Monthly Archives: September 2019

16/10/19: Svenja Goltermann (University of Zurich) and Rob Dale (Newcastle University): Approaches to Veterans and Trauma after 1945

Professor Svenja Goltermann  (University of Zurich) Palimpsests of History: German War Returnees, Psychiatry, and the Making of Memory Since 1945 (Abstract to Follow) Biography: Svenja Goltermann is Professor of History at the University of Zurich. Her monograph The War in Their … Continue reading

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20/11/19 Fernando Molina – Nation Before Violence or the Other Way Round? On the Intimate Relationship Between Mass Nationalization and Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain

Abstract The literature on nationalism and violence has paid little attention to the role played by  violence in the process of making and remaking national polities. This paper will explore political violence as a generative force of nationalism and a … Continue reading

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