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Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present
begins Sept. 21, 2006
GHI Fall Lecture Series
All lectures to take place at the GHI (Washington, DC)

Religion in the United States and Germany
December 14, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), Rainer Praetorius (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

Media in the United States and Germany
December 07, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg), Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary College, University of London)

Labor and Industry in the United States and Germany
November 30, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Colleen Dunlavy (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)

Europe as a Community of Memory?
November 16, 2006
20th Annual Lecture at the GHI
Speakers: Speaker: Aleida Assmann and Peter Novick
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

The Welfare State in Germany and the United States
November 09, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Daniel Letwin (Pennsylvania State University), Gabriele Metzler (University of Tübingen)

Empire and Nation: Studies from the United States and Germany
November 02, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Thomas Bender (New York University, NY), Michael Geyer (University of Chicago, IL)

Discipline: Schools, the Military, and the Shaping of Future Citizens in Germany and the United States, 1890 – 2000
October 26, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Dirk Schumann (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Judith Sealander (Bowling Green State University)

Mass Politics in Germany and the United States: Paradoxes of Participation
October 05, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)

Bridging the Oder: Reflections on Poland, Germany, and the Transformation of Europe
October 03, 2006
German Unification Symposium
Speakers: Gesine Schwan and Janusz Reiter
Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

Migration in Germany and the United States
September 21, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Tobias Brinkmann (University of Southampton), Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College, OH)

Between Heaven and Earth: Anselm Kiefer’s Purgatory
September 06, 2006
Lecture at the GHI
Speakers: Dorothea Dietrich (Corcoran College of Art + Design)

My Relationship to Beethoven
May 31, 2006
Seventh Gerd Bucerius Lecture
Speaker: Kurt Masur (Leipzig, London, Paris)

Two Nation’s Natures: Environment in America and Germany
May 25, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Christof Mauch (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Markets and Consumer Culture in Germany and the United States
May 18, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute, Florence), Paul Nolte (The Free University, Berlin)

Meinecke's Protégé: German Emigré Historians Between Two Worlds
May 15, 2006
Lecture at the GHI
Convener: Gerhard A. Ritter (University of Munich)
Comment by James J. Sheehan (Stanford University)

Gender and the Family in Germany and the United States
May 11, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara), Christiane Eifert (University of Bielefeld)

Modern Constitutional Law and Legal Culture in Germany and the United States
April 13, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg), Dieter Gosewinkel (Berlin Center for Social Science Research)

Cinema and the Urban Imagination in Germany and the United States
April 06, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley)

Sacred Space: Women, Philanthropy, and the Public Sphere
March 30, 2006
Speaker: Kathleen D. McCarthy (CUNY)
Lecture at the GHI

DADA: The Geographic Dimension
February 20, 2006
A lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Timothy Benson (Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Knowledge: Science & Education in Germany and the United States
February 16, 2006
Lecture at the GHI (2006 Lecture Series)
Speakers: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), Christoph Strupp (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)