Events & Conferences

The GHI organizes international scholarly conferences on a wide variety of historical topics in cooperation with historians at North American and German universities. The Institute also organizes public programs and lectures throughout the year featuring renowned German and North American scholars who present their research to a wider public in both the greater Washington area as well as in the San Francisco Bay area through our Pacific Regional Office. Past events that were recorded are made available as videos.

All lectures are open to the public unless otherwise noted. Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the responsible GHI staff member. Please see our list of all current calls for papers for opportunities to present at GHI conferences and workshops.

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European History after the Global Turn

Keynote Lecture (Virtual/Zoom) | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin)

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Nov 18, 1987

Official Opening of the German Historical Institute

1st Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Heinrich August Winkler (University of Freiburg) & Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University)

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Mar 23, 1988

Consequences of the Increase in Life Expectancy during the Last Three Centuries

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Arthur E. Imhof (Free University of Berlin) | Spring Lecture Series 1988

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Apr 02, 1988

The Legacy of National Socialism and the Formation of Political Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: M. Rainer Lepsius (University of Heidelberg) | Spring Lecture Series 1988

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Apr 05, 1988

Constancy and Change in Gender Relations in Germany, 1880-1930

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ute Frevert (University of Bielefeld) | Spring Lecture Series 1988

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May 11, 1988

Thoughts on Representation in the Old and New World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hermann Wellenreuther (University of Göttingen) | Spring Lecture Series 1988

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Jun 01, 1988

The Berlin Blockade - Forty Years Later

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (University of Marburg) | Spring Lecture Series 1988

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Sep 02, 1988

Theodor Heuss and the Origins of the Federal Republic, 1945-1949

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen C. Heß (Free University of Amsterdam) | Fall Lecture Series 1988

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Oct 11, 1988

Burdens and Opportunities: The Importance of German History for the Political Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (University of Bielefeld) | Fall Lecture Series 1988

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Oct 14, 1988

Landmarks of Ideological Change: The Case of Social Democracy in Europe

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Susanne Miller (University of Bonn) | Fall Lecture Series 1988

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Oct 27, 1988

The Directed Pogrom: Intimidation and Terror in Germany in November 1938

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hans Mommsen (University of Bochum) | Fall Lecture Series 1988

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Nov 16, 1988

Culture versus Biology in the Thought of Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber

2nd Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Carl N. Degler (Stanford University); Commentators: Barbara Duden, Pennsylvania State University; Marshall Hyatt, Wesleyan University

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Dec 01, 1988 - Dec 03, 1988

German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States, 1933-1970

Event at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; James J. Sheehan, Stanford University

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Dec 14, 1988

Jewish Self-Emancipation during the Progressive Era - An Approach in the Sociology of Religion

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Karlheinz Schneider (Brandeis University) | Fall Lecture Series 1988

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Feb 09, 1989

Germany and America - The Industrial Connection, 1918-1970

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Volker R. Berghahn (Brown University)

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Mar 02, 1989

Profession as Vocation: The Plan of Bureaucracy in Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jane Caplan (Bryn Mawr College) | Spring Lecture Series 1989

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Mar 16, 1989

The Meaning of Conversion in the German-Jewish Past

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Deborah Hertz (SUNY at Binghamton) | Spring Lecture Series 1989

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Apr 06, 1989 - Apr 09, 1989

A Framework for Democracy: Forty Years of Experience with the Grundgesetz of the Federal Republic of Germany

Conference at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Conveners: Thomas Childers, University of Pennsylvania; Peter Krüger, University of Marburg

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Apr 14, 1989

Sammlungspolitik Revisited: Conservatism, Popular Politics, and the German Right, 1860-1933

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Geoffrey Eley (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) | Spring Lecture Series 1989

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Apr 25, 1989

Catholicism and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany and America

Event at the GHI | Presenters: Ellen L. Evans, Georgia State University; Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI

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May 09, 1989

Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Society

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mack Walker (Johns Hopkins University) | Spring Lecture Series 1989

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Jun 01, 1989

The Salzburg Protestant Exiles

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: R. Po-chia Hsia (University of Massachusetts) | Spring Lecture Series 1989

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Jun 14, 1989 - Jun 17, 1989

Genoa/Rapallo and the Reconstruction of Europe

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Carole Fink, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Axel Frohn, GHI; Jürgen Heideking, GHI

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Sep 14, 1989

After the Atlantic Divide: Toward Postmodern Theories of Germany in the United States and the Federal Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Geyer (University of Chicago) | Fall Lecture Series 1989

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Sep 26, 1989 - Sep 28, 1989

American Policy toward Germany, 1949-1955

Conference at Marburg | Conveners: Jeffry M. Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire; Hermann-Josef Rupieper, University of Marburg

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Sep 28, 1989 - Oct 01, 1989

Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America

Conference at New Harmony, Indiana | Conveners: Antonius Holtmann, University of Oldenburg; Jörg Nagler, GHI; Ruth Reichmann, Indiana University

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Sep 29, 1989 - Oct 01, 1989

Women in Postwar Germany: Culture, Society, and Politics

Conference at Raleigh, North Carolina | Conveners: Christiane Lemke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Hanna Schissler, GHI

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Oct 12, 1989

Gender and Jewish History in Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Marion Kaplan (Queens College at CUNY)

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Oct 27, 1989 - Oct 29, 1989

1949-1989: The Federal Republic of Germany as History

Conference at Cambridge, Massachusetts | Conveners: Guido Goldman, Harvard University; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

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Nov 01, 1989

Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer

3rd Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Kathleen Neils Conzen (University of Chicago); Commentators: Mack Walker, Johns Hopkins University; Jörg Nagler, GHI

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Nov 16, 1989

The Political Mobilization of Women in the Weimar Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas Childers (University of Pennsylvania) | Fall Lecture Series 1989

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Nov 30, 1989

The Retreat of the State from the Regulation of Sexual Behavior in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Creating the Private Sphere

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Isabel V. Hull (Cornell University) | Fall Lecture Series 1989

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Dec 07, 1989

Ennobling Culture: "Good Taste" and "Good Morals" in Germany and the United States in the 1920s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hannover) | Fall Lecture Series 1989

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Dec 14, 1989

Between Town and Countryside: The Common People and the German Reformation

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas A. Brady Jr. (University of Oregon) | Fall Lecture Series 1989

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Jan 31, 1990

Collaborators or Victims: Women in the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Claudia Koonz, Duke University | Spring Lecture Series 1990

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Feb 14, 1990

From Trümmerfrauen to Hausfrauen: West German Women, 1945-1955

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Rebecca L. Boehling, University of Maryland | Spring Lecture Series 1990

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Mar 16, 1990 - Mar 18, 1990

Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s through the 1950s

Conference at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia | Conveners: James Van Horn Melton, Emory University; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI.

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Mar 21, 1990

The Image of America: Migrants' Hopes and Expectations

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Dirk Hoerder, University of Bremen | Spring Lecture Series 1990

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Apr 20, 1990 - Apr 22, 1990

Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Germany, 1890-1933: New Perspectives

Conference at Toronto, Canada | Conveners: Larry E. Jones, Canisius College; James Retallack, University of Toronto

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Apr 24, 1990

"Immorality" and Social Order in Germany after the First World War

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Bessel, Open University | Spring Lecture Series 1990

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May 03, 1990 - May 05, 1990

Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' Reconsidered

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Günther Roth, Columbia University

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Jun 05, 1990 - Jul 06, 1990

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1990

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Catherine Epstein, GHI; Kenneth F. Ledford, GHI

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Jun 05, 1990

Liberalism and Culture in Pre-1848 Berlin

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jonathan B. Knudsen, Wellesley College | Spring Lecture Series 1990

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Jul 27, 1990

Die Berlinfrage nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Uta Nitschke-Stumpf (Free University of Berlin)

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Sep 07, 1990

Die Bedeutung des 'Justice for Greece Committee' für die griechisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen zwischen 1945 und 1949

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Peter Zervakis (University of Hamburg)

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Sep 12, 1990 - Sep 15, 1990

German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

Conference at Madison, Wisconsin | Conveners: Charlotte L. Brancaforte, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Jürgen Heideking, GHI; Jürgen Herbst, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Rudolf Vierhaus, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen

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Sep 20, 1990

The Quest for an Iconography of Revolution: Politically Engaged Artists in the Weimar Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Vernon L. Lidtke, Johns Hopkins University | Fall Lecture Series 1990

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Sep 25, 1990 - Sep 30, 1990

The Reformation in Germany and Europe: Interpretations and Issues

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Scott Hendrix, Society for Reformation Research; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Heinz Schilling, Society for the History of the Reformation

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Sep 28, 1990

Henry Morgenthau Jr. in der Administration Franklin D. Roosevelts

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Kornelia Pfeiffer (University of Tübingen)

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Oct 02, 1990

The Liberal Power Monopoly in Imperial Germany's Cities

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Harmut Pogge von Strandmann, University College Oxford | Fall Lecture Series 1990

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Oct 10, 1990

Das Nachkriegsdeutschland im Spiegel amerikanischer Romane der Besatzungszeit, 1945-1955

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Martin Meyer (University of Kassel)

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Oct 25, 1990

Challenges of Ambiguity: Doing Comparative History

4th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Erich Angermann, University of Cologne; Commentators: Carl N. Degler, Stanford University; John A. Garraty, Columbia University

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Oct 29, 1990

Von Anatevka nach Amerika: Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Auswanderung nach Amerika, 1881-1914

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Karin Schulz (Free University of Berlin)

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Nov 05, 1990

W. E. B. DuBois in Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David Levering Lewis, Rutgers University | Fall Lecture Series 1990

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Dec 07, 1990

Corporatism and Countrywomen: The German Federation of Agricultural Housewifes' Associations

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College at CUNY | Fall Lecture Series 1990

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Dec 13, 1990

Hitler and Genghis Khan

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Breitman, American University | Fall Lecture Series 1990

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Jan 28, 1991

Hannah Arendt im Judentum, Judentum in Hannah Arendt

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Iris Pilling (Technical University of Darmstadt)

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Feb 07, 1991

The Nazi Stammtisch: Sociable Tradition and Political Mobilization in the Weimar Era

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Roger Chickering, University of Oregon | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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Feb 19, 1991

Petitions, Politics, and the People: Revolution in Bavaria in 1849

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: James F. Harris, University of Maryland at College Park | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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Mar 12, 1991

Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority: Weapons Procurement and the German War Economy, 1939-1943

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael J. Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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Mar 13, 1991

Populärer Militarismus in Demokratie und Monarchie. Konzept zu einem Vergleich der amerikanischen Veteranenvereine und der deutschen Kriegervereine, 1866-1917

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Michael Siedenhans (University of Bielefeld)

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Mar 15, 1991

Holocaust and Shilumim: The Policy of Wiedergutmachung in the Early 1950

Event at the Columbia University | Convener: Axel Frohn, GHI

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Mar 21, 1991

The U.S. and Germany's Integration into the West, 1947-1957

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Klaus Schwabe (Technical University of Aachen). | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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Apr 09, 1991

America, Ford, and the German Economy in the 1920s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mary Nolan, New York University | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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Apr 16, 1991

Helmuth von Moltke and the Theory of Deterrence: The End of a Military Tradition?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Detlef Bald, Social Science Institute of the German Armed Forces Munich | Spring Lecture Series 1991

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May 09, 1991 - May 11, 1991

In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany

Conference at the University of California at Los Angeles | Conveners: John Brewer, University of California at Los Angeles; R. Po-chia Hsia, New York University; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI

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May 23, 1991

Auswanderung deutscher Dienstmädchen in die Vereinigten Staaten, 1870-1920

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Silke Wehner (-Franco) (University of Münster)

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May 23, 1991

Die USA und die Entflechtung des Ruhrkohlenbergbaus, 1947-1954

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Albert Diegman (Technical University of Aachen)

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May 28, 1991

German-American-Jewish Themes: The End of the German Democratic Republic and the "Jewish Connection"

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Wolffsohn (University of Munich)

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Jun 02, 1991 - Jul 03, 1991

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1991

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, GHI; Carola Wessel, GHI

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Jun 05, 1991

Die amerikanische Legation in Riga und die Sowjetunion, 1917-1940

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Claudia Breuer (University of Cologne)

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Jun 13, 1991 - Jun 16, 1991

Chosen People: Themes in Western Nationalist Movements, 1880-1920

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: William R. Hutchinson, Harvard Divinity School; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI

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Jul 29, 1991

Arbeit und gewerkschaftliche Organisation der Frauen in San Francisco, 1850-1900

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Britta Fees (University of Cologne)

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Aug 15, 1991 - Aug 18, 1991

Continental European Migration and Transcontinental Migration to North America

Conference at Bremerhaven | Conveners: Dirk Hoerder, University of Bremen; Jörg Nagler, GHI

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Sep 11, 1991 - Sep 13, 1991

The Influence of German Emigrants on American Political Thought after World War II: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss

Conference at Boulder, Colorado, | Conveners: Peter Graf Kielmansegg, University of Mannheim; Horst Mewes, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Sep 26, 1991

The German State as Institution: Citizens Challenge Civil Servants

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gregg O. Kvistad, University of Denver | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Sep 27, 1991

Die Oregonfrage, 1814-1848

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Johannes Eue (University of Cologne)

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Oct 11, 1991

The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, in Historical Perspective

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sir Michael Howard, Yale University | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Oct 17, 1991

Waste and Want: The Other Side of Consumption

5th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Susan Strasser, George Washington University; Commentators: Gunther Barth, University of California at Berkeley; Wolfganz Erz, University of Wuppertal.

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Oct 21, 1991

1871 versus 1789: German Historians and the Ideological Foundations of Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Horst Dippel, University of Kassel | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Nov 14, 1991

Die Eisenhower-Administration und die zweite Berlin-Krise, 1958-1960

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Christian Bremen (Technical University of Aachen)

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Nov 14, 1991

Painting and Politics in Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Marion F. Deshmukh, George Mason University | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Nov 19, 1991

Der erste Industrieplan im Zusammenhang der alliierten Nachkriegspolitik

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Wilfried Mausbach (University of Cologne)

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Nov 19, 1991

Flagging Texts: Ritual Gesture in Early Modern Bureaucratic Prose

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David W. Sabean, Cornell University | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Nov 25, 1991 - Nov 27, 1991

Women in the Emigration after 1933

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Renate Bridenthal, City University of New York; Marion Kaplan, City University of New York; Sibylle Quack, GHI

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Dec 03, 1991

Ideology and Contingency: Violence and Terror in the Epochs of the French and Russian Revolutions

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Arno J. Mayer, Princeton University | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Dec 13, 1991

The Future of American History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: John Higham, Johns Hopkins University | Fall Lecture Series 1991

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Jan 30, 1992

Deutsch-amerikanische Kulturpolitik: Amerikahäuser, 1945-1955.

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Marita Hein (University of Trier)

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Feb 06, 1992

The Great Disorder: Hyperinflation, Culture, and Society in Germany, 1922-1923

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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Mar 26, 1992

German-Americans and the Many Meanings of Freedom, 1840-1870

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bruce C. Levine, University of Cincinnati | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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Mar 30, 1992

Immigrant History by Those Who Made It: German-American Letters, 1830-1930

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Wolfgang J. Helbich, University of Bochum; Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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Apr 01, 1992 - Apr 04, 1992

On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Stig Förster, GHI; Jörg Nagler, GHI

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May 04, 1992

CDU Deutschlandpolitik and Reunification, 1985-1989

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Clayton M. Clemens (College of William and Mary)

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May 06, 1992

John Maynard Keynes, Carl Melchior, and the Sexual Politics of Reparations

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Stephen A. Schuker, University of Virginia | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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May 08, 1992

Culture and Politics in Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Event at the GHI | Convener: Hartmut Lehmann, GHI

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May 13, 1992

The Double Legacy of German and South-African Colonialism in Namibia

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Susanne Riveles, Amnesty International USA | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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May 21, 1992

The Culture of Precision in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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Jun 01, 1992 - Jul 02, 1992

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1992

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Ulrike Skorsetz, GHI; Daniel S. Mattern, GHI

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Jun 06, 1992

Four Hundred Years of Imprisonment: What Should Historians Make of It?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam | Spring Lecture Series 1992

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Jun 06, 1992 - Jul 09, 1992

The Prerogative of Confinement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Administrative Aspects of the History of Hospitals and Carceral and Penal Institutions in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1900

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Norbert Finzsch, GHI; Robert Jütte, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart

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Jun 17, 1992 - Jun 20, 1992

Mutual Influences on Education: Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Conference at Tübingen | Conveners: Jürgen Heideking, University of Tübingen; Jürgen Herbst, University of Wisconsin

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Jul 13, 1992

Die amerikanische Japanpolitik, 1931-1936

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Jens Fügener (University of Jena)

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Jul 31, 1992

Die Westalliierten und das Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, 1941-1949

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Heike Bungert (University of Tübingen)

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Sep 30, 1992

The Bayer AG, Leverkusen, and the American Market, 1860-1918

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Thomas Reimer (Syracuse University)

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Oct 12, 1992

Die deutsch-amerikanischen Finanzbeziehungen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg unter dem Eindruck der Geldkrise von 1907

Fellows Semianr at the GHI | Claudia Langen (University of Munich)

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Oct 12, 1992

Geschichte der Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland und Amerika

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Andreas W. Daum (University of Munich)

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Oct 12, 1992

Reparationen und deutsche Einheit - Clay, Sokolowski und der Kompromißvorschlag von 1946

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Christiane Winkel (Free University of Berlin)

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Oct 15, 1992

The Sense of Doom in Reformation Germany: Suicide and the Formation of a Sociological Stereotype

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Oct 22, 1992

Das Amerikabild in der Frankfurter Zeitung und das Deutschlandbild in der New York Times von 1918 bis 1933

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Cay Rademacher (University of Cologne)

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Oct 27, 1992

Fear and Strength: Dean Acheson and the Cold War

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert L. Beisner, American University | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Oct 28, 1992 - Oct 31, 1992

Peopling the New World: The Transfer of Ideas, Customs, and Social Institutions from Central Europe to the Middle Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Conference at the University Park, Pennsylvania | Conveners: John B. Frantz, Pennsylvania State University; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Carola Wessel, GHI

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Nov 02, 1992

Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest: Electoral Politics in Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Margaret L. Anderson, University of California at Berkeley | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Nov 10, 1992

1st Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of History

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Vernon Lidtke (Friends of the GHI), Hartmut Lehmann (GHI), Moderator: Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania)

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Nov 10, 1992

People on the Move: Migration, Acculturation, and Ethnic Interaction in Europe and North America

6th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Dirk Hoerder, University of Bremen; Commentators: Donna R. Gabaccia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James O. Horton, George Washington University

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Nov 12, 1992

The Habsburg Legacy: Dream and Reality

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Solomon Wank, Franklin and Marshall College | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Dec 01, 1992

Die Durchführung des Marshallplans in Deutschland: Der Wiederaufbau der Elektro- und Schiffbauindustrie

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Henry Wend (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

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Dec 07, 1992

Sex Education in Germany from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Dec 14, 1992

Friedrich List: The National Political Economy Revisited

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: David Calleo, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University | Fall Lecture Series 1992

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Dec 18, 1992

Begriffsgeschichte

Event at the GHI

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Jan 27, 1993

German Big Business and the Persecution of the Jews

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Hayes, Northwestern University | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Feb 05, 1993

The Growth of Aggressive Nationalism: Foreigners and Anti-Foreigner Attitudes in Germany

Event at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Keil, GHI; Dietmar Schirmer, GHI

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Feb 16, 1993

The Euphoria of Victory and the Path to Genocide: Hitler and the Final Solution

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Christopher R. Browning, Pacific Lutheran University | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Mar 02, 1993

Christianity, Anti-Semitism, and the Quest for Manly Religion in the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Doris L. Bergen, University of Vermont | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Mar 10, 1993

Sex Reform and Social Medicine from Weimar to National Socialism: The Problem of Continuity

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Atina Grossmann, Columbia University | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Mar 25, 1993

Lyric Nazism: Heroic Imagery in the Literature of the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jay W. Baird, Miami University Ohio | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Apr 15, 1993 - Apr 17, 1993

Mutual Images and Multiple Implications: American Views of Germany and German Views of America from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Conference at Kalamazoo, Michigan | Conveners: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College; Elisabeth Glaser (-Schmidt), GHI

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Apr 22, 1993

German Plans for Victory, 1944-1945

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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May 05, 1993

The Spirit of Heidelberg and the Future of Germany in 1945

Conference at Heidelberg | Conveners: Jürgen C. Hess, Free University of Amsterdam; Detlef Junker, University of Heidelberg; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Volker Sellin, University of Heidelberg; Eike Wolgast, University of Heidelberg

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May 06, 1993

Einwanderung und Ansiedlung von Juden aus Osteuropa nach bzw. in Sachsen, 1880-1933

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Solvejg Höppner (University of Leipzig)

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May 09, 1993 - May 11, 1993

German Medieval History in Comparative Perspective

Conference at the University of Notre Dame | Conveners: Robert Benson, University of California at Los Angeles; Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt; John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame

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May 25, 1993

Alamancilar (Deutsch-Türken) und Chicanos. Eine vergleichende Studie zur Akkulturation von mexikanischen Arbeitsmigranten in den USA und türkischen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Manfred Neumann (University of Bremen)

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May 27, 1993

Ideals and Interests in Recent German Foreign Policy

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ludger Kühnhardt, University of Freiburg

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Jun 02, 1993

Beyond Luther? Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Resistance against National Socialism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Klemens von Klemperer, Smith College | Spring Lecture Series 1993

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Jul 18, 1993 - Aug 11, 1993

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1993

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, GHI; Daniel S. Mattern, GHI; Carola Wessel, GHI

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Jul 19, 1993

War Powers Resolution - Aspekte einer Demokratie

Fellows Seminar at the GHI | Ulrike Weissenberger (University of Mannheim)

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Sep 15, 1993

What Do We Want for Our Daughters?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Sep 16, 1993 - Sep 18, 1993

Allied Technology Transfer from Germany after 1945 or 'Intellectual Reparations

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Volker R. Berghahn, Brown University; Matthias Judt, GHI

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Sep 29, 1993

Gender, Breadwinning, and Consumption in Working-Class Marriages, 1919-1941

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Susan Porter Benson, University of Connecticut | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Oct 12, 1993

The Nuclear Family: Gendered Discourses in the Western Alliance

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank C. Costigliola, University of Rhode Island | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Oct 20, 1993 - Oct 21, 1993

Facing America

Event at the GHI

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Oct 28, 1993

Women Silk Workers Reconstruct Their Lives: An Exercise in Memory and Oral History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas Dublin, SUNY at Binghamton | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Nov 02, 1993

The East German State Security: Its History and Its Sources

Event at the GHI

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Nov 11, 1993

"Designing Women and Old Fools": Gender in Social Policy in the 1930s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Nov 15, 1993

Constitutional Democracy in Central Europe Today: Some Negative Lessons from the U.S. Experience

7th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies

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Nov 15, 1993

2nd Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: The Consequences of German Unification for the Writing of German History

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Vernon Lidtke (FGHI), Hartmut Keil (GHI), Moderator: James Harris (University of Maryland)

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Nov 22, 1993

Contesting the New South: The Politics and Culture of Wage Household Labor in Atlanta, 1861-1920

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Tera W. Hunter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Dec 01, 1993 - Dec 04, 1993

Medicine in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany: Ethics, Politics, and Law

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Manfred Berg, GHI; Michael H. Kater, York University; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI

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Dec 08, 1993

Immigrant Women Today: Are They Different?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Donna R. Gabaccia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Fall Lecture Series 1993

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Dec 15, 1993

Vision und Wirklichkeit in Chicago: Die World's Columbian Exposition von 1893 als kulturelles Symbol und Vorgriff auf das amerikanische Jahrhundert

Fellows seminar at the GHI | Mathias Eberenz (University of Hamburg)

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Jan 19, 1994

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 03, 1994

Multiculturalism and Modernity: Reflections on the Place of Kultur in the Tradition of German Nationalism, 1870-1914

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Helmut Smith, Vanderbilt University | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Mar 09, 1994

What Happened to American Individualism? The Ideological Crisis of the Gilded Age and Its Consequences for the Twentieth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Olivier Zunz, University of Virginia | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Mar 16, 1994

Social Reform and Sexual Politics: The Making of the Social Welfare State in Germany After 1871

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Apr 06, 1994 - Apr 07, 1994

Culture, Knowledge, and Healing: Historical Perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in Europe and North America

Conference in San Francisco, California | Conveners: Robert Jütte, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart; Guenter B. Risse, University of California at San Francisco

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Apr 07, 1994

Gender and the Development of the American Welfare State in the Progressive Era: Maternalism Reconsidered

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sonya A. Michel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Apr 28, 1994 - May 01, 1994

Germany and Versailles Seventy-Five Years After

Conference in Berkeley, California | Conveners: Manfred F. Bömeke, GHI; Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley; Elisabeth Glaser(-Schmidt), GHI

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May 03, 1994

Government Policy and the Organization of Enterprise in Germany and the United States, 1870-1914

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Naomi Lamoreaux, Brown University | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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May 09, 1994

The Imperial German Economy in Comparative Perspective

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kenneth D. Barkin, University of California at Riverside | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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May 17, 1994

Reclaiming the Reputation of the Gilded Age and Progressive City: American Urbanization, 1865-1920

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Roger Lotchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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May 25, 1994

The Bourgeois City within the Age of German Urbanization

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Brian Ladd, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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May 31, 1994

East German Communists and the Jewish Question: The Case of Paul Merker

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jeffrey Herf, University of Freiburg

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Jun 06, 1994 - Jun 29, 1994

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1994

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Peter Becker, GHI; Daniel S. Mattern, GHI; Janine Micunek, GHI

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Jun 08, 1994 - Jun 11, 1994

Xenophobia, Racism, Nativism, and National Identity in Germany and the United States: A Comparative Perspective on the Conditions of Intolerance

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Norbert Finzsch, GHI; Dietmar Schirmer, GHI

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Jun 14, 1994

GHI Research Seminar


Jul 18, 1994

GHI Research Seminar


Jul 25, 1994

GHI Research Seminar


Jul 27, 1994 - Jul 29, 1994

Anticipating Total War? The United States and Germany, 1871-1914

Conference in Augsburg | Conveners: Josef Becker, University of Augsburg; Manfred F. Bömeke, GHI; Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern

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Sep 07, 1994

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 21, 1994 - Sep 24, 1994

Race and Ethnicity: Relations between African Americans and Ethnic Groups in American Society

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College Park; Spencer R. Crew, Smithsonian Institution; James O. Horton, George Washington University; Hartmut Keil, GHI; Elizabeth A. White, Yale University

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Oct 05, 1994

George McGovern and Food for Peace

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas J. Knock, Southern Methodist University | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Oct 20, 1994

Some Thoughts on Crime and Punishment in American History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford University | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Oct 31, 1994

Producing a Consumer Culture: Women in the American Beauty Industry

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Nov 09, 1994

Women Forgotten: Homelessness in the Great Depression

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elaine S. Abelson, New School for Social Research | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Nov 17, 1994

3rd Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: Archives and Historical Research: The Crucial Partnership

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Vernon Lidtke (FGHI), Detlef Junker (GHI), Moderators: Geoffrey Giles (University of Florida), Rebecca Boehling (University of Maryland)

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Nov 17, 1994

United Germany: Nation-Building and Social Integration

8th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: M. Rainer Lepsius, University of Heidelberg; Commentators: Seymour Martin Lipset, George Mason University; Steven Kalberg, Boston University

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Nov 29, 1994

Free Markets and the Law of Essential Value

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael O'Malley, George Mason University | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Dec 15, 1994

When the Other Half Dressed Up: The Meanings of Working-Class Dandyism in Antebellum America

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jonathan Prude, Emory University | Lecture Series: New Work in American History

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Jan 12, 1995

GHI Research Seminar


Feb 10, 1995

The Americanization of Germany: Historical Processes and Contemporary Consequences

Event at the GHI

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Feb 16, 1995

West German Reflections on Women and the Nazi Era

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elizabeth D. Heineman, Bowling Green State University | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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Feb 27, 1995

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 06, 1995

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 09, 1995

What Was the German Problem?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank Ninkovich, St. John's University | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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Mar 22, 1995 - Mar 25, 1995

National Interest and European Order: Germany's Role in Europe since the Interwar Period

Conference in Mannheim | Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Gottfried Niedhart, University of Mannheim; Michael W. Richter, University of Mannheim

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Mar 22, 1995

Ruins, Reconstruction, and Remembrance

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jeffry M. Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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Apr 05, 1995 - Apr 07, 1995

1945 in Europe and Asia: Reconsidering the End of World War II and the Change of the World Order

Conference in Berlin | Conveners: Gerhard Krebs, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo; Josef Kreiner, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

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Apr 06, 1995

Germans and Jews: Continuity and Change in Attitudes and Relationships over Five Decades

Event at the GHI

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Apr 20, 1995

The "German" in the German Democratic Republic: Soviet Interests and Weimar Legacies

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Eric Weitz, St. Olaf College | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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Apr 26, 1995 - Apr 29, 1995

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Age of Empire, 1850-1914

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Martin H. Geyer, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

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May 08, 1995

The Origins of the Cold War: New Light After 50 Years?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mark Trachtenberg, University of Pennsylvania | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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May 09, 1995

The American Occupation of Germany, 1944-1945

Event at the GHI

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May 16, 1995

A Twentieth Century Encounter: Germany and John J. McCloy

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Max Holland, Washington D.C. | Lecture Series: 50 Years Later: Historians View the Aftermath of World War II

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May 31, 1995

The Germans and the Nuclear Question

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Wolfgang Krieger, University of Munich

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Jun 05, 1995 - Jun 28, 1995

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1995

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, GHI

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Jun 08, 1995 - Jun 10, 1995

Transatlantic History and American Exceptionalism: A Symposium in Memory and in Honor of Erich Angermann

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Elisabeth Glaser(-Schmidt), GHI; Hermann Wellenreuther, University of Göttingen

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Jun 20, 1995

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 07, 1995

Loosing the Order of History: Some Aspects of Historical Studies in the Intersection of Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Discussion on Memory

Event at the GHI

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Sep 13, 1995

World War I, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Young-Su Hong, SUNY at Stony Brook | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Sep 14, 1995

Political Myth, Symbolic Politics, and the Shaping of German Collective Identity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Case of 'Herman the German'

Event at the GHI

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Sep 26, 1995

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 28, 1995

Florence Kelley, German Political Culture, and Social Welfare, 1880-1930

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Katheryn Kish Sklar, SUNY at Binghamton | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Oct 11, 1995

The History of Social Welfare in America: A Comparative Analysis

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Edward D. Berkowitz, George Washington University | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Oct 19, 1995 - Oct 21, 1995

The Development of Twentieth-Century Consumer Society

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Matthias Judt, GHI; Charles McGovern, Smithsonian Institution; Susan Strasser, GHI

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Oct 26, 1995

The Meaning of Welfare in the Weimar Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David F. Crew, University of Texas | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Nov 02, 1995

German Atrocities' in 1914: Fact, Fantasy, or Fabrication?

Washington

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Nov 08, 1995

Reflections on a Spittoon: German and French Approaches to Welfare Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Allan Mitchell, University of California at San Diego | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Nov 16, 1995

The German Middle Ages in America

9th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Patrick J. Geary, University of California at Los Angeles; Commentator: Otto Gerhard Oexle, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen

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Nov 17, 1995

4th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: ‘Stunde Null’: The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Geoffrey Giles (FGHI), Detlef Junker (GHI), Moderators: Gerald R. Kleinfeld (Arizona State University), Don Heinrich Tolzmann (University of Cincinnati), Jay Baird (Miami University)

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Dec 07, 1995

The Postwar German Welfare State: Between Restoration and Reform

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Baldwin, University of California at Los Angeles | Lecture Series: The German Welfare State in International Perspective

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Mar 21, 1996

World War I, German-Americans, and the Perils of Pluralism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Apr 17, 1996 - Apr 20, 1996

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Age of Two World Wars, 1914-1945

Conference in Bochum | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Martin H. Geyer (GHI)

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Apr 17, 1996

Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Weimar Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mary Nolan, New York University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Apr 24, 1996

Two Americans Confront Germany, 1918-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry R. Luce

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Apr 26, 1996

Fritz Stern: An Appreciation

Event at the GHI

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May 09, 1996

"Damage Control": An Ambivalent German-American Disclosure about the Holocaust

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sybil Milton, U.S. Holocaust Research Institute, Washington D.C. | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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May 23, 1996 - May 25, 1996

1968: The World Transformed

Conference in Berlin | Conveners: Carole Fink, Ohio State University; Philipp Gassert, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

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May 30, 1996

A Tale of Two Crises: Berlin and the United States during the Cold War

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Jun 03, 1996

Workers' Resistance against the 'Third Reich'

Event at the GHI

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Jun 04, 1996

The Struggle for Germany and the Origins of the Cold War

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Melvyn P. Leffler (University of Virginia)

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Jun 12, 1996

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: Issues in Writing Contemporary History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Philip Zelikow, Harvard University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Jun 20, 1996

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 05, 1996 - Sep 07, 1996

Imagination, Ritual, Memory, Historiography: Conceptions of the Past in the Middle Ages

Conference in Heidelberg | Conveners: Gerd Althoff, University of Bonn; Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt; Patrick J. Geary, University of California at Los Angeles

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Sep 26, 1996

Citizens in Uniform: The Politics of West German Rearmament

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David Clay Large, Montana State University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Sep 30, 1996

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 03, 1996 - Oct 06, 1996

Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850

Conference in Madison, Wisconsin | Conveners: Peter Becker, GHI; Jürgen Heideking, University of Cologne; James A. Henretta, University of Maryland at College Park; John Kaminski, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Oct 09, 1996 - Oct 12, 1996

How Total Was the Great War? Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1914-1918

Conference in Münchenwiler | Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern.

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Oct 15, 1996

Psyche and Swastika: The Göring Institute In and Out of History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Geoffrey C. Cocks, Albion College | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Oct 24, 1996

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 24, 1996

The Soviet Occupation Administration in Germany, 1945-1949

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Nov 02, 1996

Constructions of Deviant Sexualities: Toward a Conceptualization of the Moral Order in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Event at the GHI

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Nov 07, 1996

German Artists between Dictatorship and Democracy, 1918-1990

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Nov 14, 1996

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 14, 1996

Was Hitler's Seizure of Power on January 30, 1933 Inevitable?

