2026
Eighth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches
March 6 – 7, 2026 | University of Colorado Boulder
David Ciarlo (University of Colorado Boulder), Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (University of Colorado Boulder), Isabel Richter (GHI Washington | Pacific Office, Berkeley) Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington)
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Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language
March 18 – 19, 2026 | GHI Washington, Washington, D.C.
Hans C. Boas (University of Texas, Austin) and Atiba Pertilla (GHI Washington)
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31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present
June 16 – 18, 2026 | GHI Washington, Pacific Office at UC Berkeley
Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)
Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule
May 28 – 29, 2026 | GHI Washington, Washington, D.C.
Ulrike von Hirschhausen (GHI Washington) and Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin)
2025
Germans in the Asia-Pacific Region: (Post)Colonial Entanglements, Conflicts, Perceptions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
June 25 – 27, 2025 | Flinders University (city campus), Adelaide, South Australia
Convener: Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), and Isabel Richter (GHI Washington, Pacific Office)
Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries: Fifth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
July 7 – 10, 2025 | Pacific Office GHI Washington at UC Berkeley
Organized by hhe University of Tübingen (UT), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA)
Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945
September 10 – 12, 2025 | Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington) Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College)
Charlotte Lerg (Amerika Institut, LMU München)
Till van Rahden (Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université de Montréal)
Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute)
Food, Migration, and Belonging in 20th Century European History
September 29 – 30, 2025 | Pacific Office GHI Washington at UC Berkeley
Isabel Richter (GHI Washington, Pacific Office) and Maren Möhring (University of Leipzig)
Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1890s-2000s
October 9 – 10, 2025 | German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (University of Georgia), and Stefanie Coché (Gießen University)