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Conference on 1848/49 in Saxony

Posted in Conference, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

In April, I will be speaking in Dresden, at the conference “Das Königreich Sachsen 1848/49 – Dynamiken und Ambivalenzen der Revolution” (April 24-26, 2024), organized by Prof. Dr. Susanne Schötz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Rutz and Werner Rellecke.

The program can be downloaded here.

All are welcome and attendance is free.

Conference abstract in German:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
 
vom 24. bis 26. April 2024 veranstalten die Professur für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der TU Dresden, die Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung und das Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde eine internationale Tagung in Dresden, die sich den revolutionären Ereignissen von 1848/49 im Königreich Sachsen widmet. Niemals zuvor haben sich hier so viele Menschen für Freiheit, Recht und Einheit begeistert wie während der Revolution von 1848/49. Männer und Frauen verliehen ihrem Wunsch nach bürgerlichen Rechten, größerer sozialer Gerechtigkeit und einem vom Volk gewählten sächsischen wie nationalen Parlament auf vielfältige Weise Ausdruck. Sachsen war in dieser Zeit der am dichtesten besiedelte und industriekapitalistisch am weitesten entwickelte deutsche Mittelstaat. Hier hatte sich eine starke Demokratiebewegung entfaltet, zahlreiche Arbeitervereine entstanden und Frauenrechte wurden zum Thema. Doch wie anderswo behielten auch in Sachsen die konservativen Kräfte die Oberhand. Die Tagung spürt den Verflechtungen, Dynamiken und Ambivalenzen des Geschehens aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven nach. Sie interessiert sich für revolutionäre Karrieren und staatliches Handeln ebenso wie für transnationale und transatlantische Aspekte sowie Formen des Erinnerns und der Revolutionsbewältigung.
 
Die Tagung findet in Präsenz in der Sächsischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Schützenhofstraße 36, 01129 Dresden statt. Das vollständige Tagungsprogramm und den Link zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier: www.isgv.de/tagung1848
Die Anmeldung ist ab jetzt freigeschaltet und noch bis zum 16. April 2024 möglich.
 
Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!
 
Im Namen des Tagungsteams
 
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schötz

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More 1848/9 in Dresden and Jena

Posted in Conference, tagged , , on December 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

As the 1848 revolutions’ anniversary slowly draws to a close, a few more academic conferences on the topic are planned for 2024. I’m participating in two of them.

In April, I will be speaking in Dresden, at the conference “Das Königreich Sachsen 1848/49 – Dynamiken und Ambivalenzen der Revolution” (April 24-26, 2024), organized by Prof. Dr. Susanne Schötz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Rutz and Werner Rellecke. The preliminary program can be downloaded here. All are welcome and attendance is free.

Then in September, I’m participating in the workshop “Freiheit und Gewalt: Politikkonzeptionen und Aktionsformen demokratischer Bewegungen in Europa in der Revolution von 1848/49” (September 26-28, 2024), organized by the Forschungsstelle für Neuere Regionalgeschichte Thüringens (PD Dr. Marko Kreutzmann), the Chair of Western European History at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kroll), and the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Demokratie-Geschichte in Weimar (Dr. Christian Faludi).

More information to follow.

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Lecture on the Revolutions of 1848/49 as a ‘Democratic Departure’

Posted in Presentation, tagged , , , on November 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Next Tuesday, November 7th, I am invited to the Villa Lessing in Saarbrücken to hold the Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte‘s annual lecture.

In my presentation titled 1848/49 nach 175 Jahren: Kritische Perspektiven auf eine demokratiegeschichtliche Vereinnahmung, I will address the increasingly ubiquitous framing of the revolution as a “democratic departure”, reflecting on its implications and pitfalls.

All are welcome and attendance is free. The lecture will also be broadcast on Youtube and Zoom (more information on access is available here and here).

Edit: the lecture has now been made available on Youtube here.

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Book Review of Frank Engehausen’s “Werkstatt der Demokratie”

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , , , on September 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

For the German historical platform H-Soz-u-Kult, I wrote a book review of “Werkstatt der Demokratie: Die Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/49”. Written by Heidelberg historian Frank Engehausen, the book presents a monograph-length analysis of the first German national parliament. Besides going into the book’s many strengths, I also try to link it to wider tendencies in the historical engagement with the revolutions of 1848/49 as we are ‘celebrating’ their 175-year anniversary.

The review can be found here.

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Exhibition on the Constitution of 1849 in the German Bundestag

Posted in Presentation, tagged , , on March 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

On March 27, I’m invited to speak at the opening of a new exhibition in the Reichstag-building in Berlin. The exhibition addresses one of the major achievements of the 1848/49 revolution: the Imperial Constitution adopted by the National Assembly on 27 March 1849. It’s center piece is the original constitution document itself (one of three originals, actually, but the only parchment version), signed by 405 Members of Germany’s first national parliament.

