Bulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022) – GHI Washington

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Bulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)

Features

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen: Asking the Impossible: The Hunger for the Unknowable in Twentieth-Century American and European Thought Emma Thomas: “Contact” Embodied: German Colonialism, New Guinean Women, and the Everyday Exploitation of a Labor Force, 1884-1914 Richard Calis: Cross-Cultural Contact in Sixteenth-Century Tübingen: Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and his Greek Guests Cathy S. Gelbin: The Golem: From Enlightenment Monster to Artificial Intelligence Mae M. Ngai: The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849-1910 Andreas Greiner: Aviation History and Global History: Towards a Research Agenda for the Interwar Period In Global Transit: A New GHI Research Focus - Interview with Simone Lässig

Conference Reports

Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants’ Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective 26th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German History Fifth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers

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GHI Washington Receives Positive Evaluation; Pacific Office in Berkeley Made Permanent - 2021 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize - Franz Steiner Prize: Call for Submissions - New Staff Publications - New Institute Publications - In memoriam: Mack Walker (1929-2021) - Staff Changes - GHI Fellowships and Internships: Call for Applications - GHI Fellowship Recipients, 2020/21 - GHI Research Seminar and Colloquium, Spring & Fall 2021 - Digital Cultural Heritage DC Meetup #DCHDC, 2021 - Spring Lecture Series 2022 - GHI Calendar of Events, 2021/2022 - GHI Library