is co-director of the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam and Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Autobiography and regime change in the 20th century; legendary Potsdam; Erich Honecker.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Dr., art historian and publizist, writes about art as a political tool, political monuments, and art in East Germany.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

works with a doctoral scholarship at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He studied philosophy, sociology and political science at the University of Kassel and the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. 

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong. Main research: International Political Economy; global capitalism; history of the Soviet Union. His current work is on the financialization of the global economy that followed the end of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s and its effects on the Soviet Union.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Professor of Public International Law und director of the Department of International Law and International Relations at the University of Geneva and Associate Professor at the Université du Québec and the University Laval, Canada. Main research: International humanitarian law; human rights; international criminal law.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a Past & Present postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies at the University of London as well as a visiting research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics in Cambridge. Main research: Connections between human rights, humanitarianism and the global market; the political economy of empire, decolonization, and sovereignty and international order. She is currently writing a book on how Britons, and to a large extent a burgeoning international community, came to act in the name of humanity in the second half of the twentieth century.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

is a newspaper reporter in Washington, DC, with the New York Times, which he joined in 2008. In 2007, when employed by the Boston Globe, he was the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the issue of Presidential Signing Statements, specifically the use of such statements by the George W. Bush administration. He writes about the Supreme Court, homeland security, U.S. detention and interrogation policies at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the War on Terrorism. 

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Professor of Art of the United States at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. Main research: United States war memorials and public monuments.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr. political scientist, is a senior research fellow in the National Security Archive at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she directs its cooperative projects with Russian archives and institutes and edits the Russian and East Bloc Archival Documents Database. She is also adjunct professorial lecturer at the American University’s School of International Service.

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

Dr., MBA, historian, is deputy director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He studied history, economics and philosophy at Stirling University before completing a DPhil in modern history at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He was also awarded an MBA at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Host)

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)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

The End of Violence (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of International Law at Middlesex University in London. He is also Professor of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland in Galway and an Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Main research: Abolition of capital punishment; genocide; international criminal tribunals.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

is Professor of Eastern European Contemporary History and Culture  and director of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Main research: Late Soviet Union; Chrušev and Brežnev; dissent and consensus; Homo Sovieticus.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

is Professor of Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. Main research: Aesthetics; art and cultural philosophy; media philosophy.

The End of Violence (Guest)

is Professor of Russian History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Main research: Russian Intelligencija with special emphasis on social-cultural factors and aspects of political theory.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Main research: Political philosophy; European history of ideas; theory of democracy and law.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

is Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg and director of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg. Main research: Intellectual history of the 20th century; media and urban history of the 20th century; social and cultural history of West Germany.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

historian and publicist, is Professor for Eastern European History at the Europe University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Main research: Cultures of modernity in Eastern Europe with a special focus on Russia; »Stalinism as civilization«; forced migrations and diaspora cultures in the 20th century; urban history and urbanism in Eastern Europe; theoretical challenges of a spatial historiography.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

studies history and German Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Cambridge.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

M.A., historian, obtained his master’s degree at the University of Hamburg and is now studying the master’s programme »War and Society« at the University of Exeter. Schmitz worked as undergraduate assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Transcultural history of violence; British and French Imperialism; cultural and social history of Imperial Wars.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

PD Dr., historian, is senior lecturer at the University of Essex. Main research: Rulership, power and violence in Russia and the Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

The End of Violence (Host)

is Professor of Public Law, European Law, Comparative Law and Constitutional History at the University of Konstanz. Main research: Citizenship in the European Union.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Dr., political scientist and economist, is a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Main research: Transformation of Western armies after the end of the Cold War; dynamics of armament and arms control; the future of war.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Visiting Scholar at the Tamiment Library of New York University, was Professor of History at Yeshiva University in New York. She is a member of the editorial board of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, a member of the advisory committee of the Center for the United States and the Cold War, and Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians. Her current book project is entitled Professors and Politics in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

literary scientist, is a PhD student at the Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation (Leuphana University Lüneburg/Arizona State University). Her thesis looks into the history of environmental research at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Main reseaerch: History and epistemology of environmental sciences; perceptions of changing environmental conditions.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is the archivist and librarian at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He studied political science and sociology at Philipps-University Marburg and the University of Hamburg. At the Institute for Information and Documentation in Potsdam he completed his professional training as a specialist in scientific documentation. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

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

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

social scientist, is a PhD researcher at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In her dissertation titled Youth groups and activism in contemporary Russia she explores youth activism and political mobilization in Central and Eastern Siberia from a cultural-sociological perspective.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is pursuing the dual Master’s degree in International and World History at Columbia University, New York, and the London School of Economics. Main research: Soldierly values and military culture in Italy and Germany after 1945.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Main research: Political history; political economy; history of capitalism; business, labor, and the state. His current book project is entitled New Deal Empire: American Capitalism and the Postwar World.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Dr., is a lecturer in Military History and deputy director in the Department of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford, Manchester. Main research: Military history;  German and British political, security, and intelligence history in the 20th century; history of military thought.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is second deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg. Main research: History of German liberalism; exile and remigration; knowledge and science in the Cold War; knowledge and environmental transnational history since the 1970s; time and future in history.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Host)

PD Dr., is a lecturer at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Berne. Main research: War crimes and International Law in the 19th and 20th century; Nuremberg Trails.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is Associate Professor of History at Boston College, MA. Main research: Modern Japan; history of memory; comparative, global, and social history of the 20th century.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Sociology at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Main research: Social theory; postsocialism; sociology of consumer culture; photography; social memory. She is currently working on a collaborative ethnographic project on Soviet family photography and generational memories of socialism, provisionally entitled Snapshot Histories.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

historian and freelance writer, writes her PhD thesis about Buchenwald as lieu de mémoire since 1945. She is a lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology and Social Theory at the Ruhr University of Bochum as well as in the Department of Early Modern and Modern History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Main research: Strategies and practices of constructing historical meaning in the public space; memory cultures and policies in Germany, the GDR, as well as in Israel and Palestine.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a post-doctoral research fellow and associate director at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of a research project on the International History of Concentration Camps.

