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Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migration 1830s to 1930s December 06 - 08, 2007 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Marcel van der Linden (Institute of Social History - Amsterdam, NL), Donna Gabbacia (Immigration History Research Center), Dirk Hoerder (Arizona State University) The Regionalization of World Migration, 1840 - 1930 December 06, 2007 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Adam McKeown Stammheim and Majdanek: Prosecuting Terrorists and Nazis in 1970s West Germany November 29, 2007 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2007 Lecture Series) Speaker: Rebecca Wittman (University of Toronto) 16th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize November 16, 2007 Conveners: Friends of the GHI, Anke Ortlepp (GHI) The Future of the Sovereign State: Some Historical Reflections on the German Case November 15, 2007 21st Annual Lecture of the GHI Speaker: James J. Sheehan (Stanford University) Commentator: Cornelia Rauh-Kühne (University of Hannover) Terrorism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: New Research and Sources in Europe and the USA November 14, 2007 Workshop at the Tulane University, New Orleans Conveners: Anke Hilbrenner (University of Bonn), Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (University of Munic), Carola Dietze (GHI) Practices and Power in the Everyday Life of the Twentieth Century November 09 - 10, 2007 Symposium in Honor of Alf Lüdtke at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Conveners: Kathleen Canning (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Geoff Eley (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Convener for the GHI: Carola Dietze (GHI) Film Screening: Between the Lines November 09, 2007 Woodrow Wilson Center Militant Subcultures: The Origins of West German Terrorism in the Late 1960s November 08, 2007 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2007 Lecture Series) Speaker: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen) Terror and Security: Law Enforcement, the Media, and Social Change in West Germany during the 1970s November 01, 2007 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2007 Lecture Series) Speaker: Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld) Refusing to be "Good Germans": New Left Violence as a Global Phenomenon October 25, 2007 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2007 Lecture Series) Speaker: Jeremy Varon (Drew University) Fourth Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies October 18 - 20, 2007 Washington, DC Medieval History Seminar October 11 - 14, 2007 Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI), Karsten Plöger (GHI London) Still a Community of Values?: Historical Reflections on the Normative Basis of the West October 09, 2007 Lecture by Heinrich August Winkler (Humboldt University Berlin) Comment by Stephen F. Szabo (The German Marshall Fund) The lecture will take place at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Kenney Auditorium "A Humanitarian as Broad as the World": Abraham Lincoln's Legacy in International Context October 04 - 06, 2007 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Gabor Boritt (Gettysburg College), Uwe Lübken (German Historical Institute), Jörg Nagler (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) Caribbean Encounters: A German Missionary's Discovery of the New World October 04 - 06, 2007 GHI sponsored Panel at the German Studies Association (San Diego, CA) Panelist: Gisela Mettele (GHI) Reflections on Unification: Hertie Lecture (German Unification Symposium at the GHI) October 03, 2007 Speaker: Bärbel Bohley Convener: Anke Ortlepp (GHI) Ideology and Terror in the Red Decade: Reflections on Communism, Anti-Zionism, and the Memory of Terrorism’s Victims September 27, 2007 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2007 Lecture Series) Speaker: Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland) Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective September 13 - 15, 2007 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Uwe Lübken (GHI) and Christof Mauch (University of Munich) Pleasure, Power and Everyday Life under National Socialism September 13 - 14, 2007 Conference at the GHI Paris Conveners: Fabrice d'Almeida (IHTP, Paris), Corey Ross (Univ. of Birmingham), Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) The Palucca School in Dresden – Photographs by Günter Bersch September 07, 2007 Exhibition opening at GHI Organizer: Kelly McCullough (GHI) Reading Hamburg: Anglo-American Perspectives Hamburg verstehen: Anglo-amerikanische Perspektive (Program as a pdf file) September 06 - 08, 2007 Conference at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH) Conveners: Axel Schildt (FZH/Universität Hamburg), Christoph Strupp (GHI), Dorothee Wierling (FZH/Universität Hamburg) Michael Frayn's "Democracy" July 21, 2007 Panel Discussion with the audience at the Olney Theater (Olney, MD) Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI), Gisela Mettele (GHI) Local, Regional and Global Constructions of Christianity: Religious Communication Networks, 1680 - 1830 July 12 - 14, 2007 Conference at the GHI London Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Gisela