International History Seminar
The Georgetown University Institute for Global History and the Mortara Center for International Studies present:
2011-12 International History Seminar Series
Conveners: Aviel Roshwald (roshwaav@georgetown.edu) & John McNeill (mcneillj@georgetown.edu )
The seminar will meet on Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 in the Mortara Center for International Studies at the corner of N and 36th Streets, NW (3600 N St., Washington, DC). Papers will be pre-circulated among participants. Light refreshments will be served.
October 20: Cemil Aydin (George Mason University), “The Ottoman Empire and the Idea of the ‘Muslim World’: Internationalizing Intellectual History”
November 10: Louise Young (University of Wisconsin), “The Past in the Present: the Local History Movement and Urban Branding in Interwar Japan”
January 19: Nathan Citino (Colarado State University), “US-Arab Relations and the Politics of Modernization during the Cold War”
February 16: Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut), “Warfare and Empire: The Evolution of Complex Societies”
March 15: Ines Prodoehl (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), “Soybeans in Global Perspective, 1900-1950”
March 29: Vanessa Ogle (University of Pennsylvania), “The Globalization of Time-Keeping”
March 30: Christopher Andrew, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, UK, "The British Security Service (MI5) Past and Present"
please note: this talk, co-sponsored with Center for Peace and Security Studies, will be in GPPI Conference Room in Old North, 1-3:30 pm.
Wednesday, May 2: Frank Müller, St. Andrew's, UK, "The Prince, the Crypt and the Historians: Kaiser Friedrich III and the Continuities of Monarchical Geschichtspolitik in Imperial Germany"
Please note: Wednesday, May 2, 12-2 pm, ICC 662
