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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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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Presentation at the “Linking Borderlands: Energy, Environment & Infrastructure” workshop at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Vortrag beim Kolloquium Globalgeschichte (Lehrstuhl Iris Schröder), Historisches Seminar der Universität Erfurt und Forschungszentrum Gotha, 28. November 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.
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.
Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2018), pp.1–12.
Special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, co-edited with Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, and Philip Wagner.
Presentation for student conference, University of Sheffield, 10 June 2018.
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.