2021-22 Fellows' Symposium
Oct 14, 2021 - Oct 15, 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: Refugees and knowledge on the move
Anne Schult (New York University), Counting the Countless: Statistics, Demography, and the Modern Refugee, 1920s-1960s (Visiting Fellow in Washington)
Anne Klotz (University of California), Polish-Jewish Journalists and the Production and Movement of Knowledge before, during and after the Holocaust (Visiting Fellow in Berkeley)
Swen Steinberg (Queen's University in Kingston/Ontario), Knowledge in Flight? Hungarian Foresters, the Uprising in 1956, and the Sopron Faculty of Forestry at UBC Vancouver
Panel 2: Diaspora and immigrant communities
Jana Schmidt (Bard College), Futures Not Yet: Jewish Exiles, Black Politics, 1940-1975 (Visiting Fellow in Washington)
Robin Buller (University of California), Sephardi Immigrants in Paris: Navigating Community, Culture, and Citizenship between France and the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1945 (Visiting Fellow in Berkeley)
Jana Keck (GHI Washington), Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914: Processing Ger(wo)manness
Panel 3: Marginal mobilities between and beyond states
Andreas Guidi (Univ. Konstanz), Transatlantic Smuggling between Mobility and Surveillance: The Mediterranean and the United States, 1930-2000 (Visiting Fellow in Washington)
Bastiaan Bouwman (Freie Universität), Between States: Christian Humanitarianism, Postwar Displacement, and the Formation of the International Refugee Regime, 1943-1951 (Visiting Fellow in Washington)
Albert Manke (GHI PRO Berkeley), Coping with Exclusion: Chinese Migrants in the Americas in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective
Panel 4: Political ideas and change
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington), Libertarian Welfare: The Concept of an Unconditional Basic Income in U.S. Public Debate and Policy, 1945-75
Nisrine Rahal (Univ. Toronto), Love is Political: The Political and Cultural history of Christian Love as a Revolutionary Emotion in German-Speaking Europe (Visiting Fellow in Washington)
Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington), A Boatful of Knowledge – Social Reform and Global Communication in the Early 19th Century