Participants 2007-2008
alphabetically, by last name
Prof. Mentor Agani
Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science at the University of Prishtina. His research focuses on theories of nation and nationalism, global transformations and the status of Kosovo. Prof. Agani has been working at Kosovo radio and TV as a producer and moderator. Prof. Agani completed his studies in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at University of Pittsburg, USA, as part of the US Department of State’s Ron Brown Fellowship Program. He was deputy director in the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation, and editor-in-chief of the magazine Ura (The Bridge), published by the Kosovar Center for Humanistic Studies. Prof. Agani has translated into Albanian several books from English and from Serbo-Croatian. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Center for European Studies for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science at the University of Prishtina. His research focuses on theories of nation and nationalism, global transformations and the status of Kosovo. Prof. Agani has been working at Kosovo radio and TV as a producer and moderator. Prof. Agani completed his studies in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at University of Pittsburg, USA, as part of the US Department of State’s Ron Brown Fellowship Program. He was deputy director in the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation, and editor-in-chief of the magazine Ura (The Bridge), published by the Kosovar Center for Humanistic Studies. Prof. Agani has translated into Albanian several books from English and from Serbo-Croatian. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Center for European Studies for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Prof. Amatzia Baram
Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is a prolific author and editor of several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi politics and history. He testified about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction in September 2002 before the House Committee on Government Reform, and has consulted widely about Iraq with senior U.S. administration officials. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, St. Antony's College (Oxford), and Hebrew University's School for Advanced Studies. Baram directed the Jewish-Arab Center and the Gustav Heinemann Middle East Institute at the University of Haifa from 1999 to 2002. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Islamic Countries at Hebrew University.
Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is a prolific author and editor of several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi politics and history. He testified about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction in September 2002 before the House Committee on Government Reform, and has consulted widely about Iraq with senior U.S. administration officials. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, St. Antony's College (Oxford), and Hebrew University's School for Advanced Studies. Baram directed the Jewish-Arab Center and the Gustav Heinemann Middle East Institute at the University of Haifa from 1999 to 2002. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Islamic Countries at Hebrew University.
Prof. Jan Bardsley
Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specialist on the history and literature of Japanese feminism, and currently working on bathing suit contests and Ms. Universe competitions with Japanese girls. She is the co-editor of Bad Girls of Japan (2005), the author of The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Fiction and Essays from Seito, 1 -16 (forthcoming, 2007) and co-editor of Bowing to Etiquette: Manners and Mischief in Japan (forthcoming).
Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specialist on the history and literature of Japanese feminism, and currently working on bathing suit contests and Ms. Universe competitions with Japanese girls. She is the co-editor of Bad Girls of Japan (2005), the author of The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Fiction and Essays from Seito, 1 -16 (forthcoming, 2007) and co-editor of Bowing to Etiquette: Manners and Mischief in Japan (forthcoming).
William Bares
William Bares is a jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist specializing in African American music and popular musics of the African diaspora. He is currently working on a PhD at Harvard University under the direction of Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. Bares has spent the past several years in Europe researching the intersection of jazz and national identity in Switzerland, Italy, Norway and Germany, and in 2006-7 used a CES-sponsored Krupp Foundation Fellowship to survey the ways Berlin is being positioned as a German jazz "center." His PhD dissertation entitled "Eternal Triangle: American Jazz in European Postmodern" focuses on the complex relationships between European, American, and African American identities in the evolving transatlantic jazz markeplace. He also performs frequently in New York and Europe, and has shared the stage with many of Berlin's most accomplished musicians: Torsten Goods, Johan Leijonhufvud, Andrea Marcelli, Till Bronner and John Schroeder, to name a few. He also fronts his own band, "Billy the Kid and the Outlaws," whose latest album, "Essences," is due for release in the fall of 2008.
William Bares is a jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist specializing in African American music and popular musics of the African diaspora. He is currently working on a PhD at Harvard University under the direction of Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. Bares has spent the past several years in Europe researching the intersection of jazz and national identity in Switzerland, Italy, Norway and Germany, and in 2006-7 used a CES-sponsored Krupp Foundation Fellowship to survey the ways Berlin is being positioned as a German jazz "center." His PhD dissertation entitled "Eternal Triangle: American Jazz in European Postmodern" focuses on the complex relationships between European, American, and African American identities in the evolving transatlantic jazz markeplace. He also performs frequently in New York and Europe, and has shared the stage with many of Berlin's most accomplished musicians: Torsten Goods, Johan Leijonhufvud, Andrea Marcelli, Till Bronner and John Schroeder, to name a few. He also fronts his own band, "Billy the Kid and the Outlaws," whose latest album, "Essences," is due for release in the fall of 2008.
Thorsten Benner
Co-founder and Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He currently directs a two-year research project on “Learning to Build Peace: UN Peace Operations and Organizational Learning” for which he has conducted fieldwork in Liberia and East Timor. His projects also include “The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance” in which GPPi cooperates with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the UN system including “The US and the EU at the UN: Making the Most of the Ban Years” (with Edward C. Luck).
Co-founder and Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He currently directs a two-year research project on “Learning to Build Peace: UN Peace Operations and Organizational Learning” for which he has conducted fieldwork in Liberia and East Timor. His projects also include “The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance” in which GPPi cooperates with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the UN system including “The US and the EU at the UN: Making the Most of the Ban Years” (with Edward C. Luck).
Prof. Frank Biess
Associate Professor of Modern German History at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a Humboldt Fellowship for the period January 2007-December 2008. This year he is based in Göttingen His research has focused on the social, political, and cultural history of 20th Century Germany. His book Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany was published in 2006. The book combines the political history of reconstruction with the social history of returnees and the cultural history of war memories and gender identities. He teaches courses on Modern German, Italian, and European History.
Associate Professor of Modern German History at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a Humboldt Fellowship for the period January 2007-December 2008. This year he is based in Göttingen His research has focused on the social, political, and cultural history of 20th Century Germany. His book Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany was published in 2006. The book combines the political history of reconstruction with the social history of returnees and the cultural history of war memories and gender identities. He teaches courses on Modern German, Italian, and European History.
Prof. Yu Bin
Yu Bin is Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute of American Studies; analyst on Russian-China relations for the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in Honolulu, Hawaii; Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA; and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (1992-94). Yu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991) and his M.A. from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). He is the author and co-author of several books including the most recent: The Government of China (2006); Power of the Moment: America and the World After 9-11 (2002); and Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (2001). He has published more than 60 articles in journals, including World Politics, Strategic Review, Asian Survey, International Politics Quarterly (Beijing), The China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly, International Journal of Korean Studies, Harvard International Review, Comparative Connections, etc.
Yu Bin is Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute of American Studies; analyst on Russian-China relations for the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in Honolulu, Hawaii; Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA; and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (1992-94). Yu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991) and his M.A. from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). He is the author and co-author of several books including the most recent: The Government of China (2006); Power of the Moment: America and the World After 9-11 (2002); and Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (2001). He has published more than 60 articles in journals, including World Politics, Strategic Review, Asian Survey, International Politics Quarterly (Beijing), The China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly, International Journal of Korean Studies, Harvard International Review, Comparative Connections, etc.
