Colloquium

The colloquia will be held either in a virtual format as WebEx Meetings (see highlighted note on the program) or on site usually at 5 pm unless otherwise stated. You can download the WebEx Meeting app in advance. (It is also possible to connect via your browser.)  Please also consult our guidelines for WebEx Meetings.

For further information please contact: Daniela Petrosino

Program Summer Semester 2022

28.04.2022 - online
Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow)
Changing the feeling rules of the factory in late twentieth-century France

03.05.2022  - on site
Bernardo Zacka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Danish job centers and the design of the unhomely home

10.05.2022  - online
Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)
Love in the time of welfare

24.05.2022 - online
Maya Nadkami (Swarthmore College)
Postsocialist memory and the end(s) of nostalgia in Hungary

31.05.2022 - on site
Michael Wildt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Scattered times. Reflecting German history in the twentieth century

07.06.2022 - online
Xun Zhou (University of Essex)
Pandemics, xenophobia, and fear: who is to blame for COVID-19?

14.06.2022 - online
Felicitas Becker (Ghent University)
The politics of ‚shame‘ in the aftermath of slavery in East Africa, ca. 1920-2022

21.06.2022 - online
Susan Morrissey (University of California, Irvine)
'The act was imbued with a strong hatred, and hatred is the force of revolution': Emotions and violence in personal letters from the Russian Revolution of 1905-07

28.06.2022 - on site
Brendan Röder (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Controlling emotions and the senses during epidemics in early modern Germany

05.07.2022 - on site
Diana Colceriu (University of Bucharest)
Enthusiasm: Romantic accounts of a modern emotion