GHIL Podcast

Interview

Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König

Interview

Picturing working class communities

Jon Lawrence, Ole Münch and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture

Jon Lawrence and Christiane Reinecke

Interview

Mind the void: The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe

Achim Landwehr

GHIL Lecture

The Hole Story: Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity

Achim Landwehr

Special Lecture

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

Interview

German racial science and modern anthropology in India

Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Interview

Processing history

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

The Problem with (Historical) Processes: Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic

Wolfgang Knöbl

Interview

The power of protest

Philipp Gassert, Ole Münch and Kim König

GHIL Joint Lecture

Contesting Political Spaces: Thoughts on a World History of Street Protest

Philipp Gassert

Thyssen Lecture

After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology

Dhruv Raina

Interview

The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research

Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective: The Example of Germany and Britain

Christine Krüger

Special lecture

Winners and Losers?: Britain and Germany after the Second World War

Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann

Special lecture

Raise, Reuse, Recycle: Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Roland Wenzlhuemer

Interview

Globalization: a threat to democracy?

Julia Angster and Kim König

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘Post-Democracy’?: Globalization, Democracy, and the Nation State in Germany after 1990

Julia Angster

Thyssen Lecture

Understanding Power Relations in a Colonial Context: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, In-Between

Frederick Cooper

GHIL Lecture

Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation

Matthias Pohlig

Interview

Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation: A simple choice?

Matthias Pohlig, Michael Schaich and Kim König

Interview

Criminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955

Radhika Singha, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

International Penology in Colonial India: Too Advanced, Too American, Too Expensive?

Radhika Singha

GHIL Joint Lecture

Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century

Stefanie Middendorf

Interview

States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency

Stefanie Middendorf, Clemens Villinger and Kim König

Interview

Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law

Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Should Federations be Made to Last?

Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Thyssen Lecture

Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making

Sebastian Conrad

Interview

Bad pennies and revolting peasants:: a monetary examination of the Peasants' War

Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:: Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525

Philipp Rössner

Interview

Global rankings:: Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture

Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Joint Lecture

Global Connections and Personal Achievements:: (De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany

Nina Verheyen

Special Lecture

Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:: Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire

Clare Anderson

GHIL Lecture

The Perception of Colonial Cultural Goods and Human Remains among Communities in the Former German Colony of Togo in the Context of the Restitution Debate

Kokou Azamede

Interview

The restitution debate in Togo

Kokou Azamede, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Homer’s Heroes in Early Modern Germany:: A Translational Anthropology

Regina Toepfer

Interview

Pollution and the modern city:: Lessons from India's past

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

India’s Atmospheric Modernity:: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City

Awadhendra Sharan

Thyssen Lecture

Imagining India in the Empire of Science

Sumathi Ramaswamy

GHIL Lecture

The Classroom as Sensorium:: Tactility, Attention, and Perception in the Mysore School, 1860–1930

Janaki Nair

Interview

The history of schooling in colonial India

Janaki Nair, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Interview

Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

Terrestrial Enlightenment:: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis

Patrick Anthony

GHIL Lecture

The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes:: Medicine and the Body in the German Material Renaissance

Stefan Hanß

Interview

Analysing Renaissance recipes: Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine

Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Symposium

Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience: Launch event for Behind the Wire

Behind the Wire: Exhibition

GHIL Lecture

Mediating Globalism in the Twentieth Century:: The Cases of R. Buckminster Fuller and Arno Peters

David Kuchenbuch

Interview

The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)

David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Interview

The employment contract in Indian labour history

Prabhu Mohapatra, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

A Genealogy of Labour Regulation in India:: The Career of the Employment Contract

Prabhu Mohapatra

Interview

The influence of emotions on history

Ute Frevert, Ole Münch and Kim König

Joint Lecture

The Power of Emotions in German History

Ute Frevert

Interview

The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’

Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

GHIL Lecture

The Hanseatic League as a National Project

Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen)

GHIL Lecture

‘A very English superstar’ :: John Rutter, Popular Classical Music, and Transnational Conservatism since the 1970s

Martina Steber

Interview

Captured. 'The Materiality of the Prize Papers' - A Photography Exhibition

Maria Cardamone

GHIL Lecture

A Decolonial Project for Europe

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Joint Lecture

Flawed Humans, or What Makes Technology Better than Humans:: Historical Considerations on Humans as ‘Faulty Constructions’

Martina Heßler

Joint Lecture

Broken Balance:: A Political–Cultural History of Germany since the 1980s

Christina Morina

Interview

Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media

Maya Caspari and Jane Freeland

GHIL Lecture

Frederick the Great and the Public Sphere

Shiru Lim and Avi Lifschitz

GHIL Lecture

Charlotte Beradt and Reinhart Koselleck on Dreaming in the Age of Extremes

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

GHIL Lecture

Sleeping Through the Ages:: Two Lectures on the History of Sleep in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries

Hannah Ahlheim and Elizabeth Hunter

Joint Lecture

The Quest for a New World Order:: International Politics Between Visions of Global Governance and Catastrophic Failures in the 1990s

Fabian Klose

Interview

Visions of community in an Age of Viking threat: Our historian Stephan Bruhn discusses his new book

Stephan Bruhn

GHIL Lecture

The Past in the Present: Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India

Tanika Sarkar

GHIL Lecture

Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany: Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives

Barbara Manthe

GHIL Lecture

Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”

Amy S. Kaufman

Joint Lecture

Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism: What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?