Marianne Birthler
Federal Minister of the Stasi Files. Before joining the Ministry, Frau Birthler was employed in foreign trade and held several offices in the Evangelical Church. In the late ‘80’s, she was actively involved in various opposition groups in the former GDR, such as the “Solidarity Church Workshop” and the “Initiative for Peace and Human Rights”. During the ‘90’s, she served as the General Speaker of the Board of Bündnis 90/Die Gruenen. Frau Birthler has held several honorary offices and functions, including memberships in the German UNICEF Committee, the Advisory Board of Transparency International, the committee of the Student Competition in German History, the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial. Frau Birthler was educated in Foreign Trade Economics and as catechist and parish worker for the Evangelical Church.
Federal Minister of the Stasi Files. Before joining the Ministry, Frau Birthler was employed in foreign trade and held several offices in the Evangelical Church. In the late ‘80’s, she was actively involved in various opposition groups in the former GDR, such as the “Solidarity Church Workshop” and the “Initiative for Peace and Human Rights”. During the ‘90’s, she served as the General Speaker of the Board of Bündnis 90/Die Gruenen. Frau Birthler has held several honorary offices and functions, including memberships in the German UNICEF Committee, the Advisory Board of Transparency International, the committee of the Student Competition in German History, the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial. Frau Birthler was educated in Foreign Trade Economics and as catechist and parish worker for the Evangelical Church.
PD Dr. Katharina Bluhm
Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Her publications include three books: Experimentierfeld Ostmitteleuropa? Deutsche Unternehmen in Polen und der Tschechischen Republik (2007); Research Report of the EU Project "National Corporate Cultures and Institutional Competitiveness Strategies – the Challenge of Globalisation for European SMEs (2005); and Zwischen Markt und Politik. Probleme und Praxis von Unternehmenskooperation in der Transitionsökonomie (1999). She is currently based in the division on "Internationalisierung und Organisation" at the WZB. Prof. Bluhm will speak on the role of the EU in the transition process.
Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Her publications include three books: Experimentierfeld Ostmitteleuropa? Deutsche Unternehmen in Polen und der Tschechischen Republik (2007); Research Report of the EU Project "National Corporate Cultures and Institutional Competitiveness Strategies – the Challenge of Globalisation for European SMEs (2005); and Zwischen Markt und Politik. Probleme und Praxis von Unternehmenskooperation in der Transitionsökonomie (1999). She is currently based in the division on "Internationalisierung und Organisation" at the WZB. Prof. Bluhm will speak on the role of the EU in the transition process.
Thomas Brussig
A novelist, scriptwriter and playwright, was born in 1965 in East Berlin. After 1990 he studied sociology (FU Berlin) and film (Potsdam-Babelsberg). His best-selling novels Helden wie wir, about the fall of the Berlin wall, and Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, about the lives of East Berlin youths in the 1970s, have been filmed by Sebastian Peterson and Leander Haußmann. He also wrote the script for Haußmann’s NVA, about the travails of draftees in the East German army (which he himself experienced).
A novelist, scriptwriter and playwright, was born in 1965 in East Berlin. After 1990 he studied sociology (FU Berlin) and film (Potsdam-Babelsberg). His best-selling novels Helden wie wir, about the fall of the Berlin wall, and Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, about the lives of East Berlin youths in the 1970s, have been filmed by Sebastian Peterson and Leander Haußmann. He also wrote the script for Haußmann’s NVA, about the travails of draftees in the East German army (which he himself experienced).
Belinda Cooper
Adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she co-founded the Program on Citizenship and Security. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and has taught human rights, international law, transitional justice and gender and law at Humboldt University in Berlin, the New School, Seton Hall Law School and Ohio Northern University Law School. She has edited a volume on the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and the current international criminal tribunals entitled "War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg." Cooper lived in Berlin, Germany from 1987-1994 and returned in 2002 as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She has taken part in human rights fact-finding missions and has coauthored reports on domestic violence in Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Tanzania. Cooper has written for a wide variety of publications in German and English, including The New York Times, Newsweek, World Policy Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also a translator of German scholarly books and articles, including most recently a textbook on international criminal law, and has worked as a translator on the case of Turkish-German Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she co-founded the Program on Citizenship and Security. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and has taught human rights, international law, transitional justice and gender and law at Humboldt University in Berlin, the New School, Seton Hall Law School and Ohio Northern University Law School. She has edited a volume on the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and the current international criminal tribunals entitled "War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg." Cooper lived in Berlin, Germany from 1987-1994 and returned in 2002 as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She has taken part in human rights fact-finding missions and has coauthored reports on domestic violence in Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Tanzania. Cooper has written for a wide variety of publications in German and English, including The New York Times, Newsweek, World Policy Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also a translator of German scholarly books and articles, including most recently a textbook on international criminal law, and has worked as a translator on the case of Turkish-German Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Prof. Beverly Crawford
Associate Director and Associate Research Political Scientist at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Lecturer for Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Crawford is the author of A Teutonic Shift: Explaining Germany's new Foreign Policy (forthcoming). She is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
Associate Director and Associate Research Political Scientist at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Lecturer for Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Crawford is the author of A Teutonic Shift: Explaining Germany's new Foreign Policy (forthcoming). She is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
Sujit Dutta
Sujit Dutta is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in Delhi, a think tank on strategic studies and international affairs. His interests focus on China's foreign policy and diplomacy, state and politics in 20th century China, Asian security issues, and India-China Relations. His current project is on 'The Rise of China and Its Impact on Asian Security.' He heads the Institute's East Asia and South Asia Programmes, and is the Executive Editor of the IDSA's journal Strategic Analysis. Dutta has been a member of the India-China Eminent Persons' Group set up by the two governments for track two dialogue on bilateral issues, and also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Confidence Building Measures. He has been a member and also closely interacted with research institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has written extensively and is the author of India and the World (2005) and China and Nonproliferation: Pragmatism and Adaptation (2005), among others.
Sujit Dutta is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in Delhi, a think tank on strategic studies and international affairs. His interests focus on China's foreign policy and diplomacy, state and politics in 20th century China, Asian security issues, and India-China Relations. His current project is on 'The Rise of China and Its Impact on Asian Security.' He heads the Institute's East Asia and South Asia Programmes, and is the Executive Editor of the IDSA's journal Strategic Analysis. Dutta has been a member of the India-China Eminent Persons' Group set up by the two governments for track two dialogue on bilateral issues, and also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Confidence Building Measures. He has been a member and also closely interacted with research institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has written extensively and is the author of India and the World (2005) and China and Nonproliferation: Pragmatism and Adaptation (2005), among others.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert
Dr. Eckert is Chair of African History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK, managing editor of the Journal of African History (published by CUP) and chairman of the Association for Modern Social History. He is the author of Kolonialismus (2006) and is currently working on Deutscher Kolonialismus
Dr. Eckert is Chair of African History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK, managing editor of the Journal of African History (published by CUP) and chairman of the Association for Modern Social History. He is the author of Kolonialismus (2006) and is currently working on Deutscher Kolonialismus
Prof. Heide Fehrenbach
Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. She currently holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for her research and teaching on Germany. Her first book, Cinema in Democratizing Germany (1995) discussed the role of cinema in restructuring the postwar German national and gender ideologies. Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America (2005) focuses on transnational responses to children born to German women and African-American soldiers during the military occupation. She is now researching the effects of war, military occupation and the rise of international adoption on the notions of family, immigration and citizenship.
Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. She currently holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for her research and teaching on Germany. Her first book, Cinema in Democratizing Germany (1995) discussed the role of cinema in restructuring the postwar German national and gender ideologies. Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America (2005) focuses on transnational responses to children born to German women and African-American soldiers during the military occupation. She is now researching the effects of war, military occupation and the rise of international adoption on the notions of family, immigration and citizenship.
Thomas Fricke
Chief Economics Editor at the Financial Times Deutschland. Previously Fricke worked as researcher at the Paris research institute Observatoire Français des Conjonctures économiques (OFCE) and as journalist at the Berliner Tagesspiegel, the Wirtschaftswoche and the Manager Magazin. Since 1999, he has been writing for the Financial Times Deutschland in the fields of economics and business cycles in Germany. He is focusing on the analysis of the German ‘economic miracle.’ He publishes the weekly economics column ‘Frickonomics” in the FTD where he comments on current economic trends and events. Fricke studied economics and political science at Aachen and Paris.
Chief Economics Editor at the Financial Times Deutschland. Previously Fricke worked as researcher at the Paris research institute Observatoire Français des Conjonctures économiques (OFCE) and as journalist at the Berliner Tagesspiegel, the Wirtschaftswoche and the Manager Magazin. Since 1999, he has been writing for the Financial Times Deutschland in the fields of economics and business cycles in Germany. He is focusing on the analysis of the German ‘economic miracle.’ He publishes the weekly economics column ‘Frickonomics” in the FTD where he comments on current economic trends and events. Fricke studied economics and political science at Aachen and Paris.
Dr. Jens Gieseke
Historian in the Office for Research and Education, Federal Commission for the Stasi Records, Berlin. He was born in 1964, and studied history, politics and law at the Universities of Hannover and Potsdam. He is the author of Der Mielke-Konzern: Die Geschichte der Stasi 1945-1990 (2006); Die hauptamtlichen Mitarbeiter der Staatssicherheit: Personalstruktur und Lebenswelt (2000); and Die DDR-Staatssicherheit: Schild und Schwert der Partei (2001), and most recently has edited Staatssicherheit und Gesellschaft: Studien zum Herrschaftsalltag in der DDR (2007).
Historian in the Office for Research and Education, Federal Commission for the Stasi Records, Berlin. He was born in 1964, and studied history, politics and law at the Universities of Hannover and Potsdam. He is the author of Der Mielke-Konzern: Die Geschichte der Stasi 1945-1990 (2006); Die hauptamtlichen Mitarbeiter der Staatssicherheit: Personalstruktur und Lebenswelt (2000); and Die DDR-Staatssicherheit: Schild und Schwert der Partei (2001), and most recently has edited Staatssicherheit und Gesellschaft: Studien zum Herrschaftsalltag in der DDR (2007).
Prof. Dr. Constantin Goschler
Prof. Dr. Goschler holds the chair for Contemporary History at Ruhr University Bochum. He has previously taught at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, at the Charles University in Prague and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Professor Goschler's main focus has been on the history and politics of restitution, redress and transitional justice for the victims of Nazi crimes. He is also interested in the history of science and the history of political ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Schuld und Schulden: Die Politik Der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945.
Prof. Dr. Goschler holds the chair for Contemporary History at Ruhr University Bochum. He has previously taught at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, at the Charles University in Prague and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Professor Goschler's main focus has been on the history and politics of restitution, redress and transitional justice for the victims of Nazi crimes. He is also interested in the history of science and the history of political ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Schuld und Schulden: Die Politik Der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945.
Steffen Hagemann
Research Assistant at the Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University Berlin. In 2006-2007, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Bucerius Institute for Research in German History and Society in Haifa, Israel, where his project was “Between Quietism and Violence –Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel”. His main fields of interest are religion and politics, fundamentalism and political culture. He has published a book, Für Volk, Land und Thora (2006), on the influence of ultra-Orthodox and messianic Fundamentalisms in Israel.
Research Assistant at the Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University Berlin. In 2006-2007, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Bucerius Institute for Research in German History and Society in Haifa, Israel, where his project was “Between Quietism and Violence –Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel”. His main fields of interest are religion and politics, fundamentalism and political culture. He has published a book, Für Volk, Land und Thora (2006), on the influence of ultra-Orthodox and messianic Fundamentalisms in Israel.
Priscilla Hayner
Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Peace and Justice Program. She currently directs the Geneva office and manages the Center´s Liberia Program. Ms. Hayner is an expert on truth commissions around the world and has written widely on the subject of official truth-seeking in political transitions. She is the author of Unspeakable Truths (2001), which explores the work of more than 20 truth commissions worldwide. Prior to founding the ICTJ, she was a consultant at the Ford Foundation, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a program officer on international human rights and world security for the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation in New York. She holds degrees from Earlham College and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. In 2007, she was awarded the Human Rights Award by the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights for her extensive work on transitional justice.
Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Peace and Justice Program. She currently directs the Geneva office and manages the Center´s Liberia Program. Ms. Hayner is an expert on truth commissions around the world and has written widely on the subject of official truth-seeking in political transitions. She is the author of Unspeakable Truths (2001), which explores the work of more than 20 truth commissions worldwide. Prior to founding the ICTJ, she was a consultant at the Ford Foundation, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a program officer on international human rights and world security for the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation in New York. She holds degrees from Earlham College and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. In 2007, she was awarded the Human Rights Award by the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights for her extensive work on transitional justice.
Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs
Director of the MPP Programme and Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. He formerly worked at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Since 2004, Professor Jachtenfuchs has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Relations and Development.
Director of the MPP Programme and Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. He formerly worked at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Since 2004, Professor Jachtenfuchs has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Relations and Development.
Prof. Peter Jelavich
Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), and Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006). He currently is writing a book on censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.
Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), and Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006). He currently is writing a book on censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.
Prof. Sunil Khilnani
Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critique Internationale, Economy and Society, and Political Quarterly and Prospect. Professor Khilnani was the recipient of the 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Indian government. He is the author of The Idea of India (2003). He holds a Ph.D. in social and political sciences from Cambridge University.
Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critique Internationale, Economy and Society, and Political Quarterly and Prospect. Professor Khilnani was the recipient of the 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Indian government. He is the author of The Idea of India (2003). He holds a Ph.D. in social and political sciences from Cambridge University.
Martin Klingst
Mr. Klingst is the Washington Bureau Chief for Die Zeit. He has worked for the North German Television and Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), and taught German law at the University of Hamburg. He covered many Constitutional and Supreme Courts (US, Israel, South Africa), and he covered the Balkan Wars from Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pristina and Skopje. Klingst spent the fall semester 2006 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University as a Bucerius Fellow.
Mr. Klingst is the Washington Bureau Chief for Die Zeit. He has worked for the North German Television and Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), and taught German law at the University of Hamburg. He covered many Constitutional and Supreme Courts (US, Israel, South Africa), and he covered the Balkan Wars from Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pristina and Skopje. Klingst spent the fall semester 2006 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University as a Bucerius Fellow.
Dr. Wolfram Knauer
Musicologist and the director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Europe's largest public jazz archive. He is author and editor of several books on jazz and on the board of editors for the scholarly journal Jazz Perspectives. He serves on the board of advisers for the Goethe Institute and serves as the Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University, New York, for the spring semester 2008 , where he teaches a course about "Jazz in Europe/European Jazz".
