Bios of the Paper Presenters,
Commentators and Chairs
has
worked as a Fellow and as Managing Director of the Zentrum
für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Berlin (since
July 2004: Berliner Kolleg für
Vergleichende Geschichte Europas). He is a member of the project
board of the project ‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Comparison’,
funded by the German Research Foundation. Apart from his
investigations into the development of right-wing movements in Britain (Die 'radikale Rechte' in Großbritannien.
Nationalistische und faschistische Bewegung vom späten 19.
Jahrhundert bis 1945 (Göttingen, 1991) as well as
his research on the transformation of rural society in the Soviet zone
of occupation and the GDR (Ländliche
Gesellschaft in der kommunistischen Diktatur. Zwangsmodernisierung und
Tradition in Brandenburg 1945-1963, Cologne, 2002); and on
the social history of the GDR (Die
Sozialgeschichte der DDR, Munich 2005). He has edited several
volumes: ed., Die Praxis der
Zivilgesellschaft. Akteure, Handeln und Strukturen im internationalen
Vergleich (Frankfurt am Main, 2003); ed. with Hans Erich
Bödeker and Bernhard Struck, Die
Welt erfahren. Reisen als kulturelle Begegnung von 1780 bis heute, Frankfurt am Main, 2004);
and ed. with Konrad H.
Jarausch and Marcus M. Payk, Demokratiewunder.
Transatlantische Mittler und die kulturelle Öffnung
Westdeutschlands 1945-1970 (Göttingen, 2005).
is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the University of York. From 1993 to 2003 he was Co-Editor of the journal German History. His main fields of research are the social and political history of modern Germany, the aftermath of the two world wars and the history of policing. He is a member of the project board of the project ‘Nations, Border, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He currently is working on a study of Germany in 1945. His most recent publications include: ed. with Dirk Schumann, Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s (Cambridge, 2003); and Nazism and War (New York, 2004).
is
Professor of Modern History at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen.
His research focuses on Early Modern Central European History, in
particular military, social and cultural history. He was a member of
the research group ‘Experiences of War’ funded by
the German Research Foundation and affiliated with the University of
Tübingen and is now member of the research group
‘Memory Cultures’ at the University of Giessen and
also Graduate Studies Executive of the International Graduate Center
for the Study of Culture (GCSC). He works on public peace, military
occupation and a project on ‘Experiences of War and religion
in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Rhineland, 1792-1815’.
His publications include: Der
Schwäbische Bund 1488-1534. Landfrieden und Genossenschaft im
Übergang vom Spätmittelalter zur Reformation (Leinfelden,
2000); ed. with Nicolas Buschmann, Die Erfahrung
des Krieges. Erfahrungsgeschichtliche Perspektiven von der
Französischen Revolution bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg
(Paderborn, 2001); and ed. with Hans-Henning Kortüm, Dieter Langewiesche and Friedrich Lenger,
Kriegsniederlagen. Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen (Berlin,
2004).
is
Professor of Film at the University of Leicester. His research focuses on British popular
culture, especially cinema and television in their historical contexts.
He is interested in the role of the mass media as propaganda, the
representation of war and history, and the cultural politics of popular
fictions. His publications include: The
British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945
(London, 1998) and Past and Present: National
Identity and the British Historical Film (London, 2005). He
has also published widely on aspects of British popular culture,
including Licence To Thrill: A Cultural
History of the James Bond Films (London, 1999; second edition
autumn 2007); and Inside the Tardis: A
Cultural History of ‘Doctor Who’ (London,
2006). He is a Council member of the International Association for
Media and History and is book reviews editor for the Journal
of British Cinema and Television.
is
a lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle. His primary
research interest is eighteenth-century Europe with particular emphasis
on the Napoleonic Empire. His articles have appeared in the
International History Review, German History, the European History
Quarterly, and French History. He is currently writing a two-volume
biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. His most
recent publications include: Napoleon and Europe (London, 2001); The
French Revolution and Napoleon. A Sourcebook (London, 2002); Talleyrand (Profiles in Power) (London, 2002); ed. with
Alan Forrest, Napoleon and His Empire:
Europe, 1804-1814 (London, 2007); Napoleon,
1769-1799: The Path to Power (London, 2007).
is currently Directeur
d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales and Distinguished Professor at the American
University of Paris (now part of New York University).
