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Körber History Forum Connecting Politics and History

In an age of growing political, national and religious divisions, historical orientation and reckoning with our past are central to dealing with current conflicts. Therefore, the Körber History Forum focuses on the impact of the past on the politics of the present at a European and global level. For two days, it brings together approximately 300 eminent experts and international decision-makers from the realms of academia, politics and diplomacy, civil society and the media, connecting historical insight and political practice.

The Körber History Forum 2021 will take place on 18 and 19 May in Berlin and online, giv- ing speakers and invited guests the opportunity to interact on its digital platform.

Speakers and Moderators

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard Uni- versity. His research focuses on 19th Century history of the United States and the history of capitalism. Beckert is the author of several books and publications and is currently preparing a global history of Capitalism. His work “Empire of Cotton: A Global History” (2014) won various awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Beckert co-chairs the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University as well as the

Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH).

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Marc Beise is Head of the Economics and Finance Department at Süddeutsche Zeitung, which he joined in 2007. He started his career as a journalist at the „Offenbach-Post“, where he was responsible for politics, economics and news. Afterwards he worked as chief business editor of the „Handelsblatt“. He studied law and economics in Frankfurt, Lausanne and Tübingen and wrote his PhD thesis on the World Trade Organisation. He has published numerous books and regularly partici- pates in television and radio roundtables, lectures, moderates forums and business events.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian, educator, and commentator on fascism, authoritarian leaders, and propaganda — and the threats these present to democracies. Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York Uni- versity, she is author or editor of six books and contributes regularly to media outlets such as CNN, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.

Her newest book, Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present (Norton,

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2020), examines the authoritarian playbook il- liberal leaders have used for a century, and resistance to it. Her newsletter Lucid offers essays and interviews about abuse of power.

Agnes Binagwaho is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Kigali which she co-founded in 2015. She is a Rwan- dan pediatrician who was the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health as well as the Minister of Health in Rwanda. She currently

serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the WHO, as a senior lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at

VMugenzi Harvard Medical School and as a Professor for Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. In addition to his work at the Max Planck Institute, he is a professor of public law at the Univer- sity of Frankfurt am Main. Von Bogdandy was President of the OECD

Nuclear Energy Court, a member of the Science Council and of the Sci- entific Committee of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. He was awarded various prizes for his scientific achievements, including the

Leibniz Prize, and has held visiting professorships in the US and in Bo-

Nora Bossong is a German writer who writes poems, novels and essays. She studied philosophy and comparative literature in Leipzig and Berlin. For her literary works, Bossong has been awarded the Peter Huchel Prize, the Kunstpreis Berlin, the Roswitha Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize,

among others. Most recently, her novel Schutzzone (2019) was published by Suhrkamp and was longlisted for the German Book Prize in the same year.

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Claudia Buch is Vice-President of Deutsche Bundesbank, a position she has held since 2014. She earned an MBA at the University of Wisconsin and completed her PhD (1996) and habilitation (2002) at Kiel University. From 2004 to 2013, Buch held the chair of economic theory "Interna-

tional Finance and macroeconomics" at Tübingen University. She has served as Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Economic Re- search (IAW) and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal

Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is a historian and the Law- rence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. In his academic work, he questions notions of Eurocentric historicism from

the perspective of postcolonialism and Subaltern Studies. His most re-

cent research focuses on man-made climate change and its conse- quences for historical and political thought and on the notion of histor-

ical truth and its history. His most recent book is The Climate of History

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Robert Chatterjee is deputy editor-in-chief of zenith magazine. He studied history and Islamic studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Chatterjee is co-editor of the "Atlas of the Arab Spring", published by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (2016) and, among other activities, led Candid Foundation’s “Local Libya” project.

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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cam-

bridge, MA. Previously, she worked at the European Policy Center and as international broadcast journalist for CNN. In 2005, she joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and, in 2009, the second New York mayoral administration of Michael Bloomberg. She holds degrees from Harvard, LSE London, and Brown University. She provides expert commentary on

transatlantic relations, EU and U.S. foreign and security policy, German

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Andrea Despot is chairwoman of the board of the Foundation Remem- brance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) since June 2020. With a PhD in

Eastern European History, the political scientist is an expert on history

and society in that region as well as on historical political education and on cultures of remembrance in Europe and their contribution to Euro- pean integration. Prior to her work at the EVZ Foundation, Andrea Des- pot was Director and Managing Member of the Board of the European

Academy Berlin (2017-2020) as well as its Deputy Director / Head of Stud-

Karoline Edtstadler has been Minister for the EU and the Constitution in the Federal Chancel- lery of the Republic of Austria since January 2020. After studying law at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, she first worked as a judge be-

fore holding various positions at the Federal Ministry of Justice. Follow- ing a posting to the European Court of Human Rights, Karoline Edtstadler was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and

BKA/Wenzel from January 2019-2020 headed the delegation of the Austrian People's

Party in the European Parliament as a Member of the European Parlia- ment.

Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor for Literature and Ethnic Studies at the Uni- versity of California, San Diego. Her work on racism in Europe includes a focus on strategies for resistance of racialised communities, especially those mobilising intersectional, queer art practice. She has published three books and numerous essays on the interaction of "race", gender, sexuality and nation (including UnGerman. The Construction of Others in the Post-Migrant Society, in German, 2016). Beyond her academic

K. Vora K. work, she advocates for antiracist, migrant and queer of colour concerns.

Katja Fausser is EUSTORY Programme Director at the History and Poli- tics Department of Körber-Stiftung. As trained historian and political scientist, she focuses on civic education as well as commemoration formats and activities in the field of international dialogue.

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Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Insti- tution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Cen- ter for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. As a columnist he contributes regularly to different international newspapers and media outlets. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Green-

mantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm. His most recent book, The

Square and the Tower (2018) was a New York Times bestseller. His most

recent book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, has just been published.

Gabriele Freitag is a historian, specialising in Eastern Europe, and managing director of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO). Previously, she was a research associate at

the Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen,

and managing director of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation dealt with Jew- ish migration in the early years of the Soviet Union. Since 2015, Gabriele

Freitag is general secretary of the International Council for Central and

Fiona Fritz is a historian and Programme Director at Körber-Stiftung and is responsible for the establishment of the new programme eCom- memoration, facilitating a new transnational understanding of history and memory in the digital age. She previously worked as Research Assis-

tant at Kiel University in a project on the multifunctional construction

of a twelfth-century saint biography funded by the German Research Stiftung - Foundation. From 2018 to 2020, she designed and coordinated interna-

tional historical-political projects as well as digital formats for young Eu-

Christine Gerberding studied German, history and art history in Berlin. From 1991 – 1993, she worked as assistant director at Deutsches Theater Berlin and Schauspiel Frankfurt; from 1994 onwards as author at Axel Springer Publishing and Sender Freies Berlin/Berlin-Brandeburg Broad- casting RBB. In 1999, she joined North German Broadcasting NDR. After

her traineeship, she worked as a freelance writer for ARD, ARTE and

NDR. She re-joined NDR as editor in the Culture and Documentation pro-

gramme and, iIn 2013, took over as editorial director of the "Kulturjour-

Andrew Gilmour is Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation. He served 30 years at the United Nations including positions as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (2016-19) and Political Director in the Office of the Secretary-General (2012-16). Andrew Gilmour holds masters degrees in history and politics from Oxford University and the

London School of Economics. His writing has appeared in numerous publications such as the New York Times and the Financial Times. In

2021, he is visiting fellow at Oxford University, researching links be-

Saskia Handro holds the Chair for Didactics of History at the University of Münster, specialising in historical research in the areas of teaching and learning. Her main research focuses on the communication of history through mass media, historical textbook research, historical understanding of texts, as well as

the history of history teaching. She is a member of numerous commit- e tees, including the Academic Advisory Council for the Leibniz Center for

