Fishing in the Wrong Pond: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presented at the 2018 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA
Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s
Teach-out for the University and College Union, University of Sheffield, 23 May 2018.
Towards a “Europe of Struggles?” Visions of “Europe” in the Anti-Nuclear Movement of the 1970s
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.
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.
“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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Utopia or Dystopia? Cultural Representations of Nuclear Energy in Western European Anti-Nuclear Movements
A collaborative presentation by Karena Kalmbach, Matthias Lieb, Stephen Milder, Andrew Tompkins, and Dick van Lente at the Tensions of Europe conference, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm, 3-6 September 2015. Our analysis focuses on representations of nuclear energy and of the anti-nuclear movement itself within them. Guided by our questioning of the stark contrasts between utopia…
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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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A Specifically 1970s Transnationalism? Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany
Presented at the Transformationen der Ökologiebewegung conference, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 14-15 November 2014. Abstract: The 1970s were a period in which local and decentralized protest action against nuclear energy collided for the first time with an emerging global environmental consciousness. Were the anti-nuclear protests of that decade therefore unique in their “transnational” nature? Did cross-border interactions…
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Changing the World, Changing Themselves? Trajectories of Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1968-1981
Presented at the annual conference of the German History Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, 13 September 2013. Abstract: This presentation will trace the trajectories of individual activists through their participation in the movement opposed to civil nuclear energy in the 1970s. In doing so, it will call into question the assumption that anti-nuclear activism…
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« Larzac-Gorleben : même combat » ? Competing Franco-German Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s
Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), Cardiff, 30 June 2013. Abstract: Throughout the 1970s, the struggle of 103 farmers against the expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau attracted widespread support from French and foreign activists. The farmers of the Larzac cultivated relations with…
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