Please note that this schedule has been revised and is current as of October 18, 2021.

Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop Fall 2021 Schedule

Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM (CST)

Papers and Zoom links circulated one week in advance

Coordinators Elena Hoffenberg and Madeline Adams

 Week 1: September 29th

Kenneth B. Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College

Title: “National Renaissance and International Horizons: Editors’ Introduction to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, v. 7” (co-authored with Israel Bartal)

Week 3: October 13th

Greg Valdespino, PhD Candidate, History

Title: “At Home in Empire: Dwelling, Domesticity, and Welfare in France and Senegal, 1914-1974”

*Week 4*: October 20th (Co-hosted with CEERES)

This meeting is open to participants by RSVP only.

Kate Brown, Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Soviet Green is the Soviet Everyday: How the World’s Largest Ecological Movement was Mistaken as Failure”

 Week 7: November 10th

Fabian Baumann, Postdoctoral Fellow, History

Title: “Diverging Paths: An Intimate History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism in Late Imperial Kiev”

Week 8: November 17th

Roy Kimmey, PhD Candidate, History

Title: “Life beyond Labor: The ‘New (Romani) Socialist Man’”

Week 9: November 24th

NO MEETING

Week 11: December 8th

Abigail Holekamp, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Title: “Commemorating the Commune from Paris to Petersburg”