'Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century ' with Prof Stefanie Middendorf

A Modern European History Seminar in partnership with the Oxford Martin School

In this talk, Professor Stefanie Middendorf will scrutinize 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.

Introduced by Professor Patricia Clavin. 

Professor Stefanie Middendorf is Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme of Changing Global Orders in 2024 and 2025. She 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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