is Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at the University of Oxford and a member of the research cluster “Transformations: Economy, Society and Place”. Her present research interest concerns Russia’s penal geography. She is the principal investigator for an ESRC funded project “Space and Gender in Russia’s Geography of Punishment”.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Professor of General Sociology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Main research: Money and finances; statehood; violence; exchange and endowment.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Prof. Dr., historian, is director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz. With Fabian Klose, he co-edits the blog Humanitarianism & Human Rights. Main research: European History; Transnational History; International History; German History in transnational perspective.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

is Professor of Public and International Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is Judge at the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Dr., historian, works for the Institute of Contemporary History Munich – Berlin as academic director of the department editing documents from the archives of the German Foreign Office. Main research: West German and U.S.-American foreign policy; international history of the 20th century.

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

is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

PD Dr., historian, represents the chair of History of the 19th and 20th centuries with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe at the Helmut Schmidt University/Bundeswehr University Hamburg. Main research: History of Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th centuries; comparison of the Stalinist and the National Socialist dictatorship; experience of occupation; forced labor; collaboration; Holocaust.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

historian, is PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Eastern European History at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Main research: Female nationalist partisans in Ukraine (1930-1960).

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

was Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences of Mittweida-Roßwein and head of an advanced education facility concerned with memorial museums, today called Politische Memoriale Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. He continues his engagement in historical and political eduation, also at memorial museums, for non-state actors.

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Guest)

historian and political scientist, is a referent for commemoration projects at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. Main research: History of Communism in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union; remembrance politics in Germany and Eastern Europe.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

Brussels, Beutelsbach, and Butovo (Host)

Dr., historian and writer. In the 1990s, she was a special adviser to the Political Directorate of the Council of Europe for its Civil Society programs in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Main research: Political implications of the post-1989 Jewish presence across Europe.

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

is Professor of Eastern European History at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Main research: Russian history of ideas of the 19th century; politics, society, and culture of  the Soviet Union; authoritarian regimes in the 20th century in comparison.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

is Dilthey Fellow at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. In September this year, he will take up a post as a Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is an independent analyst based in Geneva, where he runs his research project, »Russian Nuclear Forces.« He is a senior research fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Main research: Russian strategic forces and nuclear weapons complex; technical and political aspects of nuclear nonproliferation; US-Russian arms control processes.

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

Dr., historian, is a staff member of the German Armed Forces’ Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam. Main research: German military history; military and the media; intelligence history.

Western Societies and »New Wars« (Guest)

Rereading Barbara Tuchman (Guest)

Churchill as Historian (Host)

Dr., historian, studied in Dnipropetrovsk, Warsaw, and Lviv, where he received his doctorate. As a guest fellow he has done research at the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen in Paris and lectured at the University of Helsinki. Since 2007, he has been chief editor of the journal Ukraina Moderna.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

is Associate Professor at San Francisco State University and at present Ghaemian Scholar in Residence at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2011-2012. Main research: History of American political thought.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., political scientist, is a senior research fellow in the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and heads the Archive’s documentation projects for Vietnam and for the CIA. Main research: Presidential powers, international relations, intelligence and military affairs.

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

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and Dilthey-Fellow of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. Main research: German and European contemporary history, with special emphasis on social history, the history of law and ideas.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is a PhD canditate in Communication Science and a member of the board at the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics at the University of Latvia. Main research: History and sociology of public intellectuals; Soviet popular culture; social and cultural memory studies.

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

is Class of 1926 Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. He is a teacher, scholar, and political activist whose interests range across history, law, and politics. He has written extensively on freedom of expression; rights of privacy; investigative journalism; terrorism; the detention of aliens and citizens without trial; and military tribunals for alleged terrorists.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he was director of the Institute of European Cultural Studies until 2009. Main research: Cultural history of Nazi-Germany; intellectual exchange between Europe and the United States after World War II.

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier. He is co-editor of Neue Politische Literatur and Journal of Modern European History. Main research: History and theory of contemporary historiography; history of European societies in the 20th century. 

