Fishing in the Wrong Pond: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presented at the 2018 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA
Solidarity, Sabotage, Students: Protest in Europe, 1968-89
I designed and teach this year-long special subject, which examines the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century through the prism of those social movements that contested local, national, and international political decision-making throughout the period.
Introduction: The Material Culture of Politics
Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2018), pp.1–12.
The Material Culture of Modern Politics in Cold War Europe
Special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, co-edited with Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, and Philip Wagner.
Biking the Border: Oder-Neiße-Radweg, June-July 2018
Bike trip along the Oder-Neiße-Radweg.
May ’68: The Beginning of a Long Struggle
Presentation for student conference, University of Sheffield, 10 June 2018.
Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s
Teach-out for the University and College Union, University of Sheffield, 23 May 2018.
’68 within and beyond France
Presentation given as part of the ‘1968: A Global Revolt Fifty Years On’ panel discussion organised by the University of Sheffield Centre for Contemporary and Modern History.
From the Jessop Left picket line
A contribution to the ‘Picket Line Perspectives’ series for ‘Historians’ Watch’ on History Workshop Online