Colloquium 2020-2021

The Fellow colloquium takes place every Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).


  • 8th January 2020
    Birgit Erdle (Lichtenberg-Kolleg):
    Broken universalism. Siegfried Kracauer's political thought

  • 15th January 2020
    Thomas Maissen (German Historical Institute Paris):
    Britannia and her sisters in the 17th and 18th century. Political representation and iconography

  • 22nd January 2020
    Dirk Moses (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney)
    Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction of ‘Genocide’

  • 29th January 2020
    Richard Fisher:
    Publishing Strategies in the English-speaking world

  • 4th November 2020
    Jyotirmaya Sharma:
    Melancholy as a Political Act

  • 11th November 2020
    Georgios Varouxakis:
    Ex Germaniae lux: How did the idea of ‘the West’ reach America?

  • 18th November 2020
    Deniz Kılınçoğlu:
    Learning to Feel Like a Nation: Nationalism and Emotions in Turkish Classrooms

  • 25th November 2020
    Alex Jordan:
    Thomas Carlyle and Stoicism

  • 2nd December 2020
    Adam Storring:
    Enlightened War? The Military Ideas of King Frederick II of Prussia

  • 9th December 2020
    Shiru Lim:
    What's so civil about civil society? Stage acting, artifice, and the aesthetics of civility

  • 16th December 2020
    Caroline de Lima e Silva:
    Gatekeepers of the realm: domestic judges’ strategies vis-à-vis the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

  • 13th January 2021
    Francesca Antonini:
    Between Weber and Mussolini: Caesarism and Charismatic Leadership in Robert Michels‘ Political Thought

  • 20th January 2021
    Sebastian Shirrmeister:
    The Art of Revenge. Writing towards Poetic Justice in Post-Shoah Jewish Literatures

  • 27th January 2021
    Amandine Barb:
    Governing Religious Diversity in a (Post)Secular Age: Teaching about Religion in American Public Schools

  • 3rd February 2021
    Weronika Romanik:
    Transformations of Memory in the Microperspective. The Hebrew editions of the Writings from the Underground Archive of Bialystok Ghetto

  • 10th February 2021
    Will Levine:
    Radical Kantianism and the Ideal of Emancipation in Modern Germany