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”
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
Week 1, Thursday, March 31st
Natalie Smith, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “Producing Cleanliness: Labor in the Soap Factories of Marseille”
Week 3: April 13th
Michael Williams, PhD Candidate, History
Title: “The Federal Republic’s Search for Philosophical Foundations and the Challenge of Deconstruction, 1945-1984”
Week 4: April 20th
Dora Vargha, Professor of History and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter
Title: Social and socialist: ideas of health, medicine and society across the Iron Curtain
Week 5: April 27th
Madeline Adams, PhD Student, History
Title: Materiality, Mapping, and Memory of LGBT Communities in the German Democratic Republic, 1973 to the Present
Week 7: May 11th (VIRTUAL) – 3:30-5:00 pm Central
Nicoletta Rousseva, PhD Candidate, Art History, University of Illinois Chicago
Title: A Future State: IRWIN’s Moscow Embassy and the Afterlife of Socialism
Week 8: May 18th
Samuel Huneke, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
Book Talk for States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (2022)