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Sebastian Gehrig, MPhil (Cambridge)
Alumni
Position
- Research Fellow until August 2012
Contact information
Karl Jaspers Centre,
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
Projects
Curriculum vitae
Current Projects:
"To rebel is justified!" - Mao Zedong, the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and left-wing subcultures in Western Europe and the US (working title)
Laws of the Everyday. Courts, Jurists and Local Society in Germany, 1933-65 (working title)
2007 - 2011: PhD-student, History Dept., Heidelberg University:
Coping with the Present. West German Elites and the Search for State, Society, and Self (thesis/viva completed)
2005 - 2006: Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
2002 - 2005: History (Mittlere/Neuere Geschichte) and Political Science, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen
Conferences:
Fall 2009: Co-Organisation of the conference “Linksalternatives Milieu und dessen (Selbst-) Inszenierung. Neue Perspektiven auf die Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen der 1970er Jahre” , Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, September 16 to 18, 2009
Summer 2009: Co-Organisation of the Workshop Conference “The Personal is Political”: The Interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s”, Lucy-Cavendish-College, University of Cambridge, August 26 to 27, 2009.
Winter 2008: Co-Organisation of the conference “Rethinking Trends”, Karl-Jaspers-Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, November 2008 27 to 28, Heidelberg.
Research Interests:
- Modern European History
- Social/Cultural History of Law
- International Student Movements of the 1960s
- European Left-wing terrorism of the 1970s
- Interactions of subcultures and social movements
- Research on political trends (in a transcultural perspective)
- History of “State Identities”/concepts of “Nation” and “Nationalism”
- History of “Generations”
Selected publications
Sebastian Gehrig, Barbara Mittler, Felix Wemheuer (eds): Kulturrevolution als Vorbild? Maoismen im deutschsprachigen Raum (Frankfurt/M. 2008).
Sebastian Gehrig: "“Zwischen uns und dem Feind einen klaren Trennungstrich ziehen“: Linksterroristische Gruppen und maoistische Ideologie in der Bundesrepublik der 1960er und 1970er Jahre“, in: Kulturrevolution als Vorbild? Maoismen im deutschsprachigen Raum, ed. by Ibid., Barbara Mittler, and Felix Wemheuer (Frankfurt/M. 2008), 153-78.
Sebastian Gehrig: “Sympathising Subcultures? The Milieus of West German Terrorism,” in: Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980, ed. by Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth and Jacco Pekelder (Oxford/New York 2011), 233-50.
Sebastian Gehrig: "(Re-)Configuring Mao: Trajectories of a Culturo-Political Trend in West Germany," Transcultural Studies 2 (2011): 189-231.
Jennifer E. Altehenger, Laila Abu-er-Rub, Sebastian Gehrig, "The Transcultural Travels of Trends: An Introductory Essay," Transcultural Studies 2 (2011): 140-63.
Selected Talks
"The Second 'Evil Empire'? 'Red China' and the 'Yellow Peril' in Cold War Cinema", talk delivered at the conference "Trends on the Move: Transcultural Dimensions of Popular Flows", KJC, Heidelberg, Oct. 2011.
"Mao's Travel to Europe", talk delivered at the International Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Turku, Finland, Aug. 2009.
“Die Mao-Begeisterung der bundesdeutschen “68er”, talk delivered at the Cusanuswerk Fachschaftstagung Geschichte, “Begegnungen von Ost und West: Kontakte, Konflikte und Kommunikationswege zwischen Europa und Asien in historischer Perspektive”, Haus Venusberg, Bonn, Jan. 2009.
“Manufacturing a Political Trend: How Mao Zedong Became a Political Icon in West Germany During the 1960s and 1970s”, conference paper, “Rethinking Trends”, KJC, Heidelberg, Nov. 2008.
“The making of a West German state identity in tension between “Western” and “Eastern” cultural and ideological flows in the 1960s and 1970s”, talk delivered at the Kolloquium: Neue Forschungen und audiovisuelle Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Prof. Dr. Edgar Wolfrum, Department of History, Heidelberg, Jan. 2008.
“'Zwischen uns und dem Feind einen klaren Trennungsstrich ziehen': Die RAF und die Ideologie des Guerillakrieges nach Mao,” talk delivered at the Workshop “Kulturrevolution als Vorbild? Erinnerungen und Reflektionen zum westlichen Maoismus”, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg, Jan. 2007.
“Left-wing Milieu and Public Opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s,” presentation delivered at the Graduate Workshop in Modern German History, Prof. Richard J. Evans, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Jan. 2006.
