Quinn Slobodian
Department of History (781) 283-2626 (office) Wellesley College [email protected] 106 Central St. wellesley.academia.edu/QuinnSlobodian Wellesley, MA 02481 @zeithistoriker
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College, (2015-present)
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, History, (2017-2018)
Visiting Scholar
University of Hong Kong (2017) University of Bologna (2015) Harvard University (2011)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University Berlin, (2013-2014)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College, (2008-2015)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, New York University (2008) B.A., History, Lewis & Clark College (2000)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
How to Break the World: A History of Capitalism without Democracy. Under contract with Metropolitan Books (North America), Penguin Books (UK), De Seuil (France), Suhrkamp (Germany), Einaudi (Italy), Paidos (Spain), Companhia des Letras (Brazil). In preparation.
Market Prophets from the Margins: Neoliberals East and South. eds. Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe. Under contract with Near Futures series on Zone Books. In preparation.
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, eds. Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski. New York: Verso, forthcoming 2020.
CV version: February 2020
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). Translations with Suhrkamp (Germany), De Seuil (France) and Vakif Pazarlama (Turkey).
Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, ed. Quinn Slobodian (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015).
Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012).
Journal Articles
“World Maps for the Debt Paradigm: Risk Ranking the Poorer Nations in the 1970s,” Critical Historical Studies. Accepted. In production.
“Anti-68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right,” Cultural Politics. Special Issue on the Legacies of 1968. Accepted. In production.
“New Histories of Capitalism: A Comment” Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 4 (2019): 522-526.
“Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration, and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism,” Contemporary European History, Vol. 28, No. 2. (2019): 143-155.
“Germany’s 1968 and its Enemies,” American Historical Review, Vol. 123, No. 3, (2018): 749-752.
Dieter Plehwe and Quinn Slobodian, “Landscapes of Unrest: Herbert Giersch and the Origins of Neoliberal Economic Geography,” Modern Intellectual History, (2017): 1-31.
Leigh Claire La Berge and Quinn Slobodian, “Reading for Neoliberalism, Reading like Neoliberals” American Literary History (2017): 1-13. doi: 10.1093/alh/ajx016.
“The Maoist Enemy: China’s Challenge in 1960s East Germany,” Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 51, No. 3 (2016): 635-659.
“How to See the World Economy: Statistics, Maps and Schumpeter’s Camera in the First Age of Globalization,” Journal of Global History, Vol. 10 (2015): 307-332.
“Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles: West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam,” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Vol. 12 (2015): 27 pp.
“The Opaque State: Surveillance and Deportation in the Bundesrepublik,” German Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, (2015): 393-405.
“The Axe of the Event: In and Out of the Echo Chamber of West Germany’s 1968,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, Vol. 7, No. 2, (2014): 178-183.
“The World Economy and the Color Line: Wilhelm Röpke, Apartheid and the White Atlantic,” German Historical Institute Bulletin Supplement, No. 10 (2014): 61-87.
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“Bandung in Divided Germany: Managing Non-Aligned Politics in East and West, 1955-1963,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 41, No. 4, (2013): 644–662.
“The Borders of the Rechtsstaat in the Arab Autumn: Deportation and Law in West Germany, 1972/1973,” German History, Vol. 31, No. 2, (2013): 204-224.
“Jurisdiction Leap, Political Drain, and Other Dangers of Transnational History.” Editor’s Forum: The Practices of Transnational Studies. New Global Studies (2010): Vol. 4: Iss.1, Article 5
Book Chapters
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Neoliberals against Europe” Neoliberal Remains: Market Rule and Political Ruptures. William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. In production.
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Introduction” Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, eds. New York: Verso. In production.
“The Law of the Sea of Ignorance: F. A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup and other Neoliberals Confront the Intellectual Property Problem” Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, eds. New York: Verso. In production.
“China is not Far! Alternative Internationalism and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 East Germany” Alternative Encounters: The Second World and the Global South. James Mark, Steffi Marung and Artemy Kalinovsky, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. In production.
“The Meanings of Western Maoism in the Global 1960s” Routledge Handbook of the Global 1960s: Between Protest and Nation-Building. Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen, eds. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018. pp. 67-78.
James Mark and Quinn Slobodian, “Eastern Europe in the Global History of Decolonization” The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire. Martin Thomas and Andrew Thompson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism and the Racial Rainbow in East Germany” Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World. Quinn Slobodian, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2015. pp. 23-39.
“The Uses of Disorientation: Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFA-China Documentary” Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World. Quinn Slobodian, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2015. pp. 220-242.
“»Wir sind Brüder, sagt der Film«: China im Dokumentarfilm der DDR und das Scheitern der politischen Metapher der Brüderlichkeit” Das Imaginäre des Kalten Krieges. Sibylle Marti and David Eugster, eds., Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2015. pp. 45-68.
“Badge Books and Brand Books: The ‘Mao Bible’ in the Two Germanies” Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History. Alexander Cook, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. pp. 206-224.
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“Citizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo’s Claim on East German Memory” Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies. Veronika Fuechtner and Mary Rhiel, eds. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. pp. 34-49.
“Policing the Fairy Tale: Iranian Dissent in the West German Public Sphere, 1955-1965.” ZeitRäume. Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung 2011. Frank Bösch and Martin Sabrow, eds. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012. pp. 159-173.
“What Does Democracy Look Like (and Why Would Anyone Want to Buy it)?: Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth Festivals” Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies. Thomas Lindenberger, Annette Vowinckel and Bernd Stöver, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2011. pp. 254-75.
“Corpse Polemics: The Third World and the Politics of Gore in 1960s West Germany” Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1958-2008. Timothy S. Brown and Lorena Anton eds. New York: Berghahn, 2011. pp. 58-73.
“West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold War” Divided But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War. Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Haucht and Andrew Plowman, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2010. pp. 77-89.
“Dissident Guests: Afro-Asian Students and Transnational Activism in the West German Protest Movement” Migration and Activism in Europe Since 1945. Wendy Pojmann, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2008. pp 33-56.
Magazine Articles and Commentary
“When the Green New Deal Goes Global,” Foreign Policy (Winter 2020)
“Colossus wears Tweed,” Dissent (Winter 2020)
“Sie wollten bloß eine andere Globalisierung,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 1, 2019
“20 years after Seattle, the Clash of Globalizations Rages on,” The Nation, November 29, 2019
“Democracy doesn’t matter to the Defenders of ‘Economic Freedom’” The Guardian, November, 11, 2019. Translated into German, Turkish, and Portuguese.
“The False Promise of Enlightenment,” Boston Review (Summer 2019)
“No More Lifeboats,” Dissent (Summer 2019), 17-19
(with William Callison) “Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany,” Dissent (Summer 2019), 41-47
(with Alexander Kentikelenis) “Everyone Claims They’re Worried About Global Finance. But Only One Side has a Plan,” New York Times, July 25, 2019
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“Europe’s Far Right is Joining Forces with Libertarian Climate Deniers,” New Statesman, May 17, 2019
“Why is the Far Right Obsessed with Gold?” New Statesman, March 6, 2019
“The Rise of the Right-Wing Globalists,” New Statesman, February 1, 2019
“Trump, Populists and the Rise of Right-Wing Globalization,” New York Times, October 22, 2018
“You live in Robert Lighthizer’s World Now,” Foreign Policy blog, August 6, 2018
(with Dieter Plehwe) “The Neoliberals Who Opposed Europe,” Brave New Europe blog
(with Stuart Schrader) “The White Man Unburdened,” The Baffler, no. 40 (Jul/Aug 2018), 114-125
“The Globalization of the IQ Wars,” Jacobin blog, April 24, 2018
“Making Sense of Neoliberalism,” Harvard University Press Blog, March 16, 2018
“Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards,” Public Seminar Blog, February 15, 2018 (Reposted on Monthly Review Online Blog, February 18, 2018) (Reposted in French translation with AOC)
“Against the Neoliberalism Taboo,” Focaal Blog, January 12, 2018 (Reposted on Verso Blog, January 23, 2018)
“Scales of Economy,” Conference Report, H-Soz-Kult, January 9, 2017
“Friedrich Hayek and the Void-oids,” The Baffler Blog, June 23, 2015
“When Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall Moment,” Africa is a Country, May 29, 2015
“How the World Economy Became Natural,” WZB Mitteilungen, no. 146. (December 2014) pp. 68-9
“After the Wall,” The Baffler Blog, November 20, 2014
(with Michelle Sterling) “Sacking Berlin,” The Baffler, no. 23. (August 2013) pp. 138-146 In German translation: “Es sind gar nicht die Hipster, Dummkopf!” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 2, 2013 In Polish translation: “Plądrując Berlin” Res Publica Nowa, December 2013 In Portuguese translation: “Saqueando Berlim,” Revista Serrote, January 2014
Artwork and Art Texts
“Neoliberal Economics and the Disfigurement of the Third World,” Parapolitics exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin exhibition catalogue
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“Walls of the WTO” (film made with Ryan Jeffery) Say Shibboleth! An Essay about Borders exhibition, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Switzerland, April-November 2018 and Munich Jewish Museum, April-November 2019
“Into the Macrocosm of the World Economy” Say Shibboleth! An Essay about Borders exhibition catalogue.
“Can you be in Solidarity with a Dead Body? African Students in West Germany’s 1968,” Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Distant Observer exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin
“Archive as Armory: The Work of Monica Rodriguez,” California Institute of the Arts Senior Catalogue
Interviews
“Hayek fand, die Wirtschaft übersteige unser Vorstellungsvermögen,” NZZ Geschichte, (Winter 2020)
“From neoliberal globalism to neoliberal nationalism: An interview with Quinn Slobodian,” ephemera 19(3) (2019): 641-649.
“Wir erleben die grösste Spaltung im neoliberalen Lager seit Jahrzehnten,” WOZ, Die Wochenzeitung, December 12, 2019
“Sie glauben an die Ungleichheit der Menschen,” Der Freitag, July 25, 2019
“Tapping into the Unrealized Futures of the Past: Quinn Slobodian with Pavlos Roufos,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2018
“Ende der Neunziger kamen Neoliberale auf die Idee, die EU sei von Sozialisten übernommen worden,” Jungle World, September 27, 2018
“A mais eficiente crítica ao globalismo neoliberal não veio da esquerda mas da direita: Entrevista Quinn Slobodian" Il Publico, September 2, 2018
Online
“El anarquismo de derecha,” Brecha, February 7, 2020
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“Für Neoliberale ist Demokratie in Ordnung – solange sie nicht bestimmte Grenzen überschreitet,” Krautreporter.de, December 5, 2019
“Neoliberalen willen dat de staat de economie tegen massademocratie beschernt,” Follow the Money, August 8, 2019
"Desde su origen, el neoliberalismo responde a la pregunta de cómo proteger el capitalismo de la democracia," eldiario.es, April 4, 2019
“Quinn Slobodian: «Le néolibéralisme est travaillé par un conflit interne»” Mediapart, March 10, 2019
“Global Histories of Neoliberalism,” Toynbee Prize Fellowship, March 2018
“Anti-impérialisme et antiracisme en Allemagnes: entretien avec Quinn Slobodian” Contretemps
Podcasts, Radio, Television
Slobodians “Globalisten,” Kulturzeit 3Sat/ZDF television, December 4, 2019
Left Business Observer with Doug Henwood podcast, November 15, 2019
Polittinen Talous Podcast, October 27, 2019
Politics Theory Other podcast, September 30, 2019
(with Adom Getachew) New Dawn podcast, September 18, 2019
The Neoliberal Podcast, August 20, 2019
Novara Media, June 7, 2019
Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, June 6, 2019
“Who is the Neoliberal Shill of the Year?” Planet Money, NPR, March 1, 2019
Left Business Observer with Doug Henwood podcast, January 10, 2019
Michael Brooks Show podcast, December 9, 2018
Background Briefing with Ian Masters, KPFK 90.7, December 5, 2018
“The Great Unraveling Episode 5: Trade and China,” The Compass, BBC World Service, December 2, 2018
“The Great Unraveling Episode 4: Trade and Trump,” The Compass, BBC World Service, November 25, 2018
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Jacobin’s The Dig podcast, November 14, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School Business & Government Seminar podcast, November 8 2018
Brown University Watson Institute podcast, September 26, 2018
New Books in Intellectual History podcast, September 18, 2018
Majority Report podcast, August 31, 2018
Entitled Opinions podcast, May 30, 2018
Book Reviews
“The Poverty of Globalism,” Review of Or Rosenboim, The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Journal of Politics, Religion, and Ideology. Vol. 20, No. 2 (2019): 249-51.
Niklas Olsen, The Sovereign Consumer: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Global Intellectual History. doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2019.1576092.
Nicholas J. Schlosser, Cold War on the Airwaves. The Radio Propaganda War against East Germany. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Journal of Military History. Vol. 82, No. 1 (2018): 307-8
Mathilde von Bülow, West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2016. German History. Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar 2018): 152-4.
Stefan Buchen, Die neuen Staatsfeinde. Wie die Helfer syrischer Kriegsflüchtlinge in Deutschland kriminalisiert werden. Bonn: Dietz, 2014. German Studies Review 40 (2) (May 2017): 482-3.
Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. H-Soz-und-Kult. May 5, 2017.
Young Sun Hong, Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. German History 34 (2) (June 2016): 363-5.
Alexander Sedlmaier, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold War West Germany. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Central European History 48 (3) (September 2015): 448-450.
Jan-Otmar Hesse, Roman Köster, and Werner Plumpe, Die Große Depression. Die Weltwirtschaftskrise, 1929-1939. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2014. H-Soz-und-Kult. Jun 25, 2015.
H. Glenn Penny, Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Journal of American History 101 (1) (June 2014): 288-289.
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Karrin Hanshew, Terror and Democracy in West Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Central European History 46(3) (September 2013): 688-690.
Clare Bielby, Violent Women in Print: Representations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970s. Suffolk: Camden House. 2012. German History (2013).
Belinda Davis, Wilfred Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall, eds. Changing the world, changing oneself: political protest and collective identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. Political Studies Review 10(1) (January 2012): 121.
Martin Klimke. The other alliance: student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global sixties. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. German Studies Review 34(3) (October 2011): 673-74.
Karin Bauer, ed. Everybody talks about the weather--we don't: the writings of Ulrike Meinhof. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008. The Platypus Review 31 (January 2011): 2-4.
Rita Chin. The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Canadian Journal of History. 44(2) (Autumn 2009): 326-28.
“The Difficulties of Becoming Vietnamese.” Review of Heinz Schütte. Zwischen den Fronten: Deutsche und österreichische Überläufer zum Viet Minh. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2006. H-German. September 2009.
Robert P. Stephens. Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture 2(1) (June 2009): 134-36.
“Counting as Crime.” Review of Götz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth. The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. H-German. September 2005.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS
George Louis Beer Book Prize for European International History, American Historical Association for Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, 2020.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars to support “Tying Ulysses to the Mast: International Economic Law and the Bonds of Globalization” in residence at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Total award: $102,500, 2017-2018.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship to support “Tie Ulysses to the Mast: The Rise of International Economic Law.” Total award: $29,400, January-September 2017.
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Re-Invitation Grant to support “Tie Ulysses to the Mast: The Rise of International Economic Law.” Total award: €2,150, May 2017.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support “The Discipline of the World Economy: Émigrés against the Global New Deal, 1936-1980” in residence at Dahlem Humanities Center, Free University Berlin. Total award: €54,800, 2013- 2014.
DAAD Faculty Research Grant to support “Mao in the Two Germanies,” Summer 2012.
Leibniz Research Fellowship to support “Mao in the Two Germanies,” Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, Summer 2011.
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2008.
Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship to support “Radical Empathy: Third World Politics in 1960s and 1970s West Germany,” Dalhousie University (declined), 2008.
DAAD Graduate Research Grant to support “The Economic Imaginaries of Cold War Capitalism: Social Democracy and Neoliberalism in 1960s West German Development Policy,” 2005-6.
Penfield Fellowship for Studies in Diplomacy, International Affairs and Belles-Lettres, New York University (declined), 2005-6.
Canadian International Development Agency and Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Student Essay Prize for “Bretton Woods versus Bandung: Competing Economic Imaginaries and the Question of History,” 2005.
INVITED LECTURES
“Authoritarian Capitalism in the Zone,” Keynote lecture, Ashby Dialogues, UNC-Greensboro, April 20, 2020
“Panel Talk: Economic Theories and the Public after Neoliberalism,” INET Plenary Conference, Washington, DC, April 15, 2020
“Panel Talk: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: What Comes Next?” National Press Club, Washington, DC, January 15, 2020
“What is Neoliberalism?” Brandeis University, November 20, 2019
“Distressed Neoliberalism,” Chet Miller Memorial Lecture, Carleton University, November 19, 2019
“Distressed Neoliberalism,” Keynote lecture, Liberalism – Historical and Contemporary Variations, University of Helsinki, October 24, 2019
“Elite Losers,” Harvard Law School, October 10, 2019
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“Hayek’s Bastards: The Fracturing of Neoliberal Globalism,” Georgetown University, October 8, 2019
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” European Central Bank, Frankfurt, June 27, 2019
“Two, Three, Many Hong Kongs,” Keynote lecture, History of Economics Society Annual Meeting, Columbia University, June 21, 2019
“Milton Friedman’s Colony: How Neoliberals Made Hong Kong the Measure of the World,” Freie Universität Berlin Global History Seminar, June 17, 2019
“Neoliberal Globalism and the Backlash from Within,” Brave New Europe lecture series, Berlin, June 13, 2019
“Hayek’s Bastards,” Goldsmiths College, June 6, 2019
“Shatter the Map: How Milton Friedman and other Neoliberals Imagined a World after Nations,” Oxford University, June 5, 2019
“White Supremacy and the Neoliberals: Late Apartheid South Africa as Libertarian Laboratory,” Global Intellectual History seminar, Cambridge University, June 4, 2019
“Metal Morality: Gold Bugs and Monetary Extremism on the German Far Right,” Bank of England Seminar, June 4, 2019
“After Globalism, Exitism?” Northwestern University, May 16, 2019
“The Romance of the Zone: How Milton Friedman and Other Neoliberals Rediscovered Capitalism Without Democracy,” University of Chicago, May 15, 2019
“The End of Neoliberal Globalism?” Yale Law School, April 15, 2019
“The History and Future of Neoliberal Globalism,” Dale Somers Memorial Lecture, Georgia State University, April 3, 2019
“Zoneism: Capitalism without Democracy as the Other End of History,” History & Politics Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 28, 2019
“Separate but Global: The Capitalist Futurism of the Right-Wing Backlash,” Global History/Modern European History Workshop, Princeton University, February 21, 2019
“Homeland Capitalism: Rogue Neoliberals and the Far Right after Cold War’s End,” Rutgers University, February 20, 2019
“From the End of Empire to the End of Neoliberalism?: The Alt-Globalization of the Right-Wing Backlash,” Community Conversation Lecture, Rhodes College, February 19, 2010
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“The World Economy must be Defended: Neoliberal Globalism as Intellectual History,” Harvard Kennedy School, November 8, 2018
“Open Versus Closed—or Alternative Globalization from the Right?” The Commonwealth School, October 4, 2018
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” Watson Institute, Brown University, September 26, 2018
“Inegalitarians: How the Alt Right Emerged within not against Neoliberalism,” Intellectual History Workshop, New York University, September 21, 2018
Public Event (with Adam Tooze) organized by Dissent, Verso Books, New York, September 20, 2018
“Closed Borders, Cognitive Capital: Xenophobic Neoliberals and their Categories,” Hamburg Institute for Social Research, August 8, 2018
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” University of Rostock, July 13, 2018
“Volk Capital: The Moral Economy of Xenophobic Libertarianism from Hayek to the AfD,” Max Planck Institute for History of Emotions, Berlin, July 10, 2018
“Author Meets Critics Panel: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” University of Copenhagen, June 18, 2018
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” History of Political Thought Workshop, Stanford University, May 23, 2018
“Racial Science against the Welfare State: Richard Lynn, Charles Murray, Thilo Sarrazin,” Modern Europe Colloquium, Yale University, April 16, 2018
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” American University of Paris, April 3, 2018
“Author Meets Critics Panel: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” Harvard University, March 29, 2018
“Book Talk: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, March 2, 2018
“Racial Science against the Welfare State: Richard Lynn, Charles Murray, Thilo Sarrazin,” History of Political Economy Workshop, Duke University, February 16, 2018
“The Road to the Alt Right: How Race and Culture Split the Neoliberal Movement,” Université de Montréal, November 23, 2017
“World Scanners: How Finance Remade the Rule of Law after the 1970s,” History Department Colloquium, Portland State University, November 3, 2017
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“The Road to the Alt Right: How Race and Culture Split the Neoliberal Movement,” Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar, Harvard University, October 16, 2017
“A Brief History of Neoliberal Problems: How Race Theory Spawned the Alt Right,” New Directions in European History Colloquium, Harvard University, September 21, 2017
“Ordoglobalism: The Invention of International Economic Law,” Global Constitutionalism Colloquium, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, June 5, 2017
“The Law of the Sea of Ignorance: F. A. Hayek and the Neoliberals Confront the Intellectual Property Problem,” ZZF Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, May 18, 2017
“How to Build an Austerity Zone: Milton Friedman and the Neoliberals Design a Portable Hong Kong in the 1980s,” Cambridge University, May 9, 2017
“Milton Friedman’s Colony: How Neoliberals made Hong Kong the Measure of the World,” University of Hong Kong, March 2, 2017
“A World Economy of Signals: F. A. Hayek, Cybernetic Legalism, and the Intellectual Origins of the WTO,” Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, National Humanities Center, December 11, 2016
“Ordoglobalism: The Invention of International Economic Law and the End of the Third World Project,” Harvard Business School, October 20, 2016
“Still the Good Germany? Deportation, Surveillance, and New Narratives of Postwar History,” Bowdoin College, October 12, 2016
Keynote: “Let the World Economy Rule: How Neoliberals Imagined a World After Empire,” Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Young Scholars Initiative. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, July 14, 2015
“An Introduction to the Intellectual History of Neoliberal Globalization,” University of Bologna, May 19, 2015
“The Laboratory of the World Economy: Globalization Theory around 1900,” CERN Geneva, April 15, 2014
“Is the World Economy Metaphor or Reality? Debates in Germany and Austria, 1870-1914,” Ruhr- Universität Bochum, November 20, 2013
“’Die Weltwirtschaft ist ein Neues’: Debating the World Economy in Turn-of-the-Century Germany,” Humboldt Universität Berlin, May 23, 2012
“Critique of Peace: The Chinese Challenge in 1960s East Germany.” Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi (India), February 22, 2012
“The World Economic Imaginary in Fin-de-Siècle Germany.” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 30, 2011
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“’Do Not Fear Death’: The Chinese Challenge in 1960s East Germany.” ZZF Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, June 30, 2011
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
“Pepe von Mises: How One Strain of Austrian Economics Joined the Alt Right,” Mises Workshop, ZZF Potsdam, June 24, 2019
“Exit Fantasies: Global Gold Bugs and the Rise of the German Far Right,” The Politics of Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, March 22, 2019
“Metal Morality: Gold Bugs and Monetary Extremism on the German Far Right,” Money as a Democratic Medium Conference, December 15, 2018
“The Hegemony of Finance,” Public event organized by Ministry of Ideas with Michel Feher, Harvard Divinity School, October 22, 2018
“Germany’s 1968 and its Enemies,” The Legacy of 1968, Harvard University, October 5, 2018
“A Camera, Not a Map: Competing Optics of World Capitalism around 1900,” From Models to Monsters: Representing the World Economy and its Discontents, Leuphana University Lüneberg, July 3, 2018
“White Supremacy and the Neoliberals: South Africa as Laboratory and Limit Case,” Global Neoliberalisms: Lost and Found in Translation, British Academy, London, June 8, 2018
“Neoliberalism’s Populist Children,” Histories’ Modern Visions: A Colloquium in Honor of Molly Nolan, NYU Berlin, June 1, 2018
“From New Skin to Volk Capital: Germany’s 1968 and its Enemies,” Global 1968 Workshop, Stanford University, May 25, 2018
“Anti-68ers: Right-Libertarians and the Long March against Human Equality,” 1968 – The Global and the Local, Georgetown University, March 23, 2018
“The Ayatollah’s Stepchildren: The Rise of Political Risk Analysis and the Revenge of the Extra- Economic,” United States and Global Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, Fordham University, March, 2018
“IQ-Centrism and the Far Right: Charles Murray and other New Fusionists,” Charles Murray and the Alt Right as History, Harvard University, January 31, 2018
“The Scanned Sovereigns: How Country Risk became the Rule of Law,” History of Economics as History of Science workshop. École Normale Supérieure Cachan, June 23, 2017
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“Statistico-Skepticism: How Neoliberals Rejected Numbers for Politics in the 1930s,” Information, Competition and Legitimation: On the Relevance of International Economic Statistics in the 20th Century, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, June 10, 2017
“Ordoglobalism: The Invention of International Economic Law,” Scales of Economy, University of Sydney, July 28, 2016
“The Road to Earthdom: Putting the World Back into the Intellectual History of Neoliberalism,” More Roads from Mont Pèlerin – Neoliberalism Studies. WZB Berlin Social Science Center, March 20, 2016
“Maoism in the Global 1960s,” Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties, NYU Shanghai, March 13, 2016
Globalization during the Cold War: Culture, New Geopolitics and Che Guevara, WeberWorldCafé. Max Weber Stiftung/Forum Transregionale Studien. Leipzig, November 16, 2015
“Neoliberal Geographic: The World Economy against the Nation from Bernhard Harms to Herbert Giersch,” Alternative Global Geographies, GWZO Leipzig, November 13, 2015
“A World Economy of Information: Machlup Thinks Stocks and Flows of Human Thought in the 1970s,” US Intellectual History conference, Washington, DC, October 18, 2015
“Get your System out of my World: Concept Work in Economic History,” Theory and Empiricism: Approaches to History between Description and Abstraction, University of Basel, October 8-9, 2015
“Icons, Line Graphs and the World Economy's Unconscious: Friedrich Hayek Versus Otto Neurath in 1930s Vienna,” Presenter and organizer on panel on “The World Economy Graphic,” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 4, 2015
“Comrades of Color: Socialist Chromatism, the Racial Rainbow and East Germany’s Cold War World,” Writing and Screening Socialisms in an Entangled World, Universität Tübingen, July 3, 2015
“The Habsburg Empire as a Model for the World Economy: Mises in Vienna and the Origins of Neoliberalism,” Epistemologies of In-Betweenness: East Central Europe and the World History of Social Science, 1890-1945, Institut für Ost- und Südeuropaforschung Regensburg, May 30, 2015
“World Federation against the Welfare State: Hayek and Röpke Think Global before 1945,” Economic Thought of Cambridge, Oxford, LSE and the Transformation of the Welfare State, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, March 21, 2015
“Hate and Rainbows: Race Repertoires in the GDR,” Alternative Encounters: The ‘Second World’ and the ‘Global South,’ 1945-1990s, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, November 3, 2014
“The Nest and the Camp: Foreignness and Visibility in Germany,” Presenter on panel on “Surveillance and German Studies (1): Violence, Xenophobia and Privacy.” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO. September 19, 2014
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“The Empire of the World Economy: How Mises and Hayek’s Circle Started with the Whole Earth,” Convener and speaker of The Concept of the World Economy: Intellectual Histories, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, May 30, 2014
(with James Mark and Malgorzata Mazurek), “The End of Empire and the Rhetoric of Liberation in State Socialist Eastern Europe 1955-1990,” The Rhetoric of Empire: Imperial Discourse and the Language of Colonial Conflict, University of Exeter, May 23, 2014
“Eurafrica versus the World Economy: Decolonization and the Dialectics of Free Trade Talk,” Visions of European Unity across the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1920s-1970s, Remarque Institute, New York University, March 1, 2014
“Anti-Planning at the End of Empire: Bonn, Robbins, Hayek,” Social Planning in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Societies (1920s-1960s), German Historical Institute London, May 30-31, 2013
Invited faculty participant. Inventing the Economy: A Workshop, Yale University, April 5-6, 2013
“What was die Weltwirtschaft in Turn-of-the-Century Germany and Austria?” The Intellectual Foundations of Global Commerce and Communication (Globale Vorstellungen von Weltverkehr, 1860-1930), Harvard University, March 28-29, 2013
“League of Nations Economics in the Bandung Era: Haberler, Meade, Tinbergen, and the 1958 GATT Report,” From the League of Nations to the United Nations, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 21-23, 2013
“The Afro-Asian Decade in East and West Germany, 1955-1965.” Deutsche Regime. Kulturen des Verwaltens und Herrschens in kolonialen und postkolonialen Kontexten, Gut Siggen, Germany, November 2-4, 2012
“The Little Red Book in Cold War German.” Organizer and presenter on panel on Asian German Studies (3): Mao Cultures in the Cold War Germanies. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 5, 2012
“Feminist Third Worldism in 1970s West Germany,” German Studies between the Global and the Local, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 25, 2012
“Against the Global New Deal: Competing World Economic Imaginaries in the Age of Development.” More Atlantic Crossings? Europe’s Role in an Entangled History of the Atlantic World, 1950s-1970s, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2012
“Red Flowers, Blue Ants, Yellow Peril: The Colors of Chinese Communism in the Cold War Germanies.” Kultur des Kalten Krieges, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, May 30, 2012
“Investigative Internationalism: The Distant Doubles of the West German Women’s Movement, 1968-1981.” Solidarities that Know No Boundaries: Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective, Northumbria University, UK, April 1, 2012
“Badge Books and Brand Books: The ‘Mao Bible’ in the Two Germanies.” Little Red Book: A Global History of Quotations from Chairman Mao, University of California, Berkeley, October 21, 2011
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“The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in East Germany.” Presenter on panel on The GDR and Responses to the World around it. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 22, 2011
“Bandung in Germany: Postcolonial Education Migrations in East and West.” German Post-/Colonial History in a Global Age, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, September 16, 2011
“How to Deport an Arab: Administration and Terror in 1972 West Germany.” ZZF Wandel des Politischen Annual Workshop. Einstein Sommerhaus, Germany, June 28, 2011
“Verwaltung vs. Verfassung: Politics against Deportation in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.” Presenter on panel on World Republics? FRG and GDR Interactions with the ‘Global South,’ 1960-1975. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010
“Deportation as a Technique of Government: West Germany after the Munich Attack.” Transnational Studies Initiative workshop, Harvard University, October 6, 2010
“How to Deport an Arab: Administration and Terror in 1972 West Germany.” Co-organizer and presenter on panel on Outsiders in ‘New’ Democracies: Postwar Limits on Tolerance. Conference of the Council for European Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 16, 2010
“Jurisdiction Leap, Political Drain and other Dangers of Transnational History.” The Practices of Transnational Studies: The State of the Field, Tufts University, March 31, 2010
“’Women are the Negroes of All Nations’?: Locating Feminism and Internationalism on the West German New Left.” Co-organizer and presenter on panel on Feminism and Internationalism in the Wake of 1968. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 8, 2009
“Radical Empathy: Third World Politics in 1960s West Germany.” Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, August 21, 2008
“The Proximate Third World: African and Asian Students on the West German New Left.” Panel on Unsettling Isolation: Transnational Cultural and Political Production. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, Oct 6, 2007
“Can the Projection Screen Speak? Third World Student Activism in the West German Protest Movement.” New World Coming - The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Queen’s University, Canada, June 13, 2007
“What Does Democracy Look Like (and Why Would Anyone Want to Buy it)?: Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth Festivals.” European Cold War Cultures? Societies, Media and Cold War Experiences in East and West, ZZF Potsdam, Germany, April 26, 2007
“West Germany’s Civil Rights Movement: Third World Students and Transnational Activism in the 1960s.” 1968: Global Resistance and Local Knowledge, Drew University, November 4, 2006
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“The Uses of Exclusion: The Unruly Third World Worker and the Integration of West German Labor.” Rethinking Labor from a Global Perspective, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/WZB Berlin, Germany, October 13, 2006
“The Third World Origins of the Consensual Turn: West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold War.” Two Nations, One People? The German Cold War Experience, University of Liverpool, UK, September 8, 2006
“Between Black Bodies and Bodies of Law: African Students and Languages of Protest in the West German Student Movement.” 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference of Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2006
“Bretton Woods versus Bandung: Competing Economic Imaginaries and the Question of History.” Annual conference of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada, June 3, 2005
“West Germany’s Ordoliberalism.” How Neoliberalism Became a Transnational Movement, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, April 28, 2005
SERVICE AS CONVENER, DISCUSSANT, AND CHAIR
Co-convener of workshop on The Politics of Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany, German Historical Institute, April 2019
Chair, Organizing Committee, Histories’ Modern Visions: A Colloquium in Honor of Mary Nolan, NYU Berlin, June 1, 2018
Co-organizer of workshop on Charles Murray and the Alt Right as History, Harvard University, January 31, 2018
Co-convener of seminar on The Demos and the Market: Economic Populism and Popular Economism as Past and Future, Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 5-8, 2017
Discussant, Historicizing the Economy, Harvard University, September 23, 2016
Closing comment, Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties, NYU Abu Dhabi, September 21, 2016
Co-convener of workshop on More Roads from Mont Pèlerin – Neoliberalism Studies, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, March 20-22, 2016.
Opening round table speaker. Alternative Global Geographies, GWZO Leipzig, November 13, 2015
Comment on panel on “New Approaches to Race and Migration in Postwar Germany,” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 4, 2015
Keynote discussion speaker. Alternative Encounters: The ‘Second World’ and the ‘Global South,’ 1945-1990s, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, November 3, 2014
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Chair on panel on “Surveillance and German Studies (3): The Representation and Coercion of Everyday Life.” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO. September 20, 2014
Convener of workshop on The Concept of the World Economy: Intellectual Histories, WZB Berlin Social Science Center. May 30-31, 2014
Chair and comment on panel on “(Post-)Imperial Interventions.” Postwar Decolonization and its Impact on Europe. University of Exeter, December 2, 2013
Comment on panel on “Asian German Studies (4): Geopolitics, the Cold War, and Travel Writing in Germany and China, 1930s-80s.” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 6, 2012
Comment on panel on “Cultural Approaches to West and East German Peace Activism in the 1970s and 1980s.” Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 22, 2011
Convener of workshop on The Radical Atlantic in the Long 1960s: New Histories, Wellesley College, April 11, 2011
Chair on panel on Germany, Decolonization, and Human Rights: 1945 to the Present. Annual conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 9, 2010
TEACHING
New York University
The Rise of the West? Europe 1789-2003
Wellesley College
The Making of the Modern World Order The Rise of the West? Europe 1789-2003 Postwar Europe and the Three Germanies Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe Cities in Modern Europe World Economic Orders 1918-2008 Savage Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Europe
LANGUAGES
Reading, speaking, and translation ability in German Reading and standard translation ability in French
REFERENCES
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Geoff Eley Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History Professor of History and German Studies Department of History, University of Michigan Phone: (734) 763-2289 Email: [email protected]
Charles Maier Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History Center for European Studies Phone: (617) 495-8509 Email: [email protected]
Mary Nolan Professor Department of History, New York University Phone: (212) 998-8609 Email: [email protected]
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