is Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds. Main research: History of International Relations; military history of the First and Second World War.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr., historian and exhibition organiser, is senior consultant with History Associates Incorporated, Visiting Professor at the Dartmouth College Berlin branch and a research fellow in the Department of History at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen participating in a DFG project about refugees and Western intelligence services in divided Germany.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

was Professor of Modern History and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Previously, he taught in Cologne, London, Freiburg, Sussex, and Cambridge.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law, and head of the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law at the Institute of Criminal Law and Justice at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is also Judge at the Provincial Court of Lower Saxony in Göttingen. Main research: Criminal law and procedure; international and comparative criminal law with an emphasis on Spanish-speaking and Anglo-American countries.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian and political scientist, works for the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg. Together with Marc Elie and Klaus Gestwa, she directs the French-German research project »Contemporary Environmental History of the Soviet Union and the Successor States, 1970-2000. Ecological Globalization and Regional Dynamics.« She is writing her second book (Habilitation) on the transnational history of the Chernobyl disaster.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., sociologist, is a research fellow at the Institute for Medical Sociology at the Charité in Berlin and Albert Einstein Fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Main research: Migration studies and health inequalities.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Professor of 19th Century European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin and counselor at the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies. Main research: Cultural history; history of emotions; nationalism and nation-building; Spanish history of the 19th and 20th century.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

was Professor of English Studies and Literature at the University of Konstanz and Visiting Professor at Rice, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, and Vienna University. Main research: Individual and collective memory; violence and trauma in historical memory; structure and function of archives; ways of forgetting.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is general secretary of the Bruno Kreisky Forum in Vienna. Previously, she worked for the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Science and Art.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

is Professor of Eastern European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Totalitarian violence and social regimes in the 20th century with an emphasis on Stalinism and the Soviet system of tyranny.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Host)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of International History and Politics at the University of Leeds. He is editor-elect of War in History and sits on the editorial board of Intelligence & National Security. Main research: History of assassinations; British defence policy since 1945; cultural afterlife of El Alamein.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

philosopher and social scientist, is editor of Mittelweg 36, the journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and of the internet platform Soziopolis. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte and visiting instructor for political theory at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Gast)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

1983—The Most Dangerous Year of the Cold War? (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

The End of Violence (Guest)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. Main research: British and German history in the 20th century.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Professor of Modern European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Main research: History of World War I; history of fascism; cultural and urban history, particularly of Germany, Spain and Italy.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Dr., historian, is senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Main research: Contemporary history; transitional justice; memory studies with a special emphasis on German memory culture.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow and project director at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Main research: Violence and civility: from Brezhnev to Putin; contemporary historians during the Cold War.

The End of Violence (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

historian, was Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism. He was Visiting Professor in Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Mexico, Northern Ireland. Main research: 20th century German history; minorities; anti-Semitism; exile and migration.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. Main research: History of the African-American civil rights movement; racial discrimination; popular violence; and criminal justice. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

was Professor of Eastern European History at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, where he also was director of the Department of Eastern European History and Area Studies. Main research: Political and social history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Poland; history of war in the 20th century.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

historian, is a PhD student at the SNF funded project »The Cold War as Political Imagination« at the University of Fribourg. From June to December 2016, she is a guest fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

PD Dr., sociologist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. As a visiting lecturer he has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Hannover and is now lecturing at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Main research: Nation; collective consciousness; migration.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

sociologist, is deputy director of the Centre for Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Moscow State University, editor of the interdisciplinary review Logos and an associate fellow at the Maurice Halbwachs Research Center in Paris. Main research: Sociology of knowledge; social inequalities and collective imagery; protest movements; university reforms and science policy; conceptual history and sociology.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Professor of Sociology with a focus on Eastern Europe at the Free University Berlin. Main research: Russian new conservatism, varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe and its social actors, institutional theory (informality and institutions in Eastern Europe, bureaucracy).

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

was Professor of Modern History at the Free University Berlin. She held previous chairs at the Europäische Hochschulinstitut (European History), at the University of Bielefeld (Gender History) and the Central European University in Budapest.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., historian, works as archivist with the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR (BStU). Prevously, she was Assistant Professor of East European History at the Universities of Gießen and Bochum. Main research: Russian, Soviet, German, and Baltic history with a focus on the 19th and 20th century.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Osnabrück. Main research: Genealogies of social thought; history and criticism of political rationality; governmentality and intergovernmental thought, languages of politics and rhetorics of power.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

studies art history at the Johns Hopkins University, New York, and at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. He works as a freelance translator. 

The World of the Camps (Translator)

Tony Judt’s Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts–Two Rights (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is a research fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien in Potsdam and managing editor of the Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. Main research: Anti-semitism; right-wing extremism.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

studies history and literature at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and in Lund.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Previously, he was a fellow at the Instituto de Historia at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, Dilthey Fellow at the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and taught Latin-American Studies at the Department of History at the University of Berne.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is a research fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard  University. He also works as conflict advisor for the Stabilisation Unit of the UK Government, London. He advises government clients on governance and security issues, specifically with regard to fragile states. During the last 17 years, he has been engaged in East Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Central Asia, the Balkans, Western Europe and the USA for several United Nations agencies, American and European academic research centers and development organizations.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer for Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina. Main research: cultural and political history of Modern Central and Eastern Europe.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel and a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Generations; social exclusion; entrepreneurs.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Dr., historian, works for American Battle Monuments Commission in Paris. Main research: World War I commemorative history; military history with special emphasis on social and medical topics.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at Humboldt-University of Berlin, where he is writing his second book about the history of Public Finance in West Germany. He is a member of the editorial boards of H-Soz-Kult and Sozial.Geschichte.Online.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a visting scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. Previously, she was a senior research assitant at the Department for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Berne.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor of Politics at the Occidental College in Los Angeles. CA. Main research: Soviet and post-Soviet foreign and military policies; arms control and United States national security policy.

1983—The Most Dangerous Year of the Cold War? (Guest)

is Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ, and deputy director of Rutgers’ graduate Division of Global Affairs. Main research: United States foreign relations; United States military occupation in the 20th century with an emphasis on the occupations following World War II.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is chairperson of the War Resisters’ International. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies in Coventry and a visiting member of faculty at the UNESCO Centre for the Philosophy of Peace at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., sociologist, heads the research group »Diachrone Transformationsforschung« at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research at the University of Flensburg. Main research: Social-economic crises; sociology of culture; changing societal relationships to nature; sociology and Nazism; sociology of violence.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trento. Main research: German history of the 20th century with special emphasis on National Socialism in comparison to Italian Fascism; comparative social history of both world wars.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)