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
December 08, 2018
Films Screening and Panel Discussion at AFI Silver
Speakers: Marike Janzen (University of Kansas), Eric Jennings (University of Toronto), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)
Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
November 20 - 21, 2018
Conference at the WZB
Convener: Andreas Eckert (HU Berlin), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Franz Waldenberger (DIJ Tokyo)
#FeminismToMe: Are You In? A Conversation with Jutta Allmendinger and Kate Goodall
November 13, 2018
Panel Discussion at the Goethe-Institut Washington
Panelists: Jutta Allmendinger (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), Kate Goodall (Halcyon), and Cathleen Fisher (American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
November 09, 2018
Presentation of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI
A Different Sort of Neoliberalism? Making Sense of German History Since the 1970s
November 08, 2018
32nd Annual Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin), Comment: Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)
Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis
October 25 - 27, 2018
International Workshop and Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington
Conveners: Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), and Katherine McDonough (Stanford)
What is in a Category? Telling Economic Migrants & Political Refugees Apart
October 17, 2018
Lecture at the Alumni House, UC Berkeley
Speaker: David Miliband (International Rescue Committee)
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West: “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”
October 17 - 20, 2018
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West (Berkeley)
Convener: Andrea Westermann (GHI West)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 11, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower)
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 09, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 180 Does Library, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900
October 08 - 10, 2018
Conference at GHI Washington
Conveners: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Kerstin von der Krone (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
October 04, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
October 04, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 03, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles (Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250; sponsored by the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the Shoah Foundation
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 02, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of California, Los Angeles (6275 Bunche Hall)
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
October 02, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
The Nexus of Migration, Youth, and Knowledge
September 27 - 30, 2018
Panel Series at the Forty-Second Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Conveners: Andrea Westermann (GHI West, Berkeley), Onur Erdur (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
September 25, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower)
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
Defining Black European History
June 22 - 23, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Jeff Bowersox (University College London), Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico), Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington), and Kira Thurman (University of Michigan)
Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolutions (ca. 1750-1830)
June 22 - 23, 2018
Workshop at Re:work International Research Center, Berlin
Conveners: Linda Colley (Princeton University) and Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington)
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Why Is Academia Reluctant to Embrace Open-Access Scholarship?
June 14, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Peter Baldwin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
June 14 - 15, 2018
Second Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Conveners: Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington) and Hansjakob Ziemer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge
June 06 - 10, 2018
Conference at Princeton University
Angela Creager (Princeton University), Mathias Grote (Humboldt University Berlin), Elaine Leong (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin), Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington)
24th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
May 30 - June 03, 2018
Seminar at GHI West, Berkeley, CA
Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)
Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Theft, Borrowing, or Artistic Practice?
May 24, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Justin Williams (University of Bristol)
Transoceanic American Studies
May 17 - 18, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Juliane Braun (University of Bonn/GHI Washington); Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University/GHI Washington)
Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History
May 11, 2018
Conference at the GHI London
Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St. Andrews), Katherine Hill (Birkbeck, University of London), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Alison Rowlands (University of Essex), and Hannes Ziegler (GHI London)
Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century
May 10, 2018
9th Gerald Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin)
Back to Berlin
May 09, 2018
Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC
Co-presented by The Kosciuszko Foundation German Historical Institute Polish American Arts Association
Back to the Fatherland
May 09, 2018
Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC
Co-presented by German Historical Institute, AJC Global Jewish Advocacy Washington, 3GDC – Washington DC, Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, Generation After
Back to the Fatherland
May 07, 2018
Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema
Co-presented by German Historical Institute, AJC Global Jewish Advocacy Washington, 3GDC – Washington DC, Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, Generation After
Back to Berlin
May 05, 2018
Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema
Co-presented by The Kosciuszko Foundation, German Historical Institute, Polish American Arts Association
Japanese Industrial Espionage, American Decline, and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the 1980s
May 03, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Mario Daniels (Georgetown University)
Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
May 02 - 03, 2018
Conference at the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
Conveners: Stephanie Zloch (Georg-Eckert-Institut Braunschweig), Dagmar Ellerbrock (TU Dresden), Simone Lässig (Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington DC), Swen Steinberg (TU Dresden)
Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall
April 24, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Paul Lerner (USC)
Making Immigrant Knowledge from Collective Memories: Watching the Process Unfold in Spain
April 20, 2018
Lecture at GHI West, University of California Berkeley, Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall)
Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces
April 20 - 21, 2018
Workshop at GHI West, UC Berkeley
Convener: GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
Mondrian's Dress: Copying (and) the Couture Copy
April 19, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Nancy Troy (Stanford University)
Post-Nazi Germany and the Myth of American Influence
April 17, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Noah B. Strote (North Carolina State University)
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture
April 16 - 17, 2018
Conference at The Wende Museum at The Armory, Culver City, California and the University of Southern California (USC)
Co-sponsored by GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of German Historical Institute Washington DC, and organized by The Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (USC) and The Wende Museum
The Invisibles
April 13, 2018
Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC
Co-presented by German Historical Institute
Karl Marx and the History of Capitalism
April 12, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (WZB/Berlin Social Science Center)
Marx at 200: A Symposium
April 12, 2018
Sympoisum at the GHI
