German Historical Institute London
Events
Summer Lecture Series
The summer lecture series has begun! Speakers are David Milne, Bernhard Kleeberg, Susanne Lachenicht, Stefan Esders, Aparna Veidik, and Sonja Levsen.
You can sign up now to attend in person or via Zoom.
GHIL/Online
Publications
Thyssen Lecture
Dhruv Raina / After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Postcolonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
Read the 4th Thyssen Lecture via Open Access or listen to the lecture recording via our Podcast
Publications
GHIL Bulletin May 2025
The new GHIL Bulletin is now available online (print copies to follow soon).
In this issue: articles by Paul Nolte (our current Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor) and Martin Deuerlein, many book reviews, and our Noticeboard with news on the Institute.
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (May 2025)
24 June 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University)
Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)
GHIL/Online
1 July 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Joint Lecture
Sonja Levsen (University of Tübingen)
Zeitgeschichte and the Nation: Some Thoughts on an Intricate Relationship
GHIL/Online
6 June 2025
Blogpost
Bodo Mrozek
From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Part 3—Deindustrialization as Pollution Export: From Pittsburgh and Chicago to Baghdad and Delhi
Category: Research, Scholarships
13 June 2025
Blogpost
Talha Murat
An Intellectual Sufi between Empires: Muhammad Tawfīq al-Bakrī (1870–1932)
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
German racial science and modern anthropology in India
19 June 2025
, 0:28 h
Interview
Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
German racial science and modern anthropology in India
Interview
Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König
Processing history
12 June 2025
, 0:14 h
GHIL Lecture
Wolfgang Knöbl
The Problem with (Historical) Processes
Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic
12 June 2025
, 0:53 h
GHIL Lecture
Wolfgang Knöbl
The Problem with (Historical) Processes
Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic
Gudrun Krämer
Local modernity: agency, entanglement, and the making of the modern Middle East
Lokale Moderne: Agency, Austausch und die Enstehung des modernen Mittleren Ostens
Thiago P. Barbosa