Different Approaches to War Crime and Memory in Germany and Japan since 1980
Seventy Years after World War II, How Should We Remember? Seventy years have passed since the end of World War II, and people in Germany and around the world are …
Reconciliation Over the Graves? A German War Cemetery in Russia (or the German-Russian Reconciliation of Sologubovka)
The remains of millions of soldiers still lie in the soil of the former battlefields of World War II in Europe. Since the end of the war, Red Army and …
Compare or Not to Compare? Or How to Compare? The Problems in Contemporary German-Japanese Memory Discourse
Japan has struggled with the legacies of its imperial aggression for decades.[1] Neither domestically nor internationally has the nation been able to find a formula which would put the so-called …
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Support Our Work2016 DAAD Prize in German and European Studies to be Awarded to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz, UCLA
Congratulations to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz of UCLA, the recipient of the 2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies for her outstanding academic work in the Humanities. Yasemin …
German Space Exploration and International Cooperation
On September 30, 2016, the Rosetta space mission came to an end. The mission, run by the European Space Agency (ESA), represented one of the most dramatic space achievements in …
Meet the 2016 Harry & Helen Gray/AGI Reconciliation Fellows
AGI is pleased to welcome three Harry & Helen Gray/AGI Reconciliation Fellows this summer. Yeon Jeong Gu, Nina Janz, and Ivo Plšek will conduct their research on the topic of …
A Transatlantic Perspective: Welcoming Cities and the Policy and Practice of Refugee and Immigrant Integration
Issue Brief 54 This Issue Brief is the result of an AGI conference held in cooperation with Welcoming America and the Urban Institute in Washington, DC in May 2016 entitled …
No Place to Stay? Discrimination Patterns in the German and American Rental Housing Markets
Things have changed. While for a long time German politicians have tried to define Germany as a ‘non-immigration country,‘ it is now one of the countries receiving the most migration …
