
In this talk, Professor Stefanie Middendorf will scrutinise experiences of crisis and disorder in historical and comparative perspectives.
The talk will reveal how states perceived ‘states of emergency’ which were both made visible or hidden by different political systems throughout the 20th century. It will also question whether this approach helps us to better understand liminalities of democratic and dictatorial rule. The historical cases that will be considered include Germany in the age of global wars and France after 1945, and a special focus will be on transnational experiences and the circulation of knowledge and micro-techniques of power.
This is a joint event with the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders and the Faculty of History.
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- This event is in-person only. Please register here: 'Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century ' with Prof Stefanie Middendorf | The Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders

Professor Stefanie Middendorf
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders
Prof Stefanie Middendorf is the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena and is an internationally recognised expert on European statehood, capitalist economies and governance in the long 20th century.
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