German Historical Institute London

FRANZISKA REINFELDT (FU BERLIN)
Ralf Dahrendorf: Ein Intellektueller in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik

2 February
(6.30pm)

SUSAN JAMES (BIRKBECK COLLEGE, LONDON)
Spinoza on Learning to Live Justly

7 February

Seminar:

LUTZ RAPHAEL (TRIER/OXFORD)
Mapping European Historiography 1800 to 2005: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Historiography and European Nation-Building

14 February

Seminar:

ULINKA RUBLACK (CAMBRIDGE)
Uses of the Visual in the German Renaissance

14 February
(5.30pm)

PETER DELIUS (JOHANNESBURG) and KIRSTEN RÜTHER (HANOVER)
The King, the Missionary, and the Missionary's Daughter: The Relationship between King Sekhukhune and the German Missionary J. A. Winter

16-18 February

Conference:

Ruptures and Linkages: Biography and History in the South

21 February
(5pm)

ISABELLA LÖHR (HEIDELBERG)
Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Zur Sozialgeschichte akademischer Emigranten aus Deutschland und ihre Netzwerke in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

23 February
(5.30pm)

RÜDIGER GRAF (BOCHUM/MUNICH)
West Germany in a World of Oil: Energy and Foreign Policy in the Oil Crisis 1973–4

28 February
(5pm)

SABINE KEHREN (BONN)
Die Formulierung der britischen Iranpolitik, 1946-1954

6 March

Seminar:

EVE ROSENHAFT (LIVERPOOL)
Black People under Nazi Rule: Perspectives on the ‘Racial State’

6 March
(2.30pm)

JÖRG ARNOLD (FREIBURG)
Deindustrialization? Zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Abschieds vom Goldenen Zeitalter in Großbritannien, 1970-1990

8-10 March

Conference:

European Remigrations in the Twentieth Century

20 March

Seminar:

ANDREAS ECKERT (BERLIN)
Connecting Histories of Work and Non-Work: African Labour History in a Global Perspective

20 March
(2.30pm)

MORITZ VON BRESCIUS (FLORENZ)
Jenseits “kolonialer Fantasien”: Deutsche Forschungsreisende im Dienst europäischer Übersee-Imperien, ca. 1830-1870

22-24 March

Conference:

The War of the Spanish Succession. New Perspectives

27 March
(3pm)

CATHLEEN SARTI (MAINZ)
Diskussion und Praxis von Herrscherabsetzungen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert im protestantischen Nordeuropa

SILVIA WERSHOFEN (KASSEL)
Die Jacobites und Preußen. Friedrich II. und der Elibank Plot, 1750-53

17 April
(5pm)

SEBASTIAN MEUER (HEIDELBERG)
Verwaltungsreformen im Britischen Empire 1780-1830. Ideenbildung, Implementierungsansätze und semantischer Wandel

19-21 April

Conference:

Education in Lebanon during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Catalyst for Multiple Modernities?

24 April
(3pm)

DANIEL LANGE (FU BERLIN)
Schreibende Piraten: Britische Bukaniere und ihre Reiseberichte (1684-1699)

EVA CATHERINA HEESEN (HANNOVER)
Adolph Friedrich, Herzog von Cambridge als Generalgouverneur und Vizekönig von Hannover

26 April
(6.30pm)

GARETH STEDMAN JONES (QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
Fathers and sons: Heinrich and Karl’s contrasting conceptions of the French Revolution

1 May
(5pm)

MARK ROSEMAN (INDIANA)
The Rescue of Memory: Retracing the Wartime Activities of an Anti-Nazi Group

3 May (6pm)
ends 29 June 2012

Special Event:

Exhibition "Germans and Fun?"

8 May

Seminar:

JONATHAN STEINBERG (PENNSYLVANIA/CAMBRIDGE)
Is Biography an Academically Respectable Way to Study History?

10-12 May

Conference:

Poverty in Modern Europe. Micro-perspectives on the Formation of the Welfare State in the 19th and 20th Centuries

15 May

Seminar:

LEONORE DAVIDOFF (ESSEX)
Close Marriage, Incest, and the Development of Class Societies

22 May
(2.30pm)

RAZAK KHAN (FU BERLIN)
Languages of Governance and Contestations: Political Culture in Rampur, 1889-1949

22 May

Seminar:

STEFFEN PATZOLD (TÜBINGEN)
Senatorial Bishops? The Rise of Episcopal Power in Gaul (400–600)

23 May
(6.30pm)

VIVIAN LISKA (UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP)
“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

