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GHIL Seminars - Spring 2001
20 February PROFESSOR HANS-ULRICH WEHLER
(Bielefeld/Berlin)
Nationalism: A Political Religion?
Hans-Ulrich Wehler is Professor emeritus at the University of
Bielefeld. He is well known as one of Germany's most prolific and
innovative historians, with particular specialisations in the history of
the 19th and 20th centuries and a keen interest in methodological
questions. His recent publications include, besides the third volume
of his Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte (1995), Politik in der
Geschichte. Essays (1998), and Die Herausforderung der
Kulturgeschichte (1998), and Nationalismus (forthcoming, 2001)
20 March PROFESSOR WOLFRAM PYTA (Stuttgart)
The ‚Abdication' of Reichs-President Hindenburg. New Research on
the History of Hitler's Seizure of Power.
Wolfram Pyta teaches modern history at the University of Stuttgart.
His research interests extend from the political history of nineteenth-
and twentieth-century Germany to questions of early modern
foreign policy. Recent books are Dorfgemeinschaft und Parteipolitik
1918 -1933: Die Verschränkung von Milieu und Parteien in den
protestantischen Landgebieten Deutschlands in der Weimarer
Republik (1996), Landwirtschaftliche Interessenpolitik im Kaiserreich
(1991) and Gegen Hitler und für die Republik: Die
Auseinandersetzung der deutschen Sozialdemokratie mit der
NSDAP in der Weimarer Republik (1989).
27 March DR UWE PUSCHNER (Berlin)
'One People, One Empire, one God'. The Voelkisch
Weltanschauung and Movement.
Privatdozent Uwe Puschner is at present replacing Hagen Schulze,
the GHI's new director, as Professor of Modern German and
European History at the Free University Berlin. Puschner's previous
publications focus on economic history and the German extreme
right. He is the author of Handwerk zwischen Tradition und Wandel
(1988) and co-editor of the Handbuch zur "Völkischen Bewegung"
1871 - 1918 (1996). His latest book, entitled Völkische Bewegung
im wilhelminischen Deutschland. Sprache - Rasse - Religion, is
scheduled to appear in March.
Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German
Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London
Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine
will be available after the seminars.
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