10th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Eberhard Kolb, University of Cologne; Commentator: Henry A. Turner Jr., Yale University

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Nov 15, 1996

5th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: The Culture of Historical Learning

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Geoffrey Giles (FGHI), Detlef Junker (GHI), Moderators: Gerald Feldman (University of California at Berkeley), Vernon L. Lidtke (Johns Hopkins University), LaVern Rippley (St. Olaf College)

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Nov 21, 1996

Prussia and Austria, 1780-1848: Episode or Model?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Paul W. Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Dec 05, 1996

The Weimar Analogy: The History and Political Myth of the Weimar Republic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Carole Fink, Ohio State University | Lecture Series: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century German-American History

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Dec 12, 1996 - Dec 15, 1996

The Mechanics of Internationalization: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to World War I

Conference in London | Conveners: Martin H. Geyer, GHI; Johannes Paulmann, GHI London

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Mar 13, 1997

The Military as a Theme in German History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Mar 20, 1997

"Total War": Use and Abuse of a Concept

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Apr 10, 1997

The Militarization of the Social Body in Germany during World War I

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elisabeth Domansky, Indiana University at Bloomington | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Apr 16, 1997 - Apr 19, 1997

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany Divided and United, 1945-1989

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Martin H. Geyer (GHI), Detlef Junker (GHI)

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Apr 22, 1997 - Apr 24, 1997

New Approaches to Migration Research: German-Americans in Comparative Perspective

Conference at the College Station, Texas | Conveners: Wolfgang J. Helbich, University of Bochum; Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University

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May 08, 1997

Religion, Americanization, and the Common Man

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Zöller (University of Bayreuth)

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May 15, 1997

Unexplored Questions About the German Military During World War II

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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May 22, 1997

Constitutive Moments of Transatlantic Relations, 1947-1952 and 1997-2002. The Marshall Plan at 50: Retrospective, Prospective

Event at the GHI

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May 28, 1997

Field Marshall and Beggar: The Artist Ernst Barlach in the First World War

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Paret, Princeton University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Jun 05, 1997

Traumatized Citizenship: How the West Germans Came to Love the Nuclear Bomb, 1949-1964

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Jun 11, 1997 - Jun 14, 1997

The Culture of Rights: Civil Rights, Participation Rights, and Social Rights in Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Manfred Berg, GHI; Martin H. Geyer, GHI

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Jun 22, 1997

Politics and Propaganda: New Approaches to German-American Relations, 1933-1945

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

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Jul 15, 1997

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 18, 1997 - Sep 20, 1997

Universities in Medieval Societies

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: William J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Jürgen Miethke, University of Heidelberg

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Sep 27, 1997

Politik, Gesellschaft und die Institutionalisierung von Geschichtswissenschaft: Deutschland und die USA im Vergleich

Panel at the 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

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Oct 02, 1997

Judging the Past: The Prosecution of GDR Border Guards and Officials

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter E. Quint, University of Maryland | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Oct 04, 1997 - Oct 05, 1997

Science and the Historical Discipline in a Transcultural Perspective, 1850-1950

Event at the GHI

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Oct 16, 1997

How Wilhelmine Germans Became Citizens of Weimar: Toward an Alternative Political History of World War I Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Oct 23, 1997

The Political Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century German Radicalism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Wende, GHI London | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Oct 31, 1997 - Nov 02, 1997

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

Conference in Monticello, Illinois | Conveners: Peter Krüger, University of Marburg; Paul W. Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Nov 05, 1997

Women, Communists, and Abortion in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1970

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Donna Harsch, Carnegie-Mellon University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Nov 06, 1997 - Nov 08, 1997

Atlantik Brücke/Deutsche Welle Media Conference

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Walther Leisler Kiep, Atlantik-Brücke

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Nov 13, 1997

The Protestant Reformation in German History

11th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Thomas A. Brady Jr., University of California at Berkeley; Commentator: Heinz Schilling, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Nov 14, 1997

6th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI: New Research Topics in German History

Presentation of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 1998 | Prize Winners: Paul Lerner (University of Southern California, USC) and Sandra Chaney (Erskine College)

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Nov 20, 1997

Two Dictatorships in Germany, 1933-1989: Problems and Possibilities of a Comparison

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Günther Heydemann, University of Leipzig | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Dec 04, 1997 - Dec 09, 1997

Remapping the German Past: Grand Narrative, Causality, and Postmodernism

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

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Dec 11, 1997

What Can Chancellor Kohl Learn from Bismarck? Monetary and Fiscal Aspects of Unification in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Harold James, Princeton University | Lecture Series: Military and Militarism in German Society

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Mar 26, 1998

Before and After Hitler: Democratic Traditions in German History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Fritz Stern, Columbia University | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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Mar 26, 1998

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 09, 1998 - Apr 12, 1998

The Genesis of Nazi Policy: Structure and Decision-Making Process: New Research on the National Socialist System of Rule

Conference in Gainesville, Florida | Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida; Eberhard Jäckel, University of Stuttgart

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Apr 16, 1998 - Apr 17, 1998

The International Financial System: Past and Present

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Free University of Berlin; Harold James, Princeton University

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Apr 19, 1998

Eating the Bread of Liberty: Ordinary Germans and the Impact of the French Revolution

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Celia Applegate, University of Rochester | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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Apr 22, 1998 - Apr 25, 1998

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Early Modern Era

Conference in Göttingen | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Andreas W. Daum (GHI), Hartmut Lehmann (Max Planck Institute for History)

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Apr 23, 1998

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 23, 1998

Nation, Citizen, Society: Reflections on the German Revolution of 1848 after 150 Years

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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May 12, 1998

Jews in the German Resistance

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Arnold Paucker, Leo Baeck Institute, London | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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May 14, 1998

Democractic Traditions in the Kaiserreich: The Problem of Continuities

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: James J. Sheehan, Stanford University | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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May 21, 1998

GHI Research Seminar


May 26, 1998

How I Became a German - Jurek Becker's Life in Five Worlds

Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sander L. Gilman (University of Chicago)

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May 27, 1998

A Challenge for the United States and Europe: The Vision of an Atlantic Civilization

Event at the GHI

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Jun 11, 1998

Visions of Democracy and Consumption: The East German Revolution of 1989

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington | Lecture Series: Democratic Traditions in German History: Revolution, Reform, and Resistance

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Sep 18, 1998 - Sep 20, 1998

Memory, Democracy, and the Mediated Nation: Political Cultures and Regional Identities in Germany, 1848-1998

Conference at University of Toronto, Canada | Conveners: Thomas Göbel, GHI; James Retallack, University of Toronto

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Sep 24, 1998

Was Rahel Varnhagen a Self-Hating Jew?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Deborah Hertz, Sarah Lawrence College | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Oct 08, 1998 - Oct 11, 1998

Fact or Fiction? The Historical Profession and James Bacque

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Oct 08, 1998 - Oct 11, 1998

Ostpolitik: Domestic and International Dimensions, 1962-1974

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah | Participants: Carole Fink, Ohio State University; Philipp Gassert, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI; Klaus Larres, Queen's University, Belfast; Mary Elise Sarotte, Harvard University

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Oct 08, 1998 - Oct 11, 1998

The Plurality of Publics: Metropolitan Culture and Performance in Germany around 1900

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, Utah | Participants: David Blackbourn, Harvard University; Sierra Bruckner, University of Iowa; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

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Oct 08, 1998 - Oct 11, 1998

Violence and Normality: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s

Conference at Schloß Gimborn, Marienheide | Conveners: Richard Bessel, University of York; Martin Geyer, University of Munich; Dirk Schumann, University of Bielefeld

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Oct 15, 1998 - Oct 18, 1998

The Criminal and His Scientists: A Symposium on the History of Criminology

Conference at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy | Conveners: Peter Becker, European University Institute, Florence; Richard F. Wetzell, University of Maryland at College Park

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Oct 21, 1998

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 22, 1998

"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne": Beethoven Biography as Propaganda

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David B. Dennis, Loyola University of Chicago | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Nov 02, 1998

Germany and African Americans: A Comparative Perspective

Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Convener: Gerald Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Nov 05, 1998

Problems of a New Hitler Biography

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ian Kershaw, University of Sheffield | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Nov 12, 1998

Turning to the Atlantic: The Federal Republic's Ideological Reorientation, 1945-1970

12th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Anselm-Doering Manteuffel (University of Tübingen), Commentator: Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)

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Nov 13, 1998

7th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Presentation of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 1998 | Prize Winners: Michelle Mouton (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) and Timothy R. Vogt (University of California Davis)

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Nov 19, 1998 - Nov 22, 1998

America's War and the World: Vietnam in International and Comparative Perspectives

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University; Wilfried Mausbach, GHI

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Nov 24, 1998

Friedrich Hecker: Revolution, Emigration, Commemoration

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sabine Freitag, GHI London | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Dec 03, 1998

Politics, "Race," and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ruth Lewin Sime, Sacramento City College | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Dec 10, 1998

Ernst Reuter: The Problem of Cold War Hagiography

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College | Lecture Series: History and Biography

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Jan 19, 1999

A Search for Genius in Weimar Germany: The Abraham Lincoln Stiftung and American Philanthropy

Event at the GHI

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Jan 28, 1999 - Jan 30, 1999

Second Atlantik-Brücke/Deutsche Welle Media Conference: The Fourth Power - Media and Democracy in a World of Concentration and Fragmentation

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Detlef Junker, GHI; Walther Leisler Kiep, Atlantik-Brücke

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Mar 10, 1999

A Very Special Relationship: Bargaining Power in East German-Soviet Relations

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hope Harrison, Norwegian Nobel Institute | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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Mar 25, 1999 - Mar 27, 1999

The American Impact on Western Europe: Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic Perspective

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University; Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, University of Tübingen; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Apr 08, 1999

The Marxist Counter-Narrative: The GDR as History and Historiography

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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Apr 08, 1999

Continuity, Change, and Globalization in Postwar Germany and America

Workshop at the GHI | Presenters: Christine von Oertzen (GHI/AICGS) and Hanna Schissler (GHI/AICGS)

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Apr 09, 1999 - Apr 11, 1999

After Revolution and Democratization: Conceptualizing the 18th Brumaires and Regimes of the Two Bonapartes

Conference at the Hunter College at City University of New York | Convener: Melvin Richter, Hunter College at City University of New York

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Apr 21, 1999 - Apr 24, 1999

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1850

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Andreas W. Daum (GHI)

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Apr 29, 1999

The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1949-1989

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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May 06, 1999 - May 09, 1999

Historicizing the Nation: The Middle Ages and Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Imagery

Panel at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan | Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI

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May 13, 1999

The New Left, the Sexual Revolution, and the Nazi Past

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State University | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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May 27, 1999

Heimat, Barbed Wire, and "Papa's Kino": Memories of War on the Silver Screen in the 1950s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert G. Moeller, University of California at Irvine | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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May 29, 1999

Gender Politics and Work Experiences in East and West Germany, Carnegie Mellon University

Event in Pittsburgh

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Jun 03, 1999

Germany's Second Chance: Processes of Liberalization and Integration, 1950-1980

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ulrich Herbert, University of Freiburg | Lecture Series: The Two Germanies: 1949 – 1989

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Jun 06, 1999 - Jun 19, 1999

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 1999

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Daniel S. Mattern (GHI)

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Jun 22, 1999

A Partnership Transformed: Germany and the United States in the 1960s

Event at the GHI

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Aug 25, 1999 - Aug 28, 1999

The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939

Conference at Schloß Münchenwiler, Bern, Switzerland | Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern

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Sep 10, 1999 - Sep 11, 1999

The United States, the Dissolution of the European Empires, and the Emergence of the 'Third World'

Event at the GHI

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Sep 23, 1999 - Sep 26, 1999

Before Television: Mass Media, Political Cultures, and the Public Sphere in Western Europe and the United States, 1900-1950

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Thomas Göbel, GHI

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Sep 28, 1999

"Conquests from Barbarism": Taming Nature in Frederician Prussia

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David Blackbourn, Harvard University | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Oct 05, 1999

The Environmental History of the Rhine River, 1815 to the Present

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Marc Cioc, University of California at Santa Cruz | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Oct 07, 1999 - Oct 10, 1999

Coming to Terms with the Female Sonderfall: Women's Work and Gender Politics in East and West Germany

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia | Conveners: Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University; Christine von Oertzen, GHI

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Oct 07, 1999 - Oct 10, 1999

Global Human Experience, Capitalism, and Nature: The Construction of New Grand Narratives in History

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia | Convener: Eckhardt Fuchs, GHI

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Oct 07, 1999 - Oct 10, 1999

The Culture of Hypnosis: Pseudosciences, Sexuality, and Art in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Panelat the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia | Chair: Andreas W. Daum, GHI

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Oct 12, 1999

Waldsterben: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Environmental Problem

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, University of Freiburg | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Oct 14, 1999

Limits of Educational Internationalism: Foreign Students at German Universities between 1890 and 1930

Event at the GHI

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Oct 26, 1999

The Green Prince of Germany: The Gardens of Pückler-Muskau and the Late Romatic Landscape

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Linda Bryan Parshall, Dumbarton Oaks | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Nov 11, 1999

Heinrich Himmler and Landscape Planning in Nazi Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, University of Hannover | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Nov 18, 1999

Fact, Fantasy, and German History

13th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Mary Fulbrook (University College London), Commentator: Konrad H. Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Nov 19, 1999

8th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Presentation of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 1999 | Prize Winners: Ian McNeely (University of Oregon) and Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)

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Dec 02, 1999

Nature and National Identity in Postwar West Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sandra Chaney, Erskine College | Lecture Series: Nature in History

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Dec 03, 1999

Gender History in Transatlantic Perspective: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe and the United States

Workshop at the GHI

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Dec 10, 1999

German Friendship Award

Event at the GHI | Convener: Hans-Ulrich Seidt (German Embassy) Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Jan 06, 2000 - Feb 06, 2000

Aesthetics and Politics: From Cologne Cathedral to the Holocaust Memorial

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois | Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI

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Jan 24, 2000

The Past and Future of Comparative History

Event at the GHI

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Feb 21, 2000

Back to Nature and Forward to the Machine

Lecture presented to a delegation of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) at a forum on the history of the environment organized by the GHI and Science Division of the German Embassy | Speaker: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Feb 23, 2000 - Feb 26, 2000

Reviving a Historical Corpse: Rewriting the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Religious Art

Panel at the 88th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York | Convener: Cordula A. Grewe, GHI

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Feb 29, 2000

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 09, 2000

Seeing the Evidence: Considering the History of Visual Culture for the Masses

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Vanessa Schwartz, American University | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Mar 30, 2000 - Apr 02, 2000

Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Mar 30, 2000 - Apr 01, 2000

Writing World History, 1800-2000

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Benedikt Stuchtey, GHI London

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Mar 30, 2000

What Makes a Capital? Washington-Berlin.

Keynote address at the conference Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. | Speaker: Jane Kramer (The New Yorker)

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Apr 04, 2000

The Dissolution of the Third Reich: Crisis Management and Collapse, 1943-1945

Lecture of the Friends of the GHI | Speaker: Hans Mommsen, University of Bochum

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Apr 11, 2000

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 14, 2000

Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscape of Frontier Change

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: William Cronon, University of Wisconsin at Madison | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Apr 15, 2000

Cultivated Nature: Gardens, Parks, and Playgrounds

Biennial Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Graz, Austria | Chairs: Robert Lewis, University of Birmingham; Bernard Mergen, George Washington University

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Apr 25, 2000

Seeing Is Not Believing: Some Philosophical and Practical Problems of Images for Historians

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Apr 26, 2000 - Apr 29, 2000

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Imperial Age, 1850-1914

Conference in Berlin | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Andreas W. Daum (GHI)

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May 03, 2000

Screening the Cultural Other: Images of Jews in German Film

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank Stern, Georgetown University | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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May 18, 2000

Paintings and Prints Reconsidered: On Historical Representation in Early Nineteenth-Century France

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Stephen Bann, University of Kent at Canterbury | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Jun 01, 2000

The Generation of Memory: The Memory Boom at the End of the Twentieth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jay Winter, Pembroke College, Cambridge | Lecture Series: Two Different Paths to Modernity: Comparative Aspects of German and American History, 1865-1914

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Jun 04, 2000 - Jun 18, 2000

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2000

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Daniel S. Mattern (GHI)

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Jun 05, 2000

Witnessing the Third Reich: Diaries, Memoirs, Memories

Event at the GHI

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Jul 05, 2000 - Jul 08, 2000

Ethnic Encounters and Identities: German, American, and African Perspectives

Conference at the University of Leizpig | Conveners: Hartmut Keil, University of Leipzig; Vera Lind, GHI

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Sep 21, 2000

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 21, 2000

Shareholder Democracy: The United States and Germany in the Nineteenth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Colleen A. Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Sep 22, 2000 - Sep 24, 2000

The Claim to Social Resources: A Contested Issue in Transatlantic Perspective, 1776 to the Present

Event at the GHI

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Oct 05, 2000 - Oct 07, 2000

Business as Usual? Conceptions of German-American Economic Relations Under Hitler

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, Texas | Chair: Christof Mauch, GHI

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Oct 05, 2000 - Oct 07, 2000

Constructing Identity: Cold War Policies and the Promotion of Community in German-American Relations, 1950-1970

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, Texas | Chair: Hans-Jürgen Schröder, University of Gießen.

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Oct 11, 2000

Doomed to Fail? East Germany's Collapse Revisited: Symposium with Regine Hildebrandt

Event at the GHI

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Oct 12, 2000

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 12, 2000

Nation as Plantation: Colonial Fantasies in Precolonial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Susanne Zantopp, Dartmouth College | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Oct 19, 2000

Competing Modernities: Americans, Germany, and the Atlantic Progressive Connection, 1900-1930

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Oct 26, 2000 - Oct 28, 2000

German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present

Conference at the University of Wisconsin at Madison | Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Joseph C. Salmons, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Oct 31, 2000 - Nov 01, 2000

Magic Meets Enlightenment? New Types of Discourse in America and Germany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Event at the GHI

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Oct 31, 2000

The Magic Garden of the European Naturalists: Science and Pleasure in the Enlightenment.

Keynote speech at the workshop Magic Meets Enlightenment? New Types of Discourse in America and Germany, 18th and 19th Centuries. | Speaker: Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (University of Glasgow)

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Nov 02, 2000

German and American Soldiers in World War II: The Boundaries of Combat

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gerald F. Linderman, University of Michigan | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Nov 02, 2000 - Nov 05, 2000

Exhibiting the Other: Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation

Conference at the Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art (CAHA), Paris, 0 | Conveners: Thomas W. Gaehtgens, CAHA; Cordula A. Grewe, GHI

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Nov 09, 2000 - Nov 11, 2000

GIs in Germany: The Social, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence, 1945-2000

Conference at the International Science Forum, Heidelberg | Convener: Detlef Junker, University of Heidelberg

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Nov 09, 2000

Political Religion in Modern Germany: Reflections on Nationalism, Socialism, and National Socialism

14th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Humboldt University of Berlin), Commentator: Jane Caplan (Bryn Mawr College)

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Nov 10, 2000

9th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Frank P. Biess (University of California at San Diego) and H. Glenn Penny III (University of Iowa)

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Nov 16, 2000

The Ford Foundation, Germany, and the Congress of Cultural Freedom

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Nov 16, 2000

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 17, 2000 - Nov 19, 2000

Learning from Diversity in Federal Systems: Social Assistance in the United States, Germany, and the European Union

Event at the GHI

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Dec 01, 2000 - Dec 02, 2000

Green Protest: Activism to Protect the Environment Around the Globe Florida State University

Event at the GHI

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Dec 06, 2000

First Ladies in the United States and Europe: Institution and Image in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Pfalzakademie

Event in Lambrecht

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Dec 07, 2000

Race, Reproduction, and Transatlantic Negotiations of Nationality: African-American Occupation Children in Postwar Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Heide Fehrenbach, Emory University | Lecture Series: Germany and the United States: Exchanging Images and Ideas, 1750-2000

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Feb 22, 2001 - Feb 24, 2001

Grassroots Democracy? A Comparative History of Communities and State Building in New England and Germany, 1500-1850

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Johannes Dillinger, GHI

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Mar 01, 2001

National Socialism and Women

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gisela Bock, Free University of Berlin | Lecture Series: The Third Reich in Historical Perspective

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Mar 14, 2001 - Apr 30, 2001

Archaeology of the Present, Photographs by Gerhard Faller-Walzer

Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC and the GHI

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Mar 27, 2001

Prussia Yesterday and Tomorrow

Symposium at the GHI in cooperation with the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation | Speakers: Manfred Stolpe (Minister President of Brandenburg), David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College, Michigan), Moderator: Robert G. Livingston (GHI)

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Mar 29, 2001 - Apr 01, 2001

Gender, Power, Religion: Forces in Cultural History

Young Scholars Forum at the GHI | Convener: Vera Lind (GHI)

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Apr 02, 2001

The Debate on the Reconstruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss

Workshop at the GHI | Speaker: Wilhelm von Boddien (Chairman, Förderverein Berliner Stadtschloss), Moderator: Hans-Ulrich Seidt (Head, Cultural Section, German Embassy)

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Apr 05, 2001

The Arena of the Holocaust: Concentration Camps, Killing Centers, and Killing Fields

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Henry Friedlander, Brooklyn College at CUNY | Lecture Series: The Third Reich in Historical Perspective

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Apr 06, 2001 - Apr 07, 2001

Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective

Conference at the University of Cincinnati | Conveners: Deborah Cohen, American University; Vera Lind, GHI; Christof Mauch, GHI; Maura O'Connor, University of Cincinnati

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Apr 10, 2001

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 10, 2001

Postwar German Generations and the Legitimacy of the Republic

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Vera Lind (GHI)

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Apr 18, 2001

The Germans and Their Nazi Past: From Adenauer to Kohl

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Norbert Frei, University of Bochum | Lecture Series: The Third Reich in Historical Perspective

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Apr 19, 2001 - Apr 22, 2001

Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany: The 1960s

Conference at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Conveners: Philipp Gassert, University of Heidelberg; Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

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Apr 25, 2001 - Apr 28, 2001

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Andreas W. Daum (GHI), Richard Wetzell (GHI)

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May 03, 2001

Philanthropy, Patronage, and Urban Politics: Transatlantic Transfers between Europe and North America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Conference at the University of Toronto | Conveners: Thomas Adam, University of Toronto; Eckhardt Fuchs, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; James Retallack, University of Toronto

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May 11, 2001 - Mar 12, 2001

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany, 1870-1960

Event at the GHI

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May 15, 2001

German Industry under the Swastika

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Hayes, Northwestern University | Lecture Series: The Third Reich in Historical Perspective

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May 17, 2001

When Jesus Was an Aryan: Protestant Theology during the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College | Lecture Series: The Third Reich in Historical Perspective

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Jun 05, 2001

Democracy under Pressure: The European Experience

1st Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Lord Ralf Dahrendorf (KBE FBA)

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Jun 09, 2001

The Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Event at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Jun 13, 2001

The Life of Henry Villard, 1835-1900

Lecture, discussion, and book presentation at the German Embassy | Speaker: Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave (Washington, DC)

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Jun 17, 2001 - Jun 30, 2001

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2001

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Daniel S. Mattern (GHI)

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Jun 28, 2001

GHI Research Seminar


Jul 06, 2001 - Jul 07, 2001

Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth Century

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Patrice Poutrus and Ingrid Creppel

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Aug 29, 2001 - Sep 01, 2001

A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945

Conference at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research | Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern; Bernd Greiner, Hamburg Institute for Social Research; Christof Mauch, GHI; Christoph Strupp, GHI

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Sep 20, 2001

The Five Senses During and After Industrialization

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert Jütte, Robert Bosch Foundation | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Oct 02, 2001

Visionary Science in Medieval Germany: Hildegard von Bingen's SCIVIAS

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Oct 03, 2001

Judging the Past in Unified Germany

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: A. James McAdams (Notre Dame University), Commentators: Ann L. Phillips (American University), Bernd Schäfer (GHI)

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Oct 03, 2001

The Federal Chancellery and German Unification 1989/90

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Discussion with Michael Mertes (Rheinischer Merkur, Bonn), Commentator: Robert G. Livingston (GHI)

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Oct 05, 2001 - Oct 08, 2001

Germany in the Cold War since the 1960s

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washingon, DC | Panelists: Douglas Selvage, U.S. Department of State; Alexandra M. Friedrich, Stiftung Landheim Schondorf; Thomas W. Maulucci, University of Maryland

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Oct 05, 2001 - Oct 08, 2001

Individuality and Early Modern Autobiography before 1750

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washingon, DC | Panelists: Thomas Max Safley, University of Pennsylvania; Tina Löffelbein, University of Kiel; Otto Ulbricht, University of Kiel

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Oct 17, 2001

Across the Bridge: GIs in Germany

Pre-release Film Screening at the GHI | Conveners: Robert P. Grathwol (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Washington DC), Christof Mauch (GHI), Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg)

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Oct 18, 2001

Freud's Nose: The Denigration of Olfaction and the Birth of Psychoanalysis

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David Howes, Concordia University | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Oct 25, 2001 - Oct 28, 2001

1st Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Caroline W. Bynum (Columbia University), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (University of California at Los Angeles), Christof Mauch (GHI), Christoph Strupp (GHI)

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Nov 01, 2001

The Reverberations of History: The Culture of Listening and the Reconstruction of the Past

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Emily Thompson, University of Pennsylvania | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Nov 08, 2001

Violent Imagery in Late Medieval Piety

15th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Caroline Walker Bynum (Columbia University), Commentator: Mitchell B. Merback (DePauw University)

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Nov 09, 2001

10th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Eva Giloi Bremner (Rutgers University) and Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University)

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Nov 26, 2001

Adam's Finger: Michelangelo's Touch?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, University of Toronto | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Nov 29, 2001 - Dec 02, 2001

Global Hollywood: Rethinking the National, Transnationality, and Globalization

Conference at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | Conveners: Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University; Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas J. Saunders, University of Victoria

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Nov 29, 2001 - Dec 02, 2001

Suicide in Early Modern Europe

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Vera Lind, GHI; Jeffrey Watt, University of Mississippi

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Dec 06, 2001

Chocolate Ice Cream and Hot Orange Light: A Tasteful Exploration of Modern Art

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Constance Classen, Concordia University | Lecture Series: The History of the Senses

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Jan 29, 2002

The German Mission to Afghanistan, 1915-1916

Event at the GHI

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Feb 05, 2002

University Reform and Reorganization of Germany's Foreign Humanities Research Institutes

Symposium with Edelgard Bulmahn, Washington D.C.

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Feb 12, 2002

The German Insurance Business in National Socialist Germany

Lecture of the Friends of the GHI | Speaker: Gerald D. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley

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Feb 28, 2002

From War Criminal to Corporate Citizen: Remaking the Industrialist in a New Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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Mar 07, 2002

From Failure to Failure: The Far Right in Postwar Germany in a Comparative European Context

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hans-Georg Betz, York University of Toronto | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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Mar 20, 2002

Migration in the History of the Federal Republic: Flight, Immigration, Transcultural Mobility

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Christiane Harzig, University of Bremen | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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Mar 21, 2002 - Mar 24, 2002

War and Society: Germany and Europe in Historical Perspective

Young Scholars Forum at the GHI | Convener: Christoph Strupp (GHI)

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Apr 04, 2002

1968 - An International Watershed?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, University of Bielefeld | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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Apr 10, 2002 - Apr 13, 2002

Latin America, North America, and Europe - International Encounters and Relations in Historical Perspective

Conference at the University of Oregon, Portland | Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Friedrich Schuler, University of Oregon

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Apr 17, 2002

A New Paradigm in International Relations? Reflections on September 11, 2001

2nd Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Hans Küng - University of Tübingen

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Apr 26, 2002 - Apr 27, 2002

Expert Cultures and Social Engineering in the 19th Century: Scientists, Scholars, and Institutional Politics between Germany and the United States

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Philipp Löser, GHI/AICGS; Christoph Strupp, GHI

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May 01, 2002 - May 04, 2002

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1945-1990

Conference at the ZZF Potsdam | Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Andreas W. Daum, GHI; Konrad Jarausch, Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam; Richard Wetzell, GHI

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May 02, 2002

GHI Research Seminar


May 02, 2002

The German Left since 1945: Innovation, Politics, and Alliances

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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May 04, 2002

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar: The Golden Hunger Years, Music in Occupied Berlin, 1945-1949

Event at the GHI

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May 08, 2002

John F Kennedy and Berlin: From the Wall to the 1963 Visit

Event at the GHI

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May 09, 2002 - May 10, 2002

American Détente and German Ostpolitik, 1969-1972

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Bernd Schäfer, GHI; Carsten Tessmer, Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin

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May 23, 2002

From Reconstruction to Civil Society: Political Generations in the History of the Federal Republic of Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Axel Schildt, University of Hamburg | Lecture Series: Challenges to German Democracy, 1949-2001

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Jun 02, 2002 - Jun 15, 2002

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2002

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Daniel S. Mattern, University of Notre Dame

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Aug 22, 2002

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 05, 2002

Beyond Sacredness: The Specifics of Religion in the U.S.

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Hochgeschwender, University of Tübingen | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Sep 05, 2002 - Oct 05, 2002

Regina Schmeken: The New Middle. Photographs from 1989 - 2000

Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, the German Marshall Fund and the GHI | Prior to the opening reception at the Goethe Institute there will be a discussion with the artist Regina Schmeken at the GHI

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Sep 10, 2002 - Sep 13, 2002

Deutschland in Amerika, Amerika in Deutschland

Panel at the Historikertag, Halle an der Saale | Convener: Christof Mauch, GHI

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Sep 19, 2002

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 19, 2002

On Symbolic Emigrations and Symbolic Battle: A Type of Conversion to Islam in Western Countries

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, University of Leipzig | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Sep 26, 2002 - Sep 29, 2002

German American Encounters after World War II and the Holocaust

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Alexander Freund, GHI/AICGS; Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union; Raimund Lammersdorf, GHI; Annette Puckhaber, GHI/AICGS

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Oct 03, 2002 - Oct 06, 2002

Fight for the Files

Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association in San Diego, California | Conveners: Astrid Eckert, Free University of Berlin; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Oct 03, 2002

The Difficult Path to Unity. East German Mentalities and their Transformation after 1990

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Joachim Gauck, Commentator: Ambassador James D. Bindenagel

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Oct 10, 2002

A Sonderweg in European Environmental History

Event at the GHI

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Oct 11, 2002 - Oct 12, 2002

Landscapes and Roads in North America and Europe: Cultural History in Transatlantic Perspectives

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas Zeller, GHI

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Oct 17, 2002

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 17, 2002

Transatlantic Perspectives on Marriage, Sex, and Religious Deviance in British North America

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Oct 24, 2002 - Oct 27, 2002

History of Sexuality in Modern Germany

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Edward Dickinson, University of Cincinnati; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI

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Oct 24, 2002 - Oct 27, 2002

2nd Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the Humboldt University of Berlin | Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University of Berlin), Caroline W. Bynum (Columbia University), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (University of California at Los Angeles), Christof Mauch (GHI), Christoph Strupp (GHI)

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Oct 31, 2002

Disobedience and the Divine Way: A Puritan Context for September 11

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Philip H. Melling, University of Wales, Swansea | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Nov 07, 2002 - Nov 10, 2002

Emotions in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Vera Lind, GHI; Otto Ulbricht, University of Kiel

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Nov 14, 2002

In Search of a Nineteenth Century

16th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz), Commentator: Ira Berlin (University of Maryland)

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Nov 15, 2002

11th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Julia Roos (Indiana University) and Rebecca Wittmann (University of Toronto)

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Nov 21, 2002 - Nov 24, 2002

Commissioning History in the United States, Germany and Austria: Historical Commissions, Victims, and World War II Restitution

Conference at the National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana | Conveners: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans; Kenneth R. Hoffman, National D-Day Museum; Jonathan Petropoulos, Claremont-McKenna College; Bernd Schäfer, GHI; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI

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Nov 21, 2002

Religion and Feminism in American Society since the 1960s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Anne Braude, Harvard University | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Dec 06, 2002 - Dec 08, 2002

Art and Society in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century: Connections and Comparisons

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Deborah Cohen, Brown University; Peter Mandler, Cambridge University; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Dec 12, 2002

GHI Research Seminar


Dec 12, 2002

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and American History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania | Lecture Series: Contested Beliefs: Issues in German and American Religious History

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Jan 09, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Jan 16, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Feb 13, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Feb 25, 2003

The German Discovery of America: A Review of the Controversy over Didrik Pining's Voyage of Exploration in 1473 in the North Atlantic

Symposium at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas L. Hughes (GHI), Comments by A.J.R. Russell-Wood (Johns Hopkins University)

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Feb 27, 2003

The Americanization of Europe: Fact or Fiction?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Kuisel (Georgetown University) | Lecture Series: Germany's America, 1945 - Present

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Mar 06, 2003 - Mar 08, 2003

From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970

Conference a the Columbia University, New York | Conveners: Volker R. Berghahn, Columbia University; Cordula Grewe, Columbia University; Christof Mauch, GHI

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Mar 06, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 10, 2003

Perceptions of Security in Germany and the United States from 1945 to the Present

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Georg Schild, GHI/University of Bonn; Dirk Schumann, GHI

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Mar 13, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 13, 2003

The Watershed Decade: Americanization and Anti-Americanism in East and West Germany in the 1960s - A Prelude to Current Controversies

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bernd Greiner (Institute for Social Research, Hamburg) | Lecture Series: Germany's America, 1945 - Present

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Mar 18, 2003

Honoring Willy Brandt: Symposium with Egon Bahr and Henry Kissinger

Event at the GHI

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Mar 20, 2003

The Language of the Victors: The Americanization of the German Language and German Identity after 1945

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Heidrun Kämper (German Language Institute, Mannheim) | Lecture Series: Germany's America, 1945 - Present

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Mar 20, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 21, 2003

Gendering Modern German History: Rewritings of the Mainstream

University of Toronto | Conveners: Karen Hagemann, University of Toronto/Technical University of Berlin; Christine von Oertzen, GHI

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Mar 26, 2003

Remodelling the Sachsenhausen Memorial Site

Lecture at the GHI | Winfried Meyer (Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten), Comments by Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland, College Park)

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Mar 27, 2003 - Mar 29, 2003

Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Manfred Berg, Free University of Berlin; Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bernd Schäfer, GHI

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Mar 27, 2003

Transitional Justice after 1989: Is Germany So Different?

