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Welcome to the podcast of the German Historical Institute London. In each podcast episode, ranging from interviews to lecture recordings, we take a look at historical research from different periods and areas. Subscribe to our podcast to learn more about our research and work at the GHIL.

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Latest Episodes

 
Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
5 September 2025 , 0:18 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger
5 September 2025 , 0:47 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025 , 0:30 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Picturing working class communities

Jon Lawrence, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025 , 0:25 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Picturing working class communities

Jon Lawrence, Ole Münch and Kim König

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture

Jon Lawrence and Christiane Reinecke
8 August 2025 , 0:55 h

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GHIL Lecture

Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture

Jon Lawrence and Christiane Reinecke

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Interview

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

Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König
15 July 2025 , 0:25 h

A road in a desert landscape, with yellow signs reading "Absolutely nothing" "Next 12 Miles", on a dark blue background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König

 

Previous episodes

 

2025

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
5 September 2025 , 0:18 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger
5 September 2025 , 0:47 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025 , 0:30 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Picturing working class communities

Jon Lawrence, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025 , 0:25 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Picturing working class communities

Jon Lawrence, Ole Münch and Kim König

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture

Jon Lawrence and Christiane Reinecke
8 August 2025 , 0:55 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture

Jon Lawrence and Christiane Reinecke

A road in a desert landscape, with yellow signs reading "Absolutely nothing" "Next 12 Miles", on a dark blue background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König
15 July 2025 , 0:25 h

A road in a desert landscape, with yellow signs reading "Absolutely nothing" "Next 12 Miles", on a dark blue background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König

A road in a desert landscape, with yellow signs reading "Absolutely nothing" "Next 12 Miles", on a dark blue background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Achim Landwehr
15 July 2025 , 0:46 h

A road in a desert landscape, with yellow signs reading "Absolutely nothing" "Next 12 Miles", on a dark blue background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Achim Landwehr

Photograph of participants at the event London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise, held at the GHIL in May 2025, on a square black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special Lecture

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin
2 July 2025 , 1:07 h

Photograph of participants at the event London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise, held at the GHIL in May 2025, on a square black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special Lecture

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

Black and white photograph of Irawati Karve and two German colleagues, on a square brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

German racial science and modern anthropology in India

Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
19 June 2025 , 0:28 h

Black and white photograph of Irawati Karve and two German colleagues, on a square brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

German racial science and modern anthropology in India

Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Clockwork cogs. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Processing history

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König
12 June 2025 , 0:14 h

Clockwork cogs. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Processing history

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

Clockwork cogs. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Wolfgang Knöbl
12 June 2025 , 0:53 h

Clockwork cogs. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Wolfgang Knöbl

Portrait photograph of Philipp Gassert, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The power of protest

Philipp Gassert, Ole Münch and Kim König
28 May 2025 , 0:21 h

Portrait photograph of Philipp Gassert, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The power of protest

Philipp Gassert, Ole Münch and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Philipp Gassert, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Philipp Gassert
28 May 2025 , 0:43 h

Portrait photograph of Philipp Gassert, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Philipp Gassert

A small group of people looking down on a brick oven or kiln in a pit. On a blue background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Dhruv Raina
19 May 2025 , 0:53 h

A small group of people looking down on a brick oven or kiln in a pit. On a blue background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Dhruv Raina

Black and white photograph of three men laying a wreath in front of a war memorial. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research

Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
25 April 2025 , 0:10 h

Black and white photograph of three men laying a wreath in front of a war memorial. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research

Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Black and white photograph of three men laying a wreath in front of a war memorial. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Christine Krüger
25 April 2025 , 0:50 h

Black and white photograph of three men laying a wreath in front of a war memorial. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Christine Krüger

Two black and white photographs, showing post-war Germany and Great Britain respectively, on a grey background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special lecture

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

Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann
21 March 2025 , 1:03 h

Two black and white photographs, showing post-war Germany and Great Britain respectively, on a grey background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special lecture

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

Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann

Black and white photograph of a sunken ship. Only the masts and funnels are visible. On adrak grey background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special lecture

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

Roland Wenzlhuemer
Royal History Society Lecture
24 January 2025 , 0:49 h

Black and white photograph of a sunken ship. Only the masts and funnels are visible. On adrak grey background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special lecture

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

Roland Wenzlhuemer

2024

Excerpt of a map of the world, with Africa at the centre, and with green lines spreading outwards from Europe to the East and West. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Globalization: a threat to democracy?