The World of the Camps (Host)

is Professor of North American Literature and Culture and director of the North American Studies Program, the German-Canadian Centre, and the Forum Women and Gender Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. Main research: North American literature and culture since the 18th century with special emphasis on cultural theory, popular culture, and the interfaces of cultural studies and the (cognitive) sciences. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is director of studies at the Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate and an associate lecturer at the University of Technology in Kaiserslautern. Main research: Foreign and security policy of the Russian Federation and the US; Russian-American relations; NATO-Russian relations; theories of International Relations; comparison of political systems. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, and heads the research project »The Road to Technocratic Socialism: Concepts of Governance in Czechoslovakia (1953–1975).« Main research: 20th century Czech and Czechoslovak history; history of communism; theory and methodology of historiography; history of historiography; history of social sciences; history of expertise in state socialism.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Associate Professor of History at Kongju National University in South Korea. He studied history at Seoul National University and completed his doctoral thesis in 2001 at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Main research: Contemporary history of Germany and East-Asia.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

represents the chair of East and Central European pre-modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Main research: Imperial Russia; the Soviet Union and its dissolution. His new project deals with migration and the aesthetics of spaces lost in global perspective.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Dr., studied history in Dresden before earning his doctorate in Cultural Sciences at Humboldt-University of Berlin in 1994. He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Bonn. Main research: History of the Gulag and Gulag inmates.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History in Vienna. Main research: History of National Socialism, Fascism, and the Holocaust; German societal history in the 20th century.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Frankfurt where she is writing her second book about the formation of the Rule of Law in India (1858-1950). Previously, she was a research fellow in the Cluster of Excellence 243 »The Formation of Normative Orders«. Main research: History of law; history of the British Empire; cultural history of diplomacy.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr., is Reader in Sociology at the London Metropolitan University. Main research: Informal and criminal social networks in Russia; perceptions of social justice and human rights in a comparative context.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University. Main research: World War I and its immediate aftermath; 20th century German history.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

has been Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College since 2002, and was Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War between 2003 and 2012. He also serves on the Strategic Advisory Panel of the Chief of the Defence Staff, on the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board, as a trustee of the Imperial War Museum, as Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, and on the National Committee for the Centenary of the First World War and the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the Philipps-University of Marburg. Previously, he was deputy director of the German Historical Institute London. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Basel and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Main research: Comparative research on imperialism; history of knowledge and knowledge transfer; history of the family and childhood since the 19th century.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Spanish and Portuguese Empire (ca. 1800-1975) with a special interest in crises and options of imperial rule.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

The End of Violence (Guest)

historian, is head of the Archival Services & Records Management Coordination at the National Archives of Hungary, where he previously was working as senior archivist. Main research: Hungary in the Cold War with special regard to Hungary’s national interests and economics during Détente.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

philosopher and education researcher, is director of the Foundation International Youth Meeting Centre in Auschwitz/Oświęcim. Main research: National Socialism; human rights; anti-semitism; xenophobia; prejudices.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

social democratic party secretary, Member of Parliament, Minister of Energy and later (1985-1994) General Director of the Swedish State Agency for International Assistance. From 1994 to 1998 he was Minister of Higher Education and Science and from 1999 to 2002 Secretary General of the Olof Palme International Center. From 2002 to 2006 he was the Swedish Ambassador to Germany. 

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

is Senior Professor in the Excellence Cluster "Religion and Politics" at the Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster, where he was Professor of Early Modern and Modern History until 2011. Main research: National Socialism and European Fascism; intellectual and social history of 18th and 19th century France; cultural history of exhibitions and museums.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

economist and sociologist, is Professor and Directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Centre Simmel). With Luc Boltanski, he founded the “Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale” in 1984. Main research: Pragmatic sociology; Convention Theory; “regimes of engagement”; transversal “grammars of commonality in the plural” in France, the United States of America, and Russia.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Department of History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. He was an associated fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and worked for the Federal Archive Berlin.

The World of the Camps (Host)

political scientist, is director of the Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate located in Kaiserslautern. Main research: American democracy in comparative perspective with a special emphasis on elections and election campaigns. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

is Professor of Modern German History at Yale University. Main research: Contemporary German history; economic history of the 20th century; social theories; philosophy of history.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Associate Professor in the Department of History and co-director of Pasts, Inc., at the Central European University in Budapest. Main research: History of political thought in East Central Europe. 

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

historian and slavist, is Professor of Cultural Studies of Eastern and Central Europe at the University of Leipzig and deputy director of the Humanities Centre for Eastern Central European History and Culture in Leipzig. Main research: History of international relations in modern times; politics of history and memory culture in modern Europe.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Professor of Modern European History at the Jacobs University Bremen. Main research: International and global history; history of knowledge and history of science after 1945; history of foreign aid and modernization in the Global South.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Munich. Main research: Modern Russian and Soviet history; modern and contemporary Chinese history;  China’s relations with Eastern Europe during the Cold War; history of borders; discourses on the »yellow peril.«

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Dr., is lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds. Main research: French defence and security policies with special emphasis on the period since the Mitterrand presidency.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)