16th Annual Symposium of the FGHI

Presentation of the Fritz Stern Disseration Award 2007 Friday, November 16, 2007 Symposium at the GHI Sponsored by the Friends of the German Historical Institute* and the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 10:00 to 11.00 a.m. Welcome Anke Ortlepp (Deputy Director, German Historical Institute) David G. Blackbourn (Vice Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the German Historical Institute) Presentation by the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize Winner and Award Ceremony The Meaning of Death and the Making of Three Berlins: A History, 1933-1961 Monica Black (University of Virginia) German Political Organizations and Regional Particularisms in Interwar Poland, 1918-1939 Winson Chu (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Comment Fritz Stern 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon GHI Research Presentation "Spaceship Earth": Envisioning Human Habitats in the Environmental Age Sabine Höhler (Visiting Research Fellow in Environmental History) 12:00 noon to 01:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch RSVP by November 09, 2007 (acceptances only) Phone: 202.387.3355 - Fax: 202.387.6437 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it *) The Friends are grateful to all individuals, whose generosity made the establishment of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize possible. They also wish to express their thanks to the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize Committee: Norman J. W. Goda (Ohio University), Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University), and George S. Williamson (The University of Alabama).