Previous IGES events

30th May - 'Iron and Blood': Writing the Histories of Militaries and War

16th May - IGES Annual Distinguished Lecture 2024

16th May - EU and British citizens' Rights and Belonging in the Context of Brexit: Reflections from the Intersection of Research, Activism and being an Academic in the Public Arena'

30th April - Roundtable with Professor Peter Wilson

24th April - Radka Šustrová: Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe

14th March - We, superimmigrants: Is a "good" migrant an invisible one?

12th March - "Harlem in Germany": Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic.

4th March - Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life

23rd November - Central and Eastern European Diasporas in History and Today

23rd March - POSTPONED!!! - IGES lecture and Q&A with Annette Dittert

18th January-23rd February - European Identity in a Transcultural World

7th December - Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today

3rd November - Contemporary German literature and theatre: Between cultural production and political interventions (online event)

1st June - The Humanities, the Social Sciences, and Climate Change

1st June - What If We Just Went Ahead and Saved the World? Taking Action in the Climate Crisis Or: Why Frank Schätzing should stick to writing Thrillers

23rd-25th March - Teaching German in a Transcultural World

16th March - Writing Home: A Conversation between Olivia Wenzel and Kaoutar Harchi

26th January - East Central Europe in the interwar slump – a work in progress report

8th December - Early GDR literature-avant-garden approaches to theatre in the socialist state: Matthew Hines

1st December - Happy Birthday Niedersachsen

25th November - (Im)materialities of Violence

10th November - 'Intourist' in the Baltics in the 20 century: Marta Starostina

13th October - Richard Wagner as Subject of Friedrich Nietzsche's and Theodor W. Adorno's Enlightenments: Imran Hashmi

13th October - Failure of Democracy: Political Threats and Economic Crisis in Interwar Europe

6th October - A Changing of the Guard? The 2021 German Elections

28th September - Post-Truth Politics: Silencing, Violence and Resistance in Public Debate

1st July - Identitti: A reading and conversation with Mithu Sanyal

30th June-2nd July - Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order

3rd March - IGES Book Panel with Paul Betts - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II

23rd February - IGES/BRIHC Lecture

28th January - Authors and translators in dialogue: Sandra Hoffmann and Katy Derbyshire

27th January - Germany and Eastern Europe: Birmingham-Utrecht Joint Postgraduate Workshop

14th October - The Spectre of Hegemony from the Centre

14th October - How do we study Germany in its European context?

17th March - "Germanies Narrating / Narrating Germanies"

22nd October - Institute for German Studies (IGS) Distinguished Lecture 2019

13th September - The GDR Today V

25th-26th June - Germany and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

25th March - The Spectre of Hegemony from the Centre: Germany's Neighbours and the Process of National Unification, 1830-1871

15th March - Migration, Identity and Extremism in Germany

10th October - The Future of the Left in Germany and the UK

22nd May - Becoming the World's Most Powerful Woman: Angela Merkel and the Transformation of United Germany

7th March - IGS Workshop: 'The (Im)Possibility of Liberating One('s)Self'

27th February - IGS Seminar: 'Transnational Fascism: Global Networks and Entanglements 1918-1945'

5th May - The IGS, 1996–2016: Twenty Years of Studying Germany from the Outside