Dieter Gosewinkel gives a public lecture on 'Geschichte und gegenwärtige Bedeutung der Staatsbürgerschaft in Europa seit dem 20. Jahrhundert'

Citizenship was the sign of political affiliation in Europe in the 20th century. It decided about the protection and freedom of a person and thus about his life and survival chances. In this lecture (and the following workshop), it serves as a probe of a historical analysis of Society in order to illuminate inclusion and exclusion in Europe in the 20th and 21st century. The starting point is citizenship as a legal institution which has been increasingly shaping since the turn of the 19th century and which achieved high political and practical symbolic power and effect in European and non-European societies.

 https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Max-Weber-Kolleg/Aushang__Staatsbuergerschaft_in_Europa_2017.pdf

Michael Rösser gives a working paper on 'The Colonial Mindset of the Building Companies'

East African construction sites (particularly railway lines) and construction sites in the occupied territories during WWI in Europe were regulated by the so-called ‘colonial contract’ (“Kolonialvertrag”). As the contract’s terms and conditions granted the companies of Philipp Holzmann and MAN almost all-encompassing rights and duties to fulfill their task in East Africa and in Europe, this paper investigates the colonial mindset of both enterprises involved. While consciously disregarding the question of actual forced labour practices on the spot, this paper illustrates the companies’ self-understanding as agents of colonial policies particularly in Eastern Europe and East Africa. Employed in all the territories concerned, they actively established a mental link from overseas colonial policies to colonizing strategies in (Eastern) Europe.