Europe and culture
The Beyond Enemy Lines project and the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London are bringing together… Read More >
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Literature and Politics: John Banville and Fintan O’Toole in conversation with Lara Feigel
Is literature always political? Does the writer have more political responsibility than other citizens, or less? What was the role… Read More >
‘Comparing Occupations’ podcast
Beyond Enemy Lines is a European Research Council project, set up to look at culture in the occupation of Germany…. Read More >
Conversations on ‘Melancholia’
As part of a series of events organised in association with the Melancholia exhibition (Inigo Rooms, Somerset House – East Wing,… Read More >
Melancholia – a Sebald Variation
The Beyond Enemy Lines team has organized a major international, multi-disciplinary and multi-media exhibition. Curated by John-Paul Stonard and Lara… Read More >
The Bitter Taste of Victory on the radio
Beyond Enemy Lines principal investigator Dr Lara Feigel has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions and on Australia’s Late Night Live, talking… Read More >
Venice Workshop: Comparative Occupations, 7-8 July 2016
We are pleased to announce our annual Beyond Enemy Lines workshop, which this year will take place in Venice on… Read More >
The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
We are delighted to announce the launch and excellent critical reception of The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins… Read More >
London Conference
For two days, the project team at King’s College London gathered together a group of international experts from disciplines as… Read More >
Conference: Beyond Enemy Lines, 2-3 July 2015
We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference, to be hosted by King’s College London at the Strand Campus on… Read More >
A Tale of Five Cities (1947-1951)
By Hanja Dämon “I’m about to occupy Germany in my own way, in my own time and nobody is… Read More >
Occupation/Liberation: Cultural Representations of 1944-45 and its Legacy
Three members of the ‘Beyond Enemy Lines’ team recently comprised a panel at a conference at the University of Bristol… Read More >
Germany: Memories of a Nation
Neil MacGregor´s exhibition “Germany: memories of a nation” at the British Museum contains only few objects connected to the immediate… Read More >
Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!
What is usually used as a German football chant in our case signifies excitement at the prospect of academic exchange… Read More >
UNESCO: ‘Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed’
It seemed rather ironic that the organisation founded on the basis of the above quotation is located next door to… Read More >