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27th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 14, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: tba

The Straits of Europe: History at the Margins of a Continent
26th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 8, 2012
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Johannes Paulman (Universität Mainz)

National Socialism and the Search for International Order
25th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 10, 2011
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Mark Mazower (Columbia University)

Much Ado About Nothing? Rituals of Politics in Early Modern Europe and Today
24th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 11, 2010
Speaker: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Commentator: David Luebke (University of Oregon)

More than a Footnote? The Place of the GDR in Modern History
23rd Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 12, 2009
Speaker: Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University)
Commentator: Thomas Lindenberger (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna)

The Natural Sciences and Democratic Practices: Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Max Planck
22nd Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 13, 2008
Speaker: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (University of Cologne)
Commentator: Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley)

The Future of the Sovereign State: Some Historical Reflections on the German Case
21st Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 15, 2007
Speaker: James J. Sheehan (Stanford University)
Commentator: Cornelia Rauh-Kühne (University of Hannover)

Europe as a Community of Memory?
20th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 16, 2006
Speakers: Speaker: Aleida Assmann
Commentator: Peter Novick

Transnational Borderlands: Metropolitan Growth in the United States, Germany, and Japan since World War II
19th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 17, 2005
Speakers: Kenneth T. Jackson (Columbia University)
Commentator: Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hanover)

Europeanizing German History
18th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 18, 2004
Speaker: Ute Frevert (Yale University)
Commentator: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

Freedom in American History
17th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 20, 2003
Speaker: Eric Foner (Columbia University)
Commentator: Jürgen Kocka (Free University, Berlin, Social Science Research Center, Berlin)

In Search of a Nineteenth Century
16th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 14, 2002
Speaker: Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz)
Commentator: Ira Berlin (University of Maryland)

Violent Imagery in Late Medieval Piety
15th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 08, 2001
Speaker: Caroline Walker Bynum (Columbia University)
Commentator: Mitchell B. Merback (DePauw University)

Political Religion in Modern Germany: Reflections on Nationalism, Socialism, and National Socialism
14th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 09, 2000
Speaker: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Commentator: Jane Caplan (Bryn Mawr College)

Fact, Fantasy, and German History
13th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 18, 1999
Speaker: Mary Fulbrook (University College London)
Commentator: Konrad H. Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Turning to the Atlantic: The Federal Republic's Ideological Reorientation, 1945-1970
12th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 12, 1998
Speaker: Anselm-Doering Manteuffel (University of Tübingen)
Commentator: Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)

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

Was Hitler's Seizure of Power on January 30, 1933 Inevitable?
10th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 14, 1996
Speaker: Eberhard Kolb (University of Cologne)
Commentator: Henry A. Turner Jr. (Yale University)

The German Middle Ages in America
9th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 16, 1995
Speaker: Patrick J. Geary (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentator: Otto Gerhard Oexle (Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen)

United Germany: Nation-Building and Social Integration
8th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 17, 1994
Speaker: M. Rainer Lepsius (University of Heidelberg)
Commentators: Seymour Martin Lipset (George Mason University), Steven Kalberg (Boston University)

Constitutional Democracy in Central Europe Today: Some Negative Lessons from the U.S. Experience
7th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 15, 1993
Speaker: Stanley N. Katz (American Council of Learned Societies)
Commentators: Donald P. Kommers (University of Notre Dame), Hartmut Jäckel (Free University of Berlin)

People on the Move: Migration, Acculturation, and Ethnic Interaction in Europe and North America
6th Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 10, 1992
Speaker: Dirk Hoerder (University of Bremen)
Commentators: Donna R. Gabaccia (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), James O. Horton (George Washington University)

Waste and Want: The Other Side of Consumption
5th Annual Lecture of the GHI
October 17, 1991
Speaker: Susan Strasser (George Washington University)
Commentators: Gunther Barth (University of California at Berkeley), Wolfgang Erz (University of Wuppertal)

Challenges of Ambiguity: Doing Comparative History
4th Annual Lecture of the GHI
October 25, 1990
Speaker: Erich Angermann (University of Cologne)
Commentators: Carl N. Degler (Stanford University), John A. Garraty (Columbia University)

Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer
3rd Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 01, 1989
Speaker: Kathleen Neils Conzen (University of Chicago)
Commentators: Mack Walker (Johns Hopkins University), Jörg Nagler (GHI)

Culture versus Biology in the Thought of Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber
2nd Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 16, 1988
Speaker: Carl N. Degler (Stanford University)
Commentators: Barbara Duden (Pennsylvania State University), Marshall Hyatt (Wesleyan University)

Causes and Consequences of the German Catastrophe
1st Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 18, 1987
Speaker: Heinrich August Winkler (University of Freiburg)

From Protestant Peasants to Jewish Intellectuals: The Germans in the Peopling of America
1st Annual Lecture of the GHI
November 18, 1987
Speaker: Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University)
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