Book Launch
"Gefährliche Bilder Milchfrauen, Lumpensammler und anderes Straßenvolk in der großen Stadt"
herausgegeben von Katharina Krause
Dienstag, 25. April 2023, online
Bilder können politische Verhältnisse stabilisieren oder Unsicherheit erzeugen. In ihrem Buch untersucht Katharina Krause dies an zahlreichen Grafiken der „Cris de Paris“ (Pariser Kaufrufe) aus dem 16. bis 20. Jahrhundert sowie anderen Darstellungen der sogenannten „Unterschichten“. Denn die Vorstellungen der Eliten wurden zunehmend durch Ereignisse wie Revolutionen und Aufstände, Epidemien und die Industrialisierung geprägt. Die Angst der Eliten vor der politischen Wirkung von Bildern bei der Bevölkerung ist ein zentrales Thema des Buchs.
Digital Book Launch
"Lodz. Geschichte einer multikulturellen Industriestadt im 20. Jahrhundert"
von Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg
Mittwoch, 29. März 2023, 18 - 19 Uhr , online
Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg eröffnet mit seinem Buch eine multikulturelle Perspektive auf die Geschichte von Lodz, der zweitgrößten polnischen Stadt des 19./20. Jahrhunderts. Historisch durch die Textilindustrie geprägt, war ihr Aufstieg die Leistung deutscher, jüdischer, polnischer und russischer Wirtschaftsbürger sowie meist weiblicher Fabrik-Arbeitskräfte. Sie machten Lodz zur „Stadt der vier Kulturen“. In den 1930er Jahren wurde diese kosmopolitische Bevölkerung in nationale Gruppen aufgespalten und die Stadt als deutsch besetztes „Litzmannstadt“ im Zweiten Weltkrieg von innen zerstört. Vertreibung und Diskriminierung nach 1945 vernichteten schließlich multikulturelle Restbestände. Neben Arbeitssicherheit, und Versorgungssicherheit thematisiert das Buch auch Kommunikationsprobleme im Kontext des multiethnischen Zusammenlebens.
WORKSHOP
Ideas and Concepts of National
Security: Australia and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Conveners:
Research Group “Concepts of National Security“ (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security“, Project „Extended Security“ (University of Marburg, Germany)
1 - 2 December 2022,
Konferenzsaal [Conference Room] Herder-Institut, Marburg
Program
Thursday, December 1,
09.30-10.00 am
Arrival
10.00-10.30 am
Opening Remarks (Eckart Conze / David Lowe / Peter Haslinger)
10.30-12.30 pm
Peter Haslinger ‚National Minorities as Dangerous Others: The Case of Hungary around 1900‘ David Lowe ‚Enacting Australian National Security Law: Intelligence and Intransigence‘
David Ekbladh ‚Mobilizing for National Security in the Midst of Global Change: the US in the 1930s‘
12.30-01.30 pm
Lunch
01.30-03.30 pm
Eckart Conze ‚National Security and Sovereignty: Ideas and Politics in Europe after 1918‘
Sarah Wilder-Fehl ‚Conflicting Concepts of Security: National and International Security in the United Nations 1945-1998‘
03.30-04.00 pm
Coffee
04.00-06.00 pm
Heidi Hein-Kircher ‚Securitization of Ethnic Minorities in East Central Europe: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Conclusions for Historiography on MinorityMajority Contexts‘
Carolyn Holbrook ‚Concepts of National Security in Australia during the Interwar Period: the National Insurance Debate‘
07.00 pm
Conference Dinner (Restaurant „Sonne“, Marburg)
Friday, December 2
09.00-10.30 am
Mia Martin Hobbs ‚Compound Threats: Themes and Uses of ‚National Security‘ in Australia in the 1930s‘
Tobias Bruns ‚The Population as the Nation: Demographic Security Discoursesin Germany, 1900-1990‘
10.30-11.00 am
Coffee
11.00-12.30 pm
Benjamin Brendel ‚Hunger Threat and Food Supply as Contested Factors of National Security in Germany during the First Half of the 20th Century‘
Marcel Spannenberger ‚European Monetary Integration 1969-2002: Restriction or Extension of National Security?‘
12.30-01.30 pm
Concluding discussion
01.30-02.00 pm
Lunch
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Digital Book Launch
"Post-liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Disordering"
by Philipp Lottholz
Tuesday, February 28 2023, online, 5 to 6 pm
Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries.
Chair: PD Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder-Insitute, Marburg)
Commentaries: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker (Philipps-University of Marburg) and Dr. Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
We will circulate the detailed login information one day before the event.
PUBLIC BOOK LAUNCH:
The United Nations Trusteeship System
Legacies, Continuities, and Change
Edited By Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick, Julius Heise
Thursday// 10 September 2022 // 6 - 7.30 pm // Marburg, Deutschhausstrasse 10 (behind Elisabethkirche), Room 00/0020 Großer Hörsaal (Great Lecture Hall)
Speakers:
Maria Ketzmerick, University of Bayreuth
Julius Heise, Center for Conflict Studies
Thorsten Bonacker, Center for Conflict Studies
Margot Tudor, University of Exeter
Werner Distler, University of Groningen
Moderation: Philipp Lottholz, Center for Conflict Studies
Countries like Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi share a past as former Trust Territories in the United Nations Trusteeship System after World War II. Their political and socio-economic histories and present-day continuities of conflict are deeply intertwined with the periods of colonial rule and subsequent UN supervision as part of a global wave of decolonization in the mid-20th Century. Yet, this process was contested and unfolded in divergent ways in various contexts, which raises the question as to whether and how colonial and imperial forms of ordering have been overcome in the international system.
This event introduces the newly appearing volume The United Nations Trusteeship System - Legacies, Continuities, and Change edited by Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick and Julius Heise (Routledge Global Institutions Series). Featuring two of the co-editors and three contributors to the volume, it will offer attendees valuable insights and reflection on the motivation, arguments and contributions of this volume to debates on international rule, the United Nations and the UN Trusteeship System in particular. The discussion is organized as part of the workshop “The Emergence of International Rule in the Era of Decolonisation” (more details soon) held by the subproject B05 of the Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Security”. Instead of a classic panel discussion, the approach will be more informal and open, with editors and contributors initiating the discussion by sharing reflections and thoughts on specific aspects of this work, alternating with possibilities for the audience to join into this dialogue.
This presence-only event is organized by the subproject B05 “Securitization and De-Securitization of Trusteeship Administrations in Political Transition Processes” of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Security", led by Thorsten Bonacker.
We would be pleased to welcome you to the event!
