Conferences

On occasion the Institute hosts conferences to commemorate a particular anniversary or to expand a successful workshop or forum  onto a broader canvas. These international gatherings are not confined to encounters between specialists, but they retain a pedagogical  function--they are open to participation from both students and  nonacademics and are public occasions for the airing of significant  questions and problems of a topical nature. Where appropriate, the  proceedings will be edited and published in book form.

Upcoming Conferences:

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Past Conferences:

October 22-23, 2008 - Le volontaire militaire en Méditerranée

(co-sponsored with the Department of History, ENS)

November 14-15, 2008 - Holocaust Denial

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Open Wounds: Reflections on Nazism, Communism and the 20th Century

Organized with the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany,
April 14th - April 16th, 2005

Participants:
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum
Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, New York University
Jonathan Glover, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London
Robert Paxton, Mellon Professor emeritus of the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Eric Hobsbawm, Professor emeritus of Economic and Social History, Birkbeck College, London
Richard Taylor, University of Swansea
Omer Bartov, Brown University
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Jan Gross, Princeton University
Hans Otto Brautigam, Former BRD Ambassador to the UN
Marcus Wolf, Head of foreign intelligence in the former GDR
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary College, London
Istvan Rev, Open Society Archives, Central European University, Budapest
Martin Sabrow, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
Dariusz Stola, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Maria Loskutova, European University at St Petersburg
Norman Naimark, Stanford University
Norbert Frei, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena
Karl Schlogel, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Center for the Studies of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland

International Symposium on Military War Crimes: History and Memory

Co-sponsored with New School University and Cooper Union,
December 3 - 6, 1999

Participants:
Judith Friedlander, New School University
Aryeh Neier, Open Society Institute, New York
Robert Rindler, The School of Art, Cooper Union
Gilles Peress, photo journalist
Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Mary Nolan, New York University
Bernd Boll, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union
Jane Kramer, New Yorker Magazine
Klaus Naumann, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Walter Manoschek, University of Vienna
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Saul Friedländer, UCLA, Tel Aviv University.
Volker Berghahn, Columbia University
Omer Bartov, Rutgers University
Christopher Browning, University of North Carolina
Juergen Foerster, Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Hannes Heer, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
David Bankier, Hebrew University
Mark Mazower, Princeton University
Gudrun Schwarz, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Michael Wildt, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Frank Biess, Brown University
Ulrich Herbert, University of Freiburg
Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine
John Dower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Edward Linenthal, University of Wisconsin
Vera Zolberg, New School University
Bernd Greiner, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Marilyn Young, New York University
Istvan Deak, Columbia University
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker Magazine
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

50th Anniversary of the American Publication of 'Antisemite and Jew' by Jean-Paul Sartre

Co-sponsored with the Center for French Civilization and Culture,
April 24-25, 1998

Participants:
Denis Hollier, French Department, NYU
Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Michel Rybalka, University of Washington, St. Louis
Robert Misrahi, Université de Paris I, Emeritus
Michel Contat, CNRS, Institut des Textes Modernes, Paris
Serge Doubrovsky, New York University
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Emanuelle Saada, New York University
Enzo Traverso, Université d'Amiens)
Naomi Schor, Harvard University
Pierre Birnbaum, Université de Paris I
Frances Malino, Wellesley College
Thomas Bishop, New York University
Alain Finkielkraut, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Sandy Petrey, SUNY Stony Brook
Susan Suleiman, Harvard University

Remembering, Adapting, Overcoming: The Legacy of World War Two in Europe

New York, April 24-27, 1997

Participants:
Hans Mommsen, University of Bochum, Germany
Molly Nolan, New York University
István Déak, Columbia University
Roderick Kedward, University of Sussex, England
Jan T. Gross, New York University
Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto, Canada
Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
Andrew Shennan, Wellesley College
Marija Obradovic, Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Nicole A. Dombrowski, Princeton University
Paul Ginsborg, University of Florence
Richard Mitten, Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Vienna
Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Gabriella Etmektsoglou, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Drago Roksandic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Pieter Lagrou, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
Jerzy Holzer, University of Warsaw, Poland
Christopher Harvie, University of Tübingen, Germany
Ivo Banac, Yale University
Christopher Browning, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington
Mark Mazower, University of Sussex, England
Alan Milward, London School of Economics
Peter Romijn, War Documentation Institute, Amsterdam
Luc Huyse, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
Jacques Rupnik, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris
Sarah Farmer, University of Iowa
Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford, England
Colin Nettelbeck, The University of Melbourne
Radmila Radic, Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Brad Abrams, University of Copenhagen
Wolfgang Hoepken, University of Leipzig, Germany
Sonia Combe, University of Nanterre, France