MEW welcomes Caroline Sequin and Michael Williams

Please join us on our final Modern Europe Workshop of the year on Wednesday 27 May from 5:00-6:30 pm, featuring a special joint session of dissertation proposals, including Caroline Sequin’s “Forbidden Love? Race, Citizenship, and Sexual Politics in the French Atlantic World, 1848-1960,” and Michael Williams’ “The German Receptions of Derrida, 1967 to the Present.” […]

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Judith Surkis on 13 May

The Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe workshop in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop is delighted to welcome Judith Surkis (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University) “Colonial Literature, Kabyle Customary Law Reform, and the Crisis of Representation in French Algeria, c. 1920” 13 May John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224)  […]

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MEW welcomes Hamza Yilmaz on 6 May

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop this week on May 6th to discuss Hamza Yilmaz’s paper “On the Brink: The German Automobile Industry and The End of the Postwar Miracle (1966-1974).” Commentary will be provided by Sarah Panzer. While the time will be the same as usual (5:00-6:30 pm), please note our SPECIAL LOCATION in the […]

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MEW welcomes Lauren Stokes on 15 April

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next week on 15 April to discuss Lauren Stokes’ “Illiterate in Two Languages”: New Restrictions on Child Migration in the 1980s.” Commentary will be provided by Eleanor Rivera. As usual, the workshop will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224) from 5:00-6:30pm. The paper […]

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MEW welcomes Ilana Miller – 8 April

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop on 8 April to welcome Ilana Miller, presenting her  paper on “The Emancipated Spectator and the Captive Jew: The Thaw and the Cinematic Language of Polish-Jewish Relations before 1968,” with commentary by Roy Kimmey. While the time will be the same as usual (5:00-6:30 pm), please […]

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MEW welcomes Emily Marker on 4 March

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next week on 4 March to discuss Emily Marker’s “Forging A Postwar Racial Common Sense: Race and Education in the Era of Colonial Reform & European Unity, 1944-1950,” with commentary by Emily Lord Fransee. As usual, the workshop will be held in the John Hope Franklin […]

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MEW welcomes Matan Boord on 18 February

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next week on 18 February to discuss Matan Boord’s paper “Professionals and Politicians: Labor Zionist Urban Men and the ‘New Jew’ in Mandate Palestine,” with commentary by Aidan Beatty. As usual, the workshop will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224) from […]

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MEW welcomes Leah Goldman on 4 February

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop on 4 February to discuss Leah Goldman’s “An Incomplete Aesthetic: Applying Socialist Realism to Music”, with commentary by Ilana Miller. As usual, the workshop will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224) from 5:00-6:30 pm. The paper is now available on Chalk and […]

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MEW welcomes Phillip Henry on 21 January

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop on 21 January to discuss Phillip Henry’s “World War One and the Grenzen of Freudian Thought,” with commentary by Zachary Barr. As usual, the workshop will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224) from 5:00-6:30 pm. The paper is now available on […]

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MEW welcomes Jake Smith on 7 January

Hello to all and happy 2015! Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next week on Wednesday, January 7th, to discuss Jake Smith’s “‘Strangers in a Dead Land’ Intimacy, Ritual, and Translocal Aesthetics in the European Youth Revolts of 1980-81.” Commentary will be provided by Michael Williams. As usual, the workshop will be […]

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