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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1999 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins.

Nature and National Identity in Postwar West Germany
December 2, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sandra Chaney, Erskine College

Fact, Fantasy, and German History [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 3-34, 35-43]

November 18th, 1999
8th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Mary Fulbrook, University College London
Commentator: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Limits of Common Sense: (Post-) Postmodern Problems or Opportunities? [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 3-34, 35-43]
November 18th, 1999
13th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Heinrich Himmler and Landscape Planning in Nazi Germany
November 11, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, University of Hannover

The Green Prince of Germany: The Gardens of Pückler-Muskau and the Late Romatic Landscape
October 26, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Linda Bryan Parshall, Dumbarton Oaks

Waldsterben: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem
October 12, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, University of Freiburg

The Environmental History of the Rhine River, 1815 to the Present
October 5, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Marc Cioc, University of California at Santa Cruz

“Conquests from Barbarism”: Taming Nature in Frederician Prussia

September 28, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David Blackbourn, Harvard University

Germany’s Second Chance: Processes of Liberalization and Integration, 1950-1980

June 3, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Ulrich Herbert, University of Freiburg

Heimat, Barbed Wire, and “Papa’s Kino”: Memories of War on the Silver Screen in the 1950s

May 27, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Robert G. Moeller, University of California at Irvine

The New Left, the Sexual Revolution, and the Nazi Past

May 13, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University

The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1949-1989
April 29, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Marxist Counter-Narrative: The GDR as History and Historiography

April 8, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A Very Special Relationship: Bargaining Power in East German-Soviet Relations
March 10, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Hope Harrison, Norwegian Nobel Institute