Next week, I’ll be speaking at the German History Society’s Annual Conference in Loughborough. I’m part of a panel on “Democracy in German Lands, 1780-1870”, organized by Prof. Mark Philp. My own talk is titled
Prussian Democracy? Territorial Variations in a Complex State (1815-1870)
I will address the variability of the concept of democracy in the Prussian context, focusing on some lesser-known patterns of use, especially the issues of democratic bureaucracy and local democracy.
Shortly after, I’ll attend the 55th German History Society’s biannual conference (Historikertag) in Bonn. In the context of a panel on the meanings of the concept of “dynamics” in historical scholarship (“Die Macht der Dynamik. Theoretische Zugänge zu einem historischen Schlüsselbegriff“), my contribution is titled
Dynamik und Statik (Dynamics and Statics)
In it, I will question the common way in which these concepts are framed in terms of a dichotomy or opposition, instead asking how historical scholarship copes with situations that are dynamic and static at the same time (but in different ways).
Theo Jung 