Late Modern History Research Seminar Programme

Semeter 2 2012/13

Convenors: Dr Bernhard Struck and Dr Tomasz Kamusella

Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place in Room 1.10, St Katharine's Lodge at 4.30 pm. Refreshments will be provided.

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6 February (week 2)
Klaus Dittrich (Hanyang University, Seoul)        
Bourgeois and Transnational? - The mechanics of European and American life in Korea, 1882-1910

13 February (week 3)                                
Holger Nehring (University of Sheffield)
The Last Battle of the Cold War. Peace Movements, German politics, and the myth of transnationalism

20 February (week 4)                       
David Motadel (Cambridge University)
Spectacles of Sovereignty: The European Tours of Persian Shahs in the Era of High Imperialism

Tuesday, 5 March (week 6)
Scott Nelson (College of William & Mary)
The Panic of 1873, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the Death of Liberal Europe: Sigmund Freud, Anton Chekhov, Rosa Luxemburg, and Dwight Moody
(NB: Day: Tuesday, Time: 5.15 pm, Venue: New Seminar Room, St John's House)

13 March (week 7)                          
Co-organized with the Reformation and Early Modern Seminar
(Convenor: Bridget Heal)
Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge University)
Diglossia in Early Modern Europe
(NB: Venue: Parliament Hall)

24 April (week 11)
Dirk Moses (EUI, Florence)
Partitions, Forced Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights in Central Europe During the 1930s and 1940s


1 May (week 12)
Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
Tapuio Travels: Entangled Visions from the Eighteenth-Century Amazon

                  

 

 

 

 

 

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