Dr. phil. Verena Lehmbrock
Publications
Publications after promotion (**peer reviewed)
Varieties of Psychologization in Communist Europe, Sammelband, Herausgeberschaft zus. mit Martin Wieser, Oxford University Press, Reihe: New Histories of Psychology (erscheint voraussichtl. 2024)**
Der denkende Landwirt. Agrarwissen und Aufklärung in Deutschland 1750–1820 (Norm und Struktur 50). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau 2020.
Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany’s social psychological training, Journal for the history of the behavioral sciences 59 (2023), 283–300 (Special Issue: Historicizing “Therapeutic Culture”: Towards a Material and Polycentric History of Psychologization), https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22212.**
Rezension: Solovey, Mark und Christian Dayé (Hrsg.). Cold War social science: Transnational entanglements, Palgrave Macmillan: 2021, Centaurus (erscheint 2024).
Elevated to the Ranks of a Science. Manual Labor and Albert Thaer’s Doctrine of Rational Agriculture, Science in Context (2023, im Druck).**
Wie entsteht eine geisteswissenschaftliche Tatsache? Interview mit Dr. Verena Lehmbrock über das Veröffentlichen von Arbeitstagebüchern, L.I.S.A. das Wissenschaftsportal der Gisela Henkel-Stiftung, 2023.
Early modern echo chambers. Material improvement, social inequality, and the restricted circulation of knowledge in 19th Century Bavaria, Journal for the History of Knowledge 3 (2022), 1–13. doi.org/10.55283/jhk.11356.**
Tracing the co-evolution of economy and the self through the lens of a single concept: the rational farmer. A plea for inter-relational approaches to conceptual history, in: Hendriksen, Marieke & Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (ed.): Early Modern Understandings of Knowledge 1500–1900 (Knowledge Societies in History 5). Abingdon, New York: Routledge (angenommen).**
Peasant Eyes: A Critique of the Agricultural Enlightenment, in: van Molle, Leen und Yves Segers (Hg.): Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe since 1700–2000. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer 2022, 50–75.**
Eine Intervention zur Befähigung des sozialistischen Leiters. Funktion und Bedeutung des sozialpsychologischen Trainings in der DDR, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 48 (2022): 247– 271.**
Common and not so Common Serendipities of Research, Journal for the History of Knowledge Blog, 2022.
La littérature agronomique du point de vue du monde paysan. Le témoignage d’un fermier bavarois en 1834, in: Delleaux, Fulgence (Hg.), La plume et la terre. Écrire sur son exploitation agricole en Europe occidentale (1650–1850), Namur, Presses universitaires de Namur 2021, 185–198.
Rezension: Dauser, Regina, Peter Fassl und Lothar Schilling (Hg.), Wissenszirkulation auf dem Land vor der Industrialisierung. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag 2016 (Documenta Augustana 26), Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 66 (2018), 98–100.
Zur Geschichte einer Metakategorie: Das ‚Empirische‘ in der deutschen Aufklärung und frühen Agrarwissenschaft um 1800, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 39 (2016), 79–98.**
Recent talks
06/2023
From intellectual imperialism to open system: Leon Festinger’s frustrations with the SSRC project on transnational social psychology/ 55th Annual meeting of Cheiron/ Fordham University, NYC.
02/2023
Panel discussion: “Wozu Frühneuzeitgeschichte? Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme zu Ehren Prof. Dr. Stefan Brakensiek“/ Universität Duisburg-Essen.
01/2023
Invited talk: Empowering the socialist leader. Group dynamics under state-socialism in the 1970s/ Workshop L'art du leadership de part et d'autre du rideau de fer, Perspectives croisées sur l'histoire de la psychologie en entreprise/ SAGE/ Université de Strasbourg.
09/2022
Invited talk: Examining the coevolution of economy, subjectivity, and knowledge through the lens of economic personae (18th–20th c.)/ HT Talks: History & Theory of Psychology Evening Colloquium Series/ Toronto.
05/2022
Research seminar: The Eigensinn and Political Epistemology of East German Kollektiv Psychology/ Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Techno-logy/ University of Toronto.
03/2022
Fellowship talk: ‘Freedom is to be with oneself in another.’ A Cross-Bloc Friendship in the Cold War Social Sciences/ German Historical Institute Colloquium/ Washington DC.
07/2021
Paying attention to each other. Psychological expertise, therapeutic culture, and politics in the German Democratic Republic/ 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prag.
Recent events
03/2024
Writing workshop on the history of the sciences of the psyche/ Forum for the history of the human sciences in cooperation with the universities of Erfurt and Lübeck and the historical specialist group of the DGPs/ Planning and implementation/ University of Erfurt.
06/2023
International Conference / 55th Annual Meeting of Cheiron – The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences/ co-program chair (with Ian Davidson)/ Fordham University, NYC.
06/2022
International Conference/ Psychology in Communist Europe: Expertise and Governance/ Concept, third-party funding, planning, implementation (with Martin Wieser)/ University of Erfurt.
03/2022
Workshop History of Psychology and the Sciences of the Human Mind/ Cooperation Forum History and Theory of the Human Sciences, Erfurt History of Science and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/ Concept planning, implementation (with Laurens Schlicht)/ online.
