FALL 2019

September 25th, 2019
Gloria Yu, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“Norms of Thinking and the Representation of Reality, 1880-1910”

October 9th, 2019
Elena Kempf, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“Prohibitions at War: International Law as Morality, 1914-18”

October 16th, 2019
Nina Verheyen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen
Discussion of the Legacies of 1989 in East and West Germany, with Prof. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

October 30th, 2019
Helmut Walser Smith, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
“Germany. A Nation Before Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000”

November 8th, 2019
Christopher Clark, Department of History, University of Cambridge
“Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich”

November 20th, 2019
Kira Thurman, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms”

SPRING 2020

February 5th, 2020
Caitlin Rosenthal, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Tyler Stovall, Humanities, UC Santa Cruz
Panel: Capitalism and Freedom: Perspectives on Slavery and its Ties to Economic and Political Liberalism in Europe