Prof. Dr. hab., historian, is head of the Research Group Germany at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Main research: Polish contemporary history; national minorities in Poland; German-Polish relations after 1945; forced migration in Eastern Central Europa after 1945.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Dr., is a lecturer in Public History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Main research: British and Irish experience and memory of the Great War.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., historian, is head of the Department for Research and International Cooperation at the Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and chief editor of the Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. Main research: Modern European history; history of international relations; politcial economy; global history.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Associate Professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and research fellow at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po. Main research: Perpetrators and accomplices; everyday history of violence; history of sexuality and gender history of National Socialism.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

philosopher and sociologist, is editor of Mittelweg 36, the journal oft he Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and of the internet platform Soziopolis. He is also co-editor and copy editor of  Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte / Journal for Human Rights.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

The End of Violence (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is a member of the Coordinating Council of the International Youth Human Rights Movement. He also works as a program coordinator for the Moscow Helsinki Group. He has a degree in law, with several years of legal practice, and is one of the initiators of the Russian Legal Team for Activists, a group of legal supporters for grassroot activists.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

historian, is a PhD candidate and a research fellow at the Department of Eastern and Southeastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Main research: Lithuanian culture of remembrance with respect to World War II; commemorative memorials and museums.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is currently a fellow-in-residence in the European and Eurasian Studies program of Johns Hopkins School of International Studies in Washington, DC. He was formerly a Washington correspondent and Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. In 2005, he was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

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

is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and co-director of the Center for Social Policy at the University of Bremen. Main research: Political corruption; comparative political economy; comparative welfare state research; German political system; European integration.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History and European History at the University of Calabria and a member of the graduate school at the University of Turin. Main research: Fascism; history of concentration camp systems; German-Italian relations in the 20th century.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is a PhD candidate of the Independent Historical Commission for the Reappraisal of the History of the Reich's Ministry of Labour during National Socialism.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

ethnologist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Security; phenomena of violence; peace and conflict research.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Professor of Sociology, was founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Main research: Macro theories of society and social systems; political institutions, policy development and implementation in a comparative perspective; sociology of organizations; sociology of technology.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of History and director of the Centre for Historical Research at the University of Limerick. Main research: Germany in the 20th century; cultural history.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Dr., is a freelance consultant with an emphasis on peace and conflict related projects. She is a board member of Peace Direct. She holds a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Assistant Professor of History at California State University East Bay. Main research: History of global communism. She is currently writing a new monograph titled Communist Neverland: History of an International Children’s Home, 1933-2013, a history of the global communist movement, as told through the lens of a children’s home that educated the children of top international communists.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston. Main research: Canadian cultural history; economic and social history of the Atlantic region of Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries; memory of World War I in Canada.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. Main research: History and theory of nationalism; history of social movements; historical theory; agricultural history of Spain.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Dr., historian, is an applied research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and editor in chief of the United States Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

M.A., historian, is a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo and at the London School of Economics. He will shortly defend his dissertation on the Japanese occupation regime in Malaya and Singapur at the University of Mainz. Melber is editor at the TV production company History Media and also works as a consultant for »ZDF-History«. Main research: History of modern Japan with a focus on the Second World War.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in the Department of Contemporary History at the Eberhard Karls-University Tübingen. Main research: History of the francophone world; French modernism.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Hamburg. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the German Parliamemtary Enquete-Commission »Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine«.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in Modern History at the Philipp University of Marburg and Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at Wolfson College, Cambridge (2013-2014). Main research: German and French military and war history in the 19th and 20th centuries; economic and social policy in Germany and Britain after World War II.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

is Professor of Western European History and the History of Transatlantic Relations at the Humboldt University of Berlin and director of the affiliated institute Centre Marc Bloch. Main research: Western European societies; European integration; history of the United States with special emphasis on the 20th century.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

The End of Violence (Host)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the project History of the Reich Ministry of Finance in the time of National Socialism at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Main research: Institutional history of the Reich Ministry of Finance between the Weimar Republic and National Socialism.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

political scientist, is Associate Professor in the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht. Main research: Democracy research; transitional justice; human rights.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

works at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as the paper's Eastern Europe editor. He finished his PhD in Eastern European history at the University of Basel in May 2015. In his dissertation, titled Memorial Landscapes in the Postwar Generation: The Soviet Hero-Cities of Tula and Novorossiysk in the Brezhnev Era, he researched the political, cultural and economic role of war memory in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s. His academic interests include the politics of history, the creation and determination of cultural topographies as well as youth culture in the late USSR.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a senior lecturer in Modern European History at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Main research: World War I with special emphasis on it’s origins and outbreak.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr. historian, is editor of Mittelweg 36, the journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and of the internet platform Soziopolis. He is also co-editor of WerkstattGeschichte. Main research: Cultural history; history of migration; public history; historical writing.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest) 

