Modern European History

The Modern European History Research seminar is the focal point for graduates and scholars in European history (from c. 1750 to the present day) in Cambridge. Talks tend to attract audiences of twenty to forty on a regular basis; discussions are lively, and speakers and audience generally enjoy the experience.

We hold meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays, in alternating weeks.

The Monday meetings start at 5pm, in the Knox Shaw Room, in Sidney Sussex; the Tuesday lunch-time meetings start at 12.45pm in the Old Library, also in Sidney Sussex.

For more information, please contact Emma Spary, ecs12@cam.ac.uk (lunch-time seminars), or Bernhard Fulda, bdf20@cam.ac.uk (Monday seminars).

Easter Term 2012

Easter 2012 programme

Tues, 1 May, 12.45pm
The Russian Origins of the First World War Reconsidered
Prof Dominic Lieven (Trinity College)

Mon, 7 May, 5pm
Writing a History of 20th-century Europe: Open Questions
Prof Sir Ian Kershaw (Sheffield)

Tues, 15 May, 12.45pm
The circulation of anatomical models in the nineteenth century
Dr Anna Maerker (King's College, London)

Mon, 21 May, 4.30pm
'The Fall: the end of Honecker' (90m documentary)
Eric Friedler (director, NDR, Hamburg)
NOTE: DIFFERENT TIME & VENUE
BATEMAN AUDITORIUM, GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE
Joint session with German Studies Colloquium & Public and Popular History Seminar

Lent Term 2012

Lent 2012 programme

Mon, 23 Jan, 5pm
Europeans, Americans, and the creation of Atlantic History
Dr William O'Reilly (Trinity Hall)

Tues, 31 Jan, 12.45pm
The Lyon Commune
Dr Tim Baycroft (Sheffield)

Mon, 6 Feb, 5pm
Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century
Renaud Morieux (Cambridge) & Stephen Conway (UCL)
JOINT SESSION with MODERN BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR

Fri, 17 Feb, 12.45pm
Secret Intelligence: still a missing dimension of modern European history?
Prof Chris Andrew (Corpus Christi)
[Note: Different weekday from usual]

Mon, 20 Feb, 5pm
Republicanism and empire in Britain and France, 1763-1815
Prof Richard Whatmore (Sussex)
JOINT SESSION with POLITICAL THOUGHT SEMINAR
[Note: This meeting will take place in the Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex]

Tues, 28 Feb, 12.45pm
9 Thermidor: the fall of Robespierre and the City of Paris
Prof Colin Jones (Queen Mary London)

Mon, 5 Mar, 5pm
Class and social identity in late 20^th-century Europe
Dr Jon Lawrence (Cambridge) & Prof Lutz Raphael (Trier/Oxford)
JOINT SESSION with MODERN BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR

Tues, 13 Mar, 12.45pm
Symbolic expressions: Jung, Dada and the 'art' of the insane
Prof Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)

Michaelmas Term 2011

Michaelmas Term Programme 2011

Mon, 10 Oct, 5pm
Writing the Penguin History of Europe
Panel discussion with the authors and editor of Penguin’s
History of Europe series: Prof Mark Greengrass (Sheffield; 16^th
& 17^th centuries), Prof Tim Blanning (Cambridge; 1648-1815),
Prof Richard J. Evans (Cambridge; 1815-1914), Simon Winder
(History Editor, Penguin Books)

Tues, 18 Oct, 12.45pm
Catholics, Collectors and the Commune: Heritage as Counter-Revolution in France, 1860-1890
Dr Tom Stammers (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge)

Mon, 24 Oct, 5pm
The Abolition of the Slave Trade: Why the Danes Got There First
Dr Pernille Røge (Corpus Christi, Cambridge)

Tues, 1 Nov, 12.45pm
Patriots at the Opera. Methodological considerations regarding the study of nineteenth-century nationalism
Dr Axel Koerner (UCL)

Mon, 7 Nov, 5pm
Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question
Prof Peter Hoffmann (McGill University)

Tues, 15 Nov, 12.45pm
Intimacies and intimations: storytelling between servants and masters in nineteenth-century France
Dr David Hopkin (Oxford)

Mon, 21 Nov, 5pm
The Jews of San Nicandro: Re-visiting the Twentieth Century
Prof John Davis (University of Connecticut)

Tues, 29 Nov, 12.45pm
The Republic of Books: a digital reimagining of the late-Enlightenment European book trade
Dr Mark Curran (Cambridge)