Overview
Alexander Sedlmaier works on contemporary German, European and North American history. He has been teaching at Bangor University since September 2007. Between 2017 and 2019 he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-University Bochum (see project reporting). Between 2003 and 2007 he was the AF Thompson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford. Before coming to the UK, he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of History at Technische Universität Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in 2000.
Additional Contact Information
E-mail: a.sedlmaier@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: 01248 38 3604
Location: Room T18 (Main Arts)
Qualifications
- PhD: Modern History
TU Berlin, 2000 - MA: History and Philosophy
TU Berlin, 1994
Research Interests
Alexander Sedlmaier is interested in the history of protest, social movements, war, and political violence:
- War-time protest, particularly during Korean War, Vietnam War, and Soviet-Afghan War
- Protest movements and their dynamic emergence and transformation around the world during the Vietnam War era; an edited volume was published in January 2022; see his recommendations for The best books on the international dimensions of the Vietnam War
- His book Consumption and Violence looks at the West German radical Left and the new social movements from the double perspective of the history of consumption and the history of violence (German translation with Suhrkamp)
- Urban social movements
- Informal housing; he co-edited (with Freia Anders) a collection of essays; the first book to conceptually combine the occupation of buildings with land acquisition and informal settlements in both the Global "North" and “South”
- Transatlantic relations; his first book examines US-German relations in the era of the First World War
- Transnational history of large-scale retail; many years ago, he edited a special issue of the Economic History Yearbook
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2024
- PublishedProvocations at the Limits of Urbanity: Historical Perspectives on Cold War Urban Social Movements
Sedlmaier, A., 24 Jul 2024, Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s. Verlaan, T. & Wicke, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 21-51 28 p. ( Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2022
- PublishedProtest in the Era of the Indochina Wars: Upending Centre and Periphery
Sedlmaier, A., Jan 2022, Protest in the Vietnam War Era. Sedlmaier, A. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-10 10 p. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedProtest in the Vietnam War era
Sedlmaier, A. (Editor), 19 Jan 2022, Palgrave Macmillan. 471 p. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedUmstrittene Versorgungsregime: Konsum - Protest - Gewalt
Sedlmaier, A., 2022, Verbrauchermacht in Bewegung: Protest, Politik und sozio-technische Infrastrukturen. Hohnsträter, D., Krankenhagen, S. & Lamla, J. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos, p. 23-49 27 p. (Verbraucherforschung; vol. 6).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedVietnam War Protest and Solidarity in West Germany
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., Jan 2022, Protest in the Vietnam War Era. Sedlmaier, A. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 173-205 32 p. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2021
- PublishedBen Mercer, Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany
Sedlmaier, A., May 2021, In: German Studies Review. 44, 2, p. 429-431 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - PublishedLegitimationsdiskurse und Gewaltbegriffe: Die Gewaltkommissionen der BRD, 1977–1990
Hakemann, M. (Contributor), Gehrig, S. (Contributor), Freia, A. (Contributor), Sedlmaier, A. (Contributor), Wolff, R. (Contributor), Kummer, J. (Contributor), Plebuch, J. (Contributor), Kießling, A. (Contributor), Scheid, M. (Contributor), Müller, S. (Contributor) & Fürst , A. (Contributor), 12 Jul 2021, Beginn der Gegenwart: Studien zur Juristische Zeitgeschichte der 1980er Jahre. Löhnig, M. (ed.). 1st ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlage, p. 63-91 29 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2020
- PublishedAusstieg aus der Konsumgesellschaft? Die radikale Linke in der Bundesrepublik
Sedlmaier, A., Jul 2020, Exit: Ausstieg und Verweigerung in „offenen Gesellschaften“ nach 1945: Drooping out and refusal in "open societies" after 1945. Terhoeven, P. & Weidner, T. (eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 21 p. (Veröffentlichungen des Zeitgeschichtlichen Arbeitskreises Niedersachsen).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedOther Claims and Other Cities: Contested and Shifting Boundaries in Informal Housing and Squatting
Sedlmaier, A. & Freia, A., 1 Jul 2020, In: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. 27, p. 11-42 32 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2019
- PublishedBoycott Campaigns of the Radical Left in Cold-War West Germany
Sedlmaier, A., 15 Jan 2019, Boycotts: Past and Present. Feldman, D. (ed.). London: Palgrave, 23 p. (Rethinking Antisemitism).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2018
- PublishedJeffrey Herf, Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989
Sedlmaier, A., Mar 2018, In: Journal of Modern History. 90, 1, p. 236-238 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - PublishedKonsum und Gewalt: Radikaler Protest in der Bundesrepublik
Sedlmaier, A., 15 Jan 2018, Berlin: Suhrkamp. 463 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedSquatting
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 1 Mar 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Continuation of Politics with Other Means: War and Protest
