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2026: Paula A. Oppermann, “Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia”
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2026: Sabine Müller-Mall, “Künftige Freiheit und die Gegenwart des Verbots” / “Future Freedom and the Presence of Prohibition”
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2025: Jule Govrin, “Verbotene Körper? Demokratische Sorge und körperliche Selbstbestimmung in Zeiten autoritärer Austerität”/”Forbidden Bodies? Democratic Worries and Bodily Self-Determination in Times of Authoritarian Austerity”
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2026: Hannes Bajohr, “Wirklichkeit auf Abruf: Künstliche Intelligenz und die Welten des Romans”/”Reality on Demand: Artificial Intelligence and the Worlds of the Novel”
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2026: Heike Behrend, “Schrecknisse des Wissenwollens: Frageverbot und die Fraglichkeit von Fragen in der ethnografischen Feldforschung” / “The Terror of the Desire to Know: The Prohibition on Asking Questions and the Questionability of Questions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”
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2026: Tom Lanoye, “Mosse Fonds 2026 Lecture”
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2026: Adrian Daub, “‘Noch’, ‘Nicht mehr’, ‘Endlich wieder’: Kollektive Zeitwahrnehmung und Verbotsdiskurse” / “‘Still’, ‘No Longer’, ‘Finally Again’: Collective Perception of Time and Discourses on Prohibition”
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2026: Benjamin Steininger und Alexander Klose, “Chemisch Verfügbar. Zufluss und Entzug an den Grenzen der Petromoderne” / “Chemically Available. Inflow and Outflow at the Limits of Petromodernity”
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2026: Marina und Herfried Münkler, “Bürgerschaft und Mediale Verfügbarkeit. Transformationen des Demokratischen in der Plattformdemokratie”/”Citizenship and Medial Availability. Transformations of the Democratic in the Platform-Democracy”
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2026: Camille Robcis, “The War on Gender: The History of a Dangerous Idea”
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2026: Chad S.A. Gibbs, “Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance”
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2026: Renato Moro, “A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)”
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2026: Theodora Becker, “Dialektik der Hure. Über die (Un-)Verfügbarkeit von Prostitution und Sexarbeit”/”Dialectic of the Harlot. On the (Un)availability of Prostitution and Sex Work”
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2026: Daniel Kelhmann, “The Long Night Comes to an End”
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2026: Kristin Surak, “Migration in the 21st Century: What Elite Mobility Reveals About the Present and Future of International Migration”
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2026: Hisham Matar, Daniel Mendelsohn, “On Exile: A Conversation” with Negar Azimi
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2026: Robert Beavers, “’Diminished Frame’ and ‘The Sparrow Dream’”
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2026: Alan Pauls: “The Coup Factor”
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2026: Kim Lane Scheppele, “Counter-Constitutions: On Being the Object of a Coup”
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2026: Joseph Vogl, “Epoche des Amok”
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2025: Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, “Decolonial Coup d’Etat?”
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2025: Gabriela Ivens, “Nature as a Digital Witness: Using Environmental Clues to Investigate Human Rights Abuses”
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2025: Anna-Bettina Kaiser, “Staatsstreich, Ausnahmezustand, Regression”/”Coup d’état, State of Emergency, Regression”
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2025: Irina Scherbakowa: “Der lange Schatten des Stalinismus. Putins Russland 2025” / “The Long Shadow of Stalinism: Putin’s Russia 2025”
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2025: Doris Kearns Goodwin, “The Lesley University 2025 Thought Leadership Series”
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2025: Eliot Higgins, “Demanufacturing Consent: How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy”
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2025: Kathryn Brackney, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness”
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2025: Shaul Magid, “On the Obsession with Defining Antisemitism: Why Do Jews Find It So Difficult to Talk about Antisemitism Today?”
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2025: Bashir Bashir, “The Holocaust and the Nakba: On the Ethics of Egalitarian Binationalism”
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2025: Marc David Baer, “Children of Abraham: The Story of Muslim-Jewish Relations”