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The German Historical Institute Washington is a center for advanced historical research. Working with junior and senior scholars around the world, the GHI facilitates dialogue and collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries.
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The GHI advances historical research through individual and collaborative projects. It also supports research and the sharing of research findings by organizing scholarly conferences and workshops and offering both traveling and residential fellowships.
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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. Please see below for a list of active Calls for Papers.

Current Calls for Papers

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Science and Democracy in Political Crises, 1900-2024

Deadline: January 7, 2024 | Conference at GHI Washington

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Sixth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: Globalizing German History in Research and Teaching

Deadline: November 15, 2023 | Workshop at UCLA

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Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation

Deadline: December 1, 2023 | Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

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Wings of Globalization? New Approaches to the History of Commercial Aviation, 1920s–2020s

Deadline: December 15, 2023 | International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2024

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29th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Deadline: January 15, 2024 | Seminar at the Harnack Haus, Berlin-Dahlem | June 23-25, 2024