Dear Colleagues,
Below is the complete Spring 2021 schedule for the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the workshop will take place over Zoom. Should you have any questions, or if there is any way we can help facilitate your participation, please contact us at benvanzee@uchicago.edu or abratcher@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).
Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop Spring 2021 Schedule
Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM (CST)
Meeting on Zoom: Link to be Circulated with Each Paper a Week in Advance
Coordinators Abigail Bratcher and Ben Van Zee
March 31st
Carl Kubler, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Sojourners: Chinese Migrants and Intermediaries in the Western World, 1780-1840”
April 14th
Julia Mead, PhD Student, History
Title: “Socialist Rust Belt: Energy, Masculinity, and the End of Czechoslovak Socialism”
April 28th
Natalie Smith, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “A State of Permanent Combustion”: Urban and Coastal Soap Pollution in Marseille, 1820s-1840s”
May 12th
Tahel Goldsmith, PhD Student, History
Title: “In Space We Feel Time: Authenticity and The Shaping and Reshaping of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, and Bergen-Belsen, 1945-2000”
May 26 – Book Discussion
Faith Hillis, Associate Professor, History
Please join us for an informal group discussion of Faith’s new book, Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s, Oxford University Press, 2021.
We look forward to seeing you all at the upcoming workshop.
Best,
Ben Van Zee and Abigail Bratcher