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Unless noted otherwise, the GHI Research Seminar meets Wednesdays 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Mischa Honeck ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

The GHI Doctoral Seminar usually meets on Thursday mornings. Please send all inquiries via e-mail to Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).


May 15, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Stefan Hördler
    Steel Industries in Divided Germany and the United States, 1970s to 1990s

May 23, 2013 (Doctoral Seminar)
  • Christiane Bauer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
    Deutschlandbilder der Nachfahren deutscher Immigranten in den USA - Eine erinnerungsgeschichtliche Auseinandersetzung mit Migration und Identität
  • Robert Fischer (Universität Erfurt)
    Grenzleben - eine translokale Geschichte von Ciudad Juárez und El Paso, 1880-1940
  • Thilo Niedhöfer (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
    Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson und das „balinesische Ethos": Amerikanische Anthropologie zwischen Gesellschaft und Staat ca. 1930-1950

May 29, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Anja Werner (Max-Planck Institute)
    A Transnational History of Deaf People
  • Simone Müller-Pohl (Freie Universität Berlin/GHI)
    COntamination Guaranteed: America's Hazardous Waste in Global Perspective

June 12, 2013 (Research Seminar)
  • Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard)
    Engineers' class struggle and the question of "technology" in German and American High Industrialism