Thyssen Lecture Series:
The History of German Colonialism and Imperialism
Long neglected as a subject of historical research, the history of German colonialism is at the center of this year-long lecture series: from its antecedents in the early modern period to its long term consequences into the 20th century. Speakers will address general questions of encounters, transfers, and conflicts between the colonies and the European center (Fall); they will focus on missionary activities in the Pacific before the onset of formal colonialism (Winter); and they will address the question of possible continuities between colonialism and genocide (Spring).
2011-12 Thyssen Lecture Series Faculty Coordinator
Frank Biess (Professor, History)
The Thyssen Lecture Series has concluded for the 2011-12 academic year.
The Thyssen Lecture Series is hosted by IICAS at UC San Diego, and the History Department at UC Irvine, and sponsored by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation.
2011-2012 Events
2011-2012 Events
2011-12 Thyssen Lecture Series Faculty Coordinator
Frank Biess (Professor, History)
III. From Windhuk to Auschwitz? Racism, Terror, Genocide
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University
"Colonialism as Counterrevolution: Rethinking the Pre-colonial"
Monday, May 21, 2012, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Commentator: Rebecca Plant, UC San Diego.
Dirk Bonker, Duke University
"Global Empire and Naval Ambitions in Wilhelmine Germany"
Monday, May 7, 2012, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas (IOA).
Commentator: Edward Dickinson, UC Davis.
Jurgen Zimmerer, Universitat Hamburg
"Race War and Cultural Genocide in German Southwest Africa"
Monday, April 23, 2012, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine.
Commentator: Robert Moeller, UC Irvine.
Dirk van Laak, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen
"Which Way to Expand? And How? Imperial Rivalries in the 'Third Reich'"
Monday, April 9, 2012, 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM, Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Commentator: Uta Poiger, Northeastern University.
II. German Missionaries in Asia and the Pacific
Albert Wu, UC Berkeley
"In the Wake of Empire: German Missionaries in China and the Consequences of Failure"
Monday, March 5, 2012, 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine.
Commentator: Qitao Guo, UC Irvine
Hermann-Josef Hiery, Universität Bayreuth - Cancelled
"German Colonialism in the South Pacific and the Indigenous Response"
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, UC Irvine.
Commentator: Ulrike Strasser, Associate Professor, History
Thoralf Klein, Loughborough University
“A Forerunner of German Colonialism? Karl F.A. Gützlaff and the Project of Transnational Imperialism in China, 1827-1851”
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine
Commentator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine
I. German Colonialism and the Concept of Transnational History
Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota
"Creating the Color Line and the National Line: Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia"
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Hojel Auditorium, Institute of the Americas (IOA).
Commentator: Hasan Kayali, UC San Diego
Sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation and co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Birthe Kundrus, University of Hamburg
"Love and War: How to Make Use of Transnational History for German Colonialism"
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine.
Commentator: Paul Lerner, University of Southern California
Sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation and co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin
"Rethinking German Colonialism in a Global Age"
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 1010 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine.
Sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation and co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Rebekka Habermas, Georg-August Universitat Gottingen
"Tensions of Empire and the Production of Silence: Colonial Scandals in the German Empire in 1900"
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas (IOA), Copley International Conference Center.
Commentator: Volker Langbehn, San Francisco State University
Sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation and co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Kenneth Pomeranz, UC Irvine
"Modern Colonialisms and Agrarian Anxieties: How Did Industrialization Matter?"
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas (IOA), Copley International Conference Center.
Commentator: Pamela Radcliff, UC San Diego
Sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Foundation and co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
