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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.