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

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

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, is director of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. Previously, he was a research fellow in the Department of Eastern European History at Ruhr University of Bochum and at the Sachsenhausen and Bautzen Memorials.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

is Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th-20th centuries) at the European University Institute in Florence and editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. Main research: Global, transnational, international, and colonial history; genocide and ethnic cleansing; intellectual history.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a guest fellow of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture and co-coordinator of the International Research Group Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Sexual violence during World War II in Europe and Asia; gender and sexuality in international and internationalized trials.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

PD Dr., represents the chair of Military History and Cultural History of Violence at the University of Potsdam. Main research: History of the Cold War; modern military history; military and society in East and West Germany; occupation and deployment in the Cold War.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr., literary scholar, is editor of Mittelweg 36, the journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and of the internet platform Soziopolis. Previously, she was editor at EGO | European History Online published by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

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

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Dr., political scientist and scholar of Islam, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research where she works about the institutionalization of the »Islamic State«. Main research: Religious and political ideologies, statehood, international security and foreign policy in the Middle East.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a senior research fellow in the Faculté des lettres at the University of  Fribourg. Main research: German and French history of the 19th and 20th century; history of historiography; theory of historical sciences.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

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: History of German dissidents in Soviet exile; Stalinist terror.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He is also editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte. Main research: History of democracy, political economy, and capitalism; Germany in international contexts; Weimar Germany; Europe and United States in the interwar period; Cold War; German, Western European, and American intellectual history.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

Exit Options (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Host) 

The Return of Political Economy (Host)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Host)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in Modern International History at the University College Dublin. Main research: International relations prior to 1914.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. In addition, she is working on the project »From Violence to Nonviolence« at the Berghof Foundation Berlin.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Ronald S. Lauder Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Main research: Russia/USSR; Eastern European Jewish history; nationalism; human rights. His new book project is titled To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Soviet Dissident Movement.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. From 1981 to 1992 he was editor of the journal Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik and is a member of the editorial board ever since. Main research: Politics of memory; post-World War II Germany; West German military history.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of La Rioja in Logroño. Main research: Spanish military history.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard University and the Free University of Berlin. She was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and Tel Aviv University before coming to the Einstein Forum in 2000.

»Imperial Presidency« (Host)

The World of the Camps (Guest) 

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Host)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Farewell from Despotism (Guest)

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

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

The End of Violence (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Host)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of Military History/Cultural History of Violence at Potsdam University. Main research: Military history and history of violence in the 20th century; history of war with a focus on the World Wars.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Host)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Honorary Research Fellow at Sheffield University and an English and Philosophy teacher at the Städtische Gymnasium Kreuztal.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat., is deputy scientific director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg and heads the Master’s programme »Peace and Security Studies.« He is a board member of the German Physical Society (DPG), chairman of it’s working group »Physics and Disarmament« and Pugwash representative of the Association of German Scientists (VDW) as well as a member of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Main research: Disarmament, armament control and technologies; non-proliferation of WMD; missile defense, missile proliferation; outer space technologies.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Erfurt University where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century U.S.-American history. Main research: History of the U.S.-American South; history of violence; visual history; history of imperialism.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Dr., is a research associate in Historical Political Studies at the University of Bielefeld. In 2016/17, he is a visiting scholar at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies and a Gerda Henkel Foundation research fellow. He is writing his second book (Habilitation) titled Propaganda, Media Mindfulness and Communications Research in the Age of Extremes: the USA, the Soviet Union and Germany from the 1920s to the Cold War.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is chairman of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and member of Latvia’s History Commission. He was Professor of German Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as well as president, board member, and academic executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

has been Professor of International Law at the Humboldt-University Berlin since 2008, and a member of the United Nations International Law Commission since 2007. Main research: International law and security related international law.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

historian, is editor of Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Main research: Social history of National Socialism; history of the NSDAP and fascist movements;  historical socialization research; Siegfried Kracauer and theory of history. At present, he works on a history of the NSDAP, 1919/20-1945.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Military history; space and history; Otto von Bismarck.

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute for History at the Free University in Berlin and a Freigeist-Fellow writing a book on The Cold War’s Clash of Civilizations: The Soviet Union, the Left, and the International Origins of Islamism. Main research: USSR; Central Asia; Afghanistan; Iran; transnational and transregional history.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in Eastern European Studies and a member of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. Main research: History of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century; remembrance of war; population displacement; borderlands and ethnic minorities.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Professor of Public Law, International Law and Comparative Public Law at the University of Hamburg. Main research: Theory of public international law and international relations; international economic law; protection of minorities; comparative research on federalism; humanitarian law.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

is Professor at the Department of History at the University of California. She writes about 20th century U.S. cultural and political history.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen and a general editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES). Main research: Law and literature/culture; punitivity; narratology; feminist and gender studies. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

is Professor of the History of Migration at the Department of Modern History at the University of Osnabrück. He is also a board member of the University’s Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is editorial director of the publishing house Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

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

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a fellow of the British Academy and director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society in Exeter. Main research: History of World War II; European dictatorships; history of air power.

The World of the Camps (Guest)