Contemporary History in Potsdam and the Academic Advisory Board of

Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist and academic with wide-ranging interests, including health, technology, science and contemporary culture. A regular contributor to The Lancet and The Ob-

server, he is the author of five books. Most recently, The Pandemic Cen- tury: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris (2019) was named ‘health book of the year’ by the Financial Times and ‘science book of the year’ by The Times. A former Wellcome Research Fellow, Mark is cur-

rently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at City Univer-

Momodou Malcolm Jallow is a member of the Swedish Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which appointed him General Rapporteur for Combating Racism and Intolerance. He served as vice chair of the European Network Against Racism and founded the Pan African Movement for Justice. Jesse Jackson awarded him the 2018 Global Leadership Award for his advocacy. He has led a landmark campaign against afrophobia, leading to several successful

court cases. In 2016, he received the Community Healer Award for con-

Lina Khatib is the director of the Middle East and North Africa Pro- gramme at Chatham House. She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) London. In her research, she focuses on the international relations of the Middle East, Islamist groups and security, political transitions and foreign policy. Khatib is co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and has published various books and articles on public diplomacy, political communication

and political participation in the Middle East.

Christian Kuchler is Professor for Didactics of History at RWTH Aachen University since 2012, where he also chaired the board of the Teacher Training Center from 2015 to 2019. He previously held positions at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Uni-

versity Regensburg. His research focuses on the efficacy of history teach-

ing, the relevance of visiting memorials in history learning and the use of media in historical-political learning. He has published extensively on

these topics. His most recent publications include “Lernort Auschwitz”

David Leupold is a post-doctoral fellow in the research programme "Representations of the Past as a Mobilising Social Force" at the Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Earning a PhD in 2018 with his work “Bridging Memories in a Contested Geography – Eastern Tur-

key. Western Armenia. Northern Kurdistan”, he has taught at the Uni-

versity of Michigan, Charles University Prague, Humboldt University of Berlin, Eötvös Loránd University as well as Pázamany Pétr Catholic Uni-

versity in Budapest.

Geert Mak is a Dutch journalist, historian and writer. He was editor of NRC Handelsblad for many years and is one of the most important non- fiction authors in the Netherlands. His most important works include Amsterdam (1997), My Father's Century (2003), In Europe (2005). In 2008,

he received the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. for In Europe. His most recent works are The Many Lives of Jan Six (2016) and Great Expectations (2020). Geert Mak lives in Amsterdam and Friesland.

His works have been translated into several languages.

Silvia Merler is head of research for the Algebris Policy & Research Fo- rum and Head of the ESG Committee at Algebris Investments. Silvia has done extensive research on topics of European political economy, with attention to European macro and financial economics issues, political developments, and institutional governance. Before joining Algebris, Sil- via served as Affiliate Fellow at Bruegel and as economic analyst at the European Commission. She holds a BA and MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan and is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington DC.

Tomasz Michaldo is Head of Department Meth- odology of Guiding of the Memorial and Mu- seum Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he is responsible for the development

and coordination of guided tours since 2013 and currently works on the

creation of virtual tours. He is a graduate of history, with specialisation in Jewish studies and Postgraduate Museum Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

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Sabine Michel, born in Dresden, studied filmmaking in Potsdam/Babels- berg. Issues of growing up in the GDR and resulting long-term influences guide her in her work. A Grimme Award winner, she works for cinema, television and theatre - she portrays the actress Corinna Harfouch, the

photographer Sibylle Bergemann and her own generation in "Zonenmädchen". In her widely discussed film "Mondays in Dresden" she accompanies three people joining the anti-Islam, far-right Pegida pro-

tests. Most recently, she published "Die anderen Leben - Genera-

Klaus Mühlhahn is President of Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen since 2020 and former Professor of He obtained his PhD in Chinese Stud- ies at FU Berlin and held various teaching positions at internationally renowned universities. Klaus Mühlhahn has published widely on modern Chinese history and is a frequent commentator on China for the German media. His most recent book “Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping”, published in 2019, tells a story of crisis and

ZU/IljaMess recovery, exploring the versatility and resourcefulness essential for

Jan-Werner Müller is Professor for Politics at Princeton University. He is the co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. Müller is the author of several books and regularly comments on current affairs

for the New York Times and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. In his publications, he has dealt with questions of democratic theory and the history of political ideas in the 20th century. His 2016 book "What is

Populism?" was translated into fifteen languages. The publication De- Werner Müller

- mocracy Rules is forthcoming.

