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German Studies
February 23, 2021
Diagnosing Dissent
Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One
Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Hosted by Michael O'Sullivan
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with …
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German Studies
February 11, 2021
Berlin
Jason Lutes
Hosted by Michael O'Sullivan
In his pathbreaking graphic novel, Berlin (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018), Jason Lutes creates a multifaceted exploration of urban life during the Weimar Republic. The book contains a variety of mostly fictional …
German Studies
February 3, 2021
Mobilizing Black Germany
Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
Tiffany N. Florvil
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and …
History
February 2, 2021
Rogue Empires
Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
Steven Press
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017), is …
History
January 29, 2021
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
C. L. Johnson, D. M. Luebke, M. E. Plummer, and J. Spohnholz
Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Carina Johnson is coeditor -- with David Luebke, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, and Jesse Spohnholz -- of Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (Berghahn, 2019) and she is also the author …
Critical Theory
January 26, 2021
Migrants in the Profane
Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
Peter E. Gordon
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization (Yale University …
Genocide Studies
January 22, 2021
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
History and Representation
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate …
Eastern European Studies
January 20, 2021
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Ohio University Press, 2019), Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to …
Genocide Studies
January 18, 2021
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I wish I had seen Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt's Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) six months ago. I taught a course in the fall titled …
Genocide Studies
January 14, 2021
Advancing Holocaust Studies
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I think this is the fifth time I've interviewed John K. Roth for the podcast (and the second for Carol Rittner). He has always been relentlessly realistic about the challenges, intellectual …
History
January 4, 2021
The Convent of Wesel
The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition
Jesse Spohnholz
Hosted by Jana Byars
We are here today with Jesse Spohnholz, Professor of History and Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program at Washington State University in beautiful Pullman, Washington, to …
Eastern European Studies
December 31, 2020
Borders on the Move
Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948
Leslie Waters
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory …
German Studies
December 29, 2020
A Demon-Haunted Land
Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany
Monica Black
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including …
European Studies
December 15, 2020
Project Europe
A History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
Biography
December 14, 2020
Legal Sabotage
Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany
Douglas Morris
Hosted by Mark Klobas
During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the most creative and successful …
German Studies
November 30, 2020
Empire of Law
Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe
Kaius Tuori
Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book Empire of Law: Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars, and the Battle for the Future of Europe (Cambridge UP, 2020), Kaius Tuori examines the inherent unity of European legal traditions that …
Genocide Studies
November 19, 2020
The Failures of Ethics
Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities
John K. Roth
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
In the Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2018), John K. Roth concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision …
Intellectual History
November 18, 2020
Heidegger's Poietic Writings
From Contributions to Philosophy to the Event
Daniela Vallega-Neu
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Scholarship on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has traditionally focused on his magnum opus Being and Time and related earlier work, his later essays and lectures often relegated to an …
Eastern European Studies
November 3, 2020
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
Thomas Fleischman
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany …
German Studies
November 2, 2020
Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)
Paolo Astorri
Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
In Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720) (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2019), Paolo Astorri shows how the Protestant Reformation influence European law. Martin Luther and his …
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