He has written six books, including (as co-author
with L. S. Ceplair) The Inquisition in
Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960 (Garden City, N.Y., 1980).
His most recent work is Napoleon, A Political
Life (New York, 2004) – a Main Selection of The
History Book Club, Featured Alternate of the Book of Month Club, and
winner of Le Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon as well as
the J. Russell Major Award (Best Book in English on French History,
2004) of The American Historical Association. His recent articles have
appeared in La Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Monde, La Revue
d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Commonweal, and Cross
Currents: ‘Turn-Style. French Social History and Its
Approaches,’ forthcoming; American
Historical Review; Monstre sacré: the question of cultural
imperialism and the Napoleonic empire, forthcoming in The Historical Journal; La Place des
défaites, Le Monde (21
Dec. 2006); Austerlitz, Le Monde (2
Dec. 2005); A propos le discours ‘nation, Revue
d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 52/3 (2006). He
is currently completing his two-volume study, ‘The Political
Significance of the Idea of Nation in French History’.
is a Professor of English
Literature at the University of Wuppertal. She was a researcher at the
Collaborative Research Centre 'Memory Cultures'
(Sonder-forschungsbereich 434 'Erinnerungskulturen') at the University
of Giessen from 2003 to 2007. Her main fields of interest are British
literary and cultural history, cultural memory studies, war studies,
media theory, and narratology. She wrote her dissertation on the memory
of the First World War (Gedächtnisromane:
Literatur über den Ersten Weltkrieg als Medium englischer und
deutscher Erinnerungskulturen in den 1920er Jahren,
Trier, 2003). In 2005 she published an introduction to
interdisciplinary cultural memory studies (Kollektives Gedächtnis und
Erinnerungskulturen. Eine Einführung,
Stuttgart, 2005). She co-edited with Ann Rigney a volume on ‘Literature and the
Production of Cultural Memory’ of the European
Journal of English Studies, 10/2 (2006). Together
with Ansgar Nünning she is editor of the series ‘Media and Cultural Memory/Medien und kulturelle
Erinnerung’ (Berlin/New York: de Gryuter, since
2004) and co-editor of Cultural Memory
Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (Berlin, 2007, in print).
She has just published a book on the representation of the 'Indian
Mutiny' of 1857/58 in imperial and post-colonial media cultures (Prämediation -
Remediation. Der indische Aufstand in imperialen und post-kolonialen
Medienkulturen (1857 bis zur Gegenwart), Trier, 2007).
is Professor of Modern History
and Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the
University of York. He works on modern French history, especially on
the period of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of
modern warfare. His main research interests are the French
Revolutionary period and especially the social history of the
Revolution. He is interested in the political culture of Revolutionary
France and in the concept of citizenship. He serves on the editorial
boards of the journals French History
and War in History, and is a member
of the advisory committee for Annales
historiques de la Revolution Francaise. He is also a member
of the project board of the project ‘Nations, Borders,
Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European
Experiences’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council. His recent publications include: His
publications include The French Revolution
and the Poor (New York, 1981); Conscripts
and Deserters: The Army and French Society during the Revolution and
Empire (Oxford, 1989); Soldiers of
the French Revolution (Durham, 1990); Napoleon's
Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (London,
2002); Paris, the Provinces and the French
Revolution (2004), and - co-authored with Jean-Paul Bertaud
and Annie Jourdan - Napoleon, le monde et les
Anglais (London, 2004).
Is Director of the Centre for
French Studies and Professor of History at the Free University of
Berlin. His research focuses on French, German, German-French and
European Early Modern and Modern history, in particular social and
cultural history. His special fields of interest are comparative
history, transfer studies and the history of memory. He is a member of
the project board of the project ‘Nations, Borders,
Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European
Comparison’, funded by the German Research Foundation. His
recent publications include: Die
unsichtbare Grenze. Protestanten und Katholiken in Augsburg 1648-1806 (Sigmaringen,
1991); ed. with Hannes Siegrist and Jacob Vogel, Nation
und Emotion. Deutschland und Frankreich im Vergleich. 19. und 20.
Jahrhundert
(Göttingen, 1995); ed. with Matthias Midell, 1968
– Ein europäisches Jahr?
(Leipzig, 1997); and ed. with Hagen Schulze,
Deutsche Erinnerungsorte, 3 vol.
(Munich, 2001).
is
Lecturer in East European and Russian History at Trintiy College,
University of Dublin. His teaching interests are:
history of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, history of Poland and
of Ukraine (16th century to 1991), comparative and transnational
perspectives: history of Eastern Europe and Russia within European
history and studies. Further he is interested in urban history; history
of ethnic, national and confessional groups; history of universities
and sciences; environmental history; cultures of memory and sites of
memory (18th to 20th century). His recent publications include: Universität und städtische
Gesellschaft in Odessa, 1865-1917. Soziale und nationale
Selbstorganisation an der Peripherie des Zarenreiches.
(Stuttgart, 1998); Die Überquerung
des Flusses. Die Wolga als russischer Gedächtnisraum 17. bis
Anfang 20. Jahrhundert (forthcoming).
is
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the history of
eighteenth to twentieth century Germany and Europe, and
women’s and gender history, in particular the history of
welfare states, labor culture and women’s movements, as well
as the history of the nation, the military, and war. She is a member of
the project board of the project ‘Nations, Borders,
Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European
Comparison’, funded by the German Research Foundation, and
the project ‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary
and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences’, funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her most recent books include:
ed. with Ida Blom and Catherine Hall, Gendered
Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Oxford, 2000); ed. with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Home/Front: Military and Gender in 20th Century
Germany (Oxford, 2002); ‘Mannlicher
Muth und Teutsche Ehre:’ Nation, Militär und
Geschlecht zur Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege Preußens
(Paderborn, 2002); ed. with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh, Masculinities
in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (Manchester,
2004); ed. with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, Frieden
– Gewalt – Geschlecht: Friedens- und
Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung (Essen, 2005);
ed. with Michael Epkenhans and Stig Förster, Militärische
Erinnerungskultur. Soldaten im Spiegel von Biographien, Memoiren and
Selbstzeugnissen (Paderborn, 2006).
is
the Reader (Associate Professor) for British Cultural History and
Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds
Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. Awarded a
Philip-Leverhulme-Prize for History in 2006, he is currently Visiting
Scholar at Corpus Christi, Oxford. His main fields of interest are
British cultural and political history in the 'long' 18th century in
European and imperial contexts; visual culture; public history. His
recent publications include: The King's
Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture,
1760-1840 (Oxford, 2003); as editor, History,
Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005
(Oxford, 2007); 'The British State and the Anglo-French Wars Over
Antiquities, 1798-1858', Historical Journal 50/1 (2007); 'Nelson Entombed: The Military
and Naval Pantheon in St Paul's Cathedral', in: Admiral
Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy, ed. David Cannadine (New
York, 2005).
is Tutor (CUF) in Modern
History at Hertford College at the University of Oxford. His main
fields of interest are Britain and Europe in the Eighteen Century and
Modern Britain and Europe. He is currently on AHRC funded leave,
finishing a book on oral culture. He teaches on revolutionary Europe,
rural societies, popular culture (visual as well as oral) and
historical anthropology. He is also interested in the history of
Europe’s regions, having written specifically about Lorraine
and Brittany, and the interaction between society and disciplined
institutions such as the army and the navy. His recent publications
include: Soldier
and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
(Suffolk, 2002);
‘Storytelling, Fairytales and Autobiography: Observations on
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Soldiers' and Sailors'
Memoirs’, Social History 29/2 (2004);
‘Female Soldiers and the Battle of the Sexes in France: The
Mobilisation of a Folk Motif’, History
Workshop Journal 56/1 (2003). He
is currently finishing a book on oral popular culture in France for
Cambridge University Press, looking at how traditional genres were used
as forms of communication in small, face-to-face communities.
is
a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century
Studies at the University of York on the project, ‘Nations, Borders and Identities: The French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience’
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His research deals
with the war experiences in the German-speaking area. He has previously
worked and published on the social history of the south Wales and Ruhr
coalfields in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
His publications include: ‘Towards a
Comparative History of Coalfield Societies: Regional conference of the
Society for the Study of Labour History’, in
conjunction with Llafur: The Welsh
People’s History Society, 12 to 14 April 2002, Llafur 8/2 (2002); ‘War and Industry: A study of the industrial
relations of the mining regions of South Wales and the Ruhr during the
Great War, 1914-1918’, Labour
History Review 68/2 (2003); and with Ray Markey ‘Class and Labour: The British Labour
Party and the Australian Labor Party Compared’, Labour History 90 (May 2006).
is
a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century
Studies at the University of York on the project, ‘Nations, Borders and Identities: The French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience’
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her research and
teaching interests are the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Britain
and Ireland, the history of Irish nationalism, women’s and
gender history, and the history of ideas. She is working on the
post-doctoral project ‘Nations, Borders and Identities: The
experience of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in Britain and
Ireland, 1792-1815’. She has published ‘Womanish
Epistles’: Martha McTier, female epistolarity and late
eighteenth-century Irish radicalism’,
Women’s History Review 13/1 (2004).
is Research Fellow at the
Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin and and
doctoral candidate at the Institute of History of the Technical
University of Berlin. He is working on a project entitled ‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The Memories of the
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Feature Films
(1895-1945)’ in connection the project group
‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars in European Comparison’, funded by the German
Research Foundation. He participated in the exhibition ‘The
World War 1914-1918. Event and Memory’ (Der
Weltkrieg 1914-1918. Ereignis und Erinnerung) at the German Historical
Museum in Berlin). His main fields of study have been
Classical Mexican Cinema, German Cinema during National Socialism and
historical picturisations.
is Professeur
émérite at the Université Paris 3,
Ecole Doctorale ASSIC. Her main fields of research are
film, history and non-fiction films. Her publications
about film and history include: De l'Histoire
du cinéma, Méthode historique et histoire du
cinéma (Paris, 1992); ‘Il cinema come
Fonte di storia‘, Storia del Cinema
(sous la direction de G.-P. Brunetta, Torino, 2001);
‘L’art d’écrire
l’histoire : les stratagèmes du
cinéma’, in Le
détour par les autres arts, Pour Marie-Claire
Ropars, par P. Bayard et Ch. Doumet (Paris, 2004, p. 175-1889); ‘Histoire et
cinéma’, Chapitre 6 de Comprendre
le cinéma et les images
(sous la direction de René Gardies,
Paris, 2007).
is Postdoc Research Fellow at Berlin
School for European Comparative History at the Free University of
Berlin and works on a project on Polish and Russian memories of the
Napoleonic Wars in
connection the project group ‘Nations, Borders, Identities:
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European
Comparison’, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Her main fields of research are Modern and Contemporary history,
European history, especially Baltic, Polish, and Russian history,
cultural and social history as well as Jewish history. Her most recent
publications include: Memellandbuch.
Fünf Jahrzehnte Nachkriegsgeschichte (Berlin, 2002);
Grenzregion als Grauzone. Heydekrug eine
Stadt an der Peripherie Ostpreußens, in: ed.
Christian Pletzing, Vorposten des Reichs?
Ostpreußen 1933 bis 1945, (Munich, 2007); Experiences of Borders. Jewish Prospects of a
Prussian Periphery (forthcoming, Dec 2007).
is Professor of Romance Western
European history at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. His main
research interests include European and Transatlantic history from the
18th to the 20th century with particular reference to comparative
history, transfer, and entanglement analyses. His publications include
over 70 articles and a number of edited volumes on themes of
comparative European history (inter alia: Nationalismen
in Europa: West- und Osteuropa im Vergleich, Göttingen
2001), as well as a comparative analysis of the concept of liberalism
in European comparison from the late 18th century to the second half of
the 19th century (Liberalismus. Zur
historischen Semantik eines europäischen Deutungsmusters,
Munich 2001) and a major study of the relation between war experiences
and nation-building concepts in Europe and the United States from the
1750s to 1914 (Bellizismus und Nation.
Kriegsdeutung und Nationskonzepts, in Europa und den Vereinigten
Staaten, 1750-1914, Munich 2007, in print). He is currently
working on a comparative history of multiethnic Empires in the 19th and
early 20th century. This project received a major research grant by the
Gerda Henkel Foundation in 2006.
is Acting Director at the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths
College, University of London. She has published widely in
eighteenth-century studies. Recent articles include ‘Mutinous
Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and its Impact on
Eighteenth-Century Society’, Eighteenth-Century
Life 31 (2007); ‘Archives’ in The Oxford Encylopaedia of Maritime History,
4 vols (Oxford and New York, 2007). Her recent books include: Representing the Navy: British
Sea Power 1750-1815 (Aldershot, 2002); and the catalogue for
the Museum’s special exhibition, Nelson &
Napoléon (London, 2005). Her latest book, Naval
Wives and Mistresses 1750-1815, a study of naval women and
their social position within the context of Britain’s growing
imperial power, will be published in October 2007.
