Category: Workshop

Towards a “Europe of Struggles?” Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement (1975–79)

Presentation at the “Linking Borderlands: Energy, Environment & Infrastructure” workshop at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.

The Gender of Smuggling: East German Customs and the Criminalization of Polish Workers’ Consumption, 1980-1989

Presented at the workshop “Between Deviance and Marginalization: Gendered Perspectives on Transnational Crime” at the Universität Erfurt.

Europäisierung im Alltag: Grenzüberschreitungen an Rhein und Oder nach 1945

Vortrag beim Kolloquium Globalgeschichte (Lehrstuhl Iris Schröder), Historisches Seminar der Universität Erfurt und Forschungszentrum Gotha, 28. November 2019.

Caught in the Net: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life

Presentation at the “New Transnational and Global Approaches to the GDR Border” international workshop at the University of Erfurt, 10 July 2019.

Radioaktivität kennt keine Grenzen: Deutsch-französische Anti-AKW-Netzwerke der 1970er Jahre

Vortrag auf der Tagung „Der Gorleben-Treck 1979 und die niedersächsische Landesgeschichte“ am 21.-22. Juni 2019 im Niedersächsischen Landtag.

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.

‘The Beginning of a Long Struggle’? Afterlives of ‘1968’ in Western Europe

Keynote speech for ‘1968: Resonances and Reverberations’ workshop organised by the Labour and Society Research Group of Newcastle University.

‘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. 

Fluid Boundaries? A Tandem History of the Rhine and Oder-Neisse Borderlands, 1949-1989

Project presentation given at the ‘Edgy states and boundary crossers: borders and borderlands in the “Short Twentieth Century”‘ workshop at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.

Late Cold War Tandems: Solidarities and Anxieties of the 1980s

The purpose of this workshop, organised as a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Universiteit Utrecht, is to explore the possibilities of ‘tandem history’ (Kate Brown) as a transnational approach in new research on the final decade of the Cold War.