CTJRN Public Lecture - Prof. Dr. Uta Gerhardt: 'After Unconditional Surrender: The Role of Denazification in US Policy regarding Post-war Germany'

On Tuesday 8 May 2012, leading German sociologist Prof. Dr. Uta Gerhardt will give a lecture at Cambridge University on the topic: "After unconditional surrender: the role of denazification in US policy regarding post-war Germany".

The lecture is held at the Faculty of Law on the Sidgwick Site, lecture theatre LG 17, from 5.15pm to 6.30pm. It is open to all members of Cambridge University. Members of the public may attend on request.

Prof. Dr. Uta Gerhardt's career as a sociologist spans over nearly half a century. She held posts at the universities of Konstanz (1965-1973), London (1974-1979), Giessen (1979-1993) and Heidelberg (1993-2003). Visiting professorships have taken her, inter alia, to the universities of Wisconsin and New York, and for over fifteen years she was a research affiliate and visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. To date she has directed seven major government-funded research projects. Since her retirement from her chair at the University of Heidelberg in 2003 she has devoted her time to archival research. Best known for her work on Talcott Parsons and on the democratisation of Germany after WWII, she is the author or editor of over 20 books and numerous academic papers. Most recently an English translation of her edited collection of eyewitness accounts of the November 1938 pogroms in Germany, collected mainly from Jewish émigrés to the United States and lost to history until their chance rediscovery in the 1990s, was published as "The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht."

The lecture commemorates the end of the Second World War and the period of reconstruction that followed it. It is held under the auspices of the Cambridge Transitional Justice Research Network (CTJRN).

For information about this lecture, please contact: alp22@cam.ac.uk