Musicologist and the director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Europe's largest public jazz archive. He is author and editor of several books on jazz and on the board of editors for the scholarly journal Jazz Perspectives. He serves on the board of advisers for the Goethe Institute and serves as the Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University, New York, for the spring semester 2008 , where he teaches a course about "Jazz in Europe/European Jazz".
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Wolfgang Kohlhaase had his start in cinema as a dramaturg in the GDR's DEFA studios. Since 1952, he has worked as a screenwriter. In 1954, he began a long collaboration with director Gerhard Klein that resulted in four renowned youth and young adult films: Alarm im Zirkus (1954), Eine Berliner Romanze (1956), Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957), and Berlin um die Ecke (1965/1990). Kohlhaase went on to become one of the most prolific screenwriters in East Germany, where he also had the chance to work as a director. Recently, he has received critical acclaim for Die Stille nach dem Schuss (2000) and Sommer vorm Balkon (2005). His most recent project, Whisky mit Wodka (2008), a second film with director Andreas Dresen, is the story of an actor who has a problem with alcohol.
Wolfgang Kohlhaase had his start in cinema as a dramaturg in the GDR's DEFA studios. Since 1952, he has worked as a screenwriter. In 1954, he began a long collaboration with director Gerhard Klein that resulted in four renowned youth and young adult films: Alarm im Zirkus (1954), Eine Berliner Romanze (1956), Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957), and Berlin um die Ecke (1965/1990). Kohlhaase went on to become one of the most prolific screenwriters in East Germany, where he also had the chance to work as a director. Recently, he has received critical acclaim for Die Stille nach dem Schuss (2000) and Sommer vorm Balkon (2005). His most recent project, Whisky mit Wodka (2008), a second film with director Andreas Dresen, is the story of an actor who has a problem with alcohol.
Dr. Pamela Kort
Independent curator and art historian specializing in twentieth-century art in German-speaking Europe. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary European artists, including Paul Klee, Jörg Immendorff, Joseph Beuys, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among others. She has served as Associate Curator, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (2001-03) and Associate Curator, Neue Galerie, New York: Museum for German and Austrian Art (2000-01). She also served as curator of the exhibition, I Like America: Fictions of the Wild West, at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2006-2007) and co-editor of the catalogue.
Independent curator and art historian specializing in twentieth-century art in German-speaking Europe. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary European artists, including Paul Klee, Jörg Immendorff, Joseph Beuys, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among others. She has served as Associate Curator, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (2001-03) and Associate Curator, Neue Galerie, New York: Museum for German and Austrian Art (2000-01). She also served as curator of the exhibition, I Like America: Fictions of the Wild West, at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2006-2007) and co-editor of the catalogue.
Prof. Dr. Karl Markus Kreis
Karl Markus Kreis was born in 1940 in Hanau-Steinheim, Germany. Dr. Kreis has done extensive research and writing on Wild West shows in Germany and encounters between German missionaries and Lakota Indians. In 2004, Kreis won a Research Award from the University of Dortmund for the project, "Schools for the Sioux Indians (in the overall project German-American exchange)". He retired in March of 2006.
Karl Markus Kreis was born in 1940 in Hanau-Steinheim, Germany. Dr. Kreis has done extensive research and writing on Wild West shows in Germany and encounters between German missionaries and Lakota Indians. In 2004, Kreis won a Research Award from the University of Dortmund for the project, "Schools for the Sioux Indians (in the overall project German-American exchange)". He retired in March of 2006.
Dr. Hagen Lesch
Senior Researcher on labor unions at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (IW) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne. Since 2000 he has been directing the IW´s Wage Policy and Collective Bargaining Section. Between 1991 and 2000, Lesch worked as a Research Fellow and Senior Researcher of Economics at the Institut “Finanzen und Steuern” (IFSt), Bonn. Lesch graduated with a diploma in economics at the University of Bonn, where he also obtained his PhD. He has published books and articles on wage issues, including Das deutsche System der Lohnfindung unter Anpassungsdruck (2001), Streitpunkt lohnpolitischer Verteilungsspielraum (2002), Die Allgemeinverbindlichkeit von Tarifverträgen (2003), and Ökonomik des Tarifrechts“ (2006).
Senior Researcher on labor unions at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (IW) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne. Since 2000 he has been directing the IW´s Wage Policy and Collective Bargaining Section. Between 1991 and 2000, Lesch worked as a Research Fellow and Senior Researcher of Economics at the Institut “Finanzen und Steuern” (IFSt), Bonn. Lesch graduated with a diploma in economics at the University of Bonn, where he also obtained his PhD. He has published books and articles on wage issues, including Das deutsche System der Lohnfindung unter Anpassungsdruck (2001), Streitpunkt lohnpolitischer Verteilungsspielraum (2002), Die Allgemeinverbindlichkeit von Tarifverträgen (2003), and Ökonomik des Tarifrechts“ (2006).
Prof. David Little
T. J. Dermot Dumphy Visiting Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, as well as a Faculty Associate, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Little has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School since 1999. Before that he was senior scholar in religion, ethics and human rights at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996-1998 Little was on the State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. His work in recent years has taken him, as adviser and researcher, to areas of the world such as Sudan, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel in which religion and ethnicity play a central role in social conflict. He has written about nationalism, ethnicity, human rights, religious liberty, and religion and American foreign policy. His recent books include Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity, and Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy (coauthored).
T. J. Dermot Dumphy Visiting Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, as well as a Faculty Associate, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Little has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School since 1999. Before that he was senior scholar in religion, ethics and human rights at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996-1998 Little was on the State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. His work in recent years has taken him, as adviser and researcher, to areas of the world such as Sudan, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel in which religion and ethnicity play a central role in social conflict. He has written about nationalism, ethnicity, human rights, religious liberty, and religion and American foreign policy. His recent books include Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity, and Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy (coauthored).
Dr. Kris Manjapra
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA. A student of modern intellectual history from a transnational perspective, his fundamental interest is in how genealogies of thought develop within global arenas, and within entangled histories. Manjapra's areas of particular interest are in South Asian and German thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is working on the book, Cosmopolitan Encounter between Indian Revolutionaries and German Radicals, 1905-1939 (forthcoming).
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA. A student of modern intellectual history from a transnational perspective, his fundamental interest is in how genealogies of thought develop within global arenas, and within entangled histories. Manjapra's areas of particular interest are in South Asian and German thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is working on the book, Cosmopolitan Encounter between Indian Revolutionaries and German Radicals, 1905-1939 (forthcoming).
Pramada Menon
Co-Founder and Director Programs of Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA). She has worked in the development sector in India for over two decades as a women’s rights activist. Her work has focused on issues of sexuality and sexual rights, livelihoods, gender and development, violence against women and organizational development.
Co-Founder and Director Programs of Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA). She has worked in the development sector in India for over two decades as a women’s rights activist. Her work has focused on issues of sexuality and sexual rights, livelihoods, gender and development, violence against women and organizational development.
Siddharth Mohandas
Siddharth Mohandas is a Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include state building, military intervention, and Asian security issues. He has worked at the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to graduate school, he served as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs and interned as a speechwriter at the United Nations for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has written for various publications including Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Mohandas holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge University and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University.
Siddharth Mohandas is a Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include state building, military intervention, and Asian security issues. He has worked at the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to graduate school, he served as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs and interned as a speechwriter at the United Nations for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has written for various publications including Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Mohandas holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge University and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University.
Prof. Afsaneh Najmabadi
Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University. Dr. Najmabadi’s research and teaching interests center on socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality, with particular attention to how these transformations are inter-articulated with conceptualizations of modernity and secularism. Recent publications include Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (2005), and Women of the East: Documents from and about the second Women of the East Congress (1932); co-edited with Gholamreza Salami, in Persian, 2005.
Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University. Dr. Najmabadi’s research and teaching interests center on socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality, with particular attention to how these transformations are inter-articulated with conceptualizations of modernity and secularism. Recent publications include Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (2005), and Women of the East: Documents from and about the second Women of the East Congress (1932); co-edited with Gholamreza Salami, in Persian, 2005.
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte
Professor for German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Law. Since January 2007, Member of the International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations. Before coming to Berlin, he was Chair for German and Comparative Public Law at the Institute for International Law of the University of Munich and was Professor and Dean for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Göttingen. Prof. Nolte has been a substitute member for Germany on the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) since 2000. Prof. Nolte is a Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Peace Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His publications include United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), edited with Michael Byers, and European Military Law Systems (2004). Nolte did his first degree in law at the Free University Berlin, and his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. He begins to teach in the Law School of Humboldt University in the spring.
Professor for German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Law. Since January 2007, Member of the International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations. Before coming to Berlin, he was Chair for German and Comparative Public Law at the Institute for International Law of the University of Munich and was Professor and Dean for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Göttingen. Prof. Nolte has been a substitute member for Germany on the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) since 2000. Prof. Nolte is a Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Peace Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His publications include United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), edited with Michael Byers, and European Military Law Systems (2004). Nolte did his first degree in law at the Free University Berlin, and his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. He begins to teach in the Law School of Humboldt University in the spring.
Binaifer Nowrojee
Binaifer Nowrojee is originally from Kenya and is a distinguished human rights advocate. She is a Human Rights Program Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School, and is currently director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. Nowrojee worked for Human Rights Watch for eleven years, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Amnesty International and the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights. Nowrojee is the author of numerous articles and books on human rights, including the areas of humanitarian intervention, gender-based violations, and forced displacement.
Binaifer Nowrojee is originally from Kenya and is a distinguished human rights advocate. She is a Human Rights Program Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School, and is currently director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. Nowrojee worked for Human Rights Watch for eleven years, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Amnesty International and the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights. Nowrojee is the author of numerous articles and books on human rights, including the areas of humanitarian intervention, gender-based violations, and forced displacement.
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
University Lecturer in African Politics, Oxford University and Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He is author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press, 2007) and a co-editor of the forthcoming China Returns to Africa. A Superpower and a Continent Embrace (Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press 2008). He has worked in the field of governance and the energy sector for the World Bank, the European Commission, Catholic Relief Services and conducted extensive fieldwork in West Africa.
University Lecturer in African Politics, Oxford University and Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He is author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press, 2007) and a co-editor of the forthcoming China Returns to Africa. A Superpower and a Continent Embrace (Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press 2008). He has worked in the field of governance and the energy sector for the World Bank, the European Commission, Catholic Relief Services and conducted extensive fieldwork in West Africa.
Michael Peel
Legal Correspondent, Financial Times, London. Author of Delta: Nigeria and the Battle for Oil (forthcoming 2008). Until 2006, he was the FT's West Africa correspondent focusing on the many problems of bad governance and corruption in Africa's oil sector.
Legal Correspondent, Financial Times, London. Author of Delta: Nigeria and the Battle for Oil (forthcoming 2008). Until 2006, he was the FT's West Africa correspondent focusing on the many problems of bad governance and corruption in Africa's oil sector.
Prof. Ann Pellegrini
Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University, where she is also the incoming director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests include trauma studies; queer theory; and religion, sex, and the law. Her recent books include: Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (co-author) and Secularisms (co-editor).
Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University, where she is also the incoming director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests include trauma studies; queer theory; and religion, sex, and the law. Her recent books include: Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (co-author) and Secularisms (co-editor).
Prof. H. Glenn Penny
Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. His book, Objects of Culture, was the first comparative study of German ethnographic museums as well as the first in-depth analysis of the international market of material culture that took shape during the late nineteenth century. Penny is now working on a book tentatively titled The German Love Affair with the American Indian. In 2000, Glenn Penny won the Friends of the German Historical Institute Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize in German History.
Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. His book, Objects of Culture, was the first comparative study of German ethnographic museums as well as the first in-depth analysis of the international market of material culture that took shape during the late nineteenth century. Penny is now working on a book tentatively titled The German Love Affair with the American Indian. In 2000, Glenn Penny won the Friends of the German Historical Institute Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize in German History.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch
Professor of Communication and Media Policy at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She previously held the position of senior researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and taught at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Mannheim. She was a Fellow at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, and at the Harvard Center for European Studies. Her research focuses on comparative analyses of political communication and on media and the public sphere. Pfetsch has published several books, including Comparing Political Communication (2004) and Politische Kommunikationskultur (2003), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Professor of Communication and Media Policy at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She previously held the position of senior researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and taught at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Mannheim. She was a Fellow at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, and at the Harvard Center for European Studies. Her research focuses on comparative analyses of political communication and on media and the public sphere. Pfetsch has published several books, including Comparing Political Communication (2004) and Politische Kommunikationskultur (2003), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Prof. Uta Poiger
Associate Professor of History, University of Washington Seattle, Visiting Associate Professor of History at Harvard University, author of Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (2000) and co-editor of the anthologies Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000) and The Modern Girl Around the World (forthcoming).
Associate Professor of History, University of Washington Seattle, Visiting Associate Professor of History at Harvard University, author of Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (2000) and co-editor of the anthologies Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000) and The Modern Girl Around the World (forthcoming).
Dr. Gérard Prunier
Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. In 1984, he joined the CNRS scientific institution in Paris as a researcher. Prunier is now the Director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. He is the author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (2005) and Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (2005), among others.
Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. In 1984, he joined the CNRS scientific institution in Paris as a researcher. Prunier is now the Director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. He is the author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (2005) and Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (2005), among others.
Steffen Reiche
ISPD (Cottbus), MdB. He was one of the founders of the SPD in the GDR in 1989, before it was legally authorized and has remained in politics since the Wende. He was a member of the Board of the SPD and the SPD-East from 1990-2000. From 1990-2005, he served as a member of the Volkskammer in the GDR; from 1999-2005, he was a member of the Landtag in Brandenburg; from 1994-1999, Reiche was Minister for Education, Research and Culture; from 1999-2004, he was Minister for Education, Youth and Sports in the State of Brandenburg. He is currently a Member of the Bundestag from Cottbus, where he serves on the Parliamentary committee for the Sorbs. He will speak in German on "Die Perspektive der Mitgliedschaft in der EU als Motor für Reformen."
ISPD (Cottbus), MdB. He was one of the founders of the SPD in the GDR in 1989, before it was legally authorized and has remained in politics since the Wende. He was a member of the Board of the SPD and the SPD-East from 1990-2000. From 1990-2005, he served as a member of the Volkskammer in the GDR; from 1999-2005, he was a member of the Landtag in Brandenburg; from 1994-1999, Reiche was Minister for Education, Research and Culture; from 1999-2004, he was Minister for Education, Youth and Sports in the State of Brandenburg. He is currently a Member of the Bundestag from Cottbus, where he serves on the Parliamentary committee for the Sorbs. He will speak in German on "Die Perspektive der Mitgliedschaft in der EU als Motor für Reformen."
