States of Emergency: What we can learn Today from German Interwar History

States of Emergency: What we can learn Today from German Interwar History

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: 
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Speaker(s): 
Professor Martin Geyer (Munich, and Richard von Weizsaecker Fellow, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford)
Chair: 
Professor Paul Betts (European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford)
Series: 
ESC Core Seminar Series

ESC Richard von Weizsaecker Lecture

States of Emergency: What we can learn Today from German Interwar History

Martin H. Geyer is the Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow at the European Studies Center for the academic year 2018/19. He has been Professor for Modern German History at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München since 1997. His current research interest and recent publications deal with issues of political scandals, the history of capitalism, and political and social theories in the 1970s and 1980s. His latest publications include Kapitalismus und politische Moral in der Zwischenkriegszeit, oder: Wer war Julius Barmat (Hamburger Edition, 2018). His current research project is entitled States of Emergency: What We Can Learn Today from Interwar German History.

Please email: european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk in order to register your attendance.