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Alle Wege führen nach Gorleben: Transnationale Netzwerke der Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre

30/06/2020

Kapitel in: Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann u.a. (Hg.), Der Gorleben-Treck 1979. Anti-Atom-Protest als soziale Bewegung und demokratischer Lernprozess (= Schriften zur Didaktik der Demokratie, Bd. 5), Göttingen 2020, S. 150–172. Fazit: Für eine dezentrale, lokal verankerte Bewegung wie die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre waren transnationale Netzwerke besonders wichtig. Aus anderen, fremden Kontexten kamen weit mehr Ideen, als…
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Binding the Nation, Bounding the State: Germany and its Borders

04/01/2019

Review article for German History Vol. 37, No. 1 (2019), examining seventeen recent publications on the borders of Germany and of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Grassroots Transnationalism(s). Franco-German Opposition to Nuclear Energy in the 1970s

14/01/2016

Article published in Contemporary European History, vol 25, no. 1 (February 2016), 117-142. Abstract: During the 1970s opposition to nuclear energy was present in countries around the world and thus eminently ‘transnational’. But what did it mean to participate at the grassroots of such a transnational movement and (how) did cross-border connections change protest? This…
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Solidarity, Sabotage, Students: Protest in Europe, 1968-89

25/09/2018

I designed and teach this year-long special subject, which examines the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century through the prism of those social movements that contested local, national, and international political decision-making throughout the period.

Not Here, Not Anywhere: Local and Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany

08/03/2021

Presentation for Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion/Université de Lille “Politicisations: Emotions, Sociabilities, Frontiers” seminar

Europäisierung im Alltag: Grenzüberschreitungen an Rhein und Oder nach 1945

28/11/2019

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

Fridays for Future

20/09/2019

Here are a few pictures from different “Fridays for Future” events in Berlin.

Ausstellung zum Gorleben-Treck 1979 im Historischen Museum Hannover

21/07/2019

Eine Ausstellung des Instituts für Didaktik der Demokratie, besucht im Rahmen des vom IDD veranstalteten Workshop „Der Gorleben-Treck 1979 und die niedersächsische Landesgeschichte“.

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

10/07/2019

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

Biking the Border: Basel to Aachen, 2019

06/07/2019

Bike trip from Basel, Switzerland along the French-German border up the Rhine and toward the Saarland, then to Luxembourg and back to Aachen, Germany.

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

21/06/2019

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

Warszawa

16/06/2019

A few pictures of one of my favorite cities, taken over the years.

Pacifism, Self-Defense, Mass Violence: Varieties of Militancy in the 1970s French-German Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement

14/05/2019

Presented at Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University.

Fließende Grenzen? Der Alltag am Rhein und an der Oder, 1949–1989

24/04/2019

Gastvortrag für das “Research Factory” des Viadrina-Centers B/orders in Motion.

For Farm and Fatherland? Claiming German Property on French Territory after 1945

11/04/2019

Presented at the ‘Managing the Land’ workshop at the European University Institute in Florence, 11 April 2019.

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