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Viola Müller
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Historian at Wageningen University @historywur.bsky.social | Book Review Editor at @JournalSlavery.bsky.social | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY (UNC Press) 👉 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/
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Some advertisement for an exciting public lecture by Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) in Nijmegen:

Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II

Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm
E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.)

Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7
Image repeats title of lecture, place and time. Abstract lecture: In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis. This lecture asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves? To answer this question, the lecture follows the ups and downs of complicity, conscience and compassion. Their mixed history helps explain the difficult present in which the country finds itself today. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Helsinki.
June 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!

Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
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May 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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June 5, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Thrilled to receive editor’s copies of COERCION & WAGE LABOUR. The book is much thicker and than I thought!

What does it do? In the words of Marcel van der Linden: “It makes a well-founded break with the widespread misconception that wage labour is by definition free from coercion.”
January 31, 2024 at 11:02 AM