I. German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History

Lecture 1: “Modern Colonialism and Agrarian Anxieties: How did Industrialization Matter?”
Kenneth Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine)
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 4 pm, UCSD, Commentator: Pamela Radcliff (UCSD)
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 6-8 pm, GHI Washington, DC

Lecture 2: “Tensions of Empire and the Production of Silence. Colonial Scandals in the German Empire”
Rebekka Habermas (University of Göttingen)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, UCSD, 4 pm, Commentator: Volker Langbehn (San Francisco State University)
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 6-8 pm, GHI Washington, DC

Lecture 3: “Rethinking German Colonialism in a Global Age”
Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4 pm, UCI, Commentator: Stefan Tanaka (UCSD)
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6-8 pm, GHI Washington, DC

Lecture 4: “Love and War. How to Make Use of Transnational History for German Colonialism”
Birthe Kundrus (University of Hamburg)
Tuesday, November 30, 2011, 4 pm, UCI, Commentator: Paul Lerner (USC)
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6-8 pm GHI Washington, DC

Lecture 5: "Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia: Creating the Color Line and the National Line."
Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 4 pm UCSD, Commentator: Hasan Kayali (UCSD)
Thursday, January 12, 2012, GHI Washington, DC

II. The Aftermath of German Colonialism

Lecture 6: “Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back? The Afterlives of German Colonialism“
Speaker: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Panelists: Hartmut Berghoff (Chair, GHI Washington, DC), Martin Andjaba (Ambassador of Namibia, Washington, DC), Cyprian Fisiy (World Bank), Steve McDonald (Woodrow Wilson Center), Armin Owzar (University of Freiburg)
Thursday, January 26, 2012

III. German Missionaries in Asia and the Pacific

Lecture 7: “A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gützlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851”
Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
Monday, February 13, 12 pm, 2012, UCI, Commentator: Jeff Wasserstrom (UCI)

Lecture 8: “German Colonialism in the South Pacific and the Indigenous Response”
Hermann-Josef Hiery (University of Bayreuth)
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4 pm, UCSD, Commentator: Ulrike Strasser (UC Irvine)

Lecture 9: “In the Wake of Empire: German Missionaries in China and the Consequences of Failure”
Albert Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, March 5, 2012, 12 pm, UCI, Commentator: Quitao Guo (UCI)

IV. From Windhuk to Auschwitz? Racism, Terror, Genocide

Lecture 10: “Which Way to Expand? And How? Imperial Rivalries in the ‘Third Reich’”
Dirk van Laak (University of Gießen)
Monday, April 9, 2012, 4 pm, UCSD, Commentator: Uta Poiger (Northeastern University)

Lecture 11: “Race War and Cultural Genocide in German Southwest Africa”
Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg)
Monday, April 23, 2012, 12 pm, UCI, Commentator: Robert Moeller (UC Irvine)

Lecture 12: “Global Empire and Naval Ambitions in Wilhelmine Germany”
Dirk Bönker (Duke University)
Monday, May 7, 2012, 12 pm, UCI, Commentator: Edward Dickinson (UC Davis)

V. Transnational Colonial History

Lecture 13: “Colonialism as Counterrevolution: Rethinking the Pre-colonial”
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)
Monday, May 21, 2012, 4 pm, UCSD, Commentator: Rebecca Plant (UCSD)