OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
This is Mansfield’s annual lecture to commemorate Adam von Trott, whose studies at Mansfield informed his role in the plot against Hitler. Taking Adam von Trott and two of his close acquaintances as a starting point, Professor Patel, director of Project House Europe at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, discusses some of the key problems in the history of 20th century Germany. How to deal with dictatorship? What difference can an individual make? How to build a better future—for Germany, but also for Europe? These questions have remained crucially important, and the lecture will discuss history’s lessons for today.
Professor Kiran Klaus Patel is professor of modern history at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich where he also serves as the director of Project House Europe, LMU’s centre for interdisciplinary research on the history of contemporary Europe. Before joining LMU, he has been a professor at Maastricht University, at the European University Institute in Florence, and assistant professor at Humbolt University in Berlin. His latest publication is Project Europe: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) (German version: Beck, 2018).
