Holger Nehring

"A Peaceful Europe? European Exceptionalism in the 20th Century"

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Holger Nehring teaches contemporary European History at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the social, political and cultural history of post-World War II Western Europe, with a special emphasis on the social history of the Cold War in Britain and Germany since 1945, and in historical peace research.

Nehring is author of Life against Death, a connective history of the British and West German protests against nuclear weapons in the 1950s and early 1960s, which will come out with Oxford University Press in 2009.

He is currently working on a new project, entitled "The Last Battle of the Cold War: Peace Movements, German Politics and the End of the Cold War."

Since November 2007, Nehring has served as the vice chairman of the German Association for Historical Peace Research (Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung). He also serves as associate editor of the journal Contemporary European History.

Before joining the Sheffield History Department in 2006, Nehring taught at University and Pembroke Colleges, Oxford, and held a junior research fellowship at St. Peter's College, Oxford. In August 2005 and August 2007, he was a visiting fellow at the Peace History Programme of the Forum for Contemporary History, Oslo, and based at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

Nehring studied at Tübingen University (Germany), the London School of Economics, and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar).

Holger Nehring
Visiting Scholar
Mershon Center for International Security Studies