September 30th
Roy Kimmey III, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Between the Letter and Spirit of the Law: Loans, Taste, and the Making of Romani Consumer Citizens in Late State Socialist Hungary”
October 14th
Anna Band, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Zimmer Frei: Jews and their Rooms in WWI through Weimar Berlin”
October 28th
Zoya Sameen, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “‘Plain Tales,’ Bare Truths: British Soldiers and the Memory of Prostitution in Late Colonial India”
November 11th
Abigail Bratcher, PhD Student, History
Title: “Knowing the Kazakh Steppe: How Pedologists and Peasants Created Knowledge of Steppe Soils during the Cold War”
December 2nd
Ben Van Zee, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “The Second Scramble for East Africa: The Ambiguities of Mandate Sovereignty and the Anglo-German Struggle for Demographic Domination in Tanganyika”
January 13th
Zoya Sameen, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “’Plain Tales,’ Bare Truths: British Soldiers and the Memory of Prostitution in Late Colonial India”
January 20th
Will Rall, PhD, Modern German History
Title: “Love in the time of Nazism: Sterilization, Desire, and Belonging in the Third Reich”
February 3rd
Paul Betts, Professor of Modern European History, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
Book Discussion: Betts will present his new book, Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War.
The event is free and open to the public. Zoom invitation to follow.
February 17th
Michael Williams, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Postwar French Philosophical Thought and Early Derrida”
March 3rd
Greg Valdespino, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “’Views from this Cosmopolitan Camp’: Dwelling, Displacement, and West African Soldiers in World War I”
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.