Colloquium: Emotions and the History of Fascist Diplomacy

  • Datum: 18.05.2021
  • Uhrzeit: 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Christian Goeschel, University of Manchester
  • Ort: online
  • Gastgeber: Center for the History of Emotions

Emotions are ‘power-full.’ Emotional displays were central to the fatal alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, represented above all, but not exclusively, by the purported friendship of Mussolini and Hitler. The history of emotions can help us reconceptualise conventional understandings of diplomacy and re-examine essential aspects of the Axis alliance at the confluence of politics and culture.

Christian Goeschel is Reader in Modern European History at the University of Manchester and currently JSPS Invitational Fellow at the Graduate Faculty of Law, Kyoto University. He has taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the Australian National University and has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

Among his books are his 2009 Suicide in Nazi Germany (published by Oxford University Press, German translation Suhrkamp, 2011) and Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance (Yale University Press, 2018; translated, among other languages, into Italian (Laterza) and German (Suhrkamp)). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Together with Naoko Shimazu (Yale College/National University of Singapore), he is under contract with Oxford University Press to edit the Oxford Handbook of the Cultural History of Modern Global Diplomacy, c. 1750-2000.

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