German Study Group

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Past Events
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, émigré Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies
Judith Wechsler - NEH Professor of Art History, Emerita, Tufts University
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Can Politics Change Birth Rates? Some Recent Lessons from Germany
Elisabeth Niejah - Visiting Scholar, CES
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Emotions in History, with a Special Reference to Empathy and its Limits
Ute Frevert - Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The History of Private Equity in Germany from 1965-2010
Paul Jowett - Partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH
Time: 5:30 AM - 7:00 AM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
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Friday, April 15, 2011
The Art of Memory/the Memory of Art: Counter Monuments of the Holocaust and Other Genocides
Horst Hoheisel - artist, independent museum curator
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Creating the Color Line and the National Line: Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia
Eric Weitz - Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Irène Némirovsky and the 'Jewish Question' in Interwar France
Susan Suleiman - C.Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Time: 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
From Social Movements to Armed Struggle: The Historical Context of the Red Army Faction
Christina Gerhardt - Pacific University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder - Professor of History, Yale University
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Transatlantic Relations after Twenty Years of German Unification: A Widening Atlantic? Market Gap - War Gap - God Gap
Detlef Junker - Director, Heidelberg Center of American Studies - HCA
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Contemporary Political Situation in Three European Countries
Arthur Goldhammer - Affiliate, CES
James Cronin - History Department, Boston College
Charles Maier - Professor of History, Harvard
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Discrimination, Degradation, Defiance: Jewish Lawyers in Nazi Germany
Douglas Morris - J.D., Ph.D.
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Ethnic Cleansing at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Mass Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945-1946
Oldrich Tuma - Director, Ustav pro Soudobe Dejiny, the quarterly of the Institute of Contemporary History at the Academy of Sciences in Prague
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Time of the Nazis: Past, Present and Future in the Third Reich?
Christopher Clark
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Fatherhood, Christianity, and the Quest for a 'Liberal Republic': Making Authority Safe for Democracy in Postwar West Germany
Till Van Rahden - Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies, University of Montreal
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Music and the German Nation
Celia Applegate
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution: Success and Sorrow
Gerhard Sonnert - Research Associate in the Harvard College Observatory, Associate of the Harvard Physics Department;
Gerald Holton - Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The November 1938 'Kristallnacht' Pogrom in History and Memory
Alan Steinweiss - Professor of History; Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Reflections on Early Holocaust Cinema: The Case of the Vanishing Jew
Stuart Liebman - member of the Ph.D. Faculties of Art History and Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Transatlantic Perspectives of Climate Governance
Claus Leggewie - Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the German Federal Government on Global Environmental Changes (WBGU)
Robert Stavins - Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Was Austria-Hungary an Empire?
Pieter Judson - Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems"
Saul Friedlander
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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Friday, February 27, 2009
'Prisoners of the Postwar': Expellees, Refugees, and Citizenship in Postwar Austria
Tara Zahra - Professor of History, University of Chicago
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Cosmopolitans in an Ethnonational Age? Jews and Austrians in the First Republic
Malachi Hacohen - Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
"Decolonizing Nature: West German Safari Tourism and the Making of Serengeti National Park"
Thomas Lekan - Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
'Glimpses in the Blinding Light': Holocaust Victims Reflect on Their Tormentors
Mark Roseman - Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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