2010-2011
“Social Policy in the European Union: Domestication, Assimilation, Disarmament”
Alexander Somek, The University of Iowa
April 29, 2011
“From Weimar to McCarthyism: Franz Neumann and the Politics of Rights”
David Kettler, Bard College
April 1, 2011
“Crisis, Anxiety and the Colonial Origins of the Portuguese Welfare State, 1928-1944”
Pedro Ramos Pinto, The University of Manchester
February 25, 2011
“Reflections on the “Social” and the Claims of Citizenship and Humanity – On Reading Tony Judt’s Ill Fares the Land”
William Forbath, The University of Texas at Austin
February 4, 2011
“Gifts, Free-market Fraternity, and the French Revolution”
Charles Walton, Yale University
January 21, 2011
“Is World Government a Dream?”
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study
November 19, 2010
“What Good Is It? Unrealistic Political Theory, and the Value of Intellectual Work”
David Estlund, Brown University
November 5, 2010
“The Legislation of Dignity: the German Grundgesetz”
Michael Rosen, Harvard University
October 22, 2010
“Unanimity and supermajority rule in eighteenth-century France”
Melissa Schwartzberg, Columbia University
October 15, 2010
“Toleration and Calumny: Bayle, Locke, Voltaire, and Diderot on Religious Hatred”
Jeremy Waldron, New York University
October 8, 2010
2009-10
“What is Wisdom?”
Charles Larmore, Brown University
October 9, 2009
“Cosmopolitanism and the Question of Social Imaginaries”
Olivier Remaud, Ecole des hautes études en sciences socials
October 23, 2009
“John Stuart Mill and the Difficulties of Liberal Naturalism”
Glyn Morgan, Syracuse University
November 6, 2009
“’One Does Not Kick Against a God’: Fear and Apathy in Eastern Europe at the Start of the Cold War”
Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University
November 20, 2009
“Philosophical Implications of the Holocaust”
David Velleman, New York University
December 4, 2009
“The Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss. Its Basis and its Genesis”
Thomas Meyer, Ludwig Maximilian University
February 26, 2010
“Hobbes and Christianity”
Richard Tuck, Harvard University
March 5, 2010
“Rethinking liberalism and religion with Benjamin Constant”
Bryan Garsten, Yale University
March 26, 2010
“The Great Incarnation: Reflections on the Birth of the Genius”
Darrin McMahon, Florida State University
April 9, 2010
“From Judeo-Bolshevism to the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Christianity and Anti-Communist Politics in Postwar Western Europe”
Paul Hanebrink, Rutgers University
April 30, 2010
2008-09
“From the Vienna to Paris: International Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights, Forced Deportations, and Civilizing Missions”
Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota
September 19, 2008
“The 'last man' Problem: Max Weber on political attitudes to suffering”
Tamsin Shaw, Princeton University
October 3, 2008
“Liberalism and Empire: some reconsiderations”
Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
October 17, 2008
"American-German Vistas. With a touch of irony"
Wolf Lepenies, Wissenschaftskolleg
October 31, 2008
“A City Apart: Sarajevo in the Second World War”
Emily Balić, Harvard University
November 14, 2008
"Cassirer, Political Theology, and the Myth of the State"
Peter Gordon, Harvard University
February 6, 2009
“A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today”
David Andelman, World Policy Journal
February 20, 2009
“Belgium and the Jews in World War II: a mixed record with personal testimony”
Aristide Zolberg, The New School
March 6, 2009
“Societies of Intervention - new sociological approaches to conflicts after interventions”
Michael Daxner, Free University
March 27, 2009
“Democratic Renewal and the Rule of Experts in France after World War II”
Herrick Chapman, New York University
April 10, 2009
“The European Court of Human Rights in Comparative Perspective”
Michael Goldhaber, American Lawyer Media
April 25, 2009
2007-08
"The Red Prince: A Habsburg History of the European Nation"
Tim Snyder, Yale University
September 28, 2007
"Making Foreign Policy Under Louis XV"
John Shovlin, New York University
October 5, 2007
"Welfare, Refuge, Rescue: Denmark and the Jewish Question in the 1930s"
Cecilie Banke, Roskilde University
October 19, 2007
"What Marc'Antonio Miani Knew: Social Status and Expertise in Early Modern Venice"
Karl Appuhn, New York University
November 2, 2007
"Selling Alpine Air: Commodifying the Intangible in Central Europe"
Alison Frank, Harvard University
November 16, 2007
"Memories of Repression and Resistance: Narratives of Children Institutionalized in Postwar Spain"
