• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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