Fall 2022 (In association with the German Historical Institute West and the Institute for European Studies):
Sara Friedman (UC Berkeley), 10/9: Dissertation Workshop
Jonathan Lear (UC Berkeley), in conversation with Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin), 11/2: Dissertation Workshop
Philipp Lenhard, (UC Berkeley), 10/20: “Elective Affinities: A Cultural History of Friendship Among German Jews, 1888-1938
Glen Penny (UCLA), 10/25: “Globalizing Landesgeschichte: Reflections on Narrating Germans’ Histories in the Modern Era.”
Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin), 11/1: “Nefertiti’s Twentieth-Century Career: A Global History”
Spring 2023 (In association with the German Historical Institute West and the Institute for European Studies):
Noah Bender (UC Berkeley), 2/14: Dissertation Workshop
AJ Solovy (UC Berkeley), 2/28: Dissertation Workshop
Jonathan Lear and Sara Friedman (UC Berkeley), 3/9: Dissertation Workshop
Philipp Ther (University of Vienna), 1/25: “Music of War and Victory: How Beethoven Helped to Save and Rebuild the Habsburg Empire.”
Dagmar Herzog (CUNY), 2/9: “Theology of Disability: Germany, 1900-1945”
Jennifer Allen (Yale University), 2/22: “‘Noah’s Ark for Future Generations’ or Genetic Imperialism? The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History.
Phillip Wagner (University of Halle), 3/6: “Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955”
Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld University), 3/14: “Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics”