All Events 1998 Print



Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1998 Spring Bulletins or Fall Bulletins.

Ernst Reuter: The Problem of Cold War Hagiography
December 10, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College

Politics, "Race," and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission
December 03, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Ruth Lewin Sime, Sacramento City College

Friedrich Hecker: Revolution, Emigration, Commemoration

November 24, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sabine Freitag, GHI London

America's War and the World: Vietnam in International and Comparative Perspectives
November 19-22, 1998
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University; Wilfried Mausbach, GHI

Seventh Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI [Bulletin 24, Spring 1999, pp. 62-65]
November 13, 1998
Symposium of the GHI
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, Friends of the GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

Turning to the Atlantic: The Federal Republic’s Ideological Reorientation, 1945-1970 [Bulletin 25, Fall 1999, pp. 3-21]
November 12, 1998
12th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Anselm-Doering Manteuffel, University of Tübingen
Commentator: Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

Mehr Sozialgeschichte Wagen [Bulletin 25, Fall 1999, pp. 22-28]
November 12, 1998
Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

Problems of a New Hitler Biography
November 05, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Ian Kershaw, University of Sheffield

Germany and African Americans: A Comparative Perspective
November 02, 1998
Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Convener: Gerald Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Christof Mauch, GHI.

"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne": Beethoven Biography as Propaganda
October 22, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David B. Dennis, Loyola University of Chicago

The Criminal and His Scientists: A Symposium on the History of Criminology
October 15-18, 1998
Conference at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Conveners: Peter Becker, European University Institute, Florence; Richard F. Wetzell, University of Maryland at College Park.

The Plurality of Publics: Metropolitan Culture and Performance in Germany around 1900 [Bulletin 23, Fall 1998, pp. 16-17]
October 08-11, 1998
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah,
Participants: David Blackbourn, Harvard University; Sierra Bruckner, University of Iowa; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Belinda Davis, Rutgers University.

Ostpolitik: Domestic and International Dimensions, 1962-1974 [Bulletin 23, Fall 1998, pp. 17-19]
October 08-11, 1998
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah
Participants: Carole Fink, Ohio State University; Philipp Gassert, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI; Klaus Larres, Queen's University, Belfast; Mary Elise Sarotte, Harvard University.

Fact or Fiction? The Historical Profession and James Bacque
[Bulletin 23, Fall 1998, pp. 19-21]
October 08-11, 1998
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah
Participants: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans; Dewey A. Browder, Austin Peay State University; Wilfried Mausbach, GHI; Hans-Jürgen Schröder, University of Gießen; Christof Strauß, University of Heidelberg; Richard D. Wiggers, Georgetown University.

Violence and Normality: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s
October 08-11, 1998
Conference at Schloß Gimborn, Marienheide
Conveners: Richard Bessel, University of York; Martin Geyer, University of Munich; Dirk Schumann, University of Bielefeld.

Was Rahel Varnhagen a Self-Hating Jew?

September 24, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Deborah Hertz, Sarah Lawrence College

Memory, Democracy, and the Mediated Nation: Political Cultures and Regional Identities in Germany, 1848-1998
September 18-20, 1998
Conference at the University of Toronto, Canada
Conveners: Thomas Göbel, GHI; James Retallack, University of Toronto

Visions of Democracy and Consumption: The East German Revolution of 1989
June 11, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington

A Challenge for the United States and Europe: The Vision of an Atlantic Civilization
May 27, 1998
Event at the GHI

How I Became a German - Jurek Becker's Life in Five Worlds [Bulletin 23, Fall 1998, pp. 54-59]
May 26, 1998
Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago

Jews in the German Resistance
May 21, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Arnold Paucker, Leo Baeck Institute, London

Democractic Traditions in the Kaiserreich: The Problem of Continuities
May 14, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: James J. Sheehan, Stanford University

Nation, Citizen, Society: Reflections on the German Revolution of 1848 after 150 Years
April 23, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 1998: Germany in the Early Modern Era [Bulletin 23, Fall 1998, pp. 51-53]
April 22-25, 1998
Conference in Göttingen
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Hartmut Lehmann, Max Planck Institute for History.

The International Financial System: Past and Present

April 16-17, 1998
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Free University of Berlin; Harold James, Princeton University.

The Genesis of Nazi Policy: Structure and Decision-Making Process: New Research on the National Socialist System of Rule

April 09-12, 1998
Conference in Gainesville, Florida
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida; Eberhard Jäckel, University of Stuttgart.

Eating the Bread of Liberty: Ordinary Germans and the Impact of the French Revolution
April 09, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester

Before and After Hitler: Democratic Traditions in German History
March 26, 1998
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1998 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Fritz Stern, Columbia University