Pacifism, Self-Defense, Mass Violence: Varieties of Militancy in the 1970s French-German Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement
Presented at Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University.
For Farm and Fatherland? Claiming German Property on French Territory after 1945
Presented at the ‘Managing the Land’ workshop at the European University Institute in Florence, 11 April 2019.
Ungerecht, undemokratisch, unsicher. Argumente und Akteure der deutsch-französischen Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre
Vortrag am Deutschen Museum in München im Rahmen des Oberseminars Technikgeschichte.
Two Germanys, ‘One People’? Central Europe, 1945-1990
I designed and regularly teach this second-year module on post-war German history. It examines the social, political, and cultural history of East and West Germany in comparative and transnational perspective.
Interview with New Books Network
Interview with Ryan Stackhouse of the New Books Network (for New Books in German Studies).
„Lieber aktiv als radioaktiv“ Perspektiven auf die transnationalen Ursprünge der Anti-Atom-Bewegung
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.
‘Peaceful but Offensive’ Protest: Varieties of Violence in the 1970s Anti-Nuclear Movement
Presented at the Violence and Militancy from ‘68 to the G20 symposium organised by Ali Jones at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 14 September 2017.
Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
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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“Power to the Bauer!” Anti-Nuclear Occupations and Rural Space, 1975-1980
Presented at the 2015 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Washington, DC as part of the “Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s” panel. Abstract: In the course of the 1970s, the occupation of houses, factories, churches, and construction sites became a common denominator of diverse protests across Western Europe…
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The Transnational in the Local: The Larzac Plateau as a Site of Transnational Activism since 1970
Article co-written with Robert Gildea and published in Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 50, no. 3 (July 2015), 581-605.