Max Weber fellows lecture series
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2010
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Room 1.09, New Academic Building
Speaker: Claudius Torp
In the Weimar Republic the subsistence level (‘Existenzminimum’) became a contested site of material entitlement. Experts and politicians, being engaged in projects of social engineering, sought to define the term and put it into political practice. In doing so, they contributed to a debate on legitimate material expectations which testifies to Weimar’s burden of venturing to raise the standard of living in times of economic crisis. By tracing how ambitiously the concept of the subsistence level was coined in the areas of statistics, welfare administration and city planning, major lines of interpretation on Weimar history are made to converge. Thus, multiple visions of Weimar society as embodied in the concept of the subsistence level shed new light on explanations of the republic’s failure.
Claudius Torp is Max Weber Fellow in History and Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Seven Max Weber Fellows from the EUI will visit LSE March 8th - 11th to give a series of talks as part of a joint initiative by APD, Academic and Professional Development division.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information contact Nick Byrne, n.byrne@lse.ac.uk|.
This lecture will be followed by Royal Identities. Performing Bourbon Majesty in Naples (1734-1759)| at 7pm.
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