Ludwig Decke
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Ludwig Decke
@ludwigdecke.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Modern European and Modern Jewish History at UW-Madison
Fun fact: the list of signatories of the 1950 Stockholm Appeal for nuclear disarmament included, among others, Leonard Bernstein, W.E.B. Dubois and … Jacques Chirac??!
May 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is a huge watershed moment. If you’d have asked me last week if CDU/CSU will cooperate with the fascists on the federal level, I’d have said “maybe in 4 years, but not in 2025.” Well, I was wrong.
For the first time in postwar political history, a political majority in Germany's federal parliament has been secured with the votes of a far-right political party. For an entirely symbolic proposal on migration that violates European law.
January 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Einen Tag nach dem 27. Januar gibt die #Gedenkstätte für #Zwangsarbeit heute bekannt, dass sie aufgrund der vorläufigen Haushaltsführung in #Sachsen und #Leipzig Öffnungszeiten und Bildungsangebote herunterfahren muss. #GeradeJetzt
Der komplette Beitrag unter www.instagram.com/gedenkstaett...
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Mark your calendars! I'm organizing a workshop in modern German history @ URochester April 25-26. Keynotes will be Anne Berg and Sam Huneke, with Paul Hanebrink, John Abromeit, and Robert Terrell also presenting. Write me if you'd like to attend or share a paper. events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...
New Directions in Modern German History
This two-day conference (April 25-26) will bring together historians of modern Germany from the greater New York region to present and discuss new research in the field. The two keynote lectures will ...
events.rochester.edu
January 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Ludwig Decke
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
How did German Jews respond to the persisting problem of racism after Hitler? Looking forward to presenting some of my Diss research in this great #AHA panel:
Looking forward to this CEHS panel "Risk and Redefinition: Regime Change and Ethnic Politics in 20th-Century Central Europe" at #AHA25 this weekend – some really interesting work from early-career scholars. If you're free Sat 3:30-5pm, please join us in the Sugar Hill Room, Sheraton lower level.
January 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM