On this page is an archived list of previous papers given at the Modern European History Seminar in previous years.
Papers in the 2019/2020 Academic Year
16 October 2019
Professor Svenja Goltermann (University of Zurich) and Robert Dale (Newcastle University): Approaches to Veterans and Trauma After 1945 [Link to Abstract]
6 November 2019
Professor Heather Jones (University College London): Belgian Cousins, Prussian Tyrants and British Windsors: Changing perceptions of European Monarchy in Wartime Britain, 1914-1919. [Link to Abstract]
20 November 2019
Fernando Molina (University of the Basque Country): Nation Before Violence or the Other Way Round? On the Intimate Relationship Between Mass Nationalization and Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain [Link to Abstract]
5 February 2020
Alex Drace-Francis (University of Amsterdam): The politics of recognition: identity and misidentification in Romanian encounters in Europe, 1825-1900 [Link to Abstract]
27 February 2020:
Professor Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiberg / German Historical Institute London, Guest Professor): The short and the long 20th century. German and European perspectives
12/13 March 2020:
12 March 2020
Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge) 12 March Insights Lecture Series – One year after Brexit – historical and political perspectives
13 March 2020
Workshop in cooperation betwween History Classics and Archaeology and the School of Modern Languages One year after Brexit – historical and political perspectives
Papers in the 2018/2019 Academic Year
16 October 2018 (note this date is a Tuesday).
Professor Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford): The Changing Landscape of Political Violence. This presentation will take place [in co-operation with Insights-Lecture Series, Newcastle University’s flagship public lecture series]. A recording of this lecture can be found HERE
7 November 2018
Dr Franziska Exeler (University of Cambridge/Freie Universität Berlin): Wartime Ghosts: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in the Soviet Union [in cooperation with the Conflict & Revolution Research Strand].
28 November 2018
Ben Partridge (Newcastle University): ‘Icons of May 68’ or ‘Images in Struggle’: Photography and the 50th Anniversary of May 68 in France.
6 February 2019 (Note – Room G.08)
Professor Johanna Gehmacher (University of Vienna/German Historical Institute London): Modern women and politics around 1900: transnational contacts between radical women in Europe [in cooperation with the GHI London].
1 May 2019
Dr Antoni Vives Riera (University of Barcelona): The Everyday Performance of the Nation Through Tourist Practice. Regional Dance in Mallorca (1910-1934)
9 May 2019 (In association with the Military, War and Security Research Group)
Professor Annette Weinke (University of Jena): Book Launch: Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century