2020-2021 Fellows' Symposium
Jan 21, 2021 - Jan 22, 2021
Symposium at the GHI
The annual fellows' symposium provides a forum for GHI visiting fellows, research staff, alumni, and cooperation partners to discuss their ongoing research projects.
Program
Panel 1 – German/European & Jewish History
Moderator: Bryan Hart (Program Officer – Fellowships / Webmaster)
Anna-Carolin Augustin (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: "Remnants Saved from the Fire": A Transnational History of Jewish Ceremonial Objects after 1945
T. Fielder Valone (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Anti-Jewish Humiliation Rituals in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Lithuania, 1933-1941”
Richard Wetzell (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Racial Science and Nazi Biopolitics”
Panel 2 – History of the Americas & Transatlantic History
Moderator: Casey Sutcliffe (Editor, GHI Washington)
Axel Jansen (Deputy Director, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Libertarian Welfare: The Concept of an Unconditional Basic Income in U.S. Public Debate and Policy, 1945-75”
Mario Peters (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Panamericana: Transcontinental Mobility Infrastructures and the Cooperation Among Experts in the Americas, c. 1870-1970”
Martina Schaefer (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington / Vanderbilt University)
Research Project: “Black Power and African Diasporic Religions: The Spiritual and Cultural Trajectory of Black Empowerment, 1965-1998”
Panel 3 – Global & Transregional History
Moderator: Rebekka Sherman-Loeffler (Assistant to the Director, GHI Washington)
Andreas Greiner (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: Skyways to Empire: Mobilities, Knowledge Flows, and Entangled Logistics in Global Aviation, c. 1918–1939
Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “History in Limbo: Airport Transit Zones between Global Mobility and Local Order, 1945-2000”
Sören Urbansky (Research Fellow & Head of Office, GHI Pacific Regional Office, Berkeley)
Research Project: “Faces of Fear: A Global History of Anti-Chinese Stereotypes”
Panel 4 – History of Knowledge
Moderator: Mark Stoneman (Editor, GHI Washington)
Johanna Folland (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Foreign Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and the Globalization of East German AIDS Science”
Claudia Roesch (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “‘A Boatful of Knowledge’: Social Reform and Global Communication in the Early 19th Century”
Swen Steinberg (Affiliated Scholar, GHI Pacific Regional Office, Berkeley)
Research Project: “Knowledge about Mountains and Forests: Discourses and Transfer Practices in the Mining and Forestry Sciences – A Comparison of Central Europe and North America (1860-1960)”
Panel 5 – History of Migration and Mobility
Moderator: Josh Seale (Events Coordinator, GHI Washington)
Sarah Earnshaw (Visiting Fellow in the History of Forced Migration, GHI Pacific Regional Office, Berkeley)
Research Project: “Disaster Temporalities, Temporary Protection: Race, Return, and Resilience in Forced (Environmental) Migration from the ‘Greater Caribbean’ to the U.S.”
Albert Manke (Research Fellow, GHI Pacific Regional Office, Berkeley)
Research Project: “Coping with Exclusion: Chinese Migrant Networks in the Americas and across the Pacific in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century”
Miriam Nicoli (Guest Scholar, GHI Washington / University of Bern)
Research Project: “Men and Women’s Life Trajectories: Egodocuments and Family Archives (Switzerland – late 17th Century to mid-19th Century)”
Panel 6 – Digital History
Moderator: Katja Hering (Digital Project Librarian, GHI Washington)
Sebastian Bondzio (Gerda Henkel Fellow for Digital History, GHI Washington & Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University)
Research Project: “Researching German Migration to the United States by Mining Historical Big Data: The Castle Garden Immigration Center’s Database in Digital History”
Jana Keck (Research Fellow – Digital History, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “‘Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914: Processing Germanness”
Atiba Pertilla (Research Fellow & Digital Editor, GHI Washington)
Research Project: “Land of Dollars: Money in the Minds of American Immigrants, 1870-1935”