Europäisierung im Alltag: Grenzüberschreitungen an Rhein und Oder nach 1945
Vortrag beim Kolloquium Globalgeschichte (Lehrstuhl Iris Schröder), Historisches Seminar der Universität Erfurt und Forschungszentrum Gotha, 28. November 2019.
Fließende Grenzen? Der Alltag am Rhein und an der Oder, 1949–1989
Gastvortrag für das “Research Factory” des Viadrina-Centers B/orders in Motion.
Binding the Nation, Bounding the State: Germany and its Borders
Review article for German History, examining seventeen recent publications on the borders of Germany and of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
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.
Fließende Grenzen? Der Rhein und die Oder-Neiße-Linie im Kalten Krieg (1949–1989)
Projektvorstellung im Kolloquium von Prof. Dr. Thomas Mergel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15. Juni 2016.
Grassroots Transnationalism(s): Franco-German Opposition to Nuclear Energy in the 1970s
Published in Contemporary European History, vol 25, no. 1 (February 2016), 117-142.
Building Blocs: Germans and Their Neighbours in the 1970s
Presented at the ‘Living in European Borderlands’ conference, Université de Luxembourg, 20-22 November 2014. Abstract: The 1970s constituted a period of increasing cross-border integration within the competing transnational blocs of Eastern and Western Europe. For the first time since the Second World War, East Germans and Poles could visit one another’s countries with relative ease,…
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Deutsch-Russisches Museum
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
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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