German Historical Institute London
Library opening times, masks, and new readers
Until further notice our opening hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday (10am-3pm). Readers should wear a mask at all times, even when seated at their desks. If readers are exempt, they must inform us before they visit. New readers should book an appointment (email: library@ghil.ac.uk) for a virtual induction before their first visit.
Covid-19 safety measures for visitors
You must not visit the institute if you are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19 or have tested positive for Covid-19 within the past 10 days. External visitors and scholars are requested to demonstrate their COVID-19 status at our reception by providing proof of EITHER full vaccination (first and second dose, with the second dose administered at least 14 days before your visit), OR a negative lateral flow test taken no more than 48 hours before your visit. Please wear a mask. For more information on mask-wearing and rules for those attending events, please see below.
Social distancing and masks:
Wherever possible, a minimum distance of 1m should be maintained between people. In addition to this, masks covering the mouth and nose must be worn in all areas of the Institute. Library readers should wear a mask at all times, even when seated at their desks.
Events:
To ensure social distancing, the audience in our conference room is capped at a maximum of 25 attendees. Out of consideration for others, please cancel your booking for an in-person event if you are no longer able to attend. Our conference room is regularly aired. Attendees of events are required to wear a mask unless they are exempt from mask-wearing, are drinking, or are speaking at the event.
20 January 2022 (5.30pm)
Special Event
Women on the Air Waves: Feminism and the Radio in Britain and Germany
Online
1 February 2022 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Shiru Lim (Aarhus) and Avi Lifschitz (Oxford)
Frederick the Great and the Public Sphere
Online
9 March 2022 (5.30pm)
GHIL Joint Lecture
Christina Morina (Bielefeld)
Broken Balance: A Political–Cultural History of Germany since the 1980s
GHIL/Online
23 November 2021 - 23 November 2022
Exhibition
Forms, Voices, Networks
Feminism and the Media
The exhibition Forms, Voices, Networks explores the intersections between the growth of mass media and women’s rights movements in a transnational context during the 20th century. Centred on the histories of feminisms and the media in Britain, Germany and India, it draws attention to little-known or unheard voices and stories and draws connections between activists and the media across time and space.
Developed by the International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment, curated by Maya Caspari (GHIL) and coordinated by Jane Freeland (GHIL)
Image from See Red Women’s Workshop: ‘Protest’. 1974 (screenprint)
The exhibition is now live, visit it here: www.feminismandthemedia.co.uk
Online
Call for Papers
Medieval Germany Workshop 2022
6 May 2022
Organised by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society
German Historical Institute London
Deadline: 31 January 2022
Call for Papers
The Politics of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages
1–2 September 2022
Convenors: Marcus Meer (GHIL), Len Scales (Durham University), and Sarah Griffin (The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Keynote speaker: Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham).
German Historical Institute London/Warburg Institute
Deadline: 31 January 2022
Call for papers
Things on the Move: Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700–1900
8–10 September 2022
An International Conference organized by the German Historical Institute London in Collaboration with the Prize Papers Project
Organizers: Indra Sengupta (GHIL), Felix Brahm (University of Hamburg), Christina Beckers, Dagmar Freist, Lucas Haasis (Prize Papers Project/University of Oldenburg)
German Historical Institute London
Deadline: 28 February 2022
Featured Article
Martina Kessel
An Empire of Shaming: Laughter as Identity Politics in Nazi Germany
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 43 (2021), no. 2, 3–29
Featured Article
Franziska Neumann
The Realm of Cloacina? Excrement in London’s Eighteenth Century Waste Regime
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 43 (2021), no. 2, 30-56
Andreas Pečar
The Power of Scripture
Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion
Studies in British and Imperial History. Vol. 8
New York, NY ; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021
María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler (eds.)
The Officer and the People
Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021
Julian Katz
Kriegslegitimation in der Frühen Neuzeit
Intervention und Sicherheit während des anglo-spanischen Krieges (1585-1604)
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd. 86
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021
Cross-Cutting Research Theme
Histories of Kinship and Gender
![Black and white image of a group of students during the student revolution, 1967/68, West Berlin (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte, Ludwig Binder, [CC BY-SA 2.0])](fileadmin/_processed_/b/7/csm_Cross_Cutting_Kinship_16899874619_971d24b34f_o_600e6bc127.jpg "Student revolution 1967/68, West Berlin")
The categories of kinship and gender are powerful indicators of social place, but also social binding agents. How are individuals and groups assigned a social place? How are social hierarchies and differences, or support networks, created by the production of kinship and gender identities? Attention will be paid to the role of experts and knowledge, to practices ‘from below’, and the negotiation and strengthening of norms by situative performances. This will involve a dialogue with new methods and theories from other disciplines such as ethnography and gender studies. Both gender and kinship are here understood as multi-relational, in the sense of intersectionality.
GHIL Lecture
Tanika Sarkar
The Past in the Present
Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India
Summer Lecture Series
29 June 2021
, 0:59 h
GHIL Lecture
Tanika Sarkar
The Past in the Present
Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India
GHIL Lecture
Barbara Manthe
Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany
Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives
Summer Lecture Series
15 June 2021
, 0:35 h
GHIL Lecture
Barbara Manthe
Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany
Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives
GHIL Lecture
Amy S. Kaufman
Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”
Summer Lecture Series
25 May 2021
, 0:37 h
Joint Lecture
Round Table
Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism
What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?
Summer Lecture Series
4 May 2021
, 1:11 h
Joint Lecture
Round Table
Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism
What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?
11 January 2022
Blogpost
Vicente Pons Martí
Perspectives on Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Since the emergence of the first nation states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, political parties have become one of the most important and influential actors in Western political systems. It is hard to imagine a functioning Western democracy without the presence of political parties, yet they have always been accompanied by criticism and rejection...
Category: Research, Scholarships
9 December 2021
Blogpost
Joseph Cronin
The Future of Holocaust Studies in Light of the ‘Catechism Debate’: Reflections from an Observer
This post has been adapted from a talk by Joseph Cronin, a former Researcher at the GHIL and now a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, delivered at the Holocaust Research Institute’s New Directions in Holocaust Studies workshop, which was held at Senate House London on 4 November 2021. [...] The talk was prompted by and reflected on Joseph’s perceptions of the ‘German Catechism’ debate that took place in the summer of 2021.
Category: Dialogue