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

Jan

Book Launch and Roundtable on Fernanda Gallo’s new book: Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 (Cambridge, 2024)

With comments from Dr David James (Warwick) & Prof. Axel Körner (Leipzig)

In collaboration with the Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College

Feb

“Shaping Tomorrow's World: A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies”

Elke Seefried (Aachen)

In collaboration with the DAAD-Cambridge Hub

Feb

"Basques on the BBC: exiles, radio and propaganda (1941-1956)"

Leyre Arrieta Albertdi (Universidad de Deusto-San Sebastian/Cambridge)

Feb

“Branching Out: The Bank of Italy and Colonial Business Practices in Occupied-Ethiopia, 1935-1940”

Noelle Turtur (EUI)

Feb

Constitutions in the Age of Revolutions: a roundtable discussion

with Prof. Maurizio Isabella (QMUL) & Prof. Christopher Clark (Cambridge)

Provost’s Drawing Room, King’s College

Mar

"The millers, the counters, and the illusion of mechanical governance in post-unification Italy."

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)

Mar

Security and Empire

Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht) & Erik de Lange (Utrecht)

Book Presentation and Discussion: E. de Lange, Menacing Tides : Security, Piracy & Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2024) and B. de Graaf, O. Ozavci & E. de Lange (eds.)

Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College

Mar