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: A. James McAdams (University of Notre Dame)

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Apr 09, 2003 - Apr 12, 2003

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Germany in the Early Modern Era, 1490-1790

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Apr 24, 2003

Characters and Contexts: (Mis-) Understanding Cultural Perceptions in the German-American Sphere

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Klaus Milich (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Lecture Series: Germany's America, 1945 - Present

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Apr 24, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 28, 2003

Germany's Position in Europe and Transatlantic Relations: Symposium with Richard von Weizsaecker

Event at the GHI

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May 05, 2003

People on the Move: The Challenges of Migration in Transatlantic Perspective

3rd Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Rita Süßmuth (University of Göttingen, former President of the German Bundestag)

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May 08, 2003

Germany's America/America's Germany: Americans and Germans Speak about the Nation

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bess Rothenberg (Clemson University) | Lecture Series: Germany's America, 1945 - Present

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May 08, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


May 10, 2003

Mid-Atlantic Seminar in German History: Vom Alten Vaterland zum Neuen: German-Americans, Letters from the 'Old Homeland' and World War One

Event at the GHI

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May 29, 2003 - Jun 01, 2003

Culture in American History: Transatlantic Perspectives

Young Scholars Forum at the GHI | Convener: Christine von Oertzen (GHI)

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Jun 01, 2003 - Jun 15, 2003

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2003

Seminar in Germany | Conveners: Astrid Eckert (GHI), Daniel S. Mattern (University of Notre Dame)

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Jun 05, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 10, 2003 - Jun 13, 2003

American Studies in Twentieth-Century Germany: On the History and Pre-History of the German Association for American Studies

Conference Panel in Munich | Moderator: Thomas Zeller, GHI/University of Maryland, Commentator: Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, University of Halle-Wittenberg

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Jun 10, 2003

The June 17, 1953 Uprising: 50 Years Later

Panel discussion in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, at the GHI

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Jun 19, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Jul 31, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Aug 16, 2003 - Aug 18, 2003

Nazi Crimes and the Law

Conference at the University of Amsterdam | Conveners: Henry Friedlander, City University of New York; Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI

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Aug 21, 2003 - Aug 22, 2003

Great Expectations: John F. Kennedy and the 'Thousand Days

Conference at the Free University of Berlin | Conveners: Andreas Etges, Free University of Berlin; Bernd Schäfer, GHI

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Aug 28, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 08, 2003 - Sep 09, 2003

Cold War Memory: Interpreting the Physical Legacy of the Cold War

Conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. | Conveners: Keith Allen, Woodrow Wilson Center; Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bernd Schäfer, GHI

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Sep 17, 2003

The Global Situation: A European Point of View

4th Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Helmut Schmidt (former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1974 - 1982)

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Sep 19, 2003

The Private Sphere and the Public Order: West German Debates about Education, Family, and Sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s

Conference Panel in New Orleans | Moderator: Uta Poiger, University of Washington, Seattle, Commentator: Maria Höhn, Vassar College

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Oct 02, 2003

Two Sides of History - Two Lives in Dialogue

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Georg and Wilma Iggers (State University of New York at Buffalo/Canisius College) | Lecture Series: Narrating History: Memoirs and Memories

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Oct 03, 2003

Reflections on My Country before and after 1989

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jens Reich

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Oct 09, 2003

Memory and Memories: The Art of Autobiography

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (University of Münster) | Lecture Series: Narrating History: Memoirs and Memories

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Oct 16, 2003

Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future: New Perspectives in German-Jewish Studies

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania)

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Oct 17, 2003 - Oct 18, 2003

Atlantic Crossings? Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University; Astrid M. Eckert, GHI; Wilfried Mausbach, University of Heidelberg

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Oct 20, 2003

Is the EU Complete Without Turkey? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe's Identity and the Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and the USA

Panel discussion in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, at the GHI | Panelists: Cem Özdemir (German Marshall Fund and former member of the German Bundestag), Claus Schönig (Orient Institute, Istanbul), Henri Barkey (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), Omer Taspinar (The Brookings Institution), Moderator: Fiona Hill (The Brookings Institution)

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Oct 23, 2003 - Oct 25, 2003

Forms of Religious Community Creation in Modern Society

Conference at the University of Chicago | Conveners: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago; Lucian Hölscher, University of Bochum; Simone Lässig, GHI; Hartmut Lehmann, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen

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Oct 23, 2003 - Oct 26, 2003

3rd Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University of Berlin), Caroline W. Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (University of California at Los Angeles), Christoph Strupp (GHI)

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Oct 23, 2003

Remembered Facts: Bohr und Heisenberg in Copenhagen

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt) | Lecture Series: Narrating History: Memoirs and Memories

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Oct 30, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 03, 2003

How Valid Are Comparisons? The American Occupation of Germany Revisited

Symposium in collaboration with the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Choate Room) | Conveners: Dieter Dettke (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington DC), Robert Gerald Livingston (GHI), Rebecca Boehling (University of Maryland)

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Nov 07, 2003 - Sep 09, 2003

Death in Modern Germany

Conference at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville | Conveners: Paul Betts, University of Sussex; Alon Confino, University of Virginia; Dirk Schumann, GHI

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Nov 12, 2003 - Nov 13, 2003

American Museums: Putting Visitors First

ICOM-Germany Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

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Nov 13, 2003

Memory - Morality - Guilt: Relegating Nazism to the Past in Postwar Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Raphael Gross (Leo Baeck Institute, London) | Lecture Series: Narrating History: Memoirs and Memories

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Nov 20, 2003

Freedom in American History

17th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Eric Foner (Columbia University), Commentator: Jürgen Kocka (Free University, Berlin, Social Science Research Center, Berlin)

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Nov 21, 2003

12th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Chad C. Bryant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Jeffrey T. Zalar (Pepperdine University)

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Dec 04, 2003

"Time is a Violent Torrent": Constructing and Reconstructing Rivers in Modern Germany

Keynote address at the conference Rivers in History | Speaker: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

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Dec 05, 2003 - Dec 07, 2003

Rivers in History: Designing and Conceiving Waterways in Modern Europe

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Christof Mauch, GHI; Thomas Zeller, GHI/University of Maryland

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Dec 09, 2003

Adorno in America: German Exiles and the American Experience

Friends of the GHI Symposium in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation | Conveners: Keith D. Alexander, GHI; Helga Flores-Trejo, Heinrich Böll Foundation

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Dec 11, 2003

My Journey from Hamburg to Hollywood: A Peripatetic Youth

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Steven Muller (Johns Hopkins University) | Lecture Series: Narrating History: Memoirs and Memories

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Dec 18, 2003

GHI Research Seminar


Jan 08, 2004 - Jun 11, 2004

Reconstituting Public Realms: Archivists, Librarians, and Journalists in Postwar Germany

Panel at American Historical Association Conference, Washington DC | Panelists: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI), Michaela Hönicke Moore (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Peter A. Kraemer (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Jan 24, 2004

'The Burning Wall' (USA 2002) and the History of the DDR.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion at the Avalon Theater | Speakers: Hava Kohav Beller (New York), Bernd Schäfer (GHI), and Bill Gilcher (Goethe Institut Washington) | Sponsored by the Goethe Institut Washington, the GHI, and the German American Center for American Studies.

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Feb 02, 2004

The Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future in Transatlantic Perspektive. A Discussion with Kurt Biedenkopf

Hertie Roundtable, at the GHI

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Feb 19, 2004 - Feb 22, 2004

Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Catastrophe in Global Perspective

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Christian Pfister (University of Bern)

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Feb 19, 2004

The Spatial Turn in History

Symposium at the GHI (part of the conference 'Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Catastrophe in Global Perspective) | Speakers: Denis Cosgrove (University of California), Karen Till (University of Minnesota), Moderator: Thomas Zeller (University of Maryland / GHI)

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Mar 04, 2004 - Mar 07, 2004

Pietism in Two Worlds: Transmissions of Dissent in Germany and North America, 1680-1820

Conference at the Emory University (Atlanta, GA) | Conveners: James Melton (Department of History, Emory University), Dirk Schumann (GHI), Jonathan Strom (Candler School of Theology, Emory University)

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Mar 18, 2004 - Mar 20, 2004

Taxation, State and Civil Society in Germany and the United States, 1750-1950

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Alexander Nützenadel (University of Cologne), Christoph Strupp (GHI)

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Mar 22, 2004

Heimat, Heritage, and the Histories of German Cinema

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan), followed by the screening of: Jewboy Levi (Viehjud Levi) | Lecture Series: History in Film - Film in History

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Mar 25, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 25, 2004

The New Berlin. The Photography of Wess Brown

Photography Exhibit Opening at the GHI in conjunction with the Biography and the Historian symposium

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Mar 25, 2004 - Mar 27, 2004

Toward a Biographical Turn? Biography in Modern Historiography: Modern Historiography in Biography

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Volker Berghahn, Simone Lässig

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Mar 27, 2004 - May 30, 2004

Environment, Culture, Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives

Young Scholars Forum at the GHI | Conveners: Charles Closmann, GHI; Frank Zelko, GHI

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Apr 05, 2004

Hollywood's Great War and Weimar Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas Saunders (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), followed by the screening of: What Price Glory? | Lecture Series: History in Film - Film in History

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Apr 14, 2004

A New History of the German People

Lecture and discussion in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC, at the Goethe-Institut | Speaker: Steven Ozment (Harvard University)

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Apr 15, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 19, 2004

Cannibalizing History: Recastings of the European-Indigenous Encounter in Brazil

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Piers Armstrong (Dartmouth College), followed by the Screening of: Hans Staden | Lecture Series: History in Film - Film in History

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Apr 28, 2004 - May 01, 2004

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Short Nineteenth Century, 1790-1890

Conference at the University of Tübingen | Conveners: Dieter Langewiesche (University of Tübingen), Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 03, 2004

How the West Was Sold: Karl May's America and the German Cinema

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Christoph Strupp (German Historical Institute, Washington), followed by the screening of: Apache Gold (Winnetou I) | Lecture Series: History in Film - Film in History

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May 07, 2004 - May 08, 2004

War and the Environment: Contexts and Consequences of Military Destruction in the Modern Age

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Charles Closmann (GHI), Christof Mauch (GHI)

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May 13, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


May 17, 2004

At the Movies: Film Audiences in the “Third Reich”

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sabine Hake, University of Pittsburgh, followed by the screening of: Request Concert (Wunschkonzert) | Lecture Series: History in Film - Film in History

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May 17, 2004

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990

Panel discussion and book presentation at the GHI | Speakers: Harold James (Princeton University), Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt University), Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania), Commentators: Detlef Junker (University of Heidelberg), Frank Smith (Cambridge University Press)

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May 20, 2004

Presentation of the Helmut Schmidt Prize in German-American Economic History to Harold James (Princeton University)

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI

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May 24, 2004

Beyond Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: Searching for Normality in German-Jewish Relations

Roundtable discussion in collaboration with the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and Bridge of Understanding, at the GHI | Moderator: Jeffrey Peck (Georgetown University, AICGS, Washington DC).

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May 26, 2004

The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective

Symposium in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, at the GHI.

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May 31, 2004 - Jun 12, 2004

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2004

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI)

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Jun 03, 2004 - Jun 06, 2004

Alexander von Humboldt and North America

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Andreas Daum (University of Buffalo, SUNY); Simone Lässig (GHI)

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Jun 03, 2004

Towards World Science? Humboldtian Science, World Concepts, and Transregional Studies

Lecture in collaboration with the University of Buffalo (SUNY), and the Humboldt Foundation, Bonn at the GHI | Speaker: Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam)

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Jun 03, 2004 - Jun 04, 2004

Environmental History and the Oceans

Conference at Copenhagen | Conveners: Frank Zelko (GHI), Poul Holm (University of Southern Denmark) | Co-sponsored by the GHI and the Center for Maritime and Regional Studies, University of Southern Denmark

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Jun 10, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 10, 2004

Im Schatten der Macht / In the Shadow of Power

Film Screening at the Goethe-Insitut, Washington DC.

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Jun 23, 2004

Im Schatten der Macht / In the Shadow of Power

Film Screening at the Goethe-Insitut, Washington DC.

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Jun 24, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Aug 12, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 06, 2004 - Sep 18, 2004

Bucerius Seminar 2004: American Archives and American History

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Conveners: Kathleen N. Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI) | Co-organized by the GHI, the Department of History of the University of Chicago, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Unviersität Berlin; sponsored by the ZEIT Foundation Gerd and Ebelin Bucerius

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Sep 08, 2004 - Sep 11, 2004

Access - Presentation - Memory: The American Presidential Libraries and the Memorial Foundations of German Statesmen

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Astrid M. Eckert, Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Sep 08, 2004

The Past in Trust for the Future: The Presidential Library System

Keynote Lecture, Presidential Libraries Conference | Speaker: David Eisenhower (University of Pennsylvania)

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Sep 09, 2004

Lost Files - How the Equivalent of 100,000 Typewritten Pages Disappeared from the Servers of the German Chancellory in 1998 and Who Might Have Deleted This Data: A Political Adventure Story - Or a Tale of Transition

Keynote Lecture, Presidential Libraries Conference | Speaker: Michael Naumann (DIE ZEIT, Hamburg)

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Sep 18, 2004 - Sep 19, 2004

The Atlantic Community Unravelling? States, Protest Movements, and the Transformation of US-European Relations, 1969-1983

Conference at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN | Conveners: Matthias Schulz (Vanderbilt University), Thomas A. Schwartz (Vanderbilt University), Bernd Schäfer (German Historical Institute, DC)

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Sep 23, 2004

Engineering and Cultural Crises: Germany and America

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas P. Hughes (University of Pennsylvania) | Lecture Series: Science, Technology and Culture in German History

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Sep 27, 2004

The Closest of Strangers: German-American Relations in Historical Perspective

5th Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: W. Michael Blumenthal

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Sep 30, 2004 - Oct 02, 2004

Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI) in collaboration with Joseph Browne (Cluss Project), Cynthia Field (Smithsonian Institution), William Gilcher (Goethe-Institut / German Cultural Center), and Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)

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Sep 30, 2004

Adolf Cluss, the World, and Washington: The Fate of Washington's Red Brick City

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Longstreth (George Washington University)

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Oct 06, 2004

Finding a Role: United Germany and the Resurgence of Europe. Germany's and Europe's Role in the World - 15 Years after the Cold War

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Markus Meckel

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Oct 15, 2004 - Oct 16, 2004

Science and Technology in the 20th Century: Cultures of Innovation in Germany and the United States

Conference at the GHI | Jointly organized by Christoph Strupp (GHI) and Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum Munich / DFG-Research Group 393)

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Oct 22, 2004

Happening With a Royal Touch: John F. Kennedy and the Germans

Lecture at the Adams House, Cambridge, MA | Speaker: Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

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Oct 28, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 28, 2004

The German Idea of Natural Science: Heidegger, Habermas, Heisenberg

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley) | Lecture Series: Science, Technology and Culture in German History

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Nov 01, 2004

Dramatizing German History: A Conversation with Michael Frayn

Conversation at Theater J, Washington DC

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Nov 11, 2004

Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mark Walker, Union College | Lecture Series: Science, Technology and Culture in German History

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Nov 15, 2004 - Feb 25, 2005

ANTOINETTE: Berlin Stories. An exhibition of portraits and photographs

Exhibition at the GHI

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Nov 18, 2004

Europeanizing German History

18th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Ute Frevert (Yale University), Commentator: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

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Nov 18, 2004

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 19, 2004

13th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Christopher J. Fischer (University of North Carolina), Erik N. Jensen (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

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Dec 02, 2004

The Forgotten Past: Other Cultures of Science and Technology in German History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University) | Lecture Series: Science, Technology and Culture in German History

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Dec 06, 2004

The Measure of Atrocity: The German War Upon the Hereros Revisited

Panel discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Isabel V. Hull (Cornell University), Gesine Krüger (University of Zürich), Jürgen Zimmerer (Universidade de Coimbra)

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Dec 09, 2004

Pathological Modernity? Psychiatry and Social Problems in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Paul Lerner (University of Southern California) | Lecture Series: Science, Technology and Culture in German History

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Jan 28, 2005

A Tribute to Hermann-Josef Rupieper

Event at the GHI (Washington, DC)

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Feb 24, 2005

Auschwitz: The Liberation of the Camp and the End of the German Musterstadt

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sybille Steinbacher (Ruhr University Bochum/Harvard University) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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Feb 24, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 03, 2005 - Mar 06, 2005

Teaching World History (online Essays on World History Connected)

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Eckhardt Fuchs (University of Mannheim), Karen Oslund (GHI), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI, London)

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Mar 03, 2005

Performing the World: Reality and Representation in the Making of World Histor(ies)

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Arif Dirlik (University of Oregon)

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Mar 10, 2005 - Mar 12, 2005

War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Stig Förster (University of Bern), Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Mar 10, 2005

From Levée en masse to Hiroshima: The Concept of Total War in History.

Roundtable Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Stig Förster (University of Bern), Jörg Nagler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena), Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, SUNY) Dennis Showalter (Colorado College)

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Mar 17, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 17, 2005

Play in Destruction: War Children in Nazi Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Nicholas Stargardt (Magdalen College, Oxford University) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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Mar 31, 2005 - Apr 02, 2005

Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History

Young Scholars Forum at the University of Texas at Arlington | Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington)

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Mar 31, 2005

General of the Lustwaffe: Beate Uhse and Germans' Experience of Sexuality over 1945

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elizabeth Heineman (University of Iowa) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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Apr 07, 2005 - Apr 10, 2005

Raising Americans - Raising Europeans in the 20th Century

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Dirk Schumann (GHI)

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Apr 13, 2005 - Apr 16, 2005

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1890-1930

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Apr 15, 2005 - Apr 18, 2005

Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-53

Films and Symposium, part of the Washington DC International Film Festival, in collaboration with the German Marshall Fund Of The United States, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and the Goethe-Institut

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Apr 21, 2005

Rethinking Embourgoisement and the Jews of Germany

The GHI (DC) and Leo Baeck Institute Second Annual Joint Symposium Forchheimer Auditorium, The Center for Jewish History, New York City | Presenters: Simone Lässig (GHI), Till van Rahden (University of Cologne)

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Apr 21, 2005

Confronting the End: Reflections on Nazi Leaders in 1945

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Longerich (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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Apr 21, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 25, 2005

Victors' Justice?The Nuremberg Trial and the Invention of International Crime

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Overy (University of Exeter) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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May 06, 2005 - Jun 17, 2005

Art Enables spricht deutsch. A show of original works

Exhibtion at the GHI | Opening reception on May 06, 2005, held in conjunction with the Dupont Circle Gallery Walk.

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May 18, 2005 - May 21, 2005

Animals in History: Studying the Not So Human Past

Conference at the Literaturhaus, Cologne, Germany | Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (GHI) and Christof Mauch (GHI)

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May 19, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


May 19, 2005

The Iconography of Victory: Reporting the American Occupation of Cologne

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Eberhard Illner (Historical Archive of the City of Cologne) | Lecture Series: Germany 1945 - Liberation, Defeat, Reckoning

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May 29, 2005 - Jun 11, 2005

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies 2005

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Astrid M. Eckert (GHI)

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Jun 02, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 16, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 16, 2005 - Jun 18, 2005

The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America

Conference at the Bavarian American Academy and the Katholische Pfarrkuratie St. Florian | Conveners: Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI), Raimund Lammersdorf (BAA)

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Jun 16, 2005 - Jun 18, 2005

Turning Points in Environmental History

Conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany | Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI); Joachim Radkau (University of Bielefeld); Frank Uekötter (University of Bielefeld)

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Jun 29, 2005

What Future for the West? Reflections on an Enlarged Europe and the Unites States in the Twenty-First Century

6th Gerd Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Timothy Garton Ash (St. Antony's College, Oxford)

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Jul 20, 2005

Stauffenberg

Film screening in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC, and ARD-German TV, at the Goethe-Institut | Speaker: Dr. Peter Hoffmann (McGill University, Montreal)

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Jul 28, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Aug 25, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 05, 2005 - Sep 17, 2005

Bucerius Seminar 2005: American Archives and American History

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Conveners: Kathleen Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI) | Co-organized by the GHI, the Department of History of the University of Chicago, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Unviersität Berlin; sponsored by the ZEIT Foundation Gerd and Ebelin Bucerius

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Sep 08, 2005

German Expressionism: Nineteenth-Century Roots

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert Rosenblum (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Sep 15, 2005

U.S. Intelligence and the Gehlen Organization, 1945-1956

Symposium at the GHI

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Sep 19, 2005

From Impressionism to Expressionism:Harry Graf Kessler on Modern Art and its Public in Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Laird Easton (California State University, Chico) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Sep 23, 2005 - Sep 24, 2005

Competing Modernities: The United States of America and Germany since 1890

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Christof Mauch (GHI), Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin)

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Sep 29, 2005 - Oct 01, 2005

Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte)

Conference at the City University of New York (CUNY) | Conveners: Martin Burke (CUNY), Melvin Richter (CUNY), Dirk Schumann (GHI)

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Oct 03, 2005

Historical Upheavals, Fractured Identities: A Conversation with Monika Maron

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI

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Oct 06, 2005

A Non-Male German Talent: Gabriele Münter's Work Perceived through Wassily Kandinsky's Eyes

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Reinhold Heller (University of Chicago) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Oct 06, 2005

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 20, 2005 - Oct 22, 2005

4th Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Italy) | Conveners: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University, Berlin), Johannes Fried (University of Frankfurt), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jonathan Skolnik (GHI)

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Oct 27, 2005

Künstlergruppe Brücke and the Public Sphere: The Formation of the Modern Woman Patron and Collector

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Shulamith Behr (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Nov 01, 2005

Dramatizing German History: A Conversation with Michael Frayn

Discussion at the Theater DCJCC, Washington, DC in collaboration with the DCJCC and the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC | Following the discussion, attend the final Pay-What-You-Can preview performance of Theater J's Washington premiere premiere production of Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend.

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Nov 02, 2005

American Presidents and the Germans, 1945-2005

Lecture at the Adams House, Harvard University | Speaker: Robert Gerald Livingston (German Historical Institute)

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Nov 03, 2005

Franz Marc at the Lenbachhaus

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Annegret Hoberg (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Nov 04, 2005

A Flaneur Between Rubble and Ruins - Friedrich Seidenstücker: Photographs of Berlin after 1945

Exhibition at the GHI, Opening and lecture on November 04, 2005. | Presenter: Antje Schunke, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

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Nov 10, 2005

Expressionism and the Third Reich

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jonathan Petropoulos (Claremont McKenna College) | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Nov 17, 2005

Transnational Borderlands: Metropolitan Growth in the United States, Germany, and Japan since World War II

19th Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speakers: Kenneth T. Jackson (Columbia University), Commentator: Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hanover)

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Nov 18, 2005

14th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Jesse A. Spohnholz (Grinnell College) and Eli Rubin (Western Michigan University)

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Dec 01, 2005 - Dec 03, 2005

The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Dorothee Brantz (SUNY Buffalo, GHI), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University, GHI), Christof Mauch (GHI), Jennifer Price (Los Angeles)

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Dec 01, 2005

Urban Nature and Human Design

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Anne Whiston Spirn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Dec 08, 2005

"Kunst der Freiheit" or "Phänomen spätbürgerlicher Dekadenz"? The Art of Die Brücke in the Cold War

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Christian Saehrendt (Humboldt University, Berlin), In conjunction with the GHI's fall lecture series One Hundred Years of German Expressionism | Lecture Series: One Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the Public

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Jan 19, 2006

Being Jewish in the New Germany

Reception at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace

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Feb 16, 2006

Knowledge: Science & Education in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), Christoph Strupp (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Feb 20, 2006

DADA: The Geographic Dimension

A lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Timothy Benson (Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

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Mar 16, 2006 - Mar 18, 2006

Jesters, Jokes, and Laughter: The Politics of Humour in the 20th Century

Conference at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto | Conveners: Martina Kessel (University of Bielefeld), Patrick Merziger (Free University Berlin), Dirk Schumann (GHI)

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Mar 22, 2006 - Mar 25, 2006

Crossovers: African Americans and Germany

Conference at the University of Münster | Conveners: Maria Diedrich (University of Münster), Larry Greene/Jürgen Heinrichs (Seton Hall University), Anke Ortlepp (GHI)

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Mar 24, 2006 - Mar 26, 2006

Western Integration, German Unification and the Cold War: The Adenauer Era in Perspective

Conference at the Georgetown University (Riggs Library) | Conveners: Jost Dülffer (BMW Center of German and European Studies), Bernd Schäfer (German Historical Institute)

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Mar 30, 2006 - Apr 02, 2006

Philanthropy in History: German and American Perspectives

Conference at the GHI in cooperation with the Stiiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft | Conveners: Simone Lässig (GHI), Gabriele Lingelbach (Universität Trier), Thomas Adam (University of Texas, Arlington, TX)

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Mar 30, 2006

Sacred Space: Women, Philanthropy, and the Public Sphere

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathleen D. McCarthy (CUNY)

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Apr 06, 2006

Cinema and the Urban Imagination in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Apr 13, 2006

Modern Constitutional Law and Legal Culture in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg), Dieter Gosewinkel (Berlin Center for Social Science Research) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Apr 20, 2006 - Apr 22, 2006

Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World

Conference at King's Manor, York (UK) | Conveners: Richard J. Bessel (U. of York) , Claudia Haake (U. of York) , Dirk Schumann (GHI), Karina Urbach (GHI London)

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Apr 22, 2006

Imagining the Nation: Visual Representation of Race from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

Offsite session of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at the GHI | Participants: Isabell Cserno (University of Maryland, College Park), Cynthia Patterson (University of South Florida, Lakeland), Barbara Ryan (National University of Singapore), Robin Veder (Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg).

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Apr 26, 2006 - Apr 29, 2006

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1930 - 1960

Conference at the University of Freiburg | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiburg), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 02, 2006 - May 03, 2006

Jews and Modernity: Beyond the Nation

Conference at the Canadian University Conference Centre in Berlin (Germany) | Conveners: Derek Penslar (U. of Toronto), Tobias Brinkmann (U. of Southampton), Simone Lässig (GHI, Washington, DC)

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May 04, 2006

German Imperial Biographies: Soldiers, Scientists, and Officials and the 'Arendt Thesis'

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Eric D. Weitz (U. of Minnesota), Jürgen Zimmerer (U. of Essen), Karen Oslund (GHI)

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May 05, 2006 - May 07, 2006

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Environment

Conference at the GHI | Co-conveners: Karen Oslund, Niels Brimnes (U. of Aarhus, Denmark), Christina Folke Ax and Niklas Thode Jensen (U. of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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May 11, 2006

Gender and the Family in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara), Christiane Eifert (University of Bielefeld) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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May 12, 2006 - May 13, 2006

German Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: The European and Global Response

Conference at Mershon International Center (Ohio State University, Columbus) | Conveners: Carole Fink (OSU), Bernd Schäfer (GHI)

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May 13, 2006 - Jun 30, 2006

Elzbieta Sikorska: Forest Drawings

Exhibition at the GHI

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May 15, 2006

Meinecke's Protégé: German Emigré Historians Between Two Worlds

Symposium at the GHI | Convener: Gerhard A. Ritter (University of Munich), Comment by James J. Sheehan (Stanford University)

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May 18, 2006

Markets and Consumer Culture in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute, Florence), Paul Nolte (The Free University, Berlin) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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May 25, 2006

Two Nation's Natures: Environment in America and Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Christof Mauch (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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May 31, 2006

My Relationship to Beethoven

7th Gerd Bucerius Lecture at The Westin Embassy Row Hotel, Washington DC | Speaker: Kurt Masur (Leipzig, London, Paris)

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Jun 19, 2006 - Jun 30, 2006

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2006

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Anke Ortlepp (GHI)

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Jun 22, 2006 - Jun 25, 2006

Pückler and America

Conference in cooperation with the Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau in Bad Muskau, Germany | Conveners: Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI, Auburn University), Cord Panning (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)

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Jun 26, 2006

World Rivers in History

Plenary Session at the Great Rivers Conference, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse | Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Aug 25, 2006

The Forgotten Generation: The First Generation of Spanish Immigrants in Hamburg

Film Screening and discussion Co-sponsored by the GHI, the Spanish Embassy, and the Goethe Institute | Speakers: Film director Ainhoa Montoya Arteabaro

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Sep 04, 2006 - Sep 16, 2006

Bucerius Seminar 2006: American History and American Archives

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Conveners: Kathleen N. Conzen (University of Chicago), Andreas Etges (Free University of Berlin), Christof Mauch (GHI) | Co-organized by the GHI, the Department of History of the University of Chicago, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Unviersität Berlin; sponsored by the ZEIT Foundation Gerd and Ebelin Bucerius

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Sep 06, 2006

Between Heaven and Earth: Anselm Kiefer's Purgatory

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Dorothea Dietrich (Corcoran College of Art + Design)

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Sep 14, 2006

Writing presidential biographies, doing research in Presidential Libraries

Workshop at the GHI (part of Bucerius Archives Seminar) with Robert Dallek | Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Sep 21, 2006

Migration in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Tobias Brinkmann (University of Southampton), Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College, OH) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Oct 03, 2006

Bridging the Oder: Reflections on Poland, Germany, and the Transformation of Europe

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Gesine Schwan and Janusz Reiter, Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Oct 05, 2006

Mass Politics in Germany and the United States: Paradoxes of Participation

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Oct 20, 2006

Parsing Prussian Personality: Christian Thomasius and the Psychogram

Fourth Edmund Spevack Memorial Lecture at Adams House, Harvard University | Speaker: Mack Walker (Johns Hopkins University), Conveners: David Blackbourn (Harvard University), Christof Mauch (GHI) Adams House, Harvard University

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Oct 26, 2006

Franz Steiner Prize Award 2006

Prize Ceremony in Neues Schloss, Stuttgart | Conveners: Ulrich Bachteler (James F. Byrnes Institute), Christof Mauch (GHI), Thomas Schaber (Steiner Verlag)

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Oct 26, 2006

Discipline: Schools, the Military, and the Shaping of Future Citizens in Germany and the United States, 1890 - 2000

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Dirk Schumann (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Judith Sealander (Bowling Green State University) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Nov 02, 2006

Empire and Nation: Studies from the United States and Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Thomas Bender (New York University, NY), Michael Geyer (University of Chicago, IL) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Nov 05, 2006

A Resource Rediscovered: The Reopening of the German Society of Pennsylvania Library

Symposion at the Joseph B. Horner Library | Conveners: Hardy von Auenmüller (German Society of Pennsylvania) and Dirk Schumann (GHI)

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Nov 09, 2006

The Welfare State in Germany and the United States

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Daniel Letwin (Pennsylvania State University), Gabriele Metzler (University of Tübingen) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Nov 16, 2006

Europe as a Community of Memory?

20th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Speaker: Aleida Assmann and Peter Novick, Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Nov 17, 2006

15th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize and Honoring Konrad Jarausch (First President of the Friends of the GHI) at the GHI | Prize Winner: Lars Maischak (California State University at Fresno); Speakers: Elizabeth D. Heinemann (University of Iowa), and Christoph Klessmann (University of Potsdam)

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Nov 30, 2006

Labor and Industry in the United States and Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Colleen Dunlavy (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Dec 07, 2006

Media in the United States and Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg), Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary College, University of London) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Dec 14, 2006

Religion in the United States and Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Philipp Gassert (University of Heidelberg), Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary College, University of London) | Lecture Series: Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present

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Jan 29, 2007

The Five Germanys He Has Known: Symposium in Honor of Fritz Stern

Event at the Westin Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC | Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI) in collaboration with Jeff Andersen (BMW Center for German and European Studies) and Jackson Janes (AICGS)

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Feb 14, 2007

Presentation of the Helmut Schmidt Prize of the ZEIT Stiftung Hamburg

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI | Laudator: Gerald D. Feldman (Berkeley), Convener: Christof Mauch (GHI)

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Feb 16, 2007 - Feb 18, 2007

Histories of the Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective

Conference at the University of California, San Diego | Conveners: Frank Biess (UC California, San Diego), Robert Moeller (UC California, Irvine), Gisela Mettele (GHI)

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Feb 21, 2007

Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York

Book Presentation (Berlin, Germany) | Conveners: Corinna Unger (GHI) and Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hamburg)

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Feb 24, 2007

Farewell for Christof Mauch

Event at the GHI | Speakers: Gerald D. Feldman (Friends of the GHI), Wolfgang Schieder (DGIA), Friedrich Lenger (GHI), Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Anke Ortlepp (GHI), John McNeill (Georgetown University), Timothy Naftali (University of Virginia)

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Mar 01, 2007

Globalization and Nation: The German Empire until 1918

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin) | Lecture Series: Empire in German and American History

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Mar 08, 2007

Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Charles Maier (Harvard University) | Lecture Series: Empire in German and American History

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Mar 10, 2007

Colonialism and German Notions of Empire, 1918-1945

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Birthe Kundrus (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) | Lecture Series: Empire in German and American History

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Mar 19, 2007

Irresistible Empire? America’s Global Cultural Attraction

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University) | Lecture Series: Empire in German and American History

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Mar 21, 2007

Max Weber - A Passionate Thinker (Max Weber - Die Leidenschaft des Denkens, 2005)

Lecture and Discussion at the Goethe-Institut with author Joachim Radkau and Lawrence Scaff | Convener: Gisela Mettele

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Mar 22, 2007 - Mar 25, 2007

Environmental History and the Cold War

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: John McNeill (Georgetown University), Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Mar 29, 2007 - Apr 01, 2007

Beyond the Nation: U.S. History in Transnational Perspective

Young Scholars Forum at the University of Texas at Arlington | Conveners: Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington) and Uwe Lübken (GHI)

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Mar 29, 2007

Empire by Land or Sea: Germany's Imperial Imaginary

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) | Lecture Series: Empire in German and American History

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Apr 30, 2007

'The Life of Others'? The GDR Revisited

Panel Discussion at the GHI

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May 02, 2007 - May 05, 2007

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1945-1990

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 02, 2007

New European Dynamics in Promoting Science and Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States and Europe

Panel Discussion at the German Embassy | Convener: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Volker Rieke (Deutsche Botschaft), Marion Müller (DFG)

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May 04, 2007

Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library: An exhibition of photographs by Colin Loughlin

Opening Reception at the GHI | Convener: Kelly McCullough (GHI)

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May 11, 2007 - May 12, 2007

Mass Migration and Urban Governance: Cities in the United States and in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Marcus Gräser (University of Frankfurt/NEH-GHI Fellow), Daniel Czitrom (Mount Holyoke College, NEH Fellow), Gisela Mettele (GHI)

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May 17, 2007 - May 19, 2007

Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 - 1820

Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Karen Hagemann (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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May 18, 2007 - May 19, 2007

The Uses of Immigrant Letters

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Wolfgang Helbich (Bochum), Anke Ortlepp (GHI)

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May 20, 2007 - May 27, 2007

Either/Or

Post-Performance Discussion at the Theater J | Jointly sponsored by the GHI, the Goethe-Institute and Theater J

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May 22, 2007

Between Kosovo and Iraq: The Process of Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship

8th Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, Washington DC | Speaker: Joschka Fischer

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Jun 05, 2007 - Jun 09, 2007

Exploring Transnationalism in Environmental History

GHI Panel at the Fourth Conference of the European Society for Environmental History in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | Panelists: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Dorothee Brantz (State University of New York, Buffalo), Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University), chaired by Christof Mauch (GHI/LMU Munich)

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Jun 12, 2007

Foto and Modernity: An Overview

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Matthew S. Witkovsky (National Gallery of Art)

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Jun 21, 2007 - Jul 23, 2007

Toward a New Transatlantic Space? Changing Perceptions of Identity, Belonging, and Space in the Atlantic World

Conference in Leipzig | Conveners: Hartmut Keil (Leipzig), Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Jun 22, 2007

Inward Turn - Photographs by Lotte Jacobi

Exhibition opening at the GHI | Organizer: Kelly McCullough (GHI)

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Jun 25, 2007 - Jul 06, 2007

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Jun 26, 2007

Here Comes the New Photographer!: The 1929 Film und Foto Exhibition and Photography's Emergence as a Language

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

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Jul 12, 2007 - Jul 14, 2007

Local, Regional and Global Constructions of Christianity: Religious Communication Networks, 1680 - 1830

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Gisela Mettele (GHI)

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Jul 21, 2007

Michael Frayn's "Democracy"

Panel Discussion with the audience at the Olney Theater (Olney, MD) | Conveners: Gerald Livingston (GHI), Gisela Mettele (GHI)

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Sep 06, 2007 - Sep 08, 2007

Reading Hamburg: Anglo-American Perspectives Hamburg verstehen: Anglo-amerikanische Perspektive

Conference at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH) | Conveners: Axel Schildt (FZH/Universität Hamburg), Christoph Strupp (GHI), Dorothee Wierling (FZH/Universität Hamburg)

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Sep 07, 2007

The Palucca School in Dresden - Photographs by Günter Bersch

Exhibition opening at GHI | Organizer: Kelly McCullough (GHI)

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Sep 13, 2007 - Sep 14, 2007

Pleasure, Power and Everyday Life under National Socialism

Conference at the GHI Paris | Conveners: Fabrice d'Almeida (IHTP, Paris), Corey Ross (Univ. of Birmingham), Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Sep 13, 2007 - Sep 15, 2007

Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Uwe Lübken (GHI) and Christof Mauch (University of Munich)

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Sep 27, 2007

Ideology and Terror in the Red Decade: Reflections on Communism, Anti-Zionism, and the Memory of Terrorism's Victims

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland) | Lecture Series: The “German Autumn” of 1977: Terror, State, and Society in West Germany

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Oct 03, 2007

Reflections on Unification

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bärbel Bohley

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Oct 04, 2007 - Oct 06, 2007

"A Humanitarian as Broad as the World": Abraham Lincoln's Legacy in International Context

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Gabor Boritt (Gettysrg College), Uwe Lübken (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Jörg Nagler (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

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Oct 04, 2007 - Oct 06, 2007

Caribbean Encounters: A German Missionary's Discovery of the New World

GHI sponsored Panel at the German Studies Association (San Diego, CA) | Panelist: Gisela Mettele (GHI)

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Oct 09, 2007

Still a Community of Values?: Historical Reflections on the Normative Basis of the West

Lecture at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Kenney Auditorium | Lecture by Heinrich August Winkler (Humboldt University Berlin), Comment by Stephen F. Szabo (The German Marshall Fund)

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Oct 11, 2007 - Oct 14, 2007

5th Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI), Karsten Plöger (GHI London) | Joint seminar of the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington

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Oct 18, 2007 - Oct 20, 2007

Fourth Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies

Washington, DC

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Oct 25, 2007

Refusing to be "Good Germans": New Left Violence as a Global Phenomenon

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jeremy Varon (Drew University) | Lecture Series: The “German Autumn” of 1977: Terror, State, and Society in West Germany

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Nov 01, 2007

Terror and Security: Law Enforcement, the Media, and Social Change in West Germany during the 1970s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld) | Lecture Series: The “German Autumn” of 1977: Terror, State, and Society in West Germany

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Nov 08, 2007

Militant Subcultures: The Origins of West German Terrorism in the Late 1960s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen) | Lecture Series: The “German Autumn” of 1977: Terror, State, and Society in West Germany

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Nov 09, 2007

Between the Lines

Film Screening at the Woodrow Wilson Center

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Nov 09, 2007 - Sep 10, 2007

Practices and Power in the Everyday Life of the Twentieth Century

Symposium in Honor of Alf Lüdtke at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) | Conveners: Kathleen Canning (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Geoff Eley (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Convener for the GHI: Carola Dietze (GHI)

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Nov 14, 2007

Terrorism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: New Research and Sources in Europe and the USA

