Conferences 2005 Print



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The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America.
December 01-03, 2005
Conference at the GHl
Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (SUNY Buffalo, GHI), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University, GHI), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jennifer Price (Los Angeles).

Medieval History Seminar
October 20-22, 2005
Conference at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Italy)
Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University, Berlin), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jonathan Skolnik (GHI).

Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte)
September 29 - October 01, 2005
Conference at the City University of New York (CUNY)
Conveners: Martin Burke (CUNY), Melvin Richter (CUNY), Dirk Schumann (GHI).

Turning Points in Environmental History
June 16-18, 2005
Conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany
Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI); Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld); Frank Uekötter (University of Bielefeld).

The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America
June 16-18, 2005
Conference at the Bavarian American Academy and the Katholische Pfarrkuratie St. Florian
Co-sponsored by the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie München and the German Historical Institute (DC).
Conveners: Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI), Raimund Lammersdorf (BAA).

Animals in History: Studying the Not So Human Past
May 18 - 21, 2005
Conference at the Literaturhaus, Cologne, Germany
Co-sponsored by the Angloamerican Institute of the University of Cologne and the German Historical Institute (DC).
Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (GHI) and Christof Mauch (GHI).

Rethinking Embourgoisement and the Jews of Germany
April 21, 2005
The GHI (DC) and Leo Baeck Institute Second Annual Joint Symposium
Forchheimer Auditorium, The Center for Jewish History, New York City
Presenters: Simone Lässig (GHI), Till van Rahden (University of Cologne).

German History, 1890-1930
April 13-16, 2005
Eleventh Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI).

Raising Americans - Raising Europeans in the 20th Century
April 07-10, 2005
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Dirk Schumann (GHI).

Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History
March 31 - April 02, 2005
Young Scholars Forum at the University of Texas at Arlington
Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington).

War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815

March 10-12, 2005
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Stig Förster (University of Bern),
Christof Mauch (GHI).

Teaching World History (online Essays on World History Connected)
March 03-06, 2005
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs (University of Mannheim), Karen Oslund (GHI), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI, London).