Conferences 1997 Print E-mail



Remapping the German Past: Grand Narrative, Causality, and Postmodernism
December 04-09, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI.

Atlantik Brücke/Deutsche Welle Media Conference
November 06-08, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Walther Leisler Kiep, Atlantik-Brücke.

The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848: Episode or Model?

October 31-November 02, 1997
Conference in Monticello, Illinois
Conveners: Peter Krüger, University of Marburg; Paul W. Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Politik, Gesellschaft und die Institutionalisierung von Geschichtswissenschaft: Deutschland und die USA im Vergleich [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 25-27]
September 27, 1997
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Bethesda, Maryland 
Participants: Gerald Diesener, Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam; Gabriele Lingelbach, Free University of Berlin; Steffen Sammler, University of Lyon.

Universities in Medieval Societies
September 18-20, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: William J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Jürgen Miethke, University of Heidelberg.

Politics and Propaganda: New Approaches to German-American Relations, 1933-1945 [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 18-22]
June 22, 1997
Annual Conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Participants: Philipp Gassert, GHI; Michaela Hönicke, Free University of Berlin; Frank Ninkovich, St. John’s University, New York; Alex Shannon, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The Culture of Rights: Civil Rights, Participation Rights, and Social Rights in Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century
June 11-14, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Manfred Berg, GHI; Martin H. Geyer, GHI.

New Approaches to Migration Research: German-Americans in Comparative Perspective
April 22-24, 1997
Conference at the College Station, Texas
Conveners: Wolfgang J. Helbich, University of Bochum; Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University.

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 1997: Germany Divided and United, 1945-1989 [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 39-41]
April 16-19, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Martin H. Geyer, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI.