2014-2015 Schedule
Fall 2014
10 September 2014: Discussion of Text
“Forum: Anniversaries.” German History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (March 2014), 79–100
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
24 September 2014:Discussion of Texts
(1) Jennifer Boittin. “Adventurers and Agents Provocateurs: A German Woman Traveling through French West Africa in the Shadow of War.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 2014), 111-131.
(2) James J. Sheehan. “The Future of the European State: Some Historical Reflections on the German Case.” GHI Bulletin 42 (Spring 2008), 9-20.
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
8 October 2014: Graduate Student Research
Peggy O’Donnell (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Nazi-Organized Mass Grave Exhumations in the Summer of 1943”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
22 October 2014: Graduate Student Research
Jennifer Allen (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Taking Place: Historical Practice in the Berlin Geschichtswerkstatt” *
6:00, 201 Moses Hall
5 November 2014: Guest Scholar
Edward Dickinson (UC Davis, History),
“Methodological and Interpretive Questions in Researching Sexuality in Imperial Germany”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
19 November 2014: Graduate Student Research
Bianca Hoenig (Basel Graduate School of History, Visiting Researcher),
“Whose Tatra Mountains? Property relations and the sheep question after WWII”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
3 December 2014: Faculty Speaker
Andrea Sinn (Berkeley, History),
“Jewish Spaces after WWII: Restoring and Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
10 December 2014: Graduate Student Research
Alice Goff (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“A Statue Starts to Pray in Napoleonic Prussia”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
Spring 2015
28 January 2015: Graduate Student Research
Terence Renaud (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Socialism Rebranded: The Tortuous Reform of Social Democracy after 1945”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
11 February 2015: Graduate Student Research
Molly Taylor Polesky (Stanford, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“The Great Elector’s Table: Food and the Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia, 1640-1688”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
25 February 2015: Guest Scholar
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, History),
“Empire by Land or Sea? Germany’s Imperial Imaginary, 1871-1945”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
11 March 2015: Graduate Student Research
Anicia Timberlake (Berkeley, Ph.D Candidate, Music),
“The Politics and Praxis of Children’s Music Education in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
17 March 2015: Guest Scholar
Peter Gordon (Harvard, History), “Adorno’s Inverse Theology: Critical Theory and the Memory of Kierkegaard”
*12pm, 3401 Dwinelle
18 March 2015: Workshop
Christian Geulen (Koblenz) and Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen),
Begriffsgeschichte: A workshop on German conceptual history, with particular focus on the works of Reinhart Koselleck.
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
8 April 2015: Faculty Speaker
Lasse Heerten (Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Rights),
“Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire and the Making of a Global Port, 1860-1914”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
22 April 2015: Graduate Student Research
Ian Beacock, (Stanford, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Kurt Hiller & the Invention of Queer Liberalism, 1908–33”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
23 April 2015: Guest Speaker
Justin Jumpol, (Wende Museum, Los Angeles, Exectutive Director and Founder), “German history and public history in dialog”
*Time and location TBA
6 May 2015: Faculty Speaker
Stefan Ludwig Hoffmann, ( UC Berkeley, History),
“Human Rights in the 1990s”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall