Winter 2020 Schedule

Dear all,
Welcome back! The Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop is pleased to announce the following program for Winter 2020. Please mark your calendars accordingly. Our workshop will meet in the John Hope Franklin Room on alternating Wednesdays from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, unless otherwise noted.
     Should you have any questions, or if there is any way we can help facilitate your participation, please contact us at kimmey@uchicago.edu or gvaldespino@uchicago.edu. Papers are precirculated the Wednesday before the scheduled workshop, and can be accessed either through our Canvas page or via WordPress, under the heading “Current Paper” (Password: HopeFranklin).
     We look forward to seeing you soon!
With sincerest best wishes,
Roy Kimmey and Gregory Valdespino, Co-coordinators

Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop

Winter 2020 Calendar
John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224
4:30-6:00 PM

January 15th

Anna Band, PhD Candidate, History

Title: “Between Haifa and Berlin: The Pension Struck as a Zionist Space of Belonging”

 

January 29th

Patrick Lewis, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Title: “Mardin, Mesopotamia and the Post-national University”

 

February 12th

Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History & German, University of Michigan

Title: “Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms”

Co-Sponsored with the Sound and Society Workshop

 

* Friday, February 21st

Seth Koven, G.E. Lessing Distinguished Professor of History and Poetics, Rutgers University

Title: “Educating Conscience in Mid-Nineteenth Century British India”

Location TBA, 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Co-Sponsored with Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Empires and Atlantics Forum

 

* Special History Day Meeting — Thursday, March 5th

Nicholas O’Neill, PhD Candidate, History

Title: “The Consumer Revolution: Accounting for Demand in the French Porcelain Industry, 1780–1800”

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