All Events 2001 Print



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Chocolate Ice Cream and Hot Orange Light: A Tasteful Exploration of Modern Art
December 06, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Constance Classen, Concordia University.

Suicide in Early Modern Europe
November 29–December 02, 2001
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Vera Lind, GHI; Jeffrey Watt, University of Mississippi.

Global Hollywood: Rethinking the National, Transnationality, and Globalization
November 29–December 02, 2001
Conference at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Conveners: Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University; Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas J. Saunders, University of Victoria.

Adam’s Finger: Michelangelo’s Touch?
November 16, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, University of Toronto.

10th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
[Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, p. 192, full texts pp. 87-97, 99-110, 143-152]
November 09, 2001
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Konrad Jarausch, Friends of the GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI; Fritz Stern, Columbia University.

Violent Imagery in Late Medieval Piety [Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, pp. 3-36]
November 08, 2001
15th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Columbia University
Commentator: Mitchell B. Merback (DePauw University).

Reverberations of Guilt and Violence, Resonances of Peace [Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, pp. 37-50]
November 08, 2001
10th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Mitchell B. Merback, DePauw University.

The Reverberations of History: The Culture of Listening and the Reconstruction of the Past
November 01, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Emily Thompson, University of Pennsylvania.

Medieval History Seminar 2001 [Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, pp. 186-191]
October 25-28, 2001
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: 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.

Freud’s Nose: The Denigration of Olfaction and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
October 18, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David Howes, Concordia University.

Across the Bridge: GIs in Germany [in: Bulletin 30, Spring 2002]
October 17, 2001
Pre-release Film Screening at the GHI
Conveners: Robert P. Grathwol (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Washington, DC), Christof Mauch (GHI), Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg).

Individuality and Early Modern Autobiography before 1750 [Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, pp. 177-180]
October 05–08, 2001
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association
Panelists: Thomas Max Safley, University of Pennsylvania; Tina Löffelbein, University of Kiel; Otto Ulbricht, University of Kiel.

Germany in the Cold War since the 1960s [Bulletin 30, Spring 2002, pp. 180-184]
October 05–08, 2001
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association
Panelists: Douglas Selvage, U.S. Department of State; Alexandra M. Friedrich, Stiftung Landheim Schondorf; Thomas W. Maulucci, University of Maryland.

Judging the Past in Unified Germany
October 03, 2001
Event at the GHI.

The Federal Chancellory and German Unification 1989/1990
October 03, 2001
Symposium at the GHI.

Visionary Science in Medieval Germany: Hildegard von Bingen’s SCIVIAS
October 02, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania.

The Five Senses During and After Industrialization
September 20, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Robert Jütte, Robert Bosch Foundation.

A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945

August 29-September 01, 2001
Conference at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern; Bernd Greiner, Hamburg Institute for Social Research; Christof Mauch, GHI; Christoph Strupp, GHI.

Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth Century

July 06–07, 2001
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Patrice Poutrus and Ingrid Creppel.

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2001 [Bulletin 29, Fall 2001, pp. 98-102]
June 17-30, 2001
Seminar in Koblenz, Karlsruhe, Rastatt, Cologne, Gotha, Erfurt
Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, GHI.

The Life of Henry Villard, 1835-1900 [in: Bulletin 29, Fall 2001]
June 13, 2001
Lecture, discussion, and book presentation at the German Embassy
Speaker: Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave (Washington, DC).

The Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
June 09, 2001
Event at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Democracy under Pressure: The European Experience
June 05, 2001
Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Lord Ralf Dahrendorf (KBE FBA).

When Jesus Was an Aryan: Prowwwant Theology during the Third Reich
May 17, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany, 1870–1960
May 11–12, 2001
Event at the GHI.

Philanthropy, Patronage, and Urban Politics: Transatlantic Transfers between Europe and North America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
May 03–05, 2001
Conference at the University of Toronto
Conveners: Thomas Adam, University of Toronto; Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; James Retallack, University of Toronto.

Germany in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945 [Bulletin 29, Fall 2001, pp. 92-98]
April 25-28, 2001
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2001
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Richard Wetzell, GHI.

Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany: The 1960s
April 19-22, 2001
Conference at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Conveners: Philipp Gassert, University of Heidelberg; Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

The Germans and Their Nazi Past: From Adenauer to Kohl
April 18, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Norbert Frei, University of Bochum.

Postwar German Generations and the Legitimacy of the Republic

April 10, 2001
Workshop at the GHI
Convener: Vera Lind (GHI).

Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective
April 06–07, 2001
Conference at the University of Cincinnati
Conveners: Deborah Cohen, American University; Vera Lind, GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI; Maura O’Connor, University of Cincinnati.

The Arena of the Holocaust: Concentration Camps, Killing Centers, and Killing Fields
April 05, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Henry Friedlander, Brooklyn College at CUNY.

The Debate on the Reconstruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss

April 2, 2001
Workshop at the GHI
Speaker: Wilhelm von Boddien (Chairman, Förderverein Berliner Stadtschloss)
Moderator: Hans-Ulrich Seidt (Head, Cultural Section, German Embassy).

Gender, Power, Religion – Forces in Cultural History [Bulletin 29, Fall 2001, pp. 85-92]
March 29-April 01, 2001
Young Scholars Forum 2001 at the GHI
Convener: Vera Lind, GHI.

Prussia Yesterday and Tomorrow
March 27, 2001
Symposium at the GHI in cooperation with the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Speakers: Manfred Stolpe (Minister President of Brandenburg), David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College, Michigan)
Moderator: Robert G. Livingston (GHI)

German Industry under the Swastika
March 15, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Hayes, Northwestern University.

Archaeology of the Present, Photographs by Gerhard Faller-Walzer
March 14 - April 30, 2001
Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC and the GHI.

National Socialism and Women

March 01, 2001
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 2001 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gisela Bock, Free University of Berlin.

Grassroots Democracy? A Comparative History of Communities and State Building in New England and Germany, 1500-1850
February 22-24, 2001
Workshop at the GHI
Convener: Johannes Dillinger, GHI.