveners: Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland, Institute of European Studies (Berkeley), German Historical Institute (Washington DC) 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) Round table discussion with Günter Nooke May 14, 2009 Panelist: Günter Nooke (Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe) 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 Alexander von Humboldt – A Man for the 21st Century May 4, 2009 Roundtable discussion at the GHI Speakers: Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam), Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo), Kirsten Belgum (University of Texas at Austin), and moderator Frank Holl (Munich) This roundtable discussion 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) 15th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth Century April 29 - May 02, 2009 Seminar at the GHI and Georgetown University Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) The Great Depression: Can It Recur? April 23, 2009 Lecture at the GHI (Spring Lecture Series 2009) Harold James (Princeton University) GHI Doctoral Fellows Seminar April 23, 2009 Seminar at the GHI Sexuality, Race, and Politics: Historical Perspectives on Antebellum April 22, 2009 Discussion at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Songs from Weimar Berlin April 15, 2009 An Evening of Cabaret at the GHI Performance at the GHI, in cooperation with the In Series theater company To Police and Protect: The Surveillance of Homosexuality in Imperial Berlin March 28, 2009 Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar at the GHI Speaker: Robert Beachy (Goucher College) Convener: Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University) The 1979 NATO Double Track Decision in German-German and International Perspective March 26 - 28, 2009
Problematizing Transatlantic History: German-American PerspectivesConference at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin Sponsored by the GHI and the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) Munich-Berlin Convenors: Philipp Gassert (GHI), Tim Geiger (IfZ), Hermann Wentker (IfZ) 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) Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries March 19 - 21, 2009 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI Washington), Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (History Department, University of Bremen), and Mischa Honeck (Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg) Networking the International System March 18, 2009 Luncheon at the GHI Convener: Ines Prodöhl (GHI) Speaker: Cornelia Knab, Maya Okuda, Christiane Sibille (University of Heidelberg) Representing Poverty: American and European Perspectives March 13 - 14, 2009 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI) and Christoph Ribbat (University of Paderborn) 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 1968 in the US, Japan and Germany: Political Protest and Cultural Change March 04 - 06, 2009 Conference at the Japanese-German Center, Berlin (conference page) Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI/HCA Heidelberg), Yoshie Mitobe (Meiji University, Tokyo), Joachim Scharloth (University of Zurich) and Laura Wong (Harvard University) African American Civil Rights and Germany Exhibition at the GHI Special Screening of The Reader January 22, 2009 Screening at the AFI Theater in Silver Spring, MD Immer eine Nasenlänge voraus? Amerika und Deutschland im Wettlauf um die Moderne January 20, 2009 Symposium in Kaiserslautern Convener: Werner Kremp (Atlantische Akademie) Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II January 13, 2009 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Harvard Sitkoff (University of New Hampshire) Facing the Challenge of a New Religious History: Post-1945 American Religion as a Site of Historical Inquiry in Germany January 05, 2009 GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York January 04, 2009
GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York Languages: Sine Qua Non for Globalizing Historiography January 03, 2009 GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York |