Fall 2017
13 September
John Deak, Carl E. Koch Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame (History)
“How to Break A State: The Habsburg Monarchy’s Internal War, 1914-1918”
27 September
Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History, Louisiana State University (History),
“The Death of Romantic Mythography, and its Historical and Philological Consequences”
5 October
John C. Swanson, Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (History) “Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary”
October 18
Timothy Wright, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley (History)
“‘Der Welt Absterben’: The Paradox of ‘Interiorized’ Asceticism in Seventeenth-Century Radical Protestantism”
November 8
Sheer Ganor, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley (History)
“Comic Relief. Humor and Displacement in the German-Jewish Diaspora”
November 15
Andrea Westermann, PhD, Research Fellow and Head of Office, German Historical Institute West
“Creative Commensuration. The Political Stakes of the History of Science”
November 29
Kathleen Canning, Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan (History, German)
“Gender and The Imaginary of Revolution in Germany”
December 14
Sara Friedman, PhD Student, UC Berkeley (History)
“Anders als die Andern: Construction of a Scandal”
Spring 2018
February 28
Lena Rudeck, PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (Research School for Moral Economies)
“German jazz musicians as entertainers in Western allies’ soldiers’ clubs, Germany 1945-1955”
March 14
Astrid Eckert, Associate Professor, Emory University (History)
“Salts, Sewage, and Sulfurous Air: Transboundary Pollution in the Borderlands”
March 21
Anja Laukoetter, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
“Measuring knowledge and emotions: American audience research on educational films in the beginning of the 20th century”
April 4
Julia Lieth, PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (Research School for Moral Economies)
“Views on the moral Interface between Religion and Love in German-speaking Lands around 1800”
April 18
Noah Strote, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University (History)
“Constructive Ambiguity: Rhetorics of Reconciliation and Nation Building in Post-Nazi Germany”
April 25
Paul Lerner, Associate Professor, University of Southern California (History)
“Judaism on the Couch: Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual in 1920s Heidelberg”
May 9
Jonathan Lear, PhD Student, UC Berkeley (History)
“Towards a Comparative of History of the Atomic Age in West Germany and Japan”