Dr. Sebastian Haumann

February 26th
1:35 PM

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Talk on 1960s/70s London Welfare Policy

Great talk by John Davis (Queens College Oxford) at the Centre for Urban History yesterday. In his presentation “Reshaping welfare: the London experience, 1960-1975” he demonstrated how welfare policy, initiatives of community groups and protest movements were intertwined as a new sensitivity and definition of social problems and poverty emerged. I was especially intrigued by the broad-spread and detailed analysis of sources he based his argument on. In general, I think, his research is challenging conventional narratives - I enjoyed it!

January 26th
10:24 AM

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Book Chapter on “Stadtindianer”

Finally, after 4 years, or so, my chapter “’Stadtindianer’ and ‘Indiani Metropolitani’” has been copy-edited. The edited volume entitled “Between the Prague Spring and the French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980” will hopefully be published by this summer. It was in 2006 that the conference the book is based on took place. It was one of my first conferences and I drew on material from my M.A. thesis, so all this seems very far away for me by now…

January 24th
5:41 PM

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Book Chapter on Squatted Buildings and Nuclear Free Zones

The draft of the book chapter on Squatted Buildings and Nuclear Free Zones is complete. Now I am waiting for Susanne, my co-author’s, comments and her part to it and hopefully by the end of February we will have the chapter ready for publication.

January 22nd
2:24 PM

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Post-War British University Architecture

At yesterdays Urban History Seminar William Whyte (St John’s College Oxford) was giving a presentation on “The University and the City in Post-War Britain”. It was really on the architectural history of British Universities - definitively an interesting field of research. And again, I learned a lot about British history. The talk was extremely well delivered. However, the narrative was rather conventional: “evil” modernism and students’ protest as an reaction to that.

January 20th
3:36 PM

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Source: Hilden City Archives, LWF0012

Just going through pictures from the 1980-1982 squatters’ movement in Hilden for an article I am writing. Every time I look at these pictures I find the body language of both demonstrators and police striking (and hilarious). Was there real conflict? Just telling from the pictures you wouldn’t think so…

January 19th
2:46 PM

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Tackling 1980s Autonomy

Once again I am trying to outline, what “autonomy” meant in the context of 1970s and 1980s protest movements - especially in their relation to space. And once again I have to admit that George Katsiafica’s book is probably the best account available, even though his obvious political alignment on the issue is extremely annoying.

January 14th
8:28 PM

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Book Chapter on Squatted Buildings and Nuclear Free Zones

I spent most of the day outlining a book chapter I am writing together with Susanne Schregel. It is based on a paper we gave at a conference in Bremen last May. The contribution to the edited volume will be on both squatted buildings and nuclear free zones. We want to show how locality mattered in these specific protest forms. Deadline for the chapter is the end of February - so it is still plenty of time.