The Holberg Lecture 2011: Jürgen Kocka: "On Civil Society and the Welfare State"

Full Title: "Conflicts and Correspondence Between Civil Society and the Welfare State" Lecture by Jürgen Kocka at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2011. Jürgen Kocka is the Holberg Prize Laureate 2011. He is a historian of modern Germany and Europe and he is particularly interested in comparative approaches, social history and cooperation with the social sciences. From 1973 to 2009 he taught history at the University of Bielefeld and the Free University of Berlin. As a Visiting Professor he teaches regularly at the University of California, Los Angeles and he is presently a Permanent Fellow at the International Research Center re:work at the Humboldt University in Berlin.