Hans Jürgen Lüsebrink
is Professor for Romance
Studies at the University of Saarland. He hold the chair of Romance
Civilization Studies and Intercultural Communication. His research
focuses on French cultural history, in particular early Modern history
and the history of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period. His
publications include: ed. with Rolf Reichardt
Handbuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich 1680-1820
(Munich, 1990); ed. with Anthony
Strugnell, ‘L'Histoire des Deux
Indes’ - Réécriture et Polygraphie
(Oxford, 1995); Einführung in die
Landeskunde Frankreichs (Stuttgart, 1999); ed. with Jean-Yves
Mollier and Susanne Greilich, Presse et
événement, XVIII-XIXe siècle
(Gazettes, journaux, almanachs)); La
conquête de l'espace public colonial. Studien zu den
frankophonen Literaturen außerhalb Europas, vol. 7
(Frankfurt am Main, London, Québec, 2003).
is
Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Program at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on
painting in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. His book, After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting
and Propaganda under Napoleon (Penn State, 2006), examines
the rise military painting in France from the Revolution to the
Restoration, with particular attention paid to the career of
Antoine-Jean Gros. Currently he is researching a book about
Eugène Delacroix’s depictions of North Africa.
Publications are: After the Revolution:
Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda under Napoleon
(University Park, 2006). Translated as
Antoine-Jean Gros, peintre de Napoléon (Paris,
2006). ‘Antonio Canova’s Napoleon as Mars the
Peacemaker and the Limits of Imperial Portraiture’, French History 18/4 (2004).
‘Propaganda and the Republic of the Arts in Antoine-Jean
Gros’s Napoleon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau the Morning
after the Battle’, French
Historical Studies 26/2 (2003); ‘Colonial
Reproduction: The Contradictions of Nineteenth-Century Orientalist
Painting’, Contemporary French
Civilization 26/2 and 3 (2002).
is
Professor of Modern History at the University of Mannheim and Vice-Dean
of the Faculty of Philosophy. His research focuses on Early Modern West
European History, in particular political, social and cultural history.
His main research interests are the French Revolution and the Era of
Napoleon. He is currently preparing a new biographical study on
Napoleon and his times: Napoleon Bonaparte.
Biographie eines europäischen Monarchen (Stuttgart,
2008, forthcoming). He has edited several volumes: ed. French
Revolutionary Pamphlets (Leiden, 1996); ed. French
Revolutionary Periodicals (Leiden, 1999); ed. French
Revolutionary Opinions. The Trial of King Louis XVI, 1792-1793
(Leiden, 2001). His most recent publications include: Die
Wiederkehr des girondistischen Helden. Deutsche Intellektuelle als
kulturelle Mittler zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland während
der Französischen Revolution (Bonn, 1998), and Revolution und Klio. Die Hauptwerke zur
Französischen Revolution (Göttingen, 2004).
is Research Fellow and doctoral
candidate at the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of
Berlin. He is working on a project entitled ‘Nations,
Borders, Identities: The on
Irish and British Memories of the Napoleonic Wars’ in connection the
project group ‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Comparison’,
funded by the German Research Foundation. His main fields
of research are Modern British and Irish History, Western European
History, Gender History, Cultural and Military History.
