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European History Colloquium
Benjamin Straumann – “Jean Bodin on the late Roman Republic and Constitutional Government”
Refreshments will be served.
European History Colloquium – Karen Harvey, “Rabbits, Whigs, and Hunters: Cultural History and Protest in Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726”
Karen Havey is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sheffield. Her focus as a cultural historian is of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender.
Martina Kessel, “Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany”
6275 Bunche HallTuesday, October 2, 2018 4PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Martina Kessel, "Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany" Martina Kessel looks at the meaning and role of humor as an identity practice in Germany during the time of Nation- al Socialism in Germany. One theory that she will explore in her lecture […]
Madeline Woker – “Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s”
6275 Bunche HallTuesday, November 6, 2018 12PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Madeline Woker - "Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s" Madeline Woker explores a major tax dispute between colonial firms and the metropolitan state which occurred between the early 1920s and the 1950s. Her talk introduces this […]
Roii Ball: Indebted Settlement : Rural Credit, National Segregation, and ‘Internal Colonization’ in the German-Polish Borderlands before the First World War
6275 Bunche HallTuesday, January 29, 2019 12PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Roii Ball - "Indebted Settlement : Rural Credit, National Segregation, and ‘Internal Colonization’ in the German-Polish Borderlands before the First World War" Roii Ball - PhD candidate, UCLA Roii Ball is a sixth year graduate student at the UCLA History Department. He earned a […]
Herrick Chapman – “France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic”
6275 Bunche HallThursday, March 7, 2019 4PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Herrick Chapman - "France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic" Herrick Chapman - Professor, New York University Historian Herrick Chapman explores how the French, in reconstructing their country after World War II, sought to combine a top-down modernization drive with a rejuvenation of democracy. […]
