Event History
Events 2009
All lectures are open to the public. Please RSVP by email or phone (202.387.3355).
Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the GHI convener.
Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture: Banking Crises in Three Countries: An Historical and Comparative Perspective
The Birth of the Risk Economy: A Cultural and Institutional History of Futures Trading, 1880s - 1990s
'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics
The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter
18th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
Twenty-third Annual Lecture of the GHI
Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions, and History
William R. Smyser - Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: "A Hell of a Lot Better than a War"
Beyond the Racial State
Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR)
The Decline of the West? The Fate of the Atlantic Community after the Cold War
Medieval History Seminar 2009
Film Series - Wende Flicks: Last Films From East Germany
Popular Culture, Memory, and German Unification: Heiner Carow's "The Mistake"
The Diplomatic Path to German Unity: A Tribute to American Friends
African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century
Germans' Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949 - 2009
A Culture of Decline? Politics, Economy, and Social Life in East Germany
Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy in the 20th Century
Yes, We Can! Political Rhetoric in the U.S. and German Elections
East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall
Leipziger Herbst – The Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Why Write a Book? From Lived Experience to the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias in Modernity
Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present
"Public History" in Germany and the United States: Fields, Developments and Debates in Praxis and Theory
Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2009
The Short- and Long-Term Economic Effects of German Exploitation in Occupied Countries during World War II
Global Challenge and Regional Response - Early-Twentieth-Century Northeast China's Encounters with the World
Haus des Rundfunks - Berlin's Broadcast House
The Current Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies
A World of Populations
Death or Rebirth? The End of the Bretton Woods System, 1968 – 1973
Junior Scholars Conference on the Future of German-Jewish History
Round table discussion with Günter Nooke
Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009
Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009
Alexander von Humboldt – A Man for the 21st Century
The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920’s
15th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth Century
The Great Depression: Can It Recur?
Sexuality, Race, and Politics: Historical Perspectives on Antebellum
Songs from Weimar Berlin
To Police and Protect
The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy
Nuclear Armament, Peace Movements, and the Second Cold War: The 1979 NATO Double Track Decision in German-German and International Perspective
'Kasseler Neger - Kasseler Mohren?' Silenced Narratives of the African Diaspora in Germany
Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries
Representing Poverty: American and European Perspectives
1968 in the US, Japan and Germany: Political Protest and Cultural Change
Immer eine Nasenlänge voraus? Amerika und Deutschland im Wettlauf um die Moderne
Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II
Facing the Challenge of a New Religious History: Post-1945 American Religion as a Site of Historical Inquiry in Germany
Problematizing Transatlantic History: German-American Perspectives
Languages: Sine Qua Non for Globalizing Historiography
All lectures are open to the public. Please RSVP by email or phone (202.387.3355).
Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture: Banking Crises in Three Countries: An Historical and Comparative Perspective
'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics
Twenty-third Annual Lecture of the GHI
William R. Smyser - Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: "A Hell of a Lot Better than a War"
Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR)
Popular Culture, Memory, and German Unification: Heiner Carow's "The Mistake"
The Diplomatic Path to German Unity: A Tribute to American Friends
East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall
Why Write a Book? From Lived Experience to the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
The Current Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies
Death or Rebirth? The End of the Bretton Woods System, 1968 – 1973
Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009
Mourning, Celebrating, Revisiting: Alexander von Humboldt in the United States, 1859-2009
The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920’s
The Great Depression: Can It Recur?
The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy
'Kasseler Neger - Kasseler Mohren?' Silenced Narratives of the African Diaspora in Germany
Civil Rights and America's Role in World War II
Conferences are not public. If you are interested in participating, please contact the GHI convener.
Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions, and History
Beyond the Racial State
The Decline of the West? The Fate of the Atlantic Community after the Cold War
Medieval History Seminar 2009
African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century
Germans' Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949 - 2009
Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy in the 20th Century
Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias in Modernity
"Public History" in Germany and the United States: Fields, Developments and Debates in Praxis and Theory
The Short- and Long-Term Economic Effects of German Exploitation in Occupied Countries during World War II
Global Challenge and Regional Response - Early-Twentieth-Century Northeast China's Encounters with the World
A World of Populations
Junior Scholars Conference on the Future of German-Jewish History
15th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth Century
Nuclear Armament, Peace Movements, and the Second Cold War: The 1979 NATO Double Track Decision in German-German and International Perspective
Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries
Representing Poverty: American and European Perspectives
1968 in the US, Japan and Germany: Political Protest and Cultural Change
If not otherwise announced, the Research Seminar meets Wednesdays 4.30 - 6.00 pm in the GHI Seminar Room. The GHI Research Seminar is a forum for scholars to discuss their ongoing research projects. Taking place on a biweekly basis, it brings together international researchers, DC scholars and GHI research fellows to stimulate intellectual exchange in a wide variety of historical problems, epochs and methods. The seminar discussions are based either on project presentations or unpublished, pre-circulated papers. If you wish to attend or present your work in progress, please write to Anne Schenderlein and Sören Urbansky at researchseminar@ghi-dc.org.
The GHI Fellows’ Colloquium usually meets on Thursday mornings. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Axel Jansen.
