Thomas Weber

Please join us online on 11 Nov for an Aberdeen Global Conversation with Prof. William Mulligan on his new book: ‘The Fraying Bonds of Peace: Economic Origins of the First World War’ 11 Nov, 12-1 pm GMT, Open to all. Via MSTeams: Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link.

Today's Roundtable has to be postponed, as one of our speakers feels under the weather. Watch this space for rescheduling details. We look forward to resccheduling our Roundtable on Historical Perspectives on Rethinking Multilateralism for early 2027.

Happening in an hour and a half, today at 4 pm GMT, 5 pm CET, 12 pm ET. For last minute registrations, please email: t.weber@abdn.ac.uk 👇

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Max Planck Society, and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study are setting up a new "Advanced Research Consortium" - a new Institute of Advanced Study - in Berlin. www.mpg.de/27058065/arc...

Serbien, Brasilien, Israel (maybe), USA: Es steht nicht geschrieben, dass der Marsch in den Autoritarismus immer weitergehen muss. Die Selbstzerstörung der Demokratie ist ein umkehrbarer Trend. Es gibt keinen permanenten "vibe shift". Der Ausgang des Kampf gegen den IIliberalismus ist offen.

Here are the first images and footage from the inside of the destroyed Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle’s Nest) - taken by Begafilm m.youtube.com/watch?v=vorL...

"[Anhand] seines Workshops, in dessen Mittelpunkt eine wenig bekannte Rede von Adolf Hitler von 1929 stand,... konnten die Jugendlichen im Sinne einer Applied history Parallelen zu den Beeinflussungsstrateigien populistischer und extremistischer Parteien heute erkennen." mpg-trier.de/article_5226...

👏👏👏Many CONGRATULATIONS to Ulrike Müller for winning the 2026 House of Arenberg History Prize! "The Arenberg Foundation is delighted to announce that this year’s House of Arenberg History Prize is awarded to Ulrike Müller’s 'Private Collectors in Brussels,Antwerp and Ghent, 1780–1914' (Brepols).

🎉🎉🎉Many CONGRATULATIONS to @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Arenberg European History Prize with his 'The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible'!

Launch day for Blackness in Interwar Germany! It looks absolutely smashing inside too—huge thanks to the team at Hurst for the beautiful production work!! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Excited to have a new article out in Terrorism and Political Violence! It offers a new perspective on the motivations behind the Incel-inspired 2014 Isla Vista attack. 50 free eprints available via www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TAAE7...

Please join CGSG Aberdeen online on 28 Oct for an Aberdeen Global Conversations Roundtable on ‘Historical Perspectives on Rethinking Multilateralism’ With Andrew Dilley , Francine McKenzie & Melanie Torrent. 28 Oct, 3-4.30 pm GMT. Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link.

A Euroshop in Marx’s childhood home in Trier: maybe quite a symbolic picture that not everything has gone exactly to plan in capitalism either - but I like Marx’s favour pub…

‘The Myth of the Madman’ - my podcast interview with the Tales of the Corps podcast about Hitler’s time in WWI, and his subsequent rise to power. This was a really lively conversation that was meant to last an hour but turned into twice the length. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KT4...

Please join CGSG Aberdeen online on 27 Oct for an Aberdeen Global Conversations Roundtable on 'Individual Freedom & Rights in 20th C. Europe’ with Prof. Maud Bracke (Glasgow) & Prof. Moritz Foellmer (Amsterdam) Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link. And please spread the word!

Every so often I send an out-of-the-blue gratitude email to a scholar whose work I admire. I particularly email scholars who are not seniors at top universities. A small gesture, but it means a lot!

Sunday bliss - sitting at my ‘Sunday desk’, it is easy temporarily to forget the problems of the world …

This is a reminder of today's CGSG talk: 👇

'Kipppunkte: Können wir die Demokratie diesmal retten?' - Pls join me on my flying visit to Trier on 21 Oct, if you can. For more information on the event, pls go to www.agf-trier.de/aktuelles/te...

