Germany – Russia – USA

Deutsches Historisches Museum
Pei Building

Relations between Germany, Russia, and the United States are undergoing a fundamental transformation, with long-standing alliances and ties increasingly being called into question. In the eighth symposium in the “Historical Judgement” series, the DHM joins Karl Schlögel in exploring the historical relations between these three countries – not in the form of an encyclopaedic overview or a definitive account, but through an examination of characteristic situations that reveal the full complexity of this three-way relationship as it has evolved over generations.

The participants include Kate Baldwin, György Dalos, Alexander Etkind, Hope M. Harrison, Anne Hartmann, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Oliver Lubrich, Jan-Werner Müller, Lawrence A. Scaff, Karl Schlögel, Odd Arne Westad, Katherine Zubovich

The contributions appear in the new edition of the magazine “Historical Judgement”.

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Participation

Registration

Participation is free

Livestream

The symposium will be recorded and made available online later.

For enquiries regarding interviews and filming, as well as to request review copies of the magazine, please contact the press office: presse@dhm.de or +49 30 20304-410.

Programme

9.00 am – 9.30 am
Registration & Coffee

9.30 am – 10.30 am
Introduction

Welcome
Raphael Gross

Scenes from German-Russian-American Relations
Karl Schlögel

10.30 am – 12 noon
Emigration and Flight

Home – A Dream: Russian Germans and Their Emigration to the United States
György Dalos, Sächsische Akademie der Künste

The Splendour and Misery of Life in Exile: German Émigrés in California and Moscow
Anne Hartmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse, Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien

12 noon – 1.30 pm
Lunch Break

1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Stones, Walls, Blocks

Building in Stone: Neoclassical Facades in Washington, Moscow, and Berlin
Katherine Zubovich, University at Buffalo

Three Vignettes from the Cold War
Hope Harrison, The George Washington University

Chair: Julia Voss, Deutsches Historisches Museum

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
The Sociologists’ Perspective

Timely Reflections: Max Weber between America and Russia
Lawrence Scaff, Wayne State University

“After-Thoughts”: Notes towards Du Bois’s Historical Judgement
Kate Baldwin, Tulane University

Chair: Hans-Peter Müller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Coffee Break

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Alexander von Humboldt visits the Tsar and the President

Writing between the Lines: Alexander von Humboldt in Russia
Oliver Lubrich, Universität Bern

Humboldt and Jefferson: An Encounter, 1804
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Chair: Daniel Morat, Deutsches Historisches Museum

5.00 pm – 5.45 pm
Russia and the United States as a “Grossraum” à la Carl Schmitt

In Conversation
Alexander Etkind, Central European University & Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University

Chair: Tae-Yeoun Keum, UC Santa Barbara/ Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

5.45 pm – 6.15 pm
A new European Balance?

Germany, Russia, and the United States after the Ukraine War
Odd Arne Westad, Yale University

Chair: Karl Schlögel

6.15 pm
Closing Remarks
Raphael Gross & Karl Schlögel

Until 7.30 pm
Reception

Subject to change

Speakers' biographies

The „Historical Judgement“ lecture series is funded by Dr. Christiane and Dr. Nicolaus Weickart.

Contact

Christina Behrendt and Jenny Jakubik
tagungsbuero@dhm.de

Photo: Exchange of agents on the Glienicker Bridge between West Berlin and Potsdam, 11 February 1986 © Allied Museum, B 2018/01.10114 (U.S. Army photograph)