Dear Colleagues,
Thank you all for an engaging and successful fall quarter at the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop. Please find the complete schedule for the upcoming Winter 2024 quarter below. As always, please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns. We’ll see you soon in the new year!
Rebecca Epstein-Boley and Tahel Goldsmith
Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop
Wednesdays, 4:00–5:30 PM
Coordinators: Tahel Goldsmith and Rebecca Epstein-Boley
Winter 2024
January 10th – Week 2
Tahel Goldsmith, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Beyond the Authentic: The Peripheries of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1947–1994”
Location: Social Sciences Tea Room (SSRB 201)
* Please note this session’s atypical location.
January 17th – Week 3
Alice Goff, Assistant Professor of German History and the College
Title: The God behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State
Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)
* This will be a joint session of TAMEW and the Research in Art and Visual Evidence (RAVE) workshop, featuring a panel discussion of Prof. Goff’s newly released book.
January 31st – Week 5
Ofer Ashkenazi, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: “Home as a Symbol of Migration: The Optimistic Melancholy of the Meyer Family’s Photo Album”
Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)
* This will be a joint session with the Jewish Studies Workshop.
CANCELED: February 14th – Week 7
Abigail Bratcher, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “The ‘Second Virgin Lands’ Campaign: From Soviet Pastoralism to Industrial Livestock Agriculture on the Kazakh Steppe, 1945–1964”
Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)
February 21st – Week 8
Laura Cremer, PhD Candidate, History
Title: TBA
Location: Pick Hall, Room 022
* Please note this session’s atypical location.