German Historical Institute London Autumn Events

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German Historical Institute London Autumn Events

Veranstalter
German Historical Institute London
Veranstaltungsort
German Historical Institute London and Zoom
PLZ
WC1A 2NJ
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
15.10.2024 -
Website
https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures
Von
Kim Carlotta König, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, German Historical Institute London

The German Historical Institute London invites you to its forthcoming autumn events, which will be held in a hybrid format at the GHIL and online via Zoom. Please register via our website to attend in person or virtually: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures.

German Historical Institute London Autumn Events

The German Historical Institute London is dedicated to the promotion of historical research in the United Kingdom and Germany. It focuses on the comparative history of Britain and Germany, the global and colonial history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, and the history of British-German relations and transfers. The Institute runs academic events on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the present. Events take places as hybrid events and can be attended in person or virtually.

Programm

15 October 2024 17:00 GMT GHIL/Zoom
Panel Discussion: A Weak Reich? European Perspectives on Medieval Germany in Conversation
Panellists: Nora Berend (University of Cambridge), Klaus Oschema (GHI Paris) and Jörg Peltzer (Heidelberg University)
Chair: Miri Rubin (QMUL)

Modern statehood is often seen as the ‘natural’ result of a march towards centralization. From this perspective, the complex territorial patchwork and opaque political entanglements of the Holy Roman Empire appear strikingly different, if not outright dysfunctional. This round-table brings together medievalists from the UK, Germany, and France to discuss popular and academic views on the Holy Roman Empire as well as the question of (de-) centralization in the Middle Ages and its implications in the present. While contemporary opponents of European integration take the fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire as a warning against federalism, others identify the ‘openness’ of the Holy Roman Empire as something for the European Union, for example, to aspire to.

20 November 2024 17:30 GMT GHIL/Zoom
‘Wahrheit, nicht Verehrung.’ Notions of Scientificity in German Antiquity Studies 1800–1850
Monika Krause (LSE)
Part of the GHIL Autumn Lecture Series on the ‘History of the Social Sciences’

The talk reconsiders the history of the humanities and social sciences, focusing on antiquity studies in the German-speaking territories in the first half of the nineteenth century. I examine conceptions of scientificity in the works of authors like Wilhelm von Humboldt and August Boeckh, noting how true science (Wissenschaft) is defined against school teaching, deferential reconstruction of great works, and instrumentalization by outside forces. Antiquity studies helped lay the foundations for contemporary cultural research both within and beyond Germany, but the materials considered here also form a stark contrast with later discussions of scientificity in the social sciences and humanities, which started to be defensive vis-à-vis the natural sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the first half of the nineteenth century is a starting point for reconsidering developments in subsequent periods and later interpretations of authors such as Nietzsche and Weber.

Kontakt

Kim König
PR and Events
public_relations@ghil.ac.uk

https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures