2015-2016 Schedule
Fall 2015
4 September 2015: Guest Scholar
Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina, History),
Contemporary History as Transatlantic Project: A Roundtable Discussion
*3:00pm, 3205 Dwinelle Hall
9 September 2015: Graduate Student Research
Peggy O’Donnell (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Is the Angel of Death really dead? Identifying Mengele’s Bones in Brazil”
*6:00pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall
14 September 2015: Guest Scholar
Michael Schuering (University of Florida, DAAD Visiting Professor),
Roundtable discussion and breakfast
*9:00am, 3401 Dwinelle Hall
23 September 2015: Graduate Student Research
Florian Wagner (European University Institute Florence, Ph.D. Researcher), “German Colonialists between Pan-German Aggression and International Humanitarianism, 1880s-1940s”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
6 October 2015: Guest Scholar
Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis University, History),
“German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Question of Loyalty, 1920s-1950s”
*5:00pm, 1229 Dwinelle Hall
12 October 2015: Guest Speaker
Ronald Leopold (Anne Frank House Amsterdam, Executive Director),
Roundtable discussion
*3:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
21 October 2015: Guest Scholar
Rebecca Wittmann (University of Toronto, History),
“Nazism and Terrorism: The Madjanek and Stammheim Trials in 1975 West Germany”
*5:00pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall
4 November 2015: Graduate Student Research
Sheer Ganor (Berkeley, Ph.D. Student, History),
“‘If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew.’ Hannah Arendt and the appeal of Jewish combattiveness.”
6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
10 November 2015: Roundtable Discussion of
Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015)
*6:30pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall
*Co-sponsored by Kroužek (the Working Group on the Culture and History of East Central Europe) and Kruzhok (the Russian History Working Group)
9 December 2015: Graduate Student Research
Julia Wambach (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Vichy in Germany: The Personnel of the French Occupation in Germany after 1945” *6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
SPRING 2016
27 January 2016: Guest Scholar
Philipp Lenhard (Visiting Scholar, Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley),
“Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock: The History of a Friendship”
*6:00pm, 1229 Dwinelle Hall
*Co-sponsored by the Intellectual History and Theory Working Group
18 February 2016: Graduate Student Research
Ari Edmundson (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Contingency in German History” *6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
*Co-Sponsored by the Intellectual History and Theory Working Group
29 February 2016: Graduate Student Research
Timothy Wright (Berkeley, Ph.D. Candidate, History),
“Early Modern German Pietism”
*6:00pm, location TBA
*Co-Sponsored by the Intellectual History and Theory Working Group
15 March 2016: Guest Scholar
Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University, History & Music),
“Music and the Germans: A History”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
5 April 2016: Guest Lecture
Sebastian Conrad (Free University of Berlin, History),
“Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century”
*4:00pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
6 April 2016: Guest Scholar
Sebastian Conrad (Free University of Berlin, History),
“Global Histories of German Colonialism”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
13 April 2016: Faculty Speaker
Anton Kaes (Berkeley, German & Film and Media),
A discussion of The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (2016). *6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
4 May 2016: Faculty Speaker
Andrea Sinn (Berkeley, History),
“Jewish Women in Germany During the First World War”
*6:00pm, 201 Moses Hall
*Links have been provided for electronic resources, where available
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