KFG Lecture Series with Benjamin Ziemann (Sheffield)

Historicum Room K401, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Lecture Series “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”

The KFG Lecture Series continues in cooperation with the colloquium of the Chair of Modern History with its next session on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, with a presentation by guest lecturer Benjamin Ziemann on "Social Transformations since the 1970s from the Vantage Point of Functional Differentiation".

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield. He has worked extensively on twentieth-Century German history, and one peace movements in post-1945 Europe. He is the author of seven books and many edited collections, including, with Nadine Rossol (co-eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic (2021). His latest book is: Gesellschaft ohne Zentrum. Deutschland in der differenzierten Moderne (2024). Benjamin Ziemann has held visiting fellowships at the University of York, Kyoritsu Women’s University Tokyo, the University of Jena, Humboldt University Berlin and the university of Oslo.

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