Recent activity – Page 7 – Andrew S. Tompkins

A Specifically 1970s Transnationalism? Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany

14/11/2014

Presented at the Transformationen der Ökologiebewegung conference, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 14-15 November 2014. Abstract: The 1970s were a period in which local and decentralized protest action against nuclear energy collided for the first time with an emerging global environmental consciousness. Were the anti-nuclear protests of that decade therefore unique in their “transnational” nature? Did cross-border interactions…
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Transnational Fusion: Anti-Nuclear Protest in the 1970s and the Rise of the Environmental Movement in West Germany

11/11/2014

Invited talk at NYU Berlin, 11 November 2014.

French-German Border: Oberrhein

17/10/2014

A short evening trip by car along the Rhine (from Weil am Rhein to Fessenheim) in between other travels.

Review: Timothy Scott Brown, West Germany and the Global Sixties

01/09/2014

Monograph reviewed for German History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2014), pp. 507-509. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghu024 Summary: Brown offers an incisive critique of many supposedly ‘transnational’ studies published in the last decade, focused as they are on the accumulation of national case studies. His own ‘transnational’ tells us far more about how Germans drew on ‘the global’ than…
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Polish-German Border: Kostrzyn/Küstrin and Frankfurt an der Oder/Słubice

13/07/2014

Day trip to the nearest international border from Berlin: Kostrzyn and Frankfurt/Słubice

Tagungsbericht: Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa. Zwischenbilanz eines neuen Forschungskonzeptes.

16/04/2014

Veröffentlicht am 16. April 2014 bei H-Soz-u-Kult (online).

Protest Movements in Western Europe and the USA, 1960s-1980s

15/04/2014

Taught at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sommersemester 2014.

Beyond ‘New Social Movements’: Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany

07/11/2013

Presented at the ‘Shaping the 1970s’ workshop at the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (University of Bristol), 7 November 2013.

Changing the World, Changing Themselves? Trajectories of Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1968-1981

13/09/2013

Presented at the annual conference of the German History Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, 13 September 2013. Abstract: This presentation will trace the trajectories of individual activists through their participation in the movement opposed to civil nuclear energy in the 1970s. In doing so, it will call into question the assumption that anti-nuclear activism…
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A visit to the Stasi-Museum

27/07/2013

Ehemalige Zentrale des Ministeriums für Staatsicherheit (Stasi) in der Ruschestr. / Normannenstr., Berlin-Lichtenberg Former headquarters of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in Ruschestr. / Normannenstr., Berlin-Lichtenberg

A visit to the Deutsch-Russisches Museum

25/07/2013

A visit to the German-Russian Museum in Karlshorst, site of the German capitulation at the end of the Second World War.

« Larzac-Gorleben : même combat » ? Competing Franco-German Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s

30/06/2013

Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), Cardiff, 30 June 2013. Abstract: Throughout the 1970s, the struggle of 103 farmers against the expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau attracted widespread support from French and foreign activists. The farmers of the Larzac cultivated relations with…
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‘Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border and Neither Do We!’ The Anti-Nuclear Movement along the Franco-German Border, 1968–1981

22/04/2013

Presented at Balliol College, University of Oxford, 22 April 2013.

“Lieber heute aktiv als morgen radioaktiv”: Die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung in Frankreich und Westdeutschland, 1968-1981

13/12/2012

Presented at the Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller), Freie Universität Berlin, 13 December 2012.

« Penser globalement, agir localement » : Les liens transnationaux dans le mouvement anti-nucléaire des années 1970 et dans la vie de ses militants

16/07/2012

Presented at the séminaire de recherche, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 16 July 2012.