All Events 1999 Print



Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1999 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins.

German Friendship Award [in: Bulletin 26, Spring 2000]
December 10, 1999
Event at the GHI
Convener: Hans-Ulrich Seidt (German Embassy) Christof Mauch (GHI).

Gender History in Transatlantic Perspective: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe and the United States
December 03–04, 1999
Event at the GHI

Nature and National Identity in Postwar West Germany
December 2, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sandra Chaney, Erskine College

Eighth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
[Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 163-164, 164-169, 169-175, 175-184]
November 19, 1999
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, Friends of the GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI.

Fact, Fantasy, and German History [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 3-34, 35-43]
November 18, 1999
13th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Mary Fulbrook, University College London

The Limits of Common Sense: (Post-) Postmodern Problems or Opportunities? [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 3-34, 35-43]
November 18, 1999
8th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Heinrich Himmler and Landscape Planning in Nazi Germany
November 11, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, University of Hannover

The Green Prince of Germany: The Gardens of Pückler-Muskau and the Late Romatic Landscape
October 26, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Linda Bryan Parshall, Dumbarton Oaks

Limits of Educational Internationalism: Foreign Students at German Universities between 1890 and 1930
October 14, 1999
Event at the GHI

Waldsterben: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem
October 12, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, University of Freiburg

Global Human Experience, Capitalism, and Nature: The Construction of New Grand Narratives in History
[Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 129-135]
October 7-10, 1999
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Convener: Eckhardt Fuchs, GHI.

Coming to Terms with the Female Sonderfall: Women's Work and Gender Politics in East and West Germany
[Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 135-138]
October 7-10, 1999
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Conveners: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University; Christine von Oertzen, GHI.

The Culture of Hypnosis: Pseudosciences, Sexuality, and Art in Fin-de-Siècle Europe [Bulletin 26, Spring 2000, pp. 138-143]
October 7-10, 1999
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Chair: Andreas W. Daum, GHI.

The Environmental History of the Rhine River, 1815 to the Present
October 5, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Marc Cioc, University of California at Santa Cruz

“Conquests from Barbarism”: Taming Nature in Frederician Prussia

September 28, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David Blackbourn, Harvard University

Before Television: Mass Media, Political Cultures, and the Public Sphere in Western Europe and the United States, 1900-1950
September 23-26, 1999
Conference at the GHI
Convener: Thomas Göbel, GHI.

The United States, the Dissolution of the European Empires, and the Emergence of the ‘Third World’
September 10–11, 1999
Event at the GHI

The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939
August 25-28, 1999
Conference at Schloß Münchenwiler, Bern, Switzerland
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern.

A Partnership Transformed: Germany and the United States in the 1960s

June 22, 1999
Event at the GHI

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies
June 6-19, 1999
Seminar in Koblenz, Heidelberg, Bonn, Cologne, Leverkusen
Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, GHI.

Germany’s Second Chance: Processes of Liberalization and Integration, 1950-1980
June 3, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Ulrich Herbert, University of Freiburg

Gender Politics and Work Experiences in East and West Germany, Carnegie Mellon University

May 29, 1999
Event in Pittsburgh

Heimat, Barbed Wire, and “Papa’s Kino”: Memories of War on the Silver Screen in the 1950s
May 27, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Robert G. Moeller, University of California at Irvine

The New Left, the Sexual Revolution, and the Nazi Past

May 13, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University

Historicizing the Nation: The Middle Ages and Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Imagery [Bulletin 25, Fall 1999, pp. 32-37]
May 6-9, 1999
34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI.

The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1949-1989
April 29, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 1999: Germany in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1850 [Bulletin 25, Fall 1999, pp. 49-54]
April 21-24, 1999
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI.

After Revolution and Democratization: Conceptualizing the 18th Brumaires and Regimes of the Two Bonapartes
April 9-11, 1999
Conference at the Hunter College at City University of New York
Convener: Melvin Richter, Hunter College at City University of New York.

Continuity, Change, and Globalization in Postwar Germany and America
April 08, 1999
Event at the GHI

The Marxist Counter-Narrative: The GDR as History and Historiography
April 08, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American Impact on Western Europe: Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic Perspective
March 25-27, 1999
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University; Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, University of Tübingen; Christof Mauch, GHI.

A Very Special Relationship: Bargaining Power in East German-Soviet Relations
March 10, 1999
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1999 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Hope Harrison, Norwegian Nobel Institute

Second Atlantik-Brücke/Deutsche Welle Media Conference: The Fourth Power - Media and Democracy in a World of Concentration and Fragmentation
January 28-30, 1999
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Walther Leisler Kiep, Atlantik-Brücke.

A Search for Genius in Weimar Germany: The Abraham Lincoln Stiftung and American Philanthropy

January 19, 1999
Event at the GHI