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.
Monograph published with Oxford University Press. During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy. Nowhere were they more visible than in France and Germany-two countries where environmentalism seems to have diverged greatly since. This volume recovers the shared, transnational history of the early anti-nuclear movement, showing how…
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Ich habe diesen Kurs (Proseminar) im Sommersemester 2024 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin unterrichtet. Kommentar: Kaum eine Stadt war so sehr vom Kalten Krieg geprägt wie Berlin: besetzt und geteilt, „Schaufenster des Westens“ und „Hauptstadt der DDR“ zugleich, der Ost-West-Konflikt und die Systemkonkurrenz bestimmten schon einiges im Alltag der Berliner. Gleichzeitig war das Leben in…
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I taught this course (Übung) in Sommersemester 2024 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Description: Borders within and surrounding Europe have moved repeatedly throughout history, but rarely so frequently or so violently as during the 20th century. This class examines how processes of bordering and de-bordering since the First World War have shaped European states and…
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Presentation for the Laboratorio in Current Affairs (Prof. Stefano Cavazza) at Università di Bologna.
Ich habe diesen Kurs (Proseminar) im Wintersemester 2023/24 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin unterrichtet. Dafür habe ich meinen englischsprachigen Kurs zum Thema für deutsche Studierende adaptiert. Kursbeschreibung: Gibt es so etwas wie Protestgeschichte? Soziale Bewegungen werden häufig als zyklisch oder diskontinuierlich verstanden – nicht zuletzt, weil ihre Themen, Akteure und Formen dauernd wechseln. Das gilt…
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I taught this course (Übung) in Wintersemester 2023/24 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Description: For sexual minorities, the 20th century was a period of constant change and frequent contradiction: it witnessed the formation of queer identities, struggles for rights and recognition, but also violent repression, pathologization, and social exclusion. At the same time, countless people…
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Presentation at the “Linking Borderlands: Energy, Environment & Infrastructure” workshop at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Article published in Central European History 56 (2023), Special Issue ‘Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany’, pp. 173-195. doi:10.1017/S0008938922001029. Abstract: The 1945 Potsdam Agreement established a new border between Poland and Germany at the so-called “Oder-Neisse line,” but it left unsettled the question of the maritime boundary…
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