Christoph Conrad

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Christoph Conrad (born August 31, 1956 in Bonn ) is a German historian .

Life

Conrad studied history, Islamic studies and philosophy in Berlin and Bonn , at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA). In 1992 he completed his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. In 1994/95 he was JF Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and from 1992 to 1998 research assistant at Jürgen Kocka's chair at the Free University of Berlin. 1998–2001 he was the managing director of the Center for Comparative History in Berlin.

Since 2002 he has been teaching as Professor of Modern History at the University of Geneva . Between 1997 and 2011 he held several guest lectureships at EHESS Paris, the École normal supérieure , Paris (rue d'Ulm) and the Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris). In 2001/02 he was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Wassenaar , and in 2007 a Körber Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna. He was also invited to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) as a Senior Fellow in 2008/09 , to the International Humanities College “re: work” in 2014/15, and to the Weatherhead Center for 2017 as a visiting scholar International Affairs (Global History Initiative), Harvard University. At the beginning of 2020 the Center d'histoire of Sciences Po Paris appointed him 'professeur invité' for a month.

He is a member of the editorial board of History and Society and the Comité éditorial of the Paris magazine Le Mouvement Social. Since 2018 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Paris .

Conrad's research interests include the history and theory of historiography, the comparative history of the welfare state, and the history of market and opinion research . In recent years he has been particularly concerned with population history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Century and the topic of global aging .

Publications

Monographs

  • Profit sharing and asset accumulation of employees at Siemens (1847–1945) (= Journal for Company History, Supplement 36), Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04469-8 .
  • From old man to pensioner. The structural change of age in Germany between 1830 and 1930 (= Critical Studies in History , Volume 104), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35767-2 .

Editorships

  • with Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz: Gerontology and social history. Paths to a Historical View of Age. Berlin 1983; 2nd, revised edition 1985.
  • Age in Historical Perspective. (Special issue). In: Journal of Gerontology. Volume 17, 1984, No. 1.
  • with Paul Johnson and David Thomson: Workers Versus Pensioners. Intergenerational Justice in an Aging World. Manchester / New York 1989; 2nd edition 1990.
  • with Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz: On the cultural history of aging / Toward a Cultural History of Aging. Berlin 1993.
  • with Martina Kessel : Writing history in the postmodern era. Contributions to the current discussion. Stuttgart 1994.
  • with Martina Kessel: Culture & History. New insights into an old relationship. Stuttgart 1998.
  • with Manfred Hildermeier and Jürgen Kocka: European civil society in East and West. Concept, history, opportunities. Frankfurt a. M./New York 2000.
  • with Gunilla Budde u. a .: Jürgen Kocka: Interventions. The historian in public responsibility. Göttingen 2001.
  • with Jürgen Kocka: Citizenship in Europe. Historical experiences and current debates. Hamburg 2001.
  • with Sebastian Conrad : Writing the nation. History in international comparison. Göttingen 2002.
  • Mental Maps. (Special issue). In: History and Society . Volume 28, 2002, Issue 3.
  • Social policy transnational (special issue). In: History and Society. Volume 32, 2006, Issue 4.
  • with Laura von Mandach: On the brink. Integration and exclusion in social assistance and social policy / Sur la corde raide. Intégration et exclusion dans l'assistance sociale et la politique sociale , Seismo, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03777-060-3 .
  • with Stefan Berger and Guy P. Marchal : Writing the Nation (series of 8 volumes), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2008–2015.
  • with Joachim Eibach a . a .: Housing and the economy of space / L'habitat et l'économie de l'espace (= Swiss Yearbook for Economic and Social History / Annuaire suisse d'histoire économique et sociale , Volume 28), Chronos, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1202-7 .
  • with Sven Reichardt : Surveillance Studies (special issue). In: History and Society. Volume 42, 2016, issue 1.
  • with Anne Schmidt: Bodies and Affects in Market Societies , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-153592-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IGK work and curriculum vitae. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ lemouvementsocial.net. Retrieved October 13, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Global Aging As A Future Crisis: An Interview With Christoph Conrad | NYU Shanghai. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn