German Historical Institute London

Events at German Historical Institute London

• Andreas Eckert: Connecting Histories of Work and Non-Work - African Labour History in a Global Perspective at German Historical Institute London

  Special Event

  20 Mar 2012

  What constitutes work and what does not? What is legitimate and what is illegal work? Who invents, abolishes, and resurrects these divisions? And what are the practices and policies surrounding these questions? This paper discusses the transformations which the division between work and non-work underwent in twentieth-century Africa. It will look especially at labour regulations and social policy, and at the role of the state and international organizations such as the ILO in these processes. Andreas Eckert holds the Chair of African History at the Humboldt University Berlin and is Director of the International Research Centre ‘Work and Human Life Course in Global History’, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education.

• European Remigrations in the Twentieth Century at German Historical Institute London

  Special Event

  8 Mar 2012 to 10 Mar 2012

  International Conference at the German Historical Institute London. Conveners: Professor Marita Krauss, University of Augsburg and Professor Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London.

• Eve Rosenhaft: Black People under Nazi Rule - Perspectives on the ‘Racial State’ at German Historical Institute London

  Special Event

  6 Mar 2012

  Among the groups targeted by National Socialist policies of racial exclusion and elimination between 1933 and 1945 were the members of a small black population, most of them of African origin. Official policies towards them and the quality of their experiences have received relatively little attention from specialist historians; the only published monograph relies entirely on English-language sources. This talk draws on new research on a range of private and official sources to explore that history and consider how what happened to black people in Germany and occupied Europe reflects on our understanding of Nazi racial policy more generally. Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool.

• Poverty in Modern Europe at German Historical Institute London

  Special Event

  10 May 2012 to 12 May 2012

  Conference held by the CRC 600 "Strangers and Poor People", University of Trier, Projects B4 and B5 in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London.