Ich habe diesen Kurs (Proseminar) im Sommersemester 2024 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin unterrichtet. Kommentar: Kaum eine Stadt war so sehr vom Kalten Krieg geprägt wie Berlin: besetzt und geteilt, „Schaufenster des Westens“ und „Hauptstadt der DDR“ zugleich, der Ost-West-Konflikt und die Systemkonkurrenz bestimmten schon einiges im Alltag der Berliner. Gleichzeitig war das Leben in…
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I taught this course (Übung) in Sommersemester 2024 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Description: Borders within and surrounding Europe have moved repeatedly throughout history, but rarely so frequently or so violently as during the 20th century. This class examines how processes of bordering and de-bordering since the First World War have shaped European states and…
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Presentation for the Laboratorio in Current Affairs (Prof. Stefano Cavazza) at Università di Bologna.
Ich habe diesen Kurs (Proseminar) im Wintersemester 2023/24 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin unterrichtet. Dafür habe ich meinen englischsprachigen Kurs zum Thema für deutsche Studierende adaptiert. Kursbeschreibung: Gibt es so etwas wie Protestgeschichte? Soziale Bewegungen werden häufig als zyklisch oder diskontinuierlich verstanden – nicht zuletzt, weil ihre Themen, Akteure und Formen dauernd wechseln. Das gilt…
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I taught this course (Übung) in Wintersemester 2023/24 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Description: For sexual minorities, the 20th century was a period of constant change and frequent contradiction: it witnessed the formation of queer identities, struggles for rights and recognition, but also violent repression, pathologization, and social exclusion. At the same time, countless people…
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Collaboratively written open-access textbook produced for the “Teaching European History in the 21st Century” (TEH21) Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project, for which I served as an author, the editor of Unit 2 (social history), and primary coordinator at the University of Sheffield. Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, Jaroslav Ira, Judit Klement, Sylvain Lesage, Juan Luis Simal, Andrew…
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Collaboratively written chapter for the open-access textbook The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. Introduction: Political borders in twentieth-century Europe are usually thought of as lines on a map, separating one nation-state from another. In practice, however, there are many borderlands and border zones where belonging is ambiguous, arbitrary, or unstable. Throughout…
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Collaboratively written chapter for the open-access textbook The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. Introduction: Over the course of the twentieth century, protest and social movements changed dramatically. In the first half of the century, much of the European continent was embroiled in conflict between right- and left-wing movements that sought to…
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Collaboratively written chapter for the open-access textbook The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. Introduction: Over the course of the twentieth century, Europeans, the European environment, and their mutual relationship underwent dramatic changes. The acceleration of industrialisation at the turn of the century amplified existing problems like water and air pollution. So,…
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I taught this course at NYU Berlin for three semesters in 2023 and 2024. Description: The history of Germany is inscribed into modern Berlin, which has served as the capital of an empire, a failed democracy, the Nazi experiment, a socialist state, and now Europe’s most populous country – all within less than a century.…
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