Barbara Klassa is Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specialises in the history of Polish and general historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries, and regional history.
Recent publications include ‘Wives, Mothers, Female Warriors. The Image of Polish Women in Nineteenth Century American Historiography‘ Studia Historica Gedanensia 14 (2023) 242-262; ‘Almost forgotten – the first American history of Poland‘ Comenius. Journal of Euro-American Civilisation 4:1 (2017) 135-149.
Jenny Andersson is professor in the history of ideas and science at the Department of History of Science and Ideas of Uppsala Universitet. Previously, she has been a scholar with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a researcher at Sciences Po in Paris.
Her researches focus on the intellectual history of contemporary social democracy, and the history of future research and concepts of the future in the post-war era.
Recent publications include ‘Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences’ European journal of social theory 27:2 (2024) 174-190; The future of the world : futurology, futurists, and the struggle for the post cold war imagination (Oxford University Press 2018).
Prof. dr. Jacco Pekelder is professor for modern and contemporary history of the Netherlands at the University of Münster (Germany) and director of the university Centre for Dutch Studies (ZNS). Until October 2021 he was an associate professor at the section History of International Relations (GIB) and honorary professor of Contemporary History of Western Europe at Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany).
His research focuses on the postwar history of Germany and the Netherlands in Europe, and the history of political violence and terrorism.
Recent publications include Die Zukunft der Demokratie in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Parteien, Populismus und Medien (Münster: Waxmann 2023) edited with M. Dahlmer et al; Between Prague Spring and French May. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books 2022) edited with M. Klimke et al.
Marnix Beyen is a full professor and a member of Power in History – Center for Political History at the University of Antwerp.
His research deals primarily with the historical, scientific, and literary representation of nations, and the history of parliamentary culture in Western Europe.
Recent publications include Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Between Loyalty and Resistance (Routledge 2023) edited with K. Lauwers and S. Suodenjoki; ‘The Politics of Consumption as Discursive Space: Structures, Actors, and Interactions in the Modern Age‘ History of Retailing and Consumption 8:1 (2022) with Ch. De Smet and I. Van Damme.
Prof. Dr. Carlotta Sorba is professor in Contemporary European History within the Department of History, Geography and the Ancient world at the University of Padua, Italy.
Since 2012 Sorba is director of the CSC (Interuniversity Center of Cultural History), founded by a convention between the University of Padua, Bologna, Venice, Pisa and Verona.
Her research interests include the cultural history of 19th century Europe, especially the relationship between cultural productions (music, theatre, proto-mass culture), society and politics.
Recent publications are ‘Où en est l’histoire culturelle de l’Italie contemporaine ?’ Revue d’histoire culturelle (2023) 1-26, with F. Archambault and V. Cirefice; Il melodramma della nazione. Politica e sentimenti nell’eta del Risorgimento (Rome: Laterza 2015), which focused on the relationship between melodramatic imagination and national movement in the Italian Risorgimento. The book was awarded the Senior Prize 2016 from the Italian Society of studies on contemporary history.
Prof. Dr. Norbert Götz is Professor of Contemporary History at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.
His current research focuses on humanitarianism, moral economy, global civil society, and civil society–state relations. His interests also include populism and nationalism, political culture, peace and international relations, democracy and the welfare state, and conceptual history. The larger Baltic Sea region, including the Nordic countries and Central and Eastern Europe, are special target regions, although his research includes the British Isles, global history, and the UN.
He is currently directing the following research projects: Civil Society without Boundaries: Nordic Humanitarianism Facing the Biafra Crisis and Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region.
Recent publications include: ‘Towards Expressive Humanitarianism: The Formative Experience of Biafra’, in: Fiammetta Balestracci, Christina von Hodenberg, and Isabel Richter (eds.), An Era of Value Change: The Long 1970s in Europe (Oxford University Press 2024) 207–32; Biafra and the Nordic media: Witness Seminar with Uno Grönkvist, Lasse Jensen, Pierre Mens, and Pekka Peltola (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2024) and ‘History: The Moral Economy Perspective’, in: Yannis Stavrakakis et al. (ed.) Research Handbook on Populism (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) 239-250.
Prof. Dr. Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä.
He has a wide range of research interests concentrating especially on the history of political and social discourse in the long term from comparative and transnational perspectives. He cooperates with political historians, political theorists and language policy researchers to produce multidisciplinary, comparative and transnational analyses of past political discourses and cultures in Finland, Sweden and major European powers.
Pasi Ihalainen is Director of the research center of Comparative Studies on Political Cultures and involved in various research centers and groups. He is currently Chair of the APH.
Recent publications are Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State (New York: Berghahn Books 2022) edited with Antero Holmila and ‘A Model Country or a Peripheral Anomaly? The Finnish Women’s Suffrage and Female MPs in Transnational Debates, 1906-19’, in: T. Kaiser, & A. Schulz (eds.), Vorhang auf! – Frauen in Parlament und Politik . Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteienrliament and Parliamentarism: a comparative history of a European concept 185 (Droste Verlag 2022) 55-72, with T. Kinnunen.