• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Nick Stargardt (University of Oxford) , Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ) , Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford) , Senia Paseta (University of Oxford) , Natalya Vince (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Thursdays at 17:00
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 11:30 - 'I, Juljan-Eljasz Siergiewicz, citizen of the Polish Republic of the Belarusian nationality': Autobiography and the nation-state in Poland, 1922-1939
  
  Kate Lebow (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 11:30 - The Panama Affair: Financial Scandal, Political Corruption, and the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
  Lisa Leff (American University)

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 11:30 - Writing the History of Financial Scandals and Capitalism in the Interwar Period
  
  Martin Geyer (Maximilians-Universität München)

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 11:30 - The Murrays of the Border: the Story of an Irish Small House
  Peter Leary (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 11:30 - Towards a history of European Terrorism; Towards a history of European Terrorism; c.1880-2016
  Tim Wilson (St Andrew’s)

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 11:30 - A twentieth-century European Peasant War?: The ‘Green Cadres’ in Austria-Hungary and its successors, 1917-1945
  Jakub Beneš (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 11:30 - A Radicalisation of 'Islam de France' or an Islamisation of French Radicals: a Scholarly Debate Over a New Social Phenomenon
  Aurelie Daher (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Domestic drudgery will be a thing of the past’ Feminist Dreams of Collectivised Housework and What Happened to the Servants
  Laura Schwartz (Warwick University)

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 11:00 - Our Bodies, Ourselves: Feminist Healthcare from the Local to the Transnational in 1970s Britain, France and the U.S.
  Tess Little (Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 11:00 - New Directions in Suffrage Historiography (joint session with Women and Gender History)
  Naomi Paxton (Houses of Parliament and University of Lincoln), Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Lyndsey Jenkins (University of Oxford )

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 11:00 - The ‘Third World’ as an Effect of the Social Sciences
  Daniel Speich Chassé (Lucerne)

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 11:00 - 'Eastern Gurus and Western Followers: the Spirituality of Nationalism in the 'Global Idealist Moment'.
  Ruth Harris

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 11:00 - Children of the Rising: A Traumatic History of Easter 1916
  Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (Sheffield)

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 11:00 - The Rise of the Mystic Romantic in Colonial Bengal: Poetry, Power and the Politics of Imagination
  Alex Wolfers (Cambridge)

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 11:00 - The Orientalism of Others: Asian intellectuals and the battle for difference, 1890 to 1930
  Mark Frost (Essex)

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 11:00 - Civic Materialism and Banal Nationalism: The Politics of Everyday Life in Paris and Berlin, 1880-1930
  Leora Ausländer (Chicago)

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 11:00 - Paris-London 1948-1995: Rai, Reggae and the Making of an Exhibition on Multi-Cultural Protest Music at the French Museum of the History of Immigration
  Martin Evans

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 11:00 - Trophy-Selfies, Military Masculinities, and the Epistemological Challenges of Photographs of Rape
  Elissa Mailänder

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 11:00 - Electric News in Colonial Algeria
  Arthur Asseraf

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 11:00 - Celia Johnson’s Grief: mourning and remembrance in post-Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Lives and Loves of Muriel St. Clare Byrne: Perspectives on Queer Identity
  Mo Moulton

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Invention of the “ethical consumer”: Consumer products and political activism in Britain and West Germany in the 1960s – 1990s
  Benjamin Moeckel

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 11:00 - Global Britain and the Security of Europe, 1919-59
  Patricia Clavin

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 11:00 - Engaging with the West, humanizing science: Grassroots geographers’ quest for a natural order in Meiji and Taisho Japan
  Nadine Willems

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 11:00 - Other `68ers: Students of the Centre-Right in West Germany’s Age of Protest
  Anna v der Goltz (Georgetown)

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 11:00 - Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune
  Julia Nicholls (KCL)

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 11:00 - Dimensions of the ‘forensic turn’: The New Nexus of Human Rights and International Criminal Law in the 1990s
  Alexa Stiller (Zurich/Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 11:00 - Contested Closet: Reading Transgender Experience in Twentieth century History
  Jack Doyle (Oxford), Samson Dittrich (Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 11:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 11:00 - The Problem with the ‘Home Front’: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 11:00 - Writing the history of slavery in the twenty-first century
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Olivette Otele (Bristol)

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 11:00 - Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Cornelius Torp (Bremen)

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike: an oral history
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 17:00 - The Backlash against Global Health: Brazil, Aids, and Bolsonaro, 2007-2020
  Note this week's seminar will be held on Zoom
  Marcus Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz)

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 17:00 - A Human Garden. French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
  Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po, Paris)

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 17:00 - Bringing Order to Global Migration, 1920-1960
  Madeleine Dungy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 17:00 - Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - What Happened to Women’s Skills in the Industrial Age? Perspectives from Near and South Asia in the late 19th century
  Hatice Yildiz (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 17:00 - Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence. A History of the Present
  Svenja Goltermann (Zürich)

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 17:00 - ROUNDTABLE - Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial war, 1931-1945
  NOTE: This seminar has had to move entirely online - please email patricia.clavin@history.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Richard Overy (Exeter), Discussant: John Darwin (Oxford), Discussant: Rana Mitter (Oxford)

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought
  Please note this seminar has moved online - please register at the link below
  Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 17:00 - Paper States: Life Between Empire and International Order, 1815-1937
  Anna Ross (Warwick)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish Journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - Micro-histories of violence and fear. The rise of Italian Fascism
  John Foot (Bristol)

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 17:00 - Leveraging Authority via the Principle of Publicness: the Advocacy of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at the League of Nations on the Minorities Question
  Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes)

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 17:00 - The invention of Marxism, 1878-1905
  Christina Morina (Bielefeld)

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 17:00 - Writing against Hitler. Herman Budzislawski – A Jewish Life in the Twentieth Century
  Daniel Siemens (Newcastle)

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 17:00 - Envisaging Germany from afar: female foreign correspondents and émigrés in the 1930s and 1940s
  Kat Friege (Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 17:00 - Higher Education, Feminism, and National Efficiency: The Case of “Domestic Science”
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:00 - Transfeminine lives and love in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  Zavier Nunn (Oxford)

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 17:00 - Do Holocaust perpetrators have a history?
  Mark Roseman (Indiana)

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 17:00 - Constructions of Caste in Nazi Germany (title tbc)
  Luna Sabastian (Cambridge)

Thursday 2 March 2023

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

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - Queer Love and Secret Same-Sex Marriage in the Polish countryside during the interwar period
  Kamil Karczewski (EUI, Florence)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 17:00 - Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
  Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 17:00 - Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
  Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 17:00 - Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
  Venus Bivar (Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 17:00 - A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
  Julia Hauser (Kassel)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:00 - Special Lecture - 1848 in the Rear-View Mirror: Resonances of 19th Century Revolution
  Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 20 February at Worcester College
  Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 17:00 - France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Julian Jackson (QMUL)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 17:00 - What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
  Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On: Historians Robert Gildea and Jim Phillips in conversation with Patricia Clavin
  Please note this discussion is on Wednesday 6 March at Worcester College
  Robert Gildea, Jim Phillips, In conversation with Patricia Clavin

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)