Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Cambridge), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Russell Foster (KCL), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa)

9 March 2022
Fascism and Finance. Economic Populism in Interwar Europe
Discussants: Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & LSE / German Historical Institute London), Christian Goeschel

2 February 2022
Book launch/discussion: Theodora Dragostinova, The Cold War from the Margins. Bulgaria on the Global Cultural Scene
An online event with Prof Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State University), in collaboration with the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University College London

26 January 2022
Decolonising German Memory
Discussants: Rita Chin (University of Michigan), Svenja Goltermann (Universität Zürich), Daniel Hedinger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), You Jae Lee (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool), Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester)

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Cambridge), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Russell Foster (KCL), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa)

18 May 2021
Book Launch/Discussion: Stella Ghervas (Newcastle) Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard University Press)
Discussants: Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University), Boyd van Dijk (Melbourne)
Chair: Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam)

17 March 2021
New Research Panel: Empires and Frontiers in the Balkans
Speakers: Jovan Pešalj (Leiden University), Constantin Ardeleanu (Galaţi/Bucharest), Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Rutgers University) , Discussant: Edin Hajdarpašić (Loyola University Chicago)

3 March 2021
A propaganda race? Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the midst of the Spanish Civil War
Speakers: Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Manchester Metropolitan University), Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester)

3 February 2021
Book Launch: Dominique Reill (University of Miami): The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.
Book launch/discussion: Judith Surkis, Sex, Law and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP).
Speakers: Dominique Reill (University of Miami), Irina Marin (Utrecht), Matthew Kerry (Stirling), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam)
Dominique Reill (Miami) presents her book The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Harvard University Press).
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam)
Discussants: Irina Marin (Utrecht), Matthew Kerry (Stirling)

16 December 2020
Book launch/discussion: Judith Surkis, Sex, Law and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP).
Chair: Philippa Hetherington

18 November 2020
Panel: Port and City in Modern Marseille
Venus Bivar (York), ‘Unsafe Harbor: A Political Ecology of Migration in Modern Marseille’
Emma Jennings (Birmingham): The Marseille Petroscape: Identity, Space and the Infrastructures of Oil, 1958-1975'
Chair: Simon Jackson

4 November 2020
Book launch/discussion: John Connelly (UCLA), From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press).
Chair: Celia Donert
Discussant: Jakub Benes (SSEES)

21 October 2020
Roundtable: Rethinking Modern European History in the Age of COVID-19
Chair: Christian Goeschel Discussant: Daniel Banks (EUI), Monica Black (Tennessee), Sebastian Majstorovic (EUI), Jennifer Sessions (Virginia)

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Russell Foster (KCL), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Jan Rüger (Birkbeck), Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa)

29 January 2020
Book launch/discussion: Paul Stock (LSE), Europe and the British Geographical Imagination 1760-1830 (OUP)
Chair: Russell Foster
Discussants: Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Jessica Patterson (QMUL)
In collaboration with British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar

11 December 2019
Book launch/discussion: Konstantina Zanou, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850. Stammering the Nation.
Discussants: Joanna Innes (Oxford), Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths), Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck)
In collaboration with the Modern Italian History Seminar

23 October 2019
Book launch/discussion: Marie-Janine Calic, The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe, trans. E. Janik (Harvard UP, 2019).
Chair: Dejan Djokic
Discussants: (LMU Munich), Cathie Carmichael (UEA), Alex Drace-Francis
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

9 October 2019
Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck): Disentangling the Mediterranean? Decolonisation and the Departure of Italians from Egypt
Chair: Jan Rüger
In collaboration with the Modern Italy seminar

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Russell Foster (KCL), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Jan Rüger (Birkbeck), Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa)

May 15 2019
Matteo Millan (Università degli Studi di Padova),‘The role and impact of armed associationism in Europe before the First World War’
Chair: Christian Goeschel

May 1 2019
Natasha Pesaran (Columbia), ‘Towards a History of the Iraq-Mediterranean Oil Pipelines, 1932-1968’
Chair: Simon Jackson

13 March 2019
(in collaboration with the Modern Italian History seminar) Venue: Past & Present room, 202 (IHR)
‘Social movements and revolutionary imagination: reassessing the Italian 1969 'Hot Autumn' in a transnational perspective’. Round-table discussion with Ilaria Favretto (Kingston); Xavier Vigna (Paris Nanterre); Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Chair: Nico Pizzolato

March 6 2019
Book launch/discussion: Benno Gammerl (Goldsmiths), Subjects, Citizens and Others: Administering Ethnic heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918, trans. J.W. Neuheiser (Berghahn, 2018).
Chair: Celia Donert
Discussants: Mark Cornwall (Southampton); Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam)

February 20 2019
Matilda Greig (Sciences Po Reims), ‘War for Sale: Violence, Veterans and their Publishers (1808-1914)’
Chair: Lucy Riall

February 6 2019
ECR panel: Eliana Hadjisavvas (IHR) ‘Internment and Empire: Jewish Displacement beyond Central Europe - The case of the Cyprus Camps, 1946-1949’ and Vesna Lukić (Royal Holloway), ‘The River Danube as a Holocaust Landscape: Journey of the Kladovo Transport’.
Chair: Dejan Djokić/Simon Jackson
In collaboration with the Jewish History Seminar

January 23 2019
Launch of Christian Goeschel, Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance (Yale University Press, 2018).
Chair: Celia Donert
Discussant: Robert Gerwath (University College Dublin)

January 9 2019
Launch of Dora Vargha, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Chair: Celia Donert
Discussant: Monika Baár
In collaboration with Centre for Study of Internationalism, Birkbeck

28 Noemberv 2018
‘Global Yugoslavia’, a half-day conference (1:30-7:00pm), funded by Past & Present, RME and Goldsmiths Balkans Centre. Goldsmiths, Richard Hoggart Building, room 309
Convener: Dejan Djokić. Full details here: http://pastandpresent.org.uk/introducing-global-yugoslavia/

14 November Book launch/discussion: Artemy Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam), A Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press),
Chair: Dejan Djokic

22 Oct 2018
Screening of ‘Legend of the Ugly King’, dir. Hüseyin Tabak (Austria, 2018), 122 mins
Winner: Beyond the Borders Festival prize for best historical documentary, 2018. Curzon Goldsmiths. Joint IHR-RME-Goldsmiths Balkans Centre event (post screening Q&A co-chairs: Jo Fox (IHR) and Dejan Djokic)

17 October 2018
David Todd (King's College London), ‘Empire of taste: French commodities and global power in the nineteenth century’
In collaboration with French History seminar

10 October 2018
Yanni Kotsonis (NYU), ‘Black, Greek, and Imperial: Greekness, Race, and Religion in the Revolutionary Age, 1797-1830’
Chair: Philippa Hetherington
In collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

3 October 2018
Launch of Ian Kershaw, Rollercoaster, Europe 1950-2017 (Allen Lane, 2018).
Discussant: Christian Goeschel

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Jan Rüger (Birkbeck), Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa)

13 June 2018
Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute London): ‘Babylon in Storage: Canonisation and decanonization on Berlin’s Museum Island’

31 May 2018
Book launch/discussion: Celia Donert, The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Cambridge UP)
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
Discussants: Michael Stewart (UCL), Becky Taylor (UEA)
In collaboration with Wiener Holocaust Library

16 March 2018
Roundtable - Empire, Race and Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century
Eleanor Davey (University of Manchester), Claire Eldridge (University of Leeds), Sarah Frank (University of the Free state), Nina Wardleworth (University of Leeds)
Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, University of Birmingham - postponed (this was eventually held Friday 19 October 2018. 11-13h More Information

7 March 2018
James Kapalo (University College Cork): ‘The Appearance of Saints: Photography as incrimination and religious justification in Secret Police Archives in Romania and the Republic of Moldova’
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
Held at Amsterdam In collaboration with EAST seminar, European Studies Dept, University of Amsterdam

28 February 2018
David Todd (KCL), ‘Empire of taste: French commodities and global power in the nineteenth century’
In collaboration with Modern French History Seminar

14 February 2018
Empires of Race and Spirit: France and Spain in the Americas, 1860s-1920s, panel discussion Miquel de la Rosa (Sciences-Po, Le Havre), Gäel Sanchez Cano (European University Institute)

31 January 2018
Nicholas Mulder (Columbia University), ‘The Peacewar: The Economic Weapon in Interwar Europe, 1917-1941’
Chair: Simon Jackson

17 January 2018
Book launch/discussion: Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College), From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World (Cornell University Press)
Chair: Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck)
Discussants: Alessandro Iandolo (Oxford), Julia Lovell (Birkbeck)
In collaboration with Centre for Study of Internationalism, Birkbeck

6 December 2017
Book launch/discussion: Mark Jones (University College Dublin), Founding Weimar. A French History of the German Revolution.'
Chair: Astrid Swenson