Sedlmaier, A., 10 Apr 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - Published”Two, Three, Many Vietnams”: Protest against the Vietnam War as Part of Other Emancipatory and Revolutionary Struggles
Sedlmaier, A., 6 Apr 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2017
- Published”Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters”: Spontis, Autonomists and the struggles over public commodities (1970–1983)
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 11 May 2017, Cities Contested: Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West German in the 1970s. Baumeister, M., Schott, D. & Bonomo, B. (eds.). Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, 20 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2016
- PublishedAusstieg aus der Konsumgesellschaft? Die bundesrepublikanische radikale Linke im Kalten Krieg
Sedlmaier, A., 17 Jun 2016.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedDefinitions and Meanings
Sedlmaier, A., 13 Mar 2016.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedDie Revolutionären Zellen als Scharnier zwischen neuen sozialen Bewegungen und Militanz
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 16 Apr 2016.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedEntebbe 1976: Widerstreitende Perspektiven auf eine Flugzeugentführung
Sedlmaier, A., 19 Jun 2016, Legenden um Entebbe: Ein Akt der Luftpiraterie und seine Dimensionen in der politischen Diskussion. Mohr, M. (ed.). Münster: Unrast, p. 31-49 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedGlobal Perspectives on Squatting
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 26 Jul 2016, Public Goods vs Economic Interests: Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting. Anders, F. & Sedlmaier, A. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 1-26 26 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern History).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedPublic Goods versus Economic Interests: Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting
Sedlmaier, A. (Editor) & Anders, F. (Editor), 26 Jul 2016, Abingdon: Routledge. 318 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - Published柏林的「歐洲中心」（1963-65): 美國化，消費主義和國際風格的應用
Sedlmaier, A., 2016, In: Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies. 51, p. 195-210 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2015
- PublishedCities and Societies in Transition? The 1970s in Germany and Italy
Sedlmaier, A., 2015, In: Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte. 46, 2, p. 158-162
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - PublishedSquatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters: Spontis, Autonomists and the struggles over public commodities (1970–1983)
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 22 May 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2014
- PublishedBerlin als doppeltes „Schaufenster“ im Kalten Krieg
Sedlmaier, A., 2014, In: Zeithistorische Forschungen. 2, 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedConsumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
Sedlmaier, A., 30 Oct 2014, University of Michigan Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedDebates, definitions, developments: Comparative perspectives on squatting in the early 1980s
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 16 May 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedQuinn Slobodian, Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Sedlmaier, A., 4 Apr 2014, In: European History Quarterly. 44, 2, p. 374-376
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
2013
- Published"Unternehmen Entebbe" 1976: Quellenkritische Perspektiven auf eine Flugzeugentführung
Sedlmaier, A. & Anders, F., 1 Jan 2013, In: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung. 22
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedThe Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over Violence between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities
Anders, F. & Sedlmaier, A., 20 Sept 2013, Writing Political History Today. Steinmetz, W., Gilcher-Holtey, I. & Haupt, H.-G. (eds.). 2013 ed. Campus Verlag
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe Voice of the Citizen Consumer: A History of Market Research, Consumer Movements, and the Political Public Sphere, ed. Kerstin Brückweh
Sedlmaier, A., 23 Sept 2013, In: English Historical Review. 128, 534, p. 1317-1319
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
2011
- Published'1968' - A Catalyst of Consumer Society
Sedlmaier, A. & Malinowski, S., 1 Jun 2011, In: Cultural and Social History. 8, 2, p. 255-274
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2010
- PublishedKonsumkritik und politische Gewalt in der linksalternativen Szene der siebziger Jahre
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Sept 2010, Das alternative Milieu: Antibürgerlicher Lebensstil und linke Politik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Europa 1968–1983. Reichardt, S. & Siegfried, D. (eds.). 2010 ed. Wallstein Verlag, p. 185-205
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedPlaces of Global Shape: The World of Consumption in Divided Berlin
Sedlmaier, A. & Pelzer, B., 21 Feb 2010, Circulation and the City: Essays on Mobility and Urban Culture. Boutros, A. & Straw, W. (eds.). 2010 ed. McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 214-239
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2009
- PublishedBenjamin R. Barber, Consumed! Wie der Markt Kinder verführt, Erwachsene infantilisiert und die Demokratie untergräbt
Sedlmaier, A., 2009, In: Neue Politische Literatur. 54, 3, p. 536-537 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - PublishedConny Kristel, ‘”A Wonderful Something”: The Netherlands and the war in 1914′
Sedlmaier, A., 11 Sept 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2008