Dr. Jeffrey Richter
Senior historian in the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Department of Justice. His office investigates allegations of participation in state-sponsored extrajudicial killing, torture, and genocide by individuals who later immigrated to the United States. His work on the office's Holocaust cases has led to the denaturalization of former camp guards trained at the SS facility in Trawniki. Since the expansion of the Office of Special Investigations' jurisdiction in 2004 to include the pursuit of perpetrators of more recent human rights violations, Dr. Richter has specialized in African cases, including those stemming from the Rwandan genocide. He is also Associate Professorial Lecturer in History and Judaic Studies at the George Washington University and the author of a dissertation on postwar police reform in postwar Germany.
Senior historian in the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Department of Justice. His office investigates allegations of participation in state-sponsored extrajudicial killing, torture, and genocide by individuals who later immigrated to the United States. His work on the office's Holocaust cases has led to the denaturalization of former camp guards trained at the SS facility in Trawniki. Since the expansion of the Office of Special Investigations' jurisdiction in 2004 to include the pursuit of perpetrators of more recent human rights violations, Dr. Richter has specialized in African cases, including those stemming from the Rwandan genocide. He is also Associate Professorial Lecturer in History and Judaic Studies at the George Washington University and the author of a dissertation on postwar police reform in postwar Germany.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse
Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University Berlin. He is coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Risse recently co-edited Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (2008) and The End of the West? Crises and Change in the Atlantic Order (forthcoming, Cornell University in May 2008). He is associate editor of the journal International Organization. In the academic year 2007, Risse was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for European Studies. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation.
Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University Berlin. He is coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Risse recently co-edited Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (2008) and The End of the West? Crises and Change in the Atlantic Order (forthcoming, Cornell University in May 2008). He is associate editor of the journal International Organization. In the academic year 2007, Risse was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for European Studies. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation.
Dr. Thomas Scheffler
Currently teaching within the Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies at Copenhagen University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and has been a Senior Researcher at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin (1993-1995), at the German Orient Institute Beirut, Lebanon (1996-1999), and at the Political Science Department of the Free University of Berlin (2000-2001). In 2001-2002 he was a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of numerous studies on political Islam, ethno-religious conflict, and interreligious dialogue in the Middle East. His books include Religion between Violence and Reconciliation (editor, 2002) and Ethnicity and Violence (editor, 1991, in German).
Currently teaching within the Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies at Copenhagen University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and has been a Senior Researcher at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin (1993-1995), at the German Orient Institute Beirut, Lebanon (1996-1999), and at the Political Science Department of the Free University of Berlin (2000-2001). In 2001-2002 he was a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of numerous studies on political Islam, ethno-religious conflict, and interreligious dialogue in the Middle East. His books include Religion between Violence and Reconciliation (editor, 2002) and Ethnicity and Violence (editor, 1991, in German).
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel studied at the Universities of Marburg, Speyer, and at Kassel, where he did both his PhD and his Habilitation. He became a Full Professor of Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz in 1990. He has been chair of his department three times and Deputy Dean for Law, Economics, and Management. His current research projects are "Holocaust and Polykratie in Westeuropa, 1940-1944"; "Opfer der Neuen Weltordnung: Die politische Konstruktion von Erfolg und Scheitern Internationaler Interimsverwaltungen"; and "Individualisierung und Handlungslogik der Verfolgung: Die Differenzierung von Verfolgungsnetzwerken der Holocaust in Belgien, 1940-1944." He has published many books and articles, including Verwaltete Illusionen: Die Privatisierung der DDR-Wirtschaft durch die Treuhandanstalt und ihre Nachfolger 1990-2000, and Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucrats, Business, and the Organization of the Holocaust with Gerald Feldman (2005)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel studied at the Universities of Marburg, Speyer, and at Kassel, where he did both his PhD and his Habilitation. He became a Full Professor of Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz in 1990. He has been chair of his department three times and Deputy Dean for Law, Economics, and Management. His current research projects are "Holocaust and Polykratie in Westeuropa, 1940-1944"; "Opfer der Neuen Weltordnung: Die politische Konstruktion von Erfolg und Scheitern Internationaler Interimsverwaltungen"; and "Individualisierung und Handlungslogik der Verfolgung: Die Differenzierung von Verfolgungsnetzwerken der Holocaust in Belgien, 1940-1944." He has published many books and articles, including Verwaltete Illusionen: Die Privatisierung der DDR-Wirtschaft durch die Treuhandanstalt und ihre Nachfolger 1990-2000, and Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucrats, Business, and the Organization of the Holocaust with Gerald Feldman (2005)
Prof. Shu-mei Shih
Shu-mei Shih is a scholar of comparative literature with expertise and interest in Chinese, Sinophone, Asian American, and world literature. Her research focus also includes transnational feminism, comparative minority discourse, modernism, (post)humanism, and (post)colonialism. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001) and Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007), and Co-editor of Minor Transnationalism (2005). She teaches at UCLA, and co-directs the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities there.
Shu-mei Shih is a scholar of comparative literature with expertise and interest in Chinese, Sinophone, Asian American, and world literature. Her research focus also includes transnational feminism, comparative minority discourse, modernism, (post)humanism, and (post)colonialism. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001) and Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007), and Co-editor of Minor Transnationalism (2005). She teaches at UCLA, and co-directs the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities there.
Prof. Stefan Soldovieri
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Program in German Literature, Culture, and Theory at the University of Toronto. His book, Managing the Movies: Censorship, Modernization, and the GDR Film Crisis of 1965/66, is forthcoming at the University of Toronto Press and his most recent publication is "Finding Navigable Waters: Inter-German Film Relations and Modernization in two DEFA Barge Films of the 1950s," Film History 18.1 (2006): 59-72. He is presently researching a project tentatively entitled "Cold War Diversions: Inter-German Film Relations and Popular Cinema," in which he is concerned with uncovering the narrative, visual, production-related, and ideological dimensions of dialogue between the cinemas of the FRG and GDR.
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Program in German Literature, Culture, and Theory at the University of Toronto. His book, Managing the Movies: Censorship, Modernization, and the GDR Film Crisis of 1965/66, is forthcoming at the University of Toronto Press and his most recent publication is "Finding Navigable Waters: Inter-German Film Relations and Modernization in two DEFA Barge Films of the 1950s," Film History 18.1 (2006): 59-72. He is presently researching a project tentatively entitled "Cold War Diversions: Inter-German Film Relations and Popular Cinema," in which he is concerned with uncovering the narrative, visual, production-related, and ideological dimensions of dialogue between the cinemas of the FRG and GDR.
Toralf Staud
Toralf Staud worked on the information paper of Neues Forum in 1989/1990, and was one of the founders of the newspaper Altmark Zeitung in 1991. From 1991-1998, he studied in Leipzig and Edinburgh, and then became a freelancer for AP, MDR, Sächsische Zeitung, Neues Deutschland, die tageszeitung, and Die Zeit. From 1998-2005, he was Political Editor of Die Zeit, first in Hamburg, and then in Berlin. For two years, he wrote for Greenpeace-Magazin. Staud has published three books: Auf dem Moped in die Freiheit - Wendegeschichten aus der Altmark (2000), Moderne Nazis. Die neuen Rechten und der Aufstieg der NPD (2005), and Wir Klimaretter - so ist die Wende noch zu schaffen (2007).
