2025-26 Fellows' Symposium
Dec 04, 2025 - Dec 05, 2025
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
Welcome & Introductions
Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Director, GHI Washington)
Bryan Hart (Program Officer - Fellowships, GHI Washington)
Panel 1
Moderator: Bryan Hart (Program Officer - Fellowships, GHI Washington)
Sara Halpern (GHI Visiting Fellow)
Stateless by Design: Jewish Denationalization and Imperial Politics in Europe and Beyond
Atiba Pertilla (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
Land of Dollars: Money in the Minds of American Immigrants, 1870-1935
Didi Tal (GHI Visiting Fellow & Columbia University)
Papers and Trails: The Holocaust and U.S. Immigration Control
Panel 2
Moderator: Neven Hauswirth (Intern, GHI Washington)
Max Gaida (GHI Visiting Fellow & University of Cologne)
From Red Light to Rainbow: The Politics of Sex and Space in Philadelphia’s Urban Crises
Ronny Grundig (Gerda Henkel Fellow in Digital History, RRCHNM/GHI & University of Greifswald)
The History of Neighborhoods in Germany in the 20th Century
Stephen Robertson (RRCHNM/GMU)
Reimagining the Historical Monograph: Harlem in Disorder as an Example of Using the Digital Medium to Present Evidence and Context
Panel 3
Moderator: Daniel Holt (Intern, GHI Washington)
Linus Lanfermann-Baumann (Alum Doctoral Fellow/Intern, Universität Graz)
Between Armed Revolution and Disarmament: Central America and North Atlantic Peace Protest in the 1980s
Mario Peters (Research Fellow, GHI Washington)
South American Perspectives on the Pan-American Highway, 1920s-1930s
Douwe Schipper (GHI Visiting Fellow)
Mass Transit, Regional Governance, and the Politics of Knowledge in 1960s-1970s American Transportation Planning
Panel 4
Moderator: Benjamin Burtz (Intern, GHI Washington)
Till Knobloch (GHI Affiliated Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow & DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow SAIS)
“The End of History”? – Imagining the Future after the Cold War
Berenike Metzler (GHI Guest Scholar & Orient Institute Beirut)
Against the Decline: Rewriting Islamic intellectual history of the 17th to 19th centuries through Paratexts
Laurelin Middelkoop (GHI Visiting Fellow & European University Institute)
Unions before the Union: Perpetual Peace Plans before the American Founding