Anniversary Lecture: Philipp Nielsen on Politics

Part 1 of LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series

On May 21 at 12:00 PM EST, Philipp Nielsen will discuss politics in German-Jewish historiography.

As we look back at the last 70 years of German-Jewish historiography since the founding of the Leo Baeck Institute, LBI presents a series of seven events focusing on the most important topics in German Jewish history. Each generation of historians witnesses the appearance of different approaches to historical writing. After decades of focusing on the main political events in German-Jewish history and biographies of political leaders, there has been a turn to microhistory, the role of common people, women and children, minorities, stories dominated by struggles and failures, etc. In the new series, the LBI will present a comprehensive view of seven overarching topics in German Jewish history and ask how their historiography has changed over the decades.

This lecture series will take place online.

About the Speaker:

Philipp Nielsen is Associate Professor for Modern European History and the Adda Bozeman Chair in International Relations at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and Lecturer on Memory and Heritage at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received is PhD from Yale University in 2012. His publications include From Heimat to Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871-1935 (Oxford University Press, 2019), Feeling Political: Emotions and Institutions since 1789 with Ute Frevert et al. (Palgrave 2022), Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook edited with Eva Giloi et al. (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022), and Architecture, Democracy and Emotions: The Politics of Feeling after 1945 edited with Till Großmann (Routledge, 2019). His research interests include German political and architectural history, German-Jewish history, and the history of emotions.