The first seminar of the East meets West network features guest PhD candidate Anna Breitenbach, who holds a chapter presentation called “Dangerous elements or welcomed guests? Politics of toruism and the problem of the ‘eastern foreigners’ in Germany, 1920-1923“.

Seminar Series “East Meets West” aims to analyze phenomena of contemporary history (19th-20th century and beyond) that problematize any kind of encounters, border crossings, cooperations, conflicts and entanglements between the East and the West in Europe and beyond. Come and cross borders and boundaries with us!