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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 2000 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins.

Race, Reproduction, and Transatlantic Negotiations of Nationality: African-American Occupation Children in Postwar Germany
December 07, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Heide Fehrenbach, Emory University

First Ladies in the United States and Europe: Institution and Image in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Pfalzakademie
December 06–08, 2000
Event in Lambrecht

Green Protest: Activism to Protect the Environment Around the Globe Florida State University
December 01–02, 2000
Event at the GHI

Learning from Diversity in Federal Systems: Social Assistance in the United States, Germany, and the European Union
November 17–19, 2000
Event at the GHI

The Ford Foundation, Germany, and the Congress of Cultural Freedom
November 16, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University

9th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize [Bulletin 28, Spring 2001, pp. 153-154, texts pp. 155-169, 170-180, 37-54 “Conversation with Fritz Stern”]
November 10, 2000
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Konrad Jarausch, Friends of the GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI.

GIs in Germany: The Social, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence, 1945-2000
November 09-11, 2000
Conference at the International Science Forum, Heidelberg
Convener: Detlef Junker, University of Heidelberg.

Political Religion in Modern Germany: Reflections on Nationalism, Socialism, and National Socialism [Bulletin 28, Spring 2001, pp. 3-27, 28-36]
November 09, 2000
14th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Wolfgang Hardtwig, Humboldt University of Berlin
Commentator: Jane Caplan (Bryn Mawr College)

Politics, Religion, and Ideology [Bulletin 28, Spring 2001, pp. 3-27, 28-36]
November 09, 2000
9th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College

Exhibiting the Other: Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation
November 02-05, 200
Conference at the Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art (CAHA), Paris, 0.
Conveners: Thomas W. Gaehtgens, CAHA; Cordula A. Grewe, GHI.

German and American Soldiers in World War II: The Boundaries of Combat
November 02, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gerald F. Linderman, University of Michigan

Magic Meets Enlightenment? New Types of Discourse in America and Germany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
October 31–November 01, 2000
Event at the GHI

The Magic Garden of the European Naturalists: Science and Pleasure in the Enlightenment.
October 31, 2000
Keynote speech at the workshop Magic Meets Enlightenment? New Types of Discourse in America and Germany, 18th and 19th Centuries.
Speaker: Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (University of Glasgow)

German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present
October 26-28, 2000
Conference at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Joseph C. Salmons, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Competing Modernities: Americans, Germany, and the Atlantic Progressive Connection, 1900-1930
October 19, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University

Nation as Plantation: Colonial Fantasies in Precolonial Germany
October 12, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Susanne Zantopp, Dartmouth College

Doomed to Fail? East Germany’s Collapse Revisited: Symposium with Regine Hildebrandt
October 11, 2000
Event at the GHI

Constructing Identity: Cold War Policies and the Promotion of Community in German-American Relations, 1950-1970 [Bulletin 28, Spring 2001, pp. 97-104]
October 05-07, 2000
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, Texas
Chair: Hans-Jürgen Schröder, University of Gießen.

Business as Usual? Conceptions of German-American Economic Relations Under Hitler [Bulletin 28, Spring 2001, pp. 104-107]
October 05-07, 2000
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, Texas,
Chair: Christof Mauch, GHI.

The Claim to Social Resources: A Contested Issue in Transatlantic Perspective, 1776 to the Present
September 22–24, 2000
Event at the GHI

Shareholder Democracy: The United States and Germany in the Nineteenth Century
September 21, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Colleen A. Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin

Ethnic Encounters and Identities: German, American, and African Perspectives
July 05-08, 2000
Conference at the University of Leizpig
Conveners: Hartmut Keil, University of Leipzig; Vera Lind, GHI.

Witnessing the Third Reich: Diaries, Memoirs, Memories
June 05, 2000
Event at the GHI

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2001 [Bulletin 27, Fall 2000, pp. 196-201]
June 04-18, 2000
Seminar in Koblenz, Cologne, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt
Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, GHI.

The Generation of Memory: The Memory Boom at the End of the Twentieth Century
June 01, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Jay Winter, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Paintings and Prints Reconsidered: On Historical Representation in Early Nineteenth-Century France
May 18, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Stephen Bann, University of Kent at Canterbury

Screening the Cultural Other: Images of Jews in German Film
May 03, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Frank Stern, Georgetown University

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2000: Germany in the Imperial Age, 1850-1914 [Bulletin 27, Fall 2000, pp. 189-196]
April 26-29, 2000
Conference in Berlin
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI.

Seeing Is Not Believing: Some Philosophical and Practical Problems of Images for Historians
April 25, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College

Cultivated Nature: Gardens, Parks, and Playgrounds [Bulletin 27, Fall 2000, pp. 176-179]
April 15, 2000
Biennial Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Graz, Austria
Chairs: Robert Lewis, University of Birmingham; Bernard Mergen, George Washington University.

Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscape of Frontier Change
April 14, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: William Cronon, University of Wisconsin at Madison

The Dissolution of the Third Reich: Crisis Management and Collapse, 1943-1945 [Bulletin 27, Fall 2000, pp. 9-23]
April 04, 2000
Lecture of the Friends of the GHI
Speaker: Hans Mommsen, University of Bochum

Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities
March 30-April 2, 2000
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI.

Writing World History, 1800-2000
March 30-April 1, 2000
Conference at the GHI London
Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Benedikt Stuchtey, GHI London.

What Makes a Capital? Washington-Berlin.
March 30, 2000
Keynote address at the conference Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities.
Speaker: Jane Kramer (The New Yorker)

Seeing the Evidence: Considering the History of Visual Culture for the Masses
March 07, 2000
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2000 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Vanessa Schwartz, American University

The Past and Future of Comparative History
January 24, 2000
Event at the GHI

Reviving a Historical Corpse: Rewriting the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Religious Art [Bulletin 27, Fall 2000, 149-154]
February 23-26, 2000
88th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York
Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI.

Back to Nature and Forward to the Machine
February 21, 2000
Lecture presented to a delegation of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) at a forum on the history of the environment organized by the GHI and Science Division of the German Embassy
Speaker: Christof Mauch (GHI)

Aesthetics and Politics: From Cologne Cathedral to the Holocaust Memorial [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 147-160]
January 06-9, 2000
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois,
Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI.