Download - German Historical Institute London

Research Seminar
NOTICEBOARD
The GHIL regularly organizes a research seminar at which recipients
of grants from the Institute and other scholars report on the progress
of their work. Any postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers who are
interested in the subjects are welcome to attend. As a general rule, the
language of the papers and discussion is German and meetings usually
start at 5 p.m. For further information concerning future dates
please check the GHIL’s website or contact Dr Martina Steber (tel. 020
7309 2015; email: msteber@ghil.ac.uk).
Forthcoming Conferences
The Cultural Industries in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries:
Britain and Germany Compared. Conference organized jointly by the
German Historical Institute London and the Centre for British
Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
Date: 20–21 Nov. 2009
Venue: German Historical Institute London
Conveners: Christiane Eisenberg (Centre for British Studies at the
Humboldt University, Berlin) and Andreas Gestrich (GHIL)
Increasingly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, patrons,
associations, courts, and the other public purveyors of culture were
joined by private enterprises that approached the organization of cultural
events as a business, using professional methods such as targeted
advertising and cooperation with the mass press, and employing
professional artists and managers. These methods were applied
not only to new cultural forms such as film, cinema, and sport, but
also to such traditional ones as theatre, concerts, choral performances,
and variety shows. The growing popularity of commercial culture
irritated social reformers and politicians, and stimulated discussion
170