Media Round Up
In the spirit of collaboration and information sharing, we would like to draw attention to the wonderful compilation of sources already curated by Serdar Günes, […]
Month: June 2021
Ends and Beginnings
All we are are the stories we tell. — Leroy Little Bear It has been a little over three weeks since Geschichte der Gegenwart (GdG) […]
Dialectic of Vergangenheitsbewältigung
The occasion for my article, “The German Catechism,” were the bitter polemics directed against Michael Rothberg and Jürgen Zimmerer’s work in Germany, so I was […]
The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World…
Chiselled into the marble wall of Humboldt University’s grand main building in Berlin is the famous quote (often ill-used, not least by the SED regime) […]
Atonement at the Expense of Another
What does it mean to atone for a crime against humanity? And how can a nation meaningfully repent for its past if it makes another […]
Refusing the Extended Hand
Allow me some genuine modesty: I come to you not as an historian but just as as an unspecified writer—albeit one obsessed with history, and […]
Border Exceptionalism
What are memories good for? The debate about ‘The German Catechism’ (Moses) and ‘multidirectional memory’ (Rothberg) has surfaced many questions about nationalism, whiteness, and the […]
Apocryphal Queers and Gay Orthodoxy
Dirk Moses’ intervention in Geschichte der Gegenwart has unleashed a wave of reactions. For those based outside of Germany, even specialists working on German history, […]
Inaccuracies and Absences
I: Scratching My Head Reading the debate about Moses’s essay makes me wonder if the place where I spend much time, Germany, is the same […]
Stones Can Talk Back: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Revisited
The German Catechism, as laid out in Dirk Moses’ essay, was not always as binding as it now seems. Not long ago, in 2017, Benjamin […]
