Modern European History

Seminar or event series

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

Events

May
7

Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State

Talitha Ilacqua (Yale) presents, with comments from David Hopkin (Oxford) & Jean-Michel Johnston (Cambridge)
May
21

Power, Value, and the Competing Temporalities of Money in Postwar Hungary

Szinan Radi (Cambridge)
May
28

Feeding Anxiety: German Food Independence in the Age of Empire

Carolyn Taratko (ZZF Potsdam)
Jun
4

A History of Non-Sustainable Integration: High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the “Nordic Triangle”, 1985-2005

Andreas Mørkved (Cambridge), co-organised with the Cambridge History & Economics Seminar
Jun
11

Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 (New York, 2023)

David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt) presents, with comments from Lyndal Roper (Oxford, Christopher Clark (Cambridge), and Jean-Michel Johnston (Cambridge)
For organisational purposes we would be grateful if you could indicate your interest in attending this event here: https://forms.office.com/e/fX4XgimGjm

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