2022-23 Fellows' Symposium

Welcome & Introductions

Simone Lässig (Director, GHI Washington) & Axel Jansen (Deputy Director, GHI Washington)

Panel 1 

Moderator: Bryan Hart (Program Officer - Fellowships, GHI Washington)

Kimberly Cheng (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington / New York University)
Chinese Foreign Nationals in Nazi and Postwar Germany, 1933-1949

Erica Lansberg (GHI Visiting Fellow / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Encounters in the Rubble: American Interactions with German Children in Postwar Germany

Richard Wetzell (Research Fellow & Editor, GHI Washington)
Racial Science and Nazi Biopolitics, 1933-1939

Panel 2

Moderator: Jonathan Batz (Intern, GHI Washington / Universität Konstanz)

Vitalij Fastovskij (Tandem Fellow, GHI Washington Pacific Office Berkeley / Universität Münster)
Humanitarian Aid in the Cold War Era: The Tolstoy Foundation's Support of Displaced Persons and Refugees (1949-1989)

Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Refugee Migration via Air Routes and Airports in the Twentieth Century

Christoph Nitschke (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington / Universität Stuttgart)
Imperial Underwriting: How European Financiers Envisioned the World and Produced U.S. Power, 1857-1917

Panel 3

Moderator: Clara Schmitt (Intern, GHI Washington / Universität Münster)

Amelia Bonea (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg)
Archives of the Earth: Fossil Histories and the Global Entanglements of Indian Paleosciences, 1920s-1970s

Joshua Donovan (Tandem Fellow, GHI Washington Pacific Office Berkeley / Columbia University)
Imagining Antioch: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Migration in the Greek Orthodox Levant

Isabel Richter (GHI Visiting Fellow Alum / Heinrich Böll Stiftung)
Appropriations of Cultural Heritage? Indigenous People and Transnational Countercultures in the Long 1960s

Panel 4

Moderator: Valentin Loos (Intern, GHI Washington / Universität Osnabrück)

Kamil Karczewski (Visiting Fellow, GHI Washington / European University Institute)
Transnationally Queer: Four Central European Men Between Nations and Sexualities, 1935-1956

Alexandra Krebs (Henkel Digital History Fellow at GHI & RRCHNM / Universität Paderborn)
History in Digital Spaces: Historical Learning inside the ‘App in die Geschichte’ (App into History)

Deepthi Murali (Asst. Research Prof., RRCHNM at George Mason University)
Doing Global Digital Humanities Focusing on “South to South” Connections