Ángela Cenarro, University of Zaragoza
November 30, 2007
"The Intellectual Origins of François Furet's Masterpiece"
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
February 8, 2008
"Law and Democracy: The Debate over Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1950"
Devin Pendas, Boston College
February 22, 2008
"After Our Liberation, that of the Indies': Resistance and empire in wartime Holland"
Jennifer Foray, Purdue University
March 7, 2008
"Entangled Histories and Lost Memories: Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied Germany"
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union
March 28, 2008
"Cultural Mobilizations and Demobilizations: La Nouvelle Revue française from War to Peace, 1914-1925"
Yaël Dagan, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
April 11, 2008
"When the Perpetrator Becomes the Witness: On Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes"
Susan Suleiman, Harvard University
April 25, 2008
2006-07
“Intolerable Subjects and The Limits of Free Speech”
Ian Buruma, Bard College
September 22, 2006
“Disintegration, Fear and Massacre: Germans, Nazis and CC inmates in 1945”
Daniel Blatman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
October 6, 2006
“Prewar: A miniature”
Fritz Stern, Columbia University
October 20, 2006
“Stranger Magic: Time Travel and Other Selves”
Marina Warner, University of Essex
November 3, 2006
“A Philosopher Looks at Genocide”
Paul Boghossian, New York University
December 1, 2006
“The Nazi New Order in World History”
Mark Mazower, Columbia University
February 2, 2007
“What's so new about the 'New Europe'? European renewal projects in historical perspective”
Holly Case, Cornell University
February 16, 2007
“Political Dissent, Terrorism and Civil Liberties in Germany”
Molly Nolan, New York University
March 2, 2007
“The Place of the memory of the Holocaust in the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Idith Zertal, University of Basel
March 23, 2007
“The World Laid Bare: Modernism in the Space between Paris and Petersburg”
Marci Shore, Yale University
April 6, 2007
"Uncovering Mediterranean multi-nationalism. Nicolò Tommaseo and the nineteenth-century Adriatic"
Dominique Reill, Columbia University
April 20, 2007
2005-06
“Liberalism and Terrorism: How Ideology has Shaped the Response to 9/11”
Stephen Holmes, New York University
September 23, 2005
“Falling in and out of Love with America: a German Story”
Andrian Kreye, Suddeutsche Zeitung
October 7, 2005.
“Liberal Democratic Torture”
Steven Lukes, New York University
October 21, 2005
“Legal Perspectives on the Untimely Death of Yitzhak Rabin: Execution or Assassination?”
Zvi Benite Ben-Dor, New York University
November 4, 2005
“The French Underground Press and the persecution of the Jews during World War II”
Renée Poznanski, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
November 18, 2005
“Forgotten Dances: The Canon and Classical Ballet”
Jennifer Homans, The New Republic
December 2, 2005
“In Defense of Decadent Europe”
Tony Judt, New York University
February 10, 2006
“Why did Ivan Fight? On writing the history of the Red Army in World War Two”
Catherine Merridale, University of London
February 24, 2006
“Why did European multiculturalism failed? The case of France, Great Britain, and The Netherlands”
Shervin Nekuee, journalist
March 10, 2006
“The Intimate Politics of the Dreyfus Affair”
Ruth Harris, University of Oxford
March 24, 2006
“Writing and Rewriting Ottoman History. The Long Shadow of the Past”
Caroline Finkel, writer
April 7, 2006
"’The Jewish Enemy’ - Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust"
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
April 21, 2006
2004-05
“The Kielce Pogrom and its Aftermath”
Jan Gross, Princeton University)
September 24, 2004
“'Ceci n'est pas un voile': France Confronts Diversity”
Aristide Zolberg, The New School
October 8, 2004
“The Performing Arts in Berlin”
Wendy Lesser, The Threepenny Review
October 22, 2004
“Resurrecting Empire”
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
November 5, 2004
“Prophecy, Tourism, and Local Memory: Nostradamus in Salon-de-Provence, 1800-2003”
Stephane Gerson, New York University
November 19, 2004
“The Landlubber Bias: Writing a History of the Black Sea”
Charles King, Georgetown University
December 3, 2004
“The other Modernity: two centuries of opposition against the Enlightenment”
Zeev Sternhell, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
January 28, 2005
“Radical Conservatism in America: Echoes of the European Past?”
