French-German Border: Oberrhein
A short evening trip by car along the Rhine (from Weil am Rhein to Fessenheim) in between other travels.
Review: Timothy Scott Brown, West Germany and the Global Sixties
Monograph reviewed for German History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2014), pp. 507-509. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghu024 Summary: Brown offers an incisive critique of many supposedly ‘transnational’ studies published in the last decade, focused as they are on the accumulation of national case studies. His own ‘transnational’ tells us far more about how Germans drew on ‘the global’ than…
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Polish-German Border: Kostrzyn/Küstrin and Frankfurt an der Oder/Słubice
Day trip to the nearest international border from Berlin: Kostrzyn and Frankfurt/Słubice
Tagungsbericht: Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa. Zwischenbilanz eines neuen Forschungskonzeptes.
Veröffentlicht am 16. April 2014 bei H-Soz-u-Kult (online).
Protest Movements in Western Europe and the USA, 1960s-1980s
Taught at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sommersemester 2014.
Beyond ‘New Social Movements’: Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany
Presented at the ‘Shaping the 1970s’ workshop at the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (University of Bristol), 7 November 2013.
Changing the World, Changing Themselves? Trajectories of Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1968-1981
Presented at the annual conference of the German History Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, 13 September 2013. Abstract: This presentation will trace the trajectories of individual activists through their participation in the movement opposed to civil nuclear energy in the 1970s. In doing so, it will call into question the assumption that anti-nuclear activism…
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A visit to the Stasi-Museum
Ehemalige Zentrale des Ministeriums für Staatsicherheit (Stasi) in der Ruschestr. / Normannenstr., Berlin-Lichtenberg Former headquarters of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in Ruschestr. / Normannenstr., Berlin-Lichtenberg
A visit to the Deutsch-Russisches Museum
A visit to the German-Russian Museum in Karlshorst, site of the German capitulation at the end of the Second World War.
« Larzac-Gorleben : même combat » ? Competing Franco-German Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s
Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), Cardiff, 30 June 2013. Abstract: Throughout the 1970s, the struggle of 103 farmers against the expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau attracted widespread support from French and foreign activists. The farmers of the Larzac cultivated relations with…
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