is Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Bonn. Main research: Social and cultural history of Russia and Eastern Europe.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

writer, historian, and co-founder of the democratic opposition movement in Hungary in 1977.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science and Sociology at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN. He is associate editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution and co-founder of New Jack Academics.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Professor in the Department of History and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is a founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Main research: Political, social, and intellectual history of late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; history of Russian-German relations; transnational and comparative history.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

historian, has been responsible for political education at the office of the Berlin commissioner for the files of the former secret police of the GDR since 1999.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Professor of Comparative Politics/International Development Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg. Main research: Politics of the Near and Middle East, East and South East Asia; political Islam; political science with special emphasis on gender studies.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University, Abu Dhabi. The Soviet-trained Africanist lives in Yerevan, Armenia. Main research: Macrohistory and macrosociology; expeditionary fieldwork on various guerilla movements, revolutions and civil wars in Africa, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is press manager of the publishing house Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. Main research: The history of North America in continental perspective; the history of U.S.-Europe relations; biography and autobiography; visual culture studies in transatlantic perspective. He has just finished a one-volume history of the United States scheduled to be out this year.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the International Relations program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. Main research: International conflict and conflict resolution; foreign policy decision-making; United States defense policy.

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

is Professor of Modern History and director of the Department of Contemporary History at the Eberhard Karls-University Tübingen. Main research: European-atlantic transfer of ideas in mid-20th century; impacts of the 19th century on the course of the 20th century; contemporary history focusing on social history and the history of ideas.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, IN. She is co-editor of the »Culture America«-series at the University Press of Kansas, and on the editorial boards of Public Art Dialogue and Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. Main research: Memorial culture in the United States.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a referent for history and civil society at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Moscow and lecturer in the Department for Cultural Theory and Cultural History at the Moscow University for the Humanities.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is a senior researcher at the Berghof Foundation in Berlin and director of its Non-State Actors in Conflict Transformation Program. Main research: Transitions from armed to unarmed insurgencies; negotiation support in asymmetric conflict; the role of external actors in nonviolent resistance; counter-terrorism and conflict transformation.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. As Freigeist fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation she directs the »The London Moment«-project. Main research: Cooperation of exile governments in London in World War II; World War I in Poland; veterans' welfare; international veterans movement.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Centre d’étude des mondes russe, caucasien et est-européen (CERCEC CNRS-EHESS) in Paris. Together with Melanie Arndt and Klaus Gestwa, he directs the French-German research project »Contemporary Environmental History of the Soviet Union and the Successor States, 1970-2000. Ecological Globalization and Regional Dynamics.« He is currently working on his second book (Habilitation) about droughts in the Soviet eastern steppes.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a senior lecturer in American history at the Amerika-Institut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He has curated several historical exhibitions on John F. Kennedy and is involved in setting up an international museum of the Cold War at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

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

is Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of the History of Russian-European Relations at the European University Institute in Florence. Main research: European intellectual history; memory studies; natural resources and the history of political economy; Russian politics, novel and film (21st century). Etkind is working now on a new project, A Cultural History of Natural Resources: Postsocialist and Postcolonial Perspectives.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Adjunct Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Carl von Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg and Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation. Main research: European societal history in the 20th century with special emphasis on Germany and Sweden; theory and history of historiography; history of science.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Professor of Social Science at the IAS in Princeton and director of studies at the EHESS in Paris. Anthropologist, sociologist and physician, he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences at the CNRS and INSERM. Former vice-president of Médecins Sans Frontières, he is currently President of the French Medical Committee for Exiles. Exploring the field of political and moral anthropology, he is interested in the multiple forms of inequalities and injustices.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Dr., social scientist, is director of the Dialogue Forum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria. He holds a fellowship at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and has worked as a consultant for the UNESCO, the League of Arab States, and a number of NGOs. He writes weekly articles for a number of Arabic and English newspapers.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a project coordinator at the Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. Main research: Sovietisation of the Estonian village; rural self-government in the late Russian Empire.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

studied history, technical history and philosophy at the Technical University Berlin. Since 2009 he has been Assistant in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Berne. The working title of his dissertation is: »›New Villages‹–Forced Relocation, Social Engineering and Late Colonial Counterinsurgency«.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Philosopher, is Assistant Professor of Transcultural History of Judaism at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. Main research: Political violence; trauma and grief; Jewish culture; Romance literature and history (with special emphasis on Latin America); theories of diaspora.

The End of Violence (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University. For 2015-16 she is a member of the School of Social Science at the IAS in Princeton. Her current project traces the Palestinian experience with humanitarianism since 1948, exploring both how this aid apparatus has shaped Palestinian social and political life and how the Palestinian experience has influenced the broader post-war humanitarian regime.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

is Professor of Latin American History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Main research: Cultures of illegality and violence in Latin America; »weak statehood« in Latin America in asymmetric power-constellations.

The End of Violence (Guest)

Dr., is a specialist in Constitutional Law with the Law Library of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. From 1970 to 2006 Fisher worked for the Congressional Research Service. He has been invited to testify before Congress on such issues as war powers, state secrets, CIA whistleblowing, and, last but not least, executive privilege. He received his doctorate in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York and has taught at a number of universities and law schools.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig and co-founder of the Emotions Network of the European Sociological Association. She also is head coordinator of the (by the VW-Foundation funded) project »German Legal Traditions on Trial« with special emphasis on the legal practicioners involved in the NSU-trial.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., politcial scientist and historian, was a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich – Berlin. Main research: German and Central European contemporary history; history of Communism.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History at the University of Berne. Main research: History of imperialism; European expansion; Prussian-German military history; World War I; »total« war in modern age.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Dr., historian and physicist (Dipl.-Phys.), is a research fellow at the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, University of Jena. Main research: Science in the Third Reich and in the Cold War; history of nuclear physics.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Visiting Professor of Technical History at the Technical University Berlin as well as a research fellow and lecturer at the Technical University Dresden. He participated in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) network project »Innovation Culture in Germany« and the collaborative research center (SFB) »Transcendence and Common Sense.« Main research: Technology, economy, and society since the early industrialization in the 18th century.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern History at the University of Bonn. Main research: Cold War; fear and anxiety in international relations.

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

is Professor of Contemporary History/History of International Relations at the University of the German Armed Forces Munich. He is also Adjunct Research Professor at Jacobs University Bremen and heads research projects funded by the German Research Foundation and the VW Foundation on a »Global History of Urban Development« and »Development beyond Industrialization.« Main research: History of development policies. Presently, he is working on a global history of Dutch colonialism.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

historian, is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, he was the associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at the University of Yale. Main research: Modern Russian and Chinese history; history of international socialism, revolutions and revolutionary movements; decolonization and development.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Dr., studied Eastern European History, Slavic Studies and Law at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, where he also received his doctorate in 2005 and today is academic counsel.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Professor of History at the University of Illinois. Main research: Modern and contemporary German and European history.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

FBA, is Professor of German History and dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London. Main research: German dictatorships in the 20th century; Europe after the Holocaust; historiography; social theory. Reckonings: Living with a Nazi Past is the working title of her new book.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)