Philipp Heckmann-Umhau, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Thursday 14 October, 15:00 BST (16:00 German time)
VICTORIA MORICK (Göttingen): „Depicting Disease: The Negotiation of Knowledge about Syphilis in the German Public Sphere in the 19th and 20th Century“
SINA FABIAN (Berlin): „To Drink or not to Drink: Debates on Alcohol Consumption in Weimar Germany“
Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00 BST (16:00 German time)
ALEXANDER COLLIN (Amsterdam): „Information and Knowledge in a Hanseatic Urban Government“
FELIX GRÄFENBERG (Münster): „The Role of Technical Experts within the Policy Process: A Case Study of the Prussian Chaussee Sector, c. 1786–1820s“
Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:00 BST (16:00 German time)
KATHERINE ARNOLD (London): „The Economization of Social Relations: Understanding Trust in German Natural History“
Commentator: Jean-Michel Johnston (Cambridge)
Thursday 4 November, 15:00 GMT (16:00 German time)
ROII BALL (Tel-Aviv): „Colonizing Pedagogy: Corporal Punishment, Reformatory Education, and Internal Colonization in the Polish-German Borderlands around 1900“
ADONIS L. ELUMBRE (Hamburg): „German Racial and Ethnological Imaginaries of Native Filipinos in the Late 19th Century: Situating its Intellectual and Imperial Development in Europe and the Philippines“
Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00 GMT (16:00 German time)
KATHARINA ISABEL SCHMIDT (Hamburg): German Jurists and the ‚Struggle for Legal Science‘, 1900–1945“
Commentator: Charlotte Johann (Cambridge)
Thursday 2 December, 15:00 GMT (16:00 German time)
FRAUKE STEFFENS (New York): „‚Unpolitische Wissenschaft‘: The Idea of Apolitical Science and Technology in Germany“
JONATHAN VOGES (Hannover): „‚That Stupid and Conceited Mr. Krüss‘. Germany and the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation“