Dear colleagues, Please join us this upcoming Wednesday, October 12, for the year’s first meeting of the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop! The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 as usual but, this week only, in the CEAS Conference Room (1155 E 60th St., Room 310).     We are looking forward to welcoming Ben Van Zee (PhD candidate, History), […]

Dear Colleagues, We would like to welcome you all to a new year of the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop! Please find the Autumn 2022 schedule for the workshop below. Meetings will be held Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:00, biweekly, with some exceptions due to holidays. Meetings for the fall quarter will be held […]

Call for Papers Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop 2022–2023 Alternate Wednesdays, 4:30–6:00 p.m. The Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop (TAMEW) is pleased to announce its call for papers for autumn 2022. The workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of University of Chicago PhD students, faculty, and outside scholars to discuss the methodology and […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next Wednesday, May 18th from 4:30-6:00 pm CST for our sixth and final session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Samuel Clowes Huneke, Assistant Professor at George Mason University, to give a talk on his recent publication, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next Wednesday, May 11th from 3:30-5:00 pm CST on Zoom for our fifth session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Nicoletta Rousseva, PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to present a paper entitled “A Future State: NSK and the Afterlives […]

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next Wednesday, April 27th from 4:30-6:00 pm CST for our fourth session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Madeline Adams, PhD student in the History Department, to present a dissertation prospectus entitled “Materiality, Mapping, and Memory of LGBT Communities in the German Democratic Republic, 1973 to […]

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop on Wednesday, April 20th from 4:30-6:00 pm CST for our third session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Dora Vargha, Professor of History and Medical Humanities at University of Exeter, to present a work-in-progress entitled, “Social and socialist: ideas of health, medicine and society across the […]

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop on Wednesday, April 13th from 4:30-6:00 pm CST for our second session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Michael Williams, PhD candidate in the History Department, to present a dissertation chapter entitled, “Hans-Georg Gadamer and Renewal through Continuity, 1945-1960.” Phillip Henry will serve […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop next Thursday, March 31st from 4:30-6:00 pm CST for our first session of Spring Quarter 2022. We are excited to have Natalie Smith, PhD candidate in the History Department, who will be presenting her paper, “Producing Cleanliness: Labor in the Soap Factories of Marseille.” Hanna Nunes, PhD candidate in the […]

Spring 2022 Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 PM (CST)  (except where noted) Location: John Hope Franklin Room (except where noted) Papers will be circulated a week in advance Coordinators: Madeline Adams & Elena Hoffenberg Week 1, Thursday, March 31st Natalie Smith, PhD Candidate, History Title: “Producing Cleanliness: Labor in the Soap Factories of Marseille” Week 3: April 13th […]