John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently directs the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. ...

John P. Birkelund Lecture
The Power of the “Reich” in the German Imagination
John Connelly explores the long-term consequences of Germany’s emergence as a nation that was at once imperial and ethnic—a country that occupied a huge space in Central Europe and sought to make millions of diverse human beings into ethnic co-nationals. Connelly reaches back to just after the fall of Rome but ultimately seeks to account for the disruptive role the more recent “German Question” played in causing, as German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said, “a unique break with civilization.”
Mar
28
2023
History
28.03.2023
19:30
- 21:00
American Academy in Berlin
Am Sandwerder 17-19
14109 Berlin-Wannsee
Am Sandwerder 17-19
14109 Berlin-Wannsee
Speaker: John Connelly
This event took place on March 28, 2023.