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Lesbos, Lampedusa: Refugees, Migrants, Europe
"Deviance, Usury, and Religious Difference in Medieval Europe: On the Social Construction of Jewish Economic Difference"
"Provincializing Mathematics? Acculturation, Anticipation, and Articulation in Europe"
"Reactivating Internationalism: Thinking Toward a Revolutionary Future"
Anita Kurimay, “Queer Budapest: The Treatment of Homosexuality, Yesterday and Today"
Fulbright Info Session, Country Spotlight: Hungary
Jochen Hellbeck, “Bolshevik Russia” as Ground Zero of the Nazi Policy of Mass Annihilation”,  Local Talent: Rutgers at Europe
Ke-Chin Hsia and Michael Geyer, "The Construction of Austrian Identity after World War II"
Kommentar vergessen A conversation between Prof. Regina Karl and Prof. Nicola Behrmann
NOW VIRTUAL! Workshop Natural Resources, Climate, Local Control, and Democratization in the Caspian Sea Region
Racialization in Europe: Parallels and Solidarities
Ten Years of Russia's War on Ukraine: Decolonial, Feminist, Environmental, and Anti-Capitalist Perspectives
Workshop: Post-Soviet Spaces: Conflagrations and Integrations
Workshop: Racialization in Europe: Parallels and Solidarities
Beyond the Grave:  Explaining Spain With(out) Franco
From LGBTQ Equal Rights to Transforming Society: Resisting Anti-Gender Campaigns in Eastern Europe
Harshan Kumarasingham, "Viceregalism - The Crown’s Role in Political Crises in the Postcolonial World"
Judith Surkis, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Franco-Algerian Lives and Laws after Decolonization"
Lesbos, Lampedusa : Refugees, Migrants, Europe
New Politics Workshop I: "Politics Online, In and Out of Europe"
Panel: "Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn: Perspectives on Foreign, National and Local Politics"
Unpacking Racism in Germany and the U.S.: Ways to Promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Education
Annelie Ramsbrock, "Closed Society: Prison in Germany"
European Studies
GENDER/GENRE: Nineteenth-Century Symposium
Illiberal Neoliberalism in Hungary
Sophie Scott-Brown, (Univ. of St. Andrews/NYU Remarque)
Workshop: Black Lives Matter in Europe
Contact Zones, Contagion, Untouchability
Gap, Lens, or Window? Looking at Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust
Judith Coffin’s Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone Beauvoir
Burning Questions: Global Approaches to Climate and Health
“'In But Not of Europe’: The Europe of Postcolonial Concern”
Race and Empire in the European Project Symposium
"Socialist Scandals. Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany"
"Europe and the Wolf. Political Variations on a Musical Figure“, a talk by Sara Nadal-Melsio
"Phosphorescent Fireflies”: Excavating Early Modern Romani History in the Habsburg Empire", A lecture by Prof. Stephan Steiner, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
"The Rise and Fall of the Book Market in Post-Soviet Russia",  Bradley Gorski (Georgetown)
Fall Welcome, talk with Prof. Jennifer Tamas (French Studies), “Femicide and Victim Blaming: The Case of Perrault’s Bluebeard”
CES End of Year Celebration
Stephen Milder, “The Emergence of Climate Politics in Cold War Germany and Europe.”
Anaïs Maurer, "The Ocean on Fire: Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists at the Empire's Edge"
“The Gay Nazi and the Innocent Child, or Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany, Year Zero (1948)”
Seventh Annual Translate-a-thon
A talk with Porpora Marcasciano
Porpora Marcasciano, Documentary and Talk
Pamela Ballinger, “The Challenges of ‘Difficult to Settle’ Refugees: Humanitarian Mobilizations and Contested Sovereignty in Post-1945 Trieste“
“Looking for the Little Ice Age”, with Prof. Alastair Bellany
A talk with Ambassador Liechtenstein
"Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna"
German Elections Talk with Sheri Berman
Rutgers French Film and Francophone Film Festival
Dr. Ferdinand Visco, "Growing Up Italian American"
"Intelligent Artifice: Ancient and Medieval AI"
"The Murder of Thomas Brown: Complaint and Conflict in a Seventeenth-Century Debtor's Prison"
"The Student Becomes the Teacher: German Lessons for American Democracy"
"Climate Change, Activism, and Government Policy, in the EU and Beyond"
Benjamin Ziemann, “Hitler’s Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller”
Law Review Symposium: Global Democratic Decay and the Rule of Law
"De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century"
"The Mannel is a Root; It is Said to be called an Allraune: Magic, Money, and Medicine in a Saxon Mining Town"
“Making the Family Whole Again: Vatican Humanitarianism Among War, Peace, and Empire”
Translate-a-thon (Annual)
"Stereoscope, Monocrop: The Surprising History of the Camera in the Plantation"
“Postcolonial Reparation: What’s Next?”
