2024-25 Fellows' Symposium

Welcome & Introductions

Simone Lässig (Director, GHI Washington) 

Panel 1

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

Nora Binder GHI Visiting Fellow / Universität Konstanz)
“Social Competence”: A History of Human Relations during the 20th Century

Steven McClellan (GHI Visiting Fellow / University of Toronto)
Killing and Conserving Empire: A Global History of Germans, Birds, and the Environment

Daniele Valisena (GHI Pacific Office Visiting Fellow / Spiral Research Center in STS, Ecology, and Society, University of Liège)
The Wild Around the Corner: Immigrants’ Feral Ecologies in New York, San Francisco, and Naples During the Age of Mass Migration 1870-1924

Panel 2

Moderator: Robin Toelen (Intern, GHI Washington)

Jana Dunz-Keck (GHI Washington)
Reimagining 'American Dreams': AI, History, and the Challenge of Ethical Representation

Lauren Rever (Gerda Henkel Digital History Fellow at GHI & RRCHNM; Previously: Universität Heidelberg)
Historymaking in Heritage Tourism: The 8th Grade Trip to Washington, DC

Panel 3

Moderator: Lena Essifi (Intern, GHI Washington)

Raphael Rössel (Research Fellow, GHI Washington) 
Hazing: Violence and Elitism at US Colleges, 1850s-1930s

Jonathan Schlunck (GHI Visiting Fellow / University of Uppsala)
Schools for the Deaf as Places of Knowledge Production

Berenike Metzler (Guest Scholar, GHI Washington / OI Institut Beirut)
When Letters Arranged the World: Insights into a project on Arabic letter semiotics.

Panel 4

Moderator: Jonas Baake (Intern, GHI Washington)

Nicholas Blumenthal (Guest Scholar GHI / University of Fribourg)
Switzerland’s History of Deportations (1945-1980): State Practices, Infrastructures, and the Agency of Deportees

Sarah Frenking (GHI Visiting Fellow / Universität Erfurt)
Moving through the Underworld: “Mädchenhandel”, Prostitution, and Deviant Mobilities, 1920-1960

Isabel Richter (Deputy Director, GHI Pacific Office Berkeley)
Indigeneity and the Politics of Belonging in 1960s Countercultures