Sebastian Conrad

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Sebastian Conrad (born March 19, 1966 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian with a focus on global history , colonial history , the history of historiography and the history of East Asia. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Sebastian Conrad studied history , Japanese studies and economics in Bonn , Berlin , Osaka and Tokyo . From 1996 to 1999 the German Research Foundation supported him with a doctoral scholarship. He did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin on how Japanese and German historians rewritten and interpreted the history of their countries after the defeat in World War II and the end of fascism. For his dissertation In Search of the Lost Nation. Historiography in West Germany and Japan, 1945–1960 , Conrad was awarded the Ernst Reuter Society's dissertation prize in 1999. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He held an assistant position at the Free University of Berlin, alongside which he completed his habilitation , and in 2001 was invited to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris as a visiting professor . Between 2003 and 2007 he was junior professor at the Department of History at the Free University of Berlin.

2007 Conrad received the reputation as a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence , at the same time he was also a Chair of Modern History at the University of Berne appointed. Since he had already accepted the offer from Florence and took up the position, Conrad declined the offer from Switzerland. Since 2007 he has also been a member of the LMUexcellent research committee at the University of Munich . In the same year Conrad received the last Philip Morris Research Award . In 2009 he was again visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

In 2010 Conrad ended his stay in Florence and returned to the Free University of Berlin as Professor of Modern History. The decisive factor for this decision was the possibility of being able to work closely with the regional institutes of Freie Universität. He was also able to set up a doctoral program that links Freie Universität with universities in the United States and East Asia.

In 2018 Conrad was elected as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Publications

  • In search of the lost nation. Historiography in West Germany and Japan, 1945–1960 (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 134). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35798-2 (Simultaneously: Berlin, Freie Universität, Dissertation, 1999; In English: The Quest for the lost Nation. Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century (= The California World History Library. Vol. 12). Translated by Alan Nothnagle. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-520-25944-7 ).
  • as editor with Jürgen Osterhammel : Das Kaiserreich transnational. Germany in the world 1871–1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36733-3 .
  • Globalization and Nation in the German Empire. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54965-9 (In English: Globalization and the nation in imperial Germany. Translated by Sorcha O'Hagan. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-17730 -6 ).
  • German colonial history (= Beck'sche series 2448). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56248-8 .
  • Global history. An introduction (= Beck's series 6079). CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64537-2 .
  • as editor with Akira Iriye and Jürgen Osterhammel: History of the world. 1750-1870. Paths to the modern world. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-64104-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vademecum of History , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 325.
  2. a b c Stefan Collet: “You only really notice how“ German ”the German universities are with a look from the outside.” - Conversation with the returnees Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad, European University Institute, Florence. Retrieved May 25, 2012 ( Memento March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).