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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1997 Fall Bulletins.

What Can Chancellor Kohl Learn from Bismarck? Monetary and Fiscal Aspects of Unification in Nineteenth-Century Germany
December 11, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Harold James, Princeton University

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

Two Dictatorships in Germany, 1933-1989: Problems and Possibilities of a Comparison
November 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Günther Heydemann, University of Leipzig

Sixth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI [Bulletin 22, Spring 1998, pp. 52-58]
November 14, 1997
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, Friends of the GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

The Protestant Reformation in German History
November 13, 1997
11th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Thomas A. Brady Jr., University of California at Berkeley

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

Women, Communists, and Abortion in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1970
November 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Donna Harsch, Carnegie-Mellon University

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.

The Political Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century German Radicalism
October 23, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Wende, GHI London

How Wilhelmine Germans Became Citizens of Weimar: Toward an Alternative Political History of World War I Germany
October 16, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

Science and the Historical Discipline in a Transcultural Perspective, 1850–1950
October 04–05, 1997
Event at the GHI

Judging the Past: The Prosecution of GDR Border Guards and Officials
October 02, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter E. Quint, University of Maryland

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.

Traumatized Citizenship: How the West Germans Came to Love the Nuclear Bomb, 1949-1964
June 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

Field Marshall and Beggar: The Artist Ernst Barlach in the First World War
May 28, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Paret, Princeton University

Constitutive Moments of Transatlantic Relations, 1947–1952 and 1997–2002. The Marshall Plan at 50: Retrospective, Prospective
May 22, 1997
Event at the GHI

Unexplored Questions About the German Military During World War II
May 15, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religion, Americanization, and the Common Man [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 41-42]
May 08, 1997
Alois Mertes memorial lecture
Speaker: Michael Zöller, University of Bayreuth

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.

The Militarization of the Social Body in Germany during World War I
April 10, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Elisabeth Domansky, Indiana University at Bloomington

"Total War": Use and Abuse of a Concept
March 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University

The Military as a Theme in German History
March 13, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University