Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology
In 1900, psychologist Harlow Stearns Gale published what is probably the earliest psychological study of advertising. His main interest was the process of convincing potential buyers by attracting...
View ArticleSigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich
For journalist William Shirer, ‘no other correspondent in Germany knew so much of what was going on behind the scenes as did Sigrid Schultz.’ Hermann Göring denounced Schultz as ‘that dragon lady from...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s
The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First World War, and reaching its sad climax with...
View ArticleQueering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
What difference can queer perspectives make in our understanding of the German past and in present-day conversations around sexual and gender diversity? Having taught and published on LGBT history for...
View ArticleQueer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
In this episode, host Kim König speaks with Benno Gammerl (European University Institute in Florence) about the research underlying his lecture on “Queering German history: Still a vital and viable...
View ArticleEpistemic Inequalities, the ILO, and Labour History in the Global South
In this episode, Kim König and Thomas Kaal sit down with Ulrike Lindner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, to talk about the research behind her lecture on epistemic...
View ArticleEpistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour...
The lecture will first address the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and work out why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of durable social inequalities. It will...
View ArticleQueering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
What difference can queer perspectives make in our understanding of the German past and in present-day conversations around sexual and gender diversity? Having taught and published on LGBT history for...
View ArticleQueer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
In this episode, host Kim König speaks with Benno Gammerl (European University Institute in Florence) about the research underlying his lecture on “Queering German history: Still a vital and viable...
View ArticleQueering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
What difference can queer perspectives make in our understanding of the German past and in present-day conversations around sexual and gender diversity? Having taught and published on LGBT history for...
View ArticleQueer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
In this episode, host Kim König speaks with Benno Gammerl (European University Institute in Florence) about the research underlying his lecture on “Queering German history: Still a vital and viable...
View ArticleDecolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire
This lecture, with a focus on India, aims to understand this important archive of knowledge of the natural world collected and organised in the context of the empire in the light of recent...
View ArticleA linguistic legacy: The lasting impact of Reformation-era texts
In this episode, GHIL Fellow for Medieval History Thomas Kaal and host Kim König talk with Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, about...
View Article1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German...
The lecture will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern Germany, looking at examples from nuns’...
View ArticleLocal Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Current critical scholarship tends to cast the colonial West as the prime actor in shaping the non-Western world, ‘producing’ types of knowledge specific to itself and alien to others, ‘inventing’ not...
View ArticleWhat is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Chills, aches and hot flushes. What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie...
View Article‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
The talk is concerned with the history of fever and febrile diseases in the French, Iberian, and British empires, from the 1770s to the 1820s, a time when these were widely considered the most common...
View ArticleUrban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
In this episode, host Kim König and Research Fellow Ole Münch are joined by Christiane Reinecke, Professor of Modern European History at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, to discuss her research on...
View ArticlePicturing working class communities
In this episode, we talk about working-class communities. Or rather: ideas about the working-class, some of which are quite romanticised. Joining host Kim König and Research Fellow Ole Münch to discuss...
View ArticleSociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture
Jon Lawrence: Shifting Visions of Working-Class Community in Post-War Britain The idea that the British working class had its own distinctive way of life and culture can be traced back to at least the...
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