The German Foreign Office and its Nazi Past: A Book, a Debate, and the Problems of Commissioned History
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, April 30, 2015 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | External Event, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room Department of History Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2098 100 St. George Street |
Description
This seminar will be take place in the Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall Room 2098, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto
Eckart Conze holds the chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Marburg (Germany). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen in 1993, taught at the University of Tübingen, and was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna (2006), Cambridge (2007/08) and Toronto (2000/01). His research covers German and International History (19th and 20th centuries), the history of the Federal Republic, and the history of elites and the aristocracy. Between 2005 and 2010 he was Chair of the Independent Historians Commission of the German Foreign Office.
His books include Von deutschem Adel. Die Grafen von Bernstorff im 20. Jahrhundert (2000), Die Suche nach Sicherheit. Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart (2009), Das Amt und die Vergangen¬heit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik, with Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann (2010), and Das Auswärtige Amt. Vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart (2013).
Professor Conze is currently working on the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty of 1919.
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