Location
German Historical Institute London
Join us for 2024-25 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor Paul Nolte’s (FU Berlin) inaugural lecture on ‘Contested Spaces, Geo-Interventions, and the Search for Order: Re-Assessing Germany’s Modern History’.
The predicaments of the early twenty-first century seem to call established narratives of modern trajectories into question. Environmental crisis and the shock of the Anthropocene coincide with disillusionment about classical tales of Western liberty, emancipation, and conquest of planetary space. How did we get there, and what kinds of stories should we be telling? Paul Nolte’s lecture surveys the field for the case of modern Germany and suggests a framework that brings together recent approaches in the history of ecology, space and territory, and political regimes since the eighteenth century.
The Visiting Professorship is a joint project of the German Historical Institute London (GHIL) and the International History Department of The London School of Economics and Political Science and is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
This lecture will take place as a hybrid event at the GHIL and online via Zoom. In order to attend this event, please register via our website: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures#c6501.