Research on the Bicycle, Exploring Cultural Landscapes around Budapest, Vienna, and the Ruhr Region
“Dissonances and Conjunctures in the Ethiopian and European Archive: Approaches to an African Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe”
Panel "Germany and the EU on Israel and the War in Gaza"
Film Screening and Q&A , ‘Il Moro’
Virtual Book Talk with Gilbert Achcar, The New Cold War
Democracy, Corruption, and Fossil Fuels: Azerbaijan, the EU, and the Fight for Transparency
“The Idea and Futures of Europe”, Conference in Siena
"The Czech Republic, The European Union and the Rise of Populism", with Prof. Martin Nekola
"Have you been to Samos?" Externalized borders, pushbacks, and a Europe in denial, with Phevos Korosos Symeonidis
From Subaltern to Social Theorist: The Life and Work of Zygmunt Bauman
"(Dis)Embodying Enclosure: Of Straightened Muslim Men and Secular Masculinities", with Dr. Piro Rexhepi
FeminEast Series, "(Dis)Embodying Enclosure: Of Straightened Muslim Men and Secular Masculinities" with Dr. Piro Rexhepi
A Conversation on Consent with Manon Garcia
Ukrainian film screening - The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
“European Music” as an Emerging Concept in Western-European Thought, 1680s–1820s
Putin's Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Translate-a-Thon 2022
"The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Southern Laziness: The Rhetorics of Sociology”
"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Southern Laziness: The Rhetorics of Sociology"
Colonialism, Interwar Europe and Archaeopolitics An Online International Workshop
Teach Europe Workshop 2021
The Instrumental Past: Colonialism and Ethno-Nationalism in South Asia and Eastern Europe
Challenges of Climate Change for Spatial and Environmental Planning – An International Dialogue
“Race, Colonialism, Internationalism—The French Case”
Staging Habla de Negros, Prof. Nicholas Jones
Germany after Merkel: A Roundtable Discussion of the Federal Election Results
Mara de Gennaro’s book at a salon/webinar on “Toward a Nonterritorial Literature: New Directions in Interdisciplinarity and Transnationalism"
Afghanistan, A Roundtable Discussion: Colonial Histories, Refugee Contradictions
Prof. Dimitris Plantzos “Archaeopolitics: The Second Life of Statues.”
Nation & Empire Grad Student Working Group Lecture
Nation & Empire Grad Student Workshop
Berlin School of Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold on Transit
Sadia Abbas, "The Mediterranean and the Contradictions of Europe: Race, Religion and Epistemic Borders"
Francesca Trivellato (Princeton IAS), Bonnie Smith Distinguished Lecture in European History: "The Promise and Peril of Credit before the Invisible Hand”
Film & Discussion, Taikon: A Roma in Sweden
Emily Greble: Distinguished Lecture in European History: “Islamic Revivalism in Yugoslavia and the Crisis of Europe”
Workshop: Academics Under Attack: Britain, France, Hungary, Russia
"Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century" 
Empire Afterhours: A Virtual Tour of the South Asian Collections of the Peabody Essex Museum
Black Lives Matter in Italy and the Legacy of Colonialism
Ann Morning, NYU, “Rethinking Race in Italy”
Maurizio Albahari, "Whose Name Was Writ in Water: Mediterranean Crossings and Confines"
Translate-a-Thon Workshop
Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck, University of London),  "Decolonizing Community: Extraterritoriality, Historical Time, and the Departure of Italians from Egypt"
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, "Rethinking Saracens and their Objects in the Epic: Translation, Association, Desire"
Aurel Schubert "Money, History and Finance"
Susan Kent, "Lessons from the 1918-1919 Global Influenza Pandemic"
Teach Europe Workshop 2020
Workshop "Austerity, Authoritarianism, and Borders in the Age of COVID 19"
Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza, "This Ghostly Poetry: Spanish Exile, Literary History, and Poetic Memory"
Elizabeth Otto, "Queer Bauhaus"
POSTPONED: The Last Soviet Decade: Rethinking Late Socialism and Perestroika in 1980s USSR
The Last Soviet Decade: Rethinking Late Socialism and Perestroika in 1980s USSR
POSTPONED Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Workshop: Nation and Empire in Modern Europe
Natural Resources, Climate, Local Control and Democratization in the Caspian Sea Region
CANCELLED Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley), Markets in Action: Social Order and Disorder in the Eurozone
Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley), Markets in Action: Social Order and Disorder in the Eurozone
"The Netherlands: Culture and Global History, 1500-1700"
"The Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
Who Is an Austrian? Identity Construction in Immediate Post-World War II China
Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Workshop Nation and Empire in Modern Europe
Kira Thurman (University of Michigan), Singing in the Promise Land: Black Musicians in Communist East Germany
"Transit: Narrating Diaspora, Escaping History," Elisa Ronzheimer (Bielefeld)
Environmental Humanities and Environmental Sciences in a Time of Crisis
Larry Wolff (NYU), "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe"
