This interdisciplinary conference explored the current and historical attitudes towards climate change and environmental degradation among policymakers and other stakeholders in various countries around the Pacific Rim, as well as the interactions between their current and past climate, energy, and environmental policies.
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute Rome and the China Branch Office of Max Weber Stiftung, the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo takes the occasion of this year’s 160th anniversary of German-Japanese Friendship as an opportunity to reexamine the legacies and pitfalls left behind by the German Sozialwissenschaften in East Asia from historical and transnational perspectives.
The conference „Contested Knowledge in a Connected World” brought together institutes of the Max Weber Foundation and their researchers from the large-scale research project “Knowledge Unbound: Internationalisation, Networking, Innovation in and by the Max Weber Stiftung”.
On June 7-9, 2021 the virtual conference Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants’ Agency convened by Albert Manke and Sören Urbansky took place. Please click on the picture above to watch a recording of the key...
How have feminist stories been recorded historically? Where can we find them in the archive? And how does this shape historical scholarship on women’s empowerment? Since the 1960s, feminist historians have sought to re-write...
Date and venue: 19.-20. April, 2021, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, online event. Conveners: Sarah Beringer (German Historical Institute Washington D.C.), Benjamin Beuerle (German Historical Institute Moscow), Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese...
On May 19th and 20th, the inaugural conference of the research project “Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Block 1950-1990” took place in Beirut.
Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, June 1-2, 2020, convened by Albert Manke (GHI’s Regional Office at UC Berkeley) and Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute Washington)