Mettele (GHI) Here Comes the New Photographer!: The 1929 Film und Foto Exhibition and Photography's Emergence as a Language June 26, 2007 Speaker: Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee) Lecture at the GHI Archival Summer Seminar in Germany June 25 - July 06, 2007 Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI) Inward Turn – Photographs by Lotte Jacobi June 22, 2007 Exhibition opening at the GHI Organizer: Kelly McCullough (GHI) Toward a New Transatlantic Space? Changing Perceptions of Identity, Belonging, and Space in the Atlantic World June 21 - 23, 2007 Conference in Leipzig Conveners: Hartmut Keil (Leipzig), Corinna Unger (GHI) Foto and Modernity: An Overview June 12, 2007 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Matthew S. Witkovsky (National Gallery of Art) GHI Panel at the Fourth Conference of the European Society for Environmental History in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) June 05 - 09, 2007 Panelists: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Dorothee Brantz (State University of New York, Buffalo), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University), chaired by Christof Mauch (GHI/LMU Munich) Either/Or: A Post-Performance Discussion at the Theater J May 20 and 27, 2007 Jointly sponsored by the GHI, the Goethe-Institute and Theater J Eighth Gerd Bucerius Lecture - Between Kosovo and Iraq: The Process of Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship May 22, 2007 Speaker: Joschka Fischer The Uses of Immigrant Letters May 18 - 19, 2007 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Wolfgang Helbich (Bochum), Anke Ortlepp (GHI) Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 - 1820 May 17 - 19, 2007 Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Karen Hagemann (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Mass Migration and Urban Governance: Cities in the United States and in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries May 11 - 12, 2007 Workshop at the GHI Conveners: Marcus Gräser (University of Frankfurt/NEH-GHI Fellow), Daniel Czitrom (Mount Holyoke College, NEH Fellow), Gisela Mettele (GHI) 7 Empire in German and American History GHI Spring Lecture Series 2007 begins March 01, 2007 All lectures to take place at the GHI (Washington, DC) Mies van der Rohe’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library: An exhibition of photographs by Colin Loughlin May 04, 2007 Opening Reception at the GHI Convener: Kelly McCullough (GHI) German History, 1945-1990 Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, at the GHI May 02 - 05, 2007 Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) New European Dynamics in Promoting Science and Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States and Europe May 02, 2007 Panel Discussion at the German Embassy Convener: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Volker Rieke (Deutsche Botschaft), Marion Müller (DFG) 'The Life of Others'? The GDR Revisited April 30, 2007 Panel and Discussion at the GHI Convener and Moderator: Bernd Schäfer (GHI) Epitaph for the Bonn Republic: Habermas' Mature Political Theory, 1985-1995 April 21, 2007 German History Seminar at the GHI Speaker: Matthew Specter (Duke University) Convener: Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University) Beyond the Nation: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective March 29 - April 01, 2007 Young Scholars Forum Conveners: Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington) and Uwe Lübken (GHI) Environmental History and the Cold War March 22 - 25, 2007 Conference at the GHI Conveners: John McNeill (Georgetown University), Corinna Unger (GHI) Max Weber – A Passionate Thinker (Max Weber - Die Leidenschaft des Denkens, 2005) March 21, 2007 Lecture and Discussion at the Goethe-Institut with author Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld) and Lawrence Scaff (University of California at Berkeley) Convener: Gisela Mettele (GHI) Farewell for Christof Mauch February 24, 2007 Event at the GHI Speakers: Gerald D. Feldman (Friends of the GHI), Wolfgang Schieder (DGIA), Friedrich Lenger (GHI), Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Anke Ortlepp (GHI), John McNeill (Georgetown University), Timothy Naftali (University of Virginia) Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York February 21, 2007 Book Presentation (Berlin, Germany) Conveners: Corinna Unger (GHI) and Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hamburg) Histories of the Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective February 16 - 18, 2007 Conference at the University of California, San Diego. Conveners: Frank Biess (UC California, San Diego), Robert Moeller (UC California, Irvine), Gisela Mettele (GHI) Presentation of the Helmut Schmidt Prize of the ZEIT Stiftung Hamburg awarded to Volker Berghahn (Columbia University) February 14, 2007 Event at the GHI Laudator: Gerald Feldman (Berkeley) Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI) The Five Germanys He Has Known: Symposium in Honor of Fritz Stern January 29, 2007 Event at the Westin Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI) in collaboration with Jeff Andersen (BMW Center for German and European Studies) and Jackson Janes (AICGS) |