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Workshops & Conferences

The Moralization of Science

September 17 – 18, 2026 | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria)

Daniel Brewing, Elke Seefried (RWTH Aachen), Alexander Bogner (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)

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Flight, Exile and Emigration in Germany’s Age of Extremes: Biographical Perspectives

October 8 – 9, 2026 | Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Frank Biess (UC San Diego), Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown), Simone Lässig (TU Braunschweig), Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute Washington)

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

November 16 – 17, 2026 | GHI Washington, Pacific Office at UC Berkeley

Simone M. Müller (University of Augsburg), Isabel Richter (German Historical Institute Washington, Pacific Office)

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The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global “Postwar” Decade

February 25 – 26, 2027 | GHI Washington, Washington D.C.

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington) and Robert Kramm (University of Tübingen)

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Between Big Data and Obsolescence: Born-Digital Sources, Contemporary History, and the Politics of Access

March 18 – 19, 2027 | GHI Washington, Washington D.C.

Ninth Conference on Digital History and Digital Humanities at GHI Washington | Co-convened with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), the Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, the Chair for Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim, and NFDI4Memory


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