Workshop at the Tulane University, New Orleans | Conveners: Anke Hilbrenner (University of Bonn), Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (University of Munic), Carola Dietze (GHI)

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Nov 15, 2007

The Future of the Sovereign State: Some Historical Reflections on the German Case

21st Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: James J. Sheehan (Stanford University), Commentator: Cornelia Rauh-Kühne (University of Hannover)

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Nov 16, 2007

16th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Monica Black (University of Virginia) and Winson Chu (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

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Nov 29, 2007

Stammheim and Majdanek: Prosecuting Terrorists and Nazis in 1970s West Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Rebecca Wittman (University of Toronto) | Lecture Series: The “German Autumn” of 1977: Terror, State, and Society in West Germany

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Dec 06, 2007

The Regionalization of World Migration, 1840 - 1930

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Adam McKeown

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Dec 06, 2007 - Dec 08, 2007

Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migration 1830s to 1930s

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), Marcel van der Linden (Institute of Social History - Amsterdam, NL), Donna Gabbacia (Immigration History Research Center), Dirk Hoerder (Arizona State University)

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Jan 25, 2008 - Feb 27, 2008

Transregional and Transnational Families

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Gisela Mettele (GHI), David Sabean (UCLA), Christopher Johnson (Wayne State University), Francesca Trivellato (Yale University), Simon Teuscher (Universität Zürich)

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Jan 29, 2008

Max Mohr: One Story, Two Tellings

Goethe Institute (Washington DC)

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Jan 30, 2008

Celebrating 325 Years: German Migration to the United States

Panel discussion at The Union League, Lincoln Hall (Philadelphia)

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Feb 01, 2008

Photo-Exhibition: Pilgrims on the Ohio

Opening Reception

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Feb 21, 2008 - Feb 23, 2008

Managing the Unknown: Natural Resources and Reserves in History

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Frank Uekötter (Deutsches Museum München)

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Mar 13, 2008

Of Borderstates and Leeches: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Maria Diedrich (Universität Münster) | Lecture Series: African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

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Mar 28, 2008 - Mar 29, 2008

Modernization as a Global Project: American, Soviet, and European Approaches

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI), David Engerman (Brandeis University)

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Apr 12, 2008

1968 - 40 Years Later

Workshop at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie NY)

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Apr 17, 2008

Black Germans, Photography and the 'Evidence' of History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Tina Campt (Duke University) | Lecture Series: African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

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Apr 24, 2008

Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute and the German Empire: Race and Cotton in the Black Atlantic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) | Lecture Series: African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

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May 02, 2008

New Perspectives on National Socialism and Global War: Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg

Conference at the GHI Washington | Conveners: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Philipp Gassert (GHI), Alan Steinweis (University of Nebraska)

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May 05, 2008

Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Viva Maria! May 05, 2008

Film Screening at the Goethe Institut

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May 08, 2008

"I Prefer Panthers to Pigs": German Students, Black Panther GIs and the 1970/71 Racial Crisis in the 7th Army

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Maria Höhn (Vassar College) | Lecture Series: African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

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May 13, 2008

Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Students in Revolt

Film Screening at the Goethe Institut

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May 14, 2008

One, Two, Three, Many 1968s? - Lessons and Legacies of the 1960s

Panel discussion at the GHI

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May 15, 2008 - May 17, 2008

Fire and Flammable Cities: Urban Environment and Culture in History

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Uwe Lübken (GHI), Greg Bankoff (University of Hull), Jordan Sand (Georgetown University)

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May 19, 2008

Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: Blow-Up

Film Screening at the Goethe Institut

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May 21, 2008

Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective: The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri)

Film Screening at the Goethe Institut

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May 22, 2008

Hitler's Black Victims: Black Resistance and Oppression under Nazism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Clarence Lusane (American University) | Lecture Series: African Americans and Germans: Historical Encounters

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May 23, 2008 - May 24, 2008

Public Eating, Public Drinking: Places of Consumption from early Modern to Postmodern Times

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Maren Möhring

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May 28, 2008 - May 31, 2008

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Early Modern German History

Conference at the Free University, Berlin | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Claudia Ulbrich (FU Berlin), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 29, 2008 - May 31, 2008

Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina), Sonya Michel (University of Maryland), Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Jun 05, 2008 - Jun 07, 2008

Why Terrorists Stop: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Global Comparison

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Alia Ayub (Hoover Institution), Carola Dietze (GHI), Christof Mauch (University of Munich), Timothy J. Naftali (Hoover Institution)

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Jun 05, 2008

Terrorism - Yesterday and Today

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Stefan Aust (Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel, 1994-2008), Bruce Hoffmann (Georgetown University)

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Jun 12, 2008 - Jun 14, 2008

Civilising Nature: National Parks in Transnational Historical Perspective

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Bernhard Gissibl (University of Mannheim, Germany), Sabine Hoehler (GHI), Patrick Kupper (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

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Jun 16, 2008 - Jun 27, 2008

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2008

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Jun 20, 2008

Competing Modernities: The United States and Germany, 1890 to Present

Book presentation at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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Sep 10, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 11, 2008

Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press

9th Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, Washington DC | Speaker: Jutta Limbach (Former Chief Judge, German Supreme Court and former President of the Goethe-Institut)

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Sep 17, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 18, 2008

Enticement and Deprivation: Consumption under Hitler

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) | Lecture Series: New Perspectives on the Economic History of National Socialism

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Sep 24, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 25, 2008 - Sep 27, 2008

Human Breeding for the Improvement of the Nations: Proto-Eugenic Thinking before Galton

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Maren Lorenz (GHI), Christoph Irmscher (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

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Oct 01, 2008

"Nature Incorporated": Business History and Environmental Change

GHI sponsored panel at the 47. Deutscher Historikertag | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) and Mathias Mutz (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Environmental History, University of Göttingen). Participants: Manfred Grieger (Wolfsburg), Tyler Priest (Houston), Christine Meisner Rosen (Berkeley)

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Oct 01, 2008

Travel for Everyone?

GHI sponsored panel at the 47. Deutscher Historikertag

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Oct 03, 2008

The Peaceful Revolution of 1989

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Marianne Birthler (Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR)

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Oct 04, 2008

Making History in Kohl's Republic: The Politics of the Past in the 1980s and 1990s

GHI-sponsored panel at the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Paul (MI) | Convener and chair: Philipp Gassert (GHI). Participants: Nicolas Berg (Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig), Suzanne Brown-Fleming (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington DC), Jacob S. Eder (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Jan-Holger Kirsch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam), Joachim Scholtyseck (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn)

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Oct 08, 2008

What is a European Classic of Contemporary History?

Luncheon at the GHI with Dr. Nicolas Berg (Universitaet Leizig) and Dr. Jan-Holger Kirsch (Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam)

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Oct 08, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 09, 2008 - Oct 11, 2008

Nature's Accountability: Aggregation and Governmentality in the History of Sustainability

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Sabine Höhler (GHI), Rafael Ziegler (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany)

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Oct 09, 2008 - Oct 11, 2008

Trajectories of Decolonization: Elites and the Transformation from the Colonial to the Postcolonial

Conference in Cologne | Conveners: Jost Dülffer (University of Cologne) and Marc Frey (Jacobs University, Bremen)

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Oct 15, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 16, 2008

Corporate Freedom of Action in Nazi Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) | Lecture Series: New Perspectives on the Economic History of National Socialism

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Oct 23, 2008

Franz Steiner Prize Award 2008

Prize Ceremony in Stuttgart

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Oct 23, 2008 - Oct 24, 2008

Symposium in Memoriam of Gerald D. Feldman

Berlin

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Oct 23, 2008 - Oct 26, 2008

Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Political Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Conference at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA | Convener: Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Mareike König (GHI Paris), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London), Claudia Verhoeven (George Mason University/EUI Florenz)

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Oct 30, 2008

Konkurrenz und Konvergenz: Die USA und Deutschland im Wettlauf um die Moderne

Symposium at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg | Convener: Christoph Strupp (FZH Hamburg)

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Oct 30, 2008 - Nov 01, 2008

A Whole New Game: Expanding the Boundaries of the History of Sports

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Stefan Wiederkehr (GHI Warschau), Uta Balbier (GHI Washington)

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Nov 05, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 06, 2008

Commercial Advertising in Nazi Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Pamela Swett (McMaster University) | Lecture Series: New Perspectives on the Economic History of National Socialism

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Nov 07, 2008 - Nov 08, 2008

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Research, and Future Agendas

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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Nov 12, 2008 - Nov 15, 2008

Global Migration Systems of Domestic and Care Workers

Converence at York University, Toronto | Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI), Valerie Preston (York University), Wenona Giles (York University), Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto)

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Nov 13, 2008

The Natural Sciences and Democratic Practices: Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Max Planck

22nd Annual Lecture of the GHI | Speaker: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (University of Cologne), Commentator: Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley)

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Nov 14, 2008

17th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Marti Lybeck (University of Wisconsin La Crosse)

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Nov 14, 2008

Civilizing Capitalism? The Beginnings of Credit Rating in the United States and Germany: Inaugural Lecture Hartmut Berghoff

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hartmut Berghoff (Director GHI)

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Nov 19, 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. and Germany in the 1960s

Panel discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Martin Klimke (GHI), Maria Höhn (Vassar College), Leroy Hopkins (Millersville State University

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Nov 19, 2008 - Jan 15, 2009

African American Civil Rights and Germany

Exhibition at the GHI | Curators: Martin Klimke (GHI), Maria Höhn (Vassar College)

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Nov 20, 2008 - Nov 22, 2008

Engineering Society: The "Scientification of the Social" in Comparative Perspective 1880-1990

Conference at the University of Sheffield | Conveners: Kerstin Brückweh (GHI London), Dirk Schumann (Jacobs University Bremen), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI), Benjamin Ziemann (Univ. of Sheffield)

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Nov 20, 2008

The Economic Development of Germany in the 'Third Reich': A Comparison with the Post-World War II Period

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Christoph Buchheim (University of Mannheim) | Lecture Series: New Perspectives on the Economic History of National Socialism

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Nov 26, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Dec 02, 2008

The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship between the U.S. and Europe

Discussion at the GHI | Dr. Thomas Bagger (Deputy Head of the Political Division, German Embassy, Washington DC), Emily Schmidt (CDS International), Introduced by Dr. Philipp Gassert (GHI)

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Dec 03, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Dec 04, 2008

Between Science and Politics: Economics and National Socialism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jan-Otmar Hesse (University of Göttingen) | Lecture Series: New Perspectives on the Economic History of National Socialism

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Dec 05, 2008 - Dec 07, 2008

Writing East German History: What Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make?

Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Conveners: Uta Balbier (GHI), Benita Blessing (Ohio University), Geoff Eley (University of Michigan), and Heather Gumbert (Virginia Tech University) | Cosponsored by the GHI Washington, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the following institutions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, International Institute, College of LSA, Department of History, Department of German, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and Office of the Vice President for Research; as well as the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of History at Western Michigan University

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Dec 10, 2008

GHI Research Seminar


Jan 03, 2009

Languages: Sine Qua Non for Globalizing Historiography

GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York

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Jan 04, 2009

Problematizing Transatlantic History: German-American Perspectives

GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York

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Jan 05, 2009

Facing the Challenge of a New Religious History: Post-1945 American Religion as a Site of Historical Inquiry in Germany

GHI-sponsored panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York

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Jan 13, 2009

Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Harvard Sitkoff (University of New Hampshire)

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Jan 14, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Jan 20, 2009

Immer eine Nasenlänge voraus? Amerika und Deutschland im Wettlauf um die Moderne

Symposium in Kaiserslautern | Convener: Werner Kremp (Atlantische Akademie) | Speaker: Christof Mauch (University of Munich)

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Jan 21, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Jan 22, 2009

Special Screening of The Reader

Screening at the AFI Theater in Silver Spring, MD | Panel Discussion following film featuring Philipp Gassert (GHI Washington)

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Jan 28, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Feb 11, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Feb 25, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 04, 2009 - Mar 06, 2009

1968 in the US, Japan and Germany: Political Protest and Cultural Change

Conference at the Japanese-German Center, Berlin | Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI/HCA Heidelberg), Yoshie Mitobe (Meiji University, Tokyo), Joachim Scharloth (University of Zurich) and Laura Wong (Harvard University)

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Mar 11, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 12, 2009

Germany in Europe: Twenty Years After Unification

10th Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the The Fairfax at Embassy Row, Washington DC | Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf

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Mar 13, 2009 - Mar 14, 2009

Representing Poverty: American and European Perspectives

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (GHI) and Christoph Ribbat (University of Paderborn)

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Mar 13, 2009

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

Keynote lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Leon Dash (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Mar 18, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Mar 18, 2009

Networking the International System

Luncheon at the GHI | Convener: Ines Prodöhl (GHI) | Speakers: Cornelia Knab, Maya Okuda, Christiane Sibille (University of Heidelberg)

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Mar 19, 2009 - Mar 21, 2009

Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI Washington), Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (History Department, University of Bremen), and Mischa Honeck (Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg)

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Mar 20, 2009

'Kasseler Neger - Kasseler Mohren?' Silenced Narratives of the African Diaspora in Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Maria I. Diedrich (Universität Münster)

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Mar 26, 2009 - Mar 28, 2009

Nuclear Armament, Peace Movements, and the Second Cold War: The 1979 NATO Double Track Decision in German-German and International Perspective

Conference at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin | Convenors: Philipp Gassert (GHI), Tim Geiger (IfZ), Hermann Wentker (IfZ) | Sponsored by the GHI and the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) Munich-Berlin

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Mar 26, 2009

The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard E. Sylla (New York University) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

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Mar 28, 2009

To Police and Protect: The Surveillance of Homosexuality in Imperial Berlin

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar at the GHI | Speaker: Robert Beachy (Goucher College), Convener: Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University)

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Apr 15, 2009

Songs from Weimar Berlin

An Evening of Cabaret at the GHI | Performance at the GHI, in cooperation with the In Series theater company

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Apr 22, 2009

Sexuality, Race, and Politics: Historical Perspectives on Antebellum

Discussion at Woolly Mammoth Theatre | Moderator: Miriam Weisfeld (Woolly Mammoth). Speakers: Martin Klimke (GHI), Anke Ortlepp (GHI) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI).

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Apr 22, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Apr 23, 2009

GHI Doctoral Seminar


Apr 23, 2009

The Great Depression: Can It Recur?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Harold James (Princeton University) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

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Apr 29, 2009 - May 02, 2009

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth Century

Conference at the GHI and Georgetown University | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Apr 30, 2009

The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920's

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Eugene N. White (Rutgers University) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

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May 04, 2009

Alexander von Humboldt - A Man for the 21st Century

Roundtable discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam), Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo), Kirsten Belgum (University of Texas at Austin), and moderator Frank Holl (Munich). This roundtable discussion is part of the event series Alexander von Humboldt - Remapping Global Perspectives, in cooperation with Dr. Frank Holl and the German Embassy, the Goethe-Institut Washington DC, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Associates.

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May 06, 2009

Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009

Lecture at the Library of Congress | Speaker: Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo)

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May 06, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


May 13, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


May 14, 2009

Round table discussion with Günter Nooke

Roundtable at the GHI | Panelist: Günter Nooke (Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe)

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May 21, 2009

Death or Rebirth? The End of the Bretton Woods System, 1968 - 1973

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: James J. Boughton (International Monetary Fund) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

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May 21, 2009 - May 22, 2009

Junior Scholars Conference on the Future of German-Jewish History

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Michael Brenner (University of Munich), John Efron (University of California at Berkeley), Marion Kaplan (New York University), Michael Meyer (Leo Baeck Institute, Cincinnati) | Co-organized by the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland, the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the German Historical Institute Washington

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May 27, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


May 29, 2009 - May 30, 2009

A World of Populations

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Heinrich Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin) and Corinna R. Unger (GHI)

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Jun 04, 2009

The Current Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Adam S. Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

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Jun 10, 2009

Haus des Rundfunks - Berlin's Broadcast House

Goethe-Institut Washington DC, GoetheForum

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Jun 10, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 17, 2009 - Jun 20, 2009

Global Challenge and Regional Response - Early-Twentieth-Century Northeast China's Encounters with the World

Conference at Heilongjiang University, Harbin (China)

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Jun 18, 2009 - Jun 20, 2009

The Short- and Long-Term Economic Effects of German Exploitation in Occupied Countries during World War II

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Jonas Scherner (GHI)

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Jun 22, 2009 - Jun 03, 2009

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2009

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Corinna Unger (GHI)

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Jun 24, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Jun 25, 2009 - Jun 27, 2009

"Public History" in Germany and the United States: Fields, Developments and Debates in Praxis and Theory

Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin | Conveners: Andreas Etges and Paul Nolte (FU Berlin) and Anke Ortlepp (GHI)

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Jun 25, 2009 - Jun 26, 2009

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

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Aug 06, 2009

GHI Doctoral Seminar


Sep 09, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 10, 2009 - Sep 11, 2009

Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias in Modernity

Workshop at the Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig | Conveners: Arndt Engelhardt (DI) and Ines Prodöhl (GHI Washington)

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Sep 16, 2009

Why Write a Book? From Lived Experience to the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

Grolier Club, New York (NY) | Lecture by Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

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Sep 17, 2009

East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall

Lecture at the GHI | Katherine Pence (Baruch College New York, NY) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

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Sep 17, 2009

GHI Doctoral Seminar


Sep 17, 2009 - Dec 18, 2009

Leipziger Herbst – The Peaceful Revolution of 1989

Photo Exhibition at the GHI | organized in collaboration with the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig

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Sep 23, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Sep 23, 2009

Yes, We Can! Political Rhetoric in the U.S. and German Elections

Panel Discussion at the Goethe-Institut Washington

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Sep 24, 2009

A Culture of Decline? Politics, Economy, and Social Life in East Germany

Panel Discussion at Johns Hopkins SAIS | jointly organized by AICGS and the German Historial Institute

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Sep 24, 2009 - Sep 26, 2009

Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy in the 20th Century

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Balbier (GHI)

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Oct 01, 2009 - Oct 04, 2009

African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century

Conference at Vassar College | Conveners: Maria Höhn (Vassar College) and Martin Klimke (GHI)

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Oct 01, 2009 - Oct 03, 2009

Germans' Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949 - 2009

Conference at the Wende Museum and the University of California at Los Angeles | Conveners: Uta Balbier (GHI), Philipp Gassert (Augsburg), Justinian Jampol (Wende Museum), Robert G. Moeller (UC Irvine)

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Oct 02, 2009

The Diplomatic Path to German Unity: A Tribute to American Friends

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank Elbe

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Oct 05, 2009 - Nov 30, 2009

Film Series - Wende Flicks: Last Films From East Germany

Film Screenings at the Goethe-Institut Washington DC, introduced by members of staff of the GHI: Uta A. Balbier, Martin Klimke, Ines Prodöhl, Jan Logemann, Uwe Spiekermann, Anke Ortlepp and Richard F. Wetzell

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Oct 05, 2009

Popular Culture, Memory, and German Unification: Heiner Carow's "The Mistake"

Lecture at Goethe Institut Washington DC | Barton Byg (Amherst, MA) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

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Oct 08, 2009 - Oct 11, 2009

6th Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Carola Dietze (GHI), Jochen Schenk (GHIL) | Joint seminar of the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington

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Oct 15, 2009

Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR)

Lecture at the GHI | Charles S. Maier (Harvard University) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

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Oct 15, 2009 - Oct 17, 2009

The Decline of the West? The Fate of the Atlantic Community after the Cold War

Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | Conveners: Philipp Gassert (GHI), Ronald Granieri (Penn), Eric Jarosinski (Penn), Frank Trommler (Penn)

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Oct 22, 2009 - Oct 25, 2009

Beyond the Racial State

Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington | Conveners: Devin Pendas (Boston College), Mark Roseman (Indiana University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Oct 26, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Oct 29, 2009

William R. Smyser - Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: "A Hell of a Lot Better than a War"

Book Presentation, Room LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress | Book presentation and panel discussion, sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and the GHI

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Oct 30, 2009 - Oct 31, 2009

Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions, and History

Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE) | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Roger Horowitz (Hagley), Philip Scranton (Hagley), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI) | Sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library and German Historical Institute Washington DC

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Nov 04, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Nov 05, 2009

On shoelaces, fishing manuals, and the fear of misspeaking

Lecture at the GHI | Katrin Askan (Berlin) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

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Nov 12, 2009

More than a Footnote? The Place of the GDR in Modern History

23rd Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University), Commentator: Thomas Lindenberger (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna)

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Nov 13, 2009

18th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Alison Clark (Marquette University) and Michael Meng (Davidson College)

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Nov 17, 2009

GHI Research Seminar


Dec 02, 2009

The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter

Books Presentation at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Dec 03, 2009

'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics

Lecture at the GHI | Daniel Hough (Sussex) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

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Dec 03, 2009

GHI Doctoral Seminar


Dec 04, 2009

The Birth of the Risk Economy: A Cultural and Institutional History of Futures Trading, 1880s - 1990s

Washington Area Economic History Seminar | Speaker: Alexander Engel (Georg-August University Göttingen), In cooperation with the Washington Area Economic History Seminar (WAEHS) at American University

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Dec 09, 2009

GHI Research Seminar

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI

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Dec 10, 2009

Banking Crises in Three Countries: An Historical and Comparative Perspective

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Tilly

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Jan 07, 2010

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in History: Concepts and Case Studies

GHI-sponsored Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

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Jan 13, 2010

The 'battle for rubber' and the Second World War: The impact of a global conflict on a commodity chain, 1931-1945

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | William Clarence-Smith (University of London)

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Jan 20, 2010

Getting Inside IG Farben: Problematik und Chancen der Nutzung von Unternehmensarchiven und persönlichen Nachlässen

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Stephan H. Lindner (Universität der Bundeswehr München, z.Zt. Chicago)

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Feb 03, 2010

Lektüre: Jürgen Osterhammel Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, pp: 13-22, 253-354, 1105-1301.

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI

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Feb 05, 2010 - Feb 06, 2010

Cultures of Credit: Consumer Lending and Borrowing in Modern Economies

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Jan Logemann

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Feb 11, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Feb 12, 2010 - Feb 14, 2010

Lives Beyond Borders: Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880-1960

Conference at the University of Heidelberg | Conveners: Madeleine Herren (Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", University of Heidelberg) and Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

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Feb 14, 2010

State, Society & Space: Transatlantic Differences in Shaping Postwar Mass Consumption in West Germany and the United States

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Jan Logemann (GHI Economic History Fellow)

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Feb 18, 2010

German Federal Minister of Education and Research Visits the GHI

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Annette Schavan

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Feb 24, 2010

Society for Owners? Finance Capitalism and Class Politics in Germany and the United States, 1974-2008

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Natascha van der Zwaan (New School for Social Research)

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Mar 03, 2010

Außenpolitik und Öffentlichkeit: Studien zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg, 1963-1974

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Peter Hoeres (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

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Mar 11, 2010

Germany Discovers the World: Scholarly Engagement with Foreign Cultures in the Age of Empire

Panel Discussion at GHI Washington | Speakers: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University Berlin), Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State University), and Anke Ortlepp (German Historical Institute)

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Mar 24, 2010 - Mar 26, 2010

The Peace Movement and the Second Cold War: European and Transatlantic Perspectives

Workshop at Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Heinrich-Böll- Stiftung, hbs) | Convener: Christoph Becker-Schaum (hbs), Philipp Gassert (GETK), Martin Klimke (GHI), Marianne Zepp (hbs)

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Mar 26, 2010

Immigrant Entrepreneurship

University of Georgia, Athens | GHI-organized Panel at the Business History Conference

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Mar 31, 2010

Deutsche Rabbiner im amerikanischen Exil, 1933-1989

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Cornelia Wilhelm (LMU München)

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Apr 08, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Apr 15, 2010

The World Historical in China's Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Globalization and Globality

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Rebecca E. Karl (New York University) | Series: History of Globalization - Globalization in History

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Apr 21, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Apr 21, 2010

The Postindustrial Challenge: American-European Relations and American Views of Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Ariane Leendertz (LMU München)

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Apr 28, 2010

Colonial Concentration Camp Systems: Origins and Historical Trajectory

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Claudia Siebrecht (Trinity College Dublin)

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Apr 29, 2010

Writing the History of Capitalism

1st Gerald D. Feldman Memoria Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (Free University, Berlin)

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Apr 30, 2010

The Stasi and its Foreign Intelligence Service

Workshop at the Wilson Center | Workshop at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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May 06, 2010

Critical Junctures of Globalization: Conceptualization and Examples

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig) | Series: History of Globalization - Globalization in History

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May 12, 2010 - May 15, 2010

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Twentieth-Century German History

Conference at the University of Jena | Conveners: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University), Norbert Frei (University of Jena), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 13, 2010

Thousands of Sites, Millions of Fates: New Insights into the Universe of Nazi Camps

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Geoffrey Megargee (USHMM) and Susanne Heim (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) | In collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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May 19, 2010

Comparisons versus Entanglements: Stalinism and Nazism in Light of Recent Historiography and Soviet Archival Research

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Michael David-Fox (University of Maryland, College Park)

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May 20, 2010

Population, Food, and Health: Global Problems in the Twentieth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alison Bashford (University of Sydney/Harvard University) | Series: History of Globalization - Globalization in History

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May 26, 2010

The Soybean in Global Perspective, 1900-1950

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Ines Prodöhl (GHI Washington DC)

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Jun 02, 2010

Flattening Out the World: Planarity in Early Modern Visual Culture

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Stephanie Leitch (Florida State University)

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Jun 09, 2010

Social Ideas in an Age of Fracture: Ideas and Arguments in the United States in the last Quarter of the 20th Century

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)

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Jun 10, 2010

Multinationals and Globalization: Engines of Growth, or Drivers of Inequality?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School) | Series: History of Globalization - Globalization in History

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Jun 10, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Jun 15, 2010 - Jun 24, 2010

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2010

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

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Jun 16, 2010

Besitzen, Vererben und Sein: Ein Modell zum Vergleich von Familienunternehmen in Deutschland und den USA

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Christina Lubinski (GHI Washington DC)

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Jun 23, 2010

Too Much Diplomacy? The Basel Committee and the Struggle to Stop Financial Crises, 1975-1988

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Marc Levinson (Council on Foreign Relations, New York)

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Jun 24, 2010

Religion and Violence in a Globalized World

11th Gerd Bucerius Lecture, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, Ballroom, Washington DC | Speaker: Wolfgang Huber

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Jul 15, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Aug 26, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 05, 2010 - Sep 17, 2010

Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2010: American History in Transatlantic Perspective

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, the University of Chicago's Department of History, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies; sponosored by the Robert Bosch Foundation

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Sep 08, 2010

Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944) Eine biographische Studie über den Faschismus und die Außenpolitik Italiens

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Tobias Hof (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München)

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Sep 08, 2010

Visualizing Europe. The Marshall Plan Information Films 1948-1954

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Maria Fritsche (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim)

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Sep 09, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 09, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 15, 2010

Fremde Blicke auf das "Dritte Reich": Konsulatsberichte aus der Zeit nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft 1933-1945. Eine Bilanz.

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Frank Bahjor (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg)

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Sep 23, 2010

Masculinity and its Commercialization

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Martschukat (Universität Erfurt) | Series: The Profitable Body: The Business of Beauty

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Sep 29, 2010

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience in the 19th and 20th Century

GHI-sponsored Panel at the 2010 Deutscher Historikertag in Berlin

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Oct 04, 2010

1990 - 2010: The Unfinished Business of Unifying Europe

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Wolfgang Ischinger

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Oct 13, 2010

Franz Steiner Prize Award 2010

Prize Ceremony in Stuttgart

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Oct 13, 2010

Billy Graham's Cold War Crusades: Mass-Evangelism, Consumerism and the Free World in Europe and the United States

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Uta Balbier (GHI Washington DC)

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Oct 14, 2010

Struggling for Beauty: Body Aesthetics and Social Conflicts in Modern History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas Kühne (Clark University, Worcester) | Series: The Profitable Body: The Business of Beauty

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Oct 15, 2010 - Oct 16, 2010

Globalizing Beauty: Body Aesthetics in the 20th Century

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI) and Thomas Kühne (Clark Univeristy)

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Oct 20, 2010

A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Martin Klimke (GHI Washington DC)

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Oct 28, 2010

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Entrepreneurs and Activism in the 20th Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Tiffany M. Gill (University of Texas, Austin) | Series: The Profitable Body: The Business of Beauty

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Nov 03, 2010

'Uncertain Knowledge': A History of Rumors and Gossip in the American South, 1783 - 1861

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Sebastian Jobs (Universität Rostock)

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Nov 03, 2010

Kalter Krieg in der Musik: Jazz und sozialistisches Massenlied im Radio 1945 - 1970

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Rüdiger Ritter (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Nov 04, 2010 - Nov 06, 2010

Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Eckart Conze (University of Marburg), Martin Klimke (GHI), Jeremy Varon (New School for Social Research, New York City)

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Nov 05, 2010

The Fate of the Earth Revisited: Nuclear Dangers Then and Now

Lecture and Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Jonathan Schell, Frida Berrigan (New America Foundation, New York, NY), and Philipp Gassert (University of Augsburg)

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Nov 11, 2010

Much Ado About Nothing? Rituals of Politics in Early Modern Europe and Today

24th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Commentator: David Luebke (University of Oregon)

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Nov 12, 2010

19th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Alice Weinreb (Northwestern University) and Yair Mintzker (Princeton University)

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Nov 15, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Rat der Götter (The Council of Gods)

Film Screening at the Wilson Center

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Nov 16, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Geteilte Himmel (The Divided Heaven)

Film Screening at the George Washington University

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Nov 17, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Streng Geheim (For Your Eyes Only)

Film Screening at the Wilson Center

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Nov 18, 2010

From the Nose Job to Face Transplants: A History of the Authentic Face

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sander Gilman (Emory University, Atlanta) | Series: The Profitable Body: The Business of Beauty

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Nov 18, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Der Schweigende Stern (The Silent Star)

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut

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Nov 18, 2010

Doctoral Seminar


Nov 19, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Sonnensucher (Sunseekers)

Film Screening at the Wilson Center

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Nov 20, 2010

The Cold War and Divided Germany in East German Cinematography: Letztes aus der DaDaeR (Latest from the Da-Da-R)

Film Screening at the George Washington University

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Dec 01, 2010

Die Entdeckung der Schläfrigkeit. Heinrich Kraut und die (Unter-) Ernaehrungsforschung im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie bis 1945

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Lutz Budrass (Ruhr Universität Bochum)

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Dec 09, 2010 - Dec 11, 2010

History by Generations: Generational Dynamics in Modern History

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Uffa Jensen (University of Göttingen), Christina Lubinski (GHI), and Bernd Weisbrod (University of Göttingen)

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Dec 15, 2010

The realization of the utopian? The Bund: League of Socialist Life - resistance, rescue, ... and silence

Research Seminar Presentation at the GHI | Mark Roseman (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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Jan 12, 2011

Research Seminar


Jan 20, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


Jan 26, 2011

Research Seminar


Feb 09, 2011

Research Seminar


Feb 18, 2011 - Feb 19, 2011

Going Global: Internationalization Pathways for Family Firms During the 19th and 20th Century

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Christina Lubinski (Harvard Business School, GHI) and Paloma Fernández Pérez (Dept. d'Història i Institucions. Econòmiques, Universitat de Barcelona) | Co-sponsored by the GHI Washington and Gerda Henkel Foundation Düsseldorf

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Feb 23, 2011

Research Seminar


Mar 02, 2011

Research Seminar


Mar 08, 2011

Radical Liaisons and Race: Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties

Panel Discussion at the New School for Social Research, New York | Speakers: Maria Höhn (Vassar College), Markin Klimke (GHI Washington), Jeremy Varon (New School for Social Research), and Norbert Frei (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

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Mar 10, 2011 - Mar 12, 2011

Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice in Modern Europe, 1870 - 1990

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington) and Kerstin Brückweh (GHI London)

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Mar 11, 2011

The German Foreign Service and its Nazi Past

Panel Discussion at GHI Washington | Orgnized by GHI Washington and USHMM; Participants: Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Norbert Frei (Universität Jena/New School for Social Research), Peter Hayes (Northwestern University), Miriam Rürup (German Historical Institute), and Klaus Scharioth (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany).

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Mar 16, 2011

Research Seminar


Mar 17, 2011 - Mar 19, 2011

Secularization and the Transformation of Religion in the U.S. and Germany after 1945

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Uta A. Balbier (GHI), Wilhelm Damberg (Bochum University), Lucian Hoelscher (Bochum University), Mark Ruff (Saint Louis University)

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Mar 24, 2011

Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Carol Anderson (Emory University) | Lecture Series: Crossing the Color Line: A Global History of the African American Freedom Struggle

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Mar 24, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


Apr 06, 2011

Research Seminar


Apr 07, 2011

"Who Still Talks about the Extermination of the Armenians?" German Talk and German Silences

2nd Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Margaret Anderson (University of California Berkeley)

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Apr 09, 2011

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar 2011: Johann Georg Forster: A Biography

Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar

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Apr 13, 2011

Research Seminar


Apr 14, 2011 - Apr 16, 2011

Economic Crime and the State in the Twentieth Century, a German-American Comparison

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Mario Daniels (GHI Washington)

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Apr 21, 2011

Global Perspective on the Black Freedom Struggle

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg) | Lecture Series: Crossing the Color Line: A Global History of the African American Freedom Struggle

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Apr 27, 2011

BUS-eum Exhibition at the German School of Washington

Exhibition at the German School Washington

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Apr 28, 2011

Legal Tradition and Economic Success

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mathias Schmoeckel (University of Bonn) | Co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Apr 28, 2011 - Apr 30, 2011

Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic Reality

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI, Washington D.C.), William J. Hausman (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA), Günther Schulz (University of Bonn)

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May 04, 2011

Research Seminar


May 05, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


May 10, 2011

Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century: The Future of Europe and the Transatlantic Partnership

12th Gerd Bucerius Lecture at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, Washington DC | Speaker: Gerhard Schröder

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May 18, 2011 - May 21, 2011

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Early Modern German History

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) and Roger Chickering (Georgetown University)

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May 25, 2011

Research Seminar


May 26, 2011

Black Expatriates and Civil Rights Activism in 1950/60s Ghana

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan) | Lecture Series: Crossing the Color Line: A Global History of the African American Freedom Struggle

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Jun 02, 2011

Cash, Crops, War and Peace

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Patricia Clavin (Oxford University)

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Jun 02, 2011 - Jun 04, 2011

Feeding and Clothing the World: Cash Crops and Global History

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Shane Hamilton (University of Georgia), Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

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Jun 08, 2011

Research Seminar


Jun 09, 2011

The Night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union, England: Race Protest in the Subversive Special Relationship

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Stephen Tuck (University of Oxford) | Lecture Series: Crossing the Color Line: A Global History of the African American Freedom Struggle

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Jun 13, 2011

Where are the Intellectuals? The Absence of Great Minds from Today's Key Political Debates

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Benjamin Barber (Demos), Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin), Christoph von Marschall (Der Tagesspiegel)

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Jun 14, 2011 - Jun 15, 2011

Second Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History

Conference at the USHMM and GHI Washington | Conveners: Michael Brenner (LMU-München), Miriam Rürup (GHI) | Co-organized by the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the German Historical Institute Washington

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Jun 16, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


Jun 19, 2011 - Jun 22, 2011

Risk and Uncertainty in the Economy: Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Perspectives

Conference at Villa Vigoni, Italy | Conveners: Jens Beckert (Max-Planck-Institut, Köln), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI)

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Jun 21, 2011

Workshop with Veterans from the Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, DC

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Martin Klimke

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Jun 23, 2011 - Jun 25, 2011

Writing Post-1970 History: Conceptualizing‚Ä© the ‚Ä©Late ‚Ä©Twentieth ‚Ä©Century ‚Ä©in German‚Ä© and ‚Ä©American‚Ä© Historiography

Workshop at the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Conveners: Ariane Leendertz (GHI Washington/LMU-München), Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)

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Jun 27, 2011 - Jul 08, 2011

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2011

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Mario Daniels & Ines Prodöhl (GHI)

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Jun 29, 2011

Research Seminar


Jul 06, 2011

Research Seminar


Jul 14, 2011

Research Seminar


Jul 14, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011

The Cold War: History, Memory, and Representation

Conference at the Europäische Akademie Berlin | Convener: Andreas Etges (FU Berlin)

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Aug 18, 2011

Roots Germania - A Personal Search for Identity

Film Screening and Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Pia Bungarten and Mo Asumang

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Aug 19, 2011

Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experiencein Germany and the U.S.