Julia Angster and Kim König
18 November 2024 , 0:20 h

Excerpt of a map of the world, with Africa at the centre, and with green lines spreading outwards from Europe to the East and West. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Globalization: a threat to democracy?

Julia Angster and Kim König

Excerpt of a map of the world, with Africa at the centre, and with green lines spreading outwards from Europe to the East and West. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Julia Angster
18 November 2024 , 0:42 h

Excerpt of a map of the world, with Africa at the centre, and with green lines spreading outwards from Europe to the East and West. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Julia Angster

Black and white photograph of Léopold Sédar Senghor, seated. On a grey background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Frederick Cooper
21 October 2024 , 0:49 h

Black and white photograph of Léopold Sédar Senghor, seated. On a grey background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Frederick Cooper

Excerpt from a Reformation-era print showing a group of people on one side of a table discussing what are probably religious matters with a seated bishop, who has books in his lap, and a group of possible nobles on the other side of the table. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation

Matthias Pohlig
16 September 2024 , 0:58 h

Excerpt from a Reformation-era print showing a group of people on one side of a table discussing what are probably religious matters with a seated bishop, who has books in his lap, and a group of possible nobles on the other side of the table. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation

Matthias Pohlig

Excerpt from a Reformation-era print showing a group of people on one side of a table discussing what are probably religious matters with a seated bishop, who has books in his lap, and a group of possible nobles on the other side of the table. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation: A simple choice?

Matthias Pohlig, Michael Schaich and Kim König
16 September 2024 , 0:21 h

Excerpt from a Reformation-era print showing a group of people on one side of a table discussing what are probably religious matters with a seated bishop, who has books in his lap, and a group of possible nobles on the other side of the table. On a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation: A simple choice?

Matthias Pohlig, Michael Schaich and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Radhika Singha, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Radhika Singha, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
1 August 2024 , 0:16 h

Portrait photograph of Radhika Singha, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Radhika Singha, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Radhika Singha, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Radhika Singha
1 August 2024 , 0:43 h

Portrait photograph of Radhika Singha, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Radhika Singha

Portrait photograph of Stefanie Middendorf, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Stefanie Middendorf
20 June 2024 , 0:49 h

Portrait photograph of Stefanie Middendorf, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

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

Stefanie Middendorf

Portrait photograph of Stefanie Middendorf, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency

Stefanie Middendorf, Clemens Villinger and Kim König
20 June 2024 , 0:13 h

Portrait photograph of Stefanie Middendorf, on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency

Stefanie Middendorf, Clemens Villinger and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Eva Marlene Hausteiner, on a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law

Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
23 May 2024 , 0:13 h

Portrait photograph of Eva Marlene Hausteiner, on a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law

Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Eva Marlene Hausteiner, on a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Should Federations be Made to Last?

Eva Marlene Hausteiner
23 May 2024 , 0:35 h

Portrait photograph of Eva Marlene Hausteiner, on a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

Should Federations be Made to Last?

Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Photograph of Sebastian Conrad holding a microphone while lecturing at the GHIL. On a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Sebastian Conrad
1 May 2024 , 0:50 h

Photograph of Sebastian Conrad holding a microphone while lecturing at the GHIL. On a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

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

Sebastian Conrad

Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König
2 April 2024 , 0:19 h

Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König

Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Philipp Rössner
2 April 2024 , 0:41 h

Excerpt from a 16th century print created for Georg Agricola’s book “De Re Metallica”, showing prospecting work. One man is dowsing, while several others dig pits with pick-axes and examine the excavated earth and stone. Image shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Philipp Rössner

Portrait photograph of Nina Verheyen, on a green background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
4 March 2024 , 0:14 h

Portrait photograph of Nina Verheyen, on a green background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Portrait photograph of Nina Verheyen, on a green background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Joint Lecture

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

Nina Verheyen
4 March 2024 , 0:47 h

Portrait photograph of Nina Verheyen, on a green background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Joint Lecture