22 November 2017
Dejan Jovic (Zagreb), ‘The Russian Revolution and National Self-determination in Modern Europe: The cases of Yugoslavia, Scotland and Catalonia’
Chair: Dejan Djokic

8 November 2017
Artemis Ignatidou (Brunel), 'Overtones of a nationalism: negotiating western art music into 19th c. Greek cultural reality’
Chair: Astrid Swenson

25 October 2017
Marco Duranti (Sydney) : The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
Discussant Mira Siegelberg
Chair: Simon Jackson

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Philippa Hetherington (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Lucy Riall (EUI), Jan Rüger (Birkbeck), Astrid Swenson (Brunel)

28 June 2017
Book launch/discussion: Jan Rüger, Heligoland (OUP, 2017)
Chair: Philippa Hetherington
Discussants: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt), David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)

7 June 2017
Book launch/discussion: Pieter Judson, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard UP, 2016)
Chair: Lucy Riall

1-2 June 2017
Workshop ‘Empires after the Global Turn: Planned Migrations, Colonial Agents and Informal Imperialism,’
Chairs; Lucy Riall, Pieter Judson (EUI)
Papers by Jose Juan Perez Menendez, Gonzalo San Emeterio Cabanes, Tim Chamberlain, Miquel de la Rosa, Gael Sanchez Cano, Giulia Bonazza, Alessandro Bonvini, Heloisa Rojas Gomez, Damian Clavel, David Todd Full programme
In Collaboration with Imperial History Working Group, EUI

22 March 2017
Natasha Wheatley (University of Cambridge & University of Sydney)
‘The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Legal History of Decolonization’
Chair: Philippa Hetherington

9 March 2017
book launch/discussion: Richard Evans, The Pursuit of Power. Europe, 1815-1914 (Allen Lane)
Chair: Jan Rüger
Discussants: Lucy Riall, Dejan Djokic

21 Februar 2017
Dirk Moses (Sydney/EUI), ‘The Intellectual Origins of the Genocide Concept’
Chair: Dejan Djokic

12 December 2016
Laure Humbert (Manchester): ‘In the Shadow of Nazi Occupation: French Administration of Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany, 1945-47’
In collaboration with Modern French History Seminar

30 November 2016
Glenda Sluga (Sydney): ‘Gender, Sex, and International Society, 1814.’
Chair: Philippa Hetherington
In collaboration with the UCL Gender and Feminism Seminar

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (EUI), Jan Rüger (Birkbeck)

11 May 2016
Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA / EUI): ‘Settler colonialism and the Protestant Bible: Ben-Gurion reads the Book of Joshua’Chair: Christian Goeschel (Manchester)

26 April 2016
Aaron Moore (Manchester): 'The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945'
Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck)
A Joint session with the Rethinking Modern Europe and Comparative Histories of Asia seminars

3 February 2016
Philippa Hetherington (UCL): ‘Red Lights on the Black Sea: the Traffic in Women and the Production of Imperial Russia's Southern Border’
Kate Marsh (Liverpool): '”Une association mondiale de trafiquants”: Le Havre and the Politics of Trafficking, 1919–39' Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
Discussant: Christian Noack (Amsterdam)

27 January 2016
Susan Pedersen (Columbia), ‘Framework Trouble. Britain, the League of Nations, and the Italo-Ethiopian War’
Chair: Simon Jackson

16 December 2015
Vanessa Ogle (Philadelphia) ‘The Global Transformation of Time’
Chair: Simon Jackson
In collaboration with the Seminar on Imperial and Global History

20 November 2015
(Berlin): Xavier Bougarel (Paris) ‘Ideological Struggles and Survival Strategies: What the Second World War in Yugoslavia Tells Us about European History’
Chair: Dejan Djokić
In collaboration with Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of the Balkans and Department for South-East European History, Humboldt University Berlin

7 October 2015
Malte Rolf (Bamberg), ‘”Limits to Growth” in Soviet Perspective: Critical Discourses on Modernity in the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s’
Chair: Stephen Lovell

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Mary Hilson (UCL), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (EUI), Mary Vincent (Sheffield)

Wednesday 22 October / Thursday 23 October 2014
European Nationalism (in collaboration with the UCL European Institute)

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 5.30 pm
Andrew Newby (Helsinki),
‘The Analogy Between Finland and Ireland is Almost Perfect': Nationalism and Separatism on Opposite Sides of Europe, c. 1886-1922
Chair: Mary Hilson (UCL)
Venue: IHR, Seminar Room 2 (Second floor)

