Contribution to catalog of new exhibition "Modern Youth?"

01.10.2019: On Sunday, September 22, the new annual exhibition of the Francke Foundation "Modern Youth - Youngness in the Francke Foundations 1890-1933" has been inaugurated (more information here   ). Jens Elberfeld contributed an article on the topic of the "youthful body" for the corresponding catalog.

Moderne Jugend? Jungsein in den Franckeschen Stiftungen 1890–1933. Herausgegeben von Holger Zaunstöck und Claudia Weiß unter Mitarbeit von Tom Gärtig und Claus Veltmann. Halle 2019
Mit sieben Hauptessays von Jens Elberfeld, Leonard Helten, Kerrin Klinger, Katrin Moeller, Olaf Peters, Barbara Stambolis und Claudia Weiß.
Kataloge der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 36
264 S., 202 Abb., € 28,00; ISBN 978-3-447-11193-5

Further Information about the exhibition and the catalog can be found here   .

adult education goes history

From the 25th to the 27th of September, our colleagues from the chair of adult education will be organizing the section meeting of the DGfE "Past Futures - New Pasts, History and Historicity of Adult Education / Further Education". Informations can be found here.

Contribution by Till Kössler in Neue Politische Literatur

01.09.2019: In recent years, the history of childhood has received new historiographical interest while at the same time historians have extended its thematical scope, geographical foci and methodological variety. This review article    surveys recent developments in the field and discusses the ambivalences that characterized childhood in the 20th and 21th centuries. It argues that the history of childhood should not be understood as a separate historiographical sub-discipline. Rather it offers a specific historiographical perspective on broader historical problems and debates. In linking the private with the public, the best works further our understanding of the contradictions of modern history.