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Noah Sow

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Aug 25, 2011 - Aug 27, 2011

Europe - Migration - Identity: Summer Seminar

Seminar at the University of Minnesota | Conveners: Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota), and Jan Logemann (GHI)

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Sep 04, 2011 - Sep 16, 2011

Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2011: American History in Transatlantic Perspective

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, the University of Chicago's Department of History, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies; sponosored by the Robert Bosch Foundation

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Sep 15, 2011 - Nov 15, 2011

An American in Deutschland: Photographs by Leonard Freed

Photo Exhibition at the GHI | Curated by Paul M. Farber and Martin Klimke

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Sep 15, 2011 - Sep 17, 2011

The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History

Conference at the Friedrich-Schiller-University at Jena, Germany | Conveners: Jörg Nagler (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena), Marcus Gräser (GHI), Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

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Sep 29, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations, Non-Governmental Actors, and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990

Conference at Jacobs University Bremen | Conveners: Marc Frey (Jacobs University), Sönke Kunkel (Jacobs University), Corinna R. Unger (Jacobs University)

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Sep 30, 2011 - Oct 01, 2011

Research Seminar Retreat


Oct 03, 2011

Germany Has Come of Age: Lessons from the Past and Worldwide Responsibilities

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Günter Nooke

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Oct 06, 2011 - Oct 07, 2011

Unternehmer und Migration

34. Wissenschaftliches Symposium der Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte in Frankfurt/M. | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI, Universität Göttingen), Andreas Fahrmeir (Universität Frankfurt/M.)

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Oct 06, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 13, 2011 - Oct 16, 2011

7th Medieval History Seminar

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Michael Borgolte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Frank Rexroth (Universität Göttingen), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London), Miriam Ruerup (GHI), Jochen Schenk (GHIL); Organized by Miriam Rürup (GHI Washington) and Jochen Schenk (GHI London) | Organized by Miriam Rürup (GHI Washington) and Jochen Schenk (GHI London), with the help of Jan-Hendryk de Boer (University of Göttingen)

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Oct 20, 2011

Modern Colonialisms and Agrarian Anxieties: How Did Industrialization Matter?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kenneth Pomeranz (Univeristy of California, Irvine) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Oct 21, 2011

The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack Obama and Uncertain Knowledge

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University)

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Oct 21, 2011 - Oct 22, 2011

Uncertain Knowledge: Practices, Media, and Agents of (Non-)Affirmation in 19th and 20th Century American History

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore College), Sebastian Jobs (GHI Washington/Universität Rostock), Olaf Stieglitz (University of Erfurt)

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Oct 26, 2011

Research Seminar


Oct 27, 2011

Tensions of Empire and the Production of Silence: Colonial Scandals in the German Empire at 1900

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Rebekka Habermas (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Oct 28, 2011 - Oct 29, 2011

Transatlantic Tourism

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Frank Schipper (GHI)

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Nov 03, 2011

Rethinking German Colonialism in a Global Age

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Nov 07, 2011

Emotions in History

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Ute Frevert

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Nov 07, 2011 - Nov 09, 2011

"Trust, but Verify" - Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War

Conference at the GHI and Wilson Center | Conveners: Martin Klimke (GHI), Reinhild Kreis (University of Augsburg), Sonya Michel (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center)

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Nov 10, 2011

National Socialism and the Search for International Order

25th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mark Mazower (Columbia University), Comment: Lutz Klinkhammer (German Historical Institute Rome)

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Nov 11, 2011

20th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Brendan Karch (Harvard University) and Eric Steinhart (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Nov 17, 2011 - Dec 31, 2011

Forced Labor for the "Final Victory:" Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, 1943-1945

Exhibition at the GHI | Organized by Miriam Rürup | A travelling exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

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Nov 17, 2011 - Nov 18, 2011

From Mass Murder to Exhibition: Museum Representations in Transatlantic Comparison

Conference at the GHI | Conveneres: Jürgen Matthäus (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC), Miriam Rürup (GHI Washington), Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar), Georg Wamhof (Washington, DC)

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Nov 26, 2011

Research Seminar


Dec 01, 2011

Love and War. Or: How to Make Use of Transnational History for German Colonialism?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Birthe Kundrus (Universität Hamburg) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Dec 08, 2011

2011 Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

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Dec 14, 2011

Research Seminar


Dec 15, 2011

What Would Helmut Schmidt Do? Leadership in a Time of Crisis

Lecutre at the GHI | Speaker: Theo Sommer

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Dec 15, 2011

Doctoral Seminar


Jan 01, 2012

The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany

Exhibition | Organized by Martin Klimke

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Jan 12, 2012

Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia: Creating the Color Line and the National Line

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Jan 18, 2012

Research Seminar


Jan 26, 2012

Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back? The Afterlives of German Colonialism

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) | Lecture Series: German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

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Feb 01, 2012

Research Seminar


Feb 02, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Feb 09, 2012 - Feb 11, 2012

Living the Margins: Illegality, Politics of Removal and Statelessness

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Kathleen Canning und (University of Michigan), Barbara Lüthi, Jana Häberlein (Universität Basel), and Miriam Rürup (GHI)

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Feb 13, 2012

A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gützlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851

University of California, Irvine | Speaker: Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University), Commentator: Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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Feb 15, 2012

Research Seminar


Feb 24, 2012

The Globalization of African-American Business and Consumer Culture

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Joshua Davis (GHI)

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Feb 29, 2012

Research Seminar


Mar 05, 2012

In the Wake of Empire: German Missionaries in China and the Consequences of Failure

University of California, Irvine | Speaker: Albert Wu (University of California, Berkeley), Commentator: Quitao Guo (UC Irvine) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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Mar 07, 2012

Research Seminar


Mar 15, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Mar 21, 2012

Research Seminar


Mar 21, 2012 - Mar 23, 2012

The Experiences of Modern European Jews: National, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Conference at The Bronfman Center

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Mar 22, 2012 - Dec 14, 2012

Moving Images: Two Centuries of Campaign Posters in the United States and Germany

Exhibition at the GHI | Organized by Bryan Hart, David Lazar, and Jan Logemann

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Mar 22, 2012

Mobilizing the Nineteenth-Century American Electorate: The Elections of 1828 and 1840

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Holt (University of Virginia) | Lecture Series: Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money

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Mar 23, 2012 - Mar 24, 2012

Models of Mobility: Systemic Differences, Path Dependencies, Economic, Social, and Environmental Impact (1900 to tomorrow)

Workshop at York University | Conveners: Matthias Kipping (Schulich), Christina Kraenzle (CCGES), and Christina Lubinski (GHI)

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Mar 23, 2012

Youth Makes History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

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Mar 23, 2012 - Mar 24, 2012

Adolescent Ambassadors: 20th Century Youth Organizations and International Relations

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Mischa Honeck (GHI) and Gabriel Rosenberg (Duke University)

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Apr 09, 2012

Which Way to Expand? And How? Imperial Rivalries in the 'Third Reich'

University of California, San Diego | Speaker: Dirk van Laak (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) Commentator: Uta Poiger (Northeastern University) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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Apr 12, 2012

Voters Without Democracy: Elections in Imperial Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: James Retallack (University of Toronto) | Lecture Series: Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money

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Apr 23, 2012

Race War and Cultural Genocide in German Southwest Africa

University of California, Irvine | Speaker: Jürgen Zimmerer (Universität Hamburg) Commentator: Robert Moeller (UC Irvine) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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Apr 26, 2012

The Path to German Unity, 1989-90

3rd Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gerhard A. Ritter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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May 02, 2012 - May 05, 2012

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History, 1770 - 1914

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 02, 2012

Research Seminar


May 03, 2012

Americanizing the Electoral Process? Elections in the Federal Republic of Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank Bösch (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam) | Lecture Series: Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money

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May 04, 2012 - May 05, 2012

BAA Summer Academy: Democratic Cultures Past and Present - Perspectives from Washington, DC

Seminar at the GHI and American University

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May 07, 2012

Global Empire and Naval Ambitions in Wilhelmine Germany

University of California, Irvine | Speaker: Dirk Bönker (Duke University) Commentator: Edward Dickinson (UC Davis) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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May 07, 2012

Hard on the Eyes: A Photographer and His Subject

Lecture at the GHI | Werner Sollors (Harvard University)

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May 09, 2012

Research Seminar


May 17, 2012

The GHI at 25: A Celebration

Lecture at the GHI | David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

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May 18, 2012 - May 19, 2012

The Second Generation: German Emigré Historians in the Transatlantic World, 1945 to the Present

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Andreas Daum (State University of New York, Buffalo), Hartmut Lehmann (Universität Kiel), James J. Sheehan (Stanford University), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI)

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May 21, 2012

Colonialism as Counterrevolution: Rethinking the Pre-colonial

University of California, San Diego | Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) Commentator: Rebecca Plant (UC San Diego) | Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego and Irvine campuses, co-sponsored by the GHI Washington DC

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May 23, 2012

Reseearch Seminar


May 31, 2012

American Campaign Mobilization in the Age of New Media

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kate Kenski (University of Arizona) | Lecture Series: Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money

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Jun 07, 2012 - Jun 09, 2012

More Atlantic Crossings? Europe's Role in an Entangled History of the Atlantic World, 1950s-1970s

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Jan Logemann (GHI), Mary Nolan (NYU), Daniel Rodgers (Princeton)

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Jun 13, 2012

Research Seminar


Jun 21, 2012 - Jun 23, 2012

Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Perspective

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Regina Blaszczyk (GHI Fellow) and Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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Jun 22, 2012 - Jun 23, 2012

The Cold War and American Music, 1945-2000

Conference at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich | Conveners: Michael Kimmage (Catholic University), Christof Mauch (LMU-Munich), Berndt Ostendorf (LMU-Munich), Ernest Suarez (Catholic University), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI Washington)

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Jun 27, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2012

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Clelia Caruso (GHI)

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Jul 17, 2012

Research Seminar


Sep 05, 2012 - Sep 15, 2012

Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians: American History in Transatlantic Perspective

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, the University of Chicago's Department of History, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies; sponosored by the Robert Bosch Foundation

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Sep 06, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 06, 2012

The Idea of Social Justice, Genuine or Spurious?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Wilfried Hinsch (Universität zu Köln) | Lecture Series: Social Justice in Times of Crisis: A Transatlantic Comparison

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Sep 09, 2012 - Sep 11, 2012

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Retrospect and Prospect

Conference at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto | Conveners: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Michael Marrus (University of Toronto), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI) | Co-sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies of the University of Toronto and the GHI Washington; made possible by additional grants from the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Facility of the UJA of Greater Toronto; the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Yad Vashem; the Ray and Rose Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies; the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies; the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies; the Faculty of Law; the Toronto Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany; and the Toronto Consulate General of Israel

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Sep 13, 2012

Transnationalism, Entrepreneurship, and Development

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alejandro Portes (Princeton University)

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Sep 13, 2012 - Sep 14, 2012

Immigration and Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Conference at University of Maryland, College Park | Conveners: David B. Sicilia (University of Maryland, College Park), David F. Barbe (University of Maryland, College Park), and Hartmut Berghoff (German Historical Institute)

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Sep 20, 2012 - Sep 22, 2012

The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Marcus Gräser (Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz/GHI), Jörg Nagler (Universität Jena), Don Doyle (University of South Carolina)

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Oct 03, 2012

1989 - New Lives, New Truisms

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ingo Schulze

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Oct 11, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 11, 2012

Markets, States, and Social Justice in the Era of High Industrial Capitalism: Contrasts and Connections across the Atlantic

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University) | Lecture Series: Social Justice in Times of Crisis: A Transatlantic Comparison

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Oct 17, 2012

Franz Steiner Prize Ceremony 2012

Prize Ceremony in Stuttgart

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Oct 17, 2012

Research Seminar


Oct 25, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 25, 2012

Parallels, Networks, and Convergences: Women and Social Justice in Transnational Perspective

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) | Lecture Series: Social Justice in Times of Crisis: A Transatlantic Comparison

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Nov 01, 2012

The Secret of Greatness: Frederick II of Prussia

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Luh

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Nov 02, 2012 - Nov 03, 2012

Translating Potential into Profits: Foreign Multinationals in Emerging Markets since the 19th Century

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Matthias Kipping (Schulich School of Business, Toronto) and Christina Lubinski (GHI)

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Nov 08, 2012

The Straits of Europe: History at the Margins of a Continent

26th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Johannes Paulman (Universität Mainz)

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Nov 09, 2012

21st Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Adam Rosenbaum (Colorado Mesa University) and Sarah Thomsen Vierra (New England College)

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Nov 14, 2012

Research Seminar


Nov 28, 2012

Research Seminar


Nov 29, 2012

Doctoral Seminar


Dec 06, 2012 - Dec 08, 2012

Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Moderne (18.-20. Jh): Tagung zur Historischen Kriminalitätsforschung der Neuzeit

Conference at the Bildungsstätte Liborianum Paderborn | Conveners: Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Universität Gießen) and Richard Wetzell (GHI)

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Dec 06, 2012

The End of the Social-Democratic Era? Crisis in the Conceptualization of Social Justice in the 1970s and 1980s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Martin Geyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | Lecture Series: Social Justice in Times of Crisis: A Transatlantic Comparison

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Dec 12, 2012

Research Seminar


Jan 16, 2013

Research Seminar


Jan 24, 2013

Fateful Communities: Jewish Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, 1940-1945

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Omer Bartov (Brown University), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Martin Dean (USHMM), Geoffrey Megargee (USHMM), Paul Shapiro (USHMM), and Sybille Steinbacher (University of Vienna)

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Feb 13, 2013

Research Seminar


Feb 27, 2013

Research Seminar


Feb 28, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Mar 08, 2013 - Mar 09, 2013

In Search of Better Lives: The Circulation of Ideas for Social Improvement in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Christina Lubinski (GHI), Christina May (Göttingen) and Warren Rosenblum (St. Louis)

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Mar 20, 2013

Research Seminar


Mar 21, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Apr 03, 2013 - Apr 04, 2013

Third Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History: Germans and Americans in Israel - Israelis in Germany and the United States

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Michael Brenner (LMU München), Stefan Hördler (GHI), Miriam Ruerup (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg) | Co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts, the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University, and the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg

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Apr 04, 2013

Land of Extremes: German History in the 20th Century, an Interpretation

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiburg)

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Apr 10, 2013

Research Seminar


Apr 17, 2013

Research Seminar


Apr 18, 2013

America's Right: Conservatism and U.S. History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Julian Zelizer (Princeton University)

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Apr 18, 2013 - Apr 20, 2013

Inventing the "Silent Majority": Conservative Mobilization in Western Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University, Washington DC) and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI) | Co-sponsored by the Georgetown University BMW Center for German and European Studies

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May 03, 2013 - May 04, 2013

Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economics, and International Relations, from the 18th to the 20th Century

Conference at the University of Toronto | Conveners: Ute Planert (University of Wuppertal / University of Toronto) and James Retallack (University of Toronto)

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May 09, 2013

From Made in Italy to Made in China: A European Story, 1960-2010

4th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

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May 10, 2013 - May 11, 2013

New Technologies and Cultures of Communication in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Clelia Caruso (GHI), Peter Jelavich (The Johns Hopkins University), Richard R. John (Columbia University), and Benjamin Schwantes (GHI)

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May 15, 2013

Research Seminar


May 23, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


May 23, 2013

Sovereign Debt as a Problem of Modern Societies

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hans-Peter Ullmann (University of Cologne) | Lecture Series: Public Debt in History

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May 29, 2013 - Jun 01, 2013

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Twentieth Century

Conference at Historisches Kolleg, Munich | Conveners: Margit Szöllösi-Janze (University of Munich), Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 29, 2013

Research Seminar


May 30, 2013 - Jun 02, 2013

Creating a Garden Eden? The Transformation of Rural California since the mid 19th Century

Workshop at the German Association of American Studies | Conveners: Uwe Spiekermann (GHI), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

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Jun 06, 2013 - Jun 08, 2013

Colonialism and Climate History

Conference at the Georgetown University | Co-organizers: John R. McNeill, Franz Mauelshagen, Eleonora Rohland, Jean-Francois Mouhot

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Jun 06, 2013

States vs. Banks: Debt and Crises in the Twentieth Century

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn) | Lecture Series: Public Debt in History

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Jun 13, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Jun 16, 2013 - Jun 29, 2013

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2013

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Clelia Caruso (GHI) and Mark Stoneman (GHI)

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Jun 27, 2013

A Common Solution: Bailouts in History

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Robert E. Wright (Augustana College) | Lecture Series: Public Debt in History

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Jul 02, 2013

"The lost decade": The Debt Crisis of the 1980s and the Reaction of the International Community

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Laura Rischbieter (GHI) | Lecture Series: Public Debt in History

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Jul 11, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 01, 2013 - Sep 13, 2013

Archival Summer School for Young Historians: American History in Transatlantic Perspectives

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington and the University of Chicago's Department of History; sponosored by the Robert Bosch Foundation

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Sep 05, 2013

Policy and Process: How the Slaves Became Free in America

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David Blight (Yale University) | Lecture Series: Ending Slavery: Nineteenth-Century Emancipations in a Transatlantic World

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Sep 12, 2013

Does Memory Matter in Politics?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bernd Faulenbach (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

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Sep 17, 2013

Interpreting History on the Screen: An Evening with Barbara Sukowa

Discussion and film-screening at the Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

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Sep 19, 2013

Martin's Dream: The Global Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lecture and Exhibition Opening at the GHI | Speaker: Clayborne Carson (Stanford University)

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Sep 19, 2013 - Sep 21, 2013

Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Moderne, 18.-20. Jh.: Tagung zur Historischen Kriminalitätsforschung 2013

Conference in Munich | Conveners: Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (LMU München), Desiree Schauz (Münchner Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Sep 19, 2013 - Sep 21, 2013

The Dream and Its Untold Stories

Conference at the GHI | Convener: Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown), Sharon Monteith (Nottingham), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

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Sep 19, 2013 - Dec 13, 2013

This is the Day: The March on Washington, Photographs by Leonard Freed

Exhibition at the GHI | Curated by Paul Farber (Haverford College)

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Sep 26, 2013 - Sep 28, 2013

Obesity, Health, and the Liberal Self: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Centuries

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Nina Mackert/Jürgen Martschukat (University of Erfurt), Susan Strasser (University of Delaware), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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Oct 03, 2013

Growing Together? Processes and Problems of German Unification

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Konrad Jarausch

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Oct 10, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 10, 2013 - Oct 13, 2013

8th Medieval History Seminar

Seminar at the GHI London | Conveners: Stefan Hördler (GHI), Cornelia Linde (GHI London) | Joint seminar of the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington

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Oct 10, 2013

Prussian Emancipation: The Revolution Against Serfdom in Germany and Its Atlantic Afterlives

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) | Lecture Series: Ending Slavery: Nineteenth-Century Emancipations in a Transatlantic World

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Oct 16, 2013

Research Seminar


Oct 17, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 18, 2013 - Oct 19, 2013

Silent Sellers: The Cultural Meaning of Commodities that Thrive in Obscurity

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Carla Meyer (University of Heidelberg), Ines Prodöhl (GHI), and Amy Slaton (Drexel University)

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Oct 24, 2013 - Oct 26, 2013

Migrants as "Translators": Mediating External Influences on Post World War II Western Europe, 1945 - 1973

Workshop in Hamburg | Conveners: Jan Logemann (GHI), Miriam Rürup (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden)

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Oct 24, 2013

Americanization? Europeanization? Globalization? The German Economy since 1945

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mary Nolan (New York University)

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Oct 30, 2013

Research Seminar


Nov 07, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Nov 07, 2013

The 'Other' Emancipation of the 1860s: Freeing Russia's Serfs

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Kolchin (University of Delaware) | Lecture Series: Ending Slavery: Nineteenth-Century Emancipations in a Transatlantic World

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Nov 12, 2013

80 Years Nazi Seizure of Power - 75 Years November Pogroms - 70 Years Rosenstraße Protest

Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum

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Nov 14, 2013

How Americans Raise their Children: Generational Relations over Two Hundred Years

27th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Paula S. Fass (University of California, Berkeley)

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Nov 15, 2013

22nd Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Ricky W. Law (Carnegie-Mellon University)

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Nov 20, 2013

Research Seminar


Nov 22, 2013

The Challenges of Biography: Questions, Reflections, Possible Solutions

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association in Chicago | Panelists: Volker Depkat (University of Regensburg), Clifton Hood (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York), Susie Pak (St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, New York), Levke Harders (University of Bielefeld), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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Dec 04, 2013

Research Seminar


Dec 05, 2013 - Dec 07, 2013

The Consumer on the Home Front: World War II Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI Washington), Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Nikolaus Katzer (GHI Moscow), Jan Logemann (GHI Washington), Felix Römer (GHI London), Sergey Kudryashov (GHI Moskau)

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Dec 11, 2013

Research Seminar


Dec 12, 2013

Doctoral Seminar


Dec 12, 2013

Emancipation through Colonization: Brazil and Cuba

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ursula Prutsch (University of Munich) | Lecture Series: Ending Slavery: Nineteenth-Century Emancipations in a Transatlantic World

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Jan 23, 2014 - Jan 24, 2014

Studying the History of National Socialism and the Holocaust: Toward an Agenda for the 21st Century

Concerence at the USHMM/Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the GHI | Conveners: Stefan Hördler (GHI), Leah Wolfson (USHMM)

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Jan 24, 2014

Studying the History of National Socialism and the Holocaust: Toward an Agenda for the 21st Century

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Frank Bajohr (Institute of Contemporary History Munich/Center for Holocaust Studies), Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College)

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Jan 29, 2014

Research Seminar


Feb 12, 2014

Research Seminar


Feb 19, 2014

Research Seminar


Feb 20, 2014 - Feb 22, 2014

Gender, War and Culture: From Colonial Conquest and standing Armies to Revolutionary Wars (1650s-1830s) to the Wars of Nations and Empires (1830s-1910s)

Workshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Conveners: Dirk Bönker (Duke University), and Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill)

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Feb 20, 2014

The Academic and the Everyday in the GDR

Lecture at the GHI | Speakers: Sigrid Jacobeit (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Wolfgang Jacobeit (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Lecture Series: Historians Shaped by History: East German Intellectual Biographies

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Feb 25, 2014 - Apr 30, 2014

Visions of Beatuy: Arnold Genthe and the Art of Photography

Exhibition Opening, Dance Performance and Lecture at the GHI | Curated by Marina Kaneti (New School for Social Research)

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Feb 27, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


Mar 05, 2014

Research Seminar


Mar 07, 2014 - Mar 08, 2014

Histories of Humanitarianism: Religious, Philanthropic, and Poltical Practices in the Modernizing World

Conference at the GHI and the University of Maryland, College Park | Conveners: Sonya Michel (University of Maryland, College Park) and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

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Mar 13, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


Mar 26, 2014

Research Seminar


Mar 27, 2014

Research between Central Planning and the Market: The Experiences of an East German Economic Historian, 1965-2005

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jörg Roesler (Berlin) | Lecture Series: Historians Shaped by History: East German Intellectual Biographies

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Apr 02, 2014

Research Seminar


Apr 04, 2014

Migration and the Great Recession

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Demetrios G. Papademetriou (Migration Policy Institute)

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Apr 04, 2014 - Apr 05, 2014

Migration during Economic Downturns: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Elisa Minoff (GHI) and Marc Rosenblum (Migration Policy Institute)

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Apr 16, 2014

Research Seminar


Apr 17, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


Apr 24, 2014

In the Labyrinth of Memories: The Battle over the Stasi Files in the Peaceful Revolution of 1990/91

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Stefan Wolle (DDR Museum Berlin) | Lecture Series: Historians Shaped by History: East German Intellectual Biographies

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Apr 25, 2014 - Apr 26, 2014

A Hands-on Approach: The Do-It-Yourself Culture and Economy in the 20th Century

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Reinhild Kreis (GHI)

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Apr 30, 2014

Research Seminar


May 03, 2014 - Jul 03, 2014

Search for a New Sound: The Blue Note Photographs of Francis Wolff

Exhibition and opening at the Goethe-Institut

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May 07, 2014 - May 10, 2014

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Nineteenth-Century German History

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 15, 2014

Between East and West: Contemporary History as Biographical Challenge

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Danyel (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam) | Lecture Series: Historians Shaped by History: East German Intellectual Biographies

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May 21, 2014

Jazz - the Classical Music of Globalization

Performance and Lecture at the GHI | Speaker and performer: Reinhold Wagnleitner (University of Salzburg) and Tom McDermott (Piano, New Orleans)

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May 22, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


May 28, 2014

Research Seminar


May 29, 2014

What Crisis? Speculation, Corruption, and the State of Emergency during the Great Depression

5th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Martin H. Geyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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Jun 05, 2014 - Jun 07, 2014

War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Mischa Honeck (GHI Washington), James Marten (Marquette University), Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Arndt Weinrich (GHI Paris)

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Jun 11, 2014

Research Seminar


Jun 18, 2014

Informal and Everyday Markets: Modern Histories of Indian Business and Entrepreneurship since the Nineteenth Century

Conference at the University of Göttingen | Convener: Dr. Ingo Köhler (University of Göttingen), Dr. Sebastian Schwecke (University of Göttingen), Dr. Christina Lubinsiki (GHI Washington), Prof. Dr. Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth College)

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Jun 23, 2014 - Jul 04, 2014

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2014

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Mark Stoneman (GHI)

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Jun 25, 2014

Research Seminar


Jul 24, 2014

"The sooner, the better": Germany's Military Leadership and the Outbreak of War in July 1914

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Epkenhans (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr)

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Sep 01, 2014 - Sep 12, 2014

Bosch Foundation Archival Summer School for Young Historians 2014: American History in Transatlantic Perspective

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC; University of Chicago's Department of History; Newberry Library, Chicago; Robert Bosch Stiftung

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Sep 04, 2014 - Dec 04, 2014

The Early Days: Hip-Hop Culture in the German Democratic Republic - A Photo Exhibition

Exhibition at the GHI | Curated by Leonard Schmieding (Georgetown University/GHI)

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Sep 10, 2014

Research Seminar


Sep 11, 2014 - Sep 13, 2014

Gender, War and Culture: From the Age of the World Wars (1910s-1940s) to the Cold War, Anti-Colonial Struggle to the Wars of Globalization (1940s-Present)

Workshop at Duke University | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Dirk Bönker (Duke University), Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill), and Mischa Honeck (GHI)

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Sep 11, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 12, 2014

Congressional Briefing on "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective"

Congressional Briefing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building | Speakers: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Zulema Valdez (University of California, Merced), Xiaojian Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara), Dane Kennedy (National History Center)

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Sep 15, 2014

World War I: Causes, Events, and Legacy

Lecture and Panel Discussion at the German Embassy | Speakers: Christopher Clark (Cambridge University) and Roger Chickering (Georgetown University)

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Sep 18, 2014

Fighting White-Collar Crime in the Twenty-First Century

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Joel Kirsch (Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Siemens USA), Don Langevoort (Georgetown Univ.), and Cheryl Scarboro (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP / formerly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

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Sep 18, 2014 - Sep 20, 2014

Shady Business: White Collar Crime in History

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Edward Balleisen (Duke University), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Christopher McKenna (University of Oxford)

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Sep 21, 2014

Peculiarities of the West: German-American Communities in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1880-1960

Panel at 38th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Kansas City | Panelists: Kathleen Conzen (Moderator, University of Chicago), Bill Issel (Commentator, San Francisco State University and Mills College), Leonard Schmieding (Georgetown Univ./GHI), and Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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Oct 03, 2014

The Memory of Dictatorship and the Future of Democracy: The East German Past Today

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard Schröder

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Oct 09, 2014 - Oct 10, 2014

Wirtschaftskriminalität und Unternehmen

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI/Göttingen), Cornelia Rauh (Leibniz-Universität Hannover), Thomas Welskopp (Universität Bielefeld)

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Oct 22, 2014

Research Seminar


Oct 30, 2014 - Oct 31, 2014

Green Capitalism? Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History

Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE | Adam Rome (University of Delaware), Yda Schreuder (University of Delaware), Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Erik Rau (Hagley Museum and Library), Roger Horowitz (Hagley Museum and Library)

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Nov 03, 2014

Here We Come

Film Screening and Discussion at the Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum | Speaker: Nico Raschick

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Nov 08, 2014

Before and After the Wall: Music & Art in East & West Germany

Symposium at the Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum | Speakers: Leonard Schmieding (GHI/Georgetown), Nico Raschick (filmmaker, Here We Come), and Eckhart Gillen (German art historian and curator)

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Nov 09, 2014 - Nov 11, 2014

Dispossession: The Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1945 and Beyond

Conference at Boston University | Conveners: Christoph Kreutzmüller (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin) and Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University)

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Nov 13, 2014

Toward a New Europe? Knowledge as a Transformational Resource since the 1970s

28th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Andreas Wirsching (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München); Comment: Jeffrey J. Anderson (Georgetown University)

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Nov 14, 2014

23rd Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Chase Richards (Freie Universität Berlin) and Ned Richardson-Little (University of Exeter)

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Nov 17, 2014

The Rosenburg Files: The West German Ministry of Justice after 1949 and the Nazi Past

Lecture and Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Heiko Maas (Federal Minister of Justice), Manfred Görtemaker (University of Potsdam) Christoph Safferling (University of Marburg), and Peter Black (USHMM)

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Nov 19, 2014

Research Seminar


Nov 20, 2014

Doctoral Seminar


Dec 04, 2014

East Germany and the United States: A Non-Relationship?

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Brandon Grove (chargé and then Deputy Chief of Mission in East Berlin 1974-1976), Rozanne Ridgway (Ambassador 1983-1985), Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University), Robert Gerald Livingston (GHI), and Christian Ostermann (Moderator, Woodrow Wilson Center)

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Dec 05, 2014

Taxes and Inequality in a Changing Economy

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Leonard E. Burman (Urban Institute & Syracuse University)

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Dec 05, 2014 - Dec 06, 2014

Taxation for and against Redistribution since 1945: Historical Trajectories and Comparative Outcomes

Workshop at the GHI, Washington, DC | Conveners: Gisela Hürlimann (University of Zurich and GHI Washington), W. Elliot Brownlee (University of California Santa Barbara)

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Dec 10, 2014

Research Seminar


Jan 02, 2015

The Changing World of Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Three Centuries of German-American Experience

Panel at the 129th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City

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Jan 28, 2015

Research Seminar


Feb 18, 2015

Research Seminar


Feb 26, 2015

Doctoral Seminar


Mar 05, 2015 - Jan 07, 2015

Germans in the Pacific World from the late 17th to 20th Century

Conference at the University of California in San Diego | Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Frank Biess (UCSD), Ulrike Strasser (UCSD)

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Mar 11, 2015

Research Seminar


Mar 25, 2015

Research Seminar


Mar 26, 2015 - Mar 28, 2015

Consumer Engineering: Mid-Century Mass Consumption between Planning Euphoria and the Limits of Growth, 1930s-1970s

Conference at the University of Göttingen | Conveners: Gary Cross (Pennsylvania State University), Ingo Köhler (Göttingen), Jan Logemann (German Historical Institute)

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Apr 02, 2015

Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence: The German Experience

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Wolfgang Krieger (University of Marburg) | Lecture Series: Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective

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Apr 23, 2015

The History of the Fourth Amendment

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Laura K. Donohue (Georgetown University) | Lecture Series: Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective

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Apr 29, 2015

Research Seminar


May 06, 2015

This Ain't No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records

Film and discussion at the Goethe-Institut | Organized by the German Historical Institute, the Goethe-Institut, and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

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May 07, 2015

Jewish Consumer Cultures: An Overview of Current Research

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex)

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May 07, 2015 - May 09, 2015

Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America

Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC | Conveners: Paul Lerner (University of Southern California / Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies), Anne C. Schenderlein (GHI), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)

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May 08, 2015

Twelfth Workshop on Early Modern German History

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St Andrews), David Lederer (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Angela Schattner (GHIL), and Jenny Spinks (University of Manchester)

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May 13, 2015

Research Seminar


May 14, 2015

Freedom against Freedom: Swiss State Security in the Cold War Era-and Beyond

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Georg Kreis (University of Basel) | Lecture Series: Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective

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May 21, 2015 - May 22, 2015

A Great Divide? America between Exceptionalism and Transnationalism

International Conference at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich | Convener: Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America), Uwe Lübken (LMU), Andrew Preston, (University of Cambridge), Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)

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May 21, 2015

History Lived and History Written: Germany and the United States, 1945/55-2015

6th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

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May 27, 2015 - May 30, 2015

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Twentieth-Century German History

Conference in Berlin, Germany | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI), Michael Wildt (Humboldt University)

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May 27, 2015

Research Seminar


May 28, 2015 - May 29, 2015

The Practices of Structural Policy in Western Market Economies since the 1960s

Conference at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam | Conveners: Ralf Ahrens (ZZF Potsdam), Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University), Stefan Hördler (GHI / Buchenwald & Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation)

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May 28, 2015

Franz Steiner Prize Ceremony 2015

Prize Ceremony at the University of Bonn | Prize Winner: Elisabeth Engel

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May 29, 2015 - May 30, 2015

Nature Protection, Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries during the Cold War

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Astrid Mignon Kirchhof (Georgetown/GHI) and John McNeill (Georgetown)

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Jun 04, 2015

Race and Place in the Age of Space

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Brenda Gayle Plummer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Jun 04, 2015

Security, Privacy, and the German-American Relationship

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Loch K. Johnson (University of Georgia) | Lecture Series: Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective

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Jun 04, 2015 - Jun 06, 2015

The U.S. South in the Black Atlantic: Transnational Histories of the Jim Crow South since 1865

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington), Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia), Mischa Honeck (GHI Washington)

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Jun 08, 2015 - Jun 20, 2015

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2015

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Elisabeth Engel (GHI)

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Jun 10, 2015

Research Seminar


Jun 12, 2015 - Jun 13, 2015

Financialization: A New Chapter in the History of Capitalism?

