FALL 2018

August 29, 2018
Sheer Ganor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“Generations in flux: How to Raise Children in Displacement”

September 12, 2018
Edith Sheffer, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
“Asperger’s Children — and How to Write History?”

September 19, 2018
Noah Bender, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“‘Glory to the Germans of the Union’: Germans in the United States, National Identity, and the Civil War, 1848-1917”

October 8, 2018
Martin Kessel, Department of History, Bielefeld University
“Hitler in Weimar: Dialogischer Hohn, Konsens im Gelächter”

October 24, 2018
Isabel Richter, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“The Meditative High. Psychonauts, Droppers, and Spiritual Seekers in the Transnational 1960s”

November 8, 2018
Kyrill Kunakhovich, Department of History, University of Virginia
“Consumers’ Culture: Consumerism, Censorship, and the West”

November 14, 2018
Jennifer Allen, Department of History, Yale University
“Against the 1989/90 Ending Myth”

SPRING 2019

January 23, 2019
Elena Kempf, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“Humanitarian Calculus: The Making of Modern International Weapons Law at the St. Petersburg Conference”

February 14, 2019
Philip Ther, Department of History, University of Vienna,
“1989 and the Global Hegemony of Neoliberalism”

February 20, 2019
Kerstin Brückweh, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam
“Home Sweet Home: Property and Everyday Life in East Germany Before, During and After 1989”

March 6, 2019
Florian Wagner, Visiting Scholar at the German Historical Institute West, UC Berkeley
“From Barbarian Settlers to Humanitarian Resettlement? The Colonial Origins of the International Refugee Regime”

April 3, 2019
Kim Wünschmann, Department of Contemporary History, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
“The Politics of Citizenship and Nationality: Enemy Aliens in the Dutch-German Confrontation during World War II”

April 17, 2019
Christina von Hodenberg, School of History, Queen Mary University, London
“Writing Women’s Agency into the History of the Federal Republic: “1968,” Historians and Gender

April 28, 2019
Graduate Student Symposium

May 1, 2019
Anna Koch, Department of History, University College of London
“Suspicious Comrades: German Communists of Jewish Origin between Nazism and Stalinism, 1918-1952”