24 May
(5.30pm)

KIRAN KLAUS PATEL (MAASTRICHT)
The Worst Fears Come True? Germany and European Integration since 1945

29 May
(5pm)

JAY WINTER (YALE)
The Great War in British History, 1914–2014

29 May
(2.30pm)

BERTI KOLBOW (GÖTTINGEN)
Transatlantische Transfers der Marketing-Konzepte zwischen Eastman Kodak und Agfa, 1880-1945

12 June
(2.30pm)

IMMO WARNTJES (GREIFSWALD)
Königs- und Fürstenerhebungen in England und im Reich c. 1250-1530. Ein Vergleich zweier spätmittelalterlicher politischer Kulturen

12 June

Seminar:

DAGMAR FREIST (OLDENBURG)
One Village, Five Religions: New Approaches to the Analysis of Religious Coexistence in Early Modern Germany

13 June
(6.30pm)

DOUGLAS G. MORRIS (NEW YORK)
Inside the Dual State: The Secret Life, Writings and Lawyering of Ernst Fraenkel in Nazi Germany

25-26 June

Conference:

Protestantische Profile, 1512 - 2012

23-27 July

Summer School, Conference:

10th Summer School in British History: From the New Poor Law to the Crisis of the Welfare State

2 August
6pm

Special Event:

Former Olympic Athlete Renate Bauer in conversation with Dr Jutta Braun (ZdS)

4 September
(3pm)

TANJA BÜHRER (LONDON, BERN)
Europäische Intermediäre an imperialen Randzonen: Britische und französische Agenten am Hofe des Nizam von Hyderabad (1750-1820)

NICOLAS BERG (LONDON, LEIPZIG)
Das Rätsel „Produktivität“. Völkerpsychologie, Kulturtheorie und jüdische Geschichte in der deutschen Nationalökonomie des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts

9 October

Seminar:

JAHNAVI PHALKEY (LONDON)
From Wind Tunnels to Jet Fighters: German Émigrés and the Making of Aeronautics in India

11-13 October

Conference:

Dynastic Politics, Monarchical Representation and the Union between Hanover and Britain

17 October
(5pm)

CORINNA UNGER (BREMEN)
Individual Choices with Global Repercussions: Family Planning Programmes and ‘Third World’ Development in the Post-War Era

26 October

Workshop:

Tenth Workshop on Early Modern German History

30 October
(2.30pm)

MARIA DÖRNEMANN (TÜBINGEN)
„Plan Your Family – Plan Your Nation“. Internationale Bevölkerungspolitik in Kenia (Mitte 1960 – Mitte 1980)

30 October

Seminar:

GIDEON REUVENI (SUSSEX)
From Getting to Spending: Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity

7 November
(5.30pm)

Special Event:

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
ANDREAS RÖDDERFrom Kaiser Wilhelm to Chancellor Merkel. The German Question on the European Stage

9 November

Annual Lecture:

PROFESSOR JANE CAPLAN (ST ANTHONY'S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD):
‘Jetzt judenfrei.’ Writing Tourism in Nazi-Occupied Poland

13 November
(3pm)

CLAUDIA MOISEL (MUNICH)
Bowlby Revisited. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Bindungstheorie im 20. Jahrhundert

LARS MÜLLER (BRAUNSCHWEIG)
Im afrikanischen Spiegel. Zur Konstruktion nationaler Selbstbilder im Diskurs von Kolonialismus, Dekolonisation und Entwicklungspolitik in deutschen und englischen Schulbüchern (1945-2010)

20 November
(2.30pm)

ANNE MITTELHAMMER (MUNICH)
Zwischen Leben. Die jiddischen Publikationen und die jüdischen Displaced Persons in Italien und Österreich, 1944-1951

20 November

Seminar:

LUCIAN HÖLSCHER (BOCHUM)
The First World War as a ‘Break’ in the European History of the Twentieth Century

27 November
(2.30pm)

SANDIP CHATTERJEE (GÖTTINGEN)
A Study in Industrial Health: Coal Mines of Eastern India (1901-73)

27 November

Seminar:

RENATE DÜRR (TÜBINGEN)
Storytelling as a Principle of Knowledge Transfer in the German Jesuit Mission Journal Der Neue Weltbott

29-30 November

Workshop:

„Tales about time“. Temporality, modernity and the order of time

4 December
(3pm)

ALMUTH EBKE (KASSEL)
Problemgeschichte der „Britishness“-Debatte

JASPER TRAUTSCH (BERLIN)
Die Konstruktion kultureller Räume in Europa und Nordamerika seit 1945

6 December
(5.30pm)