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Kenneth Lipartito (Florida International University), Moritz Schularick (Universität Bonn), Laura Rischbieter (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

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Jun 18, 2015

Between Recovery and Decline? Observations of an Economic Historian on the Obama Years and Beyond

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Hartmut Berghoff (GHI Washington)

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Jul 03, 2015 - Jul 04, 2015

Fourth Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History: "Heritage" in the Study of Jewish and Other (Diaspora) Cultures — The Search for Roots as a Recurring Theme of 19th and 20th Century History

Conference at the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg | Conveners: Miriam Rürup (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg), Anne Schenderlein (GHI), Mirjam Zadoff (Indiana University) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts

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Jul 08, 2015

Research Seminar


Sep 02, 2015

Research Seminar


Sep 06, 2015 - Sep 18, 2015

Bosch Foundation Archival Summer School for Young Historians 2015: U.S. History in Transatlantic Perspective

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Mischa Honeck (GHI) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC; University of Chicago's Department of History; Newberry Library, Chicago; Robert Bosch Stiftung

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Sep 09, 2015 - Sep 11, 2015

4. Kolloquium zu Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Neuzeit, 18. - 20. Jh.

Colloquium in München/Gauting | Conveners: Sebastian Frenzel (Technische Universität Dresden), Alexandra Ortmann (Berlin), Desirée Schauz (Technische Universität München), Richard F. Wetzell (Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington)

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Sep 17, 2015

Doctoral Seminar


Sep 23, 2015

Research Seminar


Sep 25, 2015 - Sep 27, 2015

Contested Visions of Justice : The Allied War Crimes Trials in Global Context, 1943-1958

Conference at Boston College - Ireland | Conveners: Franziska Seraphim (University of Boston), Kerstin von Lingen (University of Heidelberg), Wolfgang Form (ICWC Marburg), Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge)

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Oct 03, 2015

Defining the Modern Metropolis: Universal Exhibitions from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century

DFG Leibniz Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Friedrich Lenger (Universität Gießen)

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Oct 07, 2015

Half a Country, a Whole Country, a Whole Life: Recollections of the GDR, the Period of Change 1989 /90 and the Efforts of German Unification

German at Noon at the Goethe-Institut Washington (in German) | A Conversation with Marianne Birthler, with commentary by Paul Nolte

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Oct 15, 2015 - Oct 17, 2015

9th Medieval History Seminar

Seminar at the GHI Washington | Conveners: Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Paul Freedman (Yale University), Jan Jansen (GHI Washington), Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota), Cornelia Linde (GHI London), Frank Rexroth (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), and Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) | Joint seminar of the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington

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Oct 15, 2015

Towards an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bernhard Jussen (University of Frankfurt)

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Oct 21, 2015 - Oct 23, 2015

Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective

Conference at the German Historical Institute Paris | Conveners: The Max Weber Foundation and its institutes - The German Historical Institutes in Paris, London, Rome, Moscow, Warsaw and Washington, the German Centre for the history of Art in Paris, the Orient Institute Istanbul - and the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin

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Oct 22, 2015

Doctoral Seminar


Oct 27, 2015

The Challenges of Unified Germany

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Gregor Gysi

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Nov 05, 2015

Doctoral Seminar


Nov 05, 2015

Research Seminar


Nov 12, 2015

Capitalism and the Jews Revisited

29th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jerry Z. Muller (Catholic University of America)

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Nov 13, 2015

Teaching the 'Cold War': Memory Practices in the Classroom

Event at the Woodrow Wilson Center, 4th Floor | Speaker: Barbara Christophe (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany)

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Nov 13, 2015

24th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Sarah Panzer (William and Mary)

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Nov 18, 2015

Research Seminar


Nov 19, 2015

DCHDC Meetup: Smithsonian Institution Archives born-digital risk survey


Dec 02, 2015

Research Seminar


Dec 04, 2015 - Dec 05, 2015

Atlantic Brotherhoods: Fraternalism in Transcontinental Perspective (18th-early 20th century)

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Jessica Harland-Jacobs (University of Florida), Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington, DC)

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Dec 10, 2015

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture 2015: Austerity - Views of Chancellor Brüning's and President Hoover's Fiscal Policies from across the Atlantic, 1930-32

Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Dec 16, 2015

Wie definiert sich Qualität? Forschungsinfrastrukturen und Wissenstransfer im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem

Panel Discussion at the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Berlin | Co-organized by Das Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, das Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, and das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

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Dec 17, 2015

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Cultural Heritage DC


Dec 17, 2015

Wissen auf der Flucht: Deutsche Akademikerinnen und Akademiker im Ausland, 1933-45

Conference at the American Academy in Berlin | Co-organized by the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, German Historical Institute Washington, and Max Weber Stiftung

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Jan 27, 2016

Research Seminar


Feb 04, 2016

Die Welt der Kinder: Weltwissen und Weltdeutung in Schul- und Kinderbüchern des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts

International Conference at the Universität Zürich | Conveners: Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (ISEK - Schwerpunkt Kinderund Jugendmedien) der Universität Zürich; Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM), assoziiertes Institut der Universität Zürich; Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung Braunschweig; German Historical Institute Washington D.C.

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Feb 10, 2016

Research Seminar


Feb 16, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Cultural Heritage DC


Feb 18, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Feb 24, 2016

Research Seminar


Feb 26, 2016 - Feb 27, 2016

The Western Art World between 1930 and 1950: Methodological Approaches Aiming at Transdisciplinary Research

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Jeroen Euwe (GHI)

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Mar 02, 2016

Research Seminar


Mar 10, 2016

Pure Numbers - Dirty Habits: Defining the Standard of Living in the Early German Hygienic Movement

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Basel) | Lecture Series: Measuring Risk and Human Needs: New Perspectives From the History of Knowledge

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Mar 15, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Born Digital Architectural & Personal Records

Speakers: Valerie Collins (American Institute of Architects), John Caldwell (U.S. Senate Historical Office)

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Mar 17, 2016

Learning from the Past? The Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective

Panel Discussion at the GHI

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Mar 17, 2016

The Refugee Crisis: Historical Perspectives from Europe and North America, 1945-2000

Symposium at the GHI

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Mar 24, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Mar 31, 2016

Handling Big Numbers: The Logistics of Granaries and Famine Relief

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Monika Dommann (University of Zurich) | Lecture Series: Measuring Risk and Human Needs: New Perspectives From the History of Knowledge

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Apr 01, 2016 - Apr 02, 2016

The Historian and the World - the Worlds of History: Positions, Politics, and Purposes in the 21st Century

Symposium at the GHI | Conveners: Mischa Honeck (GHI) and Jan Jansen (GHI)

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Apr 01, 2016

The Historian in Times of Globalization: Social Mimicry, Intellectual Potential, and Political Risks

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Lutz Raphael (University of Trier)

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Apr 06, 2016

Research Seminar


Apr 13, 2016 - Apr 15, 2016

Navigating Diversity: Narratives, Practices and Politics in German-Speaking Europe

Conference in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) | Conveners: Till van Rahden, Universite de Montreal; Anthony J. Steinhoff, Universite du Quebec à Montreal; Richard F. Wetzell, GHI, Washington DC.

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Apr 13, 2016

Research Seminar


Apr 14, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Apr 19, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Digitized Newspapers and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance

Speakers: Abbey Potter, Program Officer and Information Technology Specialist at the Library of Congress;Oliver Bendorf, Program Associate with the Digital Library Federation

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Apr 21, 2016

Science, Risk, and the Making of Statistical Individuals: How Corporations Numbered Americans' Days and Valued Their Lives

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Dan Bouk (Colgate University) | Lecture Series: Measuring Risk and Human Needs: New Perspectives From the History of Knowledge

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Apr 28, 2016 - Apr 30, 2016

Forging Bonds Across Borders: Mobilizing for Women's Rights and Social Justice in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI), Anja Schüler (HCA, Heidelberg), Sonya Michel (University of Maryland)

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Apr 28, 2016

Mothers of the Matrix - Anna, Fredrika and Ray: Forging Bonds of Feminist Activism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Margaret McFadden (Appalachian State University)

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May 05, 2016

Measuring Human Needs: Statistics, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Famine in Modern India

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Anindita Nag (German Historical Institute Washington) | Lecture Series: Measuring Risk and Human Needs: New Perspectives From the History of Knowledge

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May 06, 2016

Thirteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St Andrews), David Lederer (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Michael Schaich (German Historical Institute London), Jenny Spinks (University of Manchester) | Organized by German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society

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May 11, 2016

Research Seminar


May 12, 2016

GHI Colloquium


May 17, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture Project & Open Knowledge Foundation

Speakers: Trevor Muñoz (MITH, UMD), Margaret Furr (Open Knowledge Society)

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May 19, 2016

German History as Global History: The Case of Coffee in the 20th Century

7th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Dorothee Wierling (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg)

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May 25, 2016 - May 28, 2016

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Jun 02, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Jun 08, 2016

Research Seminar


Jun 10, 2016 - Jun 11, 2016

Willy Brandt and the Americas, 1974-1992

Conference in Berlin | Conveners: German Historical Institute, Washington and the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin

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Jun 13, 2016 - Jun 24, 2016

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2016

Seminar in Germany | Convener: Elisabeth Engel (GHI)

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Jun 16, 2016 - Jun 17, 2016

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective, 18th Century - Today

Workshop at the German Historical Institute (GHI) | Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff, Jessica Csoma, Bryan Hart, Kelly McCullough, Atiba Pertilla, Benjamin Schwantes, Uwe Spiekermann

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Jun 16, 2016

Investing in America: The Historical Perennial of Immigration and Assimilation

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alan Kraut (American University)

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Jun 21, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Digitized Archives, Ethnography, and Art History

Speakers: Ricky Punzalan, the University of Maryland's iSchool, Lain Wilson, graduate digital humanities fellow at Dumbarton Oaks

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Jun 23, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Jun 29, 2016

Research Seminar


Jun 30, 2016 - Jul 02, 2016

Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas

International Conference at the Amerikahaus, Munich, Germany | Conveners: Volker Depkat (BAA) and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI) | Jointly organized by the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (GHI)

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Jun 30, 2016 - Jul 02, 2016

Uncertainty and Risk in America: (Un)Stable Histories from the Late Colonial Period to the "Gilded Age"

Conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin | Conveners: Elisabeth Engel (GHI, Washington, DC), Sebastian Jobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Jul 13, 2016

Research Seminar


Jul 19, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Open Collections & Digital Storytelling

Speakers: Effie Kapsalis (Smithsonian Institution), Patricia Brooks, Silvina Fernandez-Duque (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), Kate Haley Goldman, Jessica Konigsberg, and David McKenzie

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Aug 16, 2016

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Film Screening at Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC, Washington Jewish Film Festival F | Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut, the Embassy of Germany, the German Historical Institute, and the German School of Washington, DC.

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Sep 08, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Sep 14, 2016

Research Seminar


Sep 16, 2016 - Sep 17, 2016

Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Service Sector? How did Western Europe and North America cope with the multifaceted structural transformations since the 1970s

Conference at Institute of Contemporary History, Munich | Conveners: Sebastian Voigt (IfZ Munich) and Stefan Hördler (GHI Washington), and Howard Brick (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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Sep 20, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Web Archiving Medicine;Digital Curation at the Asian Pacific American Center

Speakers: Adriel Luis (mithsonian Asian Pacific American Center), Christie Moffatt (NLM)

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Sep 28, 2016

1990: An Epochal Break in German History?

German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Martin Sabrow (ZZF)

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Sep 29, 2016 - Oct 02, 2016

Migration and Knowledge

Panel Series at Fortieth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, CA | Organizers: Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Swen Steinberg (UCLA)

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Oct 05, 2016

Research Seminar


Oct 06, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Oct 12, 2016

Research Seminar


Oct 19, 2016

Research Seminar


Oct 20, 2016 - Oct 22, 2016

Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge: New Approaches, Opportunities, and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally

International Conference and Workshop at GHI Washington | Conveners: Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), Stephen Robertson (George Mason University)

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Oct 20, 2016

Toward a Spatial Narrative of the 1935 Harlem Riot: Mapping and Storytelling after the Geospatial Turn

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Stephen Robertson (George Mason University)

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Oct 26, 2016

Research Seminar


Oct 27, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Nov 03, 2016

A Joint Past for Europe's Future: National Memory, Bilateral Reconciliation and the German-Polish Textbook Initiative

Panel Discussion at the GHI | In cooperation with the German and Polish Embassies, Washington DC

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Nov 10, 2016

Benchmark Europe: Liberalism and Cultural Nationalism in the United States, 1900-1930

30th Annual Lecture at the GHI | Adelheid von Saldern (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

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Nov 11, 2016

25th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Katharina Matro

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Nov 15, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Machine Learning & Oral History

Speakers: Gabor Toth (GHI Washington / Maximilianeum München)

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Nov 15, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Documenting the Now;Machine Learning & Oral History

Speakers: Ed Summers (Technical Lead, Documenting the Now), Gabor M. Toth (University of Passau)

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Nov 17, 2016

Research Seminar


Dec 01, 2016

GHI Colloquium


Dec 06, 2016

Germans & Jews

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC

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Dec 07, 2016

Research Seminar


Dec 08, 2016

Kernwissen: Nuclear Information and the Germans, 1939-1949

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Michael Gordin (Princeton University)

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Dec 08, 2016 - Dec 09, 2016

Restricting Knowledge: Channeling Security Information in Recent History

Workshop at the German Historical Institute | Conveners: Keith R. Allen (University of Giessen), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Inernational Center for Scholars)

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Dec 14, 2016

Research Seminar


Dec 20, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Documenting the Now;Year-End Wrap-Up

Speakers: Ed Summers (Documenting the Now)

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Dec 20, 2016

DCHDC Meetup: Documenting the Now;Year-End Wrap-Up

Speakers: Ed Summers (Technical Lead, Documenting the Now),

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Jan 17, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: Year-End Wrap-up, Year-Ahead Look Forward


Jan 25, 2017

Research Seminar

Matthew Hiebert (GHI Washington)

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Feb 10, 2017 - Feb 11, 2017

Mapping Entanglements: Dynamics of Missionary Knowledge and "Materialities" across Space and Time (16th - 20th centuries)

Workshop at the GHI Washington | Conveners: Sabina Brevaglieri, Elisabeth Engel in collaboration with the History of Knowledge Research Group at the GHI Washington and the German Historical Institute in Rome

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Feb 10, 2017

Mapping Entanglements: Missionary Knowledge in Colonial Times

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Rebekka Habermas (Universität Göttingen)

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Feb 10, 2017 - Feb 12, 2017

The United States and World War I: Perspectives and Legacies

39th Annual Conference of the Historians in the DGFA/GAAS in Heidelberg | Conveners: Manfred Berg (Heidelberg University) and Axel Jansen (GHI)

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Feb 15, 2017

Research Seminar


Feb 15, 2017

The Reformation Past and Present

Luncheon Discussion at the GHI | Speaker: Margot Käßmann, Special Envoy for the Reformation Anniversary, Margot Käßmann, Special Envoy for the Reformation Anniversary, Olaf Wassmuth, pastor of the German Lutheran Church, Washington, DC

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Feb 16, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Feb 21, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: Chaucer's Digital Afterlife;Hypertext & Historical Narrative

Speakers: Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University) and Christian Wachter (University of Göttingen)

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Feb 23, 2017 - Feb 25, 2017

German Past Futures in the 20th Century

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Arnd Bauerkämper (Freie Universität Berlin), Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego), Kai Evers (University of California, Irvine), Anne Schenderlein (GHI)

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Feb 28, 2017

Germany as an Immigration Country: Labor Migration and the Refugee Influx

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Cornelia Schu, Managing Director of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR) and Director of the Expert Council's Research Unit

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Mar 03, 2017 - Mar 04, 2017

Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington) and Hansjakob Ziemer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

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Mar 08, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Mar 09, 2017

Research Seminar


Mar 21, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: #DataRescueDC and "Collections as Data"

Speakers: Elizabeth England (Johns Hopkins University) and Jaime Mears (Library of Congress)

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Mar 23, 2017

A Social History of the Computer Revolution

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Nathan Ensmenger (Indiana University) | Lecture Series: The Making of the Digital World

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Mar 23, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Mar 23, 2017 - Mar 25, 2017

Religious Rights, Civil Rights, Human Rights in the German and American Contexts, 1948 - Present

Conference at Penn State University | Sponsored by the GHI and the Max Kade German-American Research Institute

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Mar 30, 2017 - Apr 01, 2017

Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community

Joint Conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center and at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. | Conveners: International Intelligence History Association, German Historical Institute, and the History & Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center

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Mar 30, 2017 - Mar 31, 2017

Fifth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History: Rich and Poor, Jews and Gentiles: Wealth, Poverty and Class in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Conference in Bloomington, IN | Conveners: Miriam Rürup (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg), Anne Schenderlein (GHI), and Mirjam Zadoff (Indiana University, Bloomington) | Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, and Indiana University

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Apr 05, 2017

The Rosenburg Files - The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi-Past

Lecture and Panel Discussion at the Goethe-Institut Washington | Speakers: Manfred Görtemaker (University of Potsdam), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI), Andrew Baker ( American Jewish Committee), Christoph Safferling (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Elizabeth B. White (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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Apr 06, 2017

Inclusion, Exclusion, and Computer Technology

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Elizabeth Petrick (New Jersey Institute of Technology) | Lecture Series: The Making of the Digital World

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Apr 07, 2017 - Apr 08, 2017

Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

Workshop at the GHI | Convener: Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)

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Apr 18, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: The JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992 and Digital History

Speakers: Diane Cline (GWU) and Joe Carrano (NDSR, Georgetown University)

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Apr 20, 2017

Dial-up: A Grassroots History of Social Media

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kevin Driscoll (University of Virginia) | Lecture Series: The Making of the Digital World

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Apr 20, 2017

Immigration to Europe: Inclusion, Exclusion and Differential Incorporation

Graduate Student Conference at GHI West, Shorb House (2547 Channing Way) | Speakers: Fatima El-Tayeb, Salman Sayyid, and Stephen Small

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Apr 20, 2017

The Luther Decade and Reformation Quincentenary: A First Assessment

Lecture at GHI West | Speaker: Hartmut Lehmann

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Apr 27, 2017

Democracy and Its Discontents: The Weimar Republic Revisited

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Kathleen Canning (University of Michigan), Rüdiger Graf (Center for Contemporary History Potsdam), Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University), and Dirk Schumann (University of Göttingen), and moderated by David Clay Large (University of San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley)

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Apr 27, 2017

GHI Colloquium


May 04, 2017

The Rise of the Digital Society: Computers in Socialist and Democratic Cold War Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Frank Bösch (Universität Potsdam) | Lecture Series: The Making of the Digital World

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May 05, 2017

Workshop on Medieval Germany

Conference at the GHI London | Conveners: Len Scales (Durham University) and Cornelia Linde (GHIL) | Organized by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society

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May 11, 2017 - May 13, 2017

Forever Young: Rejuvenation in Transnational and Transcolonial Perspective, 1900-2000

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge), Mischa Honeck (GHI), Isabel Richter (University of Bremen)

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May 11, 2017

Springs Eternal: Youth, Age, and Global Histories of Rejuvenation

Keynote Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: David M. Pomfret (University of Hong Kong)

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May 16, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: The Theory & Craft of Digital Preservation;Curating Computing Collections

Speakers: Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) and Petrina Foti (Nazareth College of Rochester's Center for Public History)

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May 18, 2017

Colonial Germans and Slavery on the Eve of the American Revolution: The Case of Ebenezer

8th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: James Van Horn Melton (Emory University)

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May 18, 2017

Fog in August

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema

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May 20, 2017

Rabbi Wolff - A Gentleman before God

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema

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May 21, 2017

Exit: Music

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening, Bethesda Row Cinema

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May 23, 2017

Exit: Music

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at E Street Cinema

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May 23, 2017

Stefan Zweig, Farewell to Europe

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema

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May 24, 2017

Research Seminar


May 25, 2017

Fog in August

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre

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May 25, 2017

GHI Colloquium


May 25, 2017

Rabbi Wolff - A Gentleman before God

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at E Street Cinema

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May 28, 2017

Stefan Zweig, Farewell to Europe

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre

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Jun 01, 2017 - Jun 03, 2017

Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies across Science, Commerce, and the State

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Sebastian Felten (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Philipp Lehmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Christine von Oertzen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)

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Jun 01, 2017

Funny Numbers: Unruly Outcomes of Data-Driven Management

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Theodore M. Porter (UCLA)

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Jun 07, 2017 - Jun 10, 2017

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Conference at the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown Univ), Miriam Ruerup (IGDJ, Hamburg), Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Jun 14, 2017

Research Seminar


Jun 22, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Jun 28, 2017

Research Seminar


Jul 13, 2017 - Jul 15, 2017

Cosmopolitanism in Context: Practices of World Citizenship in an Age of Empire (18th-20th Centuries)

Conference in Hanover, Germany | Conveners: Valeska Huber (Freie Universität Berlin), Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington), Martin Rempe (Universität Konstanz)

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Jul 18, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: What's New with Omeka & Mid-Year Check-In

Speakers: Patrick Murray-John (Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)

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Jul 24, 2017 - Aug 02, 2017

GHI Archival Summer School in the United States for Junior Historians 2017

Seminar in Washington, Chicago, Boston, and Madison | Convener: Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington)

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Aug 28, 2017

The End of the Endless Frontier? Truth and Power in the Age of Populism

470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley | Lunch discussion with Peter Strohschneider (DFG)

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Sep 07, 2017 - Sep 09, 2017

Learning at the Margins: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge among African Americans and Jews since the 1880s

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Elisabeth Engel (GHI) and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (University of Augsburg), Kierra Crago-Schneider (USHMM), Yvonne Poser (Howard University)

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Sep 15, 2017 - Sep 16, 2017

Empires of Knowledge: Expertise and Imperial Power across the Long Twentieth Century

Conference at University of British Columbia, Vancouver/Canada | Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Jessica Wang (UBC)

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Sep 15, 2017

Inheritance Practices in the 20th Century

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Jürgen Dinkel (University of Gießen), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Vanessa Ogle (University of Pennsylvania)

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Sep 19, 2017

DCHDC Meetup

Speakers: Ashley Sands (UCLA) and Megan Potterbusch (National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Association for Research Libraries)

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Sep 20, 2017

Research Seminar


Sep 21, 2017

Reinventing the World - 500 Years of the Reformation (Parts 1-3 of Der Luther-Code)

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut | Introduced by David Lazar (GHI Washington)

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Sep 25, 2017 - Sep 26, 2017

Quellen und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter Neue Zugänge für eine etablierte Disziplin?

Conference in Berlin | Conveners: Georg-Eckert-Institut Braunschweig, Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, CLARIN-D Fach-AG Geschichte, AG "Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft" im VHD

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Sep 29, 2017 - Sep 30, 2017

Reeducation Revisited: Strategies, Actors, Institutions in Transnational and Comparative Perspective

Conference at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Nürnberg | Conveners: Katharina Gerund (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), and Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington)

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Oct 04, 2017

Willy Brandt: Life of a Statesman

Lecture at the Middle East Institute | In collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung; lecture by Helene Miard-Delacroix (Paris-Sorbonne University); comment by Andrew Demshuk (American University); moderated by Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center)

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Oct 05, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Oct 05, 2017 - Oct 08, 2017

Kinship, Knowledge, and Migration

GHI Panel Series at the GSA in Atlanta, GA | Organizers: Simone Lässig (GHI) and Swen Steinberg (TU Dresden)

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Oct 05, 2017

Reinventing the World - 500 Years of the Reformation (Parts 4-6 of Der Luther-Code)

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut

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Oct 12, 2017

The German Historical Institute at 30: The Founding of a Historical Institute at the Intersection of Scholarship and Politics

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto), Jacob Eder (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Scott Krause (ZZF Potsdam & UNC Chapel Hill), Hartmut Lehmann (Founding Director of the GHI). Moderated by Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Oct 17, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: Social Media, LC Labs, & A/V Preservation

Speakers: Speakers: Justin (Gelman Library, George Washington University), Meghan Ferriter (National Digital Initiatives), Jaime Mears (National Digital Initiatives), Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez (CLIR)

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Oct 19, 2017

Conscience, Authority, and the Right of Resistance: How Religious Choice Framed the Individual and the State System

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Thomas Maissen (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)

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Oct 19, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Oct 26, 2017 - Oct 28, 2017

Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars

International Conference and Workshop at GHI Washington | Conveners: Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), and Trevor Muñoz (MITH)

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Oct 26, 2017

Frontiers of Digital History: Citizen Scholars, New Knowledge, and Public Debate

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh)

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Oct 26, 2017

Luther the Reformer: Films from the GDR

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut | Introduced by Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington)

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Oct 30, 2017 - Nov 01, 2017

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI PRO at UC Berkeley | Convener: Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington)

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Nov 01, 2017

The Knowledge of/about Migrants: Preconceptions, Misconceptions, Limits

Lecture at Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley | Speaker: Armin Nassehi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); moderator: Julie Weise (University of Oregon)

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Nov 02, 2017

Remembering and Forgetting the Reformation, 1517-2017

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University)

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Nov 09, 2017

What Kind of Intelligence Calculates? Prodigies, Drudges, and Machines, 1750-1950

31st Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

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Nov 10, 2017

26th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Bradley J. Nichols (Virginia Tech)

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Nov 14, 2017

DCHDC Meetup: Creating Knowledge Socially;Digital History

Speakers: Matt Hiebert (GHI Washignton), Aleisa Fishman (USHMM), Seth Denbo (AHA)

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Nov 15, 2017

Research Seminar


Nov 16, 2017

GHI Colloquium


Nov 16, 2017

Luther the Reformer: Katharina Luther and Lucas Cranach

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut | Introduced by Amy Leonard (Georgetown University)

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Nov 29, 2017

Research Seminar


Nov 30, 2017

States of Exception and Sudden Democracies in 20th Century Germany

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan

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Dec 04, 2017 - Dec 05, 2017

Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America

Workshop at The New School for Social Research, New York City | Conveners: Simone Lässig, Director (GHI Washington), William Milberg (The New School for Social Research), William Weitzer (Leo Baeck Institute, New York)

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Dec 07, 2017

Writing in Stressful Times: The Anxieties of Authorship During the Reformation

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ann Blair (Harvard University)

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Jan 05, 2018

Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating "Germanness" in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times

Panel at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association | Organized by the contributors to the German History Intersections project

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Jan 05, 2018 - Jan 06, 2018

Rewriting 19th Century Central European History

Panel Series at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association | Conveners: GHI Washington and the Central European History Society

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Jan 10, 2018

Research Seminar


Jan 16, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Learning about NARA's History Hub

Speakers: Dana Allen-Greil (National Archives), Darren Cole (National Archives)

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Jan 18, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Jan 24, 2018

Research Seminar


Jan 25, 2018

Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Céline Teney, University of Bremen

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Feb 01, 2018

Sorbian/Wendish Cultural Revival in the Age of Globalization

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Hélène Yèche (University of Poitiers)

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Feb 07, 2018

Research Seminar


Feb 14, 2018 - Feb 16, 2018

In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler's Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond

Conference in Kolkata, India | Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington), and Indra Sengupta (GHI London)

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Feb 20, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Engagement with Student Audiences

Speakers: David McKenzie (Ford’s Theatre), Kate Haley Goldman (Ford’s Theatre), and Darren Milligan (Smithsonian Institution)

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Feb 20, 2018

Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)

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Feb 21, 2018

Research Seminar


Feb 21, 2018

Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America

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)

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Feb 22, 2018 - Feb 24, 2018

Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Pamela Swett (McMaster University), Moritz Föllmer (University of Amsterdam), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)

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Mar 01, 2018 - Mar 02, 2018

Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Anke Ortlepp (University of Kassel/GHI Washington) and Bryant Simon (Temple University/GHI Washington)

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Mar 01, 2018

Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Lizabeth Coehen (Harvard University)

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Mar 06, 2018

The End of Gold? Monetary Metals Studied at the Planetary and Human Scale During the Classical Gold Standard Era

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Andrea Westermann, GHI West Research Fellow and Head of Office

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Mar 08, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Mar 13, 2018

Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)

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Mar 17, 2018 - Mar 18, 2018

West Coast Germanists' Workshop

Workshop 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)

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Mar 20, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Cultural Heritage and the African-American Past

Speakers: AJ Lawrence (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture), Mara Cherkasky (PrologueDC)

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Mar 22, 2018

Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918/19

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg)

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Mar 22, 2018 - Mar 24, 2018

Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies

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)

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Mar 22, 2018

Trust as Violence: The Politics of Film and the Militarization of Male Sexuality in National Socialism

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)

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Apr 11, 2018

Europe 1918-2018 French, German, and Polish Perspectives on the Future of the European Union

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

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Apr 11, 2018

War in the Nazi Imagination

Lecture at Georgetown University, Healy Hall 104 | Richard Evans (University of Cambridge)

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Apr 12, 2018

Karl Marx and the History of Capitalism

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Jürgen Kocka (WZB/Berlin Social Science Center)

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Apr 12, 2018

Marx at 200: A Symposium

Sympoisum at the GHI | Conveners: Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania), James Brophy (University of Delaware), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), and David Lazar (GHI Washington)

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Apr 13, 2018

The Invisibles

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC | Co-presented by German Historical Institute

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Apr 16, 2018 - Apr 17, 2018

Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture

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

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Apr 17, 2018

Post-Nazi Germany and the Myth of American Influence

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Noah B. Strote (North Carolina State University)

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Apr 17, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Data Curation and Opening Scholarly Communications

Speakers: Adam Kriesberg (UMD College Park), Salwa Ismail (Georgetown University Library)

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Apr 19, 2018

Mondrian's Dress: Copying (and) the Couture Copy

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Nancy Troy (Stanford University) | Lecture Series: Illicit Knowledge: Copyright, Piracy, and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective

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Apr 20, 2018

Making Immigrant Knowledge from Collective Memories: Watching the Process Unfold in Spain

Lecture at GHI West, University of California Berkeley, Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall) | Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University

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Apr 20, 2018 - Apr 21, 2018

Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces

Workshop at GHI West, UC Berkeley | Convener: GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC

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Apr 24, 2018

Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall

Lecture at GHI West (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Paul Lerner (USC)

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Apr 25, 2018

Research Seminar


May 02, 2018 - May 03, 2018

Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart

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)

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May 03, 2018

GHI Colloquium


May 03, 2018

Japanese Industrial Espionage, American Decline, and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the 1980s

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mario Daniels (Georgetown University) | Lecture Series: Illicit Knowledge: Copyright, Piracy, and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective

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May 05, 2018

Back to Berlin

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema | Co-presented by The Kosciuszko Foundation, German Historical Institute, Polish American Arts Association

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May 07, 2018

Back to the Fatherland

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

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May 09, 2018

Back to Berlin

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Edlavitch DCJCC | Co-presented by The Kosciuszko Foundation German Historical Institute Polish American Arts Association

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May 09, 2018

Back to the Fatherland

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

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May 10, 2018

Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century

9th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin)

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May 11, 2018

Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History

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) | Organized by German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society

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May 15, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Digital Collections

Speakers: Chris Adams (LoC), John W. Hessler (Royal Geographical Society), Ben Snively (Amazon Web Services Public Sector)

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May 16, 2018

Research Seminar


May 17, 2018 - May 18, 2018

Transoceanic American Studies

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Juliane Braun (University of Bonn/GHI Washington); Benjamin Fagan (Auburn University/GHI Washington)

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May 24, 2018

Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Theft, Borrowing, or Artistic Practice?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Justin Williams (University of Bristol) | Lecture Series: Illicit Knowledge: Copyright, Piracy, and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective

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May 30, 2018 - Jun 03, 2018

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar at GHI PRO, Berkeley, CA | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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May 30, 2018

Research Seminar


Jun 06, 2018 - Jun 10, 2018

Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge

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)

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Jun 07, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Jun 13, 2018

Research Seminar


Jun 14, 2018

Copyright and Intellectual Property: Why Is Academia Reluctant to Embrace Open-Access Scholarship?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Peter Baldwin (University of California, Los Angeles) | Lecture Series: Illicit Knowledge: Copyright, Piracy, and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective

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Jun 14, 2018 - Jun 15, 2018

Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era

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)

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Jun 19, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Connecting Digital Collections with K-12 Students

Speakers: Sara Trettin (Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education), Stephen Wesson (LoC)

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Jun 22, 2018 - Jun 23, 2018

Defining Black European History

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)

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Jun 22, 2018 - Jun 23, 2018

Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolutions (ca. 1750-1830)

Workshop at Re:work International Research Center, Berlin | Conveners: Linda Colley (Princeton University) and Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington)

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Jul 17, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: “Using DH to Re-Narrate DC”

Speakers: Marya Annette McQuirter (dc1968 Project)

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Sep 25, 2018

How Natural are Natural Disasters?

Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower) | Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)

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Sep 25, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Indexing Caribbean Journals & Transcribing 16th Cent. Handwriting

Speakers: Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University) and Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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Sep 26, 2018

Research Seminar


Sep 27, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018

The Nexus of Migration, Youth, and Knowledge

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)

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Oct 02, 2018

Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective

Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall (University of California, Berkeley) | Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)

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Oct 02, 2018

Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of California, Los Angeles (6275 Bunche Hall) | Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)

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Oct 03, 2018

Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany

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)

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Oct 04, 2018

Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective

Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder | Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)

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Oct 04, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Oct 04, 2018

How Natural are Natural Disasters?

Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of Colorado, Boulder | Speaker: Uwe Lübken (LMU Munich)

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Oct 08, 2018 - Oct 10, 2018

Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750-1900

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)

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Oct 09, 2018

Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 180 Does Library, University of California, Berkeley | Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)

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Oct 11, 2018

Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1197 Buchanan Tower) | Speaker: Martina Kessel (Bielefeld University)

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Oct 16, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: Analyzing Web Corpora & Social Network Analysis

Speakers: Matt Hiebert (GHI Washignton), Jens Pohlmann (GHI Washington/RRCHNM @ GMU)

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Oct 17, 2018 - Oct 20, 2018

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI PRO at UC Berkeley | Convener: Andrea Westermann (GHI West)

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Oct 17, 2018

What is in a Category? Telling Economic Migrants & Political Refugees Apart

Lecture at the Alumni House, UC Berkeley | Speaker: David Miliband (International Rescue Committee)

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Oct 18, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Oct 24, 2018

Research Seminar


Oct 25, 2018 - Oct 27, 2018

Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis

International Conference and Workshop at GHI Washington | Conveners: Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), and Katherine McDonough (Stanford)

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Nov 08, 2018

A Different Sort of Neoliberalism? Making Sense of German History Since the 1970s

32nd Annual Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin), Comment: Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)

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Nov 09, 2018

27th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Adam Bisno

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Nov 13, 2018

#FeminismToMe: Are You In? A Conversation with Jutta Allmendinger and Kate Goodall

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)

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Nov 14, 2018

Research Seminar


Nov 15, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Nov 20, 2018 - Nov 21, 2018

Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval

Conference at the WZB | Convener: Andreas Eckert (HU Berlin), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Franz Waldenberger (DIJ Tokyo)

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Nov 27, 2018

DCHDC Meetup: "Partners for Preservation"

Speakers: Jeanne Kramer Smyth (World Bank Archives)

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Nov 28, 2018

Research Seminar


Dec 06, 2018

GHI Colloquium


Dec 08, 2018

Transit: Film and Panel Discussion at AFI Silver

Films Screening and Panel Discussion at AFI Silver | Speakers: Marike Janzen (University of Kansas), Eric Jennings (University of Toronto), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)

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Dec 12, 2018

Research Seminar


Jan 20, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Meet the New DCHDC Board and Share Your Ideas for 2019


Jan 22, 2019

Of Pathogens and Humans. A Cultural History of the Policies on Epidemics in the Nineteenth Century

Lecture at GHI West, UC Berkeley, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Andrea Wiegeshoff (GHI Washington / Marburg University)

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Jan 23, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)

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Jan 24, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Julia Engelschalt (Bielefeld University) & Caterina Schürch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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Feb 06, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Michelle Lynn Kahn (University of Richmond)

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Feb 19, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Art + GLAM - Creation, Conservation, and Experience

Speakers: Dan Finn, Lena Galperina, Tahir Hemphill

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Feb 21, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Johannes Nagel (Universität Bielefeld) & Laura Nicolaiciuc (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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Feb 21, 2019

Remembering and Forgetting Germany's First Democracy: Reflections on Weimar Germany

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Kathleen Canning (Rice University) | Series: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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Feb 21, 2019

The Longue Durée of 1989: Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany

Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Kerstin Brückweh (Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam)

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Feb 25, 2019

Project Europe: A New History of the European Union

Gerda Henkel Lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder | Speaker: Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht University)

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Feb 27, 2019

The New Deal: A Global History

Gerda Henkel Lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara (HSSB 4020) | Speaker: Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University

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Feb 28, 2019

Project Europe: A New History of the European Union

Gerda Henkel Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley (240 Mulford Hall) | Speaker: Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht University)

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Mar 04, 2019

The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe

Lecture at GHI West, UC Berkeley, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Maartje van der Woude, Leiden Law School (Netherlands)

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Mar 07, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Vinicius Bivar Marra Pereira (Freie Universität Berlin), Sielke Beata Kelner (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) & Pascal Pawlitta (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München)

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Mar 08, 2019 - Sep 03, 2019

The Transmission of Financial Knowledge in Historical Perspective, 1840-1940

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Nicholas Osborne (New-York Historical Society) and Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington)

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Mar 19, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Working Towards Inclusive Communities & Collections

Speakers: Alan Inouye, Effie Kapsalis, Doretha Williams

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Mar 21, 2019

Founding Weimar: Violence and the Revolution of 1918/1919

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Mark Jones (University College Dublin/FU Berlin) | Series: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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Mar 21, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Kerstin Bischl (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Maximilian Klose (Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) & Mathias Häußler (University of Regensburg)

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Mar 22, 2019

Lies about Migrants: Comparing U.S. and German Migration Politics in a Post-Truth Environment

Lecture at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Beverly Crawford Ames (Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley)

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Mar 22, 2019 - Mar 23, 2019

The Politics of Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany

Conference at the GHI | Conveners: Rüdiger Graf, Quinn Slobodian, Heidi Tworek, Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington)

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Mar 25, 2019 - Mar 27, 2019

Entangling Pacific and Atlantic Worlds: Past and Present

Symposium at GHI West | Conveners: Sarah Beringer (GHI Washington), Wencke Meteling (Marburg University), Sören Urbansky (GHI Washington). Co-organized with the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

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Mar 28, 2019

Did Sex Bring Down the Weimar Republic?

