Events 2018
All lectures are open to the public. Please RSVP by email or phone (202.387.3355).
Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the GHI convener.
Transit: Film and Panel Discussion at AFI Silver
Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
#FeminismToMe: Are You In? A Conversation with Jutta Allmendinger and Kate Goodall
Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
A Different Sort of Neoliberalism? Making Sense of German History Since the 1970s
Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis
What is in a Category? Telling Economic Migrants & Political Refugees Apart
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West: “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
The Nexus of Migration, Youth, and Knowledge
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
Defining Black European History
Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolutions (ca. 1750-1830)
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Why Is Academia Reluctant to Embrace Open-Access Scholarship?
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge
24th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Theft, Borrowing, or Artistic Practice?
Transoceanic American Studies
Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History
Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century
Back to Berlin
Back to the Fatherland
Back to the Fatherland
Back to Berlin
Japanese Industrial Espionage, American Decline, and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the 1980s
Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall
Making Immigrant Knowledge from Collective Memories: Watching the Process Unfold in Spain
Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces
Mondrian's Dress: Copying (and) the Couture Copy
Post-Nazi Germany and the Myth of American Influence
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture
The Invisibles
Karl Marx and the History of Capitalism
Marx at 200: A Symposium
War in the Nazi Imagination
Europe 1918–2018 French, German, and Polish Perspectives on the Future of the European Union
Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies
Trust as Violence: The Politics of Film and the Militarization of Male Sexuality in National Socialism
Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19
West Coast Germanists' Workshop
Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape
The End of Gold? Monetary Metals Studied at the Planetary and Human Scale During the Classical Gold Standard Era
Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America
Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond
Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization
Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?
Rewriting 19th Century Central European History
Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating “Germanness” in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times
All lectures are open to the public. Please RSVP by email or phone (202.387.3355).
Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
A Different Sort of Neoliberalism? Making Sense of German History Since the 1970s
What is in a Category? Telling Economic Migrants & Political Refugees Apart
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Why Is Academia Reluctant to Embrace Open-Access Scholarship?
Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Theft, Borrowing, or Artistic Practice?
Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century
Japanese Industrial Espionage, American Decline, and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the 1980s
Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall
Making Immigrant Knowledge from Collective Memories: Watching the Process Unfold in Spain
Mondrian's Dress: Copying (and) the Couture Copy
Post-Nazi Germany and the Myth of American Influence
Karl Marx and the History of Capitalism
War in the Nazi Imagination
Trust as Violence: The Politics of Film and the Militarization of Male Sexuality in National Socialism
Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19
Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape
The End of Gold? Monetary Metals Studied at the Planetary and Human Scale During the Classical Gold Standard Era
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization
Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?
Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the GHI convener.
Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West: “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”
Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900
Defining Black European History
Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolutions (ca. 1750-1830)
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge
24th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Transoceanic American Studies
Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History
Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture
Marx at 200: A Symposium
Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies
West Coast Germanists' Workshop
Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms
Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond
Rewriting 19th Century Central European History
If not otherwise announced, the Research Seminar meets Wednesdays 4.30 - 6.00 pm in the GHI Seminar Room. The GHI Research Seminar is a forum for scholars to discuss their ongoing research projects. Taking place on a biweekly basis, it brings together international researchers, DC scholars and GHI research fellows to stimulate intellectual exchange in a wide variety of historical problems, epochs and methods. The seminar discussions are based either on project presentations or unpublished, pre-circulated papers. If you wish to attend or present your work in progress, please write to Anne Schenderlein and Sören Urbansky at researchseminar@ghi-dc.org.
The GHI Fellows’ Colloquium usually meets on Thursday mornings. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Axel Jansen.
