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Pathological Modernity? Psychiatry and Social Problems in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany
December 09, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Paul Lerner (University of Southern California)

The Measure of Atrocity: The German War Upon the Hereros Revisited
December 06, 2004
Panel discussion at the GHI
Panelists: Isabel V. Hull (Cornell University), Gesine Krüger (University of Zürich), Jürgen Zimmerer (Universidade de Coimbra)

The Forgotten Past: Other Cultures of Science and Technology in German History
December 02, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University)

Thirteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI/Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
November 19, 2004
Conveners: Gerald D. Feldman (University of California at Berkeley), Christof Mauch (GHI)

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

ANTOINETTE: Berlin Stories. An exhibition of portraits and photographs
November 15, 2004 - February 25, 2005
Exhibition at the GHI

Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression
November 11, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Mark Walker, Union College

Dramatizing German History: A Conversation with Michael Frayn
November 01, 2004
Conversation at Theater J, Washington DC

The German Idea of Natural Science: Heidegger, Habermas, Heisenberg
October 28, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2004 Lecture Series)
Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley)

Happening With a Royal Touch: John F. Kennedy and the Germans
October 22, 2004
Lecture at the Adams House, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Science and Technology in the 20th Century: Cultures of Innovation in Germany and the United States
October 15-16, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Jointly organized by Christoph Strupp (GHI) and Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum Munich / DFG-Research Group 393).

Open House
October 9, 2004

Finding a Role: United Germany and the Resurgence of Europe. Germany's and Europe's Role in the World - 15 Years after the Cold War
October 06, 2004
German Unification Symposium 2004
Speaker: Markus Meckel (member of the German Bundestag and Foreign Minister of the German Democratic Republic, 1990)

Adolf Cluss, the World, and Washington: The Fate of Washington's Red Brick City
September 30, 2004
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Richard Longstreth (George Washington University)
This event was part of the conference Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America

Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America
September 30 - October 02, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI) in collaboration with Joseph Browne (Cluss Project), Cynthia Field (Smithsonian Institution), William Gilcher (Goethe-Institut / German Cultural Center), and Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)

Fifth Gerd Bucerius Lecture
The Closest of Strangers: German-American Relations in Historical Perspective
September 27, 2004
Speaker: W. Michael Blumenthal

Engineering and Cultural Crises: Germany and America
September 23, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Thomas P. Hughes (University of Pennsylvania)

The Atlantic Community Unravelling? States, Protest Movements, and the Transformation of US-European Relations, 1969-1983
September 18-19, 2004
Conference at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Conveners: Matthias Schulz (Vanderbilt University), Thomas A. Schwartz (Vanderbilt University), Bernd Schäfer (GHI)

Lost Files - How the Equivalent of 100,000 Typewritten Pages Disappeared from the Servers of the German Chancellory in 1998 and Who Might Have Deleted This Data: A Political Adventure Story - Or a Tale of Transition
September 09, 2004
Keynote Lecture, Presidential Libraries Conference
Speaker: Michael Naumann (DIE ZEIT, Hamburg)

Access - Presentation - Memory: The American Presidential Libraries and the Memorial Foundations of German Statesmen
September 08-11, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Astrid M. Eckert, Christof Mauch (GHI).

The Past in Trust for the Future: The Presidential Library System
September 08, 2004
Keynote Lecture, Presidential Libraries Conference
Speaker: David Eisenhower (University of Pennsylvania)

American Archives and American History
September 06 - 18, 2004.
Bucerius Seminar 2004
Conveners: Kathleen N. Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI).

"Im Schatten der Macht" / "In The Shadow Of Power"
June 10 and 23, 2004
Film Screening at the Goethe-Insitut, Washington DC.

Alexander von Humboldt and North America
June 03-06, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Andreas Daum (University of Buffalo, SUNY); Simone Lässig (GHI).

Environmental History and the Oceans
June 03-04, 2004
Conference at Copenhagen,
Co-sponsored by the GHI and the Center for Maritime and Regional Studies, University of Southern Denmark.
Conveners: Frank Zelko (GHI), Poul Holm (University of Southern Denmark).

Towards World Science? Humboldtian Science, World Concepts, and Transregional Studies
June 3, 2004
Lecture in collaboration with the University of Buffalo (SUNY), and the Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, at the GHI
Speaker: Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam).

