Christoph Kalter is Assistant Professor of History at the Freie Universit?t Berlin. His research interest is the history of late modern Western Europe. His publications focus on how decolonization, the global Cold War, and socioeconomic as well as cultural change have transformed France and Portugal after World War II. In analyzing how national histories unfolded through transnational entanglements and in global frameworks, the sub-disciplines his work engages with most are the history of migrations, of social and political movements, of international relations, as well as intellectual history and memory studies.
In his recently published book ? The Discovery of the Third World. Decolonisation and the Rise of the New Left in France, c.1950-1976 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) Kalter reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French activists rose to prominence within the political Left, established transnational contacts, and developed a new global consciousness. The study sheds new light on a crucial moment in France's history, the global contexts that prompted it, and its worldwide ramifications.
Schedule:
Faggruppe
Tuesday 12.09, from 10.15:
Contemporary History "faggruppe":
"When Empires Come Home. Migrations of Decolonization and Post-Imperial Nationhood.“
MITRA4001 - Reading course I - Key Issues & Film Club (Open to MITRA students and History-MA students)
Thursday, 14.09., 14:15: Master Class ?The Radical Sixties“ (together with Doug Rossinow)
Thursday, 14.09., 16:00: MITRA Filmclub, Cachè (engl.Hidden, Michael Haneke, F 2005), Introduction by Christoph Kalter.
PhD educational component:
Wedensday 20.09., 12.15 - 14.00: Dissertation Seminar, commenting on Helge Jensehaugens chapter draft.