German History Society - Annual General Meeting 2010

Venue: University of Manchester

For the first time the German History Society’s Annual General Meeting will take place within a broader framework. It aims at demonstrating the range of research on German history in the UK and Ireland, and provides an opportunity to present new approaches and interpretations to the British community of experts on German history. In 15 Panels historians will discuss topics ranging from medieval to contemporary history, and four keynote lectures will address general issues looking at the future of the subject.

Call for Papers (PDF file)

Conference programme (PDF file)

For further information and registration please follow this link: http://www.germanhistorysociety.org/agm/

Commercial Agriculture in Africa as an Alternative to the Slave Trade

Venue: German Historical Institute London
Conveners: Robin Law (Liverpool University/Stirling University), Suzanne Schwarz (Liverpool Hope University), Silke Strickrodt (GHIL)

By the mid nineteenth century the view that ‘legitimate’ commerce, especially the export of agricultural produce, would help to eradicate the Atlantic slave trade and bring mutual benefits to Britain and Africa had become a central tenet of mainstream abolitionist thought. As A. G. Hopkins has suggested, the attempt to establish export agriculture in Africa was part of British efforts to reform the international economic order after 1815 and represented ‘Britain’s first development plan for Africa’. Recent scholarly literature has explored the impact of the development of legitimate forms of trade on African economy and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Comparatively little attention has been given, however, to earlier attempts to develop commercial crop cultivation and alternative forms of trade with Africa. By focusing on the period from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, this conference will explore the ways in which different interest groups and individuals attempted to exploit the natural resources of Africa through diverse agricultural and trading systems.

Beyond the participants listed on the programme, there is a limited number of places open to academics and postgraduates working in related areas of historical research. For information, please contact Silke Strickrodt (strickrodt(GHI)ghil.ac.uk).

Call for Papers (PDF file)

Conference programme (PDF file)
Conference programme overview (PDF file)

Civility and its Other. German, British, South Asian and African Perspectives, 17th – 19th centuries

Conference organized by the German Historical Institute London and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin

Venue: German Historical Institute London

Conveners: Andreas Gestrich (GHIL), Ute Frevert and Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin)

Conference programme (PDF file)

„He should put an end to all such connections”: The influence of personal relationships between statesmen on the history of politics (1815-1914)

Venue: German Historical Institute London

The workshop, hosted by the GHIL as part of the Postdoctoral Scholarship “History of the Political”, looks at the diplomatic history between Great Britain and continental Europe from an agent-centred perspective. On the basis of case studies, it aims to scrutinise the methodological possibilities of incorporating personal relationships into the history of politics. Participants will deal with the meaning of social interaction in the specific political setting of the 19th century and will explore the interdependencies between the “private” and the “public”.

Call for Papers (PDF file)

Unthinking the Imaginary War. Intellectual Reflections of the Nuclear Age, 1945-1990

International Conference, jointly organised by the Centre for Peace History, University of Sheffield, and the Arbeitskreis für Historische Friedensforschung, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute London and the German Historical Institute Rome
Venue: German Historical Institute London

Call for Papers (PDF file)
Conference programe (PDF file)

Networks of Paupers and Debtors: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Forms of Monetary Dependence in the Modern Period

Conference of the German Historical Institute London and the Exzellenzcluster “Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke” of Trier and Mainz Universities

London 24-26 February 2011

Call for Papers (PDF file, English)
Call for Papers (PDF file, deutsch)

Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe, 1870-1990

International Conference organised by the German Historical Institutes in Washington and London

Venue: German Historical Institute Washington

Conveners: Richard F. Wetzell (GHI Washington), Kerstin Brückweh (GHIL)

The German Historical Institutes in Washington and London are organizing an international conference on the history of criminal justice in modern Europe from 1870 to 1990. The conference will take place in Washington DC from March10 to 12, 2011. The meeting is designed to take stock of recent and current research in this burgeoning field and to facilitate conversation between historians working on different countries in order to provide a comparative perspective on European developments. For this purpose, the conveners are soliciting proposals for papers presenting historical research on the legal, political, cultural, and social history of criminal justice.

Call for Papers (PDF file)

The Dilemmas of International Humanitarian Aid in the Twentieth Century

Conference organized by the German Historical Institute and the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. The proceedings form part of the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship established at LSE and GHIL.

Venue: German Historical Institute London

Convener: Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann, Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor 2009-10 (University of Mannheim)

The conference investigates cross-border aid in a European and global frame from the end of the nineteenth century to our times. It focuses on the dilemmas, contradictions and ambiguities of humanitarian commitment. In a historical perspective, humanitarian assistance covered a broad range of measures: emergency relief delivered to people struck by natural or man-made disasters; longer term efforts to prevent suffering from famine, ill health or poverty; or schemes such as international adoption, specific campaigns against human rights abuses, and humanitarian intervention by armed forces. The respective role of donors and recipients will be assessed in the context of colonial rule, decolonization, economic dependency, international politics and global governance. Non-governmental, governmental, religious and secular organisations and individuals were active in the field. Efforts and agency were determined, to various degrees, by needs as well as by politics, organizational or personal interests, and moral issues.

Call for Papers (PDF file)