Modern European History Workshop


2014-11-26 18:00: Friedrich von Gentz, the Congress of Vienna, and the problem of Perpetual Peace (Jonathan Green (Trinity Hall))

2015-10-20 17:00: National narratives, politics and historiography: A Franco-British comparison (Professor Robert Tombs (St John's College, Cambridge))

2015-11-03 17:00: ‘Les Anglais apprendront à boire’: how the successes and failures of French wine in nineteenth-century England were seen from France (Graham Harding (St Cross College, Oxford))

2015-11-10 17:00: Male consumer culture in nineteenth-century Oxford (Dr Sabine Chaouche (New College, Oxford))

2015-11-24 17:00: Images and representations of the Habsburg dynasty in the English public sphere, 1710-1713 (Philip Hitchings (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge))

2016-01-19 17:00: Post-war Memory Politics in Germany and Britain (Tiia Sahrakorpi (University College London) and Daniel Cowling (Wolfson College, Cambridge) )

2016-02-02 17:00: Nationalism, Monarchy and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Norway, 1889-1914  (Eirik Roesvik (Christ’s College, Cambridge))

2016-02-10 17:00: Prussian Palimpsests: The Architectural and Urban Legacy of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1961 (Marcus Colla (King’s College, Cambridge))

2016-03-08 17:00: Richard Thurnwald and the Politics of Expropriated Ethnographica in the Post-war Pacific (Viktor Stoll (Hughes Hall, Cambridge))

2016-10-11 17:00: War, Finance and Diplomacy: Gerson von Bleichröder and the Path to German Economic Unification (Sabine Schneider (St John's College, Cambridge))

2016-10-18 17:00: Regime criminality and transitional justice in reunited Germany, 1989-2004 (Philipp Ebert (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge))

2016-11-01 17:00: Neapolitans and Sicilians in the British Navy, c.1780 – c.1815 (Sara Caputo (Robinson College, Cambridge))

2016-11-15 17:00: Sources and Methods Workshop: Voices from the (Nazi) perpetrator side and the limits of oral history (Dr Stefanie Rauch (UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies))

2016-11-29 17:00: The Evacuation of Gibraltarians in the Spanish and British Press, 1940–1951 (Álvaro López Franco (University of Málaga and Wolfson College, Cambridge))

2016-12-06 17:00: The French state and the revolution of 1848 (Jerome Greenfield (St Catharine's College, Cambridge))

2017-01-18 17:00: ‘The Feeling of Self-Affirmation’: Individualism in 1980s Youth Styles in the Two Germanys (Alissa Bellotti (Carnegie Mellon University))

2017-01-31 17:00: The End of Imperial Russia in Western Historiography: An International Historian’s Perspective (Professor Dominic Lieven (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2017-02-14 17:00: The SS-Kalender and the Dilemmas of Propagandizing the Volksgemeinschaft, 1938-1944 (Timothy J. Schmalz (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge))

2017-03-07 17:00: Post-war Politics in Southern Europe (Parker Lawson (Selwyn College, Cambridge) and Matthias Dilling (Nuffield College, Oxford))

2017-03-14 17:00: Reconfiguring National Identities in East Germany and Poland, 1945–1970 (Simon Coll (University College London))

2017-04-25 17:00: Staging Poland: Vaudeville, Melodrama, and the Appropriation of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century French Theatre (Maeve Devitt Tremblay (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge))

2017-05-02 17:00: 1848 in Germany and Austria (Christos Aliprantis (Pembroke College, Cambridge) and Sarah Schaefer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal))

2017-10-17 16:45: Time Warps during the French Revolution (Dr Rhys Jones, Sidney Sussex College)

2017-10-31 16:45: Fascism & Porridge: Health, Fitness, and the Ideas of Sven Olov Lindholm (Nathaniël Kunkeler, Trinity College)

2017-11-14 17:00: The Dangers of Research (Professor David Reynolds, Christ's College)

2017-11-21 16:45: Basque and French: Ethnicity, Culture, and Geography in Basque Political Thought (1780s-1850s) (Talitha Ilacqua, King's College London)

2018-01-30 16:45: Popular Culture and the 'Holocaust by Bullets' (Sander Lutz (Queens' College, Cambridge))

2018-02-13 16:45: The Warsaw Uprising in Polish Popular Culture after 1989 (Chelsea Michta (Queens' College, Cambridge))

2018-02-27 16:45: Cooperation, Construction, Coercion, Consent: Understanding the Role of Reimagined Urban Space within Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (James Fortuna (Magdalene College, Cambridge))

2018-03-13 16:45: Why Do We Need Another Biography of Hitler? (Prof. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University))

2018-04-24 10:00: British Insurance and the Spanish Civil War (Stephen Rainbird (Trinity Hall))

2018-05-08 10:00: Léon Blum and the Socialist Response to Neo-Socialism (David Klemperer (St. Edmund's College))

2018-05-22 10:00: The Potempa Murder and Political Violence in Germany's Interwar Borderlands (Luisa Hulsrøj (Trinity Hall))

2018-05-31 00:00: An 'Historical Mafia': The U.C.D.-Peterhouse Connection (Max Lambert (Gonville & Caius College))

2018-06-05 10:00: Promoting Modern Art in Post-War Germany, 1945-1962 (Christina Rothenhäusler (Pembroke College))

2018-10-16 10:00: 1967 as a Turning Point for West German Foreign Policy in the Middle East (Philipp Hirsch (Sidney Sussex College))

2018-10-30 10:00: Kaiser Wilhelm II and Norway (Eirik Roesvik (Christ's College))

2018-11-13 17:00: Royalty in the Mountains: Russian Tsars Visiting the Caucasus (Dr Hubertus Jahn (Clare College))

2018-11-27 10:00: The Nationality of Psychology and Science: French Debates c. 1870-1890 (Valentina Mann (Christ's College))

2019-01-29 10:00: In Defense of the West? West-German Strategic Thought and the Idea of a European Army, 1950-70 (Jan Tattenberg (New College, Oxford))

2019-02-12 10:00: 'Europhobes,' 'Eurofanatics' and 'Gutless Whingers': the EEC, the Parties and the Electorate in Britain, 1983-4 (Taym Saleh (Queens' College))

2019-02-28 11:00: Wallachia Before Europe: the 1848 Revolution on the European Stage (James Morris (Emmanuel College))

2019-03-12 10:00: AI's Gender Problem: A Modernist Perspective (Dr Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College))

2019-05-07 10:00: Panel on 'Contested Sovereignty: Order and Revolution in 19th Century Italy' (Anya Ciccone (Hughes Hall); Alessandro Capone (Sciences Po); Giuseppe Grieco (Queen Mary University of London))

2019-05-21 10:00: Wirydianna Fiszerowa's Memoirs: A Noblewoman's Perspective on Public and Private Life in Eighteenth-Century Poland (Katarzyna Brzezinska (Clare College) )

2019-06-04 10:00: Reproductive Rights Movements in Spain, 1970s-1980s (Roseanna Webster (King's College))