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Unless noted otherwise, the GHI Research Seminar meets Wednesdays 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Mischa Honeck ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

The GHI Doctoral Seminar usually meets on Thursday mornings. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).



March 20, 2013
  • Peter Svik (Guggenheim Fellow with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
    General Reflections on the East-West Trade with Civil Aviation Technology during the Cold War
  • Klaus Nathaus (University of Bielefeld)
    The Production of Cultural and Social Distinction: Popular Music in the 20th Century (West) Germany

March 21, 2013 (Doctoral Seminar)
  • Felicitas Jaima (New York University)
    The African Diaspora in Germany: The Experiences of African American Servicewomen and Military Wives in Germany, 1945-1970
  • Matthias Voigt (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
    Re-inventing the Warrior: Native American Ativists between Indigenous Traditions and the Modern Nation State during the Red Power Era

April 10, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Simone Selva (GHI)
    Money market, industrial credit, foreign trade. American assistance policies and the shaping of West European consumer societies from Bretton Woods through the recession 1970s. A preliminary study

April 17, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Stefan Hördler (GHI)
    Steel Industries in Divided Germany and the United States, 1970s to 1990s

May 15, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Laura Rischbieter (GHI)
    Januskopf des Kapitalismus. Multilaterale Kreditvergabe als Institution der Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Strukturproblem der globalen Ökonomie (1957- 1990)

May 29, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington University St. Louis, MO)
    TBA

June 12, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard)
    Engineers' class struggle and the question of "technology" in German and American High Industrialism

June 26, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • TBA