Anatole Lieven, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
February 11, 2005
“On the Supposed Contradiction Between Democracy and International Law”
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
February 25, 2005
“The Material Culture of Monarchy: a Reception History of the Royal Image in 19th Century Prussia”
Eva Bremner, Rutgers University
March 11, 2005
“Lie and Politics”
Aleksander Smolar, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
March 25, 2005
“Fashoda Meets the Dreyfus Affair: Empire and Nationalism in Fin-de-Siecle France”
Ed Berenson, New York University
April 8, 2005
“Apologising for Torture”
Susan Marks, University of Cambridge
April 22, 2005
2003-04
“The American Scholar: Long after Emerson”
Denis Donoghue, New York University
September 19, 2003
“In the Grip of a Moral Dilemma: Gyorgy Lukacs Joins the Communist Party in 1918”
Janos Kis, Central European University
October 3, 2003
“Many Pasts of Russia: Normalization and Memory - Building as a Road to Modernity”
Marina Mogilner, Kazan State University
October 17, 2003
“Nuremberg revisited: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights”
Elizabeth Kopelman Borgwardt, University of Utah
October 31, 2003
“Greek Spirits in Greek Bodies: Metaxas and the Jews of Greece”
Katherine Fleming, New York University
November 14, 2003
“The Betrayal of the Intellectuals ... encore et toujours”
Tony Judt, New York University
December 4, 2003
“What Is Jewish Culture in Its Global Contexts”
James Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst
January 30, 2004
“The West in Wahhabi Political Imagination: Civilizational Discontent and Responsibilities”
Bernard Haykel, New York University
February 13, 2004
“Privacy Wars: the Trans-Atlantic Struggle over Protection of Personal Information”
James Rule, State University of New York
February, 27, 2004
“Russia at the Crossroads: A Second Term for Putin”
Nikolai Zlobin, Center for Defense Information
March 26, 2004
“Is the American Revolution still Relevant”
Dick Howard, SUNY at Stony Brook
April 9, 2004
“The canon of history and the strategies of response”
Antonis Liakos, University of Athens
April 30, 2004
2002-03
“Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror”
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
September 20, 2002
“The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Ideological Dynamics of the 20th Century”
Sheri Berman, Princeton University
October 4, 2002
“Reflections on World Literature Reading: Pascale Casanova, La Republique mondiale des lettres”
Christopher Prendergast, Cambridge University
October 18, 2002
“Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia”
Orlando Figes, London University
October 31, 2002
“Film as Illumination of History: A Theoretical Framework in Progress”
Helmut Gruber, Polytechnic University
November 15, 2002
“Defeated Germans and Surviving Jews: Early Postwar Encounters and Confrontations”
Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
December 06, 2002
"The Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe"
Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University
January 31, 2003
“The Rise of the Trauma Culture. European perspectives on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”
Ben Shephard, freelance writer
February 14, 2003
“After Auschwitz -- reflections on post-war antisemitism in Poland”
Jan Gross, New York University
February, 28, 2003
“Administration in Emergency: the Politics of Legitimacy in 20th Century Holland”
Peter Romijn, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
March 14, 2003
“Family Business: being 'Arab' in Southeast Asia”
Michael Gilsenan, New York University
March 28, 2003
“Constituting Terror: A Nazi and Soviet Comparison”
