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German/European & Jewish History

Stern Prize Recipient Honored with Fraenkel Prize

Alice Weinreb, a 2010 recipient of Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, has been awarded the 2017 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History by the Wiener…

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German/European & Jewish History

Max Weber Foundation Institutes Launch Transregional Conference Series on the History of Flight and Migration

Against the backdrop of ongoing current debates about global migration and its effects, the German Historical Institutes of Washington DC and London,…

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History of Migration & Mobilities

DFG features GHI conference "Knowledge in Flight" in its newsletter #DFGAktuell

The German Research Foundation (DFG) prominently featured our joint conference "Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue…

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Global & Transregional History

Former GHI Research Fellow Ines Prodöhl interviewed on NPR about her research on soy beans

Despite becoming the most widely grown crop in the United States, the soy bean does not have the same visibility or cultural relevance as crops like…

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German/European & Jewish History

GHI awarded 2-year grant by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius for German History in Documents and Images

The German Historical Institute (GHI) was recently awarded a generous two-year grant from the Hamburg-based ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.…

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History of Migration & Mobilities

GHI Washington Inaugurates New Pacific Regional Office, GHI West, in Berkeley

New Outpost will coordinate Research Network on Migrant Knowledge.

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Digital History

GHI Director Simone Lässig Interviewed about Digitization and Digital Distribution of Historical Sources

Simone Lässig, director of the GHI, recently gave an interview to the German radio station Deutschlandfunk in which she discussed the digitization and…

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Pacific Office

2018 Bucerius lecture features David Miliband (IRC) and Jutta Allmendinger (Thomas Mann Fellow)

David Miliband will give the 2018 Bucerius Lecture on October 17 at GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute…

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