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
May 31 - June 12, 2004
Convener: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI)

Environment, Culture, Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives
May 27-30, 2004
Young Scholars Forum
Conveners: Charles Closmann, GHI; Frank Zelko, GHI.

The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective

May 26, 2004
Symposium in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, at the GHI.

Beyond Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: Searching for Normality in German-Jewish Relations
May 24, 2004
Roundtable discussion in collaboration with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and Bridge of Understanding, at the GHI
Moderator: Jeffrey Peck (Georgetown University, AICGS, Washington DC).

Presentation of the Helmut Schmidt Prize in German-American Economic History to Harold James (Princeton University)
May 20, 2004
Event at the GHI.

At the Movies: Film Audiences in the “Third Reich”
May 17, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sabine Hake, University of Pittsburgh
followed by the screening of: Request Concert (Wunschkonzert)

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990
May 17, 2004
Panel discussion and book presentation at the GHI
Speakers: Lily Gardner Feldman (AICGS), Harold James (Princeton University), Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt University), Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania)
Commentators: Detlef Junker (University of Heidelberg), Frank Smith (Cambridge University Press)

War and the Environment: Contexts and Consequences of Military Destruction in the Modern Age
May 07-08, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Charles Closmann (GHI), Christof Mauch (GHI).

How the West Was Sold: Karl May's America and the German Cinema
May 03, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Christoph Strupp (German Historical Institute, Washington)
followed by the screening of: Apache Gold (Winnetou I)

German History in the Short Nineteenth Century, 1790-1890
April 28 - May 01, 2004
Tenth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar at the University of Tübingen
Conveners: Dieter Langewiesche (University of Tübingen), Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI).

Cannibalizing History: Recastings of the European-Indigenous Encounter in Brazil
April 19, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Piers Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
followed by the Screening of: Hans Staden

A New History of the German People
April 14, 2004
Lecture and discussion in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC, at the Goethe-Institut
Speaker: Steven Ozment (Harvard University)

Hollywood’s Great War and Weimar Germany
April 05, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Thomas Saunders (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
followed by the screening of: What Price Glory?

The New Berlin. The Photography of Wess Brown
March 25, 2004
Photography Exhibit Opening at the GHI
in conjunction with the Biography and the Historian symposium

Toward a Biographical Turn? Biography in Modern Historiography: Modern Historiography in Biography
March 25-27, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Volker Berghahn (Columbia University), Simone Lässig (GHI)

Heimat, Heritage, and the Histories of German Cinema
March 22, 2004
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2004 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan)
followed by the screening of: Jewboy Levi (Viehjud Levi)

Taxation, State and Civil Society in Germany and the United States, 1750-1950
March 18-20, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Alexander Nützenadel (University of Cologne), Christoph Strupp (GHI).

Pietism in Two Worlds: Transmissions of Dissent in Germany and North America, 1680-1820
March 04-07, 2004
Conference at the Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Conveners: James Melton (Department of History, Emory University), Dirk Schumann (GHI), Jonathan Strom (Candler School of Theology, Emory University).

The Spatial Turn in History
February 19, 2004
Symposium at the GHI (part of the conference 'Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Catastrophe in Global Perspective)
Speakers: Denis Cosgrove (University of California), Karen Till (University of Minnesota)
Moderator: Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland / GHI).

Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Catastrophe in Global Perspective
February 19-22, 2004
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Christian Pfister (University of Bern).

The Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future in Transatlantic Perspektive. A Discussion with Kurt Biedenkopf
February 2, 2004
Hertie Roundtable, at the GHI.

'The Burning Wall' (USA 2002) and the History of the DDR.
January 24, 2004
Film Screening and Panel Discussion at the Avalon Theater
with Film Director Hava Kohav Beller (New York), Bernd Schäfer (GHI), and Bill Gilcher (Goethe Institut Washington).
Sponsored by the Goethe Institut Washington, the GHI, and the German American Center for American Studies.

Reconstituting Public Realms: Archivists, Librarians, and Journalists in Postwar Germany
January 08-11, 2004
Panel at American Historical Association Conference, Washington DC
Panelists: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI), Michaela Hönicke Moore (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Peter A. Kraemer (Indiana University, Bloomington).