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Call for Papers

Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Deadline: January 16, 2026 | Workshop at UC Berkeley | November 16-17, 2026

 

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West Coast Germanists' Workshop

German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches

Deadline: November 30, 2025 (deadline extended) | Eighth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop at University of Colorado Boulder | March 6 – 7, 2026

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Fellowship

Visiting Fellowships at the GHI

Deadline: January 12, 2026 | The GHI is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 visiting fellow program for European and North American scholars…

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Fellowship

GHI Fellowships at the Horner Library

Deadline: March 1, 2026 | Together with the German Society of Pennsylvania, the GHI sponsors two to four fellowships of up to four weeks for research…

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Prize

2025 Franz Steiner Prize awarded to Nadine Klopfer

On May 10, 2025, GHI Washington Deputy Director Axel Jansen together with Johannes Klemm of the Steiner Verlag awarded the biennial Franz Steiner…

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Video

Watch recording of our event "Credit's Histories: Debt, Loans, and Welfare in Twentieth-Century United States"

If you were unable to watch our event "Credit's Histories: Debt, Loans, and Welfare in Twentieth-Century United States" live, it is now available to…

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Podcast

New podcast miniseries "The Ends of War" launched by Max Weber Stiftung

The new miniseries features GHI researchers Anna Carolin Augustin and Simone Lässig along with other MWS researchers to discuss the aftermath(s) of…

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Alumni

Interview with Doctoral Visiting Fellow Jonathan Schlunck

We recently caught up with Jonathan Schlunck, one of our Visiting Fellows, who will be leaving us at the end of April. We sat down with him to discuss…

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