• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Nick Stargardt (Oxford) , Matthew Myers , Katharina Friege , Tehila Sasson
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 17:00 - The Rise and Fall of International Jewish Human Rights Politics, 1945-1975
  Nathan Kurz (Yale and Pears Institute, Birkbeck)

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 17:00 - Mobilising for war and revolution: everyday life and urban space in Prague, 1914-20
  Claire Morelon (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 17:00 - The Past that Isn't Past, Yet: Exploring the Memory of Democratic Transitions in Spain and Greece
  Konstantinos Kornetis (Conex Madrid)

Thursday 5 November 2015

• 17:00 - Jewish humanitarian relief in Europe in the Great War era
  Jaclyn Granick (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 17:00 - Imagining the future: science and medicine at the 1937 Paris World's Fair
  Joan Tumblety (Southampton)

Thursday 19 November 2015

• 17:00 - Ideologies of Neutrality. The Cases of Austria and Finland in the Cold War
  Johanna-Rainio-Niemi (Helsinki)

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Conscience of Jurists: The Experience of the First World War and the Future of International Law
  Gabriela Frei (University of Oxford / Brussels)

Thursday 3 December 2015

• 17:00 - Gender and Identity: Anti-Republican Women in Madrid's Fifth Column, 1936-39
  Angela Flynn (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 17:00 - How Women's Rights Became Human Rights: Feminism, Socialism, and Post-Socialism, 1945-1995
  Celia Donert (Liverpool)

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 17:00 - Imagining Remigration and Return: the Experience of Statelessness and the Idea of Universal Belonging in postwar Germany
  Miriam Rürup (IGDJ, Hamburg)

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 17:00 - Jews and Romanies in the Shadow of Genocide
  Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt)

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 17:00 - The Democratic Man in the Postwar Settlement: The contested concept of Democracy in Scandinavia from 1945-1960
  Jesper Vestermark Køber (Copenhagen)

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 17:00 - From Royalism to the Mystical Body of Christ: The Interwar Revolution in French Catholic Political Theology
  Sarah Shortall (Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 17:00 - Early origins of Fair Trade: From the United Nations conference on trade and development (Unctad) 1964 to the Tanzanian instant coffee campaign 1973/74
  Andrea Franc (Basel)

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘"The Austerities of Independence": Human Rights in the era of Decolonization, 1950-1968’.
  Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 17:00 - On Ships, Telegraphs and Iron Curtains: the Political Geography of Relief Work in post-Second World War Europe
  Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck, London)

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - Was Christian Democracy a Human Rights Movement? The Ethics of French Catholic Internationalism
  Marco Duranti (Sydney)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - Five Things You'd Want to Know in Explaining Japan's Decision to Surrender in 1945: Transnational Lessons from Europe
  Sheldon Garon (Princeton)

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 17:00 - Communists in Ghetto Theresienstadt
  Anna Hájková (Warwick)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - Protest and the History of the EEC
  Liesbeth van de Grift (Utrecht)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 17:00 - “And if any are not sickened with shame they are indeed beyond redemption.” German responses to Allied documentaries about liberated camps, 1945-46
  Ulrike Weckel (Giessen/Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - Liberal values in post-Nazi society
  Robert Knight (Loughborough)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - Philanthropy, Modernization, Nationalization: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Reconstruction of Romania in the Interwar Period
  Anca Cretu (Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 17:00 - Arabs and the Colour Line at the 1919 peace conference
  Elizabeth Thompson (American University)

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 17:00 - "Transatlantic Antifascisms from the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II."
  Michael Seidman (University of North Carolina)

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 17:00 - “Ernest Bevin (UK foreign secretary 1945-51): thinking about Europe and ‘global Britain.’"
  Anne Deighton (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 17:00 - "1931: debt, crisis, and the rise of Hitler.”
  Tobias Straumann (University of Zurich)

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 17:00 - “Industrial Policy and Varieties of Capitalism in Postwar Western Europe.”
  Jeppe Nevers (Odense, University of Southern Denmark)

