Events | "Denationalize & Kill. On the Expulsion of 'Enemies of the State' from the Democratic Legal Community after 1945“ – A Lecture and Research Tour with Thomas Mann Fellow Dieter Gosewinkel
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. | September 9, 2024
German History Seminar | Georgetown University
As part of his 2024 Thomas Mann Fellowship, historian and lawyer Dieter Gosewinkel will visit the East Coast for several lectures and research on the practice of excluding enemies of the state from rule-of-law democracies that points to an inner vulnerability of democracy. Professor Gosewinkel will visit institutions such as Queens College (CUNY), Georgetown University, and New York University.
During his Fellowship at the Thomas Mann House, historian Dieter Gosewinkel is conducting academic research in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and New York for a publication project on the topic of "Denationalize & Kill. On the Expulsion of 'Enemies of the State' from the Democratic Legal Community after 1945.“ In September 2024, he will present and discuss his research with academic partners in the U.S., and conduct in-depth interviews with experts on the subject. His research concerns the vulnerability of democracy from within: the abandonment of its constitutional core in favor of a hoped-for gain in security. To what extent does the commitment to the law distinguish democracies from dictatorships in the fight against "enemies of the state?" The United States, the oldest republican constitutional state, serves as the world's most important model for this.
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Dieter Gosewinkel is a historian and lawyer whose research focuses on European modern history and the history of citizenship, civil society, constitutional law, and European thought. From 2011 to 2021, he was co-director of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He also held a number of fellowships, including at the European University Institute in Florence, the Institut d'études avancées de Paris, and the University of Oxford. He has taught at Freie Universität Berlin, Sciences Po, Paris, and others.
The lecture tour is organized with Queens College (CUNY), Georgetown University, New York University, and UCLA.
