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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 2003 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins and will open as a pdf-file in a new window. My Journey from Hamburg to Hollywood: A Peripatetic Youth December 11, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Steven Muller (Johns Hopkins University) Adorno in America: German Exiles and the American Experience December 09, 2003 Friends of the GHI Symposium in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Conveners: Keith D. Alexander, GHI; Helga Flores-Trejo, Heinrich Böll Foundation. Rivers in History: Designing and Conceiving Waterways in Modern Europe December 05-07, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas Zeller, GHI/University of Maryland. “Time is a Violent Torrent”: Constructing and Reconstructing Rivers in Modern Germany December 04, 2003 Keynote address at the conference Rivers in History Speaker: David Blackbourn (Harvard University) Twelfth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI/Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize November 21, 2003 Conveners: Gerald D. Feldman, Friends of the GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI. Freedom in American History [Bulletin 34, Spring 2004] November 20, 2003 17th Annual Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Eric Foner (Columbia University) Comments: Jürgen Kocka, Free University, Berlin, Social Science Research Center, Berlin American Museums: Putting Visitors First November 12–13, 2003 ICOM-Germany Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. Memory – Morality - Guilt: Relegating Nazism to the Past in Postwar Germany November 13, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Raphael Gross (Leo Baeck Institute, London) Death in Modern Germany November 07-09, 2003 Conference at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville Conveners: Paul Betts (University of Sussex), Alon Confino (University of Virginia), Dirk Schumann (GHI) How Valid Are Comparisons? The American Occupation of Germany Revisited November 3, 2003 Symposium in collaboration with the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Choate Room) Conveners: Dieter Dettke (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington DC), Robert Gerald Livingston (GHI), Rebecca Boehling (University of Maryland) Medieval History Seminar [Bulletin 34, Spring 2004] October 23-26, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University of Berlin), Caroline W. Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (University of California at Los Angeles), Christoph Strupp (GHI) Creating Religious Communities in Modern Society October 23–25, 2003 Event at the University of Chicago Forms of Religious Community Creation in Modern Society October 23-25, 2003 Conference at the University of Chicago Conveners: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago; Lucian Hölscher, University of Bochum; Simone Lässig, GHI; Hartmut Lehmann, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen. Remembered Facts: Bohr und Heisenberg in Copenhagen October 23, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt) Is the EU Complete Without Turkey? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe's Identity and the Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and the USA October 20, 2003 Panel discussion in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, at the GHI Panelists: Cem Özdemir (German Marshall Fund and former member of the German Bundestag), Claus Schönig (Orient Institute, Istanbul), Henri Barkey (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), Omer Taspinar (The Brookings Institution) Moderator: Fiona Hill (The Brookings Institution) Atlantic Crossings? Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977 October 17-18, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University; Astrid M. Eckert, GHI; Wilfried Mausbach, University of Heidelberg. Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future: New Perspectives in German-Jewish Studies [in: Bulletin 35, Fall 2004] October 16, 2003 First joint lecture of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and the German Historical Institute. Speaker: Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania) Memory and Memories: The Art of Autobiography October 09, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (University of Münster) Reflections on My Country before and after 1989: German Unification October 03, 2003 Symposium with Jens Reich, Washington, D.C. Two Sides of History – Two Lives in Dialogue October 02, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Georg and Wilma Iggers (State University of New York at Buffalo/Canisius College) The Private Sphere and the Public Order: West German Debates about Education, Family, and Sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s [Bulletin 34, Spring 2004, pp. 175-177] September 19, 2003 Conference in New Orleans Moderator: Uta Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle. Commentator: Maria Höhn, Vassar College The Global Situation: A European