Past events
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Roundtable: New Approaches on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
We welcome three guest speakers to our roundtable discussion of Claire Morelon’s new book 'Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague 1914-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Discussion hosted by the Jean Monnet Centre and chaired by Christian Goeschel.
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International Zones: Impasse and Waiting in a World of State-Making, 1919-1956
13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2024
History guest speaker research seminar. At the end of the First World War, the peacemakers placed a small number of territories in Europe under the direct international administration of the League of Nations. These areas, along with later zones created outside Europe, were considered too difficult...
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Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic
16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century case study of the workings of racial capitalism across the Atlantic, drawing on the extraordinary account...
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Material Happiness in Early Modern English Households (Affective Artefacts speaker series)
16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.
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Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced
15:00 - 16:30 13 November 2024
In this event, Dr. Simone Gigliotti presents her book Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced. Her talk will be followed by a response from Prof. Jean-Marc Dreyfus. This event forms part of CIDRAL's series of events on the theme of Im/mobilities.
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Early Modern Witch Bottles (Affective Artefacts speaker series)
16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.
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The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?
15:00 - 16:30 23 October 2024
This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.
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