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Laurie Marhoefer (University of Washington) | Series: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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Apr 02, 2019

Fascism's Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

Gerda Henkel Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)

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Apr 02, 2019

Indian Economic Policy 1945: The Bombay Plan, Multinationals and Indian Big Business

Seminar at GHI Washington | Speakers: Gurcharan Das (public intellectual), Medha Kudaisya (National University of Singapore), Promodh Malhotra (former Citibank and IFC official), Mircea Raianu (University of Maryland), Stefan Tetzlaff (GHI Washington)

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Apr 03, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Thomas Zimmer (Universität Freiburg / Georgetown University / GHI)

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Apr 04, 2019

Fascism's Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

Gerda Henkel Lecture at UC Santa Barbara | Speaker: Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)

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Apr 05, 2019

Angst essen Seele auf (Fear Eats the Soul)

Film Screening at Goethe-Institut San Francisco |

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Apr 06, 2019 - Jul 04, 2019

Second Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop: German History in a Fractious World

Workshop at University of Southern California | Organizing Committee: Elizabeth Drummond (LMU), Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (UC Berkeley), Paul Lerner (USC), Andrea Westermann (GHI West), Heike Friedman (GHI West)

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Apr 08, 2019

Fascism's Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

Gerda Henkel Lecture at USC, Los Angeles | Speaker: Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)

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Apr 09, 2019

Fascism's Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

Gerda Henkel Lecture at UC San Diego | Speaker: Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)

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Apr 11, 2019

City Streets and Civil Unrest: The Costs of Public Violence in the Weimar and Nazi Eras

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Molly Loberg (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) | Series: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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Apr 11, 2019

Over Sixty in the Sixties: The Older Generation and Youth Protest in West Germany

Lecture at GHI West, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Christina von Hodenberg (German Historical Institute, London)

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Apr 12, 2019

Hippie Masala (Forever in India)

Film Screening at Goethe-Institut San Francisco |

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Apr 16, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Public Media Research and Preservation

Speakers: Stephanie Sapienza Susie Cummings and Will Chase, Alan Gevinson, Laura Schnitker

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Apr 17, 2019

Competing Narratives of Failed Regimes: An International Comparison of National Memory Cultures

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Soeren Brinkmann (Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla), Karen Cox (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University), Xolela Mangcu (George Washington University)

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Apr 17, 2019

From Barbarian Settlers to Humanitarian Resettlement: The Colonial Origins of the Early International Refugee Regime

Lecture at Arizon State University Tempe, Durham Language and Literature Building, Room 165 | Speaker: Florian Wagner (University of Erfurt / GHI West)

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Apr 18, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Esther Heyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Franziska Walter (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin/ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) & Katrin Horn (Universität Bayreuth)

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Apr 24, 2019

Humanitarianism from the Margins: Framing Return Migration and Repatriation in Jewish Europe and Africa

Lecture at The Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, 201 Moses Hall | Speakers: Nick Underwood and Florian Wagner (Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley & The Regional Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute, Washington)

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Apr 24, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: James M. Brophy (University of Delaware)

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Apr 25, 2019

The Chances and Challenges of Democracy: Weimar and Beyond

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Tim B. Müller (German Sinti and Roma Union) | Series: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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May 01, 2019

Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century

Washington History Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center | Speaker: Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill)

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May 02, 2019

Asylum and Integration Policies in Germany, from the 1990s to 2015

Lecture at The Pacific Regional Office of the GHI, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Annette Lützel

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May 07, 2019

Bébé Tigre [Young Tiger]

Film Screening at Alliance Française, San Francisco |

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May 09, 2019

Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at E Street Cinema |

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May 09, 2019

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

10th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Yale University and National Bureau of Economic Research)

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May 11, 2019

The Einstein of Sex

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre | co-presented by the Goethe-Institut; introduced and post-screening discussion moderated by Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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May 16, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Luise Fast (Bielefeld University) & Jens Pohlmann (GHI Washington/ Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media)

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May 17, 2019 - May 18, 2019

Moving Under Pressure in an Age of War and Revolution, 1750-1830

Conference at Princeton University | Conveners: Linda Colley (Princeton University), Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington), and Yair Mintzker (Princeton University)

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May 17, 2019

Raving Iran

Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco |

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May 18, 2019

Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Opera

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema | Co-presented by the Embassy of Germany and the Goethe-Institut Washington

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May 19, 2019

Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema |

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May 20, 2019 - May 22, 2019

In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)

Conference at GHI West and The MAGNES Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley | Conveners: Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los Angeles), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington/GHI West, UC Berkeley), Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), Swen Steinberg (University of Dresden)

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May 20, 2019

Wandering Jews or Jewish Migrations? How Jewish Scholars Conceptualized Migration

Lecture at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life | Speaker: Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University)

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May 21, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Tools in Archeology

Spekers: Allen Mikulski, Andrew Smith II, Jared Koller

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May 23, 2019

The Accountant of Auschwitz

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at Bethesda Row Cinema | Co-presented by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 3GDC - Washington DC Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, AJC Global Jewish Advocacy, Washington Embassy of Germany, Goethe-Institut Washington and introduced by Elisabeth B. White (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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May 24, 2019 - May 25, 2019

Maritime Missions: Religion, Ethnography and Empires in the Long Eighteenth Century

Workshop at the GHI | Conveners: Jenna M. Gibbs (GHI Washington/Florida International University) and Sünne Juterczenka (GHI Washington/Göttingen University)

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May 25, 2019

Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Opera

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre | Co-presented by the Embassy of Germany and the Goethe-Institut Washington

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May 26, 2019

The Accountant of Auschwitz

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre | Co-presented by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 3GDC - Washington DC Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, AJC Global Jewish Advocacy, Washington Embassy of Germany, Goethe-Institut Washington and introduced by Elisabeth B. White (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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May 26, 2019

The Tobacconist

Washington Jewish Film Festival Screening at AFI Silver Theatre | Co-presented by the Embassy of Germany and the Goethe-Institut Washington

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May 28, 2019 - Apr 06, 2019

Histories of Migrant Knowledges in and across the Transpacific: Agencies, Scales, Translations

Conference at UC Berkeley | Organized by The Forum Transregionale Studien, the Max Weber Stiftung, GHI West, The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), and the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

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May 29, 2019 - Jan 06, 2019

25th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar at GHI Washington and Georgetown University | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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May 31, 2019

Bezness as Usual

Film Screening at Goethe-Institut San Francisco |

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Jun 05, 2019

Research Seminar

Sepaker: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)

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Jun 06, 2019

Knowledge / Power / Political Culture - A Transatlantic Conversation

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Speakers: Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University), Jakob Tanner (Zurich University), and moderated by Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University)

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Jun 06, 2019 - Jun 08, 2019

Political Culture and the History of Knowledge: Actors, Institutions, Practices

Conference at the GHI Washington | Conveners: Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (Institute of the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago), Kijan Espahangizi (Center "History of Knowledge" at the University Zurich and the ETH Zurich), Nils Güttler (Center "History of Knowledge" at the University Zurich and the ETH Zurich), Kerstin von der Krone (GHI Washington), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Monika Wulz (Center "History of Knowledge" at the University Zurich and the ETH Zurich)

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Jun 12, 2019

The Politics of Research: Academic Freedom, Governmental Funding, and Public Accountability

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Mary Sue Coleman (AAU), Julika Griem (DFG), Wilhelm Krull (Volkswagen Foundation), Jon P. Peede (NEH), and Pauline Yu (ACLS), moderated by Doug Lederman (Inside Higher Ed)

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Jun 13, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Timothy Wright (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Julie Keresztes (Boston University) & Hannah Ruddolph (GHI Washington)

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Jun 14, 2019

Franz Steiner Prize Ceremony 2019

Annual meeting of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), University of Bonn |

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Jun 18, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Mapping

Speakers: Soren Walljasper and Christina Micek, Abby Mullen, Kathy Hart

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Jul 16, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Design Thinking Lab for Cultural Heritage Workers


Aug 27, 2019

Kino-Q: The Aids Trilogy, Pt III - The Fire under Your Ass (1990)

Film Screening at Goethe-Institut Washington | Introduced by Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Sep 06, 2019 - Jul 09, 2019

Global Knowledge, Global Legitimacy? Transatlantic Biomedicine since 1970

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington) and Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington) | Co-sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Sep 17, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Folklife

Speakers: Dave Walker, Cecilia Peterson, Patrick Egan

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Sep 18, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Jamie Cohen-Cole (George Washington University/GHI Washington)

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Sep 19, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speaker: Clemens Huemerlehner (Universität Freiburg) & Cora Schmidt-Ott (Universität Tübingen)

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Sep 24, 2019 - Sep 25, 2019

Sixth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History: Radicalism and Resistance in Modern Jewish History

Conference at the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg | Conveners: Anne Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington) Miriam Rürup (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg), Anne Schenderlein (GHI Washington), and Mirjam Zadoff (NS-Dokumentationszentrum München), with additional support from the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts

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Oct 01, 2019

From Revolution to Routine? Patterns of German Democracy in the 20th Century

Lecture at the Pacific Regional Office, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Lutz Raphael (Trier University)

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Oct 03, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speaker: Sonja Malin Wilckens (Universität Bielefel

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Oct 03, 2019 - Jun 10, 2019

GSA Seminar: Beyond the Racial State: New Perspectives on Race in Nazi Germany

Seminar at Forty-Third Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Portland, OR | Conveners: Devin Pendas (Boston College), Mark Roseman (Indiana University), and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Oct 03, 2019 - Jun 10, 2019

Work, Migration, Environment: The German and Central European Experience

Panel at the Forty-Third Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Portland, Oregon | Conveners: Andrea Westermann (GHI West, Berkeley) and Eagle Glassheim (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

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Oct 10, 2019 - Dec 10, 2019

Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination

International Conference and Workshop at GHI Washington | Conveners: Andreas Fickers (C2DH), Gerben Zaagsma (C2DH), Sean Takats (RRCHNM), Simone Lässig (GHI), Jens Pohlmann (GHI), Daniel Burckhardt (GHI)

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Oct 10, 2019 - Oct 12, 2019

11th Medieval History Seminar

Seminar at GHI London | Conveners: Paul Freedman (Yale University), Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews), Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity College Dublin), Len Scales (Durham University), and Dorothea Weltecke (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) | Organized by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington

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Oct 15, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Architecture & Library Carpentry

Speakers: Aliza Leventhal, Joanna Groberg, Jesse Johnston

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Oct 15, 2019

Beyond the Pressure to Perform: On the Concept of "Leistung" in 19th Century Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at the Pacific Regional Office, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Nina Verheyen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities)

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Oct 21, 2019

"Maybe Esther": Storytelling and the Unpredictability of the Past

Lecture at the Alumni House, UC Berkeley | Speaker: Katja Petrowskaja

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Oct 21, 2019 - Oct 23, 2019

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI PRO at UC Berkeley | Convener: Andrea Westermann (GHI PRO) and Levke Harders (GHI Washington/ Universität Bielefeld) | Made possible by a grant from the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

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Oct 23, 2019

Beyond the Pressure to Perform: On the Concept of "Leistung" in 19th Century Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at USC | Speaker: Nina Verheyen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities)

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Oct 24, 2019

Racial Science in Nazi Germany

Lecture at the Library of Congress | Speaker: Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Oct 24, 2019

Beyond the Pressure to Perform: On the Concept of "Leistung" in 19th Century Germany

Gerda Henkel Lecture at UC San Diego | Speaker: Nina Verheyen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities)

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Oct 25, 2019

Nazi-Era Provenance Research: The Importance of Transnational Exchange

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Sharon Cott (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Gero Dimter (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin), Stuart Eizenstat (US Department of State), Irmgard Fellner (Foreign Federal Office, Republic of Germany), Christian Fuhrmeister (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich), Richard Kurin (Smithsonian Institution), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Anne Helmreich (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles), Lynn Nicholas, and Laurie Stein (Smithsonian Institution)

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Oct 26, 2019

Object Lessons: German and American Perspectives on Provenance Research of the Colonial and Nazi Eras

Panel Discussion at the GHI | Panelists: Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute London), Bronwyn Campbell (National Gallery of Australia), Raphael Gross (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin), Christine Kreamer (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution), H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa), Hilke Thode-Arora (Museum der Fünf Kontinente, Munich, and 2018 PREP Guest Speaker), and moderated by Irene Bald Romano (University of Arizona, and 2018 PREP participant)

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Oct 30, 2019

Risk Capital & the Rise of the Insurance Business at America's Founding

Library Of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building Room LJ-119 | Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)

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Nov 01, 2019

28th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the Fritz Stern Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Michelle Kahn (University of Richmond)

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Nov 01, 2019

Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: Disability and Reproductive Rights in 1980s-1990s Germany

33rd Annual Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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Nov 06, 2019

Research Seminar

Susanne Schmidt (Free University of Berlin/GHI Washington)

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Nov 14, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Anka Steffen (Europa-Universität Viadrina) & Thomas Ruoss (University of Leuven)

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Nov 19, 2019

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Preservation in TV

Speaers: Siobhan Hagan, Karma Foley, Krzysztof Pietroszek

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Nov 20, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Anna Ananieva (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen/GHI Washington)

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Nov 21, 2019

Singing Schubert, Hearing Race: Black Concert Singers and the German Lied in Interwar Central Europe

Lecture at The Pacific Regional Office of the GHI, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Kira Thurman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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Dec 03, 2019

Past Incentives, Present Choices: Ideational Legacies and the Politics of Migration in European Minority Regions

Lecture at the Pacific Regional Office, 223 Moses Hall | Speaker: Christina Isabel Zuber (Universität Konstanz)

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Dec 09, 2019 - Dec 10, 2019

Archives of Migration: Annual Academic and Policy Symposium "Innovation through Migration"

Policy Symposium at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley, Moses Hall | Conveners: Fatima El-Tayeb (UC San Diego) and Andrea Westermann (GHI PRO, Berkeley) | Organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco & made possible by a grant from the Brüderstiftung

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Dec 10, 2019

Archives of Migration

Film Screening, Reading, and Discussion with the Audience at the Goethe-Institute San Francisco | Speakers: Mervete Bobaj and Dan Thy Nguyen

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Dec 11, 2019

New American Narrative on the Peopling of America

Seminar at GHI PRO, 223 Moses Hall | Speakers: John R. Weeks (San Diego State University) Héctor Tobar (UC Irvine)

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Dec 11, 2019

Research Seminar

Speaker: Gregory Afinogenov (Georgetown University/GHI Washington)

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Dec 11, 2019

Toward a New American Narrative on the Peopling of America

Lecture at the David Brower Center, Goldman Theater | Speakers: John R. Weeks (San Diego State University), Hector Tobar (University of California, Irvine), and moderated by Irene Bloomberg (University of California, Berkeley)

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Dec 12, 2019

GHI Colloquium

Speaker: Benjamin Nestor (Marquette University)

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Jan 05, 2020

The Go-Betweens: Youth, Migration, and Knowledge Transfer

Panel at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association | Joint session with the Central European History Society

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Jan 21, 2020

DCHDC Meetup: Student Lightning Talks!

Speakers: Alexandra Zaremba (History Doctoral Student, American University), Juli Folk (iSchool Class of 2019, University of Maryland), Tammy Tran (MSLIS Graduate Student, Catholic University), Gerald Jones III (Business Management Major, Mooreland-Springard Research Center, Digital Howard, Howard University)

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Jan 30, 2020

Research Seminar

Speaker: Samuel C. Huneke (George Mason University)

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Feb 18, 2020

Revisiting the Economics of German Overseas Imperialism, 1884-1918

Lecture at GHI PRO, 201 Moses Hall | Speaker: Steven Press, Stanford University

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Feb 18, 2020

DCHDC Meetup: Cultural Heritage Imaging

Speakers: Doug Peterson (Head of Research and Development, Digital Transitions Cultural Heritage), Scott Pennington (Digital Imaging Specialist, National Archives), Peter Steinhauer (Independent Photographer)

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Feb 19, 2020

Research Seminar

Speaker: Levke Harders (GHI/Universität Bielefeld)

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Feb 20, 2020 - Feb 21, 2020

Recreating Separate Spheres Across Not-So-Separate Worlds: Gender and Reeducation in Japan, Germany, and the USA after World War II

Conference at GHI PRO, UC Berkeley Campus, Moses Hall | Conveners: Jana Aresin (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington)

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Feb 27, 2020

Human-Machine Boundaries in the Enlightenment and Beyond

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Adelheid Voskuhl (University of Pennsylvania)

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Feb 27, 2020

'It hurts us that our people must work for global capital': The Symbolic Politics of Out-Migration in Socialist Yugoslavia

Lecture at GHI PRO, 270 Stephens Hall | Speaker: Ulf Brunnbauer (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies & University of Regensburg)

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Feb 27, 2020

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Roman Hutter (Universität Wien /University of Amsterdam) & Ricardo Neuner (Universität Konstanz)

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Apr 21, 2020

Virtual April 2020 DCHDC Meetup


May 26, 2020

Virtual DCHDC Meetup

Speakers: Laura Wagner (Duke University Rubenstein Library), Casey Davis Kaufman (WGBH + American Archives of Public Broadcasting) & Mark Williams (Dartmouth)

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Jun 04, 2020

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Amir Theilhaber (Technische Universität Berlin / GHI)

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Jun 09, 2020

Racism in Europe: A Critical Assessment

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Jean Claude Beaujour, Vice-Chair of France Amérique; Charles M. Huber, Former MP in the German Bundestag

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Jun 10, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI)

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Jun 11, 2020

Migration and Xenophobia across the Pacific in the Time of COVID-19: Current Problems in Their Historical Context

Virtual Panel Discussion | Panelists: Mae Ngai (Columbia University), Nayan Shah (University of Southern California), Lok Siu (University of California, Berkeley), Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto University); Moderators: Albert Manke (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington) and Yufei Zhou (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)

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Jun 25, 2020

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Clara-Sophie Höhn (Augsburg University)

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Jun 25, 2020

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Clara-Sophie Höhn (Augsburg University)

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Aug 18, 2020

Virtual DCHDC Meetup

Speakers: Lopez D. Matthews (Howard University Libraries and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) and Marisa Parham (University of Maryland)

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Sep 09, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University)

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Sep 15, 2020

Rethinking Memory and Knowledge during Times of Crisis

Part 1 of Virtual Panel Series Racism in History and Context | Panelists: Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), Manuela Bauche (FU Berlin), Norbert Frei (Universität Jena), and Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | Moderators: Akasemi Newsome (UC Berkeley) and Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)

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Sep 24, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Lukas Rieppel (Brown University)

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Oct 07, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (GHI)

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Oct 12, 2020 - Oct 14, 2020

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI PRO at UC Berkeley | Conveners: Christiane Reinecke (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück) and Andrea Westermann (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Berkeley)

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Oct 15, 2020

The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe and the West since 1492

11th Gerald D. Feldman Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Philipp Ther (Universität Wien)

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Oct 19, 2020

Die rechtschaffenen Mörder: Lecture and Conversation with Author Ingo Schulze

Lecture and Discussion (Virtual) | Speakers: Ingo Schulze, Lilla Balint (UC Berkeley), and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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Oct 20, 2020

Virtual DCHDC Meetup

Speaker: Kerrie Cotten Williams (DC Public Library)

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Oct 27, 2020

Catholics, Protestants, and the Origins of Europe’s Harsh Religious Pluralism

Lecture (virtual) | Speaker: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth College); moderated by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (UC Berkeley)

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Oct 29, 2020

Rethinking Health and Power during Times of Crisis

Part 2 of Virtual Panel Series Racism in History and Context | Panelists: Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg), Teresa Koloma Beck (Bundeswehr University Munich), Monica Muñoz Martinez (UT Austin), and Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford) | Moderators: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington) and Leti Volpp (UC Berkeley)

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Nov 04, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Mario Peters (GHI)

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Nov 10, 2020

The Emperor and the Executioner: Capital Punishment in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Lecture (virtual) | Speaker: Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard University)

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Nov 11, 2020

Shipping Rocks and Sand: Ballast in Global History

34th Annual Lecture of the GHI Washington (Virtual) | Speaker: Roland Wenzlhuemer (Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität München); Comment: Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Studies)

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Nov 18, 2020

Teaching German and Global History with Digital Sources: Examples from Practice

Virtual Roundtable | Participants: Elizabeth Drummond (Loyola Marymount University), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute), Harold Marcuse (University of California, Santa Barbara), Katharina Matro (Stoneridge School of the Sacred Heart), Heather Perry (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Swen Steinberg (Queen's University, Canada)

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Nov 18, 2020

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Speaker: Jana Keck (GHI)

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Dec 03, 2020

Museum Futures beyond the 2020 Crises: A Transatlantic Conversation

Virtual Panel Discussion | Panelists: Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH, Berlin), Emily Bilski (Writer & Curator), Christoph Heinrich (Denver Art Museum), Stephanie Stebich (Smithsonian American Art Museum); moderated by Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington) and Monique Scheer (Universität Tübingen)

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Dec 09, 2020 - Dec 10, 2020

Jewish Refugees in Global Transit: Spaces – Temporalities – Interactions

Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Swen Steinberg (GHI Pacofoc Regional Office / Queen’s University)

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Dec 15, 2020

Virtual DCHDC Meetup: Putting Accessibility First

Speaker: Tiana Trutna (Metadata Cataloger for the Digital Preservation Archive of the Library + Archives at National Geographic Society)

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Jan 22, 2021

Virtual Postgraduate Forum Get-Together

GAAS Virtual Get-Together | Organized by Jana Keck (GHI Washington), Whitney Peterson (University of Stuttgart), and Melissa Schlecht (University of Stuttgart)

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Jan 27, 2021

Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after the Second World War

Lecture (virtual) | Speaker: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

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Jan 29, 2021

Migration and Racism in the Americas: The Case of Migrants in the United States

Lecture (virtual) | Speakers: Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California, Berkeley); Comment: Julia Roth (Bielefeld University)

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Feb 10, 2021

Third Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop: Facts, Fakes, and Representations

Panel 1: State Making and Public Perception | Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Sheer Ganor (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington), Isabel Richter (UC Berkeley)

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Feb 17, 2021

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

James Vernon (UC Berkeley)

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Feb 18, 2021

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Johanna Folland (GHI Washington)

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Feb 24, 2021

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington)

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Feb 26, 2021

Mexico and the United States: Frontierization and Migration Policies

Lecture (virtual) | Speakers: Kateřina Březinová (Metropolitan University Prague) and Luicy Pedroza (El Colegio de México); Moderators: Albert Manke (GHI PRO) and Stefan Rinke (FU Berlin)

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Mar 03, 2021

A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Lecture (virtual) | Speaker: Monica Black (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (University of California, Berkeley)

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Mar 04, 2021

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

T. Fielder Valone (GHI Washington)

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Mar 05, 2021

#2 Town Hall Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Organized by PGF Team Stuttgart and GHI Washington

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Mar 05, 2021

Layers of Untold Stories: Sharon Dodua Otoo in Conversation with Translator Jon Cho-Polizzi and Deniz Göktürk

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Featured Speaker: Sharon Dodua Otoo; Discussants: Jon Cho-Polizzi and Deniz Göktürk (University of California, Berkeley)

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Mar 09, 2021

Vaccines and (Dis-)trust in Medical Science in Times of Crisis

Part 3 of Virtual Panel Series "Racism in History and Context" | 1:45 - 3:15pm ET |Panelist: Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Samuel K. Roberts (Columbia University), Sarah B. Rodriguez (Northwestern University), Malte Thießen (LWL-Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte); Moderator: Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz Institute of European History)

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Mar 10, 2021

Third Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop: Facts, Fakes, and Representations

Panel II: The Spread of Misinformation | 11am – 12:30pm PT | Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Sheer Ganor (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington), Isabel Richter (UC Berkeley)

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Mar 11, 2021

Eurafrica: The Colonial Origins of the European Union

Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Peo Hansen (Linkoping University); moderated by Akasemi Newsome (UC Berkeley)

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Mar 11, 2021

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

DH@GHI Workshop | Speaker: Sebastian Bondzio (GHI Washington / RRCHNM)

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Mar 23, 2021

Virtual DCHDC Meetup: Memory, Preservation and the Role of Public Spaces


Mar 26, 2021

Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges

Lecture (virtual) | Speakers: Andra B. Chastain (Washington State University Vancouver); Dhan Zunino Singh (National University of Quilmes); Moderators: Bianca Freire-Medeiros (Universidade de São Paulo/Brasilien), Mario Peters (GHI Washington)

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Mar 31, 2021

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Benjamin P. Hein (Brown University)

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Apr 01, 2021

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Sebastian F. Bondzio (GHI Washington/Roy Rosenzweig Center for New Media and History)

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Apr 02, 2021

Unreadable Archives: Zafer Şenocak in conversation with Deniz Göktürk and Kristin Dickinson

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Speaker: Zafer Şenocak; Discussants: Kristin Dickinson (University of Michigan); Deniz Göktürk (University of California, Berkeley)

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Apr 07, 2021

Research Seminar (Virtual Session)

Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington)

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Apr 07, 2021

Third Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop: Facts, Fakes, and Representations

Panel 3: Art, Visual Cultures and Truth | Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Sheer Ganor (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington), Isabel Richter (UC Berkeley)

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Apr 08, 2021

Digitization and Digital Humanities: What is the Role of Libraries?

DH@GHI Workshop | 10am ET | Speaker: Clemens Neudecker (Berlin State Library)

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Apr 15, 2021

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Martina Schaefer (GHI Washington/Vanderbilt University)

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Apr 16, 2021

The Language of Dreams: Yoko Tawada in conversation with Elisabeth Krimmer and Jonas Teupert

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Featured Speaker: Yoko Tawada; Discussants: Elisabeth Krimmer (University of California, Davis) and Jonas Teupert (University of California, Berkeley)

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Apr 19, 2021 - Apr 20, 2021

Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region: Knowledge, Policies, and Transfers (1970s-present)

Conference at the German Institute for Japan Studies, Tokyo | Conveners: Sarah Beringer (German Historical Institute Washington D.C.), Benjamin Beuerle (German Historical Institute Moscow), Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)) and Yufei Zhou (DIJ); in collaboration with the Max Weber Foundation Research Group at the National University of Singapore and the Max Weber Foundation China Branch Office in Beijing

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Apr 22, 2021 - Apr 23, 2021

Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century

Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Maria Alexopoulou (Technische Universität Berlin), Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)

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Apr 26, 2021 - Apr 29, 2021

Change in Motion: Environment, Migration, and Mobilities

Workshop at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Sarah Earnshaw (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Berkeley) and Samantha Fox (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, New York)

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Apr 29, 2021

Transmission of Intelligence and Information: A History of Artificial Intelligence

Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Rudolf Seising (Deutsches Museum)

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Apr 30, 2021

Flying Down to Rio: Aviation, National Identities, and Hemispheric Relations in the Americas

Lecture (virtual) | Speakers: Melina Piglia (National University of Mar del Plata); Leonie Schuster (Kiel University); Peter Soland (Southeast Missouri State University); Moderators: Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin) Mario Peters (GHI Washington)

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May 05, 2021

Third Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop: Facts, Fakes, and Representations

Panel 4: State Making and Public Perception | Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Sheer Ganor (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington), Isabel Richter (UC Berkeley)

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May 06, 2021

A Backstage Perspective on Digital Archives, Collections and Libraries

DH@GHI Workshop | Speaker: Katharina Hering (Digital Librarian, GHI Washington)

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May 13, 2021

The History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century as Shown in Six Groups of Graphs, Charts, and Maps

12th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Jonathan Sperber (University of Missouri); moderated by Kenneth Ledford (Case Western Reserve University)

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May 14, 2021

29th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the 2020 & 2021 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI | Prize Winners: Emma Thomas (PhD., University of Michigan, 2019) and Richard Calis (PhD., Princeton University, 2020)

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May 15, 2021

Reflecting on German Heritage in the United States in the Twenty-First Century: A Panel Discussion with German Scholars

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Speakers: Sarah Panter (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz) and Sebastian Bondzio (GHI Washington/Roy Rosenzweig Center for New Media and History), Moderator: Jana Keck (GHI Washington)

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May 18, 2021 - May 19, 2021

In Search of the Migrant Child: Global Histories of Youth and Migration between Knowledge, Experience, and Everyday Life

Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Research, Dresden), Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Swen Steinberg (Carleton University, Ottawa / German Historical Institute Washington with its Pacific Regional Office at University of California Berkeley)

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May 20, 2021

The Golem: The Artificial Anthropoid from Enlightenment Monster to AI

Lecture (virtual) | Speaker: Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester)

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May 25, 2021

Virtual DCHDC Meetup: Digital Audio Preservation: Approaches to Access

David Seubert (UC Santa Barbara), Allison McClanahan (Indiana University), Yuri Shimoda (UCLA), Miles Levy (Smithsonian Channel)

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Jun 07, 2021

The Chinese Question: Chinese Migration and Global Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Keynote Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Mae Ngai (Columbia University); Comment: Payal Banerjee (Smith College)

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Jun 07, 2021 - Jun 09, 2021

Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants' Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective

Conference at the University of California, Berkeley | Conveners: Albert Manke (GHI's Regional Office at UC Berkeley) and Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute Washington)

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Jun 15, 2021 - Jun 19, 2021

26th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Virtual Seminar at GHI Washington | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Jun 17, 2021

Text Mining with Voyant Tools

DH@GHI Workshop | Speaker: Jana Keck (Research Fellow in Digital History, German Historical Institute Washington)

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Jun 24, 2021

Research Seminar

Janna Müller (Intern, GHI Washington), Marietheres Pirngruber (Intern, GHI Washington), Yella Nicklaus (Intern, GHI Washington), Miriam Ristau (Intern, GHI Washington)

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Sep 09, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Manuela Achilles (University of Virginia)

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Sep 13, 2021

Transatlantic Data Feminist Debating Club: Comparing Data Ethics in Germany and the United States

Virtual Event | Organizers: Jana Keck (GHI Washington), Emily Kuehbach (GHI Washington), Janna Müller (GHI Washington)

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Sep 16, 2021

In the Mood for Nostalgia: Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy in Transition

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Claudia Lillge (Freie Universitat Berlin)

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Sep 17, 2021

Discussing the Seven Seas of DH – A Global Fishbowl

Online Event (Zoom) | Organized by the Working Group Digital Humanities of the Max Weber Foundation

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Sep 21, 2021

DCHDC Meetup


Sep 23, 2021 - Sep 25, 2021

Environments of Exile: Refugees, Nature, and Representations

Biennial Conference of the North American Society for Exile Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, ON | Conveners: Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University, Kingston / GHI PRO) and Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont, Burlington)

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Sep 23, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Stefan Hübner (National Singapore University)

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Sep 23, 2021

Garbage Dump of the West:” Re-examining the Origins of East Germany’s End

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Thomas Fleischman (University of Rochester)

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Sep 30, 2021 - Oct 03, 2021

12th Medieval History Seminar

Seminar at GHI London | Conveners: Paul Freedman (Yale University), Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews), Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Len Scales (Durham University), and Dorothea Weltecke (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Organized by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington

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Sep 30, 2021 - Oct 04, 2021

Sexuality and the Law in German-Speaking Europe

Seminar at Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Indianapolis, Indiana | Conveners: Martin Lücke (Freie Universität Berlin), Veronika Springmann (Freie Universität Berlin), and Richard F. Wetzell (German Historical Institute Washington)

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Oct 01, 2021

Confluences: Ilija Trojanow in Conversation with Chunjie Zhang

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Ilija Trojanow and Chunjie Zhang

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Oct 07, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington)

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Oct 12, 2021 - Oct 15, 2021

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th - 21st Centuries

First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies at the KWI in Essen | Organized by The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the National History Center of the American Historical Association (NHC), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

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Oct 18, 2021 - Oct 21, 2021

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Fifth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Franziska Exeler (Department of History, Free University Berlin; Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge) and Sören Urbansky (Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Berkeley)

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Oct 18, 2021

Knowing Refugees, Historically Speaking

4th Bucerius Lecture | Speaker: Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester); Panelist / Discussant: Stacy Fahrenthold (UC Davis) | Sponsor: Institute of European Studies

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Oct 19, 2021

Virtual DCHDC Meetup: The Present & Future of Transcription


Oct 22, 2021

Fictions of Origins: Sasa Stanisic in Conversation with Lilla Balint, Djordje Popović and Damion Searls

Virtual Event | Speaker: Saša Stanišić

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Oct 25, 2021 - Oct 26, 2021

Archives of Global Transit: Reconsidering Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe

Workshop | Conveners: Anna-Carolin Augustin, Simone Lässig, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (all GHI Washington) and Swen Steinberg (GHI Pacific Regional Office / Queen’s University)

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Oct 26, 2021

Borderless and Brazen: May Ayim's Internationalism

Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico)

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Oct 28, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Catherine Brooke Penaloza-Patzak (University of Vienna/University of Pennsylvania)

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Nov 04, 2021

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Tanja Hammel (University of Basel)

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Nov 10, 2021

No Birthday Party this Year: Kristallnacht within the Memories of Shanghai Jewish Refugees

Virtual Lecture on Zoom | Speaker: Kevin Ostoyich (Valparaiso University / Senior Fellow GHI Pacific Regional Office); Moderator: Robin Buller (Tandem Visiting Fellow, GHI Pacific Regional Office)

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Nov 11, 2021

Asking the Impossible: The Hunger for the Unknowable in 20th-Century US & European Thought

35th Annual Lecture of the GHI Washington (Virtual) | Speaker: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Comment: Michael Hochgeschwender (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München)

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Nov 15, 2021 - Nov 16, 2021

Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers

Annual Academic and Policy Symposium: Innovation through Migration at GHI PRO | Conveners: Ulf Brunnbauer (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies & Regensburg University) and Sören Urbansky (GHI PRO)

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Nov 15, 2021

When, Where, and Why do "Mobility Brokers" Become "Migrant Traffickers"? States, Markets, Infrastructures

Virtual Lecture on Zoom | Speaker: Andreas Fahrmeir (Goethe Universit Frankfurt); Moderator: Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg)

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Nov 18, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Jessica Pearson (Macalester College)

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Nov 19, 2021

The Power of Multilingualism: Olga Grjasnowa in Conversation with Elisabeth Krimmer, Karina Deifel and Yasemin Yildiz

Virtual Event | Speaker: Olga Grjasnowa

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Dec 01, 2021

Competing Memories? Inter|National Debates about Remembering the Holocaust and Colonialism

Panelists: Frank Biess (UC San Diego), Robert Heinze (DHI Paris), Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin), and Esra Ozyurek (University of Cambridge, London) | Moderators: Rita Chin (University of Michigan) and Akasemi Newsome (UC Berkeley)

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Dec 01, 2021 - Dec 03, 2021

Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region

Virtual Publication Workshop | FRIAS (Freiburg) and Online

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Dec 02, 2021 - Dec 03, 2021

In Search of the Migrant Child: Pieces and Bits From The Past: Children’s Agency in Migration

Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Research, Dresden), Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Swen Steinberg (Carleton University, Ottawa / German Historical Institute Washington with its Pacific Regional Office at University of California Berkeley)

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Dec 06, 2021

Voluminous Ventures: Writing World History in the 21st Century

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Christoph Cornelißen (Univ. Frankfurt/Main) and Wolfgang Schwentker (Osaka Univ.); Comment: Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zurich), Quentin Deluermoz (Univ. Paris), Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), and Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (Paris Diderot Univ.)

