Event History
2014
Breath of Freedom (Film Screening)
Foundation for National Archives, William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC
September 25, 2014, 7:00 pm
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2013
“Black Germans in Diaspora,“ 3rd Annual Convention
Black German Heritage and Research Association, August 8-11, 2013, Amherst College, MA.
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“From G.I. Blues to G.I. “
Exhibition at the Alliierten Museum Berlin, starting May 24, 2013
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Davidson, NC – Davidson College
February 3 – March 1, 2013
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2012
Maitland, FL – The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida
October – December 2012
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Fourth Workshop of the YSN “Black Diaspora and Germany“
Performance, Performers, Authenticity, and ‘Black’ Popular Culture in Germany: From the 19th Century to Now.
The workshop will take place at the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Berlin, September 21-22, 2012.
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Second Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society of NJ
What is the Black German Experience?
History, Performance, Popular and Visual Cultures
Columbia University, New York City
Barnard College, Diana Center Event Oval
August 10-11, 2012
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Lecture: The Ramstein II and the ‚Voice of the Lumpen‘:
African American GIs and German Student Radicals (1969-71)
By Prof. Maria Höhn (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY)
March 14, 2012, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Hörsaal 2106 (Gebäude D), University of Augsburg
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2011
Exhibition Opening: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
Roundtable Discussion “America in Black and White: Lancaster Veterans and the Struggle for Racial Equality“
November 3, 2011, 11:30 am -12:35 pm
Moderated by Maria Höhn
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster (PA)
November 03 – December 13, 2011
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Exhibition: An American in Deutschland – Photographs by Leonard Freed
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
Exhibition Opening: September 15, 2011
September 15 – November 15, 2011
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Exhibition Opening: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
Introduction by Maria Höhn
September 8, 2011
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
September 9 – October 28, 2011
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion: “Roots Germania” – A Personal Search for Identity
Speakers: Pia Bungarten and Mo Asumang
August 18, 2011, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
GHI Washington, DC
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Lecture: “Geteilte Geschichte” – The Black Experience in Germany and the U.S.
Speaker: Noah Sow
August 19, 2011, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
GHI Washington, DC
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Workshop with Veterans from the Armed Forces Retirement Home
Convener: Martin Klimke (GHI)
Participants: AFRH residents, Antoinette Ford (Double Nickels Theatre Company), Maria Hoehn (Vassar College), Sarah Barksdale (UNC)
GHI Washington
June 21, 2011
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“The Night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union, England: Race Protest in the Subversive Special Relationship“
Stephen Tuck (University of Oxford)
GHI Spring Lecture Series 2011
June 9, 2011
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“Black Expatriates and Civil Rights Activism in 1950/60s Ghana“
Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan)
GHI Spring Lecture Series 2011
May 26, 2011
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Exhibition Opening: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
Introduction by Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke
German Historical Institute London
May 6, 2011
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“Global Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle“
Manfred Berg (University of Heidelberg)
GHI Spring Lecture Series 2011
April 21, 2011
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Gendering the Black Diaspora
2nd DFG Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany” Workshop
April 15-16, 2011
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“Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960“
Carol Anderson (Emory University)
GHI Spring Lecture Series 2011
March 24, 2011
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A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
A lecture by: Professor Maria Höhn (Vassar College) and Dr. Martin Klimke (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)
March 23, 2011 – University of Georgia, Athens (GA)
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Exhibition Opening: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
Introduction by Laura Stapane
March 15, 2011
Heideberg Ceter for American Studies (HCA), Heidelberg
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Panel Discussion: “Radical Liaisons and Race: Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties“
With Maria Höhn, Martin Klimke, Jeremy Varon & Norbert Frei
March 8, 2011, 6-7:45 pm.
Parsons The New School for Design. 68 5th Avenue
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Exhibition Opening: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
Introduction by Maria Höhn
February 08, 2011
University of Mississippi – Oxford, MS
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Exhibition Opening: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
Introduction by Laura Stapane
February, 01, 2011
Bayerisches Armeemuseum Ingolstadt
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2010
Exhibition Opening: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
Introduction by Laura Stapane
December 06, 2010
Hamburg America Center
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Panel Discussion with Kathleen Cleaver, Barbara Easley Cox & Martin Klimke: “Revolutionary Alliances: Black Power and Germany“
Monday, November 15, 2010
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (NY)
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Exhibition Opening & Lecture: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany“
By Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke
Thursday, October 7, 2010
University of California, Berkeley
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Exhibition Opening: “A Breath of Freedom – Der Kampf um die Bürgerrechte, afroamerikanische GIs und Deutschland“
Introduction by Laura Stapane
Thursday, September 30, 2010
DAI, Tübingen
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Exhibition Opening: “African American Civil Rights and Germany“
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Introduction by Laura Stapane
University of Augsburg
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Exhibition Opening: “Der Kampf um die Bürgerrechte: Afroamerikanische GIs und Deutschland“
April 07, 2010
Introduction by Laura Stapane
Landeshauptstadt Mainz
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Lecture: “Schwarze und Rote Panther: Die afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung und Black Power in der Bundesrepublik der 1960/70er Jahre“
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Lecture by Martin Klimke, GHI Washington, DC
America House, Munich, Germany
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Exhibition Opening: “Der Kampf um die Bürgerrechte: Afroamerikanische GIs und Deutschland“
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Introduction by Maria Höhn, Vassar College
Photography Exhibition at America House Munich, Germany
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2009
Exhibition Opening: “African American Civil Rights and Germany – Afroamerikanische GIs in Deutschland“
November 26, 2009
Introduction by Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke
November 27 – December 22, 2009
Photography Exhibition at the Vertretung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin, Germany
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Exhibition: “The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany“
October 01 – 29, 2009
Photography Exhibition at James W. Palmer III Gallery at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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Conference: African-American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century
(CfP deadline: March 01, 2009)
October 01 – 04, 2009
Jointly organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC and Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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Exhibition: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany
Verbandsgemeinde und Stadt Birkenfeld
Exhibition Opening
, August 28, 2009
August 31 – September 25, 2009
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Exhibition: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany
May 29 – July 19, 2009
Photography Exhibition at the Ramstein Air Base Documentary & Exhibition Center, Ramstein, Germany
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XXIV. Black International Cinema Berlin: “A Complexion Change: International & Intercultural Diplomacy“
May 2009
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“City Unmasked” – A Book and Documentary Premiere
Friday, May 1, 2009
Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Premiere and Panel Discussion at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Black Knowledges, Black Struggles, Civil Rights: Transnational Perspectives
March 25 – 29, 2009
8th International Conference of the Collegium for African American Research, Bremen
“African-American Awareness Day“
March 21, 2009
Frankfurt – AAGE (African-American German Exchange) e.V.
Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries
March 19 – 21, 2009
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Black History Month 2009, Berlin
February 2009
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Black History Month 2009, Hamburg
January 31 – March 8, 2009
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Exhibition: African-American Civil Rights and Germany
November 2008 – April 2009
Photography Exhibition at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Lecture: Civil Rights and America’s Role in World War II
January 13, 2009
Speaker: Harvard Sitkoff (University of New Hampshire)
Lecture at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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2008
Exhibition Opening: African-American Civil Rights and Germany
November 19, 2008
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Panel Discussion: Martin Luther King Jr. and Germany in the 1960s
November 19, 2008
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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Workshop: 1968 – Forty Years Later
April 12, 2008
Vassar College, Poughkeespie, NY