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SUMMARY:2026 LSE German Symposium
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE \nAs in previous years\, BGA members are warmly invited to attend the LSE’s prestigious German Symposium held from 2-6 February 2026. Initiated in 1998 by German LSE students\, the German Symposium has become an important date in the LSE’s calendar and will be hosted for the 25th time in 2026. \nFeaturing a wide variety of events ranging from keynote speeches by and discussion panels to intimate coffee chats with world-class speakers\, the LSE offers time and space for rigorous political debate. An events schedule and  booking options will be made available closer to the date through the Symposium’s website.
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/2026-lse-german-symposium/
LOCATION:London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, Houghton Street\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Out of Hitler's Shadow - Tobias Straumann in Conversation with Frank Trentmann
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, 19 February 2026 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm\, the two historians Frank Trentmann and Tobias Straumann will discuss Tobias’s book Out of Hitler’s Shadow: Debt\, Guilt\, and the German Economic Miracle on Zoom. \nThe book explores why the United States and its Western Allies chose an unexpectedly lenient approach toward Germany after the Second World War\, despite the catastrophic destruction and suffering caused by the Nazi regime. Instead of demanding sweeping reparations\, the Western powers decided at the 1952 London Debt Conference to forgo all war-related debts\, requiring West Germany to repay only a portion of its pre- and post-war obligations. \nThis controversial decision challenged conventional ideas of justice\, leaving many victims uncompensated. Yet key statesmen – including Dean Acheson\, Konrad Adenauer\, Robert Schuman\, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett – believed that harsh financial terms would destabilise Europe and hinder long-term recovery. Tobias Straumann reveals how their strategic foresight reshaped post-war Europe and why their choices still resonate today. \nProf. Dr. Tobias Straumann is an economic historian teaching at the University of Zurich and director of the MAS in Applied History. He also writes columns for the NZZ am Sonntag. He is the author of 1931: Debt\, Crisis\, and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press 2019). \nProf. Dr. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck\, University of London\, and at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Empire of Things\, Free Trade Nation\, and Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942–2022. He was a Moore Scholar at Caltech and has been awarded the Whitfield Prize\, the Austrian Science Book Prize\, the Humboldt Prize for Research and the 2023 Bochum Historians’ Prize. \n\nPlease note that registration is necessary for the event. Only logged-in members of the BGA will be able to see the Zoom registration link (starting https://) below. Once you have logged in to your BGA account\, please navigate back to this page via the “Events” tab on the menu bar and register below. If you are still unable to see the Zoom registration link after logging in\, please check your membership is up-to-date or contact us.
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/out-of-hitlers-shadow-tobias-straumann-in-conversation-with-frank-trentmann/
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories: Queer Lives in Britain and Germany
DESCRIPTION:Join us on 25 February 2026 at 6.30pm for an online discussion celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. How have queer lives been recorded\, concealed\, or deliberately erased in Britain and Germany across the 20th and 21st centuries? From criminalisation and censorship to activism\, archives\, and cultural memory\, this event explores the forces that have shaped what we know – and don’t know – about LGBTQ+ histories. Bringing together historians and cultural scholars\, the discussion examines how queer experiences have survived in personal testimony\, art\, and archives\, and why uncovering these hidden histories matters today for identity\, rights\, and remembrance on both sides of the Channel. This event is organised in conjunction with Women in German Studies (W+IGS) and the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS). \nOur speakers: \nProfessor Matt Cook is an English social and cultural historian specialising in LGBTQ and queer history\, currently the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality at Mansfield College\, University of Oxford. He is known for his influential work on queer urban life\, the history of homosexuality in Britain\, and LGBTQ heritage. \nProfessor Helen Finch is a British academic who serves as Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds\, where her research focuses on the representation of the Holocaust in German-language literature\, queer identity and memory\, and issues of trauma and gender in cultural texts. She co-leads the Queer Area Studies Network and works across Holocaust\, queer\, and literary studies to explore memory\, identity\, and marginalised voices in German culture. \nDr Anna Hájková is Reader for modern European continental history at the University of Warwick. Her first book\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt\, came out in 2020 with Oxford University Press. She is a pioneer of queer Holocaust history and her work has been awarded the 2020 Orfeo Iris Prize. In 2025\, she published People Without History are Dust with the University of Toronto Press. The book has won the National Jewish Book Award 2026. \nPlease note that registration is necessary for the event. Only logged-in members of the BGA will be able to see the Zoom registration link (starting https://) below. Once you have logged in to your BGA account\, please navigate back to this page via the “Events” tab on the menu bar and register below. If you are still unable to see the Zoom registration link after logging in\, please check your membership is up-to-date or contact us.
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/hidden-histories-queer-lives-in-britain-and-germany/
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