Tony Judt's Legacy (Guest)

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

Dr. des., historian, is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin. His post-doc project looks into the German national library during the German partition. Main research: Urban history; history of knowledge; German-German entangled history; town twinning in the Cold War.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Trained as a cultural anthropologist sympathetic to history, he concentrates on circulations of science, technology and medicine in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Humanitarian Ethics (Guest)

is managing director of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture and Adjunct Professor of German literature at the University of Hamburg.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Two Lefts—Two Rights (Guest)   

Dead Soldiers Fighting (Guest)

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

Violence as Social Order (Host)

is Senior Professor of Sociological Theory, History of Theory and Sociology of Culture at the Technical University of Dresden. From 2003 to 2007 he was chairman of the German Sociological Association.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz. Main research: Cosmopolitisation of collective memory.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. He is co-editor of Geschichte und Gesellschaft and Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. Main research: Social and cultural history of the Federal Republic; history of European fascism; history of violence in the 19th and 20th centuries; history of the concept “civil society”; theories and methods in historiography.

Rereading Clinton Rossiter (Guest)

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg. Main research: History of migration and urban history in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th century; history of the social sciences.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

is Professor of Comparative History/Ibero-American History at the University of Leipzig. Main research: Violence in the history of Latin-America; theories of violence.

The End of Violence (Guest)

is Professor of Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. Main research: Symbolic anthropology; social theory; Russian culture and society; peace and conflict studies. The working title of her new research project is Decade Eight: Mediated Strategic Interactive Nuclear Exterminism.

Societal Transformation in Russia (Guest)

is Professor of Latin-American History at the Free University Berlin. Main research: Latin America and the United States; revolutions in Latin America; governance and limited statehood.

Violence as Social Order (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Main research: History of ideas; the relationship between Nietzsche and neoclassical economics.

»Polarized Politics« (Guest)

Dr., philosopher, is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford where he co-directs the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethic and International Affairs in New York.

Humanitarian Wars (Guest)

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian, is Ramón y Cajal-Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, where he is part of the research project »Las alternativas a la quiebra liberal en Europa: socialismo, democracia, fascismo y populismo, 1914-1991«. Main research: Violence; camps; fascism.

The World of the Camps (Guest)

is Professor of Central and Eastern European History at the University of Bamberg. Main research: Comparative history of imperial rule and urbanization; Soviet cultural and political history; European entangled history in the Cold War.

Farewell to Despotism (Guest)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Host)

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

graduate interpreter, is assistant to the director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

Holocaust and Sociology (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Previously, he was a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Berne where he collaborated in a research project on the perceptions of war as published in military periodicals (1880-1914). Rose studied in Berlin, London, and Oxford; he received his PhD in Augsburg. Main research: Ernst Moritz Arndt and journalism during the German 1848 revolution; liberal-conservativism after the boom 1969-1989.

Churchill as Historian (Guest)

Dr. des., studied comparative religious studies, sociology and anthropology and completed her PhD in law at Humboldt-University in Berlin in 2011.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)

Dr., historian, is a lecturer in Modern European History in the Department of History at the University of Essex. Main research: Weimar Repubic; political culture; history of the German police from the 1920s to the 1950s.

The Return of Political Economy (Guest)

historian, is a research fellow at the German Poland Institute, Darmstadt, and a PhD student at the University of Mainz and the Leibniz Institute of European History. Her dissertation looks into Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of the UNESCO World Heritage. Main research: Politics of memory; material culture; urban studies; cultural heritage; international history.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. He also teaches in the college’s Law and Policy program. During the academic year 2004-2005 he held a fellowship as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

»Imperial Presidency« (Guest)

Dr., historian, is lecturer in Latin American/Caribbean History at the University of Exeter. Main research: Global history of the late 20th century; political, cultural and economic history of modern Latin America and Eastern Europe; contacts between the Second and Third Worlds during the Cold War.

Knowledge Circulation in the Cold War (Guest)

is a senior fellow of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and a visiting fellow of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, where he founded the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master’s Degree program. Main research: Philosophical foundations of pacifism.

Nonviolent Resistance (Guest)