Theirstory - Goldsmiths launches a new history format. Three historians discuss in German new English-language history books to give German historians orientation in the ocean of new titles. Theirstory is a biannual event, held at Goldsmiths in the autumn and in Berlin in the spring.
Tickets (free): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theirstory-tickets-72500263239
1 Oct 2019, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Discussants: Simone Derix https://www.geschichte.phil.fau.de/person/derix-simone/Benno Gammerl https://www.gold.ac.uk/history/staff/gammerl-benno/Jan Plamper https://www.gold.ac.uk/history/staff/j-plamper/
Books to be discussed: Darius Bost, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (University of Chicago Press) Julie Livingston, Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press) Massimiliano Tomba, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (OUP) John Okada, No-No Boy (Penguin Classics) George Takei, They Called Us Enemy (IDW Publishing)
Bettina Brockmeyer
Lehrstuhl für Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
bettina.brockmeyer@fau.de