Toralf Staud worked on the information paper of Neues Forum in 1989/1990, and was one of the founders of the newspaper Altmark Zeitung in 1991. From 1991-1998, he studied in Leipzig and Edinburgh, and then became a freelancer for AP, MDR, Sächsische Zeitung, Neues Deutschland, die tageszeitung, and Die Zeit. From 1998-2005, he was Political Editor of Die Zeit, first in Hamburg, and then in Berlin. For two years, he wrote for Greenpeace-Magazin. Staud has published three books: Auf dem Moped in die Freiheit - Wendegeschichten aus der Altmark (2000), Moderne Nazis. Die neuen Rechten und der Aufstieg der NPD (2005), and Wir Klimaretter - so ist die Wende noch zu schaffen (2007).
Dr. Christoph Strupp
Christoph Strupp was a Research Fellow (2001-06) at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. His research interests include Historiography, 19th and 20th Century German and Dutch Cultural and Political History, and the History of Science. He is the author of Johan Huizinga: Geschichtswissenschaft als Kulturgeschichte (2000) and co-editor of a two-volume bibliography of German book publications on the United States: German Americana 1800-1955, 1956-2005 (2005/7). Christoph Strupp is currently holding a DGIA-Fellowship. He is participating in a research project of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte (FZH) in Hamburg on Foreign Consular Reporting from Germany, 1933-1941.
Christoph Strupp was a Research Fellow (2001-06) at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. His research interests include Historiography, 19th and 20th Century German and Dutch Cultural and Political History, and the History of Science. He is the author of Johan Huizinga: Geschichtswissenschaft als Kulturgeschichte (2000) and co-editor of a two-volume bibliography of German book publications on the United States: German Americana 1800-1955, 1956-2005 (2005/7). Christoph Strupp is currently holding a DGIA-Fellowship. He is participating in a research project of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte (FZH) in Hamburg on Foreign Consular Reporting from Germany, 1933-1941.
Dr. Matthias Tischer
Researcher in musicology. He has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, popular music, musical education, aesthetics, and the relationship between music and politics. His current main fields of research are music in the former GDR, music under the circumstances of the Cold War, and oral history. In 2006 he was awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship and was at CES for one year from August of 2006.
Researcher in musicology. He has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, popular music, musical education, aesthetics, and the relationship between music and politics. His current main fields of research are music in the former GDR, music under the circumstances of the Cold War, and oral history. In 2006 he was awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship and was at CES for one year from August of 2006.
Prof. Katie Trumpener
Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English (and Film Studies) at Yale. She is currently finishing The Divided Screen: The Cinemas of Postwar Germany (to be published by Princeton University Press). She has published widely on East and West German film, literary and cultural history, and more generally on European literature and visual culture. Her most recent essays on East and West German New Wave cinema appeared in New German Critique and in The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany, ed. Michael Geyer. Under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts DEFA Archive, she co-organized a week-long symposium on DEFA and Eastern Europe New Wave cinema; she also wrote essays accompanying the American video releases of two DEFA films: Slatan Dudow's Our Daily Bread and Joachim Vogel's And Your Love Too.
Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English (and Film Studies) at Yale. She is currently finishing The Divided Screen: The Cinemas of Postwar Germany (to be published by Princeton University Press). She has published widely on East and West German film, literary and cultural history, and more generally on European literature and visual culture. Her most recent essays on East and West German New Wave cinema appeared in New German Critique and in The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany, ed. Michael Geyer. Under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts DEFA Archive, she co-organized a week-long symposium on DEFA and Eastern Europe New Wave cinema; she also wrote essays accompanying the American video releases of two DEFA films: Slatan Dudow's Our Daily Bread and Joachim Vogel's And Your Love Too.
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak
Professor of History at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen. His research interests include German, international and globalization history of the 19th and 20th centuries, colonialism and imperialism, infrastructure, planning, and technocracy, and the history of historical thought. He is the author of Über alles in der Welt: Deutscher Imperialismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2005).
Professor of History at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen. His research interests include German, international and globalization history of the 19th and 20th centuries, colonialism and imperialism, infrastructure, planning, and technocracy, and the history of historical thought. He is the author of Über alles in der Welt: Deutscher Imperialismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2005).
Lt. General Karlheinz Viereck
Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam. Previous military posts include General Staff Officer at the NATO Headquarters AIR BALTAP in Denmark; Deputy Commander, then Commander of the Flying Group of Fighter Bomber Wing 36 "Westfalen" in Hopsten; Deputy Chief of Staff and Director Operations at the Joint Operations NATO Headquarters North in Norway; Commander of the 4th Air Division in Aurich, Germany; Deputy Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command; and Operation Commander of the European Union Force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUFOR RD CONGO). Lt. Viereck started his military career in the Bundeswehr in 1970 and completed his pilot training in the USA at Sheppard AFB in 1974. He is the holder of the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in Silver and Gold.
Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam. Previous military posts include General Staff Officer at the NATO Headquarters AIR BALTAP in Denmark; Deputy Commander, then Commander of the Flying Group of Fighter Bomber Wing 36 "Westfalen" in Hopsten; Deputy Chief of Staff and Director Operations at the Joint Operations NATO Headquarters North in Norway; Commander of the 4th Air Division in Aurich, Germany; Deputy Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command; and Operation Commander of the European Union Force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (EUFOR RD CONGO). Lt. Viereck started his military career in the Bundeswehr in 1970 and completed his pilot training in the USA at Sheppard AFB in 1974. He is the holder of the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in Silver and Gold.
Prof. Penny von Eschen
Professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Harvard Press, 2004) and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Cornell Press, 1997). She is co-editor, along with Manisha Sinha of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia Press, 2007); and co-editor with Jan Radway, Kevin Gaines and Barry Shank of American Studies: A New Anthology (Blackwell Press, 2008) She is currently working on a transnational study of memory and the cold war.
Professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Harvard Press, 2004) and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Cornell Press, 1997). She is co-editor, along with Manisha Sinha of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia Press, 2007); and co-editor with Jan Radway, Kevin Gaines and Barry Shank of American Studies: A New Anthology (Blackwell Press, 2008) She is currently working on a transnational study of memory and the cold war.
Prof. em Dr. Adelheid von Saldern
Professor of Modern History, University of Hannover; author of many books and articles, including The Challenge of Modernity: German Cultural and Social Studies, 1890-1960 (2002), Inszenierter Stolz. Stadtrepräsentationen in drei deutschen Gesellschaften (2005) and Stadt und Kommikation in bundesrepublikanischen Umbruchszeiten (2006).
Professor of Modern History, University of Hannover; author of many books and articles, including The Challenge of Modernity: German Cultural and Social Studies, 1890-1960 (2002), Inszenierter Stolz. Stadtrepräsentationen in drei deutschen Gesellschaften (2005) and Stadt und Kommikation in bundesrepublikanischen Umbruchszeiten (2006).
