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As ever, you can also find in our Bulletin reports on our conferences plus news from the GHI and about our fellowship programs and future events
The new issue is also coming with a report about the "Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s – 1950s" conference I co-organized in February this year in Mumbai
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The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As ever, you can also find in our Bulletin reports on our conferences plus news from the GHI and about our fellowship programs and future events
Our final article, by @juergendinkel.bsky.social, "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," traces this paratext's history from early modern panegyrics through 19th century reticence to the rise of subjective & expansive acknowledgments since the 1990s. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our final article, by @juergendinkel.bsky.social, "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," traces this paratext's history from early modern panegyrics through 19th century reticence to the rise of subjective & expansive acknowledgments since the 1990s. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
“The Challenge of German Histories: An American Retrospective” is taken from Konrad H. Jarausch's 2024 Feldman Memorial Lecture and presents his reflections on the field of German history, drawing on his decades of research & teaching on both sides of the Atlantic. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“The Challenge of German Histories: An American Retrospective” is taken from Konrad H. Jarausch's 2024 Feldman Memorial Lecture and presents his reflections on the field of German history, drawing on his decades of research & teaching on both sides of the Atlantic. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
“The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below” by Steven Weiss Samols, winner of the GHI's 2024 Stern Dissertation Prize, examines how Jewish photographers, writers, & publishers used the photobook to celebrate difference and contest antisemitism. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below” by Steven Weiss Samols, winner of the GHI's 2024 Stern Dissertation Prize, examines how Jewish photographers, writers, & publishers used the photobook to celebrate difference and contest antisemitism. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
"On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History: The Case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia," by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, draws on her biography in preparation & examines how a monarch seen as a classic tyrant was transformed into a heroic figure. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History: The Case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia," by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, draws on her biography in preparation & examines how a monarch seen as a classic tyrant was transformed into a heroic figure. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
"After Life: The Legacy of Discontinued International Organizations in the Twentieth Century" presents Kiran Klaus Patel's 2024 annual lecture at the GHI, which examined the question “What happens when international organizations die?” Available in PDF format here: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
![Photograph of four men in business attire smiling as their picture is taken. Caption: The “Four Wise Men” [Randolph Burgess, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, Bernard Clappier, and Xenophon Zolotas] visiting the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, March 1960. © OECD](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vny6rfv7ic24qx3depkrx2dy/bafkreiehi236tnpd7onc5dayrq6qfmqtvw3lrpbx3eymqkue3sem7qkpku@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"After Life: The Legacy of Discontinued International Organizations in the Twentieth Century" presents Kiran Klaus Patel's 2024 annual lecture at the GHI, which examined the question “What happens when international organizations die?” Available in PDF format here: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...
Appropriately for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., among the pieces in this issue of the Bulletin you'll also find "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," by Jürgen Dinkel. 🙏 The complete issue is available in #OpenAccess on our website: www.ghi-dc.org/publication/...
Bulletin 76 (Fall 2025) – GHI Washington
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November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Appropriately for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., among the pieces in this issue of the Bulletin you'll also find "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," by Jürgen Dinkel. 🙏 The complete issue is available in #OpenAccess on our website: www.ghi-dc.org/publication/...