October 16th: Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate, History Title: “In a Milieu Where Everything is Foreign”: Foyers, West African Migrants and the Search for Home in Interwar France”
November 6th: Thomas Snyder, PhD Candidate, History Title: “The Rise and Fall of the Behemoth: Franz Neumann’s Visions of Weimar Constitutionalism and Denazification”
November 20th: Tomasso Visone, Adjunct Professor, Sapienza-University of Rome Title: “The Euro-Fascist Discourse: A (Contradictory) Transnational Approach to European Unity”
December 4th: Vance Byrd, Associate Professor & Frank and Robera Furbush Scholar in German, Grinnell College Title: “Restoration and Monument Making”
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”
Charles Fawell, “Interoceanic Commuters,” 6 May 2020, 4-5:30pm
Abigail Bratcher & Julia Mead “Early Student Roundtable” 20 May 4-5:30 PM