23 October 2014, 6pm
History and nationalism. Spain and Catalonia in a comparative context
Nicola Miller (UCL), Paul Preston (LSE), Enric Ucelay-Da Cal (Barcelona)
Venue: UCL, Gustave Tuck LT (Gower Street, Wilkins Building, South Wing, 2nd floor)

Wednesday 3 December 2014, 5.30 pm
Göran Rydén (Uppsala)
Eighteenth-century European expansion: perspectives from the European periphery
Discussant: Zoltán Biedermann (UCL)
Chair: Mary Hilson (UCL)
Venue: IHR, Seminar Room 2 (Second floor)

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 5.30 pm
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Berkeley), ‘Human Rights and History‘
Discussant: Professor Stephen Hopgood (SOAS)
Chair: Celia Donert (Liverpool)
Venue: Athlone Room, Senate House

Jan 28 2015
Panel: New research on popular and everyday culture in Eastern Europe in socialist times
Radina Vucetić (University of Belgrade): ‘Coca-cola Socialism in Yugoslavia: How American Popular Culture Worked for Socialism’
Dean Vuletic (Marie Curie Fellow, University of Vienna): ‘Eurovision and Intervision: The Cold War Song Contest’
Diana Georgescu (Max Weber Fellow, EUI): ‘The Socialist Nerd: Youth, Ideology and Cultured Life in Late Socialist Romania’
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

25 Mar 2015
Book launch/discussion: Frederick Anscombe (Birkbeck), State, Faith and Nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Lands (Cambridge, 2014).
Chair: Simon Jackson
Discussants: Benjamin Fortna (SOAS), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam)

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Celia Donnert (Liverpool), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Axel Körner (UCL), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (EUI), Mary Vincent (Sheffield)

9 October 2013
Tara Zahra (Chicago): Travel Agents on Trial: Emigration and Freedom in East Central Europe, 1889-1948
Chair: Dejan Djokic
Discussant Josie McLellan (Bristol)
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

21 November 2013
Sheldon Garon (Princeton): On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Germany and Britain in WWII
Chair: Naoko Shimazo (Birkbeck)
In collaboration with the Comparative Histories of Asia seminar

4 December 2013
Miriam Dobson (Sheffield): ‘“This Hellish Atomic Technology”: Pacifism, Patriotism, and Soviet Evangelicals in the Early Cold War’
Chair: Stephen Lovell
In collaboration with the Modern Religious History seminar

9 January 2014
Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool) & Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam) presented their book Black Germany (OUP)
Chair: Celia Donert

29 January 2014
Alexander Watson (Goldsmiths), ‘The Peoples' War: Popular Mobilisation, War Cultures and the Collapse of Society and State in Central Europe, 1914-1918’
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
In collaboration with War, Culture & Society Seminar

12 February 2014
Book launch/discussion: Dan Stone (Royal Holloway) Goodbye to All That. Europe since 1945 (Oxford University Press)
Chair: Celia Donert
Discussants: Lucy Riall, Vlad Zubok (LSE)

26 March 2014
Maria Boehmer (EUI): 'Circulating knowledge between nations: a medical case history in 19th-century Europe' & Lisa Plotkin (UCL): 'At Home in the Asylum: Women & Curative Space at the Holloway Sanatorium, 1885-1912'
Chair: Axel Körner

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Axel Körner (UCL), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (EUI), Mary Vincent (Sheffield)

17 October 2012
Martin Conway (Oxford) The Shape of Democracy in post-war Western Europe, 1945-68
Chair: Mary Vincent

31 October 2012
Human Rights and the End of the Cold War
A discussion based on Sarah Snyder’s book: Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Discussants: Geoffrey Hosking (UCL) and Piers Ludlow (LSE)
Chair: Axel Körner
In collaboration with the UCL Centre for Transnational History

14 November 2012
Cathie Carmichael (UEA) ‘Imagining Bosnia without Serbs: The Ustasha, the Drina Border and Exile in Spain’
Chair: Dejan Djokić
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

12 December 2012
‘European Regionalism’, a debate with Maiken Umbach (Nottingham) and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (Santiago de Compostela)
Chair: Mary Vincent

23 Jan 2013
Jan Plamper (Goldsmiths) ‘Making Future Soldiers: The Emotional Socialisation of Children in Late Imperial Russia’
Chair: Dejan Djokić

20 Feb 2013
Celia Donert (Liverpool) ‘Beyond the Fragments: Women's Rights in Postwar Europe, East and West’
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis

20 March 2013
A discussion of Lucy Riall’s new book
Under the Volcano: Empire and Revolution in a Sicilian Town (Oxford University Press, 2013)
(In collaboration with the Modern Italian History seminar series).
Discussants: Margot Finn (UCL) and Marta Petrusewicz (Hunter College, NY)
Chair: Axel Körner

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam), Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck), Axel Körner (UCL), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck), Mary Vincent (Sheffield)

Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Book Presentation:
Stephen Conway (UCL)
Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Similarities, Connections, Identities (OUP, 2011)
Discussants: Timothy Blanning (Cambridge), Ian McBride (KCL)
Chair: Axel Körner (UCL)

Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Anna von der Goltz (Cambridge) and Holger Nehring (Sheffield),
‘Writing the history of European protest movements since the 1960s’
Chair: Mary Vincent

Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) / Dina Gusejnova (UCL),
‘Agents of Internationalism in Interwar Europe’
Chair: Stephen Lovell / Axel Körner

Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Alex Korb (Leicester) and Mary Vincent (Sheffield),
‘The Spanish Falange and the Croatian Ustasha - comparative perspectives’
Chair: Christian Goeschel

Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Simon Dixon (UCL/SSEES),
‘Celebrity Monks in Late Imperial Russia’
Chair: Stephen Lovell

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Mark Cornwall (Southampton) and Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University Berlin),
‘Shifting allegiances among the nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires’
Chair: Dejan Djokić
In collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Patrick Bernard (Freiburg),
‘Forgotten war crimes. Italy and the ill-treatment of allied POWs of the Second World War’
Chair: Lucy Riall
In collaboration with the Modern Italy seminar (IHR)

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck), Helen Jones (Goldsmiths), Axel Körner (UCL), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck), Mary Vincent (Sheffield)

Pamela Ballinger (Michigan)
Displacing Empire: mobility, immobility, and the repatriation of Italian settlers from Libya
Chair: Christian Goeschel

Antonio D’Alessandri (Roma III)
The ‘Eastern Question’ and France: nationalism, revolution and exile after 1848-49
Chair: Mary Vincent

Peter Gatrell (Manchester)
The uses of displacement: perspectives from modern European history
Chair: Helen Jones

Daniel Beer (RHUL)
Personal freedom in the House of the Dead: exile to Siberia 1870-1900
Chair: Stephen Lovell

Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)
Diasporas and circulation of ideas in the era of the liberal revolutions
Chair: Axel Körner

David Feldman (Birkbeck),
Migrants, immigrants and welfare in modern Britain
Chair: Helen Jones

Richard Clogg (Oxford)
Defining the diaspora: the case of the Greeks
Chair: Dejan Djokic

Professor Jonathan Steinberg (Pennsylvania)
Biography as history: the case of Otto von Bismarck
Please note: This is a special joint session with the Modern German History Seminar

Seminar convenors: Dejan Djokić (Goldsmiths), Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck), Helen Jones (Goldsmiths), Axel Körner (UCL), Stephen Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck)

Peter Burke (Cambridge): The European Republic of Letters, 1500‒2000
Chair: Lucy Riall

Katherine Fleming (New York): Herzl at the Akropolis-or-Big Histories, Small States: Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation
Chair: Axel Körner

Maria Todorova (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Historical legacies between Europe and the Near East
Chair: Dejan Djokić
In collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Balkans

Dominic Lieven (LSE): The Napoleonic Wars: European or Global Conflict?
Chair: Stephen Lovell

Bianca Gaudenzi (Cambridge): Commercial Advertising in Germany and Italy, 1918 – 1945
Chair: Stephen Gundle (Warwick)
In cooperation with the Modern Italian and German History seminars

Emma de Angelis (LSE): Eastern Europe and European identity in the discourse of the European Parliament, 1974‒2004
Chair: Dejan Djokić

Catriona Kelly (Oxford): A European City in Russia: Rethinking the History of St Petersburg
Chair: Stephen Lovell

Richard Overy (Exeter) and Richard Vinen (KCL)
Britain through a European prism
Chair: Helen Jones

24 May
Fascism and the historians: past, present and future
Geoff Eley (Michigan): Where are we now with theories of Fascism?
Giulia Albanese (degli Studi di Padova): National and transnational outlooks. New approaches to Italian fascism
Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck): Entanglements between Fascism and Nazism before 1933
Chair: Lucy Riall (Birkbeck); Commentator: Daniel Pick (Birkbeck)
In co-operation with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London.
Followed by a roundtable discussion with Geoff Eley, Kevin Passmore, Naoko Shimazu and Stephen Gundle, chaired by Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck).