Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester. He is also the Director of the Manchester Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence, and one of the co-directors of the Manchester Centre for the Study of Cultural Forms of Modern European Identities (Cultmep). Recent relevant publications include: Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949 – 1990 (Berghahn, 2009); Contesting the Nation: Nation, Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender (Palgrave, 2008); Narrating the Nation: History, Media and the Arts (Berghahn, 2008); Writing the Nation – a Global Perspective (Palgrave, 2007); Britain and the GDR, eds with Norman LaPorte (Wissner, 2006); The Blackwell Companion of 19th Century Europe (Blackwell, 2005, pb edn, 2009); Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies, eds. With Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte (Ashgate, 2005); Inventing the Nation: Germany (Hodder Arnold, 2004); Writing History: Theory and Practice, eds. with Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore (Hodder Arnold H&S, 2003); Dialog der Schwerhörigen? Geschichte, Mythos und Gedächtnis im deutsch-englischen kulturellen Austausch 1750-2000, eds. with Peter Lambert and Peter Schumann (Göttingen 2002, in press), ‘William Harbutt Dawson: The Career and Politics of an Historian of Germany’, in: English Historical Review, vol. 116 (2001), pp. 76-113; Writing National Histories. Western Europe since 1800, eds. with Mark Donovan and Kevin Passmore (London 1999), The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany since 1800 (Oxford 1997; 2nd pb edn, 2003).

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Prof. Stefan Berger
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL

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Homepage: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/german/staff/stefan-berger/

Christoph Conrad is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Geneva. Recent relevant publications include: Christoph Conrad and Martina Kessel (eds.), Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1994); Kultur & Geschichte. Neue Einblicke in eine alte Beziehung (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1998); Manfred Hildermeier, Jürgen Kocka and Christoph Conrad (eds), Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2000); Christoph Conrad and Sebastian Conrad (eds.), Die Nation schreiben: Geschichtswissenschaft im Vergleich (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002);

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Prof. Christoph Conrad
Université de Genève
Département d'histoire générale
5, rue Saint-Ours
CH-1211 Genève 4

Tel: +41 22 3797028
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Homepage: http://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/hco/Enseignants/Conrad.html

Guy P.Marchal is Professor of General and Swiss History at the University of Lucerne. Recent relevant publications include: Erfundene Schweiz. Konstruktionen nationaler Identität, ed. with Aram Mattioli (1992); "Les Traditions Nationales dans l’Historiographie de la Suisse", in: Wim Blockmans and Jean Philippe Genet (eds), Visions sur le Dévelopment des États Européens. Théories et Historiographies de l’États Moderne (1993), pp. 271-96; "Zwischen 'Geschichtsbaumeistern' und 'Römlingen'. Katholische Historiker und die Nationalgeschichtsschreibung in Deutschland und in der Schweiz", in: Aram Mattioli and Michael Graetz (eds), Krisenwahrnehmungen im Fin de Siècle: Jüdische und katholische Bildungseliten in Deutschland und in der Schweiz, 1880-1914 (1997), pp. 177-210; "Die kollektiven Erinnerungen der Schweiz: 1898 - 1948 - 1998", in: Alexandra Binnenkade and Aram Mattioli (eds), Die Innenschweiz im frühen Bundesstaat (1848-1878). Gesellschaftsgeschichtliche Annäherungen (1999), pp. 221-45; "Schweizer Töne? Die Sicht des Historikers", in: Anselm Gerhard and Annette Landau (eds), Schweizer Töne. Die Schweiz im Spiegel der Musik (2000), pp. 265-76.

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Prof. em. Guy P. Marchal
Universität Luzern
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Burgunderstrasse 27
CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

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