Gabriel Finkelstein, Professor of History, traveled to the Forty-First Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta on 5-8 October 2017. Finkelstein was invited to join the panel “Between Asia and Germany: The Circulation of Science and Technology in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” for which he gave a talk on Himalayan exploration in the nineteenth century. Finkelstein has also been invited to present a paper at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association on “Mechanism, Life and Mind 1600-1900,” organized by Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre), Paolo Pecere (Cassino), and Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent) at Università Roma Tre, Dipartimento Studi Umanistici, in 2019.