Brigitta Wagner
Ph.D. candidate in German and Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. She lives in Germany and the U.S. and has been involved in various areas of the film industry, including journalism, festival work, and production. Her interests include Cold War German film politics, contemporary German film and culture, urban visual culture, and documentary film production. Her dissertation, Berlin Films and the Cultural Politics of Spatial Memory, examines urban representation in the revival and production of Berlin films after 1989.
Ph.D. candidate in German and Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. She lives in Germany and the U.S. and has been involved in various areas of the film industry, including journalism, festival work, and production. Her interests include Cold War German film politics, contemporary German film and culture, urban visual culture, and documentary film production. Her dissertation, Berlin Films and the Cultural Politics of Spatial Memory, examines urban representation in the revival and production of Berlin films after 1989.
Lars Waldorf
Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. His research focuses on dispute resolution mechanisms (gacaca) in Rwanda, used to try hundreds of thousands of suspected genocidaires. Since 2001, he has covered genocide trials at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for Diplomatie Judiciaire, a web-based magazine on international justice. Mr. Waldorf has also worked as a civil rights lawyer for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Mr. Waldorf graduated with a BA from Harvard College and a JD from the Harvard Law School, where he was a Fellow in the Human Rights Program after 2004. His teaching experiences include The New School and Harvard. He has published widely on Rwanda and transitional justice, most recently “Censorship and Propaganda in Post-genocide Rwanda” in Media and the Rwanda Genocide (Thompson 2007) and “Mass Justice for Mass Atrocity: Rethinking Local Justice as Transitional Justice” (2006).
Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. His research focuses on dispute resolution mechanisms (gacaca) in Rwanda, used to try hundreds of thousands of suspected genocidaires. Since 2001, he has covered genocide trials at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for Diplomatie Judiciaire, a web-based magazine on international justice. Mr. Waldorf has also worked as a civil rights lawyer for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Mr. Waldorf graduated with a BA from Harvard College and a JD from the Harvard Law School, where he was a Fellow in the Human Rights Program after 2004. His teaching experiences include The New School and Harvard. He has published widely on Rwanda and transitional justice, most recently “Censorship and Propaganda in Post-genocide Rwanda” in Media and the Rwanda Genocide (Thompson 2007) and “Mass Justice for Mass Atrocity: Rethinking Local Justice as Transitional Justice” (2006).
Dr. Rudolf Welzmüller
Member of the Executive Board at IG Metall´s Department of Collective Bargaining. Welzmüller has been working at IG Metall for 18 year, first in the economics department and then in the tariff politics department. Before entering the labor union, he worked as an Academic Instructor at the Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) in Düsseldorf. At IG Metall, he has recently been made in charge of the European coordination of tariff policies. Among his numerous publications on labor union issues are “Koordinierung in Europa” (2005), “Marktaufteilung und Standortpoker in Europa” (1990), and “Preispolitik und Akkumulation. Untersuchung zur Preissetzungspolitik auf oligopolitischen Märkten, dargestellt am Beispiel der Chemischen Industrie“ (1982). Welzmüller graduated as an industrial business management assistant. Under the “second-chance education,” he studied economics in Munich and Frankfurt/Main.
Member of the Executive Board at IG Metall´s Department of Collective Bargaining. Welzmüller has been working at IG Metall for 18 year, first in the economics department and then in the tariff politics department. Before entering the labor union, he worked as an Academic Instructor at the Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) in Düsseldorf. At IG Metall, he has recently been made in charge of the European coordination of tariff policies. Among his numerous publications on labor union issues are “Koordinierung in Europa” (2005), “Marktaufteilung und Standortpoker in Europa” (1990), and “Preispolitik und Akkumulation. Untersuchung zur Preissetzungspolitik auf oligopolitischen Märkten, dargestellt am Beispiel der Chemischen Industrie“ (1982). Welzmüller graduated as an industrial business management assistant. Under the “second-chance education,” he studied economics in Munich and Frankfurt/Main.
Emily White
Author of Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut (Scribner 2002), and You Will Make Money in Your Sleep (Scribner 2007). She has published articles in numerous magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Nest, Bookforum, The Village Voice, and The Stranger. From 1995-2000 she was Editor in Chief of The Stranger, an alternative weekly in Seattle. She is currently Arts and Entertainment editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's major daily newspaper.
Author of Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut (Scribner 2002), and You Will Make Money in Your Sleep (Scribner 2007). She has published articles in numerous magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Nest, Bookforum, The Village Voice, and The Stranger. From 1995-2000 she was Editor in Chief of The Stranger, an alternative weekly in Seattle. She is currently Arts and Entertainment editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's major daily newspaper.
Anton Wirmer
(Speaking in German) Anton Wirmer is former Assistant Secretary of State and currently a lawyer for the German trade association Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Mittel- und Großbetriebe des Einzelhandels (BAG). Wirmer studied theology and law. From 1975 to 1996 Wirmer worked at the German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. There he worked in the area of labor market as well as budget and finances. In 1996 he began working for the Federal Chancellery where he became head of Unit 3: Social Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture, Environment, Research, and Education. In 1998 he became a lawyer and consultant, mainly for the BAG. He is also Managing Director of the Society for European Social Policy (GES).
(Speaking in German) Anton Wirmer is former Assistant Secretary of State and currently a lawyer for the German trade association Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Mittel- und Großbetriebe des Einzelhandels (BAG). Wirmer studied theology and law. From 1975 to 1996 Wirmer worked at the German Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. There he worked in the area of labor market as well as budget and finances. In 1996 he began working for the Federal Chancellery where he became head of Unit 3: Social Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture, Environment, Research, and Education. In 1998 he became a lawyer and consultant, mainly for the BAG. He is also Managing Director of the Society for European Social Policy (GES).
Prof. Jonathan Zatlin
Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany (2007), which analyzes the economic and cultural function of money in East Germany from 1971 to 1990. He has also written on public opinion in the second German dictatorship, the East German automobile industry, socialist consumer policy under Honecker, economic sources of racism in Soviet-style regimes, and the Stasi, and is co-editor of Selling Modernity: German Advertising in the Twentieth Century (2007). His next book project examines economic anti-Semitism and the Jewish reaction in modern Germany.
Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany (2007), which analyzes the economic and cultural function of money in East Germany from 1971 to 1990. He has also written on public opinion in the second German dictatorship, the East German automobile industry, socialist consumer policy under Honecker, economic sources of racism in Soviet-style regimes, and the Stasi, and is co-editor of Selling Modernity: German Advertising in the Twentieth Century (2007). His next book project examines economic anti-Semitism and the Jewish reaction in modern Germany.
Prof. Michael Zürn ('06-'07 participant)
Michael Zürn is Dean of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin as well as the Director of the Research Unit "Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). In 1994, he was appointed the Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen. Until 2004, Zürn was Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent major publications include: "Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation State", European Journal of International Relations (2000), "European Law and International Regimes: The Features of Law Beyond the Nation," State European Law Journal (1999), and Governing beyond the Nation State (1998).
Michael Zürn is Dean of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin as well as the Director of the Research Unit "Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). In 1994, he was appointed the Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen. Until 2004, Zürn was Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent major publications include: "Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation State", European Journal of International Relations (2000), "European Law and International Regimes: The Features of Law Beyond the Nation," State European Law Journal (1999), and Governing beyond the Nation State (1998).