Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the new year of the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop!
Please find the Autumn 2023 schedule for the workshop below. Meetings will be held on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., biweekly, with some exceptions due to holidays. Meetings for the fall quarter will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, Room 224).
Each paper to be discussed will be available on our Canvas site and the workshop webpage one week before the workshop meets. If you need assistance accessing the papers or have any questions about the workshop, you can reach us at tgoldsmith@uchicago.edu and rceb@uchicago.edu.
We look forward to seeing all of you soon!
Rebecca Epstein-Boley and Tahel Goldsmith
Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop
Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 PM
Coordinators: Rebecca Epstein-Boley and Tahel Goldsmith
October 11
Arthur Clement, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“Conserving a Place for Religion in Secular Society through the Laïque Sciences of Religion in Third Republic France, 1885–1902.”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
October 25, 4:30-6:00 PM
Special joint session with the Music & Sound workshop – Please note the different time and location of this meeting.
Rebecca Epstein-Boley, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“‘Eine aus der Damenkapelle’: Hearing Identity in German and Austrian Women’s Music Ensembles around 1900”
Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th Street, Room TBD)
November 1
Special joint session with the Colloquium of the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU)
Julia Mead, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“Godspeed, Comrade: Socialist Coal Miners Face the Market”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
November 15
Tahel Goldsmith, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago”Beyond the Authentic: The Peripheries of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1947-1994″
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)
November 29
David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History Emeritus, Vanderbilt University
Book Talk: “Germany and the World: A Global History, 1500-2000”
John Hope Franklin Room (1126 E. 59th Street, Room 224)