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 17:00 - “‘Marks Hard to Erase’: Gender, Humanitarianism, and the Reclamation of ‘Absorbed’ Armenian Women, 1919-1927.”
  Rebecca Jinks (Royal Holloway)

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 17:00 - “Critical reception: the idea of planning and Western European social democracy, c. 1919 - 1939”
  Tommaso Milani (Balliol)

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 17:00 - "Through Humboldt's glasses? Latin America in European History of the Early 19th Century."
  Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po Paris)

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 17:00 - “Transnational Nationalists: Networks of Memory on the Italian and Polish Far-Right”
  Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Vienna)

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:00 - A Bachelor's Life Abroad: Sex and the Proletarian Subject in Workers' and Peasants' Memoirs from Interwar Poland
  Kate Lebow (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:00 - Victims of Communism: Refugees, Christian NGOs and the Cold War West
  David Brydan (King's College London)

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:00 - The Last Man and the End of Revolution. Foucault after 68
  Daniel Zamora (ULB)

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:00 - Christianity and the Postwar Politics of Human Rights
  Rachel Johnston-White (Groningen)

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:00 - Chronicle of an Announced Death: Affiliation, Violence, and the appropriation of Urban Space in provincial Germany in 1934
  Ulrike Jureit (Institute for Social Research, Hamburg)

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:00 - Building West Germany: Construction Noise and Value Change in the Federal Republic
  Marcel Thomas (Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:00 - Is Rape a useful category in writing the history of the Holocaust?
  Zoe Waxman (Oxford)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:00 - Terrorism as the Third Front. Anti-Imperialism and Transnational Radicalization of the New Left in Italy and West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s
  Petra Terhoeven (Göttingen and Oxford)

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - Child Holocaust Survivors: Stories and Silence
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Rebecca Clifford (Swansea)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 17:00 - From tragedy to triumph: the Greek Colonels' regime and the Human Rights (Revolution)
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Konstantina Maragkou (LSE)

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Neoliberalization of Nordic Democracy
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Johan Strang (Helsinki)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 17:00 - Metamorphoses of Violence. A History of the Prison in West Germany
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Annelie Ramsbrock (ZZF Potsdam)

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 17:00 - The Strange Afterlife of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Marcus Colla (Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 17:00 - Defining and embedding "Country Houses"
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Ewald Frie (Tübingen)

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 17:00 - The Algerian War as a European War
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Selim Nadi (Avignon)

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 17:00 - A Twentieth-Century Crusade. The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Giuliana Chamedes (Wisconsin)

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - Performing Putin
  Elizabeth Wood (MIT)

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 17:00 - Time orders in the Prague Spring
  Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 17:00 - Death in the Rubble: The Elizabeth Kusian Murders in 1949 Berlin
  Richard Bodek (College of Charleston)

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 17:00 - Children of the revolution? Child refugees in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
  Suan Sheridan Breakwell (Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Quest for a New World Order: International politics between visions of global governance and catastrophic failures in the 1990s
  Change of venue; this seminar will now be via Microsoft Teams
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 17:00 - Performing American Blackness on German stages, 1847-1914
  Jeff Bowerox (UCL)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:00 - ADDITIONAL SEMINAR: Global-European Civil Wars
  Places are limited and registration is essential: contact global@history.ox.ac.uk
  Robert Gerwarth (Leverhulme Visiting Professor Oxford 2021-22; UCD), Rana Mitter (Oxford), Discussant: Martin Conway, Chair: Professor Patricia Clavin

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 17:00 - Disarming bodies and souls: gun control and state monopoly on violence in Europe, 1919-1948
  Marco Aterrano (Messina)

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 17:00 - Elitist philosophy and the nature of Italian Fascism
  Carlo Moll (Cambridge)

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire after 1945
  Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's, Oxford)

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - Decentring the human in humanitarian aid: nutrition research and cross-species practices
  Alma Igra (Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - Raw materials, the timber crisis, and fears of deforestation during the interwar period
  Omer Aloni (Peres Academic Centre, Rehovot)

