Talks by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Richard Benjamin. Commentary by Catherine Hall. Chaired by Felix Brahm. This event was part of the Contested Histories seminar series 2019 and took place on 7 May 2019 at the German Historical Institute London.

The 2018 Annual Lecture Hobbes’s Leviathan: Picturing the State was given by Professor Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary, University of London, on Friday, 9 November 2018.

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture. The lecture was given on 28 November 2017 at the German Historical Institute London. In the 'total' First World War, civilian 'enemy aliens' became targets of stringent state control and internment, frequently in the name of 'national security'. On the other hand, national and international humanitarian organisations supported these helpless victims of the war. To what extent and how did debates and conflicts about the relationship between security and humanity impact on the changing balance?

Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History. The lecture was given on 24 April 2018 at the German Embassy London. In his lecture Timothy Garton Ash gives an insightful analysis of the processes of German and European unification, reflecting on the history of the European Monetary Union, the unification of Germany as a means towards a more united European continent and on how the roots of the problems we face in Europe today are connected to the historic developments in 1989 and the 1990s.

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture. The lecture was given on 29 November 2016 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The nineteenth century was incontrovertibly the ‘British century’, in which the UK seemed to dominate the globe, and when, for good or ill, ‘British history’ took place in many other parts of the world as well. At a time when global history has become so prominent, this seems an appropriate opportunity to revisit the years 1800 to 1906. The lecture was given on 21 June 2016 at the German Historical Institute London. Introduction by Andreas Gestrich.