We’re looking forward to seeing you all for our first workshop session of Spring Quarter. We will be discussing Tahel Goldsmith‘s dissertation chapter “Preserved for Eternity”: Defining Authenticity and Struggling for It, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1947-1964. Elena Hoffenberg will serve as discussant. Please join us next Thursday, March 23rd, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. This is a special session for […]

Dear friends, We’re looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday for our next workshop session. We will be discussing Ben Van Zee‘s dissertation chapter Between the Paraná Pines and Anglo-Saxon Hegemony: The Underdog Imperialists, The Not Quite White Workers of the World, and the Age of Emigrant Colonialism. Ben Goossen will serve as discussant. Please join us next Wednesday, February […]

Dear friends, We’re looking forward to seeing you all for our first workshop session proper this quarter, and particularly excited to discuss co-coordinator Julia Mead‘s dissertation chapter The Not-So-Velvet Divorce: Late Socialist Mining Masculinity and Its Management. Roy Kimmey will serve as discussant. Please join us next Wednesday, February 1st, from 4:30 to 6:00. Like last week, the workshop will […]

Dear TAMEW community, Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restful break and a smooth beginning of the quarter. Our first workshop meeting of the quarter will be next Wednesday, January 18, from 4:30-6:00 in the Tea Room (SSRB Room 201, across the hall from the John Hope Franklin Room.) The event is co-sponsored with the Committee on […]

Dear Colleagues, Thank you for making the Fall Quarter TAMEW sessions such a success. We hope to see you at the workshop again in January. Please find the Winter 2023 schedule for the workshop below. Meetings will be Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:00, biweekly. Meetings for the Winter Quarter will be held in the Tea […]

Dear colleagues, Please join us for our fifth and final session of the quarter next Wednesday, November 30. The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 in the John Hope Franklin room (Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224). We look forward to welcoming Usama Rafi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago), who will be sharing the […]

Dear colleagues, We’re very pleased to announce our fourth session of the quarter on Wednesday, November 16. The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 in the John Hope Franklin room (Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224). Alexei Kojevnikov (Professor of History, University of British Columbia) will be presenting a paper titled “Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in Soviet […]

Dear colleagues,   Please join us for our third session next Wednesday, November 2. The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 in the John Hope Franklin room (Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224).    We look forward to welcoming Arthur Clement (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago), who will be sharing the chapter “Positivism, History of Religions and Secularizing […]

Please join us for our second session next Wednesday, October 19. The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 in the John Hope Franklin room (Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224). We look forward to welcoming Danielle Beaujon (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois Chicago), who […]