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End: February 26, 2024
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Join David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt Univ.), Frank Bösch (Univ. of Potsdam), and Sandrine Kott (Univ. of Geneva) for a discussion on Dr. Blackbourn’s book, Germany in the World, in which he challenges readers to reexamine German history of the last five hundred years from a global perspective. Viewed through this lens, familiar landmarks appear in a different light and unfamiliar aspects, such as the “German Atlantic,” emerge. Blackbourn’s book, which interweaves geopolitics, culture, economics, and movements of people, transcends the conventional boundaries of modern German history, taking readers from the Australian bush to Shanghai, and German scientists in Siberia to America’s “Little Germanys”.

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David Blackbourn became professor emeritus in 2023 after a fifty-year career teaching at Cambridge, London, Harvard, and Vanderbilt. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, he has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD, and the Institute for Advanced Study. His many books include the prize-winning Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1993) and The Conquest of Nature (2006).

Frank Bösch is director of the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam and Professor of German and European 20th Century History at the University of Potsdam. Educated at the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen he obtained his PhD in 2001 in Göttingen with a thesis on the Christian Democratic Union of Germany 1945-1969. He taught as assistant professor (Junior-Professor) at the University of Bochum (2002-2007) and as professor at the University of Gießen, where he was also head of the graduate school “Transnational Media Events”. In 2005 he was research fellow at the GHI London. His more recent publications include books on media history, such as “Mediengeschichte. Vom asiatischen Buchdruck zum Fernsehen” [english translation: Media and Historical Change. Germany in International Perspective, Berghahn/NY 2015] and “Öffentliche Geheimnisse. Skandale, Politik und Medien in Deutschland und Großbritannien 1880-1914” [Public Secrets. Scandals, Politics and Media in Germany and Great Britain 1880-1914]. He is currently writing a book on West German interactions with non-democratic states since the 1950s.

Sandrine Kott is professor of modern European history at the University of Geneva and a visiting professor at New York University. Her books in English include Communism Day-to-Day: State Enterprises in East German Society (2014).