Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (Washington DC) 44 (2009)

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Preface

FEATURES

The Natural Sciences and Democratic Practices: Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, and Max Planck
Margit Szöllösi-Janze

Comment on Margit Szöllösi-Janze’s “The Natural Sciences and Democratic Practices”
Cathryn Carson

Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933
Marti M. Lybeck

The Peaceful Revolution of the Fall of 1989
Marianne Birthler

Human Dignity and the Freedom of the Press
Jutta Limbach

GHI RESEARCH

Billy Graham’s Crusades in the 1950s: Neo-Evangelicalism between Civil Religion, Media, and Consumerism
Uta Andrea Balbier

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Proto-Eugenic Thinking before Galton
Christoph Irmscher

Nature's Accountability: Aggregation and Governmentality in the History of Sustainability
Sabine Höhler and Rafael Ziegler

Trajectories of Decolonization: Elites and the Transformation from the Colonial to the Postcolonial
Sönke Kunkel

Symposium in Memoriam of Gerald D. Feldman
Uwe Spiekermann

Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Political Violence in the Nineteenth Century
Roni Dorot and Daniel Monterescu

A Whole New Game: Expanding the Boundaries of the History of Sport
Christopher Young

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Research, and Future Agendas
Uwe Spiekermann

Global Migration Systems of Domestic and Care Workers
Anke Ortlepp

17th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI and Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Richard F. Wetzell

Engineering Society: The "Scientification of the Social" in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1990
Jochen F. Mayer

Writing East German History: What Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make?
Heather L. Gumbert

GHI NEWS

Director’s Inauguration
Endowment of a Gerald D. Feldman Lecture
Franz Steiner Prize 2008
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 2008
Exhibition “African American Civil Rights and Germany”
New Publications
GHI Research Seminar, Fall 2008
GHI-Sponsored Panels and Presentations, Fall 2008
Staff Changes
Recipients of GHI Fellowships
GHI Fellowships and Internships
GHI Lecture Series, Spring 2009
Calendar of GHI Events for 2009