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 in- ternational decision-makers from the realms of academia, politics and diplomacy, civil soci- ety 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). CharlieMahoney © 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 poli- tics, economics and news. Afterwards he worked as chief business edi- tor 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, 1 Erin Baiano Erin © 2020), examines the authoritarian playbook il- liberal leaders have used for a century, and re- sistance 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 sen- ior lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at VMugenzi Harvard Medical School and as a Professor for Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s © Geisel School of Medicine. 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- © DAI HeidelbergDAI © gotá, Chile, among others. 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. HeikeSteinweg © 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. © Rumpenhorst© 2 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 AlanThomas © in a Planetary Age (published March 2021, University of Chicago). Robert Chatterjee is deputy editor-in-chief of zenith magazine. He studied history and Islamic studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Chatterjee is co-edi- tor 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. ElisabedAbralava © 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 Cathryn Clüver Cathryn Ashbrook © domestic policy and urban development. 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- © Amélie© Losier/Raum11 ies (as of 2008/2009). 3 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 sci- entist, she focuses on civic education as well as commemoration formats and activities in the field of international dialogue. Stiftung - Körber © 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. © Zoë© Law 4 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 © JoannaJurkiewicz© East European Studies. 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- © Körber © ropeans at Körber-Stiftung.