“Pestifera bella civilia: The Roman Invention of Civil War”
6275 Bunche HallProfessor David Armitage (Harvard)
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.
Refreshments will be served.
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.
Tuesday, 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 […]
Tuesday, 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 […]