Olivier Feis and Michael Wang – University of St Andrews Over the course of the early 20th century eugenics established itself as a socio-scientific discipline of global importance. While separated by language and…
Dr. Cora Schmidt-Ott – University of Freiburg Why do some social science books become bestsellers? Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is one of them. When he first published…
Dr. Richard Carter-White – Macquarie University The past century has witnessed a global proliferation of camps, yet there remains little consensus about what exactly defines ‘the camp’. This seminar introduces a book…
Professor Jayita Sarkar – University of Glasgow Global Southwests traces the interconnected networks of transimperial capital and labor dispossession in Southwestern United States and Southwest Africa or Namibia…
Dr. Claire Morelon – University of Manchester This talk examines reactions against the process of democratization in the Late Habsburg Empire. It highlights the unease provoked by democratic progress and attempts…
Dr. Sarah Leith – The University of St Andrews This lecture revisits T.C. Smout’s concept of ‘use and delight’ to further consider conservation work in modern Scotland. Smout outlined this concept within his Nature…
Dr. Charlotte Lerg – Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich The paper examines the ambivalent nature of the Cosmopolitan-Club movement on American campuses around the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.…
Sloane Nilsen – University of California, Berkley It is no secret that fire was made a principal aesthetic of state-sponsored demonstrations in Nazi Berlin. It was displayed in such excess that the Jewish novelist…
Professor Kate McDonald – University of California, Santa Barbara At the turn of the twentieth century, the rickshaw puller represented the bottom rung of urban life in modern Japan. By the turn of the twenty-first,…
Professor Ian Klinke St John’s College Oxford This paper seeks to open an inquiry into the origins of astropolitics, an intellectual and popular imagination whose defining characteristic is the attempt to project…