Autumn 2022
Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM
Coordinators: Laura Cremer and Julia Mead
October 12
Ben Van Zee, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“Peasants into Frontiersmen: Forging Empires of Emigrants on the Brazilian Borderlands, 1890-1935”
CEAS Conference Room (1155 E 60th St., Room 310)
October 19
Danielle Beaujon, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Criminology, Law, and Justice, UIC
“Policing Politics at the End of Empire”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
November 2
Arthur Clement, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“Reexamining Laicization and Secularization in France: The Case of Eliminating the Catholic Faculties of Theology From the State University in the Early Third Republic, 1879-1885”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
November 16
Alexei Kojevnikov, Professor, History, University of British Columbia
“Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in Soviet Russia, 1920-1936”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
November 30
Usama Rafi, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“The Moral Rearmament of the British Empire: Race, Equality, and Citizenship, 1948-53”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
Winter 2023
Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM
Coordinators: Laura Cremer and Julia Mead
January 18, 2023
Co-Sponsored with the Committee on Social Thought
Book Event for Robert Norton, The Crucible of German Democracy: Enrst Troeltsch and the First World War.
Tea Room (SSRB Room 201)
February 1, 2023
Julia Mead, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
Heroic and Violent: Late Socialist Mining Masculinity and its Management
Tea Room (SSRB Room 201)
February 15, 2023
Ben Van Zee, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
Title TBA
Tea Room (SSRB Room 201)
March 2, 2023 [Note this is on Thursday from 5:00-6:30 in Swift Hall]
Co-Sponsored with the Jewish Studies Workshop
Kamil Kijek, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw
Swift 208
Professor Kijek’s visit is supported by the Aronberg Lectureship in Judaica Endowment of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
Spring 2023
Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM
Coordinators: Laura Cremer and Julia Mead
March 23, 2023 [THURSDAY]
Special Session: History Day
Tahel Goldsmith, PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago
“Preserved for Eternity”: Defining Authenticity and Struggling for It, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1947-1964.
Harper Memorial Library room 145 | 4:30-6:00 PM
April 4, 2023 [TUESDAY]
Special Session: Book Talk
Anna Hájková, Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick
“Writing the History of Prisoner Society: Anna Hájková’s New History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto”
Tea Room (SSRB 201) | 4:30-6:00 PM
April 19, 2023
Rebecca Epstein-Boley, PhD Student, History, University of Chicago
“Music beyond Art and Nationalism beyond the Nation: German and Austrian Musical Mass Entertainment, 1867–1914”
Tea Room (SSRB 201) | 4:30-6:00 PM
April 26, 2023 *New time*
Elena Hoffenberg, PhD Student, History, University of Chicago
“Making a Living and Making a Life: Polish Jewry Faces Economic Modernity”
Tea Room (SSRB 201) | 4:00-5:30 PM
May 10, 2023
Alice Goff, Assistant Professor of German History and the College, University of Chicago
“Is it not dust? Premodern Curiosity in Postwar Germany”
Tea Room (SSRB 201) | 4:30-6:00 PM
May 24, 2023
Benjamin Goossen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago
“The Last Continent: Antarctic Research at the End of Empire, 1953-1955”
Tea Room (SSRB 201) | 4:30-6:00 PM