Julia Spohr
Research Assistant, Section: Western European History
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-3563
- julia.spohr[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Website
- Western European History
- Location
- Nora-Platiel-Straße 1
34127 Kassel
- Room
- Nora-Platiel 1, Raum 3309
The consultation hour takes place after previous arrangement via mail as desired in presence or as video conference (Zoom).
09-10/2020: Scholarship holder of the German-French Institute Ludwigsburg
03/2020 and 09/2021: scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute Paris
since 10/2019: research assistant in the department of History of Western Europe 18th-20th century at the University of Kassel
06/2019: First state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools in the subjects French and politics and economics
10/2017 - 09/2018: student assistant and tutor in the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research: Didactics of French and Spanish at the University of Kassel.
09/2015 - 06/2016: foreign language assistant in Delémont and Porrentruy, Switzerland.
04/2015 - 07/2015 and 04/2018 - 09/2019: student assistant, then research assistant and tutor in the department of History of Western Europe 18th-20th century at the University of Kassel, Germany
2013 - 2019: Studies of Romance Languages (French) and Politics and Economics in the course of studies for the teaching profession at secondary schools at the University of Kassel.
Violence against Women - Social Perception and Institutional Help in Germany and France since the 1970s (working title).
In her 1974 book Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear, British author Erin Pizzey describes her experiences as the founder of the first women's shelter in Great Britain. Her book was not only translated into numerous languages, including German and French, but also received international (mass) media attention and inspired women to found other women's shelters: The first German women's shelter opened in West Berlin in 1976, for example, and the first French women's shelter opened in Clichy in 1978. On the one hand, the example of Erin Pizzey points to the central role of the media and the public in making violence against women visible. On the other hand, it shows that a story about violence against women cannot do without a transnational perspective. The doctoral project sees itself as a history of perception of (intimate partner) violence against women. In a German-French comparison, it asks, on the one hand, how the topic was able to reach the public and become a public issue in the 1970s; the founding of women's shelter initiatives plays a decisive role here. Although the necessity of these and other aid institutions was soon no longer disputed, a number of disputes were nevertheless conducted about them in the period that followed. On the other hand, the project analyzes the change in perception of the phenomenon and the change in debates about violence against women up to the early 2000s. In this way, the work tells a history of the (political) thematizability of violence against women. The comparative approach makes it possible to ask about transnational commonalities as well as national specifics. In addition, the local level plays a decisive role. On the basis of selected case studies, the work analyzes paradigmatic developments in the emergence and development of aid institutions as well as the debates conducted around them.
Blows instead of love? Violence against women in the Federal Republic and France since the 1970s as part of the 16th Colloquium of the Franco-German Committee for the Study of 19th and 20th Century German and French History e. V. in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Paris and the Franco-German University "Violence in the Political Sphere: Perception, Discourses, Emotions in Germany, France and Europe (19th-21st Century)" at the DHI Paris, Nov. 8-10, 2023.
'First Roses, Then Violets. A Comparative Perspective on Debates on Violence against Women in the Federal Republic and France in the 1970s and 1980s at the interdisciplinary lecture series "Violence and the Body: Dimensions of Sexualized Violence" at the University of Kassel, 13.6.2023.
Debates on Violence against women in the Federal Republic of Germany and France (1970-1990) - A Comparative Perspective in the context of the conference "A History of Constant Reform: Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century" at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 6-7.6.2023.
With All Love. Domestic Violence in the Federal Republic and France (ca. 1970-2000) at the "Modern Research Colloquium" of the History Department of the University of Kassel, 14.11.2022 University of Kassel.
Let us historicize #MeToo! - The debate on violence against women in West Germany and France in the 1970s and 1980s in the context of the Joint Workshop of the Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Award and the German Historical Institute London "Violence against Women: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", 14-16.7.2022 German Historical Institute London[Program of the conference].
"Scream Quietly" - Social Perceptions of Violence against Women in Germany and France since the 1970s as part of the [digital] "Open Research Colloquium on European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries" of the Chair of Modern History of the University of Trier, 17.5.2022 University of Trier
- "You are allowed to use a little bit of violence" . -On the Treatment of Violence in Couple Relationships in German Marriage and Partnership Guidebooks (1950s-1990s) at the [digital] conference "Revolution der Paarbeziehungen? The Transformation of Relationship Life in the Federal Republic and the GDR," 11-12.3.2021 ZZF Potsdam[conference program].
- Conference Report: Laughing and Laughing Off. Comedy and Satire in Situations of Social, Political and Cultural Change since the 19th Century, In: H-Soz-Kult, 05.10.2022, <www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-129910>, with Clelia Caruso.
- Mechanisms of Male Power. [Review of:] Celine Bessière & Sibylle Gollac: Le genre du capital. Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, Paris: La Découverte, 2020, Sociopolis, 01.09.2020.
- Feministische Presse als historische Quelle (Summer semester 2023)
- Der Erste Weltkrieg als deutsch-französischer Erinnerungsort (mit Exkursion nach Frankreich), mit Jörg Requate (Summer semester 2023)
- Migrationserfahrungen im 20. Jahrhundert (Summer semester 2022)
- Hiebe statt Liebe? - Familiäre Gewalt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Winter semester 2021/22)
- "La condition féminine" seit 1945 (Winter semester 2021/22)
- Kultureller Aufbruch und politischer Protest in den "langen" 60er Jahren (Summer semester 2021)
- Abtreibung, Frauenhäuser, Notruftelefone - Kampagnen und Projekte der Neuen Frauenbewegung in Frankreich und Deutschland (Winter semester 2020/21)
- Frankreich und Deutschland im Europäischen Einigungsprozess (Sommersemester 2020)
- Die extreme Rechte in Frankreich seit 1945 (Wintersemester 2019/20)