Roundtable Debate (18 June 2014) at the German Historical Institute London in cooperation with University College London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The emphasis of this roundtable discussion is on continuing areas of uncertainty in the historical account of the outbreak of war: it shows how key decisions are still ‘unexplained’, allowing a variety of interpretations. This roundtable of internationally-renowned scholars asks what we still do not know about the causes of the First World War.

10th Annual Lecture on Contemporary German History, given on 25 November 2013 at the German historical Institute London

The 2013 Annual Lecture 'The Moral Economy of Trust: Modern Trajectories' was given by Professor Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, on Friday, 8 November 2013.

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture. Coffee, one of the most important global commodities since the late 19th century, has connected very different physical, social and symbolic worlds. The project Dorothee Wierling will present and discuss in her talk, focuses on one group of actors, those engaged in the overseas trade of the unfinished product: the coffee merchants as agents of globalisation. The talk will explore the economic, social and political frameworks in which those merchants acted and, in doing so, hopes to come up not only with a case study on the interaction of the global and the local, but also with the social and cultural history of an elite, which went through significant changes during the "age of extremes". The lecture was given on 22 October 2013 at the German Historical Institute London.

The newest buzzword for globalization is cosmopolitanism. As with many such reuses of older concepts, cosmopolitanism has a complex history, specifically in the German-speaking lands. It is this history and its relationship to the history of German Jewry from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust that will be examined — in a global and perhaps even cosmopolitan manner. (This paper was given on 2 October 2013 at the German Historical Institute London.)