Winner of Germany’s most prestigious research award to speak in Cambridge

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In the latest in a series of high-profile activities organised by the DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies, the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge will on Thursday 23 February welcome historian Professor Lutz Raphael.

̽��ֱ��winner of the most important research award in Germany, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Professor Raphael will address the subject of “Imperial violence and mobilised nations: patterns of European history in the first half of the 20th century.”

This will be the first in an annual series of lectures featuring winners of the Leibniz Prize, which was established in 1985 and aims to reward outstanding German contributions to research. ̽��ֱ��lecture series is being jointly supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office, and by the German Research Council (DFG).

Professor Rafael will be introduced by Dr. Priya Bondre-Beil, Director of International Affairs at the German Research Council, and by Professor Sir Chris Clark, Cambridge’s Regius Professor of History.

Known for his insights into the history of scientific knowledge, Professor Raphael’s influential work has significantly altered perspectives on the contemporary history of Europe. He has consistently championed a European view of history –as opposed to a state-nation centred view.

He is well known for his collaboration with the French school of history for the journal Annales, and his deployment of the philosophical, sociological, and anthropological methods of his teacher Pierre Bourdieu. He further developed these methods with his own studies dedicated to the concept of "longue durée".

Professor Raphael is recognised as an expert in modern historiography, and as one of the leading representatives of a new generation of historians driving forward a critical and methodical self-reflection of their field.

̽��ֱ��lecture “Imperial violence and mobilised nations: patterns of European history in the first half of the 20th century” will take place at 5.15pm on Thursday 23 February in Room 2 at the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. All are welcome to this free event.

Historian Prof. Dr. Lutz Raphael, recipient of the 2013 Leibniz Prize, will deliver first in an annual series of lectures

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Cambridge people named in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

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Professor Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Bhadeshia FRS FREng (pictured centre) is the Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and Director of the SKF Steel Technology Centre. His work is focused on transformation theory, which is concerned with the arrangement of atoms in a solid, in order to enable the invention of new iron alloys. He has been appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to Science and Technology.

Professor Christopher Munro Clark (pictured right) is the Regius Professor of History. His research work is centred on the history of 19th-century Germany and continental Europe. He has published numerous studies and books relating to the political and cultural history of religion, Kaiser Willhelm II, and the history of Prussia. He has been appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to British German relations.

Archibald Hugh Duberly, CBE is the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and a Senior Member of Wolfson College. He has been appointed a KCVO.

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Professor James Anthony Jackson FRS is Professor of Active Tectonics and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences. His work exploits techniques in earthquake source seismology, geomorphology, space geodesy and remote sensing to examine how the continents are deforming today on all scales: from the details of the fault rupture in single earthquakes, to how that faulting has created the local geomorphology and structure, to how regional fault patterns and motions can accommodate deformation of vast continental areas. He is also part of the Dynamic Earth and Geohazards Group, and the lead Principal Investigator on the Earthquakes Without Frontiers Project – a joint NERC-ESRC consortium supporting a partnership of physical and social scientists working to help increase resilience to earthquakes in countries in Asia. He has been apointed CBE for services to environmental science.

Seven distinguished members of the ̽��ֱ�� have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced today.

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Winner of Germany’s most prestigious research award to speak in Cambridge

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