PD Dr., studied History, Political Science and German Studies in Freiburg and Berlin. From 2000 to 2008 he was a lecturer in the Department of History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. In 2009 he became a lecturer of history at the University of Heidelberg. Main research: German-British history of the 19th and 20th century; military history; historical peace studies.

The World of the Camps (Host)

Iranian philosopher, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and an advisory member of PEN Canada.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian and journalist, is a lecturer of German and European History at the New York University Berlin and the Stanford University Berlin. He is part of the research group at the Hamburger Institute for Social Research on the history of left-wing terrorism in West Germany and its international network.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

graduated from the Institut Supérieur des langues de Tunis in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and linguistics. As a Fulbright Scholar he was trained as a foreign language teaching assistant of Arabic at Cleveland State University in 2006/2007. Since then he has been working as an English language teacher in Tunisia. He is an activist of the General Trade Union for Secondary Education urging students and educators to maintain peace and stability.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Professor of History at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and a research fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies (2015/16). Main research: Russian empire; Sino-Soviet relations; socialist bloc exchange.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Host)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in Modern History in the Institut d’Études politiques at the Université Lille Nord de France and a research fellow at the Institut de Recherches Historique du Septentrion (CNRS/Université Lille 3). She is a member of the academic advisory board of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Péronne) and the (French interministerial) Mission du Centenaire. She is co-editor of the post-war section on 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr. historian, is a guest fellow of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th century; sociological and historical approaches to biographical research; political collectivity; oral history; research on generations; culture of memory and memory research; space as a concept of political order.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Dr., is a senior lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. Main research: Cultural history of World War I; history of prisoner treatment in Europe; early Weimar Germany.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

historian, is the Freedom of Information Act coordinator in the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and editor of the Archive’s blog Unredacted. Main research: 1983 »Able Archer« nuclear war scare; operation RYAN.

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

was Professor for Social History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin until 2008. Since then he is Senior Professor. Main research: Comparative European history in the 19th and 20th centuries; history of European integration. 

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Public Law and Foundations of Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Public- and administrative law; particracy.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Professor of History of the 19th and 20th centuries with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe at the Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr University of Hamburg, director of the German Historical Institute Moscow, and a member of the Joint Research Committee on the Contemporary History of German-Russian Relations. Main research: World War, civil war, and societal change in Russia; social and cultural history of the Breshnev-era; writers as political intellectuals.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is academic coordinator of the Research Network Law in Context at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. She is a co-editor of the German Law Journal and writes regularly feature articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Main research: International law; European public law; constitutional theory; comparative constitutional law and context(s) of law.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

PD Dr., historian and political scientist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, spokeswoman of the Arbeitskreis Historische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung and a member of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies working group. Main research: Historical research on peace and conflict; history of experts and history of science; contemporary European and transatlantic history; history of ideas, the media, and communication.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

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

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., economic and social historian, represents the chair of Applied Economics at Mannheim University. She is a board member of the Association for Critical Business History and associate editor of the Bochumer Schriften zur Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte. Main research: Economic and business history in the 19th and 20th century; war economy during the World Wars; arms industry in the Cold War.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Prof. Dr., historian, was deputy director of the German Historical Institute in London from 1975 to 2004, intermittently holding interim chairs in Germany.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is Professor of Russian History at the Loyola University Chicago. Main research: Imperial periphery; Eurasian empires.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Associate Professor and represents the chair of Modern History at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Main research: History of international relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; international history.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

studies German and Politics at Princeton University. Main research: Social movement politics; left-wing party politics. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: History of Stalinism; history of violence and memory culture in post-Soviet societies.

The End of Violence (Guest)

PD Dr., is a senior lecturer in Modern History at the Loughborough University. Main research: Social and cultural history of China in modern times; colonialism.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

historian, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation. Main research: Representation of Nazi perpetrators in museums.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Dr., linguist, is director of the press and public affairs office at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and Visiting Professor of Sociology and Cultural Organisation at the University of Lüneburg. Main research: Social theory; political and historical comparative sociology; macrosociology; history of social sciences.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Host)

Dr., historian and publicist. Main research: History of Communism.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is Professor of Comparative and Transnational History of the 19th and 20th Century Europe with specical emphasis on Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe at the European University Institute in Florence. Main research: Physical violence and state legitimacy in late Socialism; communist identity after Stalinism.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Previously, she was Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague. Main research: Czechoslovakia and Soviet foreign policy; international communist movement; the Communist Party of China and the Global South.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Associate Professor in the Department for History and Theory of Culture at the University of Sofia. She is a member of the international editorial advisory boards of Oral History and L’Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft. Main research: Oral history and anthropology of socialism and post-socialism; biographical and cultural memory; biographical methods; social constructivism.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., social anthropologist, works at the University of Magdeburg heading the project “The Interrelation between Orthodox Religion and Politics in contemporary Russia” which is funded by the German Research Association DFG. Previously, he was a member of the focus group “Religion and Morality in European Russia” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). Main research: Eastern Europe; Russia; political and economic anthropology; Orthodoxy.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

after internships at the Center for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan, and with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, he has been a research associate at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at the Free University of Berlin since 2011. Main research: Dynamics of protest and repression in authoritarian contexts; practices of nonviolent action and the transformation of authoritarian rule.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

has been Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York Institute of Technology since 1991. Main research: Psychology of nonviolence.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian, is senior lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester and director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Main research: History of the Balkans; Eastern European and German history in the 19th and 20th centuries; mass violence and nationalism.

