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Source: <http://www.ghil.co.uk/sems.html> _____________________________________ German Historical Institute London Seminars - Summer 2002 7 May DR ANDREAS RÖDDER (Stuttgart/Munich) Breakthrough in the Caucasus? German Reunification as a Problem for Contemporary History Andreas Rödder is Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Stuttgart and, during the academic year 2001/2, Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. His most recent book, entitled Die radikale Herausforderung: Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen 1846- 1868, will be published in the GHIL’s German series in the summer. At the moment he is writing a textbook on the history of the Federal Republic of Germany between 1969 and 1990. 21 May PROFESSOR UTE FREVERT (Bielefeld) Militarism Revisited — Conscription and Civil Society in Germany Ute Frevert holds a prestigious chair of Modern History at the University of Bielefeld and is a leading expert on nineteenth and twentieth-century history. Among her many publications are Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel (1995), and Die kasernierte Nation: Militärdienst und Zivilgesellschaft in Deutschland (2001). 28 May PROFESSOR KARL SCHLÖGEL (Oxford/Frankfurt an der Oder) Excavating Modernity — Cities in Eastern Central Europe in the Inter-War Period Karl Schlögel is this year’s Visiting Professor at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Professor of East European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He has published extensively on many aspects of East European history, most recently, Berlin Ostbahnhof Europas — Russen und Deutsche in ihrem Jahrhundert (1998) and Promenade in Jalta und andere Städtebilder (2002). 11 June DR RICHARD LOFTHOUSE (Oxford) Max Beckmann’s Religion Richard Lofthouse is a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 2000. At present he is preparing a book to be entitled Modernist Art, Vitalist Energies: Dix, Spencer, Beckmann, Epstein, c. 1900-1940. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine will be available after the seminars. German Historical Institute 17 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NJ Tel. +44-(0)20-7404 5486 FAX +44-(0)20-7404 5573 eMail: [log in to unmask]