Autumn Term 2009

Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

29 September
Professor Johannes Paulmann (Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor): Welfare without Borders? On the Entangled History of German Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

6 October
Professor Ute Daniel (Brunswick): History of an Illusionary Giant? First Thoughts on a History of Experience of the Twentieth-century Mass Media

20 October
Professor Neil Gregor (Southampton): Beethoven, Bayreuth, and the Origins of the Federal Republic of Germany

22 October, 5.30pm
PD Dr. Svenja Goltermann (Freiburg): Violence and Trauma: German Soldiers and their Memories of the Second World War (in cooperation with the Modern German History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research)

3 November
Professor Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (Bielefeld): Art as Political Action: Peter Weiss und Peter Stein, Hans Magnus Enzensberger und Hans Werner Henze

1 December
Professor Michael Wildt (Berlin): 'Volksgemeinschaft' as Self-Empowerment: The Current Debate on Society in Nazi Germany (in cooperation with St Antony’s College, Oxford)

15 December
Professor Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge): The Uses of Memory in Early Medieval Europe

Please check for any last-minute changes on: tel: 020 7309 2050 or http://www.ghil.ac.uk/events_and_conferences/seminars_and_lectures.html

Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine will be available after the seminars. Guided tours of the Library will be available before each seminar at 4 p.m.