Research Seminar
- Of Pathogens and Humans. A Cultural History of the Policies for Epidemics in the Nineteenth Century
Andrea Wiegeshoff (University of Marburg/GHI Washington)
GHI Colloquium
- Stephan Schmitt (Universität Erfurt)
Reporting Home: Repercussions of Colonial Rule upon American Race Relations - Ryan Heyden (McMaster University)
The German Red Cross and Humanitarianism in Divided Germany, 1945-1989
Research Seminar
- Stefan Tetzlaff (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin/GHI Washington)
Selling Industry: Indian Public Opinion and German Industrial Public Relations Overseas, c. 1960-1972
GHI Colloquium
- Emanuel Steinbacher (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The “Crime of the Century”: High Society, Medien und Familie in den USA in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts” - Kristoff Kerl (Universität zu Köln)
Politiken des Rausches. Eine transnationale Körpergeschichte westlicher Gegenkulturen von den 1960er bis in die 1980er Jahre
Research Seminar
- Sünne Juterczenka (University of Göttingen/GHI Washington)
Encounters in Eden? Missions, Philanthropy, and Protestant Dissent in Eighteenth-Century North America
Research Seminar
- Jenna Gibbs (Florida Int. University/GHI Washington)
The Global Latrobe Family: Evangelicalism, Slavery, and Empire
GHI Colloquium
- Yves Schmitz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Arms Smuggling and State-Building in Imperial Borderlands. Southern Africa and Northern America in the Second Half of the 19th Century - Kerstin Schulte (Universität Bielefeld)
"Volksgemeinschaft" behind Barbed Wire. The Internment Camps of the British and American Occupation Zone and their Significance for German Postwar Society, 1945-1950 - Daniel Eggstein (Universität Konstanz)
"Eine soziale Bewegung in der Wissenschaft": Ökologisch orientierte Forschung in Deutschland und den USA in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
GHI Colloquium
- Adam Knowles (Drexel University)
Categories of Complicity: Philosophy under National Socialism - Georg Wolff (Heidelberg Universität)
American Conservatism and the Struggle against Federal Authority. Grassroots Organizing, Activism, Discourse - Razak Khan (Universität Göttingen)
Entangled Translation: Psychology, Pedagogy, and Youth Reform in Germany and India
Research Seminar
- Prakash Kumar (Pennsylvania State University/GHI Washington)
The Contested Legacy of Modernity and Modernization in Developing India
Research Seminar
- Albert Manke (GHI West)
Transnational Strategies of Californian Chinese during the Exclusion Era - Lok Siu (GHI West)
Pathways to Citizenship: Japanese Peruvians in post-WWII United States
GHI Colloquium
- Philipp Schulte (Universität Heidelberg / EHESS Paris)
"Es ist doch mein Bild!" Bildkonflikte, Recht am eigenen Bild und right to privacy in Deutschland und den USA, 1880-1930 - Daniela Weiner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Teaching a Dark Chapter: Holocaust and Resistance Representations in East German, West German, and Italian History Textbooks, 1943-2000
Research Seminar
- Sören Urbansky (GHI Washington)
Same but Different: Sinophobia in Vladivostok, San Francisco and Singapore
Research Seminar
- Philipp Nielsen (Sarah Lawrence College)
Building Democracy: Emotions, Architecture and Politics in Post-War Germany
GHI Colloquium
- Lena Marie Rudeck (Max Planck Institute for Human Development / Freie Universität Berlin)
Between Pleasure and Immorality: Western Allies' Soldiers' Clubs in Germany as Sites of Encounters between Occupiers and the Occupied, 1945-1955 - Jakob Schönhagen (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Weltflüchtlingspolitik 1950-1973
Research Seminar
- Daniel Jütte (New York University)
The Thirty Years' War at 400: A New Window on the Prague Defenestration (1618)
Research Seminar
- ***Canceled
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Challenging Knowledge: American Debates about Adult Stem Cells, 1998-2006
GHI Colloquium
- Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University)
From the American South to the Global South: The Tennessee Valley Authority in the 20th Century - Christina B. Matzen (University of Toronto)
Imprisoned Women: Gender, Politics, and Criminology in Nazi, Communist, and Democratic Germanies
Research Seminar
- Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington)
Children by Choice - A Comparative History of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American and Pro Familia - the German Society for Marriage and Family
Research Seminar
- Luca Scholz (Stanford University)
Movement and the Geography of the State in the Old Reich
Research Seminar
- Juliane Braun (Universität Bonn)
Translating the Pacific: Imperial Imaginations, Nature Writing, and Early Modern Print Cultures
GHI Colloquium
- Christoph Nitschke (Keble College, University of Oxford)
The Panics of 1873 and U.S. Foreign Relations - Andrew Kless (University of Rochester)
Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at war in German-occupied Russian Poland, 1914-1915
Research Seminar
- Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University)
Insurrectionary History: Time, Space, and Black Atlantic Revolution
Programs for Young Scholars
- Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
- Bosch / Bucerius Archival Seminar
- Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History
- Medieval History Seminar
- Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History
- Young Scholars Forum
Lectures and Annual Symposia at the GHI
- Annual Lectures
- Gerald D. Feldman Lectures
- Gerd Bucerius Lectures
- German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture
- Spring and Fall Lectures Series
- Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
- Alois Mertes Memorial Lectures (discontinued)
- Lectures of the Friends of the GHI (discontinued)