Nora Müller heads the International Affairs De- partment of Körber-Stiftung. From March 2018 to March 2021, she served as Vice President of the Association „Forum de Paris sur la Paix“. From 2004 to 2006, Nora served in the Middle East division of the Federal

Foreign Office. Nora holds a joint Master’s degree in European Studies

from Humboldt-Universität, Freie Universität and Technische Universi- Stiftung - tät Berlin. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the Federal Govern-

ment for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peace Building as well as of the

Sönke Neitzel has held the Chair for Military History / Cultural History of Violence at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam, the only such chair in Germany, since 2015. Previously, he has held various teaching positions in Germany and abroad. His research focuses on military history, modern history of violence, 19th and 20th century interna-

tional history and the history of the German Bundeswehr in international context. His most recent publication is German Warriors. From

the Empire to the Berlin Republic - a Military History (in German, 2020)

Olivette Otele is a Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of en- slavement at the University of Bristol. She is a Fellow and a Vice Presi- dent of the Royal Historical Society. Her areas of research are colonial and post-colonial history and the histories of people of African descent. Professor Otele is a regular contributor to the national and international press, television and radio programmes. Her latest books include a mon- ograph, African Europeans: An Untold History and an edited volume,

Post-Conflict Memorialisation: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies (both

Thomas Paulsen is member of the Executive Board and CFO of Körber- Stiftung, responsible for the areas of History & Politics, International Af- fairs as well as Finances, Administration, and IT. He further serves as Advisory Board member of the Federal Academy for Security Policy. For-

mer positions include senior research fellow at the Center for Applied

Policy Research, Munich; visiting professor at the Institute for European Stiftung - Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; analyst at HypoVereinsbank AG,

Munich and senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He holds a PhD

Shalini Randeria is Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Grad- uate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Ge-

neva, where she is also the Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. In addition to these positions, she holds national and international distinguished chair and fellowship positions. Her fields of research include the anthropology of law, of globalisation and develop-

Klaus Ranger/IWM Klaus ment, as well as the anthropology of state and public policy, mainly with

Ariane Reimers is an NDR/ ARD journalist and correspondent. She studied history, political science and journalism in Hamburg and Buenos Aires and completed a traineeship at NDR. From 2006 to 2008, Reimers was a freelance correspondent in the ARD studio in Singapore. After two years as an editor for Tagesthemen, she reported for five years as ARD correspondent from Beijing. She then worked at the ARD studio Berlin, before taking up a temporary research stay at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in January 2021 in the course of a sabbatical.

Andreas Rinke is Chief Correspondent of Thomson Reuters news agency in Berlin. He studied history and politics in Hanover, London and Paris and has worked as a journalist since 1986. After working for various newspapers, he joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 and has since reported from Berlin as Chief Correspondent and Team Leader Politics. Rinke's focus is on international politics and foreign policy. He has ob- served and analysed the policies of the Federal Chancellery and Angela

Merkel for many years and is the author of several publications, most Staff Reuters Staff

Marietje Schaake is the international policy director at Stanford Univer- sity’s Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. From 2009 to 2019,

Schaake served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party and focused on trade, foreign affairs and technology policies. In 2017, Politico listed her as one of the 28 most influ- ential Europeans. Schaake is also President of the Cyber Peace Institute

StanfordUniversity in Geneva.

Olga Shparaga is a philosopher and lecturer at the European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (ECLAB), which she co-

founded in 2014. She has taught and researched at universities and scientific centres in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Ger- many and the USA. Shparaga is the author of two books, the most recent of which will be published in German in May 2021 (The revolution has a female face – the case of Belarus). Shparaga is a member of the Coor-

dination Council, the political body of the opposition to Belarusian Pres-

Quinn Slobodian is an Associate Professor of History at Wellesley Col- lege in Massachusetts. He researches the history of modern Germany as well as international history with a focus on North-South politics, social movements, and the intellectual history of neoliberalism. He is the author and editor of several articles and books, including Globalists: The

End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018). Slobodian has received fellowships from different institutions, including a residential fel-

lowship at Harvard University.

