’68 within and beyond France
Presentation given as part of the ‘1968: A Global Revolt Fifty Years On’ panel discussion organised by the University of Sheffield Centre for Contemporary and Modern History.
From the Jessop Left picket line
A contribution to the ‘Picket Line Perspectives’ series for ‘Historians’ Watch’ on History Workshop Online
Two Germanys, ‘One People’? Central Europe, 1945-1990
I designed and regularly teach this second-year module on post-war German history. It examines the social, political, and cultural history of East and West Germany in comparative and transnational perspective.
‘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.
Review: Davey, Idealism Beyond Borders
Monograph reviewed for Social History, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2018), pp. 156-158. doi:10.1080/03071022.2017.1397367 Summary: Davey convincingly argues that tiers-mondisme and sans-frontiérisme were never so far apart as their advocates subsequently claimed, showing that they always shared key points of reference (the post-colonial third world, the Second World War) and even key practices (e.g. ‘speaking out’,…
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‘Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border’ Transnational Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
Talk given for Northumbria University’s History research seminar.
Interview with New Books Network
Interview with Ryan Stackhouse of the New Books Network (for New Books in German Studies).
„Lieber aktiv als radioaktiv“ Perspektiven auf die transnationalen Ursprünge der Anti-Atom-Bewegung
Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit Steve Milder, um unsere beiden Bücher über die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre bei der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Berlin vorzustellen.
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.
‘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.
Biking the Border: Neißefahrt 2017
Bike trip from Zittau via Görlitz to Guben, Forst, and Frankfurt.
History of Nuclear Campaigning
Talk on the history of French and West German opposition to nuclear energy during and since the 1970s, given at annual Friends of the Earth basecamp at Castleton YHA in the Peak District.
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.
Review: Naples and Bickham Mendez, Border Politics
Volume reviewed for the Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2017), pp. 474-476. doi:10.1177/0022009416688182 Summary: This interdisciplinary volume weds social movement studies, which remains largely embedded in the social sciences, with border studies, a growing field with roots in geography, anthropology and women’s studies. The editors take an intersectional approach, looking at how…
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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.