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

Nina Verheyen

Excerpt from a colour print after an original work by Victor M.F. Devin. Title: "Groupe de convicts dans un defrichement" = Group of convicts in a clearing. The print is in the collection of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Tasmania. The image shows 4 convicts, two seated, two standing, in a clearing in the woods, being guarded by a soldier. Excerpt shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special Lecture

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

Clare Anderson
Royal Historical Society Lecture
22 February 2024 , 1:00 h

Excerpt from a colour print after an original work by Victor M.F. Devin. Title: "Groupe de convicts dans un defrichement" = Group of convicts in a clearing. The print is in the collection of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Tasmania. The image shows 4 convicts, two seated, two standing, in a clearing in the woods, being guarded by a soldier. Excerpt shown on a black background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Special Lecture

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

Clare Anderson

Portrait photograph of Kokou Azamede, on a balck background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

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
17 January 2024 , 0:49 h

Portrait photograph of Kokou Azamede, on a balck background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

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

Portrait photograph of Kokou Azamede, on a balck background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The restitution debate in Togo

Kokou Azamede, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
17 January 2024 , 0:22 h

Portrait photograph of Kokou Azamede, on a balck background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

The restitution debate in Togo

Kokou Azamede, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

2023

Section of a page of an early modern German translation of Homer's Odyssey, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Regina Toepfer
13 December 2023 , 0:50 h

Section of a page of an early modern German translation of Homer's Odyssey, on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Regina Toepfer

Photograph of busy street scene in India, with many people walking down one side of street, next to a riverside or dock area. In the background is a tall chimney that is pouring out black smoke. On a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
17 November 2023 , 0:20 h

Photograph of busy street scene in India, with many people walking down one side of street, next to a riverside or dock area. In the background is a tall chimney that is pouring out black smoke. On a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

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

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Photograph of busy street scene in India, with many people walking down one side of street, next to a riverside or dock area. In the background is a tall chimney that is pouring out black smoke. On a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Awadhendra Sharan
17 November 2023 , 0:52 h

Photograph of busy street scene in India, with many people walking down one side of street, next to a riverside or dock area. In the background is a tall chimney that is pouring out black smoke. On a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Lecture

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

Awadhendra Sharan

Excerpt of GM Sheikh's digital collage "Mappamundi Suite-2: Looking for Leyla", showing an Indian mappamundi-style map. Excerpt shown on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

Imagining India in the Empire of Science

Sumathi Ramaswamy
20 October 2023 , 0:49 h

Excerpt of GM Sheikh's digital collage "Mappamundi Suite-2: Looking for Leyla", showing an Indian mappamundi-style map. Excerpt shown on a blue background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Thyssen Lecture

Imagining India in the Empire of Science

Sumathi Ramaswamy

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GHIL Lecture

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

Janaki Nair
13 October 2023 , 0:48 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Janaki Nair

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Interview

The history of schooling in colonial India

Janaki Nair, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
13 October 2023 , 0:28 h

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Interview

The history of schooling in colonial India

Janaki Nair, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

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Interview

Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
27 July 2023 , 0:14 h

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Interview

Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

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GHIL Lecture

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

Patrick Anthony
27 July 2023 , 0:38 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Patrick Anthony

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GHIL Lecture

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

Stefan Hanß
3 July 2023 , 0:45 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Stefan Hanß

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Interview

Analysing Renaissance recipes: Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine

Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
3 July 2023 , 0:17 h

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Interview

Analysing Renaissance recipes: Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine

Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

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Symposium

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

Behind the Wire: Exhibition
10 May 2023 , 0:59 h

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Symposium

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

Behind the Wire: Exhibition

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GHIL Lecture

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

David Kuchenbuch
28 March 2023 , 0:42 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

David Kuchenbuch

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Interview

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

David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
28 March 2023 , 0:12 h

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Interview

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

David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

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Interview

The employment contract in Indian labour history

Prabhu Mohapatra, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
16 March 2023 , 0:19 h

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Interview

The employment contract in Indian labour history

Prabhu Mohapatra, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

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GHIL Lecture

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

Prabhu Mohapatra
16 March 2023 , 0:55 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Prabhu Mohapatra