is
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Brussels Royal Society of
Archaeology, higher education at Brussels Free University and at the
Warburg Institute (London University). Her fields of research are
Russian iconography and history of mentality of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Her publications include: ‘Imagerie
populaire et caricature: la graphique politique
antinapoléonienne en Russie et ses
antécédents pétroviens’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
48 (1985); ‘Die Alternativen der antinapoleonischen
Karikaturen in Europa, Die Karikatur zwischen
Republik und Zensur - Bildsatire in Frankreich 1830 bis 1880 - eine
Sprache des Widerstands?’, Proceedings of an
international conference at Francfort University, 1988, (Marburg,
1991); ‘Russkaja političeskaja grafika Otečestvennoj vojny
1812 goda i ee vlijanie na Evropu’ (Russian Political Graphic
Art of the 1812 Patriotic War and its Influence on Europe), Russia and Europe. Diplomacy and Culture
4, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, 2007); forthcoming proceedings:
‘From Propaganda to Trade: Political Prints in Russia and
Europe in the Early Nineteenth Century‘, Trade
and Circulation of Popular Prints (Trento, 2006); ed. Kunstbibliothek,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
‘La Révolution en filigrane de la caricature russe
anti-napoléonienne‘, in Gegenrevolutionäre
Grundpositionen in der europäischen Bildpublizistik 1789-1848
(Berlin, 2006).
is Professor h.c. for Modern
History at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. His main fields of
research are memory of the French Revolution in European prints from
1789 to 1889, history of Transnationale Medienereignisse. Numerous
articles and several books concerning French and european visual
culture from the 17th to the 19th century: Bildgedächtnis
eines welthistorischen Ereignisses. Die ‘Tableaux historiques
de la Rivolution frangaise’ (Göttingen,
2001); Das Blut der Freiheit.
Französische Revolution und demokratische Kultur
(Frankfurt am Main, 2002); Symbolische
Politik und politische Zeichensysteme im Zeitalter der franzvsischen
Revolutionen (Münster, 2004); Visualizing
the Revolution: politics and the pictorial arts in late
eigheenth-century France (London, 2006); Napoleons
neue Kleider: Pariser und Londoner Karikaturen im klassischen Weimar.
Ausst.-Katalog der Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, 2006).
is Phd in History and Sociology
at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She organized several
important exhibitions all over Europe. Her selected exhibitions
include: Bismarck-Prussia, Germany and Europe
(Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin 1990), Zaubertöne
- Mozart in Vienna (Magic sounds – Mozart in
Vienna) (Künstlerhaus Wien 1991/92); Die
Elbe - Ein Lebenslauf (The River Elbe - a Biography)
(Dresden, Nationalmuseum, Prague and
Deichtorhallen Hamburg 1993/94); Sehsucht
- Das Panorama als Massenphänomen des 19. Jahrhunderts
(The Desire to See - Panorama Paintings as a Mass Phenomenon in the
19th Century) (Art and Exhibitioon Centre Bonn 1993,
the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg 1995); Marianne and Germania. Germany and France 1789-1889: Two Worlds - une Revue
(Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, 1996 and Paris, 1997); Travels through Time
in Weimar – A Cultural Historical Itinerary (Weimar,
1999/2000). Her recent publications include: ‘Versailles et
l’ Europe, L’Europe à
Versailles’, in: ed. Robert Laffont, Le
Musée révélé.
L’Histoire de France au Château de Versailles
(Paris, 2005); ‘Europe’
and ‚Panorama’, in: Dictionnaire
mondial des Images (Paris, 2006). Her current projects are
Exhibition for Art and Exhibition Centre Bonn in the series 'Great
Collections' with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and book
publication on the Cultural history of 'Carrousel and Equestrian shows
in Europe', 16th to 19th centuries.
is Honorary Fellow in the History Department
at the University of York. Her research focuses on eigthteenth and
nineteenth century British and comparative women's history, and
particularly in Scottish women’s history and the Scottish
Enlightenment. Her publications include: The
Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France, and the United
States, 1780-1860 (Basingstoke, 1985); Equal
or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, editor
(Oxford, 1987); Writing Women’s
History: International Perspectives, co-edited with Karen
Offen, and Ruth Roach Pierson (Basingstoke, 1991); Defining
the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of
1867, author with Catherine Hall, and Keith McClelland
(Cambridge, 2000); Eighteenth-Century York:
Culture, Space and Society, co-edited with Mark Hallett
(York, 2003).
is Artistic Director of the Deutsche
Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen in
Berlin. He worked as a exhibition curator for the German Historical
Museum (incl.The German Empire of Images. Ufa
1917-1945; The Final Days of Humanity.Images of the First World War;
Paths of the Germans 1949-1999. Unity and Law and Freedom).
He published primarily articles on film history in journals such as Merkur, Freibeuter, filmdienst
and filmwärts as well as
regular contributions for various newspapers (Frankfurter
Allgemeine, Süddeutsche
Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, Berliner
Zeitung). Countless book contributions and lexicon entries.
His published books include: Die Gegenwart der Geschichte: Ein Versuch über Film und
zeitgenössische Literatur (Stuttgart,
1990); Sachlexikon
Film (Reinbek bei
Hamburg, 1997); ed., Mythen der Nationen:
Völker im Film
(Berlin, 1998); Leni
Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Talent (London, 2000); with Gabriele
Jatho, City Girls. Frauenbilder im Stummfilm (Berlin, 2007).
is Postdoc Research Fellow at
the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin with the
research project entitled ‘Nations,
Borders, Identities: The French
Memories of the Napoleonic Wars’ in connection the project group
‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars in European Comparison’, funded by the German
Research Foundation, 1999-2001 she was a research fellow at the Free
University of Berlin in the project ‘Deutsche
Erinnerungsorte’. Her main research fields are the
history of mentalities and cultural history, military history, the
history of nation, nationalism, and national movements in Europe, the
history of the memories of the Napoleonic Wars in the 19th and 20th
centuries (main focus: France). Her most recent publication: Hitlers erster Feldmarschall. Werner von Blomberg.
Eine Biographie (Paderborn, 2006).
is
Research Fellow at the Berlin School for Comparative European History
at the Free University of Berlin and doctoral candidate at the
Technical University of Berlin. Her research project on
‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The Memories of the
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Austria
(1815-1945)’ is funded by the German Research Foundation as a
part of the project group ‘Nations, Borders, Identities: The
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memories’. Her
main fields of studies: history of nation, nationalism, and national
movements in Europe, the history of the German post-war period and the
German Democratic Republik, the history of Prussia, the history of the
German Empire 1871-1918, Brandenburg and Saxon history. Most recent
publication: ‘Zwischen Kultur und Politik. Die
Hauptversammlungen der Goethe-Gesellschaft in den Jahren 1954 bis 1960
als Orte der deutsch-deutschen Auseinandersetzungen’, in: Goethe in Gesellschaft. Zur Geschichte einer
literarischen Vereinigung vom Kaiserreich bis zum geteilten Deutschland,
ed. Jochen Golz, (Cologne, 2005).
is W.R.
Kenan, Jr. Distinguished
Professor
of Art and Chair of
the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She studies eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European art and
publishes on French visual culture.
Her interests include gender and sexuality in the
visual arts and cross-cultural exchange and the problem of nationalism. She has published three
books with the University of Chicago Press: J.H.
Fragonard: Art and Eroticism (1990); The
Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural
Politics of Art (1996) and Moved by
Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France
(2006). From 1993-1996 she was co-editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century
Studies; and she has edited several other volumes including
the Special
Issue: ‘French History in the Visual Sphere: Convergences:
Visualizing French History’, French
Historical Studies 26/2 (2003). She is currently editing Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art
for the University of North Carolina Press and preparing a new book ‘From Cythera to Tahiti, the Enchanted
island in Eighteenth-Century France.’
is Lecturer in Modern History
at the Unversity of St. Andrews. His main research fields are Germany
in the 18th and 19th centuries, the history of travel and travel
writing, the history of cartography and science in the 19th century,
representation of space and conceptions of borders; trans-national,
comparative history; history of cultural transfers (Germany, Poland,
France, Italy).
His publications include: Nicht West
– nicht Ost. Frankreich und Polen in der Wahrnehmung
deutscher Reisender zwischen 1750 und 1850
(Göttingen, 2006); Die Welt
erfahren. Reisen als kulturelle Erfahrung von 1780 bis heute,
ed. with Hans Erich Bödeker and Arnd Bauerkämper
(Frankfurt am Main, 2004); Die Grenze als
Raum, Erfahrung und Konstruktion. Deutschland, Frankreich und Polen
17.-20. Jahrhundert, ed. with Etienne François and
Jörg Seifarth (Frankfurt am Main, 2007); ‘Auf
der Suche nach Osteuropa. Zur Wahrnehmung Polens und Frankreichs in
vergleichender Perspektive, 1770-1850’, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteuropa-Forschung
53/4 (2004).