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Rise and Fall of the People’s Party. A New History of Democracy since 1918 through the perspective of Christian and Social Democracy
  Pepijn Corduwener (Utrecht University)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - Students and state-building in 1960s Algeria
  Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Janus-faced identities of Asia Minor refugee descendants: empathisers, antagonists, or rivals?
  Maria Anastasopoulou (Worcester College, Oxford)

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - Paris, October 1961. A Postcolonial Perspective on (In-)Securitization
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt, Berlin)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:00 - Istanbul Remembered: An Essay on Women, Memory and War in 20th century Turkey
  Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Pembroke College, Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 17:00 - The Politics of Voice and the Making of Mass Politics in Spain
  Matt Kerry (Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 17:00 - Giving Migrants the Needle: Violent Restraint at European Air Borders, 1980-2001
  Fabrice Langrognet (Oxford)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 17:00 - The invention of terrorism in France, 1904-1939
  Chris Millington (MMU)

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 17:00 - From a ‘Sea of Peace’ to a ‘NATO lake’? Security imaginaries of the Baltic Sea from the Second World War to the Present
  Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 17:00 - An alternative conception of democracy. Franco's Spain and conservative political groups in France and Italy from 1945 to the 1960s
  Carlos Domper Lasús (Zaragoza)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 17:00 - Beyond the Wall: Rethinking East Germany
  Katja Hoyer (KCL)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 17:00 - Commerce and Colonialism in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:00 - Appointment in Geneva: European refugees and their encounters with UNHCR, 1951-1975
  Peter Gatrell (Manchester)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 17:00 - Mussolini's Places: Dissonant Heritage and Political Memory in Postwar Italy
  Stephen Grundle (Warwick)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 17:00 - “Let the Record Show”: Correcting Official Narratives About a Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Hosted in conjunction with the Irish History Seminar
  Mark Coen (UCD)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Politics of Sacrifice: Youth, Martyrs and Remembrance in Meloni's Italy
  Amy King (Bristol)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:00 - Building Barrios and Seeking Sexual Justice: Women’s Activism during and in the Aftermath of Franco’s Spain
  Roseanna Webster (Cambridge)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 17:00 - "The most Common and Fatal of all Diseases". Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
  Stefanie Gaenger (Heidelberg)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:00 - ‘Writing History After Brexit’, hosted in conjunction with the Modern British History Seminar
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Anne Deighton (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Chair: Senia Paseta, Rob Saunders (QMUL)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 17:00 - “The Scientific Worldview”: Understandings of Science and their Geopolitical Implications
  Geert Somsen (Maastricht)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - Forgotten Revolutions: The Endtimes of Women’s Liberation in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
  Celia Donert (Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Corporate Social Responsibility, Workers Participation, and the Critique of State-led Capitalism’ (Held in conjunction with the seminar on Modern British History)
  Tehila Sasson (Oxford)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Chaos and Coexistence: managing "fascist" fallen soldiers in the German Democratic Republic
  Laura Tradii (Kent)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Ottoman roots of interwar youth politics in Lebanon
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Joe Leidy (Oxford)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - Elections as Surveillance: 'Soviet Democracy' and State-Building in the 1920s Russian Countryside
  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar is cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Thomas Stevens (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - Gender-Based Violence in 20th century Central and Eastern Europe: A hidden history
  Maren Röger (Leipzig)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Military justice, soldierly endurance and the "brutalising" effects of the First World War on France's North African combatants
  Claire Eldridge (Leeds)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 17:00 - The Birth of European Religious Pluralism from the Crucible of Nazism
  Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 17:00 - The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences
  Neil Gregor (Southampton)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 17:00 - Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still essential
  Don Kalb (Bergen)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 17:00 - The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
  Ulrike Linder (Cologne)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 17:00 - Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
  Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 17:00 - Women’s organizations and social rights in France and its empire (1946-1958)
  Anna Nasser (Deakin, St Antony's)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 17:00 - The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
  Marlène Rosano-Grange (Sciences Po)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 17:00 - Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
  Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)