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Interview

The influence of emotions on history

Ute Frevert, Ole Münch and Kim König
1 March 2023 , 0:16 h

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Interview

The influence of emotions on history

Ute Frevert, Ole Münch and Kim König

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Joint Lecture

The Power of Emotions in German History

Ute Frevert
1 March 2023 , 0:47 h

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Joint Lecture

The Power of Emotions in German History

Ute Frevert

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Interview

The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’

Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
13 February 2023 , 0:15 h

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Interview

The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’

Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

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GHIL Lecture

The Hanseatic League as a National Project

Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen)
13 February 2023 , 0:35 h

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GHIL Lecture

The Hanseatic League as a National Project

Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen)

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GHIL Lecture

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

Martina Steber
23 January 2022 , 0:50 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Martina Steber

2022

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Interview

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

Maria Cardamone
19 December 2022 , 0:21 h

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Interview

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

Maria Cardamone

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GHIL Lecture

A Decolonial Project for Europe

Gurminder K. Bhambra
8 December 2022 , 0:28 h

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GHIL Lecture

A Decolonial Project for Europe

Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Joint Lecture

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

Martina Heßler
25 November 2022 , 0:40 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Martina Heßler

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Joint Lecture

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

Christina Morina
16 November 2022 , 0:46 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Christina Morina

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Interview

Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media

Maya Caspari and Jane Freeland
23 August 2022 , 0:41 h

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Interview

Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media

Maya Caspari and Jane Freeland

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GHIL Lecture

Frederick the Great and the Public Sphere

Shiru Lim and Avi Lifschitz
6 June 2022 , 0:44 h

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GHIL Lecture

Frederick the Great and the Public Sphere

Shiru Lim and Avi Lifschitz

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GHIL Lecture

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

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
28 April 2022 , 0:45 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hannah Ahlheim and Elizabeth Hunter
12 April 2022 , 0:45 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hannah Ahlheim and Elizabeth Hunter

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Joint Lecture

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

Fabian Klose
24 March 2022 , 0:44 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Fabian Klose

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Interview

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

Stephan Bruhn
15 February 2022 , 0:15 h

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Interview

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

Stephan Bruhn

2021

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GHIL Lecture

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

Tanika Sarkar
Summer Lecture Series
29 June 2021 , 0:59 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Tanika Sarkar

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GHIL Lecture

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

Barbara Manthe
Summer Lecture Series
15 June 2021 , 0:35 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Barbara Manthe

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GHIL Lecture

Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”

Amy S. Kaufman
Summer Lecture Series
25 May 2021 , 0:37 h

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GHIL Lecture

Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”

Amy S. Kaufman

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Joint Lecture

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

Round Table
Summer Lecture Series
4 May 2021 , 1:11 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Round Table

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hannah Skoda
30 March 2021 , 0:55 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hannah Skoda

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Joint Lecture

Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence: A History of the Present

Svenja Goltermann
10 March 2021 , 0:48 h

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Joint Lecture

Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence: A History of the Present

Svenja Goltermann

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Joint Lecture

Contested Asylum: The History of the 2015 Refugee Crisis

Patrice Poutrus
25 February 2021

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Joint Lecture

Contested Asylum: The History of the 2015 Refugee Crisis

Patrice Poutrus

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GHIL Lecture

New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in India

Nandini Gooptu
23 February 2021 , 0:46 h

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GHIL Lecture

New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in India

Nandini Gooptu

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GHIL Lecture

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

Peter Burschel
9 February 2021 , 0:45 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Peter Burschel

2020

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GHIL Lecture

Legal Role-Playing and Storytelling in Early Medieval Francia

Alice Rio
1 December 2020 , 0:54 h

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GHIL Lecture

Legal Role-Playing and Storytelling in Early Medieval Francia

Alice Rio

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GHIL Lecture

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

Martina Kessel
Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture
26 November 2020 , 0:46 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Martina Kessel

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GHIL Lecture

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

Peter Mandler
GHIL Annual Lecture
6 November 2020 , 0:55 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Peter Mandler

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GHIL Lecture

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

Maud Bracke
Summer Lecture Series: Feminist Histories
15 July 2020 , 1:10 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Maud Bracke

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GHIL Lecture

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

Jane Whittle and Laure Schwartz
Summer Lecture Series: Feminist Histories
8 July 2020

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GHIL Lecture

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

Jane Whittle and Laure Schwartz

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GHIL Lecture

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

Chiara Bonfiglioli
Summer Lecture Series: Feminist Histories
1 July 2020 , 0:56 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Chiara Bonfiglioli