Robert E. Hall, Hoover senior fellow and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social economist, celebrates his Nobel win on campus with his sons Jonathan Hall (left) and Hoover fellow Andy Hall (right). Read the announcement: www.hoover.org/news/nobel-p...

Wow! 👇

@stefanihrig.bsky.social has done it again. This is another scholarly tour de force, showing that we have long been looking at the colonial legacy from the wrong angle in trying to explain the Shoah and the war of extermination in the East.’ — Thomas Weber hurstpublishers.com/book/blackne...

Pls join CGSG for our Aberdeen Global Conversation with Owen Walsh: ‘Radical US Diplomats and the Question of Mexican Intervention, c. 1911-1919’ 15 Oct, 4-5 pm BST, Hybrid. In person: Humanity Manse, Seminar Room. Via MSTeams: Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link.

Happening in half an hour - for last minute registrations, please email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk

Pls Join Us for one or many of our events this autumn! To join us virtually, please email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for MSTeams links. 🙏 Very grateful to CASSIS Bonn, the Aberdeen University History Society, & the Dept of History for partnering with us on our Autumn 2026 CGSG Speakers Series!

Happening this coming Wednesday! To join us, pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link. An Aberdeen Global Conversation with Barry Strauss (Hoover) ‘Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire’ 7 Oct, 5 pm British Time, 6 pm CET, 12 pm EST, 9 am PT.

"Although the US side claimed that the 2 leaders agreed to use 'super intelligence' to replace 'artificial intelligence', China’s statement continued to use the Chinese characters for AI(人工智能)" -From the take on the recent Trump-Xi summit by my PhD student Xudong Zhu: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

My interview with the Samoa Observer, on the Prime Minister’s Heil Hitler salute and his recent appropriation of the shofar (reminiscent of the appropriation of the shofar by the Jan 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill), which is less contradictory than it may appear. www.samoaobserver.ws/category/sam...

Winter is Coming! - Thank you so much for the wonderful students of the Aberdeen University History Society for inviting me and hosting me last night to kick off this year's Aberdeen University History Society Lecture Series. And thank you for the great discussion following the talk!!

It has a cover! Next spring @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

"Wer die verbrecherische Vergangenheit dieses Landes verharmlost und umdichtet, verwirkt jede politische Daseinsberechtigung in unserer Demokratie. Wer nicht verantwortungsvoll mit der Geschichte dieses Landes umgeht, darf niemals Verantwortung für die Zukunft Deutschlands übernehmen." 1/2

Happening today. This is a reminder of today's event. For last minute online registrations please email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk

Pls join the Centre for Global Security and Governance on Oct 7 for an Aberdeen Global Conversation with Prof. Barry Strauss on ‘Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire’ 7 Oct, 5pm BritishTime, Online. Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link.

Beeindruckende Zahlen in dem neuen Buch von Martin Schulze Wessel, dass ich gerade angefangen habe zu lesen @schulzewessel.bsky.social

I’d like to invite Francesca Albanese to reach out to me. I happily will lay out the nature of Hitler’s anti-Semitism to the Special Rapporteur. I am rather surprised that Albanese seems to think that Nazi anti-Semitism was not specifically aimed at Jews: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxrC...

Pls. join us this coming Wednesday for an Aberdeen Global Conversion with Xudong Zhu on ‘Bypassing the Diplomats: Bureaucratic Politics and the Formulation of Sino-German Strategic Cooperation, 1928–1930’ 30 Sept, 2-3 pm, Hybrid. Pls email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk for a Teams link.

In der BBC sprach Thomas Mann am 27. September 1942 über die Ermordung durch Giftgas: "Nach den Informationen der polnischen Exil-Regierung sind alles in allem bereits 700.000 Juden von der Gestapo ermordet oder zu Tode gequält worden [...] Wisst ihr Deutschen das?"🧵