Utopian Hope, Protest, and Radical Futures in German-Speaking Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Part of 139th AHA Annual MeetingPresented by Smith, Jake, & Smith, Jake
Friday 9 January 2026·3:30 pm
This panel turns to the history of protest and activism across German speaking Europe to examine articulations of utopian hope and radical futures. The panel's papers allow us to see how hope mobilized new forms of activism in a variety of different spaces. From performing utopia in the kindergarten amid conservative suppression in the wake of the 1848-49 revolution, to the re-imagining of West German leftist anti-capitalist critique during the 1973 oil crisis, and the intersectional and interreligious alliances against right-wing violence in newly unified Germany, these cases illuminate the importance of utopian hope in protest.
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