Dr., sociologist and historian, is a research fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Main research: Protest, social movements; perceptions of fascism and nationalism in Russia; Soviet war memorials. 

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Host)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Host)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Gast)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Host)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Host)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the Institute for Political Sciences at the Technical University of Chemnitz. Main research: Intellectuals and politics; political thought in the 20th century; revolutions in theory and history.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

historian, is finishing his PhD thesis on the Brest fortress as historic site and lieu de mémoire. Main research: Museums in Central Eastern Europe; history of Carpatho-Ukraine; Brest fortress.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Dr., geographer and urban anthropologist, is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Eastern European Studies at the Free University Berlin and in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is Professor of Political Science with a focus on International Relations at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. Previously, she was project manager at the Peace Research Institute and research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence »Normative Orders« at Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. At the Goethe University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich she read International Relations as Visiting Professor.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History and director of the German Historical Institute in London. Main research: History of migration; history of the family; history of poverty, poor relief, and philantrophy in modern Europe.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is Professor of Eastern European History and director of the Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies at the University of Tübingen. He also heads a subproject in the collaborative research project (SFB) 923 »Threatened Order - Societies under Stress.« Main research: History of science and technology in the Cold War; major projects and disasters in the Soviet Union. Together with Melanie Arndt and Marc Elie, 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.«

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of Modern German History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Main research: History of welfare policy; German and transnational history in the 19th and 20th century.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Main research: Strategic theory; cyber-security; foreign policy analysis.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

historian and photographer, is freelance editor of Osteuropa. Main research: Human Rights; genocide.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Associate Professor of French Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Main research: Memory and gender.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Professor of Journalism and Sociology and chair of the PhD program in communications at Columbia University in New York.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Dr., is a senior lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Main research: British and German cultural and comparative history with special emphasis on the memory of the two world wars and on urban history.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Professor for Modern History at the University of Zurich. Main research: History of humanitarianism and the changing perceptions of victimhood; history of violence; history of memory cultures; history of international law; history of knowledge. Her new book is on the history of war victimhood (forthcoming 2017).

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

was Professor at the University College Dublin where he read French and European history for over forty years. He has published extensively about the French Revolution, notably on the history of the press and of terror.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor for Conflict and Security History at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at Leiden University (Campus The Hague). Main research: History of national security in the West; (Counter-)terrorism; »Securitization«; international relations.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is director of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Hamburg and a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: 20th century history of the United States of America with a special emphasis on the Cold War and civil-military relations.

»Imperial Presidency« (Host)

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Host)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Host)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest) 

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Host)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Host)

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

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Host)

The End of Violence (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Host)

Churchill as Historian (Host)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, works for the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and is coordinator of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History and the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies. She has written on political repression and (camp) imprisonment in the Twentieth Century.

»Imperial Presidency« (Coordinator)

The World of the Camps (Coordinator)

»Exit Options« (Coordinator)

Humanitarian Wars (Coordinator)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Coordinator)

Nonviolent Resistance (Coordinator)

»Polarized Politics« (Coordinator)

The Return of Political Economy (Coordinator)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Coordinator)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Coordinator)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Coordinator)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Coordinator)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Coordinator)

Farewell to Despotism (Coordinator)

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

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Coordinator)

Violence as Social Order (Coordinator)

The End of Violence (Coordinator)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Coordinator)

Churchill as Historian (Coordinator)

Humanitarian Ethics (Coordinator)

Holocaust and Sociology (Coordinator)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Coordinator)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Coordinator)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Coordinator)

historian, is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau. Main research: Modern Vietnamese history; Cold War history; memory studies; intelligence studies.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

historian, political scientist and economist, is a PhD student at the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). The title of his thesis: The implementation of (new) order - The social practice of local administration under the conditions of socialist ruling in the Polish People's Republic. The example of  Wrocław Voidvodeship (1953 - 1973).

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of the History of International Relations, Jean Monnet Chair of the History of European Unification, coordinator of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University of Florence and research coordinator of the Machiavelli Centre for Cold War Studies.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: History of liberalism; social philosophy; intellectual history and the history of ideas in the 19th and 20th century.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Host)

is an art historian, journalist and political scientist with degrees in philosophy, finance and Islamic art. He works as editor at zenith, a fast growing family of German independent media outlets on the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and the Muslim world, covering the events of the Arab Spring and processes of social, political and economic transformation in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is a master student of history at the University of Hamburg and student assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

is Visiting Professor of International Politics and Law, among others at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, MA, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and the Harvard Law School. She was a board member of United Technologies Corporation for 21 years until retiring in 2002. During the Carter Administration she was Assistant and later Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, where she was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. She has served on several Federal Commissions, including the Vice President’s White House Aviation Safety and Security Commission, and the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

Dr., international law specialist and linguist, is a guest fellow of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: International Law; laws and customs of war; human rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity, focusing in particular on both World Wars and the genocide and reconciliation process in Rwanda.

Humanitarian Wars (Host)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a post doctoral researcher in the Hugo Valentin Centre at the University of Uppsala. Main research: 20th century Eastern European history with special emphasis on the Holocaust and post-Soviet transition in Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

was Professor of Modern History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Cultural history.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Dr. des., historian, is a research fellow and lecturer in the Amerika-Institut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where she teaches in American cultural history.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., slavist, is a research fellow in the Department of Slavic Studies/Lotman-Institute of Russian Culture at Ruhr University of Bochum. Main research: Soviet »Leitkultur« in the Soviet Occupation Zone and early German Democratic Republic; German writers in Soviet exile; camp literature; western intellectuals and their perception of the USSR.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Professor emeritus in the Department of History, Philosophy and Theology at the University of Bielefeld. Previously, he taught at the University of Bremen, EHESS Paris, Lyon 2, the University of Halle and the European University Institute in Florence. Main Research: European social and political history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The End of Violence (Guest)

Dr., sociologist and philosopher, is a guest fellow of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture. Main research: War and genocide; colonialism and history of Southern Africa; Hegel; philosophy of religion.