Point of View September 17, 2003 Gerd Bucerius Lecture Speaker: Helmut Schmidt (former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1974 - 1982) Cold War Memory: Interpreting the Physical Legacy of the Cold War September 08-09, 2003 Conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. Conveners: Keith Allen, Woodrow Wilson Center; Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bernd Schäfer, GHI. Great Expectations: John F. Kennedy and the ‘Thousand Days August 21-22, 2003 Conference at the Free University of Berlin Conveners: Andreas Etges, Free University of Berlin; Bernd Schäfer, GHI. Nazi Crimes and the Law August 16-18, 2003 Conference at the University of Amsterdam Conveners: Henry Friedlander, City University of New York; Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI. American Studies in Twentieth-Century Germany: On the History and Pre-History of the German Association for American Studies [Bulletin 33, Fall 2003, pp. 114-117] June 10-13, 2003 Conference in Munich Moderator: Thomas Zeller, GHI/University of Maryland. Commentator: Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, University of Halle-Wittenberg. The June 17, 1953 Uprising: 50 Years Later June 10, 2003 Panel discussion in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, at the GHI Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies [Bulletin 33, Fall 2003, pp. 118-121] June 01-15, 2003 Koblenz, Cologne, Gotha Conveners: Astrid Eckert, GHI; Daniel S. Mattern, University of Notre Dame. Culture in American History: Transatlantic Perspectives [Bulletin 33, Fall 2003, pp. 107-110] May 29-June 01, 2003 Young Scholars Forum at the GHI Convener: Christine von Oertzen, GHI. Mid-Atlantic Seminar in German History: Vom Alten Vaterland zum Neuen: German-Americans, Letters from the ‘Old Homeland’ and World War One May 10, 2003 Event at the GHI Germany’s America/America’s Germany: Americans and Germans Speak about the Nation May 08, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Bess Rothenberg (Clemson University) People on the Move: The Challenges of Migration in Transatlantic Perspective May 05, 2003 Gerd Bucerius Lecture Speaker: Rita Süßmuth (University of Göttingen, former President of the German Bundestag) Germany’s Position in Europe and Transatlantic Relations: Symposium with Richard von Weizsaecker April 28, 2003 Event at the GHI Characters and Contexts: (Mis-) Understanding Cultural Perceptions in the German-American Sphere April 24, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Klaus Milich (Humboldt University of Berlin) Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2003: Germany in the Early Modern Era, 1490-1790 [Bulletin 33, Fall 2003, pp. 99-104] April 09-12, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI. Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past March 27-29, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Manfred Berg, Free University of Berlin; Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bernd Schäfer, GHI. Transitional Justice after 1989: Is Germany So Different? March 27, 2003 Keynote address at the conference Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past [in: Bulletin 33, Fall 2003] Speaker: A. James McAdams (University of Notre Dame) Remodelling the Sachsenhausen Memorial Site March 26, 2003 Winfried Meyer (Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten) Comments by Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland, College Park) Gendering Modern German History: Rewritings of the Mainstream March 21, 2003 University of Toronto Conveners: Karen Hagemann, University of Toronto/Technical University of Berlin; Christine von Oertzen, GHI. The Language of the Victors: The Americanization of the German Language and German Identity after 1945 March 20, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Heidrun Kämper (German Language Institute, Mannheim) Honoring Willy Brandt: Symposium with Egon Bahr and Henry Kissinger March 18, 2003 Event at the GHI The Watershed Decade: Americanization and Anti-Americanism in East and West Germany in the 1960s – A Prelude to Current Controversies March 13, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Bernd Greiner (Institute for Social Research, Hamburg) Perceptions of Security in Germany and the United States from 1945 to the Present March 10, 2003 Conference at the GHI Conveners: Georg Schild, GHI/University of Bonn; Dirk Schumann, GHI. From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970 March 06-08, 2003 Conference a the Columbia University, New York Conveners: Volker R. Berghahn, Columbia University; Cordula Grewe, Columbia University; Christof Mauch, GHI. The Americanization of Europe: Fact or Fiction? February 27, 2003 Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2003 Lecture Series) Speaker: Richard Kuisel (Georgetown University) The German Discovery of America: A Review of the Controversy over Didrik Pining’s Voyage of Exploration in 1473 in the North Atlantic [in: Bulletin 33, Fall 2003] February 25, 2003 Speaker: Thomas L. Hughes (GHI) Comments by A.J.R. Russell-Wood (Johns Hopkins University) |