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GHI Doctoral Seminars 2010
Seminars at the GHI

History by Generations: Generational Dynamics in Modern History
December 09 - 11, 2010
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Uffa Jensen (University of Göttingen), Christina Lubinski (GHI), and Bernd Weisbrod (University of Göttingen)

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Letztes aus der DaDaeR (Latest from the Da-Da-R)
November 20, 2010
Film Screening at the George Washington University

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Sonnensucher (Sunseekers)
November 19, 2010
Film Screening at the Wilson Center

From the Nose Job to Face Transplants: A History of the Authentic Face
November 18, 2010
Speaker: Sander Gilman (Emory University, Atlanta)

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Schweigende Stern (The Silent Star)
November 18, 2010
Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Streng Geheim (For Your Eyes Only)
November 17, 2010
Film Screening at the Wilson Center

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Geteilte Himmel (The Divided Heaven)
November 16, 2010
Film Screening at the George Washington University

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Rat der Götter (The Council of Gods)
November 15, 2010
Film Screening at the Wilson Center

Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
November 12, 2010
Symposium at the GHI

Twenty-Fourth Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 11, 2010
Speaker: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Lecture at the GHI

Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989
November 04 - 06, 2010
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Eckart Conze (University of Marburg), Martin Klimke (GHI), Jeremy Varon (New School for Social Research, New York City)

The Fate of the Earth Revisited: Nuclear Dangers Then and Now
November 5, 2010
Speakers: Jonathan Schell, Frida Berrigan (New America Foundation, New York, NY), and Philipp Gassert (University of Augsburg)

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Entrepreneurs and Activism in the 20th Century
October 28, 2010
Speaker: Tiffany M. Gill (University of Texas, Austin)

Globalizing Beauty: Body Aesthetics in the 20th Century
October 15 - 16, 2010
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) and Thomas Kühne (Clark Univeristy)

Struggling for Beauty: Body Aesthetics and Social Conflicts in Modern History
October 14, 2010
Speaker: Thomas Kühne (Clark University, Worcester)

Franz Steiner Prize Award 2010
October 13, 2008
Stuttgart

1990 - 2010: The Unfinished Business of Unifying Europe
October 04, 2010
German Unification Symposium/Hertie Lecture 2010
Speaker: Wolfgang Ischinger

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience in the 19th and 20th Century
September 29, 2010
Panel at the 2010 Deutscher Historikertag in Berlin

September 05 - 17, 2010
Convener: Mischa Honeck

The Berlin Edition: Willy Brandt - Berliner Ausgabe
September 07, 2010
Event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Publishing in Exile: German-Language Literature in the U.S. in the 1940s
March 11 - June 30, 2010
Exhibition at the GHI

Eleventh Gerd Bucerius Lecture: Religion and Violence in a Globalized World
June 24, 2010
Speaker: Wolfgang Huber

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2010
June 15 - 24,  2010
Convener: Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

Multinationals and Globalization: Engines of Growth, or Drivers of Inequality?
June 10, 2010
Speaker: Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School)

Population, Food, and Health: Global Problems in the Twentieth Century
May 20, 2010
Speaker: Alison Bashford (University of Sydney/Harvard University)

Thousands of Sites, Millions of Fates: New Insights into the Universe of Nazi Camps
May 13, 2010
Panel Discussion at the GHI, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Speaker: Geoffrey Megargee (USHMM) and Susanne Heim (Institut für Zeitgeschichte)

16th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Twentieth-Century German History
May 12 - 15, 2010
Seminar at the University of Jena
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown Univ.), Norbert Frei (Univ. Jena), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

Critical Junctures of Globalization: Conceptualization and Examples
May 06, 2010
Speaker: Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig)

The Stasi and its Foreign Intelligence Service
April 30, 2010
Workshop at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Gerald D. Feldman Lecture: Writing the History of Capitalism
April 29, 2010
Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (Free University, Berlin)

The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany & the United States in the Global Sixties
April 21, 2010
A book discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Martin Klimke (GHI)
Commentators: Commentators: Michael Kazin (Professor of History, Georgetown University), Jeremy Varon (Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research)

The World Historical in China's Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Globalization and Globality
April 15, 2010
Speaker: Rebecca E. Karl (New York University)

Immigrant Entrepreneurship
March 26, 2010
GHI-organized Panel at the Business History Conference
University of George, Athens

The Peace Movement and the Second Cold War: European and Transatlantic Perspectives
March 24 - 26, 2010 (Program)
Workshop at Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Heinrich-Böll- Stiftung, hbs)
Convener: Christoph Becker-Schaum (hbs), Philipp Gassert (GETK), Martin Klimke (GHI), Marianne Zepp (hbs)

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar
March 20, 2010
Seminar at the GHI
Convener: Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University)

Germany Discovers the World: Scholarly Engagement with Foreign Cultures in the Age of Empire
March 11, 2010
Panel Discussion at the GHI
Speakers: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University Berlin), Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State University), and Anke Ortlepp (German Historical Institute)

German Federal Minister of Education and Research Visits the GHI
February 18, 2010
Lecture at the GHI

February 12 - 14, 2010
Conference at the University of Heidelberg
Conveners: Madeleine Herren (Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", University of Heidelberg) and Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

Cultures of Credit: Consumer Lending and Borrowing in Modern Economies
February 05 - 06, 2010
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Jan Logemann

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in History: Concepts and Case Studies
January 7 - 10, 2010, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
GHI-sponsored Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association