Conveners: Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania), James Brophy (University of Delaware), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)
War in the Nazi Imagination
April 11, 2018
Lecture at Georgetown University, Healy Hall 104
Richard Evans (University of Cambridge)
Europe 1918–2018 French, German, and Polish Perspectives on the Future of the European Union
April 11, 2018
Panel Discussion at the GHI
Speakers: Gérard Araud (Ambassador of France to the United States), Peter Wittig (Ambassador of Germany to the United States), Piotr Wilczek (Ambassador of Poland to the United States and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas), and moderated by Christoph von Marschall, Helmut Schmidt Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies
March 22 - 24, 2018
2018 Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation at the GHI
Conveners: Max Weber Foundation, German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington DC, American Historical Association (AHA) with the National History Center (NCH), German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, VHD)
Trust as Violence: The Politics of Film and the Militarization of Male Sexuality in National Socialism
March 22, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Anja Laukötter (Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin)
Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19
March 22, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg)
West Coast Germanists' Workshop
March 17 - 18, 2018
Conference at UC Davis
Conveners: Frank Biess (UC San Diego), Edward Ross Dickinson (UC Davis) Paul Lerner (USC) Ulli Strasser (UC San Diego), Andrea Westermann (GHI-West)
Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape
March 13, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)
The End of Gold? Monetary Metals Studied at the Planetary and Human Scale During the Classical Gold Standard Era
March 06, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Andrea Westermann, GHI West Research Fellow and Head of Office
Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms
March 01 - 02, 2018
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (University of Kassel/GHI Washington) and Bryant Simon (Temple University/GHI Washington)
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America
March 01, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Lizabeth Coehen (Harvard University)
Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
February 22 - 24, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Moritz Föllmer (University of Amsterdam), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
February 21, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Albert Manke (GHI West Tandem Fellow; Senior researcher at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University)
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
February 20, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond
February 14 - 16, 2018
Conference in Kolkata, India
Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington), and Indra Sengupta (GHI London)
Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization
February 01, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Hélène Yèche (University of Poitiers)
Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?
January 25, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Céline Teney, University of Bremen
Rewriting 19th Century Central European History
January 05 - 06, 2018
Panel Series at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Conveners: GHI Washington and the Central European History Society
Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating “Germanness” in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times
January 05, 2018
Panel at the 2018 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Organized by the contributors to the German History Intersections project
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
November 09, 2018
Presentation of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI
A Different Sort of Neoliberalism? Making Sense of German History Since the 1970s
November 08, 2018
32nd Annual Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin), Comment: Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)
What is in a Category? Telling Economic Migrants & Political Refugees Apart
October 17, 2018
Lecture at the Alumni House, UC Berkeley
Speaker: David Miliband (International Rescue Committee)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 11, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower)
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 09, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 180 Does Library, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
October 04, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
October 04, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 03, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles (Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250; sponsored by the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the Shoah Foundation
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
October 02, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of California, Los Angeles (6275 Bunche Hall)
Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
October 02, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
How Natural are Natural Disasters?
September 25, 2018
Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower)
Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Why Is Academia Reluctant to Embrace Open-Access Scholarship?
June 14, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Peter Baldwin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Theft, Borrowing, or Artistic Practice?
May 24, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Justin Williams (University of Bristol)
Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century
May 10, 2018
9th Gerald Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin)
Japanese Industrial Espionage, American Decline, and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the 1980s
May 03, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Mario Daniels (Georgetown University)
Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall
April 24, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Paul Lerner (USC)
Making Immigrant Knowledge from Collective Memories: Watching the Process Unfold in Spain
April 20, 2018
Lecture at GHI West, University of California Berkeley, Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall)
Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
Mondrian's Dress: Copying (and) the Couture Copy
April 19, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Nancy Troy (Stanford University)
Post-Nazi Germany and the Myth of American Influence
April 17, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Noah B. Strote (North Carolina State University)
Karl Marx and the History of Capitalism
April 12, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (WZB/Berlin Social Science Center)
War in the Nazi Imagination
April 11, 2018
Lecture at Georgetown University, Healy Hall 104
Richard Evans (University of Cambridge)
Trust as Violence: The Politics of Film and the Militarization of Male Sexuality in National Socialism
March 22, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Anja Laukötter (Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin)
Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19
March 22, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg)
Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape
March 13, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)
The End of Gold? Monetary Metals Studied at the Planetary and Human Scale During the Classical Gold Standard Era
March 06, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Andrea Westermann, GHI West Research Fellow and Head of Office
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America
March 01, 2018
Lecture at the GHI
Speaker: Lizabeth Coehen (Harvard University)
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
February 21, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Albert Manke (GHI West Tandem Fellow; Senior researcher at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University)
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
February 20, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization
February 01, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall)
Speaker: Hélène Yèche (University of Poitiers)
Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?
January 25, 2018
Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Céline Teney, University of Bremen
Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the GHI convener.
Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
November 20 - 21, 2018
Conference at the WZB
Convener: Andreas Eckert (HU Berlin), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Franz Waldenberger (DIJ Tokyo)
Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis
October 25 - 27, 2018
International Workshop and Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington
Conveners: Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), and Katherine McDonough (Stanford)
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West: “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives”
October 17 - 20, 2018
Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI West (Berkeley)
Convener: Andrea Westermann (GHI West)
Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900
October 08 - 10, 2018
Conference at GHI Washington
Conveners: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Kerstin von der Krone (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)
Defining Black European History
June 22 - 23, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Jeff Bowersox (University College London), Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico), Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington), and Kira Thurman (University of Michigan)
Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolutions (ca. 1750-1830)
June 22 - 23, 2018
Workshop at Re:work International Research Center, Berlin
Conveners: Linda Colley (Princeton University) and Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington)
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
June 14 - 15, 2018
Second Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Conveners: Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington) and Hansjakob Ziemer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge
June 06 - 10, 2018
Conference at Princeton University
Angela Creager (Princeton University), Mathias Grote (Humboldt University Berlin), Elaine Leong (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin), Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington)
24th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
May 30 - June 03, 2018
Seminar at GHI West, Berkeley, CA
Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)
Transoceanic American Studies
May 17 - 18, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Juliane Braun (University of Bonn/GHI Washington); Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University/GHI Washington)
Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History
May 11, 2018
Conference at the GHI London
Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St. Andrews), Katherine Hill (Birkbeck, University of London), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Alison Rowlands (University of Essex), and Hannes Ziegler (GHI London)
Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
May 02 - 03, 2018
Conference at the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
Conveners: Stephanie Zloch (Georg-Eckert-Institut Braunschweig), Dagmar Ellerbrock (TU Dresden), Simone Lässig (Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington DC), Swen Steinberg (TU Dresden)
Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces
April 20 - 21, 2018
Workshop at GHI West, UC Berkeley
Convener: GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture
April 16 - 17, 2018
Conference at The Wende Museum at The Armory, Culver City, California and the University of Southern California (USC)
Co-sponsored by GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of German Historical Institute Washington DC, and organized by The Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (USC) and The Wende Museum
Marx at 200: A Symposium
April 12, 2018
Sympoisum at the GHI
Conveners: Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania), James Brophy (University of Delaware), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)
Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies
March 22 - 24, 2018
2018 Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation at the GHI
Conveners: Max Weber Foundation, German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington DC, American Historical Association (AHA) with the National History Center (NCH), German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, VHD)
West Coast Germanists' Workshop
March 17 - 18, 2018
Conference at UC Davis
Conveners: Frank Biess (UC San Diego), Edward Ross Dickinson (UC Davis) Paul Lerner (USC) Ulli Strasser (UC San Diego), Andrea Westermann (GHI-West)
Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms
March 01 - 02, 2018
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (University of Kassel/GHI Washington) and Bryant Simon (Temple University/GHI Washington)
Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
February 22 - 24, 2018
Conference at the GHI
Conveners: Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Moritz Föllmer (University of Amsterdam), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)
In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond
February 14 - 16, 2018
Conference in Kolkata, India
Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington), and Indra Sengupta (GHI London)
Rewriting 19th Century Central European History
January 05 - 06, 2018
Panel Series at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Conveners: GHI Washington and the Central European History Society
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
December 12, 2018
- 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
December 06, 2018
- 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
November 28, 2018
- 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
November 15, 2018
- 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
November 14, 2018
- Sünne Juterczenka (University of Göttingen/GHI Washington)
Encounters in Eden? Missions, Philanthropy, and Protestant Dissent in Eighteenth-Century North America
Research Seminar
October 24, 2018
- Jenna Gibbs (Florida Int. University/GHI Washington)
The Global Latrobe Family: Evangelicalism, Slavery, and Empire
GHI Colloquium
October 18, 2018
- 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
October 04, 2018
- 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
September 26, 2018
- Prakash Kumar (Pennsylvania State University/GHI Washington)
The Contested Legacy of Modernity and Modernization in Developing India
Research Seminar
June 13, 2018
- 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
June 07, 2018
- 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
May 30, 2018
- Sören Urbansky (GHI Washington)
Same but Different: Sinophobia in Vladivostok, San Francisco and Singapore
Research Seminar
May 16, 2018
- Philipp Nielsen (Sarah Lawrence College)
Building Democracy: Emotions, Architecture and Politics in Post-War Germany
GHI Colloquium
May 03, 2018
- 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
April 25, 2018
- Daniel Jütte (New York University)
The Thirty Years' War at 400: A New Window on the Prague Defenestration (1618)
Research Seminar
April 11, 2018
- ***Canceled
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Challenging Knowledge: American Debates about Adult Stem Cells, 1998-2006
GHI Colloquium
March 08, 2018
- 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
February 21, 2018
- 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
February 07, 2018
- Luca Scholz (Stanford University)
Movement and the Geography of the State in the Old Reich
Research Seminar
January 24, 2018
- Juliane Braun (Universität Bonn)
Translating the Pacific: Imperial Imaginations, Nature Writing, and Early Modern Print Cultures
GHI Colloquium
January 18, 2018
- 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
January 10, 2018
- 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)