Project News & Events - Immigrant Entrepreneurship

GHI Bulletin Supplement 12 "Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700" available online

We're pleased to announce the publication of “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700,” a special supplement to the Bulletin of…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Commodity Chains and Labor Relations

The International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) was established in 1964 as an international forum for scholars dedicated…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century to Today

On June 16 and June 17, 2016, the German Historical Institute hosted the workshop “Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective,…

Lecture: Investing in America: The Historical Perennial of Immigration and Assimilation

Keynote lecture at the GHI by Alan Kraut (American University) Thursday, June 16, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00pm As politicians channel…

German-American Immigrant Entrepreneurs Discussed at the 40th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX

San Antonio hosted the Society for German-American Studies’ 40th Annual Symposium, dedicated to the general topic “German Seed in Texas (and other) Soil: Weighing Location and Culture.” The place was well chosen: From the mid-19th century, today’s economic and cultural center of South Texas faced a large influx of German immigrants, who accounted for more than 10 percent of the local population in the 1890s.

Biographies as a Key to Revitalize Entrepreneurial Studies

Portland, hometown of German-American immigrant entrepreneurs Gert Boyle (Columbia Sportswear), Max and Harold Hirsch (Hirsch-Weis Company, White Stag), department store owners Meier & Frank…

CfP: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective, 18th Century - Today

June 16-17, 2016 Workshop at the German Historical Institute (GHI) Conveners: Hartmut Berghoff, Jessica Csoma, Bryan Hart, Kelly McCullough, Atiba…

Discussing Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship. Talk on Ernestine Schumann-Heink at Göttingen University

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship project’s general editor Uwe Spiekermann gave a well-received talk on “Herausforderung Einwandererunternehmerin: Das Beispiel Ernestine Schumann-Heinks” (The challenge of…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship project team is looking for authors

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship project team is looking for authors for the following candidates! We are asking for articles of 6,000…

Film and Discussion Event: “This Ain’t No Mouse Music: The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records”

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, a film and discussion event, “This Ain’t No Mouse Music: The Story of Chris Strachwitz…

New articles on immigrant entrepreneurship published in the most recent Yearbook of German-American Studies

The GHI’s Immigrant Entrepreneurship project is well represented in the current Yearbook of German-American Studies(Volume 48 (2013)), published in 2015. Three articles in…

This Ain’t No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records (Film and discussion)

May 6, 2015, 6:30pm Film and discussion at the Goethe-Institut (see below for details), Organized by the German Historical Institute, the…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship meets Cosmobilities: Impressions from a Workshop at Mainz, Germany

In 2013, the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, and the Chair for Media…

The Changing World of Immigrant Entrepreneurship

The German Historical Institute began the new year with a panel, organized by Benjamin Schwantes and Uwe Spiekermann, “The Changing…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship featured on Boerse.ARD.de

A recent article by Robert Minde on German Public TV network ARD's finance news webpage highlights some the research from…

Forum on “The Challenge of Biography” in the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute”

The Fall 2014 issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute includes a forum on “The Challenge of Biography” edited by GHI…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project featured GSA-Panel “Peculiarities of the West: German-American Communities in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1880-1960”

Although widely used, the term “German-American” conceals the fact that German immigrants to the U.S. were and are a quite…

New Teaching Tools Available for High School and College Instructors

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship project is pleased to announce that new lesson plans and syllabi are available on the website for high-school and…

Congressional Briefing on Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective

The National History Center of the American Historical Association will be presenting a Congressional briefing on immigrant entrepreneurship in historical…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project Featured in Journal of American Ethnic History Summer 2014 Issue

The German Historical Institute’s Immigrant Entrepreneurship project is featured prominently in the Summer 2014 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History. IE…