is a senior research fellow at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest. Main research: Modern history and international relations of China, especially the relations between China and the Soviet bloc.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

PD Dr., sociologist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and director of the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. Main research: Sociology of work, of the Welfare State and social inequality.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Dr., historian, Lieutenant Colonel, is a research fellow at the German Armed Forces’ Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam. Main research: Wehrmacht and National Socialism; warfare in the Second World War with a special focus on coalition wars’ warfare.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is an expert in the field of foreign and security policy. From 1999 to 2009 he held the office of Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the German Federal Foreign Office. From 1976 to 1998, he served as a Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) for the Social Democrats. From 1983 to 1998, he was foreign policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1977 to 1998 he also served as a Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, of which he was President between 1994 and 1996. He sits on numerous boards, among them the Board of Directors of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, the Aspen Institute in Berlin and the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

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

political scientist, is an analyst and head of the development department at the Levada Center in Moscow. Main research: Civil society and protest in Russia; Russian elites. He was a visiting fellow at Chatham House in London in 2015 and at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin in 2016.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and a member of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies working group. Currently, he is preparing a study on the reintegration of former soldiers in postwar societies from a comparative historical perspective. Research Interests: Cold War; U.S. history; history of intelligence services and covert operations; mercenaries and private military companies; demobilization, reintegration and veteran politics.

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

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? (Host)

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)

PD Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Research, Potsdam, and editor of Zeitgeschichte online. Main research: Visual history; media history; Hannah Arendt.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a reader in Modern European History at Birkbeck College, London, where he has directed a research project on the history of the pre-war Nazi camps. Main research: Repression and camp internment in the Third Reich.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Dr. des., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the Humboldt- University of Berlin. Main research: History of internationalism; expertise and experts (in particular in urban planning); experience of and dealing with political violence in Western societies.

The End of Violence (Guest)

PD Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Empires and European expansion; Western modern military history; constitutional and cultural history of monarchies.  

»Exit Options« (Host)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Host)

Churchill as Historian (Host)

is Professor of European Contemporary History at Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder). Main research: History of violence in Eastern- and Southeastern Europe; societal history of the Cold War; politcial communication of war crimes and massacres during the Cold War.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Host)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Host)

Farewell from Despotism (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Associate Professor at the Syddansk University of Odense and network coordinator of the Center for Koldkrigsstudier. Main research: Intelligence history; danish military history and foreign policy; German-Danish relations.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

was Professer of Modern und Contemporary History at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. He was Visting Professor in Oxford, New York, Florence, Jerusalem, and in Stanford. Until 2011 he was director of the Zeitgeschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Niedersachsen and spokesman of the German Research Foundation’s post-graduate program »Generationengeschichte. Generationelle Dynamik und historischer Wandel im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.«

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

sociologist, philosopher and historian, teaches at the Department of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Main research: Niklas Luhmann’s sociological systems theory; sociology of organizations; interfaces between Sociology and History (with special emphasis on Nazism); themes of introspection in Sociology.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of History and dean of the Department of History at the City College, City University in New York. Main research: History of human rights and crimes against humanity.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt on Main. Main research: History of politics and ideas in the United States; popular culture; race relations.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

is Adjunct Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Potsdam and head of the Berlin branch of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich – Berlin. Main research: British foreign policy in the 19th century; foreign policy of the GDR; history of the judiciary of the Soviet-occupied zone and the GDR. In his current research project he examines the perception of Gorbachev in East- and West-Germany.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

MPhil, is a Junior Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge, and a doctoral candidate in History at Columbia University. Main research: U.S. foreign relations and international ideas and institutions since the 19th century. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis entitled Tomorrow, the World. The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy in World War II.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

Dr. des., is a library trainee at the Berlin Central and Regional Library. Main research: Forced labour during World War I; employment and occupation policy in the territories occupied by Germany in Eastern Europe.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Lieutenant-Colonel (reserve) with the German Special Forces, deployed with stabilization missions in former Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2004, as OSCE observer in Kosovo in 1999, with Operation Enduring Freedom from 2002 to 2003, and ISAF 2010. Main research: World War I and II; military organizations; war crimes.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Dr., historian, has been a research fellow at the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin and managing editor of the Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung since 1991.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is Professor of German History in the 20th century with special emphasis on National Socialism at Humboldt-University in Berlin. Main research: National Socialism; history of violence and ideas of social order in the 20th century.

Violence as Social Order (Host)

is George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. Main research: Early National and Jacksonian history; U.S. political history since 1945. He is currently working on a book entitled Democracy's Fate. Inequality and the American Political Tradition.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

is a PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Main research: Politics of taxation in the United States. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr, historian and publicist, has been working for the Süddeutsche Zeitung for 20 years. After studying in Vienna, Sevilla and Heidelberg, he started his career as a journalist with the Hessische Rundfunk and ZDF.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Professor of International Relations at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and is Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies. Main research: American National Security Policy; civil-military relations.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

political scientist, is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Main research: Sexual violence in armed conflicts; theories of violence; war and gender.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

is Professor of History at Long Island University in New York and Visting Professor at the Center for Cold War International History, East China Normal University in Shanghai. Main research: China’s foreign policy during the Cold War.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

is Professor of History at New York University. Main research: U.S. foreign relations; U.S.-East Asian relations; Third World women and gender. Her current interest is focused on the Korean War.

Second Founding of the U.S. (Guest)

is Professor for Political Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld. She is a member of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology. Main research: Theories of war and peace and global justice.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., is a research fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He studied philosophy, history, and sociology in London and Berlin, where he also received his doctorate at the Free University. Afterwards he worked as freelancing author for radio and print media. At the Technical University of Dresden he was a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy. Also, he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York and was a fellow at the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

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

is Professor of African History at the University of Hamburg. He is chairman of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. Main research: German colonial history; comparative history of genocide.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

PD Dr., historian, Lieutenant Colonel, is a research fellow at the German Armed Forces’ Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam, head of the working group for the redesign of the Museum of Military History - Airfield Berlin-Gatow, member of the editorial board of Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift and lecturer at Potsdam University.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

is initiator and contact person for the Working Group on Gender and War and the international research group on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. From 1992 to 2012 she was editor of Mittelweg 36. She also is initiator and editor of the internet magazine Eurozine.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

The World of the Camps (Guest)

»Exit Options« (Guest)

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna. Main research: Politics of memory in post-Soviet borderlands; national identity in Eastern Europe; gender politics and feminism in Ukraine.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Centre for History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig. Main research: late-Soviet internal conflict and nationalism; socialist bloc transnational history. In his current research project he examines the cooperation of COMECON states (GDR and Bulgaria mainly) with the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the Sino-Soviet split.

Sino-Soviet Relations (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a referent for knowledge transfer and higher education cooperation at the Centre for Research into Contemporary History, Potsdam. She is editor of H-Soz-Kult online voluntarily in charge of topics related to museums and memorial museums. Main research: Public history; museumization of the GDR.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)