Author Archives: Robert

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Martin presents his on-going work on an article in which he documents and interprets the extraordinary growth in the use of bilateral treaties on cultural cooperation and exchange that took place in the 1950s and 60s. … Continue reading →

Editors Stella GHERVAS (Newcastle) and David ARMITAGE (Harvard)in conversation with Sylvana TOMASELLI (Cambridge) and Richard WHATMORE (St Andrews)Commentator: Rachel HAMMERSLEY (Newcastle) A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six … Continue reading →

NOTE 12.00 – 13.00 This talk provides an introduction to my current the book project which aims at reconstructing the political and intellectual biography of one of Germany’s most ostracized public intellectuals of the twentieth century: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978), a … Continue reading →

Abstract This paper, based on my monograph The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017), examines the construction of a trauma narrative in Greece during recent decades about … Continue reading →

Paper Abstract As is well known, a Romanian national movement developed in the nineteenth century, as a process accompanying the formation of an independent state alongside several others in Central and Southeastern Europe. Independence involved international recognition by Europe’s ‘Great … Continue reading →

Abstract This paper, based on my monograph The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017), examines the construction of a trauma narrative in Greece during recent decades about … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Paper Abstract This paper will examine how the First World War changed attitudes towards monarchy in Britain. It will compare how three dynasties were seen across the conflict, looking at the positive narrative built around the public image of the … Continue reading →