Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop Winter 2022 Schedule

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

Papers and Zoom links circulated one week in advance

Coordinators Elena Hoffenberg and Madeline Adams

Schedule Revised February 8, 2022

Week 1, January 12th – Co-hosted with US History & Culture Workshop

Esther Isaac, PhD Student, History

Title: “‘Nothing but Complete Revolution Can Free Her’: Anarchist Women and Feminist Prefigurative Politics in Chicago and Paris, 1871-1914”

Week 2, January 19th 

Filip Herza, Visiting Fulbright Scholar from the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Title: “Colonial Czechoslovakia? Overseas and Internal Colonisation in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic”

Week 4, February 2nd (in-person)

Dimitri Diagne, PhD Student in History, UC Berkeley

Title: “’Among the French People’: The Departmentalization of Mayotte and the Colonial Politics of Inclusion”

This workshop is currently scheduled to take place on the University of Chicago campus in line with the university’s COVID-19 protocols. Information will be circulated for how to register to attend. Any changes to plans for this workshop will be communicated in advance.

Week 8, February 23rd

Ben Van Zee, PhD Candidate, History

Title: “The Imperial Welfare State: The Making of German and Polish Welfare States At Home and Abroad in the Age of Mass Migration”

Week 9, March 2nd

Conversation: Historical Perspectives on Ukraine Today