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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 2005 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins and will open as a pdf-file in a new window. "Kunst der Freiheit" or "Phänomen spätbürgerlicher Dekadenz"? The Art of Die Brücke in the Cold War December 08, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Christian Saehrendt (Humboldt University, Berlin) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America. December 01-03, 2005 Conference at the GHl Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (SUNY Buffalo, GHI), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University, GHI), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jennifer Price (Los Angeles). Urban Nature and Human Design December 01, 2005 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Anne Whiston Spirn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 14th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize November 18, 2005 Symposium at the GHI Conveners: Gerald D. Feldman (University of California at Berkeley), Christof Mauch (GHI). 19th Annual Lecture of the GHI November 17, 2005 Speakers: Kenneth T. Jackson (Columbia University) [pdf], Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hanover) [pdf] Commentator: Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hannover) Expressionism and the Third Reich November 10, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Jonathan Petropoulos (Claremont McKenna College) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism A Flaneur Between Rubble and Ruins - Friedrich Seidenstücker: Photographs of Berlin after 1945. November 04, 2005 Exhibition at the GHI Opening and lecture on November 04, 2005. Presenter: Antje Schunke, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Franz Marc at the Lenbachhaus November 03, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Annegret Hoberg (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism American Presidents and the Germans, 1945-2005 [pdf download, in: Bulletin 38, Spring 2006] November 02, 2005 Lecture at the Adams House, Harvard University Speaker: Robert Gerald Livingston (German Historical Institute) Dramatizing German History: A Conversation with Michael Frayn November 01, 2005 Discussion at the Theater DCJCC, Washington, DC in collaboration with the DCJCC and the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC Following the discussion, attend the final Pay-What-You-Can preview performance of Theater J's Washington premiere premiere production of Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend. Künstlergruppe Brücke and the Public Sphere: The Formation of the Modern Woman Patron and Collector October 27, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Shulamith Behr (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism Medieval History Seminar October 20-22, 2005 Conference at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Italy) Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University, Berlin), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jonathan Skolnik (GHI). A Non-Male German Talent: Gabriele Münter’s Work Perceived through Wassily Kandinsky’s Eyes October 06, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Reinhold Heller (University of Chicago) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism Historical Upheavals, Fractured Identities: A Conversation with Monika Maron October 03, 2005 German Unification Symposium 2005, at the GHI Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) September 29 - October 01, 2005 Conference at the City University of New York (CUNY) Conveners: Martin Burke (CUNY), Melvin Richter (CUNY), Dirk Schumann (GHI). Competing Modernities: The United States of America and Germany since 1890 September 23-24, 2005 Workshop at the GHI Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin) From Impressionism to Expressionism: Harry Graf Kessler on Modern Art and its Public in Imperial Germany September 19, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Laird Easton (California State University, Chico) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism U.S. Intelligence and the Gehlen Organization, 1945-1956 September 15, 2005 Symposium at the GHI German Expressionism: Nineteenth-Century Roots September 08, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Robert Rosenblum (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism American Archives and American History September 05 - 17, 2005 Second Annual Bucerius Seminar Conveners: Kathleen Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI). Six Perspectives on the Abstract. A show of works by the Independent Artists Forum. September 02, 2005 - October 21, 2005 Exhibition at the GHI Opening reception on September 02, 2005, in conjunction with the GHI’s fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism. Stauffenberg July 20, 2005 Film screening in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC, and ARD-German TV, at the Goethe-Institut The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Peter Hoffmann (McGill University, Montreal) Sixth Gerd Bucerius Lecture - What Future for the West? Reflections on an Enlarged Europe and the Unites States in the Twenty-First Century (pdf download) June 29, 2005 Timothy Garton Ash (St. Antony’s College, Oxford) Turning Points in Environmental History June 16-18, 2005 Conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI); Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld); Frank Uekötter (University of Bielefeld). The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America June 16-18, 2005 Conference at the Bavarian American Academy and the Katholische Pfarrkuratie St. Florian Co-sponsored by the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie München and the German Historical Institute (DC). Conveners: Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI), Raimund Lammersdorf (BAA). Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies May 29 and June 11, 2005 at Koblenz, Cologne, and Gotha Convener: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI) The Iconography of Victory: Reporting the American Occupation of Cologne May 19, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Eberhard Illner (Historical Archive of the City of Cologne) Animals in History: Studying the Not So Human Past May 18 - 21, 2005 Conference at the Literaturhaus, Cologne, Germany Co-sponsored by the Angloamerican Institute of the University of Cologne and the German Historical Institute (DC). Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (GHI) and Christof Mauch (GHI). Art Enables spricht deutsch. A show of original works May 06 - June 17, 2005 Exhibtion at the GHI Opening reception on May 06, 2005, held in conjunction with the Dupont Circle Gallery Walk. Victors' Justice? The Nuremberg Trial and the Invention of International Crime April 25, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Richard Overy (University of Exeter) Confronting the End: Reflections on Nazi Leaders in 1945 April 21, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Peter Longerich (Royal Holloway, University of London) Rethinking Embourgoisement and the Jews of Germany April 21, 2005 The GHI (DC) and Leo Baeck Institute Second Annual Joint Symposium Forchheimer Auditorium, The Center for Jewish History New York City Presenters: Simone Lässig (GHI), Till van Rahden (University of Cologne) Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-53 April 15 - 18, 2005 Films and Symposium, part of the Washington DC International Film Festival, in collaboration with the German Marshall Fund Of The United States, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and the Goethe-Institut German History, 1890-1930 April 13-16, 2005 Eleventh Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar at the GHI Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) Raising Americans - Raising Europeans in the 20th Century April 07-10, 2005 Conference at the GHI Convener: Dirk Schumann (GHI). Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History March 31 - April 02, 2005 Young Scholars Forum at the University of Texas at Arlington Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington). General of the Lustwaffe: Beate Uhse and Germans' Experience of Sexuality over 1945 March 31, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Elizabeth Heineman (University of Iowa) Play in Destruction: War Children in Nazi Germany March 17, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Nicholas Stargardt (Magdalen College, Oxford University) War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815 March 10-12, 2005 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Stig Förster (University of Bern), Christof Mauch (GHI). From Levée en masse to Hiroshima: The Concept of Total War in History. [in: Bulletin 37, Fall 2005] March 10, 2005 Roundtable Discussion at the GHI Panelists: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Stig Förster (University of Bern), Jörg Nagler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena), Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, SUNY) Dennis Showalter (Colorado College). Teaching World History (online Essays on World History Connected) March 03-06, 2005 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs (University of Mannheim), Karen Oslund (GHI), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI, London). Performing the World: Reality and Representation in the Making of World Histor(ies) March 03, 2005 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Arif Dirlik (University of Oregon) Auschwitz: The Liberation of the Camp and the End of the German Musterstadt February 24, 2005 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2005 Lecture Series) Speaker: Sybille Steinbacher (Ruhr University Bochum/Harvard University) A Tribute to Hermann-Josef Rupieper [Obituary in: Bulletin 35, Fall 2004] January 28, 2005 Event at the GHI (Washington, DC) |