Spring 2021

Visiting Presenters

January 27
Paul Betts
“Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after the Second World War”

March 3
Monica Black
“A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany”

Draft Workshops

March 31
Gloria Yu
“The Science of the Will: Morality and the Mind in Nineteenth-Century Germany”

Elena Kempf
“Humanitarian Calculus: The Making and Meaning of Weapons Prohibitions in International Law, 1868-1925”

April 7
Jonathan Lear
“Energy and History after Fascism: The Atomic Project in a Transwar Perspective”

Noah Bender
“Against Globalization: German Agrarians, Emigration Control, and the Imperial Emigration Law of 1897”

April 14
Sara Friedman
“Through Cinema to Justice: Progressive Film and German Revolution”

Sloane Nilsen
“Nazi Night: A Time of Awe and Terror”

April 21
AJ Solovy
“National-Socialists after Hitler: An Experiential History of SS Veterans in the Postwar World”