24st November 2016, 3 – 6pm Alte Mensa, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 3 37073 Göttingen Please register via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de In recent years the concept of “diversity” has almost become a civic virtue as...
The table on Youth Movements, the “Third World” and the Radical Left will be hosted by Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) and Hector Perla Jr. (University of California Santa Cruz). Quinn Slobodian believes...
In a three part series broadcasted on Aljazeera, Tunisian writer and broadcaster Malek Triki traces the history of the First World War through the perspective of the Arabic countries. Arab troops...
The results of the international symposium “The World During the First World War: Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences”, which was organized by the German Historical Institute London, the Leibniz University Hanover, the Volkswagen...
This month „1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War“ launched. The interactive virtual reference work offers articles on the Great War (as it is often referred to in Britain...
The focus of the public debates of the First World War is often only on Europe despite the war’s global scale already indicated by its name. Under the slogan “What...
Dr. Michelle R. Moyd is an associate professor for history at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of soldiers in the colonial army of German East...
Trotz der globalen Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs liegt der Fokus der Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema meistens auf Europa. Die Ausstellung “Die größte Katastrophe der Menschheitsgeschichte“ – Lateinamerika und der Erste...
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