2017-2019

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GHIL Lecture

Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective

Ulrike Freitag
GHIL Annual Lecture
8 November 2019 , 0:43 h

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GHIL Lecture

Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective

Ulrike Freitag

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GHIL Lecture

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

Subhadra Das, Clémentine Deliss, Tristram Hunt, and Alice Procter
Contested Histories Seminar Series
25 June 2019 , 1:45 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

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

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GHIL Lecture

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

Eleni Christodoulou and Neeladri Bhattacharya
Contested Histories Seminar Series
18 June 2019 , 1:44 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Eleni Christodoulou and Neeladri Bhattacharya

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GHIL Lecture

Hobbes’s Leviathan: Picturing the State

Quentin Skinner
GHIL Annual Lecture
9 November 2018 , 0:54 h

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GHIL Lecture

Hobbes’s Leviathan: Picturing the State

Quentin Skinner

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Joint Lecture

German and European Unification: Harmony or Dissonance?

Timothy Garton Ash
Annual lecture on contemporary German history
24 April 2018 , 0:51 h

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Joint Lecture

German and European Unification: Harmony or Dissonance?

Timothy Garton Ash

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Joint Lecture

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

Arnd Bauerkämper
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
28 November 2017 , 1:26 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Arnd Bauerkämper

2014-2016

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Joint Lecture

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

Dominik Geppert
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
29 November 2016 , 0:54 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Dominik Geppert

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GHIL Lecture

Rewriting the British 19th Century

David Cannadine
Narrating the 19th Century: New Approaches
21 June 2016 , 1:05 h

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GHIL Lecture

Rewriting the British 19th Century

David Cannadine

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GHIL Lecture

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

Johannes Paulmann
Narrating the 19th Century: New Approaches
31 May 2016 , 0:51 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Johannes Paulmann

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GHIL Lecture

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

Willibald Steinmetz
Narrating the 19th Century: New Approaches
17 May 2016 , 0:50 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Willibald Steinmetz

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GHIL Lecture

Writing the History of 19th-Century Europe

Richard J. Evans
Narrating the 19th Century: New Approaches
3 May 2016 , 0:52 h

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GHIL Lecture

Writing the History of 19th-Century Europe

Richard J. Evans

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Joint Lecture

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

Lutz Raphael
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
15 December 2015 , 0:59 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Lutz Raphael

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GHIL Lecture

Are There Different Cultures of Decision-Making in History?

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
GHIL Annual Lecture
13 November 2015 , 0:54 h

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GHIL Lecture

Are There Different Cultures of Decision-Making in History?

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

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GHIL Lecture

Home Ties: Objects in Migrants' Lives

Inge Weber-Newth
9 September 2015 , 0:28 h

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GHIL Lecture

Home Ties: Objects in Migrants' Lives

Inge Weber-Newth

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Joint Lecture

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

Dan Diner
3 September 2015 , 0:56 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Dan Diner

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GHIL Lecture

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

David d’Avray, Peter Ghosh, and Joachim Radkau
11 December 2014 , 1:53 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

David d’Avray, Peter Ghosh, and Joachim Radkau

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GHIL Lecture

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

Miles Taylor
GHIL Annual Lecture
7 November 2014 , 0:57 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Miles Taylor

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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
18 June 2014 , 2:11 h

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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

2012-2013

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Joint Lecture

Germany, the Euro Crisis and the Future of Europe

Kenneth Dyson
Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History
25 November 2013 , 1:45 h

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Joint Lecture

Germany, the Euro Crisis and the Future of Europe

Kenneth Dyson

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GHIL Lecture

The Moral Economy of Trust: Modern Trajectories

Ute Frevert
GHIL Annual Lecture
8 November 2013 , 0:54 h

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GHIL Lecture

The Moral Economy of Trust: Modern Trajectories

Ute Frevert

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Joint Lecture

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

Dorothee Wierling
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
22 October 2013 , 1:00 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Dorothee Wierling

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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
30 January 2013 , 0:55 h

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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

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GHIL Lecture

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

Jane Caplan
GHIL Annual Lecture
9 November 2012 , 0:52 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Jane Caplan