- PublishedBerlin als doppeltes Schaufenster im Kalten Krieg
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2008, “Selling Berlin“: Imagebildung und Stadtmarketing von der preußischen Residenz zur Bundeshauptstadt. Biskup, T. & Schalenberg, M. (eds.). 2008 ed. Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 227-244
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedDas Jahr 1968 – der Beginn von Veränderungen? Kritik an der Konsumgesellschaft / Postulat größerer Selbstverwirklichung
Sedlmaier, A., 5 Dec 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedKeine richtige Revolution in der falschen
Sedlmaier, A. & Malinowski, S., 1 Jan 2008, 68er Spätlese - Was bleibt von 1968?. Schaffrik, T. & Wienges, S. (eds.). 2008 ed. Lit Verlag, p. 183-209
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedKonsumkritik und politische Gewalt in der linksalternativen Szene der siebziger Jahre
Sedlmaier, A., 27 Sept 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2007
- PublishedDetlef Siegfried, Time Is on My Side: Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre
Sedlmaier, A., 2007, In: Neue Politische Literatur. 52, 2, p. 351-352 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - PublishedThe Consuming Visions of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Anarchists: Actualising Political Violence Transnationally
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Sept 2007, In: European Review of History - Revue Europeenne d Histoire. 14, 3, p. 283-300
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedZur historisch-politischen Bedeutung und Wirkung Woodrow Wilsons: Eine Einführung
Sedlmaier, A., Jul 2007, Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Der 28. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1913–1921): Eine psychoanalytische Studie. Wirth, H.-J. (ed.). Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, p. 317-326 10 p. (Bibliothek der Psychoanalyse).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2006
- Published“1968“ als Katalysator der Konsumgesellschaft: Performative Regelverstöße, kommerzielle Adaptionen und ihre gegenseitige Durchdringung
Malinowski, S. & Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2006, In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft. 32, 2, p. 238–267
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2005
- PublishedAnti-consumerism and the Emergence of Political Violence
Sedlmaier, A., 30 Sept 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedBerlin als doppeltes 'Schaufenster' im Kalten Krieg.
Sedlmaier, R. A. & Sedlmaier, A., 26 Feb 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedBerlin's Europa-Center (1963–65): Americanization, Consumerism, and the Uses of the International Style
Sedlmaier, A., 2005, In: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 38, Supplement 2, p. 87-99 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - PublishedConsumerism - cui bono? Neue Studien zu Theorie, Geschichte und Kultur des Konsums
Sedlmaier, A., 2005, In: Neue Politische Literatur. 50, 2, p. 249 273 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article - PublishedFrom Department Store to Shopping Mall: New research in the Transnational History of Large-scale Retail.
Sedlmaier, R. A., Sedlmaier, R. A. (Editor) & Pierenkemper, T. (Editor), 1 Jan 2005, From Department Store to Shopping Mall: Transnational History of Large-Scale Retail / Vom Warenhaus zur Shopping Mall: Einzelhandel transnational: Economic History Yearbook (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschicht). 2005 ed. Akademie Verlag Berlin, p. 9-16
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedVom Warenhaus zur Shopping Mall: Einzelhandel transnational: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschicht
Sedlmaier, A. (Editor), 7 Dec 2005, 2005 ed. Akademie Verlag Berlin.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedYouth and the Semi-Public sphere of large-scale retail
Sedlmaier, A., 28 May 2005, European Cities: Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century. Siegfried, D. & Schildt, A. (eds.). 2005 ed. Ashgate, p. 134-149 (Historical Urban Studies Series).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2004
- PublishedAnti-Consumerism is Anti-Americanism? The West German Student Movement of the 1960s and the Difficulties of an Anti-capitalist Critique in an Age of Consumer Revolution
Sedlmaier, A., 15 Jul 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedCity of militarism and Progressivism: Americans in Berlin, 1888-1917
Sedlmaier, A., 24 Mar 2004, Taking up space: New Approaches to American History. Ortlepp, A. & Ribbat, C. (eds.). 2004 ed. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, p. 47-58
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedTheobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2004, Dictionary of literary influences: the twentieth century: 1914-2000. Powell, J. (ed.). 2004 ed. Greenwood Press, p. 54-56
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWilhelm II
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2004, Dictionary of literary influences: the twentieth century: 1914-2000. Powell, J. (ed.). 2004 ed. Greenwood Press, p. 557-558
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWoodrow Wilson
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2004, Dictionary of literary influences: the twentieth century: 1914-2000. Powell, J. (ed.). 2004 ed. Greenwood Press, p. 562-564
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2003
- PublishedBerlin's Europa-Center (1963–65) as an Attempt at International Style in High-Rise Building
Sedlmaier, A., 7 Mar 2003.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedDeutschlandbilder und Deutschlandpolitik: Studien zur Wilson-Administration, 1913–1921.
