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