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Joint Lecture

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

Andreas Rödder
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
7 November 2012 , 1:31 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Andreas Rödder

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Joint Lecture

Remigration – Three Personal Accounts: Panel Discussion

Edgar Feuchtwanger, Jan Kavan, and Georg Stefan Troller
9 March 2012 , 1:38 h

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Joint Lecture

Remigration – Three Personal Accounts: Panel Discussion

Edgar Feuchtwanger, Jan Kavan, and Georg Stefan Troller

2009-2011

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Joint Lecture

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

Ute Daniel
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture
26 October 2011 , 0:57 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Ute Daniel

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GHIL Lecture

The Insiders’ Views of the Fischer Controversy: Round-Table Discussion


13 October 2011 , 1:30 h

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GHIL Lecture

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Joint Lecture

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

Christoph Cornelißen
8 September 2011 , 1:31 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Christoph Cornelißen

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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
2 June 2011 , 1:34 h

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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

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GHIL Lecture

Empires and Colonies: Plenary forum

Frederick Cooper, John Darwin, and Regina Grafe
15 April 2011 , 0:51 h

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GHIL Lecture

Empires and Colonies: Plenary forum

Frederick Cooper, John Darwin, and Regina Grafe

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Joint Lecture

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

Peter Hayes
Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History
31 March 2011 , 1:14 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Peter Hayes

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GHIL Lecture

Public History: GHIL-Debates

Franziska Augstein, Kathleen Burk, Justin Champion, Peter Mandler, and Benedikt Stuchtey
8 June 2010 , 2:22 h

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GHIL Lecture

Public History: GHIL-Debates

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

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GHIL Lecture

Volksgemeinschaft: Potential and Limitations of the Concept

Sir Ian Kershaw
25 March 2010 , 0:50 h

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GHIL Lecture

Volksgemeinschaft: Potential and Limitations of the Concept

Sir Ian Kershaw

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Joint Lecture

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

Richard J. Evans
Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History
11 March 2010 , 1:14 h

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Joint Lecture

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

Richard J. Evans

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hartmut Kaelble
GHIL Annual Lecture
13 November 2009 , 0:59 h

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GHIL Lecture

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

Hartmut Kaelble

 

Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series

 

Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2013-2023

12/10/2023Daniel MagilowWhat a shayna punim!: Cute Jews, Photography, and Jewish Regeneration (Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Myths, Images and Imaginings about Jews)Available here
08/06/2023Sara Lipton: Marked Off in the Eyes of the Public: Anti-Jewish Imagery and the Politics of Prejudice (Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Myths, Images and Imaginings about Jews)Available here
04/05/2023Nadia Valman: The Virtuous Jewess (Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Myths, Images and Imaginings about Jews)Available here
09/03/2023Cathy Gelbin: Gender, Sex and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema’s Monsters (Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Myths, Images and Imaginings about Jews)Available here
17/11/2022Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann: In Our Image: Meeting our Ultraorthodox Other on Netflix (Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2022: Popular Culture, Politics and Jews)Available here
13/10/2022Moshe Zimmermann: Post-Holocaust German-Jewish Symbiosis: Ephraim Kishon and the Germans (Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2022: Popular Culture, Politics and Jews)Available here
16/06/2022Panel discussion: Images of the Grotesque and Arabesque: The Discovery of Kafka's DrawingsAvailable here
05/05/2022Lisa Schoß: A Story of Ambivalences. Jewish Topics and Characters in East German Television (Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2022: Popular Culture, Politics and Jews)Available here
17/03/2022Hanno Loewy: Jukebox? Jewkbox! (Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2022: Popular Culture, Politics and Jews)Available here
11/11/2021Sarah MacDougall: From Heartland to Homeland? – German-Jewish Émigré Artists in Britain, c. 1933-45 (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2021: Conceptions of Heimat in Jewish Visual History and Culture)Available here
14/10/2021Natasha Gordinsky and Katja Petrowskaja: ‘Your Heimat is our Nightmare’: Post-Soviet Poetic Interventions in German Culture (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2021: Conceptions of Heimat in Jewish Visual History and Culture)Available here
22/04/2021Ofer Ashkenazi: Heimat as a Shelter from Nazism (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2021: Conceptions of Heimat in Jewish Visual History and Culture)Available here
18/03/2021Jan-Christopher Horak: Helmar Lerski between the Diaspora and a Jewish Homeland (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2021: Conceptions of Heimat in Jewish Visual History and Culture)Available here
11/02/2021Hanno Loewy: Unrewarded Love: Alpine Clubs, Ski-Tourism, Folklore and the Jews (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2021: Conceptions of Heimat in Jewish Visual History and Culture)Available here
19/11/2020Svenja Bethke: How to dress in Eretz Israel? Clothing, Fashion and Nation Building, 1880s–1948 (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2019–20: Acting Jewish: Between Identity and Attire)Available here
08/10/2020Paul Herzberg: Acting Jewish: Perception and Reality (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2019–20: Acting Jewish: Between Identity and Attire)Available here
04/03/2020Adi Heyman: The Big Cover-Up: Modest Fashion (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2019–20: Acting Jewish: Between Identity and Attire)Available here
23/01/2020Kerry Wallach: ‘Coming Out’ as Jewish in Weimar Germany (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2019–20: Acting Jewish: Between Identity and Attire)Available here
04/04/2019Nathan Abrams Treyf Jews? Jewish Gangsters in McMafia and Peaky Blinders (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2018–19)Available here
14/02/2019Richard I. Cohen: Moses Mendelssohn – The German-Jewish Icon of Modernity (1780s–2019) (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2018–19)Available here
24/01/2019Cilly Kugelmann: Jewish Museums between Self-Assertion and Self-Defence (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2018–19)Available here
06/12/2018Ruth Oren: ‘Coming back to History’: The Jewish Image in Landscape Photographs of ‘Eretz-Israel’, 1898–1961 (Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2018–19)Available here
12/04/2018Martin Doerry: Lifting a Taboo: The story of a Holocaust Victim which has Never been Told Before (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2017–18)Available here
08/03/2018Atina Grossmann: Trauma, Privilege and Adventure in the ‘Orient’: A Refugee Family Archive (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2017–18)Available here
01/03/2018Thomas Harding: 'You’re doing what?' - My Family’s Response to my Trying to Save the House Stolen by the Nazis (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2017–18)Available here
07/12/2017

Lisa Appignanesi: Losing the Dead: Before and After (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2017–18)

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30/03/2017

Arno Paucker: Scholar and Friend (A memorial event in honour of the Leo Baeck Institute’s esteemed, longstanding former director Dr Arnold Paucker OBE)

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16/03/2017

Panel Discussion: The Legacy of the Left and Israel: 1967–2017 (With Nick Cohen, David Feldman, Christina Späti and Peter Ullrich.  European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2016–17)
 

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26/01/2017

Michel Dreyfus: The Two Lefts in France: Divisions over Zionism and Israel (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2016–17)
 

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08/12/2016

Christina Späti: The German-Speaking Left and Israel: Legacies and Developments since 1948 (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2016–17)
 

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24/11/2016

Brian Klug: Denouncing Israel: Anti-Colonialism or Antisemitism on the British Left? (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2016–17)
 

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14/04/2016

Wendy Pullan: In the Shadow of the Wall: Icon and Identity in Jerusalem’s Separation Barrier (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2015–16)
 

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11/02/2016

Yfaat Weiss: Political Sovereignty and Cultural Property: The Mount Scopus Enclave in Jerusalem (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2015–16)
 

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03/12/2015

Thabet Abu Rass: Land, Power, and Resistance in Israel: The Case of the Bedouins of the Negev (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2015–16)
 

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05/11/2015

Gunnar Lehmann: Past and Politics in the Archaeology of Israel (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2015–16)
 

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03/07/2014

Jay Winter: The Great War and Jewish Memory (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2014-15)
 

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02/04/2014

Roz Currie: Curating the Jewish Experience of the First World War (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2014-15)
 

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02/10/2013

Sander Gilman: Cosmopolitanism and the Jews (Leo Baeck Institute Special Lecture, October 2013)

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16/05/2013

Brian Klug: Dealing with Difference: Jews, Muslims, and the British Left Today (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2013-14)
 

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07/03/2013

David Fraser: ‘Quite Contrary to the Principles of British Justice’: The Jews of the Channel Islands 1940–1945 (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2013-14)

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24/05/2011

Sander Gilman: ‘Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe and why this is a bad thing (European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2011)

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