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Jan 2003, Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - PublishedWilsonian Visions of a New World Order in Concrete Terms: The Case of William Bullitt
Sedlmaier, A., 2003, Points of Convergence. Põldsaar, R. & Vogelberg, K. (eds.). Tartu: Tartu University Press, p. 171-179 8 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2002
- PublishedYouth and the Semi-public Sphere of the Department Store in Divided Berlin.
Sedlmaier, A., 6 Sept 2002.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2000
- PublishedWoodrow Wilson, Colonel House and the American Century
Sedlmaier, A., 1 Dec 2000, In: Irish Journal of American Studies. 9, p. 33-63
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2025
- Hermann-Weber-Konferenz
"Der US-amerikanische Krieg in Vietnam: Zur globalen Dynamik von Kommunismus und Antikommunismus zwischen Solidarität und Spaltung“ (The US war in Vietnam: On the global dynamics of communism and anti-communism between solidarity and division), accepted for subsequent publication in the journal Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung
28 Mar 2025
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum (External organisation)
Chair of Academic Advisory Board Institute for Social Movements and of the History of the Ruhr Foundation
28 Feb 2025 →
Activity: Membership of board (Chair)
2024
- Migration and Urban Activism in 20th Century Europe
invited to give concluding commentary to the conference
19 Apr 2024
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2023
- Art and War
invited talk “Seeking out aesthetic forms adequate to the political demands of the age: Interventionist film in the Vietnam War era”
16 Nov 2023
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - International online workshop “Visions of Third Worldism”
Co-organised workshop and acted as respondent
22 Sep 2023
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)
2022
- Italienische Arbeitskräfte für die deutsche Kriegswirtschaft 1938-1945
Italian-German conference on Italian workers for the German war economy 1938-1945: recruitment and labour deployment
1 Dec 2022 – 3 Dec 2022
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Chair)
2020
- Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung, Jahreskonferenz 2020
annual conference 2020 of the network Consumer Research: "Impulses from below: protest, counterforces and consumer politics" at the German Federal Ministry of Justice
29 Oct 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker) - European Social Science History Conference
Session: Sexuality and youth travel in Europe in the 1950s-1980s; Leiden University
Mar 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker) - Juristische Zeitgeschichte der 1980er Jahre
paper "Legitimationsdiskurse und Gewaltbegriffe: Juristische Expertise in den Gewaltkommissionen der BRD, 1977-1990"
Mar 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker) - AHRC Peer Review College (External organisation)
Member of AHRC Peer Review College (academic and international reviewer)
1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2027
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)
2019
- Urban democracy, social movements and postindustrial society, 1960-1990
keynote speaker "'When stones grow wings': a bird's-eye perspective on urban movements"
Dec 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker) - Die radikale Linke im roten Jahrzehnt
Alexander Sedlmaier diskutiert mit Gottfried Oy über den modernen Konsum als scheinbares "Reich der Freiheit"
14 Jul 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - Vietnam im geteilten Deutschland
film screening with discussion
3 Jul 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Keynote/plenary speaker) - ‘Revolutionary Protest in the Vietnam War Era’
"Social Histories of Revolution", public discussion series in central London
14 Mar 2019
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
2018
- Kuba und Vietnam
short films by Santiago Álvarez, organisation, pre-screening introduction and after-screening discussion
5 Dec 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - Protest in den USA und die Realität des Kriegs in Vietnam
short films by the Newsreel Collective, organisation, pre-screening introduction and after-screening discussion
7 Nov 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - ‘Die Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln: Krieg, Protest, Kalter Krieg’
paper in seminar series 19th/20th c. history (Profs Steinmetz, Welskopp, Weinhauer), Bielefeld University
26 Oct 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - Vietnam auf Schauplätzen Westberlins
short films by Harun Farocki, organisation, pre-screening introduction and after-screening discussion
24 Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - Frankfurt Book Fair
Weltempfang, panel discussion with Gretchen Dutschke, Alexander Sedlmaier, and Detlef Siegfried, moderation: Bascha Mika
13 Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker) - Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück
Organisation, pre-screening introductions and after-screening discussions, retrospective ‘War and Protest: Intervening Films in the Vietnam War Era’
Oct 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - Perceptions of Apartheid in Western Europe, 1960 – 1990
What the conference aims at is to reflect ‘Perceptions of Apartheid’ in its complex manifestations and ramifications. The lectures discuss ‘reactions from afar’, they examine the involvement of West European protagonists in South African society during apartheid era and they focus on entanglements, transitions and processes of cultural translations between Western Europe and South Africa.