Cynthia Hooper, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ph.D. Princeton University
April 11, 2003
“Counterbodies: Photography, Public Memory, and Civilian Victims in the 20th century"
Habbo Knoch, University of Gottingen
April 25, 2003
2001-02
“Machiavelli against Republicanism: Rescuing Democratic Theory from the Guicciardinian Moment”
John McCormick, Yale University
September 21, 2001
“The Politics of Evidence: The Wehrmacht Exhibition Controversy”
Omer Bartov, Brown University
September 28, 2001
“The Reorientation of French Diplomacy between the Wars”
Nicole Jordan, The University of Illinois at Chicago
October 12, 2001
“The East German Stasi's Foreign Espionage Files: Use, Misuse, and the CIA's ‘Operation Rosewood’”
Gerold Livingston, German Historical Institute
October 26, 2001
“The Twenty Years' Crisis of European Jewry, 1919-1939”
David Engel, New York University
November 9, 2001
“Old Mythologies, New Myths: The Romanian political landscape”
Mircea Mihaies, The University of Timisoara
November 30, 2001
“Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Deportation: How Volhynia became West Ukraine, 1939-1946”
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
January 25, 2002
“A Mirror to Imperialism: Nehru and Indian responses to European Fascism”
Sunil Khilnani, Birkbeck College
February 8, 2002
“On Canons and their Vicissitudes: A view from Bucharest”
Anca Oroveanu, New Europe College
February, 22, 2002
“Unfinished Business? The Sudeten German Question and the expansion of the EU”
Jeffrey Marcus, novelist and journalist
March 8, 2002
“Perpetrators to 'Victims': Italian Fascist Prisoners-of-War in History and in Memory”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
March 22, 2002
“Edmund Burke and India”
David Bromwich, Yale University
April 5, 2000
“The Comintern's Con Man: Willi Muenzenberg and the European Communist Underground, 1921-1939”
Sean McMeekin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
April 19, 2002
“Challenges Facing Eastern European Democracies”
Petar Stoyanov, Former President from 1997 to 2002, Republic of Bulgaria
April 22, 2002
“The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and the Lessons of the 20th century”
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
May 3, 2002
2000-01
“Guilt, Debt, Duty: Responsibility and its Discontents”
Tony Judt, New York University
September 15, 2000
“Modernism and the Politics of Ethnicity: The Case of Lucian Blaga”
Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh
September 29, 2000
“Seductions of Fate: Lorca, Levinas and the Modern Self”
Gabriela Basterra, New York University
October 13, 2000
“Modern Japan: mirror to the West”
Ian Buruma, author
October 27, 2000
“Working-Class Consumption and Co-operation in International Perspective, circa 1850-1950”
Dick Geary, University of Nottingham
November 10, 2000
“Thinking about Bourgeois Life”
Jerry Seigel, New York University
November 30, 2000
“European Cultural Markets”
Donald Sassoon, University of London
January 26, 2001
“The generation of memory: reflections on the ‘memory boom’ in historical study”
Jay Winter, Columbia University
February 9, 2001
“What Makes Jewish History Jewish? Two early-modern commentaries on the rise of the Ottomans”
Katherine Fleming, New York University
February, 23, 2001
“Liberalism as ‘Science’ in Russian Political Philosophy”
Randall Poole, Boston University
March 9, 2001
“What is Counter-Enlightenment? The Case of France”
Darrin McMahon, Yale University
March 30, 2001
“From the Atlantic to...the Carpathians? The eastern enlargement of the European Union”
Jacques Rupnik, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales
April 13, 2001
1999-00
“Can Serbia Become a Democracy?”
