Stefan Guth
Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Historisches Seminar, Faculty Member
Stanford University, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Visiting Scholar, 2013–2014
University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Visiting Scholar, 2016
Stefan Guth is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Eastern European History at the University of Tübingen. His academic interests focus on the co-production of orders of knowledge and socio-political orders in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. He has held teaching positions in Berne and St. Gallen, and visiting scholarships in Helsinki, Stanford and Leipzig.
In his postdoctoral project, entitled "Oasis of the future – The Atomic City of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959–2019", Guth investigates the role of nuclear technopolitics (Hecht) in the Soviet Union and beyond in a long term perspective. Focusing on an urban microcosm, the project will tightly integrate the technological, environmental, political, social and cultural dimensions of the Soviet nuclear project – aspects that have hitherto mostly been studied in isolation from each other.
In his Ph.D. thesis on German-Polish historian relationships in the twentieth century, Guth has offered a case study in the political history of historiography that was awarded the Klaus Mehnert prize by German Society of Eastern European Studies (DGO), and has recently appeared in print (Geschichte als Politik, 2015).
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa, Prof. Dr. Marina Cattaruzza, and Prof. Dr. Edoardo Tortarolo
In his postdoctoral project, entitled "Oasis of the future – The Atomic City of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959–2019", Guth investigates the role of nuclear technopolitics (Hecht) in the Soviet Union and beyond in a long term perspective. Focusing on an urban microcosm, the project will tightly integrate the technological, environmental, political, social and cultural dimensions of the Soviet nuclear project – aspects that have hitherto mostly been studied in isolation from each other.
In his Ph.D. thesis on German-Polish historian relationships in the twentieth century, Guth has offered a case study in the political history of historiography that was awarded the Klaus Mehnert prize by German Society of Eastern European Studies (DGO), and has recently appeared in print (Geschichte als Politik, 2015).
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa, Prof. Dr. Marina Cattaruzza, and Prof. Dr. Edoardo Tortarolo
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a radiant future, but also, if strictly unofficial, the coercive power wielded over an army of forced labourers. In this paper, I argue that photography not only depicted Atomic-Powered Communism, but actively co-produced it by providing visual templates for interpreting and shaping social relations, the built environment, and even “man-made” nature in the nuclear oasis.
My main argument will be that coming to terms with the Polish–German past unquestionably required that nationalist categories of interpretation be deemphasized and decentred, and complemented by alternative frameworks of interpretation, so as to render the shared past more malleable, but that in order to do so, it was inevitable to first acknowledge their overwhelming power in shaping these relations and their interpretation in the modern era.