More information on the exhibition, planned by Klaus Seidl and Hilmar Sack of the parliament’s scientific service, an be found here.

A catalogue is in the making and will be available soon through this link.

[Edit, March 29, 2023]: A short video capturing the ceremony, including a snippet from an interview I gave on the historical significance of the 1848 revolution, is to be found here.

[Edit, May 12, 2023]: A video of my talk is now available online through this link.

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Survey of 175 Years of History of the Revolutions of 1848/49

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

For Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, a journal published by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische bildung) and aimed at a wider audience, I wrote a short survey on the history of the Revolutions of 1848/49.

Fragen an 1848/49. Ein Forschungsüberblick, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 73, Nr. 7-9 (2023), 17–23.

In it, I address the various historiographical approaches to the revolutions since its failure in 1849 and try to answer the question why debates on this theme have gone relatively quiet in recent years.

The whole issue can be read and dowloaded for free here.

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Board of Trustees of the Cemetery of the March Fallen

Posted in Jobs, tagged , , , on October 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »

From November on, I’m honored to join the Cemetery of the March Fallen‘s newly constituted Board of Trustees. Located in Berlin Friedrichshain, the Cemetery is one of the major German sites of remembrance of both the 1848/49 and 1918/19 revolutions. Together with a wealth of other museums and memorials, it is part of the network Sites of Democratic History.

The Board advises the Cemetery on the overhaul of its permanent exhibition (a project that will be on the top of our agenda in the coming years) as well as on its many other activities (commemorations, lectures, workshops, concerts, guided tours, etc.).

For more information on the Cemetery’s events, click here.

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Lecture on the Revolution of 1848/49

Posted in Presentation, tagged , , , , , on August 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »

On August 18, 6 pm, I’m presenting my research on the first German national parliament and its role in the revolution of 1848/49 at the Cemetry of the March Revolution in Berlin.

Please note that due to expected weather conditions the venue has changed. More information can be found here.

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Essay on New Perspectives on the Revolutions of 1848/49

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , on April 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »

In a volume edited by Susanne Kitschun of the Berlin Cemetry of the March Fallen and Elisabeth Thalhofer of the Rastatt Memorial to the Freedom Movements in German History, I’ve published a short contribution on current perspectives in the historical scholarship regarding the revolutions of 1848/49. In it, I point to ongoing debates about the revolutions’ ‘democratic’ character on the one hand and about their transnational entanglements on the other as two areas in which much progress has been made in recent years. Both debates also offer new bridges between historical understanding and ongoing public debates about the current shape and development of European politics.

Die Aktualität einer umkämpften Vergangenheit. Neuere Forschungsperspektiven auf die Revolutionen von 1848/49

[The Topicality of a Contested Past. New Approaches to the Revolutions of 1848/49]

The volume builds on the founding conference of the network 175-year-anniversary network for the revolutions of 1848/49 held in Rastatt last year (a report in German here). It includes contributions by Peter Steinbach, Michael Parak, Constanz Itzel, Felix Fuhg, Dorothee Linnemann, Susanne Kitchun, Andrej Bartuschka, Elisabeth Thalhofer, Katerina Ankerhold and Lea Braun.

The whole publication is available online here.

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Workshop on the Upcoming 175-Year-Commemoration of the 1848/49 Revolutions

Posted in Conference, tagged , , , , , on October 18, 2021| 1 Comment »

2023/24 will mark the 175-year anniversary of the revolutions of 1848/49. As a first step toward the planning for the commemoration of these events, a workshop in Rastatt brings together participants from many of the major German museums, memorials, and scholarly networks focusing on the history of the revolutions.

  • Gedenkort Friedhof der Märzgefallenen
  • Erinnerungsstätte für die Freiheitsbewegungen in der deutschen Geschichte, Rastatt
  • Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e.V.
  • House of European History
  • Stiftung Bundespräsident Theodor-Heuss-Haus
  • Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
  • Förderverein Erinnerungsstätte für die Freiheitsbewegungen in der deutschen Geschichte e.V.
  • Historisches Museum Frankfurt
  • Offenburger Salmen
  • Bundesarchiv

Together with my colleague Dr. Heléna Toth (Bamberg University), I’ve been asked to present an overview over recent developments in historiographical research on the topic. Building on my own research, I will sketch some of the ways in which the revolutions of 1848/49 have been linked to the “Age of Revolutions”, placing them in wider transnational, European, and global contexts. In addition, we will discuss the place of the revolutions within the framework of the long-term history of “democracy” and “democratization” in Germany, Europe, and beyond.

The workshop will take place in Rastatt on November 4 and 5 of this year. More information about the program and registration (all are welcome) may be found here.

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