Laura Silber, Financial Times
September 24, 1999
“Strategies of Humanitarian Intervention”
Jan-Willem Honig, King's College London
October 1, 1999
“The Hospitable City. Public Space and City Users”
Guido Martinotti, University of Milan
October 15, 1999
“European Union Enlargement after the Kosovo War”
Aleksander Smolar, Batory Foundation
October 29, 1999
“Engendering Welfare Reform in Postsocialist Hungary”
Lynne Haney, New York University
November 12, 1999
“Displaced Children in Post-War Europe”
Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo
November 19, 1999
"German Unity Saved in the Congo? The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949-1969"
William Gray, Post-Doctoral Fellow
December 9, 1999
“Prospects for the Democratic Opposition in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia”
Bogdan Denitch, CUNY
January 28, 2000
“More 'Ordinary Men': The Murder of the Jews of Jedwabne in July 1941”
Jan Gross, New York University
February, 11, 2000
"The Facts of Fiction: Imagination vs History in Holocaust Writing"
Berel Lang, Trinity College, Hartford
February 25, 2000
"History, Identity, and the Old Idea of European Union"
Sophie Rosenfeld, University of Virginia
March 9, 2000
"The Epidemics of Injuries. Medical Services in the Crimean War: A Comparative Approach"
Nikolai Krementsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
April 7, 2000
“Salonica: Transformations of a City, 1500-2000”
Mark Mazower, Princeton University
April 21, 2000
1998-99
“Social Policy in Europe. Developments on the National and the Supranational Level”
Georg Vobruba, University of Leipzig
September 25, 1998
“Subject and Citizen: Taxes in Russia, 1900-1930”
Yanni Kotsonis, New York University
October 9, 1998
“Will Belgium disappear?: A European democracy between crisis and transition”
Marco Martiniello, University of Liège
October 23, 1998
“Resisting a Europe without Frontiers in the Northern Irish Borderlands”
Thomas Wilson, The Queen's University of Belfast
October 23, 1998
“Rethinking the Scale and Nature of German and Soviet Repression and Mass Killings, 1930-1945”
Stephen Wheatcroft, University of Melbourne
December 4, 1998
“Normal at Last? The Walser Debate, Free Speech and the Future of memory in Germany”
Jan-Werner Mueller, All Souls College, Oxford
January 29, 1999
“Postmodern Representations of the Holocaust”
Ulrich Baer, New York University
February 12, 1999
“The Meaning of Americanisation: Self-Control and Well-Being in Britain and America since the 1950s”
Avner Offer, Nuffield College, Oxford
March 12, 1999
“Reconstructing a Historical Moment: History, Film and the Missing Image”
Ulrich Raulff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
March 26, 1999
“The Peculiarities of West German Ostpolitk: 1949-69”
Pertti Ahonen, Yale University
April 2, 1999
“Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of the Morlacchi in the Age of Enlightenment”
Larry Wolff, Boston College
April 23, 1999
“Dark Continent: Europe past…and present”
Mark Mazower, Princeton University
May 7, 1999
1997-98
“France and Nato”
Anand Menon, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
September 23, 1997
“West Germany, Israel & the Six-Day War of 1967: The Transformation of the Special Relationship”
Carole Fink, Ohio State University
October 16, 1997
“A Preface to Post Cold-War US Foreign Policy”
Michael Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
November 5, 1997
“National and European Identities in a 'Europe without Borders': the European Union and Northern Ireland”
Thomas M. Wilson, Queens University of Belfast
November 14, 1997
“Handling Money, Exchange and Identity in a Situation of Ethnic Ambiguity (Opole Silesia, Poland)”
Elizabeth Vann, University of Chicago
December 2, 1997
“States United, Nations Divided: Greek National Homogeneity in a Multicultural Europe”
Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College
January 21, 1998
“Politics of Identity in a 'Europe without Borders': Expo '92, Seville, and the 'New Spain”
Richard Maddox, Carnegie Mellon University
February 27, 1998
“Where is the rest of me?”: Manifestations of Magyar National Identities in Hungary and Abroad”
Eva Huseby-Darvas, University of Michigan
March 11, 1998
“The New Wave of Inequalities: A trans-Atlantic Perspective”
Daniel Cohen, Ecole Normale Supérieure
April 14, 1998
“Choosing an Identity: National versus Ethnoregional Loyalties in Russia”
Donna Bahry, Vanderbilt University
April 30, 1998