Doing The Global Intellectual History of Social Movements

Douglas Rowell. Photograph of Target City Hall Action, 1989. New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Co-Hosted by Christian Jacobs and Ben Miller of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Freie Universität Berlin.

There are now event links underneath each public event.


All events have a viewer password of “dahlemviewer.” You will not have video on but will be able to see the panelists and participate in the chat Q and A.
Please feel free to invite others to join us!


Do be aware that we have a zero-tolerance policy for “zoom-bombing,” harassment, racist, sexist, and/or discriminatory remarks, etc and will endeavor to provide a safe and comfortable (and intellectually stimulating!) discussion environment for our panelists.

19 August, 1PM CEST:
Welcome & Introductions

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19 August: 2PMCEST:
From Work To Thought

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Julia Damphouse, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Anti-Colonial Internationalism and European Solidarity: The (Anti)Colonial Context of European Identity Formation
among German Workers in the First Half of the 20th Century

Sean Forner, Michigan State University
Social Imaginaries, Labor Movements, and Europe’s Transnational First New Left

David Bebnowski, LMU München
Reproduction in Renewal: The Global Imaginary Intellectual History of the European New Left

19 August: 4:30PMCEST:
Ways of Knowing

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Eunike G. Setiadarma, Northwestern University
Daughters, Wives, and Mothers: An Affective Approach in Reading Chinese Malay Writings In 1920s Java

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Kazi Nazrul University, India
Global South Social Actors: Colonial Bengal, Encounters with Euro-Modernity, and the Archive of Small Voices

Karin Louise Hermes, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Indigenous Studies Citational Practices in Non-Indigenous Relationality: What Do I Do With Andrea Smith?

20 August: 2PMCEST:
Case Study: Provincializing Euro-American AIDS Activism

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Kumud Rana, University of Glasgow:
Transnational Activist-Scholar Networks and Experts in the Configuration of Male Sexuality within the LGBTI+ Movements of Nepal

Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield
Together for the Future? On Who Gets Heard in the Global Intellectual History of HIV/AIDS

Kevin-Niklas Breu, Universität Bremen
Gay Media Professionals as “Moral Entrepreneurs:”
How To Write A Transnational Intellectual History of AIDS Activism in Western Europe in the 1980s and 1990s

20 August: 4:30PMCEST:
What is Intellectual Work?

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Daniel McNeil, Queen’s University
The Honest Nostalgia of Honest Intellectuals?
Notes on a Living Archive of Diaspora and Dissonant, Against-the-Grain Criticism  

Sebastian Veg, EHESS Paris
Redefining the Discursive Community: Slogans, Lennon Walls and Online Forums as Spaces of Intellectual Production in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement of 2014 and Anti-Extradition Movement of 2019

Sébastien Tremblay, Freie Universität Berlin/Goldsmiths
Between Memoirs and Academic Activism:
The Late Writings of Richard Plant and his Role for Transatlantic Gay Liberation

21 August: 1PMCEST:
Transnational Activist-Intellectual Networks

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Rosa Valerie Campbell, Cambridge University
‘Like You, We Sit on the Doorstep of the World’s End’:
The Global Intellectual History of 1980s Women’s Peace Camps 

Lotte Houwink ten Cate, Columbia University
Worlds Without Men: Towards Feminist Theories of Male Violence and the State

Idriss Jebari, Trinity College Dublin
The Swinging Pendulum and the Students as a Revolutionary Vanguard:
Locating Tunisian Leftism Between French Maoism and the Pan-Arab Guerrilla (1963-1975)

21 August: 3PMCEST:
Group Discussion

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20 August, 7:30PM CEST
Quotidian Intellectuals:
Black German Women’s Knowledge Production
Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, The University of New Mexico

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