Constanze Stelzenmüller holds the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. She joined Brookings in 2014 and, starting 2019, held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress. Before, she was with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) as well as the German weekly DIE ZEIT. Having studied in Bonn and Harvard, her areas of expertise include transatlantic relations and NATO, German

and European foreign, security, and defence policies as well as interna-

Sven Stockrahm is head of the Science desk at ZEIT ONLINE and editor of Health and Digital. A trained science journalist, he is also a podcast host and book author. His work and that of his team have received several awards. Up-to-date, close to everyday life and based on evidence:

This is what distinguishes the reporting for which Stockrahm is re-

sponsible and which is renowned for multimedia storytelling and data

journalism. ZEIT ONLINE is one of the major providers of sophisticated

ZEIT ONLINEZEIT journalism and reaches more than 15 million readers every month.

Christine Strotmann is Programme Manager at the History and Politics Department of Körber-Stiftung. She graduated in History from Trinity College Dublin and Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to joining the Körber-Stiftung in 2018, she was a freelance historian, re-

searcher and journalist.

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Alexander Stubb is Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, Florence. Between 2008 and 2016, he served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland. He was a Member of the European (2004-

2008) and Finnish Parliament (2011-2017), Chairman of the Finnish Na- tional Coalition Party (2014-2016) and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (2017-2020). He holds degrees in international rela-

tions, EU administration and political science and has authored numer-

Jamie Susskind is a British barrister and author of the the award-win- ning bestseller “Future Politics: Living Together in a World Trans- formed by Tech”, which received the Estoril Global Issues Distin- guished Book Prize. He has held fellowships at Cambridge and Harvard

Universities as well as the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He writes and speaks around the world about technology, politics and law.

Justin Vaïsse is the founder and director-general of the Paris Peace Fo- rum. He previously led the Centre for Analysis, Planning and Strategy at

the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2013-2019. He served as Di-

rector of Research at the Brookings Institution in Washington, where he

focused on transatlantic relations and European foreign policy. A histo- 'Europe et des Affaires 'Europe

Quai d'OrsayQuai rian with a focus on international relations and American foreign policy,

- he has held teaching positions at Science Po School of International Af-

fairs, Paris, and at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Charlie Weller is Head of the Vaccines Priority Area at Wellcome with a focus on development of new and improved vaccines as well as strengthening the connection between research and decision making to ensure better use of vaccines. The team has a major

focus on epidemics and pandemics with Wellcome being a founder of CEPI. Charlie joined Wellcome in 2014 and has over 16 years of research experience in both in both academic and pharmaceutical environments,

holds a BSc in Genetics at Birmingham University, and a PhD in Immu-

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Almut Wieland-Karimi is the Executive Director of the Centre for In- ternational Peace Operations (ZIF) since 2009. Prior to joining ZIF, she

worked for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in various countries and

positions. In 2002, she set up the FES country office in Kabul/ Afghani- stan. She is Advisory Board member of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), of the Federal Academy for Security Policy, of the German Armed Forces Command & Staff College and of

HedrichMattescheck Stiftung Mercator. Wieland-Karimi holds a Master's degree and a PhD in

Gabriele Woidelko is Head of the History and Politics Department at Körber-Stiftung and Programme Director of the Körber History Forum. A historian, Slavist and Turkologist by training, she initially worked as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg before joining Körber-Stiftung in

1996. At Körber, she has held positions as Executive Director of the Eu-

ropean History Network EUSTORY as well as Programme Director of Fu- Stiftung - tureLab Europe and other European activities, including the Focus on

“Russia in Europe”.

Andreas Zick is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) and Professor for Socialisation and Con-

flict Research at Bielefeld University. He is a member of the research

association of the German Centre for Integration and Migration (DeZIM). Zick has taught at the universities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Dresden, Jena and Wuppertal. His main national and international research interests include prejudice, discrimination, radicalisation and acculturation.

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