2006-2007
We are pleased to announce the 2006-2007 program of the Annenberg Colloquium in European History. Faculty and graduate students in all fields are welcome to attend. All colloquia are on Thursdays at 4:30. Spring semester talks will held in the History Lounge, 209 College Hall.
Copies of all papers will be available approximately two weeks in advance in the mail room and/or as email attachments. We hope you'll mark these dates in your calendar and plan to attend.
Warren Breckman, History Department
David Barnes, History and Sociology of Science Department
Co-organizers, Annenberg Colloquium in European History
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Katharine Park, Medieval European History, Harvard University
"Itineraries of the 'One-Sex Body': A History of an Idea"
Where: Penn Humanities Forum
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Laura Engelstein, Modern Russian History, Yale University
"'A Second Belgium': The Sack of Kalisz (August 1914) and the Russian Campaign Against 'German Atrocities'"
Where: Penn Humanities Forum
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Martin Mulsow, Early Modern Intellectual History, Rutgers University
"Impudence's Just Reward: Philosophical Innovation from the Spirit of Satire"
Thursday, February 22, 2007
John Tresch, European History of Science and Technology, HSSC, University of Pennsylvania
"Fantastic Automata and Their Uncanny Kin in France, 1815-1851"
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Peter Jelavich, Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, Johns Hopkins University
"Technical Reproducibility on Trial: An Archaeology of Benjamin's 'Artwork' Essay"
2005-2006
Colloquia will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 on selected Thursdays. Approximately two weeks before each colloquium, copies of the paper to be discussed will be available.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Adam Kosto
"A Barbarous Relic of Ancient Times? Hostages in the European Middle Ages"
Adam J. Kosto is Associate Professor History at Columbia University. His research focuses on the institutional history of medieval Europe, especially Iberia and the Mediterranean world. He is the author of Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 (Cambridge UP, 2001), and co-editor of The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350 (Ashgate, 2005) and Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Preservation and Transmission of Documents in the Medieval West (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2002). His current projects include a revisionist study of documentary practices in the Early Middle Ages, and a book on medieval hostageship, the main themes of which are presented in this paper.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Matthew Connelly
"Seeing Beyond the State: The Population Control Movement and the Problem of Sovereignty"
Matthew Connelly is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He works in contemporary international history, with a particular focus on North-South relations. His first book, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. He has also written articles for The American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Revue française d'Histoire d'Outre-mer, as well as commentaries on foreign policy for The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest. His current project is a history of the international campaign to control population growth to be published by Harvard University Press.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Christopher Celenza
"The Uses of Latin in the Italian Renaissance from Petrarch to Poliziano"
Christopher S. Celenza holds two doctoral degrees, a PhD in history (Duke University, 1995) and a DrPhil in Classics and Neo-Latin Literature (University of Hamburg, 2001). He is currently a Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of three books: The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), which won the Gordan Prize of the Renaissance Society of America for the best book of the year in Renaissance Studies; Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum (Leiden: Brill, 2001); and Renaissance humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Petra Goedde
"Cracks in the Wall: American Quakers, German Politicians and East-West Relations in the 1960s"
Petra Goedde is an Assistant Professor of History at Temple University, where she has taught since 2004. After completing basic studies in History, English, and Journalism at Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster, she earned MA and PhD degrees at Northwestern, and has previously taught at both Princeton and the University of Erfurt, Germany. She is the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (Yale University Press, 2003), and is presently at work on a research project entitled: War on Peace: Religious and Political Peace Activism in the 1960s.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Jan Goldstein
"The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 (selected chapters)"
Jan Goldstein is professor of history at the University of Chicago and an editor of the Journal of Modern History. Her earlier books include Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (1987; French ed., 1997; 2nd American ed., 2001) and Foucault and the Writing of History (1994). She is presently completing a study of a manuscript case history of "hysteria complicated by ecstasy" in a Savoyard peasant girl in the 1820s.
Thursday, March 28, 2006
José Burucúa
"Pierre Bayle and his approach to ancient and modern art"
José Burucúa is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional del General San Martín-Argentine. His research interests are the history of Renaissance perspective, the historical relationships between images and ideas, as well as the techniques and materials used in colonial Latin American art. His publications include Corderos y elefantes. Nuevos aportes acerca del problema de la modernidad clásica (2001); Historia, arte, cultura: De Aby Warburg a Carlo Ginzburg (2003); and El Renacimiento italiano, co-edited with Martín Ciordia (2004). He has recently finished a new book, entitled Historia y ambivalencia: Ensayos warburguianos (forthcoming, 2005). Professor José Burucúa is a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
David Rudereman
"Mingled Identities: Jews, Christians, and the Changing Notions of the Other in Early Modern Europe"
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies a t the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol (1981), for which he received the JWB National Book Award in Jewish History in 1982; Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (1988), and A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Haniniah Yagel (1990). He has also published Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in early Modern Europe (1995) which has also appeared in Italian and Hebrew versions. His book Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought (2000), won the Koret Award for the best book in Jewish History in 2001. He has just completed a new book called Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Quest for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England. His seminar paper represents a small part of a larger project, a new synthetic interpretation of Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe.
2004-2005
This year's Annenberg Colloquium in European History features an exciting line-up of scholars working on a wide range of topics. Faculty and graduate students in all fields are welcome. Colloquia will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 on selected Thursdays . Approximately two weeks before each colloquium, copies of the paper to be discussed will be available in the history department office. We look forward to seeing you at the opening session on September 30th with Laura Smoller, and thereafter as well!
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Laura Smoller
"The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: Shaping the Image of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)"
Laura Smoller is Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock . She is the author of History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420 (Princeton University Press, 1994); "Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages," in Paul Freedman and Caroline Bynum, eds., Last Things: Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); and "The Canonization of Vincent Ferrer," in Thomas Head, ed., Medieval Hagiography: A Sourcebook (New York: Garland, 2000). She is currently completing the manuscript of her second book provisionally entitled "The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer and the Religious Life of the Later Middle Ages." She has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2004-2005.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Paul Freeman
"Spices and Medieval Ideas of Scarcity and Abundance"
Paul Freedman is Chester D. Tripp Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Yale University . His areas of interest are medieval social history, history of Spain , and comparative studies of the peasantry. He has written The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia (1983), Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (1991), and Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999). He is currently working on a book on spices in medieval Europe and why they were so highly valued.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Belinda Davis
"How to Live a Life of Politics: The West German New Left, 1962-1983"
Belinda Davis is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, specializing in modern German and European history and women's studies. Her publications include Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and many articles and papers on the intersection of gender history and political activism. She is also currently a Co-Investigator for the ongoing Project "Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre" ("The Other Within: Intercultural Exchange and Collective Identities in 1960s Unrest in Germany and the U.S."), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Heidelberg.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Pieter M. Judson
"Borderlands don't kill people (people kill people). Frontier Cultures in Habsburg Central Europe, 1880-1945"
Pieter Judson is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Swarthmore College, where he teaches courses in Modern German and European History and the History of Sexuality. His book Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience and National Identity 1848-1914 (Michigan, 1996) won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association in 1997 and the Austrian Cultural Institute's book prize in 1998. He is also co-editor (with Marsha L. Rozenbilt) of Constructing Nationalities In East Central Europe (Oxford and New York, 2004).
Monday, March 21, 2005
Claudia Ulbrich
"That we shall pray to our God for you.... On Christian-Muslim Relations in Early Modern Europe"
Claudia Ulbrich is Professor of History, Free University Berlin. Professor Ulbrich is one of the leading experts on gender history in Germany today, and the author of Shulamit and Margarete. Power, Gender and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004), a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century to discover the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. She is also the author of many articles and edited volumes on the history of gender, Jewish-Christian relations, and autobiography, and director of the Research Group on Self-Testimonies (Autobiographies) in Trans-cultural Perspective at the Free University. Professor Ulbrich's lecture is co-sponsored by the Annenberg Colloquium in European History and the Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Thomas Childers
"Facilis Descensus averni est: The Descent into Hell is Easy. The Allied Bombing of Germany and the Issue of German Suffering."
Tom Childers is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania . He is the author and editor of several books on modern German history and the Second World War. These include The Nazi Voter (Chapel Hill, 1983), The Formation of the Nazi Constituency (London , 1987), and Reevaluating the Third Reich: New Controversies, New Interpretations (New York, 1993). He is currently completing a trilogy on the Second World War. The first volume of that history is entitled Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1995). The second volume, In the Shadows of War (New York: Henry Holt and Company) was published in 2003 and is set in wartime Germany, France, Britain and the United States. The final volume, The Best Years of Their Lives, examines the difficulties of veterans returning home from the Second World War and will follow in due course.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Jonathan Israel
"Was there a Sephardic Jewish early Enlightenment (1650-1750)?"
Jonathan Israel is Modern European History Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 1994 Professor Israel has been working on a comparative study of the emergence of the Radical Enlightenment in different parts of Western Europe, including Britain, and, at the same time, trying to demonstrate the importance of the Dutch context for the wider European process of secularization and rationalization as a whole. Professor Israel is the author of numerous books and publications, among them: Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the world maritime empires (1540-1740) (Brill, 2002); Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2001); Empires and entrepôts: the Dutch, the Spanish monarchy, and the Jews, 1585-1713 (Hambledon Press, 1990); The Dutch republic: its rise, greatness, and fall, 1477-1806 (Oxford University Press, 1995); and The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic world, 1606-1661 (Oxford University Press, 1982).
2003-2004
This year's Annenberg Colloquium in European History features an exciting line-up of scholars working on a wide range of topics. Faculty and graduate students in all fields are welcome. Colloquia will be held in 209 College Hall at 4:30 on selected Thursdays. Approximately two weeks before each colloquium, copies of the paper to be discussed will be available in the history department office. We look forward to seeing you at the opening session on September 18th with Lynn Hunt, and thereafter as well!
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Lynn Hunt (UCLA)
"Bodies and Selves in the 18th Century: Toward a Post-Foucaultian History of Personhood"
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Timothy Snyder (Yale)
"Death by Toleration: The Volhynian Experiment and the Ukrainian Tragedy, 1928-1938"
Thursday, November 20, 2003
David Smith (Cambridge)
"Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate Parliaments"
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Ann Moyer (Penn)
"'Without Passion or Partisanship': Florentine History in the Age of Cosimo I"
Thursday, March 18, 2004
J. G. A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins)
"Barbarism and the History of Religion in Enlightenment Thought"
Thursday, April 8, 2004
Peter Holquist (Cornell)
"Occupation as Liberation? Principles of International Law and the Practices of Military Occupation in Imperial Russia, 1870-1917 "
