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Past Open to the Public Events


April 20, 2021 · 4:30 pm · virtual

Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture – Auerbach, Homer, Sebald: Hypotactic Narrative and the End of the World

Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College

Program in European Cultural Studies; Humanities Council

March 2, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

The Porcelain Industry Confronts the Vulgar Question of Money: Towards a New Prehistory of Industrialization in the German States, 1780-1840

Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University

Program in European Cultural Studies; Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

December 9, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · virtual

An American Historikerstreit: Holocaust Representation and the Specter of Deconstruction

Jonathan Catlin, Department of History

Center for Collaborative History, Department of History

November 10, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · virtual

Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Kira Thurman, University of Michigan

Center for Collaborative History, Department of History

November 2, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

Talking about Race in Nineteenth-Century France: Ethics and the Impact of Distance

Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford

Department of French and Italian; Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society

October 30, 2020 · 12:00 pm · virtual

L’Avant-Scène Presents: A Conversation with Clément Hervieu-Léger

Clément-Hervieu Léger, actor and director

Department of French and Italian

October 29, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

State of Crucifixion: Tourism, Holy Week Festivals, and the Sacred Politics of the Cold War

Eugenia Afinoguénova, Marquette University

Center for Collaborative History, Department of History

October 28, 2020 · 12:00 pm · virtual

Time’s Monster: How History Makes History

Priya Satia, Stanford University

Center for Collaborative History, Department of History

October 28, 2020 · 12:00 pm · virtual

Making Sense of the Shaking: The 1861-62 Lake Baikal Earthquakes and the Meanings of Nature in Imperial Russia

Nicholas B. Breyfogle, The Ohio State University

Center for Collaborative History, Department of History

October 14, 2019 · 4:30 pm · 010 East Pyne

The Waltz, the Cotillon, and the Hazards of Choice

Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania

European Cultural Studies; Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

September 24, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Woolworth 102

Now Is Simply the Mess. Formalism, Modernism, Again

Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago

Department of Music. Co-Sponsored by the Program in European Cultural Studies and the Program in Media & Modernity

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