Lectures 2012

All Events | Lectures | Conferences | GHI Seminars | Event History The End of the Social-Democratic Era? Crisis in the Conceptualization of Social Justice in the 1970s and 1980s December 6, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Martin Geyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Twenty-Sixth Annual Lecture of the GHI The Straits of Europe: History at the Margins of a Continent November 8, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Johannes Paulmann (Universität Mainz) The Secret of Greatness: Frederick II of Prussia November 1, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Jürgen Luh Parallels, Networks, and Convergences: Women and Social Justice in Transnational Perspective October 25, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) Markets, States, and Social Justice in the Era of High Industrial Capitalism: Contrasts and Connections across the Atlantic October 11, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University) German Unification Symposium/Hertie Lecture: 1989 - New Lives, New Truisms October 3, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Ingo Schulze Transnationalism, Entrepreneurship, and Development September 13, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Alejandro Portes (Princeton University) The Idea of Social Justice, Genuine or Spurious? September 06, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Wilfried Hinsch (Universität zu Köln) American Campaign Mobilization in the Age of New Media May 31, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Kate Kenski (University of Arizona) Colonialism as Counterrevolution: Rethinking the Pre-colonial May 21, 2012, 4 pm, University of California, San Diego Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) Commentator: Rebecca Plant (UC San Diego) The GHI at 25: A Celebration May 17, 2012 Lecture at the GHI David Blackbourn (Harvard University) Hard on the Eyes: A Photographer and His Subject May 7, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Werner Sollors (Harvard University) Global Empire and Naval Ambitions in Wilhelmine Germany May 7, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine Speaker: Dirk Bönker (Duke University) Commentator: Edward Dickinson (UC Davis) Americanizing the Electoral Process? Elections in the Federal Republic of Germany May 3, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Frank Bösch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam) Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture April 26, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Gerhard A. Ritter Race War and Cultural Genocide in German Southwest Africa April 23, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine Speaker: Jürgen Zimmerer (Universität Hamburg) Commentator: Robert Moeller (UC Irvine) Voters Without Democracy: Elections in Imperial Germany April 12, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: James Retallack (University of Toronto) Which Way to Expand? And How? Imperial Rivalries in the ‘Third Reich' April 9, 2012, 4 pm, University of California, San Diego Speaker: Dirk van Laak (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) Commentator: Uta Poiger (Northeastern University) Mobilizing the Nineteenth-Century American Electorate: The Elections of 1828 and 1840 March 22, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Michael Holt (University of Virginia) Youth Makes History Lecture at the GHI March 23, 2012 Speaker: Akira Iriye (Harvard University) In the Wake of Empire: German Missionaries in China and the Consequences of Failure March 5, 2012, 12 pm, University of California, Irvine Speaker: Albert Wu (University of California, Berkeley) Commentator: Quitao Guo (UC Irvine) A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gützlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851 February 13, 12pm, 2012, University of California, Irvine Speaker: Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University) Commentator: Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia: Creating the Color Line and the National Line January 12, 2012 Lecture at the GHI Speaker: Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota) Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back? The Afterlives of German Colonialism January 26, 2012 Lecture and Panel Discussion at the GHI Speaker: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Panelists: Martin Andjaba (Embassy of Namibia), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), and Cyprian Fisiy (World Bank)