14 Sep 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Chair) - interview on book Konsum und Gewalt, Freie Radios
Radio Corax, Halle, 18 July 2018, https://www.freie-radios.net/90105 (14 min.)
Radio F.R.E.I., Erfurt, 19 July 2018
free FM, Ulm, 19 July 2018
18 Jul 2018 – 19 Jul 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - 5. Bochumer Disput
This annual symposium brings together scholars and representatives from politics, business, trade unions and civil society to debate the local implications of current globalisation conflicts], “Ohnmacht - humanitäre Hilfe - Protest: Globale Kriege, lokale Konsequenzen” [Powerlessness – humanitarian aid – protest: global wars, local consequences]
organisation: Alexander Sedlmaier and Sabrina Zajak; discussants: Klaus Beck (Secretary of the National Executive Board of the German Trade Union Federation, former member of the advisory board “Innere Führung” of the Bundeswehr), Jan Hansen (historian, HU Berlin), Axel Schäfer (member of the Bundestag, SPD, election district Bochum I), Kathrin Vogler (peace activist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Die Linke, North-Rhine Westphalia, member of the German Peace Society)
19 Jun 2018
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - “Kapitalismus und Konsum: Was bleibt von der Konsumkritik der 68er“, Bayerischer Rundfunk
radio feature on book Konsum und Gewalt
18 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - author’s reading from Konsum und Gewalt
at Buchhandlung Janssen in Bochum
13 Apr 2018
Activity: Oral presentation (Invited speaker) - “Rudi Dutschke: Rebell, Fantast, Humanist“
SWR2 Radio
11 Apr 2018
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - The Continuation of Politics with Other Means
international workshop at Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum
9 Apr 2018 – 10 Apr 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - European Social Science History Conference
session: ‘”Two, Three, Many Vietnams”: Protest against the Vietnam War as Part of Other Emancipatory and Revolutionary Struggles’, Queen's University Belfast
6 Apr 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - "1968" – The Global and the Local
Two-day international conference at Georgetown University used the fiftieth anniversary of “1968” - an international symbolic shorthand that signifies a broader moment of political and cultural upheaval - to revisit its global and local meanings. By bringing together younger and established scholars who are engaged in cutting edge historical research on political and cultural activism around 1968, the conference probed the utility of global and local approaches to one of the most eventful and consequential moments in twentieth century history.
23 Mar 2018 – 24 Mar 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair) - Bounded Democracy
Global workshop on American Urbanisms, paper “Global Perspectives on Squatting”, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
2 Mar 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker) - interview on book Konsum und Gewalt
WDR3 Radio, Kultur am Mittag
14 Feb 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor) - German Labour History Association (External organisation)
founding member of the German Labour History Association
Jan 2018 →
Links:
Activity: Membership of network (Member) - Evaluator Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
assessing the merits of funding proposals
2018 →
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)
2017
- ‘Konsum und Gewalt: Radikaler Protest in der Bundesrepublik’
Contemporary history seminar paper, University of Freiburg, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Prof Ulrich Herbert)
6 Dec 2017
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - Ruhr-University Bochum
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Institute for Social Movements
1 Oct 2017 – 31 May 2019
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Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher) - Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe between the 1970s and 1990s
The decades from the 1970s to the 1990s are often seen as a time of revolutionary change triggered by economic crises, in which the parameters and conditions for our present times were set. Conservatism looms large in this narrative; after all, the Reagan and Thatcher governments in the United States and in Britain implemented economic and social policies that fundamentally changed the welfare state economies of the boom years. Conservatism is therefore often interpreted as neoliberalism in conservative guise, as the defining political ideology of finance capitalism. However, conservatism was a much more diverse phenomenon than these interpretations suggest. While economics and politics were certainly crucial in the fashioning of a new conservatism in Western Europe and the United States, conservatism was also a diverse cultural phenomenon, which is not adequately reflected in historical research to date.
