M.A. Anna Lena Kocks
Dissertation
- Dec. 2020
Thesis Defence (Disputation)
- July 2020
Dissertation submitted
- Nov. 2012 – Dec. 2020
Ph.D. student at Freie Universität Berlin (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper)
Education and qualifications
- 2009-2012
Postgraduate studies (Master of Arts) in History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Master of Arts degree
- 2005-2009
Undergraduate studies (Bachelor of Arts) in History, English and Education Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Bachelor of Arts degree
Scholarship
- 2005-2006
e-fellows.net scholarship
Professional experience
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2021 – present
Vice-president Corporate History (CATO Sozietät)
- 2012-2021
Consultant for Corporate History (CATO Sozietät)
- 2005-2012
Student assistant in a management consultancy (CATO Sozietät)
- 2007
Research assistant at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
- Summer semester 2019:
“Spotlight on 1919 – Postwar Society between Violence and Progress”, course in the program for international exchange students “European Perspectives on Berlin and Germany”, Freie Universität Berlin.
- Winter semester 2018/19:
“Childhood, Youth and Youth Culture around 1900”, course in the program for international exchange students “European Perspectives on Berlin and Germany”, Freie Universität Berlin.
- Summer semester 2018:
“Life in the Metropolis: a Social History of Berlin and London 1900-1930”, course in the program for international exchange students “European Perspectives on Berlin and Germany”, Freie Universität Berlin.
- Winter semester 2017/18:
“ ‘The coming of leisure’: The popularization and politicization of pastimes in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century”, course in the program for international exchange students “European Perspectives on Berlin and Germany”, Freie Universität Berlin.
Publications
- Anna Lena Kocks, Geselligkeit vereinnahmen. Jugend und Freizeit als Agitationsfelder des italienischen und britischen Faschismus, Darmstadt 2021.
- “Organizing Leisure: Extension of Propaganda into New Realms by the Italian and British Fascist Movements”, in: Arnd Bauerkämper and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (eds.), Fascism without Borders: Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945, New York 2017, 94-118.
- Lässigkeit als Lebensart. La sprezzatura nel Libro del Cortegiano di Baldassare Castiglione. Ein Diskurs aus der Renaissance mit einer historischen Einführung von Anna Lena Kocks zum „Hofmann als Beruf und Tugend“, Bristol 2013
Talks
- “Home-grown and imported fascism: über das Nebeneinander der British Union of Fascists und des Partito Nazionale Fascista im Vereinigten Königreich der 1930er Jahre” at the 8th Junior Workshop of the German Association for the Study of British History and Politics (ADEF), Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13.-14.10.2016.
- “Home-grown and imported fascism: über das Nebeneinander der British Union of Fascists und des Partito Nazionale Fascista im Vereinigten Königreich der 1930er Jahre” at the British Studies Research Colloquium, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 14.07.2016.
- “Faschismus als neue Jugendbewegung? Der Erneuerungsanspruch organisierter Adoleszenz in Italien und England in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren“ at the Forschungskolloquium zur Vergleichs- und Verflechtungsgeschichte, 08.06.2015.
- “Exterritoriale Innenpolitik – die Indoktrination der Italiani all’Estero” at the conference “Le sfide del „secolo breve”: la storia e la storiografia tedesche e italiane tra guerra, dittatura e democrazia / Die Herausforderungen des „kurzen Jahrhunderts”: die deutsche und italienische Geschichte und Geschichtswissenschaft zwischen Krieg, Diktatur und Demokratie” Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, 15.-18.10.2014.
- “Organizing Leisure: the Extension of Propaganda into New Spheres by the Italian and British Fascist Movements” at the conference “Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945” Freie Universität Berlin, 19.-21.06.2014.
Organization of conferences
- “Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945“ Freie Universität Berlin, 19.-21.06.2014: Co-organization of the conference and chair at the panel “Conflicts and Violence”.