All Events 1997 Print



Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1997 Fall Bulletins.

What Can Chancellor Kohl Learn from Bismarck? Monetary and Fiscal Aspects of Unification in Nineteenth-Century Germany
December 11, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Harold James, Princeton University

Remapping the German Past: Grand Narrative, Causality, and Postmodernism
December 04-09, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

Two Dictatorships in Germany, 1933-1989: Problems and Possibilities of a Comparison
November 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Günther Heydemann, University of Leipzig

Sixth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI [Bulletin 22, Spring 1998, pp. 52-58]
November 14, 1997
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, Friends of the GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

The Protestant Reformation in German History
November 13, 1997
11th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Thomas A. Brady Jr., University of California at Berkeley

Atlantik Brücke/Deutsche Welle Media Conference
November 06-08, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Walther Leisler Kiep, Atlantik-Brücke.

Women, Communists, and Abortion in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1970
November 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Donna Harsch, Carnegie-Mellon University

The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848: Episode or Model?

October 31-November 02, 1997
Conference in Monticello, Illinois
Conveners: Peter Krüger, University of Marburg; Paul W. Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Political Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century German Radicalism
October 23, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Wende, GHI London

How Wilhelmine Germans Became Citizens of Weimar: Toward an Alternative Political History of World War I Germany
October 16, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

Science and the Historical Discipline in a Transcultural Perspective, 1850–1950
October 04–05, 1997
Event at the GHI

Judging the Past: The Prosecution of GDR Border Guards and Officials
October 02, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter E. Quint, University of Maryland

Politik, Gesellschaft und die Institutionalisierung von Geschichtswissenschaft: Deutschland und die USA im Vergleich [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 25-27]
September 27, 1997
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Bethesda, Maryland
Participants: Gerald Diesener, Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam; Gabriele Lingelbach, Free University of Berlin; Steffen Sammler, University of Lyon.

Universities in Medieval Societies
September 18-20, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: William J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Jürgen Miethke, University of Heidelberg.

Politics and Propaganda: New Approaches to German-American Relations, 1933-1945 [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 18-22]
June 22, 1997
Annual Conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Participants: Philipp Gassert, GHI; Michaela Hönicke, Free University of Berlin; Frank Ninkovich, St. John’s University, New York; Alex Shannon, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The Culture of Rights: Civil Rights, Participation Rights, and Social Rights in Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century
June 11-14, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Manfred Berg, GHI; Martin H. Geyer, GHI.

Traumatized Citizenship: How the West Germans Came to Love the Nuclear Bomb, 1949-1964
June 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

Field Marshall and Beggar: The Artist Ernst Barlach in the First World War
May 28, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Paret, Princeton University

Constitutive Moments of Transatlantic Relations, 1947–1952 and 1997–2002. The Marshall Plan at 50: Retrospective, Prospective
May 22, 1997
Event at the GHI

Unexplored Questions About the German Military During World War II
May 15, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religion, Americanization, and the Common Man [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 41-42]
May 08, 1997
Alois Mertes memorial lecture
Speaker: Michael Zöller, University of Bayreuth

New Approaches to Migration Research: German-Americans in Comparative Perspective
April 22-24, 1997
Conference at the College Station, Texas
Conveners: Wolfgang J. Helbich, University of Bochum; Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University.

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 1997: Germany Divided and United, 1945-1989 [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 39-41]
April 16-19, 1997
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Martin H. Geyer, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI.

The Militarization of the Social Body in Germany during World War I
April 10, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Elisabeth Domansky, Indiana University at Bloomington

"Total War": Use and Abuse of a Concept
March 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University

The Military as a Theme in German History
March 13, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University