Christian Goeschel

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!

"Hat sich von Hitler gewaltig reinlegen lassen": Historiker über Umgang mit Diktatoren Als Desaster gilt das Münchner Abkommen von 1938 bis heute. Denn Großbritannien und Frankreich lieferten damit die Tschechoslowakei Adolf Hitler aus. Die Historiker Christian Goeschel und Daniel Hedin...

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Prof. Dr. Christian Goeschel | Leipziger Buchmesse Leipziger Buchmesse - Prof. Dr. Christian Goeschel

On 22 March, @danielhedinger.bsky.social and I will discuss our new book at the Leipzig Book Fair.

www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pco-sprecher...

Kopfwehwein?

Oder wie kurz nach der Wende im Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt auftreten.

Goeschel, Christian / Hedinger, Daniel | München 38 Die Welt am Scheideweg. 2026. 978-3-406-83045-7. München 38 steht für Appeasement gegenüber Aggressoren. Denn auf der Münchner Konferenz gaben Chambe…

Today is the official publication day of www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

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Goeschel, Christian / Hedinger, Daniel | München 38 Die Welt am Scheideweg. 2026. 978-3-406-83045-7. München 38 steht für Appeasement gegenüber Aggressoren. Denn auf der Münchner Konferenz gaben Chambe…

As the @munsecconf.bsky.social discusses how liberal democracies should deal with expansionist despots what about some historical perspective from @danielhedinger.bsky.social and me? www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

From the dictionary of UK university bureaucratese: "ecosystem."

Poet beats Peter Mandelson in race to be Manchester University chancellor Lemn Sissay – poet, broadcaster and playwright – gets 7,131 votes, beating Hallé music director Sir Mark Elder and the Labour grandee to ceremonial post

Worth remembering: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Writing letters is now for the well-off, as a standard letter overseas now requires a £3.40 stamp.

Buchbinder played it in Osaka last year. A memorable concert.

ghastly

First copy of my new book with Daniel Hedinger on global history of appeasement. (Available from 20 February in Germany, CH Beck)

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First copy arrived!

First copy of my new book with Daniel Hedinger on global history of appeasement. (Available from 20 February in Germany, CH Beck)

@danielhedinger.bsky.social

First copy arrived!

The overhyped new airport terminal at Manchester, perhaps Europe's worst airport, is already getting disgusting and filthy.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

This is a serious (disciplinary?) matter!

Time to update the “contemporary resonances” section in my book* introduction yet again before it goes off to the press next week…

* The book explores some of the earliest state-led approaches to defining, inspecting, and managing substandard housing, focused on mid-nineteenth-century France

indeed

War at home/domestic conquest as a precondition of war against another country. If that isn't fascism, then what is it?

Wer schreibt eine Geschichte des vorauseilenden Gehorsams?

Will Starmer now finally have the courage to go on the attack against Reform, after all a party whose leader remains an enthusiastic fan of the US president who insulted British troops?

Starmer calls Trump's remarks about Nato troops in Afghanistan 'insulting and frankly appalling' Veterans and bereaved families call the comments

Good.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Alles Schlechte, was man den Grünen - oft zu Unrecht - nachsagt, verdichtete sich in der Mercosur-Abstimmung, vor allem ihr moralischer Narzissmus.

Heute wird daraus strategische Blindheit. Wenn aus dem Desaster nicht gelernt wird, ist es aus mit den Grünen, was schlimm wäre.

Just published in @aeonmag: My essay on economic republicanism — a forgotten tradition that linked freedom to shared power in work, markets, and finance.
If democracy feels unfinished, this history might help explain why. aeon.co/essays/the-w...

Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.

Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.

This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

Dreadful kitsch aesthetics!

have so much affection for my american colleague-friends but many of them don't realise how big the world is out there and how different things look from other (geographical) perspectives. it is eye opening spending some time outside the usual anglo-euro-american circuit

Goeschel, Christian / Hedinger, Daniel | München 38 Die Welt am Scheideweg. 2026. 978-3-406-83045-7. München 38 steht für Appeasement gegenüber Aggressoren. Denn auf der Münchner Konferenz gaben Cham…

Soon out on this problem: www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

Appeasing imperialist despots only increases their appetite.