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Kim Christian Priemel

Professor - Historie
Email k.c.priemel@iakh.uio.no
Phone +47 22 85 72 13
Room NT 509
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Niels Treschows hus 0851 Phone +47-22857213
Postal address Postboks 1008 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Background

Following my studies at the Universities of Freiburg and St Andrews I took my PhD from Freiburg University with a dissertation in business history in 2007. After stints at the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History and Viadrina University Frankfurt I was an assistant professor (2009-2016) and a Dilthey Fellow (2012-2016) at Humboldt University Berlin. Upon completion of my Habilitation with a study of the Nuremberg war crimes trials I joined Oslo's Department of Archeology, Conservation, and History in 2016. Since 2018 I have been working as a professor of contemporary European history at IAKH. In the past, I have held research fellowships at the German Historical Institute London, Wolfson College Cambridge, and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Courses taught

Academic interests

Within the broad field of contemporary history my research interests include international legal history, the history of Nazi Germany and Holocaust Studies, labour history, modern media history, and problems of historiographical theory. I am currently working on a book project which is tentatively titled “The End of the World of Print” and which looks into how printing both as an industry and as a means of communication was transformed by the advent of electronics and digital media in the latter half of the twentieth century. Particular emphasis will be placed on what these changes meant for those involved in the industry – printers, compositors, bookbinders, but also authors and managers – as well as for consumers, i.e. readers. The project is both international and transnational in scope, reflecting technological transfer, business relations, trade union internationalism, and different implications of similar changes in various national and cultural contexts.

Tags: Contemporary History, Legal History, Social and Economic History, Holocaust Studies, International Histoy, Theory and method

Publications

Recent publications

  • "That Ain’t Working: Practices, Policies and Experiences of Non-Work in Western Europe, 1950–2000", Contemporary European History 34, no. 3 (2025), 573–580, doi.org/10.1017/S0960777325100921.
  • “The Ghosts of Fleet Street: What Did Not Working Mean in the British Printing Industry”, c.1950–80?, Contemporary European History 34, no. 3 (2025), 669–687. doi: 10.1017/S0960777325000086.
  • “Idiomatische Wendungen. Die britischen Druckgewerkschaften und das Unbehagen am Kapitalismus”, in: Felix Dümcke, Flemming Falz, and Tim Schanetzky (eds.), Krise der Kritik? Gegner des Kapitalismus im neoliberalen Zeitalter (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2025), 81-108.
  • “Corporate Liability and Its Untidy Boundaries: A Historical Genealogy of Business Accountability under International Criminal Law”, in Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant, and Jérôme Sgard (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation. Oxford University Press, 2025), 366–388. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190900571.001.0001.
  • (med Einar Lie, Christine Myrvang og Hanne Hagtvedt Vik), Norge etter 1914. Et lite land i en urolig verden (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2025).
  • “Genealogies of Transitional Justice”, in Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton, and Lawrence Douglas (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2025), 959–984.
  • “Fra patologisk kasus til produkt av situasjonen. Hvordan «gjerningsmannen» ble til i Holocaust-forskningen”, Agora 42 (2024), no. 1-2, 208–237. doi: 10.18261/agora.42.1-2.9.
  • “Trouver des chemins et poser des jalons. Le rôle de la Shoah dans les procès de Nuremberg et l’importance de Nuremberg pour la recherche sur la Shoah”, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains 292 (2023), no. 4, 11–26. doi: 10.3917/gmcc.292.0011.
  • “Searching for Order. German Jurists Debate Economic Power, 1919–1949”, in Moritz Föllmer and Pamela Swett (eds.), Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 85–114.
  • (with Marcus M. Payk). Crafting the International Order. Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800 (Oxford University Press, 2021).
  • (with Franz Hederer), “In der Schwebe. Markt, Staat und Wettbewerb in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1948”, Historische Zeitschrift 313 (2021), Nr. 1, 89–123. doi: 10.1515/hzhz-2021-0023.
  • (with Martin Lutz), “Powering Conquest. How German Corporations Sustained Occupation in World War II Ukraine”, Journal of Modern History 93 (2021), no. 3, 636–667. doi: 10.1086/715620.
  • "Cunning Passages: Historiography’s Ways in and out of the Nuremberg Courtroom", Central European History 53 (2020), no. 4, 785–810. doi: 10.1017/S0008938920000400.
  • “Historical Reasoning and Judicial Historiography in International Criminal Trials”, in Kevin Jon Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin, Darryl Robinson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), 519–539. doi:10.1093/law/9780198825203.003.0023.
  • “War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011”, in: Simone Gigliotti and Hilary Earl (eds.), A Companion to the Holocaust. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, 173–189.
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