Round Table

GHIL Lecture

‘How I long for the good old days’:: Nostalgia and Social Change in the Long Fourteenth Century

Hannah Skoda

Joint Lecture

Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence:: A History of the Present

Svenja Goltermann

Joint Lecture

Contested Asylum:: The History of the 2015 Refugee Crisis

Patrice Poutrus

GHIL Lecture

New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in India

Nandini Gooptu

GHIL Lecture

The Dance of the Tapuya:: On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in the Early Modern Period

Peter Burschel

GHIL Lecture

Legal Role-Playing and Storytelling in Early Medieval Francia

Alice Rio

GHIL Lecture

An Empire of Shaming:: Reading Nazi Germany through the Violence of Laughter

Martina Kessel

GHIL Lecture

The Crisis of the Meritocracy:: How Popular Demand (not Politicians) Made Britain into a Mass Education Society

Peter Mandler

GHIL Lecture

Inventing Reproductive Rights:: Sex, Population, and Feminism in Europe, 1945–1980

Maud Bracke

GHIL Lecture

Understanding Women and Work from the Early Modern Era to the Present:: A Round Table

Jane Whittle and Laure Schwartz

GHIL Lecture

Internationalist Waves and Feminist Waves in Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba from the 1950s to 1970s

Chiara Bonfiglioli

GHIL Lecture

Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective

Ulrike Freitag

GHIL Lecture

From Collected to Contested:: The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate

Subhadra Das, Clémentine Deliss, Tristram Hunt, and Alice Procter

GHIL Lecture

Who Owns Public History?: Two Talks on History Textbooks in Conflicted Societies

Eleni Christodoulou and Neeladri Bhattacharya

GHIL Lecture

Hobbes’s Leviathan:: Picturing the State

Quentin Skinner

Joint Lecture

German and European Unification:: Harmony or Dissonance?

Timothy Garton Ash

Joint Lecture

National Security and Humanity:: The Internment of Civilian 'Enemy Aliens' during the First World War

Arnd Bauerkämper

Joint Lecture

National Expectations and Transnational Infrastructure:: The Media, Global News Coverage, and International Relations in the Age of High Imperialism

Dominik Geppert

GHIL Lecture

Rewriting the British 19th Century

David Cannadine

GHIL Lecture

How Close is the 19th Century?: Contemporary Reflections on a History of Europe

Johannes Paulmann

GHIL Lecture

Writing a History of 19th-Century Europe:: Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities

Willibald Steinmetz

GHIL Lecture

Writing the History of 19th-Century Europe

Richard J. Evans

Joint Lecture

Life Cycle and Industrial Work:: West German and West European Patterns in Times of Globalization (1975–2005)

Lutz Raphael

GHIL Lecture

Are There Different Cultures of Decision-Making in History?

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

GHIL Lecture

Home Ties:: Objects in Migrants' Lives

Inge Weber-Newth

Joint Lecture

Rites of Reserve:: The German–Israeli Encounter in Luxembourg, 1952

Dan Diner

GHIL Lecture

Max Weber’s work and its Relation to Historical Writing: Panel Discussion

David d’Avray, Peter Ghosh, and Joachim Radkau

GHIL Lecture

Empire and the Turn to Collectivism in British Social Policy, c.1860–1914

Miles Taylor

GHIL Lecture

1914: What Historians Don’t Know about the Causes of the First World War: Roundtable Debate

Margaret MacMillan, Annika Mombauer, Sönke Neitzel, and John Röhl

Joint Lecture

Germany, the Euro Crisis and the Future of Europe

Kenneth Dyson

GHIL Lecture

The Moral Economy of Trust:: Modern Trajectories

Ute Frevert

Joint Lecture

Coffee Worlds:: Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany

Dorothee Wierling

GHIL Lecture

The Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933 and its Significance, 80 Years On: Public Panel Debate

Mary Fulbrook, Neil Gregor, Anthony McElligott, and Maiken Umbach

GHIL Lecture

‘Jetzt Judenfrei’: Writing Tourism in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Jane Caplan

Joint Lecture

From Kaiser Wilhelm to Chancellor Merkel:: The German Question on the European Stage

Andreas Rödder

Joint Lecture

Remigration – Three Personal Accounts: Panel Discussion

Edgar Feuchtwanger, Jan Kavan, and Georg Stefan Troller

Joint Lecture

Goebbels, War, and Propaganda:: The Media Logic of the 'Third Reich'

Ute Daniel

GHIL Lecture

Joint Lecture

Disgust with the 45ers?: Post-War German Historiography in a Generational Perspective

Christoph Cornelißen

GHIL Lecture

Relationships of Universities, Museums and other Cultural Institutions to Foundations whose Companies were involved with and Profited from the Holocaust: GHIL Debates

Michael Berenbaum, Richard Evans, Wilhelm Krull and Jörg Skriebeleit

GHIL Lecture

Empires and Colonies: Plenary forum

Frederick Cooper, John Darwin, and Regina Grafe

Joint Lecture

The German Foreign Office and Nazism:: Image and Reality after 1945

Peter Hayes

GHIL Lecture

Public History: GHIL-Debates

Franziska Augstein, Kathleen Burk, Justin Champion, Peter Mandler, and Benedikt Stuchtey

GHIL Lecture

Volksgemeinschaft: Potential and Limitations of the Concept

Sir Ian Kershaw

Joint Lecture

British and Germans:: Perceptions and Misperceptions since the Second World War

Richard J. Evans

GHIL Lecture

The 1970s in Europe:: A Period of Promise or Disillusionment?

Hartmut Kaelble