Presentation at the “Linking Borderlands: Energy, Environment & Infrastructure” workshop at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Chapter published in Michele Di Donato and Mathieu Fulla (eds.), Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 219–232. doi:10.5040/9781350252523.ch-14 Extract: The ‘Ecological Internationale’ [imagined by the French Interior Ministry] was never as united as French authorities or their West German counterparts imagined it to be. Indeed, it might well be argued that…
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Chapter published in Christian Wenkel, Eric Bussière, Anahita Grisoni and Hélène Miard-Delacroix, eds., The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies (Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2020), 124–146. See a review of this book here. Abstract: During the 1970s, opposition to nuclear energy was structured primarily by local siting decisions related to national nuclear…
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Présentation à L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), dans le cadre du séminaire « Acteurs et mouvements sociaux », coordonné par Gerd-Rainer HORN, le 2 décembre 2019. Dans les années 1970, l’opposition à l’énergie nucléaire était un mouvement transnational, présent dans plusieurs pays dans le monde. Mais, pour les acteurs mobilisés à la base, qu’est-ce que…
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Vortrag auf der Tagung „Der Gorleben-Treck 1979 und die niedersächsische Landesgeschichte“ am 21.-22. Juni 2019 im Niedersächsischen Landtag.
Presented at Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University.
Vortrag am Deutschen Museum in München im Rahmen des Oberseminars Technikgeschichte.
Talk given for Northumbria University’s History research seminar.
Interview with Ryan Stackhouse of the New Books Network (for New Books in German Studies).
Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit Steve Milder, um unsere beiden Bücher über die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre bei der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Berlin vorzustellen.
Presented at the conference on “Environnement et espace public européen: perceptions, acteurs, politiques” at the Institut d’Histoire Allemand/Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris, 19 October 2017.
Presented at the Violence and Militancy from ‘68 to the G20 symposium organised by Ali Jones at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 14 September 2017.
Talk on the history of French and West German opposition to nuclear energy during and since the 1970s, given at annual Friends of the Earth basecamp at Castleton YHA in the Peak District.
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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Article published in Contemporary European History, vol 25, no. 1 (February 2016), 117-142. Abstract: During the 1970s opposition to nuclear energy was present in countries around the world and thus eminently ‘transnational’. But what did it mean to participate at the grassroots of such a transnational movement and (how) did cross-border connections change protest? This…
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