Modern Europe: Workshops and Colloquia
Modern European History
The Modern European Workshop at the University of Chicago is a forum for presenting graduate student work from all areas and specializations in modern and contemporary European history. Its main purpose is to facilitate discussion on issues related to research and teaching in modern and contemporary European history, broadly understood. We welcome participants from other disciplines with a historical interest. Presentations reflect the research interests of the students and faculty organized in the workshop. Typically, the participants in the workshop also present their own work. The main constituency consists of Ph. D. students in the Department of History specializing in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian/Soviet, Central and Eastern European, and French history, but the workshop is open to all students.
FACULTY SPONSORS: Leora Auslander and Sheila Fitzpatrick, Michael Geyer.
STUDENT COORDINATORs: Ronen Steinberg and Alexander Joskowicz.
WEBSITE: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/meurhist
TIME: Wednesdays, 4:45-6:45 p.m., Social Sciences 224.
Social Theory
This workshop explores issues in social theory across a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The emphasis is less on developing social theory than on exploring in a sustained fashion the social theoretical implications of the participants' work. Themes to be addressed are likely to include the relationship between social and cultural transformations; questions of the public sphere, civil society, and democracy; the relations between modernist and postmodernist forms of social theory; and conceptual issues posed by globalization.
FACULTY SPONSORS: Moishe Postone and William Sewell.
STUDENT COORDINATOR: Jason Dawsey
WEBSITE: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/soctheor
TIME: Alternate Mondays, 8:00 p.m., Wilder House.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France
This workshop provides a forum for faculty and students from different departments in the social sciences and the humanities who share a common interest in France from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together different disciplinary perspectives and research horizons, it encourages participants to enrich the intellectual and methodological range of their own work. In the context of this workshop, University faculty present research in progress, students present dissertation proposals or chapters, and scholars outside the University present their work. This year's topics will reflect the diversity of the group and include representatives from the fields of history, anthropology, legal history, literature, art history, sociology, and political science. Participants from all disciplines are welcome.
FACULTY SPONSORS: Jan Goldstein, Robert Morrissey, Thomas Pavel, William Sewell, Marty Ward, and Larry Norman.
STUDENT COORDINATOR: Daniel Bertsche.
WEBSITE: http://fcc.uchicago.edu/workshop
TIME: Even-numbered Fridays, 4:00 p.m., Harper 135.
Modern Jewish Studies
The Modern Jewish Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop dedicated to exploring issues in Jewish history, literature, and culture during the modern period. We seek to examine issues of Jewish culture in history in a comparative fashion by exploring the development of Jewish social, cultural, intellectual, religious, and political life in all geographic regions.