• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Nick Stargardt (Oxford) , Senia Paseta , Patricia Clavin , Matthew Kerry
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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