• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Oliver Zimmer , Jean-Michel Johnston
• Timing: Wednesdays at 11:15 am

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Law and the Making of Community in the Long English Eighteenth Century
  Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Socialist Workers into Ethnic Nationalists: Culture and Competition in Habsburg Austria
  Jakub Beneŝ (University College, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - New Perspectives on Anarchism: Franco-Japanese transnational Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Nadine Willems (Nissan Institute, Oxford )

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Electric News: Telegraphs, Riots and Community Formation in Colonial Algeria
  Arthur Asseraf (All Souls, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Religious Communities and National Organisms: Resources, Race, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  Eliyahu Stern (Yale)

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Communities of Progress: The Expectations and Realities of Telegraphy in Germany
  Joan-Michel Johnston (Somerville, Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Defending the Urban Community: Fire and Disease in the Ghettos of Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
  Myrna Martin (St Catherine's, Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Military Occupation, International Law, and the End of the 19th Century Conception of War
  Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - Between Two Worlds: Marconi in Italy and in Britain, From World War I to Radio and Television
  Giovanni Paoloni (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Bodleian Library / Sapienza University of Rome)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - The Construction of National Identities at World Fairs, 1867-1940
  Eric Storm (MEHRC/Leiden)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - The People's Risorgimento: Italian National Discourses and Popular Culture in Rural Tuscany, c. 1846-60 AND Beyond the nation state: Catalan intellectuals and international influences 1880-1921
  Joana Duyster-Borreda (Oxford), Ben Kehoe (Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - Enchanting Nations: Commodity Market, Folklore and Nationalism in Scandinavian Literature 1830–1850
  Anna Bohlin & Caroline Haux (Stockholm)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - Nationalizing the Jewish minority: the Nineteenth Century German discourse of emancipation
  Doron Avraham (MEHRC/Bar-Ilan University)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - The Dispersal and New Acquisition of Books in Switzerland during the First Half of the 19th Century
  Angeline Rais (Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - Middle-Class music making and the Russian bourgeoisie
  Julia Mannherz (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Welcome and work-in-progress session followed by lunch
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Housing, houses, homes: knowing and shaping the working class domestic world in nineteenth century France
  Will Clement (St. John’s)

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - "Džán Kudla Sings!": Performing Ethnic Identity between Chicago in the Gilded Age and Fin-de-Siecle Prague
  Michael Dean (Prague)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Liberal, Nationalist or Socialist? The (Jewish) dilemmas of Eduard Horn in Hungary and France
  Michael Silber (Jerusalem)

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - How Ruling Algeria Shaped French Conceptions of Citizenship and the Republic, c. 1870-1940
  Avner Ofrath (Balliol)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Les Anglais apprendront à boire’: wine and the other, 1860-188”
  Graham Harding (St Cross)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Ambivalent Encounters: Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire
  Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - "Work together to share the burden": family culture, family business and inter-generational transmission in the industrial bourgeoisie - France and England, 1830-1914”
  Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘Cycling in South America, 1870-1920: A Liberal and Modern Pursuit?’
  Matthew Brown (Bristol)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - Title TBC
  TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘Illiberal Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women”, 1880-1914’
  Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘How to Break a State: The Habsburg Monarchy’s Internal War, 1914-1918’
  Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism’
  Sarah Badcock (Nottingham)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘Army and Revolution in the Age of Liberalism: The Case of the 1820s Revolution in Southern Europe’
  Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - ‘“Why Should Only Old Blokes Wield the Pen and Ink?”: Print and Manuscript Magazine Production in English Schools, 1850-1902.’
  Catherine Sloane (Queen’s, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:10 - 'The importance of being George: Constitutionalism and Kingship in Greece of the 1860s'
  Lycourgos Sophoulis (Wolfson College)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Honour and Class in the Post-Reform Imperial Russian Officer Corps (1861-1914)
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - The Possibility of Witchcraft: Reputation, Belief, and the Legacy of the Revolutionary Penal Reforms in France
  Will Pooley (Bristol)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Writing Freedom Down: African American Handwriting in the Early Years of Freedom
  Gretchen Long (Williams/Exeter College, Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - Defending the patria. The Tuscan Civic Guard and the Politicisation of Artisanal Populations in Florence, 1847-1849
  Ben Kehoe (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - 1. Domestic Service and Mass Leisure in France and Britain, 1890-1930/ 2. While Seeking a Situation’: Cross-cultural Experiences of Out-of-work Foreign Domestics in London, c.1880–1930
  Fanny Louvier (Balliol College, Oxford), Olivia Robinson (Kellogg College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - A Zealous Anthropologist: Intersections of Political Activism and Scientific Objectivity in Maria Czaplicka’s (1884-1921) Career
  Jaanika Vider (Saint Cross College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - ‘John, the Soldier, Jack the Tar’: Military Manliness and Emotional Objects in Georgian and Victorian England
  TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - The Zouave Moment: Martial Fashion in the Age of Industrial War
  Carol Harrison (South Carolina)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “Security guarantee or security harzard? Segregation in Hamburg and London at the end of the 19th century”
  Christine Krüger (University of Giessen)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - "Managing 'Treason' in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Era of Neo-Absolutism"
  Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “The Victorian search for a national musical standard: authority, liberalism, and the problem of pitch in nineteenth-century Britain”
  Edward Gillin (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “By Women, For Women: A study of gender in guidebooks to Europe, 1900 – 1907” & The department store as lieu de sensibilité : femininity and sensory experience in early twentieth century Paris and St Petersburg
  Jasmine Proteau (Oxford), Sasha Rasmussen (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “Silences: Coping with infertility in 19th century Germany”
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “Catalonia and the Spanish Nation Building Project: Particularism , Regionalism and Catalan Nationalism, 1780-1898”
  Angel Smith (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - “The Humiliation of John Falcon: Franco-British Competitive Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean"
  Julie Kalman (Monash University)