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GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON
Seminars - Spring 2003
4 February
PROFESSOR VOLKER SELLIN (Heidelberg)
Stuart and Bonaparte: Two Types of Legitimacy - Two Types of Failure
Volker Sellin holdes the Chair of Modern History at the University of
Heidelberg. His wide-ranging research interests cover the early
modern period as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His
most recent publications are Einführung in die Geschichtswissenschaft
(2nd edn., 2001) and Die geraubte Revolution: Der Sturz Napoleons und
die Restauration in Europa (2001).
11 February
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPH CONRAD (Geneva)
Voters as Consumers: Opinion Polls in West German Politics and
Society, 1940 to the 1960s
Christoph Conrad is Professor of Modern History at the University of
Geneva. His research interests focus on the history and theory of
historiography, the development of the welfare state, and the history
of opinion and market research. His publications include Vom Greis
zum Rentner: Der Strukturwandel des Alters in Deutschland zwischen
1830 und 1930 (1994). He has also edited among other things (with
Jürgen Kocka) Staatsbürgerschaft in Europa (2001).
25 March
PROFESOR BERND A. RUSINEK (Düsseldorf)
The German Mandarins and their View of Britain 1810-1914
Bernd A. Rusinek is Professor of Modern History at the University of
Düsseldorf. He has published extensively on many aspects of German
history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially on the
Third Reich and the history of science. He is the author of
Gesellschaft in der Katastrophe: Terror, Illegalität, Widerstand -
Köln 1944/45 (1989) and Das Forschungszentrum: Eine Geschichte der
KFA Jülich von ihrer Gründung bis 1980 (1996).
1 April
DR JAKOB VOGEL (Berlin)
From a History of Science to a History of Knowledge: Historicizing
the Knowledge Society
Jakob Vogel teaches Modern History at the Frankreich-Zentrum of the
Technical University in Berlin. He works on French and German history
since the eighteenth century and has published Nationen im
Gleichschritt: Der Kult der 'Nation in Waffen' in Deutschland und
Frankreich (1871-1914) (1997). More recently he has embarked upon a
major research project on the history of knowledge in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
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
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