is
Research Fellow at
the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York,
United Kingdom. She is working in the project on war experiences in
France and is member of the research project
‘Nation, Borders, Identities. The Revolutionary and
Napoleonic wars in European Memories,’ funded by the Arts and
Humanities Council. Her publications include: Administrer à la française:
pratique de gouvernement local du Consulat à la Monarchie de
Juillet. Le cas de l’Isère, shorter
version of the PhD thesis, submitted and accepted (Universitaires de
Grenoble, 2007). Also she published many articles:
‘L’Empire au village: les fonctionnaires dans les
villages de l’Isère sous le Consulat et
l’Empire, entre l’Etat et le village’,
dans Revue de l’Institut
Napoléon, 188/1 (2004);
‘L’administration locale en temps de crise:
l’administration locale en Isère en
1814-1815’, in Annales historiques
de la révolution française, nro. 1
(2005); ‘The limits of Napoleonic centralisation: notables
and local government in the department of the Isère from the
Consulate to the beginning of the July Monarchy’, in French History 19/4 (2005).
is Deputy Director of the
Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. His main fields of research are European
history of the eighteenth to twentieth century, the history of the
nation and nationalism, the history of science, knowledge and experts,
transnational and colonial history. His publications include: Nationen im Gleichschritt. Der Kult der 'Nation in
Waffen' in Deutschland und Frankreich (1871-1914)
(Göttingen, 1997); with Bernd Ulrich and Benjamin Ziemann Untertan in Uniform. Militär und
Militarismus im Kaiserreich 1871 – 1914 (Frankfurt
am Main, 2001); ‘Der Undank der Nation. Die Veteranen der
Einigungskriege und die Debatte um ihren
‚Ehrensold’ im Kaiserreich’, in Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 60
(2001); Ein schillerndes Kristall. Eine
Wissensgeschichte des Salzes zwischen Frühneuzeit und Moderne
(Cologne, 2007, in print).
is Professor of Art History at
the University of Hamburg. She headed the radio seminar-series in
‘Modern Art’ and built up the Archive for Research
on Material Iconography. Currently she is working on ‘social
surfaces’ in urban space. Articles in relation to the topic
of the conference: ‘Germania und ihre Freier. Zur
Herausbildung einer nationalen Ikonographie um 1800’, in: ed.
Ulrich Hermann, Volk, Nation und Vaterland
(Hamburg, 1996); ‘Turner-Orte der Erinnerung. Über
die Undarstellbarkeit von Geschichte’, in: ed. Stefan Germer,
Margarte Zimmermann,
Bilder der Macht - Macht der Bilder
(Munich, 1997); ‘Ein Mischling für den Bundestag.
Erd- und Steingemenge als Symbole politischer Einheit’, in:
Michael Diers, Kasper König: ‘Der
Bevölkerung’. Aufsätze und Dokumente zur
Debatte um das Reichstagsprojekt von Hans Haacke (Cologne,
2000). Recent books: Das Material der Kunst.
Eine andere Geschichte der Moderne (Munich, 2001); Lexikon des künstlerischen Materials.
Werkstoffe von Abfall bis Zinn, ed. with Dietmar
Rübel und Sebastian Hackenschmidt (Munich, 2002).
is Director of the Royal Naval
Museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. He
is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal
Historical Society and a Vice President of the Navy Records Society. His research
focus is the social, historical and cultural change in Europe. His
publications include: The Nelson Encyclopaedia,
Chatham Publishing and the Royal Naval Museum (London, 2005); Nelson - the New Letters (Woodbridge,
2005); Nelson the Admiral (Stroud,
Gloucestershire,
2005); 1797: Nelson’s year of
Destiny (Stroud, 2006). His current research
project is The Nelson Letters Project, with the aim to
locate, transcribe and, as appropriate to publish, unpublished letters
written by Nelson.
is Associate Professor of
History at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in modern
German history and modern European cultural and intellectual history.
He is the author of The Longing for Myth in
Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
(Chicago, 2004). His article, ‘What
Killed August von Kotzebue? The Temptations of Virtue and the Political
Theology of German Nationalism, 1789-1819,’ The Journal of Modern History 72/4
(2000), was named best article for 1999-2000 by the Conference Group
for Central European History of the American Historical Association. He
is currently expanding his study of the Kotzebue affair into a
book-length monograph.