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January 29, 2010 Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego) German Angst? The talk will discuss the ways in which a newly conceptualized history of emotions can be employed to write a history of fear and anxiety in postwar Germany. It will offer preliminary findings regarding specific moments of fear and anxiety, and it will discuss their potential significance for our understanding of the history of the Federal Republic. Frank Biess is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the UCSD. He is the author of Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany (Princeton, 2006). He has co-edited Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity: Essays in Modern German History (Oxford, 2007). He is currently working on a history of fear and anxiety in postwar Germany. Co-sponsored by |