GHI Research Seminar
- Cooperative Law and Business Law, 1867-1892
Tim Guinnane (Yale University)
GHI Doctoral Seminar
- Marie-Luise Tapfer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bernhard A. Boehmer, a Dealer of “Degenerate Art” in the Third Reich. A Biography, - Michael Savage
- Maria Dörnemann (Universität Tübingen)
Diagnose "Überbevölkerung": Die Bervölkerungspolitik internationaler Organisaionen am Beispiel von Kenia (1974-1984).
GHI Research Seminar
- Transatlantische Marketingtransfers zwischen Kodak und Agfa von 1880 bis 1945
Berti Kolbow (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) - "Outsiders Within": Afro-Germans in West Germany - Discourses and Experiences, 1949-1989
S. Marina Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
GHI Research Seminar
- In a Foreign Land: Refugees, Germans, and Americans, 1945-60
Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University)
GHI Research Seminar
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship. The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present
Hartmut Berghoff/Uwe Spiekermann (GHI)
GHI Research Seminar
- Weltnachrichtenordnung: Strukturen und Bedingungen internationaler Kommunikation, 1859-1934
Volker Barth (Universität zu Köln)
GHI Doctoral Seminar
- Julio Decker (Leeds University)
The Immigration Restriction League and the Political Regulation of Immigration, 1894-1924, - Stephan Isernhagen (FU Berlin)
Susan Sontag - New Yorker Intellektuelle und eine "neue Sensibilität", - Bodo Mrozek (TU Berlin)
Jugendstile und Popkultur nach 1945 aus transnationaler Perspektive.
GHI Research Seminar
- Sexual Politics and Cultures in Post-Reunification Germany
Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York)
GHI Doctoral Seminar
- Enrico Boehm (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Gipfel der Kooperation? Die Entstehung der G7 als Instrument internationaler Sicherheitspolitik - Deborah Brown (University of California Los Angeles)
Science and Politics of Category Creation and their Reltion to Religious-Racial Identity in Germany, 1900-1933 - Paul Glatz (Freie Universität Berlin)
US-amerikanische Deserteure, oppositionelle GIs und internationale Protestbewegungen gegen den Vietnamkrieg - Felix Krämer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Geschlecht, Religion und soziokulturelle Ordnung in den USA, 1969-1989
GHI Research Seminar
- Die transnationale Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Wissenskultur in Berlin, London und Kalkutta (1910-1940)
Uffa Jensen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
GHI Research Seminar
- Tour of Duty: Gender, Class, and Cultural Contact in the American Revolution
Friederike Baer (Temple University, GHI Postdoctoral Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- The African-American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany 1945 - 89
Martin Klimke (GHI American History Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- The Politics of Punishment in Modern Germany: Reforming Criminal Justice 1880 - 1970
Richard Wetzell (GHI)
GHI Research Seminar
- God's Own Citizens: Political Participation and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism 1900 - 1961
Uta Balbier (GHI)
GHI Doctoral Seminar
- Frank Beyersdorf (Universität Mannheim)
- Nina Mackert (Universität Erfurt)
- Markus Hedrich (Universität zu Köln)
GHI Research Seminar
- Gender, Memory and Nation: A History of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Simon Wendt (Heidelberg, GHI Postdoctoral Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- Metropolen der Moderne: Moskau, Berlin und Chicago um 1900
Jan C. Behrends (WZB Berlin, GHI Postdoctoral Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- West German and American Modernization Policies in India 1945 - 1980
Corinna Unger (GHI)
GHI Research Seminar
- State, Society & Space: Transatlantic Differences in Shaping Postwar Mass Consumption in West Germany and the United States
Jan Logemann (Penn State, GHI Economic History Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- Terror in the 19th Century: Political Assassinations and Public Discourse in Europe and the United States 1878 - 1901
Carola Dietze (GHI)
GHI Research Seminar
- Constructing a Global Community in Early America. Moravians in an Eighteenth Century Atlantic World
Bettina Hessler (Northwestern University, GHI Doctoral Fellow) - Consumer Demand and Nazi Economic Policy: Conceptual Problems and Preliminary Findings
Hartmut Berghoff (GHI)
GHI Research Seminar
- "Information Requested..." The Culture of US Military Intelligence during World War Two
Felix Roemer (Mainz, GHI Postdoctoral Fellow)
GHI Research Seminar
- Globalisierung und Global History. Sojabohnen und die globalen Verflechtungen der Mandschurei in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
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Programs for Junior Scholars
- Archival Summer Seminar in Germany
- Archival Summer School in the United States
- Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at GHI WEST at UC Berkeley
- Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History
- Medieval History Seminar
- Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History
- Workshop on Early Modern German History
- Young Scholars Forum
Lectures and Annual Symposia at the GHI
- Annual Lectures
- Bucerius Lectures at GHI West
- Gerald D. Feldman Lectures
- Gerd Bucerius Lectures
- Gerda Henkel Lecture Tours
- German Unification Symposium / Hertie Lecture
- GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History
- Spring and Fall Lectures Series
- Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
- Alois Mertes Memorial Lectures (discontinued)
- Lectures of the Friends of the GHI (discontinued)