The End of Violence (Guest)

is Professor of European History at the Trinity College Dublin. Main research: Europe in the First World War; history of violence in the 20th century; economic history of war; international history of camps.

The World of the Camps (Host)

»Exit Options« (Guest)   

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest) 

philosopher, is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory board of the ERSTE Foundation and a member of the regional advisory group for Europe of the International Monetary Fund. Since 2004 he has been the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. 

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Protest and resistance movements in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990); 1968 protest movement, Rote Armee Fraktion and the so-called »K-Gruppen«; theory of totalitarianism and extremism; pop culture and media theory.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Main research: International conflict; relationship between armed forces and society; linguistic practices and politics.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Rostock. Main research: Colonial concentration camps; energy crises in the 1970s.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of Criminal Law and Public International Law. He is director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Cologne. He is also a life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. Since 1998 he represents Germany in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court. He was a member of the Expert Group on the German Code of Crimes under International Law (2000/2001). He acted as war crimes expert for the Prosecutor General for East Timor (2001), as head of the ICC’s Drafting Committee for the Regulations of the Court (2004) and as a sub-coordinator in the negotiations on the crime of aggression.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

has been Professor of Public Law and International Law at the Free University Berlin since 2006. Previously, she taught at the Universities of Göttingen, Munich and Nottingham. She is member of the Research Council of the United Nations’ Association of Germany and acts as Vice-President of the German Society for Military Law and Humanitarian Law. She is a Judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., is a research fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and teaches at the Sociology Department at Potsdam University. He studied history, political science, and philosophy in Marburg, Bremen, and Berlin and worked as a high school professor and as a freelancing journalist, translator and essayist. In 1993, he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was a research fellow at the British Academy in London, Visting Professor for Western Philosophy at the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and in 2010 Guest Professor for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Main research: Social theory; sociology of organizations; sociology of interaction; sociology of industry and work; sociology of professions; history of science.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Hamburg. Main research: Social history of the 19th and 20th century; National Socialism; theory and history of violence; colonial/postcolonial studies.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of History and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, DC. Main research: Nuclear history; U.S. relations with Japan; Cold War; history of the United States in the 20th century.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

is Professor of Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Main research: Korea’s civil war experience seen in the context of family genealogical histories; North Korean war experiences.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Main research: Sexual violence; human rights; immigration in the second half of the 20th century.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Dr. historian, is curator of the history of the Soviet Special Camp Nr. 2 at Buchenwald Memorial. Previously, she was a research fellow in the Department of Contemporary History and the Department of Eastern European History at Ruhr University of Bochum.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Main research: Britain since 1509; social history; history of medicine. His new projects include a book on the history of humanitarianism in Britain to be written with Seth Koven and a book on the dog in western art.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

is Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a senior fellow at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Previously, he taught at Queen’s University Belfast and at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Main research: Foreign policy decision-making; Cold War belief systems; Russian foreign policy; societal changes in today’s China.

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

Dr., is a senior lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University in Wales, Great Britain. Main research: United States and Western European contemporary history with a special focus on Great Britain and Germany; transnational history of the Cold War; cultural and social history of the atomic age.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. Main research: Informal governance in Russia; corruption, informal economy, economic crime; informal practices in corporate governance; the role of networks and patron-client relationships in Russia and around the globe.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne. Main research: US-American and German 20th century history; history of transatlantic relations; history of science; contemporary history of ideas.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Sinology with a focus on Modern Chinese History and Politics at the University of Freiburg. Main research: Political, social and cultural history of China in the 20th century. His current research project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, is titled »The Maoist Legacy: Party Dictatorship, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Truth«.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Dr., historian, studied at the University of Vienna where he is a lecturer and Visiting Professor. Main research: Austrian and Russian/Soviet history; military history; history of espionage; history of capitalism, of socialism, of communism; history of prisoners of war.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

historian, is a PhD candidate at the University of Siegen. Main research: U.S.-veterans online.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Professor of Public, Comparative and Constitutional Law at the University of Bayreuth and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Main research: Foundation of public law; theory of democracy; theory of law.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

who holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, joined the University of Texas Law School in 1980. Previously a member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, he is also a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. As of late, his main research focuses on the morality, law, and politics of torture.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is MacArthur Foundation Professor in History and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Main research: Political economy; labor history; social thought.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

historian, is a PhD candidate and a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Gent. Main research: Local public instances and German, Belgian and Dutch bordertowns in World War I.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research assistant at the chair for the History of Science at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Main research: Theoretical history of economic and cultural studies and their interplay.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Visiting Associate Professor of German and History and director of the German Academic Exchange Service’s Information Centre at the University of Toronto. Main research: Theory of historiography; history of the body, science and gender; societal and cultural history of violence with special emphasis on early modern times.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History at King's College London. He has written on various topics of Russian social and cultural history (generations, media, leisure, housing) as well as on contemporary Russian history.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Associate Professor of International Relations and deputy director for research at the School of Regional and International Studies at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. Main research: Asia-Pacific international politics; Russia’s engagement with Asia.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at McGill University in Montreal. He is also head of the research group at McGill’s Yan Lin Center for Freedom and Global Orders. He is currently writing a new monograph titled A History of the Cold War without the Superpowers: East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe based on Chinese, Indian, Russian, European, Australian, Canadian, and U.S. archival and documentary research.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)