Ungerecht, undemokratisch, unsicher. Argumente und Akteure der deutsch-französischen Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre
Vortrag am Deutschen Museum in München im Rahmen des Oberseminars Technikgeschichte.
Review: Smith, Terror and Terroir
Monograph reviewed for French History, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2018, pp. 615–617. doi:10.1093/fh/cry078 Summary: In the summer of 1907, France’s Midi rouge (the ‘red South’) was in revolt, with regular Sunday protests in towns throughout the region drawing as many as 600,000 participants. After protesters torched buildings in Narbonne, the military occupied the town,…
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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
Introduction: The Material Culture of Politics
Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2018), pp.1–12.
The Material Culture of Modern Politics in Cold War Europe
Special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, co-edited with Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, and Philip Wagner.
Biking the Border: Oder-Neiße-Radweg, June-July 2018
Bike trip along the Oder-Neiße-Radweg.
May ’68: The Beginning of a Long Struggle
Presentation for student conference, University of Sheffield, 10 June 2018.
Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s
Teach-out for the University and College Union, University of Sheffield, 23 May 2018.
’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.