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In Search of Better Lives: The Circulation of Ideas for Social Improvement in the 19th and 20th Century
March 8 - 9, 2013
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Christina Lubinski (GHI), Christina May (Göttingen) and Warren Rosenblum (St. Louis)

Germans and Americans in Israel - Israelis in Germany and the United States
Third Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History
April 3 - 4, 2013
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Michael Brenner (LMU München), Stefan Hördler (GHI), Miriam Ruerup (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg)

Land of Extremes: German History in the 20th Century, an Interpretation
April 4, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiburg)
Comment: Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Inventing the "Silent Majority": Conservative Mobilization in Western Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
April 18 - 20, 2013
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economics, and International Relations, from the 18th to the 20th Century
May 3 - 4, 2013
Conference at the University of Toronto
Conveners: Ute Planert (University of Wuppertal / University of Toronto) and James Retallack (University of Toronto)

From Made in Italy to Made in China: A European Story, 1960-2010
May 9, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

New Technologies and Cultures of Communication in the 19th and 20th Centuries
May 10 - 11, 2013
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Clelia Caruso (GHI), Peter Jelavich (The Johns Hopkins University), Richard R. John (Columbia University), and Benjamin Schwantes (GHI)

Sovereign Debt as a Problem of Modern Societies
May 23, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Hans-Peter Ullmann (University of Cologne)

19th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Twentieth-Century German History
May 29 - June 1, 2013
Seminar at the Historisches Kolleg, Munich
Conveners: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (University of Munich), Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

Creating a Garden Eden? The Transformation of Rural California since the mid 19th Century
May 30 - June 2, 2013
Workshop at the German Association of American Studies
Conveners: Uwe Spiekermann (GHI), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

States vs Banks: Debt and Crises in the Twentieth Century
June 6, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn)

"The lost decade": The Debt Crisis of the 1980s and the Reaction of the International Community
June 13, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Laura Rischbieter

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2013
June 16 - June 29, 2013
Seminar in Germany
Convener: Clelia Caruso (GHI)

A Common Solution: Bailouts in History
June 27, 2013
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Robert E. Wright (Augustana College)

Archival Summer School for Young Historians: American History in Transatlantic Perspectives
September 01 - 13, 2013
Seminar in Chicago, Madison, Boston, Washington, DC
Convener: Mischa Honeck

The Dream and Its Untold Stories: The March on Washington and its Legacy
September 19 - 21, 2013
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown), Sharon Monteith (Nottingham), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Moderne, 18.-20. Jh.: Tagung zur Historischen Kriminalitätsforschung 2013
September 19 - 21, 2013
Conference in Munich
Conveners: Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (LMU München), Désirée Schauz (Münchner Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

Obesity, Health, and the Liberal Self: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Centuries
September 26 - 28, 2013
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Nina Mackert/Jürgen Martschukat (University of Erfurt), Susan Strasser (University of Delaware), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

Medieval History Seminar 2013
October 10 - 13, 2013
Seminar at the GHI London
Conveners: Stefan Hördler (GHI), Cornelia Linde (GHI London)

Silent Sellers: The Cultural Meaning of Commodities that Thrive in Obscurity
October 18 - 19, 2013
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Carla Meyer (University of Heidelberg), Ines Prodöhl (GHI), and Amy Slaton (Drexel University)

Migrants as "Translators": Mediating External Influences on Post World War II Western Europe, 1945 - 1973
October 24 - 26, 2013
Workshop in Hamburg
Conveners: Jan Logemann (GHI), Miriam Rürup (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden)

Twenty-Seventh Annual Lecture
November 14, 2013
Lecture at the GHI

Twenty-Second Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
November 15, 2013
Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

The Consumer on the Home Front: World War II Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective
December 5 - 7, 2013
Conference at the GHI London
Conveners: Andreas Gestrich, Felix Roemer (GHI London), Hartmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann (GHI)