The conference “Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe (1970s-1990s)” sought to fill this historiographical gap by questioning the primacy of economics and debating alternative interpretations of this age of change. Focusing on cultures of conservatism, the conference rethought the general contours of conservatism. It paid close attention to the intersection of culture, politics and economics, in order to broaden our understanding of the processes of change that have unfolded since the 1970s.
14 Sep 2017 – 16 Sep 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Chair) - paper "Global perspectives on squatting"; Bounded Democracy: Global Workshop on American Urbanisms
2 Mar 2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - ERC Evaluator
assessing the merits of funding proposals
2017 →
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)
2016
- Exit: Ausstieg und Verweigerung in „offenen Gesellschaften“ nach 1945
Exit: Ausstieg und Verweigerung in „offenen Gesellschaften“ nach 1945;
paper "Ausstieg aus der Konsumgesellschaft? Die bundesrepublikanische radikale Linke im Kalten Krieg“
17 Jun 2016
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker) - Grassroots, Revolutionaries or Part-time Terrorists?
paper, ‘Die Revolutionären Zellen als Scharnier zwischen neuen sozialen Bewegungen und Militanz’; The Revolutionary Cells and Other Militant Leftist Groups in the Shadow of the RAF
16 Apr 2016
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker) - Roundtable: Definitions and Meanings
international conference at NYU Shanghai
13 Mar 2016
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements (Journal)
peer review of articles
2016 →
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2015
- ‘“Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters”: Spontis, Autonomists and the struggles over public commodities (1970–1983)’
confernce on the 1970s in West Germany and Italy
22 May 2015
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Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - The Perception of Apartheid in Western Europe, 1960-1990
The task of this workshop is to bring researchers together who are working on the perception of the South African apartheid in Western Europe. This group consists of four PhD-students and their supervisors from Copenhagen, Hamburg and Berlin as well as other researchers from Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the UK working on different aspects of this topic. It also includes other senior scholars, experienced in the history of transnational relationships as commentators.
8 May 2015
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Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker) - ‘War and Protest, 1914–2003’
lecture tour upon invitation by Ministry for Science and Technology, Taiwan
1 May 2015
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Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - ‘Consumption and Violence: The West-German Radical Left in Search of Consumer Morality and Solidarity’
lecture tour upon invitation by Ministry for Science and Technology, Taiwan
30 Apr 2015
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
2014
- University of Copenhagen (External organisation)
member of the academic board of the international research network ‘The Percep-tion of Apartheid in Western Europe, 1960–1990’ (PI: Prof. Detlef Siegfried, Københavns Universitet)
Sep 2014 – Sep 2018
Activity: Membership of network (Member) - ‘Debates, definitions, developments: comparative perspectives on squatting in the early 1980s’
international conference on European perspectives of Youth Protest and Social Movements
16 May 2014
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - European Social Science History Conference
session ‘The continuation of politics with other means: war and protest since World War I’
26 Apr 2014
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - European Social Science History Conference
Discussant: ‘Mass Consumption Society Contested: The Politics of Consumer Concerns from a Global Perspective (1945–2000)’
24 Apr 2014
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - ‘“Schmutzige Exportgeschäfte mit Chile, Südafrika, Israel ...“: Boykottaktionen der radikalen Linken in der BRD’
research seminar paper, Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin
5 Feb 2014
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Contemporary History Unit
1 Feb 2014 – 31 Jul 2014
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher) - ‘Consumption and violence: The West-German radical left in search of consumer morality and solidarity’
research seminar paper, Department of German, King's College London
15 Jan 2014
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - External Examiner
American College Thessaloniki, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
2014 – 2017
Activity: Examination (Examiner)
2013
- Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
peer-review of book manuscripts
2013 →
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2012
- Berghahn Books (Publisher)
peer reviewer
2012 →
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer) - Contemporary European History (Journal)
peer-review of articles
2012 →
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2011
- Bielefeld University
Special Research Unit 584: The Political as Communicative Space in History
1 Feb 2011 – 31 Jul 2011
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher)
Other Grants and Projects
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship hosted by the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: The Continuation of Politics with Other Means: War and Protest, 1914−2011. The project extended from 2017-2019 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/208937/reporting/en?rcn=394339&WT.mc_id=RSS-Feed&WT.rss_f=result&WT.rss_a=394339&WT.rss_ev=a).