Professor Geoff Eley: "What Produces Democracy? Revolutionary Crises, Popular Politics, and Democratic Gains in Twentieth-Century Europe"

Dates
Wednesday 1 July 2015 (18:00-19:00)
Contact

Eleanor Burdis

E-mail: e.g.burdis@bham.ac.uk

Tel: 0121 414 7271

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Geoff Eley

Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, as well as being a faculty member of the German Department, at the University of Michigan.  He is an internationally renowned scholar with broad research interests including German and British history, global history, the European Left, nations and nationalism, citizenship, social theory, and the relationship of history to theory and the social sciences.

Eley’s work has focused on the radical nationalism in imperial Germany and fascism, and includes theoretical and methodological reflections on historiography and the history of the political left in Europe. His work is widely published with his most successful book ‘Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000’ being translated into six different languages.

Geoff will be at the University as part of the Institute of Advanced Studies Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme. This lecture forms part of the ‘Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series’ which aims to reflect on the major social, cultural, and policy issues of our time.