Tag: borders

Review: Naples and Bickham Mendez, Border Politics

Volume reviewed for the Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2017), pp. 474-476. doi:10.1177/0022009416688182 Summary: This interdisciplinary volume weds social movement studies, which remains largely embedded in the social sciences, with border studies, a growing field with roots in geography, anthropology and women’s studies. The editors take an intersectional approach, looking at how…
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Bordering Germany(s): A Tandem History of the Rhine and Oder-Neisse Borderlands, 1949-89

Präsentation beim IV. Kongress Polenforschung zum Thema “Grenzen im Fluss” in Frankfurt an der Oder und Słubice, 23.-26. März 2017.

Fließende Grenzen? Der Rhein und die Oder-Neiße-Linie im Kalten Krieg (1949–1989)

Projektvorstellung im Kolloquium von Prof. Dr. Thomas Mergel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15. Juni 2016.

Grassroots Transnationalism(s). Franco-German Opposition to Nuclear Energy in the 1970s

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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Transnational — So What? On the Use and Abuse of a Historical Approach

Taught at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sommersemester 2015.

Building Blocs: Germans and Their Neighbours in the 1970s

Presented at the ‘Living in European Borderlands’ conference, Université de Luxembourg, 20-22 November 2014. Abstract: The 1970s constituted a period of increasing cross-border integration within the competing transnational blocs of Eastern and Western Europe.  For the first time since the Second World War, East Germans and Poles could visit one another’s countries with relative ease,…
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Tagungsbericht: Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa. Zwischenbilanz eines neuen Forschungskonzeptes.

Veröffentlicht am 16. April 2014 bei H-Soz-u-Kult (online).

‘Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border and Neither Do We!’ The Anti-Nuclear Movement along the Franco-German Border, 1968–1981

Presented at the Doktoranddagen (doctoral workshop), Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, 26 October 2011.

“Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border and Neither Do We!” The Anti-Nuclear Movement along the Franco-German Border, 1968–1981

Presented at the Doktorandensommerschule/Ecole doctorale d’été “Grenzen und regionale Ströme/ Frontières et circulations régionales”, Europa-Universität Viadrina & Université Paris 1, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, 5 July 2011.