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Dec 07, 2021

Resisting Persecution: Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Wolf Gruner, University of Southern California; Moderator: John Efron (UC Berkeley)

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Dec 09, 2021

The Idea and Ideology of Empire in the Middle Ages

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Jennifer Davis (Catholic University of America), Wolfram Drews (Münster University), Alexander Lee (University of Warwick), and Eva Schlotheuber (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf)

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Dec 13, 2021 - Dec 15, 2021

Antisemitism and Sexuality Reconsidered

Conference at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin | Conveners: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin), Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington), Sebastian Bischoff (Paderborn University), Kristoff Kerl (University of Copenhagen), in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (GHI) and the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin

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Dec 16, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Barbara Hahn (Texas Tech University)

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Jan 12, 2022

Provincializing Realism: Why the History of an Atlantic Foreign Policy Tradition Matters Today

Lecture | Speaker: Matthew Spector (University of Pennsylvania); moderated by John Connelly (University of California, Berkeley)

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Jan 21, 2022

Homeland as Nightmare: Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah in Conversation with Jon Cho-Polizzi and Deniz Göktürk

Panel Discussion (Virtual) | Speakers: Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Jon Cho-Polizi, and Deniz Göktürk

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Jan 26, 2022

The Transatlantic Origins of the Modern Research University

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Emily Levine (Stanford University); moderator: Matthew Specter (UC Berkeley)

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Jan 27, 2022 - Jan 28, 2022

Laboratories of the Social: Utopian Settlements and Reform Movements in the Long 19th Century

Virtual Workshop | Conveners: Anne Kwaschik (Universität Konstanz) and Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington)

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Feb 10, 2022

Ottomans After Empire: Sephardi Immigrant Space and Daily Life in Interwar Paris

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Robin Buller (German Historical Institute Washington, Pacific Regional Office)

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Feb 28, 2022

Rapid Response: The Russian Invasion of the Ukraine and the Consequences for NATO and the EU

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Akasemi Newsome (Institute of European Studies); Sören Urbanksy (German Historical Institute Pacific Office); Zachary Shore (Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Fellow at IES)

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Mar 04, 2022

Whiteness and Collective Trauma in the Rearview Mirror

Virtual Lecture | Speakers: Alice Hasters, Mohamed Amjahid, Akasemi Newsome

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Mar 10, 2022

Research Seminar

Speaker: Axel Jansen

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Mar 16, 2022

Foreign Policy and the New German Government

Panel Discussion on Zoom | Panelist: Charles M. Huber (Former Parliament Member, CDU 2013-2017), Sudha David-Wilp (Deputy Director, Berlin Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States), Oliver Schramm (Consul General, German Consulate General San Francisco); Moderators: Soeren Urbansky (German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley) and Akasemi Newsome (Associate Director, Institute of European Studies)

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Mar 18, 2022

Blind Spots in Shared Memory: Jenny Erpenbeck in Conversation with Lilla Balint and Kurt Beals

Panel Discussion | Speaker: Jenny Erpenbeck, Author | Moderators: Kurt Beals, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Washington University; Lilla Balint, Assistant Professor of German, UC Berkeley | Sponsors: Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, Department of German at UC Berkeley, Goethe-Institut, German Consulate General San Francisco

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Mar 23, 2022

Launch of New Digital Research Infrastructure: Migrant Connections

Virtual Preview and Roundtable | Speakers: Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington), Vera Beutin (Embassy of Germany in the United States) | Website preview moderated by Atiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute Washington)

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Mar 24, 2022

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Speakers: Julie Kerestzes (Boston University) and Verena Lehmbrock (Universität Erfurt)

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Mar 29, 2022

The War in Ukraine, the Post-Cold War Order, and European Security

Panel Discussion on Zoom | Panelist: Dr. Jonas J. Driedger (Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.), Dr. Liana Fix (Koerber Foundation in Berlin), Dr. Katherine Kjellström Elgin (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington, D.C.), and Prof. Kristina A. Spohr (London School of Economics and Political Science); Moderator: Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton, (SAIS/Brookings Institution)

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Mar 30, 2022

Objects, Cultural Heritage, and Belonging

Virtual Lecture | Speakers: Mirjam Brusius, Duane Jethro, Isabel Richter | Series: Conversations on Memory Culture in Contemporary Germany | Organized by the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, and the Goethe-Institut of San Francisco

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Mar 31, 2022

“Letters from the Abyss: Jewish Travelogues on Jewish life in Nazi Germany in the Yiddish press of Warsaw”

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Anne-Christin Klotz (German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office) | Sponsors: Center for Jewish Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office

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Mar 31, 2022

Empire's Mistress: The Labor of Love in Imperial Circuits

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (University of Hawai'i)

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Apr 04, 2022

Poetry in a Time of War: Voices from Ukraine and Russia | Session 1

Panel Discussion on Zoom | Panelist: Polina Barskova (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley); Lyn Hejinian (Department of English, UC Berkeley); Ostap Kin (Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University); Eugene Ostashevsky (New York University); Katharina Raabe (Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin); Maria Stepanova (Poet; Founder, Colta); Moderator: Irina Paperno (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley)

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Apr 04, 2022 - Apr 05, 2022

Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks During and After the Holocaust

International Workshop at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Conveners: Robin M Buller (GHI | PRO, UC Berkeley), Wolf Gruner (USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research), Anne-Christin Klotz (GHI | PRO, UC Berkeley) | Co-organized by the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI | PRO) and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

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Apr 06, 2022

Race and Antiracism in Europe: Comparative Histories

Virtual Panel Discussion | Speakers: Rita Chin (University of Michigan), Michael Rothberg (UCLA), Jürgen Zimmerer (Univerity of Hamburg)

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Apr 07, 2022

Research Seminar

Verena Kick (Georgetown University)

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Apr 08, 2022

Interrogating Identities: Mithu Sanyal in Conversation with Priscilla Layne and Elisabeth Krimmer

Panel Discussion (Zoom) | Speaker: Mithu Sanyal; Moderators: Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill), Elisabeth Krimmer (University of California Davis)

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Apr 14, 2022

Doing Utopia and Communal Living in South Africa, Japan, and Jamaica, 1900-1950

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Robert Kramm (LMU Munich)

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Apr 21, 2022

Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Richard Ivan Jobs (Pacific University Oregon)

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Apr 28, 2022

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Speakers: Lisa Patt (Universität Erfurt) and Pia Beumer (Universität Erfurt)

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May 02, 2022

Germany’s New China Policy: Will Berlin Revise its Previously Benign Course on Beijing?

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Heribert Dieter, German Institute for International and Security Affairs | Moderator: Vinod Aggarwal, UC Berkeley

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May 04, 2022

Belonging, Memory Culture, and the Power of Visual Narratives

Lecture | San Francisco Public Library, Latino Hispanic Room | Speaker:  Nora Krug | Moderator:  Dr. Bettina Wodianka, Goethe-Institut San Francisco

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May 05, 2022

Research Seminar

Isabella Löhr (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin)

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May 05, 2022

Reaching the People: American Globalism and the Quest for Universal Literacy

Lecture at GHI Washington | Valeska Huber (University of Vienna)

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May 10, 2022

Lost Knowledge: Approaching Migrant Knowledge After Migration

Virtual Workshops | Conveners: Philipp Strobl (University of Vienna) and Swen Steinberg (GHI Washington Pacific Office at UC Berkeley)

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May 12, 2022

Germans and their Music in the Time of War, 1914-1919

13th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the German Historical Institute Washington | Speaker: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University); Moderator: Kenneth Ledford (Case Western Reserve University)

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May 13, 2022

30th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe (University of Pennsylvania)

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May 16, 2022 - May 17, 2022

Not Mere Objects: Uncovering Children's Subjectivities in Migration

Online workshop of the GHI’s International Standing Working Group “In Search of the Migrant Child” Invitation | Conveners: Friederike Kind-Kovács & Bettina Hitzer (Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden), Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Swen Steinberg (GHI Washington Pacific Office at University of California Berkeley)

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May 19, 2022

New Research on Social Movements in Cold War Germany

Roundtable Discussion (Virtual) | Panelists: Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico), Samuel Clowes Huneke (George Mason University), Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan University); Moderators: Kerstin Brückweh (Berliner Hochschule für Technik) & Richard F. Wetzell (GHI)

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May 26, 2022

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Andreas Rödder (University of Mainz/Johns Hopkins SAIS)

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Jun 02, 2022 - Jun 04, 2022

Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data

International Conference and Workshop at GHI Washington | Conveners: German Historical Institute Washington in collaboration with Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Chair of Digital History at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Consortium Initiative NFDI4Memory, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and Stanford University, Department of History

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Jun 02, 2022

Table for One: Anecdotes on the Cultures and Challenges of Data(fication) for Historians

Keynote Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Zoe LeBlanc (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Jun 03, 2022

What’s in a Footnote? Datafication and the Consequences for Quality Control in Historical Scholarship

Keynote Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Pim Huijnen (Utrecht University)

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Jun 08, 2022

“The sea lays like an insulating layer between the home world and the course of these days”: Times and Places of Liminality in the Emigration Process

Virtual Lecture | Speaker: Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton); comment: Leora Auslander (University of Chicago)

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Jun 14, 2022

DCHDC Meetup: June Outdoors Meet-and-Greet

Meetup at Wunder Garten

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Jun 14, 2022 - Jun 17, 2022

27th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar at GHI Washington and BMW Center, Georgetown University | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Jun 16, 2022

GHI Colloquium (Virtual Session)

Speakers: Aleksandra Pomiecko (University of Manitoba), Sabrina Lausen (University of Paderborn), and Pai-Li Liu (LMU München)

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Jun 23, 2022

Research Seminar (hybrid)

Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington)

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Jul 13, 2022 - Jul 16, 2022

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th‐21st centuries

Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies | Organized by The University of Duisburg‐Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the National History Center of the American Historical Association (NHC), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

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Jul 14, 2022

Women and Children in Exile in and from France, 1830-1939

Keynote Lecture on Zoom | Speaker: Delphine Diaz (University of Reims)

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Jul 21, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022

The Pursuit of Science in Conservative Religious Settings since 1945

Workshop in Cologne/Germany | Conveners: Stefanie Coché (JLU Gießen), Sophia Egbert (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)

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Aug 18, 2022

DCHDC Meetup: August Outdoors Meet-and-Greet

Meetup at 1921 Biergarten (1307 New Hampshire Ave NW)

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Sep 01, 2022

Mosse Lecture: The Utopian Prerogative

Lecture at The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA | Speaker: Ilija Trojanow

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Sep 08, 2022 - Sep 10, 2022

Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800

International conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Organized by Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (GHI Washington), Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), and Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU Munich)

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Sep 09, 2022

(Im)Mobile While Black: Narratives of Race & Movement in the United States

Lecture & Film Screening at Goethe-Institut Washington | Speaker: Mia Bay (University of Pennsylvania)

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Sep 13, 2022

Trying to become "German": Author Can Merey in Conversation with Historian Michael Printy

Virtual event | Speakers: Can Merey, Michael Printy (Yale)

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Sep 16, 2022

Congealed Labor, Conserved Fish: From the Adriatic towards a Global History of the Canned Sardine, from the 19th Century until Today

Hybrid Lecture - UC Berkeley Campus & Zoom | Speaker: Ulf Brunnbauer (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg) | Moderator: John Connelly (Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

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Sep 19, 2022

Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War

Hybrid Lecture – UC Berkeley Campus and Zoom | Speaker: Friederike Kind-Kovács (Senior Researcher, Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden) | Moderator: John Connelly (Professor of History and Director of ISEEES, UC Berkeley)

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Sep 19, 2022

The War in Ukraine and its Consequences for Europe and NATO: A Conversation with Ulf Brunnbauer and Soeren Urbansky

Panel Discussion (Hybrid - UC Berkeley Campus and Zoom) | Speakers: Ulf Brunnbauer (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg); Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley) | Moderators: Jeroen Dewulf (Institute of European Studies) and Akasemi Newsome (Institute of European Studies)

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Sep 20, 2022 - Sep 22, 2022

In Search of the Migrant Child

Conference at UC Berkeley  | Conveners: Friederike Kind-Kovács & Bettina Hitzer (Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden), Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Swen Steinberg (GHI Washington; Pacific Office at University of California Berkeley)

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Sep 25, 2022 - Sep 30, 2022

Environments of Inequality: Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons

International Summer School at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Guadalajara, Mexico | Organizing Committee: Cornelia Aust (Bielefeld University, SFB 1288), Olaf Kaltmeier (CALAS), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), Ann-Kathrin Volmer (CALAS)

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Sep 28, 2022

Research Seminar (virtual)

Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand)

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Sep 29, 2022

Guaranteed Income as Economic Justice

Public Roundtable | Panelists: Halah Ahmad (Vice President for PR and Policy Communications, Jain Family Institute), Mark Levinson (former Chief Economist, Service Employees International Union), Premilla Nadasen (History Department, Barnard College), and Melody Webb (Executive Director and Founder Mother’s Outreach Network/DC Guaranteed Income Coalition), Moderator: Marcia Chatelain (Department of History, Georgetown University)

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Sep 30, 2022 - Oct 01, 2022

Beyond Work for Pay? Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)

Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Manuel Franzmann (Sociology, Kiel), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington), Alice O’Connor (History, University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Oct 03, 2022

Inside History: Reading and Conversation with Author Ingo Schulze

Lecture and Discussion at UC Berkeley & Virtual | Speaker: Ingo Schulze | Moderators: Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) and Heike Friedman (GHI Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley)

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Oct 06, 2022

Germany's Transformation since 1989 and the Question of Wendegerechtigkeit: A Conversation with Petra Köpping and Ingo Schulze

Public Event at GHI Washington | Speakers: Petra Köpping (Saxony’s Minister for Social Affairs) and Ingo Schulze (Author)

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Oct 10, 2022 - Oct 13, 2022

Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Sixth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Department of History, University of Basel) and Sören Urbansky (GHI Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley)

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Oct 12, 2022

Whose Knowledge? Knowledge about Migrants vs. Migrants’ Knowledge

Bucerius Lecture at the David Brower Center / Zoom | Speaker: Shalini Randeria (Central European University, Vienna)

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Oct 17, 2022

The Language of Archives: Deniz Utlu in conversation with Sultan Doughan and Deniz Göktürk

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Deniz Utlu (Author) | Moderators: Sultan Doughan (Clark University), Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley)

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Oct 19, 2022

Transiting the Corridors of Deportations: Case Studies from the 1980s Switzerland

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Barbara Lüthi (University of Leipzig) Comment: Maribel Casas-Cortes (Charlotte, North Carolina)

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Oct 19, 2022

Research Seminar (hybrid)

Khary O. Polk (Amherst College, Massachusetts)

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Oct 20, 2022

Elective Affinities: A Cultural History of Friendship among German Jews, 1888-1938

Lecture | 370 Dwinelle Hall | Speaker: Philipp Lenhard (UC Berkeley)

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Oct 20, 2022

"Keine Kameraden": The Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War in German POW camps during the Second World War

Symposium at GHI Washington | Panelists: Esther Meier (German Historical Institute Moscow), Dallas Michelbacher (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Edward Westermann (Texas A&M University - San Antonio); moderated by Jürgen Matthäus (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute Washington)

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Oct 24, 2022

Global Players: German and Austrian Symphony Orchestras and the Rise of Intercontinental Touring in the 1950s

Lecture (Hybrid) | 201 Moses Hall and Zoom | Speaker: Friedemann Pestel (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg); Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf (Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley)

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Oct 25, 2022

Globalizing Landesgeschichte: Reflections on Narrating Germans’ Histories in the Modern Era

Lecture (Hybrid) | 223 Moses Hall and Zoom | Speaker: Glenn Penny (UCLA); Comment: Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin); Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (UC Berkeley)

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Oct 27, 2022

Towards a Sociology of Loss

Lecture at the German Historical Institute Washington | Speaker: Andreas Reckwitz (Humboldt University Berlin)

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Nov 01, 2022

Nefertiti’s Twentieth-Century Career: A Global History

Gerda Henkel Lecture at UC Berkeley (223 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin)

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Nov 02, 2022

Research Seminar (virtual)

Nino Vallen (GHI Pacific Office)

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Nov 03, 2022 - Nov 05, 2022

German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), H. Glenn Penny (UCLA), Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Nov 03, 2022

More Stories about Lives and Ideas

Keynote Lecture (Virtual) | Speaker: Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University)

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Nov 04, 2022 - Nov 05, 2022

Fourth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: Global Germany

Workshop at the University of California, San Diego | Conveners: Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego), Ulrike Strasser (University of California, San Diego), and Sören Urbansky (GHI Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley)

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Nov 04, 2022

European History after the Global Turn

Keynote Lecture (Virtual/Zoom) | Speaker: Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin)

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Nov 10, 2022

When Democracy Died in Darkness: German-Jewish Responses to Hitler’s Rise

36th Annual Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Michael Brenner (American University/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Comment: Marion Kaplan (New York University)

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Nov 14, 2022

The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China

Lecture at Stanford University, Okimoto Room, Encina Hall 3rd Floor | Series: Global Challenge in the Asia-Pacific – Past & Present | Speaker: David Leese (University of Freiburg); Discussant: Andrew G. Walder (Stanford University)

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Nov 16, 2022

Governing Information: The Staff Politics of the Central Party in the Post-Mao Period

Lecture at UC Berkeley (223 Moses Hall) | Series: Global Challenge in the Asia-Pacific – Past & Present | Tsai Wen-Hsuan (Academia Sinica, Taipei); Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley)

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Nov 16, 2022

The Echo Chambers of Power

Panel Discussion at UC Berkeley (223 Moses Hall) | Series: Global Challenge in the Asia-Pacific – Past & Present | Panelists: Tsai Wen-Hsuan (Academia Sinica, Taipei); Wen-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley); Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)

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Nov 17, 2022

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Ulrike Koppermann (Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen), Tim Schinschick (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

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Nov 21, 2022 - Nov 22, 2022

Document/in/g Transit

Final Symposium of "Writing Across Borders" (COESO Pilot 5) in Bonn, Bad Goesberg

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Nov 29, 2022

A Meeting About Mass Murder: Making Sense of the Wannsee Conference

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington)

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Dec 02, 2022

Crossing Borders, Drawing Lives: Barbara Yelin's Graphic Novels

Lecture (Zoom) | Speaker: Barbara Yelin, Graphic Novelist | Moderator: Brett E. Sterling (University of Arkansas)

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Dec 07, 2022

Research Seminar (hybrid)

Simone Lässig (Director of the GHI Washington and its Pacific Office)

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Dec 15, 2022

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Darja Jesse (Technische Universität Berlin), Tabea Nasaroff (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), and Hans-Georg Ripken (Universität Mannheim)

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Jan 18, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Dagmar Ellerbrock (TU Dresden)

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Jan 19, 2023

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Lukas Held (Universität Zürich) and Pia Herzan (Universität Erfurt)

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Jan 24, 2023

Shades of Blue: Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration

Panel Discussion (Zoom) | Panelist/Discussants: Gregor Feindt (Leibniz-Institute of European History, Mainz), Félix Krawatzek (Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin), Friedemann Pestel (University of Freiburg/University of California, Berkeley), Rieke Trimcev (University of Greifswald)

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Jan 25, 2023

Music of War and Victory: How Beethoven Helped to Save and Rebuild the Habsburg Empire

Lecture (Hybrid: 223 Philosophy Hall and Zoom) | Speaker: Philipp Ther (University of Vienna / UC Berkeley); Moderator: Nicolas Mathew (UC Berkeley)

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Jan 26, 2023

Decolonizing German Cultural Anthropology: Narratives of Time and Space in contemporary German Villages

Lecture (Hybrid: 201 Philosophy Hall & Zoom) | Speaker: Sadhana Naithani (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

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Feb 09, 2023

Theology of Disability: Germany, 1900-1945

Lecture (Hybrid: 223 Philosophy Hall & Zoom) | Speaker: Dagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center); Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (UC Berkeley)

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Feb 15, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Phil Tiemeyer (Kansas State University)

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Feb 22, 2023

"Noah's Ark for Future Generations" or Genetic Imperialism?: The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History

Lecture (Hybrid: 201 Philosophy Hall & Zoom) | Speaker: Jennifer Allen (Yale University); Moderator: Philipp Lenhard (UC Berkeley)

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Feb 27, 2023

Washington Area German History Seminar

Seminar at Georgetown University | Speaker: Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) 

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Mar 02, 2023

The 1948 Flooding of Vanport, Oregon: Legacies of Disaster and Displacement

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Uwe Lübken (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München)

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Mar 03, 2023

Framing Heimat in Translation: Peyman Azhari in Conversation with Kristin Dickinson

Panel Discussion on Zoom | Speaker: Peyman Azhari (Visual Artist and Photojournalist) | Moderator: Kristin Dickinson (University of Michigan)

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Mar 06, 2023

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics

Lecture at UCLA, Bunche Hall 6275 (History Conference Room) | Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz (Universität Bielefeld)

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Mar 06, 2023

Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955

Lecture at UC Berkeley (201 Moses Hall) | Speaker: Phillip Wagner (Universität Halle); Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (UC Berkeley)

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Mar 07, 2023

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics

Lecture at UC San Diego | Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz (Universität Bielefeld)

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Mar 08, 2023

Marion Kaplan in conversation with the International Standing Working Group "In Global Transit"

Seminar at the GHI | Speaker: Marion Kaplan (New York University)

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Mar 09, 2023

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Nicola Camilleri (University of Padua) and Kristin Meißner (ZZF Potsdam)

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Mar 14, 2023

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics

Lecture at UC Berkeley (223 Philosophy Hall) | Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz (Universität Bielefeld)

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Mar 15, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

John M. Efron (UC Berkeley)

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Mar 22, 2023

Holocaust Refugees in Transit: Race, Encounters, and Empire in Asia

An In Global Transit International Standing Working Group Workshop at the GHI Washington | Presenters: Eliyana Adler (Penn State), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Ke-chin Hsia (Indiana University Bloomington), and Pragya Kaul (Michigan University) | Co-conveners: Kimberly Cheng (GHI Washington) and Ran Zwigenberg (Penn State)

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Mar 27, 2023

Washington Area German History Seminar

Seminar at George Mason University | Speakers: Samuel Huneke (George Mason University)

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Mar 29, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023

Alltagsgeschichten von Flughäfen

Conference at the Universität Wien | Conveners: Nils Güttler (Universität Wien), Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (GHI Washington), Britta-Marie Schenk (Universität Luzern), in cooperation with Alexandra Ganser (Universität Wien)

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Apr 06, 2023

Putting Contemporary Climate Migration in Context: What Do We Know from Two Decades of Research?

Lecture at 223 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley | Speaker: Amanda Carrico (University of Colorado Boulder)

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Apr 13, 2023

"Little Ice Age" Disasters and Migration: Insights for (and from) Global Warming

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Sam White (University of Helsinki)

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Apr 14, 2023

History in the Making: Tanja Maljartschuk in conversation with Patricia Anne Simpson and Anne Dwyer

Panel Discussion on Zoom | Speakers: Tanja Maljartschuk (author), Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Anne Dwyer (Pomona College)

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Apr 17, 2023 - Apr 18, 2023

Knowledge Production in Displacement and Forced Migration

Workshop at the University of California, Santa Barbara | Conveners: Joshua Donovan (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Vitalij Fastovskij (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Apr 19, 2023

'The Short End of the Sonnenallee' with author Thomas Brussig

Book Launch at the Carl Schurz Auditorium, German Embassy Washington | Speaker: Thomas Brussig

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Apr 24, 2023

Washington Area German History Seminar

Seminar at GHI Washington | Speaker: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown Univeristy)

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Apr 25, 2023 - Apr 28, 2023

Diaspora and Debris: Material Culture in German-Jewish History

Seventh Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History at GHI Washington | Co-organized by Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington), Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington), and Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam), with additional support from the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts

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Apr 27, 2023

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Jan Hua-Henning (Duke Kunshan University) and Andrew Gibson (Georgetown University)

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Apr 29, 2023 - Apr 30, 2023

Fifth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: Scholarship-in-Progress

Workshop at University of British Columbia, Vancouver | Conveners: Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) and Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute Washington)

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May 03, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Jana Weiß (University of Texas in Austin)

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May 04, 2023

Climate Displacement in the Shadow of War: Feminist Refugee Perspectives on Hydro-disaster

Lecture at UC Berkeley (3335 Dwinelle Hall) | Speaker: Heidi-Amin-Hong (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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May 14, 2023 - May 15, 2023

Concrete Dreams: Urban Infrastructure and the Regulation of Human Behavior in the Global Twentieth Century

Workshop at USC Dornsife | Conveners: Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington), Jan Hansen (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / USC Dornsife)and Paul Lerner (USC Dornsife)

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May 18, 2023

German Art and Culture in the Age of the Thirty Years' War

14th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the German Historical Institute Washington | Speaker: Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge)

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May 19, 2023

31st Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the 2023 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Christina Matzen (University of Toronto)

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May 25, 2023

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Jan-Niklas Kniewel (Universität Bern) and Jan Siegemund (Technische Unversität Dresden)

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May 25, 2023 - May 27, 2023

Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913)

Conference at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto | Conveners: James Retallack (University of Toronto), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Swen Steinberg (GHI Washington) | Partners: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Bonn); Institute for Social Movements (Bochum)

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Jun 01, 2023

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Lisa Gabriel (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Anna Kozlova (Carleton University)

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Jun 14, 2023

Jewish Archives, Artefacts and Memory in Transit

Virtual Exhibition Panel | Christine Schmidt (Wiener Holocaust Library), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington), Indra Sangupta, (GHI London), Christina von Hodenberg (GHI London)

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Jun 29, 2023 - Jul 03, 2023

28th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar at the Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Jul 04, 2023 - Jul 07, 2023

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries

Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies Duisburg | Organized by the University of Duisburg‐Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

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Jul 04, 2023

Humanitarian Time and Refugee Presence: On Palestinian Lives in Extended Displacement

Keynote Lecture (Virtual) at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research | Speaker: Ilana Feldman (George Washington University)

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Sep 07, 2023

TV Series and the Public Memory of Colonia Dignidad. An interdisciplinary Conversation & Screening about the German-Chilean TV Series “Dignity”

Discussion and Screening at the Goethe-Institut Washington | Speakers: María Elena Wood, Andreas Gutzeit, Stefan Rinke, Holle Meding

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Sep 08, 2023

Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series. A Cross-Sector Dialogue between Academia, Entertainment and Society

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: GHI Washington and GUMELAB

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Sep 11, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Michelle Lynn Kahn (University of Richmond)

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Sep 12, 2023

‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic

Lecture at UC Berkeley | 201 Philosophy Hall / Zoom | Speaker: Lauren Stokes (Northwestern University)

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Sep 15, 2023

Science Communication: Changes in the Relationship between Science and Society

Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley | By Invitation Only

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Sep 18, 2023 - Sep 24, 2023

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Seventh Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum | Pacific Office of the GHI in Berkeley & Sitka, AK | Conveners: Holly Guise (The University of New Mexico), Sören Urbansky, and Nino Vallen (both Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, Berkeley)

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Sep 19, 2023

DCHDC Meetup: In-Person Careers Chat

Speakers:  Suzanne Chase (Georgetown University), Megan Martinsen (Georgetown University), Amaobi Otiji (Library of Congress), Crystal Sanchez (Smithsonian Institution), and Purdom Lindblad (recently the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities)

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Sep 27, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Delia González de Reufels (Bremen University)

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Sep 27, 2023

Selling Wine Country, Hiding Wine Work

Lecture at UC Berkeley (223 Philosophy Hall) | Speaker: Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Oklahoma | Co-Sponsor: Institute of European Studies, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative

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Sep 27, 2023 - Sep 28, 2023

Migrants, Environmental Knowledge, and Consumer Society

2023 Annual Academic and Policy Symposium at the GHI’s Pacific Office at UC Berkeley | Conveners: Axel Schäfer (Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and Atiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute Washington)

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Oct 02, 2023

Coalition in Distress? The Rise of the Far Right in Germany and How to Contain it

Lecture at UC Berkeley (201 Philosophy Hall) | Speaker: Andrea Römmele (Hertie School)

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Oct 11, 2023 - Oct 12, 2023

2023 Fellows' Symposium

Symposium at the GHI

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Oct 19, 2023

DCHDC Meetup: Digital Cultural Heritage Horror Stories


Oct 19, 2023

Occupied Germany & Japan after WWII from Global Cultural History Perspectives (Besatzungsalltage/senryōka nichijō)

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Robert Kramm, Freigeist-Fellow (LMU Munich)

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Oct 24, 2023

Struggling for Sovereignty, Changing Political Alliances: Western and Eastern European Military Assistance for Revolutionary Cuba During the Early Cold War

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Albert Manke (University of Göttingen)

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Oct 27, 2023

Fluid Dreamscapes: Lin Hierse in Conversation with Elizabeth Sun and Deniz Göktürk

Virtual Event | Speakesr: Lin Hierse (Author), Elizabeth Sun (UC Berkeley), and Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley)

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Oct 30, 2023

Washington Area German History Seminar

Seminar at GHI Washington | Speaker: Lauren Stokes (Northwestern Univ.)

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Nov 02, 2023

The Other Half of Germany: New Perspectives and Controversies on East Germany

Panel Discussion at GHI Washington | Speakers: Katja Hoyer (King's College London), Christina Morina (Universität Bielefeld), and Joyce Mushaben (Georgetown University); Moderator: Samuel Huneke (George Mason University)

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Nov 07, 2023

Tipping Points for Global Economic and Ecological Transformation

6th Bucerius Lecture at the David Brower Center, Berkeley | Speaker: Marcel Fratzscher (German Institute for Economic Research)

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Nov 13, 2023

Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Purity

Lecture at UC Berkeley (201 Philosophy Hall) | Speaker: Till van Rahden (Université de Montréal); Moderator: Philipp Lenhard (UC Berkeley)

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Nov 15, 2023

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington)

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Dec 01, 2023

Anti-Globalism, Then and Now

37th Annual Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Tara Zahra (University of Chicago), Comment: Madeleine Herren-Oesch (University of Basel)

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Dec 06, 2023

The Deportation Plane: Charter Flights and Carceral Mobilities

Virtual Event (by invite only) | Speaker: William Walters (Carleton University); Barbara Lüthi (Leipzig University, Germany)

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Jan 23, 2024

DCHDC Meetup: Reparative Digital Cultural Heritage Work

Speakers: Ricky Punzalan (University of Michigan), Fallon Carey (Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition), Yolanda Hester, and Liz Flowers

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Jan 24, 2024

Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at European History Workshop at Stanford University, Lane History Corner (Building 200), Room 307 | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Jan 29, 2024

Trust in Museums: Potential, Challenges, and Societal Importance

Symposium at the GHI Washington | Conveners: Prof. Dr. René Haak (Head of the Science Section of the German Embassy in Washington), and Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)

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Feb 13, 2024

Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at University of Colorado, Boulder; Eaton Humanities, 1NB50, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder and Zoom | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Feb 20, 2024

Memories of the German Colonialism in Tanzania

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Nancy Rushohora (University of Dar es Salaam); Moderator: Akasemi Newsome (Institute of European Studies)

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Feb 22, 2024

A Frank and Open Discussion about the Secret World of Spying

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Alexis Albion (International Spy Museum)

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Feb 23, 2024 - Feb 24, 2024

Sixth West Coast Germanists' Workshop: Globalizing German History in Research and Teaching

Workshop at University of California, Los Angeles | Convener: Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington), Glenn Penny (UCLA), and Isabel Richter (GHI Washington | Pacific Office, Berkeley)

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Feb 23, 2024

Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at University of California, Los Angeles, 6275 Bunche Hall | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Feb 28, 2024

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Philipp Gassert (Mannheim University)

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Feb 28, 2024

Marxists and other Migrants: African Intellectual Pathways from the German Democratic Republic

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office, UC Berkeley (201 Philosophy Hall) | Speaker: Speaker: Sara Pugach (California State University); moderator: Isabel Richter (GHI Pacific Office)

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Mar 05, 2024

Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at University of California, Berkeley, 223 Philosophy Hall | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Mar 07, 2024

Ugliness as Political Construct

Lecture on Zoom | Speaker: Moshtari Hilal

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Mar 07, 2024

GHI Colloquium

Speakers: Tamar Aizenberg (Brandeis University) and Annika Bärwald (Universität Bremen)

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Mar 07, 2024

Crisis or Transformation? From Good-old Democracy to Rough Democracy, ca. 1970-2020

Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour at University of Nevada, Reno, Schulich Lecture Hall, SLH2 | Speaker: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Mar 14, 2024 - Mar 16, 2024

Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation

Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) | Conveners: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), and the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo

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Mar 14, 2024

Germany in the World, 1500-2000: Reflections on a Theme

Book Talk at Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley | 223 Philosophy Hall | Speaker: David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University)

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Mar 18, 2024

The Other Enslavement: Notes on Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office | (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) Speaker: Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg); Moderator: Fabio Heupel Santos (Tandem Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley)

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Mar 19, 2024

The Central American Insurgencies and the Human Rights Culture War in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979 –1990

Lecture at GHI Pacific Office (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Felix A. Jiménez Botta (Miyazaki International College); Moderator: Akasemi Newsome (Institute of European Studies)

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Mar 21, 2024

From Abundant Papers to Limited Pixels: Digitization and Intelligence Reduction in the Brazilian Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) in the late 1970s

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Debora Gerstenberger (University of Cologne)

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Apr 14, 2024 - Apr 16, 2024

Music, Knowledge, and Global Migration, ca. 1700−1900

Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley | Conveners: Tina Frühauf (Columbia University/The CUNY Graduate Center, New York), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), and Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley)

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Apr 18, 2024

Spy vs. Spy: West German Counterintelligence and GDR Espionage

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Michael Wala (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

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Apr 24, 2024

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Kristina Spohr (Wilson Center)

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Apr 26, 2024

German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad

Lecture at GHI Pacific Offce (201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley) | Speaker: Nicole Eaton, Associate Professor of History, Boston College

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May 01, 2024

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg (GHI Washington, Pacific Office)

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May 09, 2024

The Challenge of German Histories: An American Retrospective

15th Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the German Historical Institute Washington | Konrad H. Jarausch (Lurcy Professor of European Civilization Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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May 10, 2024

32nd Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI

Award of the 2024 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI

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May 15, 2024

Research Seminar (Hybrid)

Benjamin Waltner Goossen (George Mason University)

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May 20, 2024 - May 21, 2024

Fugitive Histories and Migrant Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean

Workshop at the University of California, Irvine | Conveners: Kevan Antonio Aguilar (University of California, Irvine), Amy Kerner (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Fabio Santos (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine)

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May 23, 2024

The History and Future of State Secrecy

Lecture at GHI Washington | Speaker: Matthew Connelly (Columbia University / the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge)

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Jun 23, 2024 - Jun 25, 2024

29th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Seminar at the Harnack Haus, Berlin-Dahlem | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Stefanie Schueler-Springorum (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin), and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

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Jun 28, 2024 - Jun 29, 2024

Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present

Workshop at University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Conveners: Einstein Papers Project / California Institute of Technology (Jennifer Rodgers); German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley (Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin, Swen Steinberg); Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London (Dan Stone); Queen Mary, University of London (Jane Freeland); Wiener Holocaust Library, London (Toby Simpson, Christine Schmidt) as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP); USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (Wolf Gruner)

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Jul 03, 2024 - Jul 06, 2024

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries

Fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies in Tübingen | Organized by University of Tübingen (UT), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

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Jul 14, 2024 - Jul 18, 2024

Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons

Summer School | Pacific Office, Berkeley | organized by The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University

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Sep 05, 2024 - Sep 06, 2024

Science and Democracy in Political Crises, 1900-2024

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), Alexander Bogner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Carsten Reinhardt (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences, Halle), Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

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Oct 21, 2024 - Oct 22, 2024

Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration - Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Eighth Annual Young Scholars Forum | Pacific Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Isabel Richter (GHI Pacific Office Berkeley) and Benno Gammerl (European University Institute Florence)

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Oct 31, 2024 - Nov 02, 2024

Wings of Globalization? New Approaches to the History of Commercial Aviation, 1920s–2020s

International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington) and Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Feb 13, 2025 - Feb 14, 2025

Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s–50s

Conference in Mumbai, India | Organized by Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi), and Swen Steinberg (Queen's University, Kingston). in collaboration with Christoph K. Neumann (OI Istanbul), Maria Framke (Erfurt University), and Jens Hanssen (OI Beirut).

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