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets
Megan Brown (Swarthmore), “France, Algeria, and the Europe of Nation States (1965-1975)”
Giedroyc's Kultura: Literature as Resistance across Cold War Europe
Adela Pinch (Michigan), "The Story of O: Margaret Oliphant and Anti-Metalepsis”
David Hughes (Rutgers Anthropology), “The Invention of Energy Scarcity: Fossil Thinking Before and After Oil in Spain and Trinidad"
Gloria Naylor and Her Archives, Modern and Medieval
"Archive and Empire/Digital and Material: A Lunch-Time Conversation with Kath Bode and Jason Rudy"
Current/Prospective ES Majors/Minors Info Session
Philippe Etienne, "The French Climate Plan"
Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France to the United States
Play "Leni & Joseph," Mason Gross School of the Arts
Pavel Khazanov (REELL), “Sincerity: The Art and Politics of Saying Nothing on Late Soviet Television,” Series Local Talent: Europe at Rutgers
Lisa Regazzoni (Goethe-U. Frankfurt), „The Construction of the Gallic Past from Material and Immaterial Monuments in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century"
Susana Molins Lliteras, "'Africa starts in the Pyrenees': The Fondo Kati between al-Andalus and Timbuktu"
Franco Baldasso (Bard), "Democracy and Defeat: Intellectual Dissent during the Transition to Post-Fascism in Italy”
Leonard Grosch (atelier-loidl Berlin), "Designing Parks - Berlin´s Park am Gleisdreieck or the Art of Creating Lively Places"
Leonard Grosch (atelier-loidl Berlin),"Designing Parks - Berlin´s Park am Gleisdreieck, or, the Art of Creating Lively Places"
Carol Hager (Bryn Mawr), “The Grassroots Origins of Germany's Energy Transition”
Craig Young Scholars Series: Christophe Koné, AB 4050
"Teach Europe" Workshop for High School Teachers, featuring Rhiannon Welch, Jan Kubik, Regina Karl, and R. Daniel Kelemen
Afghanistan on the Edge of Empire
Bonnie G Smith Distinguished Lecture in European History: Leora Auslander, "Diasporic Home-making: Jews in Paris and Berlin in the Twentieth Century”
"Anticommunism and Détente. Hungarians in West Germany, 1971-75", a talk with Árpád von Klimó, Catholic University
Árpád von Klimó, "Anticommunism and Détente. Hungarians in West Germany, 1971-75"
Lisa Kirschenbaum, "Local Transnationalism: How Michael Gruzenberg Became the International Revolutionary Mikhail Borodin"
Palissimo Company, Custodians of Beauty, followed by Q&A with director Pavel Zuštiak
Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in Modern South Asia: A Symposium and Celebration of Julia Stephens
Zimmerli Museum "Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein"
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
“From Alterglobalization to Gezi Park Protests: Street Politics in Contemporary Turkey”
“Poland, Thirty Years Ago: How Big a Deal was 1989?”
Symposium on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
The Erosion of Academic Freedom in Hungary
“Education in Europe: The Reinscription of Coloniality in Practices, Institutions, and Knowledges”
Graduate Workshop Russian Constructive Criticism
“The Putin Exodus and Its Implications for Russia and the West”
“Down and Out: Victorian Extraction Literature and the Resource Frontier”
“Homeland Capitalism: Rogue Neoliberals and the Far Right after the Cold War’s End”
“Europe Confronts the Threat of Populism and Illiberal Democracy”
The Movement of Peoples at Crisis
Workshop “The Movement of Peoples as Crisis: Political, Economic, and Environmental Causes and Responses”
Baroque Dance, Movement and Comportment"
“Russia between the EU and the US: Current Developments of Post-Soviet Society”
“A History of Personhood in the Middle Ages and its Contemporary Relevance”
Translation Workshop, Peter Wortsman (Rutgers)
German/Cinema Studies Lecture: Genevieve Yue (CUNY)
Debate: RU Debate Club and RUAIR Newark
Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge) Lecture: "Irish Home Rule, Democracy and the Unmaking of the United Kingdom, 1885-2016"
Russian and Polish Poetry Evening
Film Night
Majors/Minors
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (Bielefeld University), “New Social Movements and the Role of the Intellectual, 1970s to 2000s”
Social Movements Since ’68: Germany, Europe, and Beyond
Geoff Eley, "Leaving the Borderlands . . . But for Where? 1968 and New Registers of Political Feeling: Trouble-making, Futurity, Popular Breadth"
Lecture by William Chester Jordan
Philipp Ther, "Refugees and Integration History in an Enlarged Europe"
Teach Europe workshop
*NEW DATE* Jan Kubik, “Rebellious Students, Revolutionary Hippies and Persecuted Jews: 1968 in Poland,”
Vanessa Ogle: “'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960s"
Nation & Empire Working Group Meeting
David Fowler: "American Student Revolutionaries in Britain’s '1968'-A Study of the Transnational Sixties"
Book Discussion: Reading and the Making of Time
Jean Monnet Lessons from Europe Conference
Conference: Twenty Years of Transformations: East-Central Europe Since 1989
Study Abroad Student Photographers Awards and Reception
Reception for participants in CES-Study Abroad photography contest
KD Wolff:  Back to the Sources? From the Student Revolt to the Classics ...
Graduate Associates Reception