The End of Violence (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is NATO senior fellow in the National Defense University’s Center for Transatlantic Security Studies in Washington, DC. A lawyer by trade, he has served as a legal advisor at the Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (NATO ACT) and in various assignments in the German Armed Forces. Earlier on, he was a research fellow and lecturer in German Constitutional and Public Law, International Law and European Law at the Universities of Regensburg, Würzburg, and Konstanz. Main research: International security policy and strategy, including the law of armed conflict and international military operations.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian, translator, journalist, studied in Berlin and Moscow where he also received his doctorate. Main research: History of the Comintern; the CPSU; and Stalinist terror.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a researcher at the Free University of Berlin, where he heads the project “Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire, and the Making of a Global Port,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 2014-15, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the UC Berkeley Human Rights Program.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Dr. des., historian, is a research fellow at the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation/Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Main research: East German post war history; German memory culture.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Host)

is Professor of Russian History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Main research: Cultural and political history of the Soviet Union with special emphasis on World War Two and the Cold War.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Main research: European intellectual and cultural history in the 20th century.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

served from 1952 to 1987 in Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters. He is as a research associate of Nuffield College, Oxford, and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group. Main research: Intelligence and security studies.

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

Dr., historian, founded the magazine graswurzelrevolution. He conducted nine years of fieldwork in the South of France observing the—eventually successful—nonviolent struggle of local farmers against the expansion of a military training compound. After founding the resource center for nonviolent action Kurve Wustrow in Wendland in 1979, he stayed on as a staff member until 1989. For 16 years he was also a staff member of the Archiv Aktiv in Hamburg, a documentation center for nonviolent movements. From 1998 to 2011 he worked at the archive of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bielefeld. He was a fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. From 2008 to 2001, he represented the chair for Economic- and Social History at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading. A graduate of the University of London (Bedford College and London School of Economics) and the University of Oxford (DPhil), she holds a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Philipps-University of Marburg. From 1991 to 2003 she taught at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, last as Professor of International and Strategic Studies. She has also taught at four French universities, and at two German universities. In 1997 and 1998 she spent a sabbatical at NATO headquarters as a consultant/intern. From 2003 to 2007 she was director of research at the Military History Research Office of the Bundeswehr.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

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

Dr., historian, is lecturer at the Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr University of Hamburg. Main research: German-soviet relations; soviet history; relations of the Eastern Block with the Global South.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History at the University of Stuttgart. From 1990 to 2011 he was director of the Library of Contemporary History in Stuttgart. He is a member of numerous national and international boards; until 2010 he was President of the International Committee for the Study of the Second World War. Twice he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, last in 2006-2007.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is Professor for European and Modern History at the University of Rostock. Main research: Empires in modern times; colonialism; comparison and transfer as methodological tools.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Professor of North American Cultural History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Main research: Antebellum-America; the Civil War; post World War II; history of women and gender in the United States; religion in the United States, specifically Roman Catholicism and Evangelicalism; »westernization« and the intellectual history of the Cold War.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is Associate Professor for Late Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Main research: Post-Enlightenment sociability; social thought; recent history of human rights.

Humanitarian Ethics (Host)

is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at the New York University Law School. Before coming to New York he has read at Yale, Wesleyan, Princeton, Harvard, and Chicago. Main research: History of European liberalism; disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Göttingen and a research fellow at the Volkswagen AutoUni in Wolfsburg. Main research: Sociological theory; globalization research; sociology of war; sociology of knowledge; sociology of risks; political sociology.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

was Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London. Main research: Russian Empire; Russians in the Soviet Union; trust as a social phenomenon.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

political scientist and historian, is a referent in the Department of Memory Culture and Memorial Museums at the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Bonn. Main research: Future of memory culture; education policies for the distribution of historical knowledge; historical and political education at memorial museums.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He earned his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2001, where he was awarded the John Ordronaux Prize. He clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2001–02) and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States (2003–04). After clerking he worked as Associate Counsel and then Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School. Main research: Comparative constitutional law; national security and counterterrorism; federal jurisdiction und legislation; human rights.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is a writer, teacher and former politician. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and Harvard University, where he was director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government between 2000 and 2005. Between 2006 and 2011, he was Member of Parliament, deputy leader and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bologna and chairman of the Research Committee for Political Sociology of the International Political Science Association. Main research: Processes of secularization; party politics in Europe; foreign policy of the major European countries.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Wuppertal. Main research: Power and rulership; conflict and violence research; social disparity; elites. At present, he works on legitimations of violence.

The End of Violence (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Main research: 20th-century American radical movements; history of the 1960s; the history of mountaineering and exploration. He is currently writing a book titled Continental Divide. A History of American Mountaineering.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

historian, is adjunct lecturer in Modern and Eastern European History and spokesman of the research group »Social and Cultural Orders of Eastern Europe in a Historical and Literary Perspective« at the University of Freiburg. Main research: Social and cultural history of war and violence; historical networks of trust; military decision-making. Presently, he works on the military’s organizational culture during the Nazi period.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)