The GHIL regularly holds seminars and lectures on topics of general interest to British and German historians. Seminars are usually held every second Tuesday at 5pm during term time. Seminar papers are normally presented in English; knowledge of the German language is not necessary for participation.
PROFESSOR PETER WILLIAMS (EDINBURGH)
What it is to Write a Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
Peter Williams is an eminent musicologist, organist, and harpsichordist. His scholarly work centres on the organ and Johann Sebastian Bach. Among his many publications are The Organ in Western Culture (1993); The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (2nd edn., 2003); and The Life of Bach (2003).
Seminars are held at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute.
Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine is available after the seminars.
Guided tours of the Library are available before each seminar at 4 p.m.
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PD DR MARGRIT PERNAU (BERLIN)
Civility—An Entangled History: Britain and North India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Margrit Pernau is one of the few German experts on Indian history and the history of modern Islam. Currently she is working on the history of emotions. Her main publications include The Passing of Patrimonialism: Politics and Political Culture in Hyderabad 1911–48 (2000); and Bürger mit Turban: Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert (2008).
PROFESSOR FRIEDRICH WILHELM GRAF (MUNICH)
God’s Anti-Liberal Avant-Garde: New Theologies in the Weimar Republic
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf is one of Germany’s most prolific scholars. Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics in Munich, he has been awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize. His studies on the history of religion in modern Germany are widely acclaimed. His recent publications include (ed.), Ernst Troeltschs ‘Historismus’ (2nd edn., 2003); Die Wiederkehr der Götter: Religion in der modernen Kultur (3rd edn., 2004); and Der Protestantismus: Geschichte und Gegenwart (2006).
PROFESSOR DAVID STEVENSON (LSE)
Germany’s 1918 Defeat Revisited
David Stevenson’s research focuses on the history of international relations in Europe since c.1900. He has contributed profoundly to our understanding of the First World War. Among his major publications are Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914 (1996); 1914–1918: The History of the First World War (2004); ed. with Holger Afflerbach, An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Culture Before 1914 (2007).
DR CHRISTINA VON HODENBERG (QUEEN MARY, LONDON)
Alf Garnett Goes to Germany: Television Comedy and the Cultural Revolutions, 1965–79
Christina von Hodenberg has written widely on the social and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth- century Germany. Recently she has focused on the post-1945 period in general and on the West German media in particular. Her publications include Aufstand der Weber: Die Revolte von 1844 und ihr Aufstieg zum Mythos (1997); Konsens und Krise: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Medienöffentlichkeit, 1945 bis 1973 (2006); and ed. with Detlef Siegfried, Wo ‘1968’ liegt: Reform und Revolte in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik (2006).
