SPRING 2011 SEMINARS
"Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust"
David Schneer, University of Colorado at Boulder
May 18, 2011
"Che in Budapest: Radicalism and Revolt in 1960s and 1970s Hungary"
James Mark, University of Exeter
March 23, 2011
"Displacing Empire: Italian Settlers in Libya after 1945"
Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College
February 2, 2011
FALL 2010 SEMINARS
"Foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War"
Paul Preston, European Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Wednesday, October 13
"Settling Accounts with the Past in Southern Europe: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies"
Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Freelance researcher and editorial advisor, Cascais, Portugal
Wednesday, November 17
"Time of Reckoning: How Italy Faces its Colonial Past"
Claudia Gazzini, European University Institute (EUI)
Wednesday, December 15
SPRING 2010 SEMINARS
"Geography, Politics, and Mysticism in early modern Italy, or, how the Vatican almost destroyed Islam in 1523"
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Wednesday, February 3
"Sexual Democracy, National Identities and Immigration Policies in Europe Today"
Eric Fassin, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris
Wednesday, March 24
"Fascism's Empire Cinema: Histories and Journeys of Mediterranean Conquest and Defeat"
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
Wednesday, May 26
FALL 2009 SEMINARS
"Broken Lives/(Re)Constructed Biographies. German Jewish Historians of the Renaissance in War Time America"
Antony Molho, Department of History & Civilization, EUI
Wednesday, October 7
"Open Orient: New Political, Economic, and Social Perspectives for the Western Society after the Mongol Conquest"
Lorenzo Pubblici, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence and Università degli Studi di Firenze
Wednesday, November 18
"Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes"
Paul Corner, University of Siena
Wednesday, December 16
SPRING 2009 SEMINARS
"Close Encounters: Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied Germany"
Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
Wednesday, January 21
"The Kremlin: the cultures of elites and their representation to a wider public"
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary University of London
Wednesday, March 11
"A Jewish History of Greece"
Katherine Fleming, Remarque Institute, NYU
Wednesday, April 22
"The Idea of Galicia: History and fantasy in Habsburg political culture"
Larry Wolff, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, NYU
Wednesday, May 27
Past Workshops:
Legitimacy in Totalitarian Regimes
October 14, 2010
'Mediterraneanisms'
May 25, 2010
The Mongols and the Euro-Mediterranean: Frontiers, Interactions, New Sources
November 19-20, 2009