| Semester 2 | ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-20 |
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| POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19: Kateřina Králová (Charles University Prague) |
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| 2 April | Trajectories of Return: Jewish Repatriation to Greece after the Holocaust Kateřina Králová is Assistant Professor and the Head of Department of Russian and East European Studies, Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague. Her research interests include contemporary history, Holocaust and memory studies, post-conflict society, with a regional focus on Greece, Central and South-East Europe. Selected publications include “‘Being traitors’ Post-war Greece in the Experience of Jewish Partisans” in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (2017) and “The ‘Holocausts’ in Greece: victim competition in the context of post-war compensation for Nazi persecution” in Holocaust Studies (2017). Date: Thursday 2 April 2020 Time: 4:30 PM Venue: K115, Newman Building, UCD |
| Stefano Marcuzzi (UCD School of Politics and International Relations) | |
| 12 February | The Libyan Crisis in Historical Perspectives: Lessons from Liberal Italy’s Campaign of 1911–1922 Stefano Marcuzzi joined UCD in 2018 as a Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations. He took his DPhil in Military History at the University of Oxford in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, with a thesis on Anglo-Italian relations during the First World War. Thereafter he moved to Florence as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), and was affiliated with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). He worked on EU-NATO Mediterranean relations after 9/11 under the mentorship of Luigi Narbone and Olivier Roy. Stefano is an analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation (Rome), and a member of the Globalising and Localising the Great War Group (GLGW), the Changing Character of War Programme (CCW), and the Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG), Oxford; he is also an external fellow at Boston University (BU). Date: Wednesday 12 February 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Venue: K114, Newman Building, UCD |
| Dirk Moses (Sydney) | |
| 30 January | Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction of 'Genocide' Dirk Moses is a senior fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen and professor of modern history at the University of Sydney. He is the author and editor of publications on genocide, intellectual and global history, and memory studies. His book, The Problems of Genocide, will appear in late 2020. He is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. Date: Thursday 30 January 2020 Time: 4:30 PM Venue: K115, Newman Building, UCD |
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| Annette Weinke (Jena) | |
| 21 November | Law, History, and Justice: German State Crimes in the Twentieth Century Annette Weinke is a research associate at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. In July 2014(opens in a new window), she attended the Faculty of Arts of the University of Jena with a study on transnational debates on German state crime in the 20th century. In 2015 and 2016, Anette was a visiting fellow at the History Department of Princeton University, New Jersey. Her research interests include the history of the two German states after 1945, the aftermath of National Socialism, international humanitarian law and human rights in the 20th century, and the history of the Foreign Office after 1945. She works in the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Project Lobbyists of the Right: Transatlantic international lawyers and human rights activists in the 20th century. Date: Thursday 21 November Time: 4:30 PM Venue: K114, Newman Building |
| Alanna O'Malley (Leiden) |
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| 10 October | Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within, The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South 1945-1981 Alanna O’Malley is Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, a newly-created position at Leiden University’s Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. This Chair, in honor of the former Dutch Foreign Minister and Mayor of The Hague Jozias Van Aartsen, is shared with The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The main focus of the Chair will be to create a new interdisciplinary research group on United Nations Studies and to organize a series of academic and public events to mark the 75th anniversary of the UN in 2020. Date: 10 October Time: 4:30 PM Venue: G108, Newman Building |