Ute Frevert Max Planck Institute, Director Center for History of Emotions
Ute Frevert was an impressive lecturer, who had been Professor German History at Yale Univeresity from 2003-2007. Her research interests include social and cultural history of modern times, gender history, and political history. Some of her best known work examines the history of womem and gender relations in modern Germany. She is an honorary professor at the Free University in Berlin and was awarded the prestigious Leibnitz Prize in 1998. She presented this lecture in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, as pat of the Townsend Working Groups in German History and History of the Emotions. Trust breeds trust. Trust secures social cohesion. An issue of maintaining trust vs. betraying trust. Trust is voluntary a kind of gift. Asks for reciprocity. I trust you as long as you believe and act in terms of my self interest. Trust is based on some form of knowledge and past experience. Monarchs who trust people w...