All Events 2002 Print



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The Mormon Question: Polygamy and American History
December 12, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

Art and Society in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century: Connections and Comparisons
December 06-08, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Deborah Cohen, Brown University; Peter Mandler, Cambridge University; Christof Mauch, GHI.

Commissioning History in the United States, Germany and Austria: Historical Commissions, Victims, and World War II Restitution

November 21-24, 2002
Conference at the National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
Conveners: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans; Kenneth R. Hoffman, National D-Day Museum; Jonathan Petropoulos, Claremont-McKenna College; Bernd Schäfer, GHI; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI.

Religion and Feminism in American Society since the 1960s
November 21, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Anne Braude, Harvard University

11th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize [Bulletin 32, Spring 2003]
November 15, 2002
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Konrad Jarausch, Friends of the GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI.

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

Emotions in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America
November 07-10, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Vera Lind, GHI; Otto Ulbricht, University of Kiel.

Disobedience and the Divine Way: A Puritan Context for September 11
October 31, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Philip H. Melling, University of Wales, Swansea

Medieval History Seminar 2002 [Bulletin 32, Spring 2003, pp.156-163]
October 24-27, 2002
Conference at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Conveners: Michael Borgolte, Humboldt University of Berlin; Caroline W. Bynum, Columbia University; Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt; Patrick J. Geary, University of California at Los Angeles; Christof Mauch, GHI; Christoph Strupp, GHI.

History of Sexuality in Modern Germany
October 24-27, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Edward Dickinson, University of Cincinnati; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI.

Transatlantic Perspectives on Marriage, Sex, and Religious Deviance in British North America
October 17, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University

Landscapes and Roads in North America and Europe: Cultural History in Transatlantic Perspectives
October 11-12, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas Zeller, GHI.

A Sonderweg in European Environmental History
October 10, 2002
Event at the GHI

Fight for the Files [Bulletin 32, Spring 2003]
October 03-06, 2002
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association in San Diego, California
Conveners: Astrid Eckert, Free University of Berlin; Christof Mauch, GHI.

Der schwierige Weg zur inneren Einheit. Mentalitäten und ihr Wandel in Ostdeutschland nach 1990
October 03, 2002
Symposium with Joachim Gauck, Washington, D.C.

German American Encounters after World War II and the Holocaust
September 26-29, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Alexander Freund, GHI/AICGS; Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union; Raimund Lammersdorf, GHI; Annette Puckhaber, GHI/AICGS.

On Symbolic Emigrations and Symbolic Battle: A Type of Conversion to Islam in Western Countries
September 19, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, University of Leipzig

Deutschland in Amerika, Amerika in Deutschland,“ Historikertag, Halle an der Saale [Bulletin 32, Spring 2003]
September 10-13, 2002
Event at the GHI
Convener: Christof Mauch, GHI.

Regina Schmeken: The New Middle. Photographs from 1989 - 2000
September 5 - October 5, 2002
Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, the German Marshall Fund and the GHI
Prior to the opening reception at the Goethe Institute there will be a discussion with the artist Regina Schmeken at the GHI.

Beyond Sacredness: The Specifics of Religion in the U.S.
September 05, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Michael Hochgeschwender, University of Tübingen

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2002 [Bulletin 31, Fall 2002, pp. 115-119]
June 02-15, 2002
Seminar in Koblenz, Mannheim, Cologne, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt
Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, University of Notre Dame.

From Reconstruction to Civil Society: Political Generations in the History of the Federal Republic of Germany
May 23, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Axel Schildt, University of Hamburg

American Détente and German Ostpolitik, 1969-1972
May 09-10, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Bernd Schäfer, GHI; Carsten Tessmer, Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin.

John F Kennedy and Berlin: From the Wall to the 1963 Visit
May 08, 2002
Event at the GHI

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar: The Golden Hunger Years, Music in Occupied Berlin, 1945–1949
May 04, 2002
Event at the GHI

The German Left since 1945: Innovation, Politics, and Alliances
May 02, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

German History, 1945-1990
[Bulletin 31, Fall 2002, pp. 101-108]
May 01-4, 2002
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2002 in Potsdam
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Konrad Jarausch, Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam; Richard Wetzell, GHI.

Expert Cultures and Social Engineering in the 19th Century: Scientists, Scholars, and Institutional Politics between Germany and the United States
April 26-27, 2002
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Philipp Löser, GHI/AICGS; Christoph Strupp, GHI.

A New Paradigm in International Relations? Reflections on September 11, 2001
April 17, 2002
2nd Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Hans Küng (University of Tübingen)

Latin America, North America, and Europe - International Encounters and Relations in Historical Perspective
April 10-13, 2002
Conference at the University of Oregon, Portland
Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Friedrich Schuler, University of Oregon.

1968 – An International Watershed?
April 04, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, University of Bielefeld

War and Society - Germany and Europe in Historical Perspective [Bulletin 31, Fall 2002, pp. 81-88]
March 21-24, 2002
Young Scholars Forum 2002 at the GHI
Convener: Christoph Strupp, GHI.

Migration in the History of the Federal Republic: Flight, Immigration, Transcultural Mobility
March 20, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Christiane Harzig, University of Bremen

From Failure to Failure: The Far Right in Postwar Germany in a Comparative European Context
March 07, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Hans-Georg Betz, York University of Toronto

From War Criminal to Corporate Citizen: Remaking the Industrialist in a New Germany
February 28, 2002
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2002 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

The German Insurance Business in National Socialist Germany [Bulletin 31, Fall 2002, pp. 19-33]
February 12, 2002
Lecture of the Friends of the GHI
Speaker: Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley

University Reform and Reorganization of Germany’s Foreign Humanities Research Institutes
February 05, 2002
Symposium with Edelgard Bulmahn, Washington D.C.

The German Mission to Afghanistan, 1915–1916
January 29, 2002
Event at the GHI