ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-21
| 29 October |
 Sex and the Weimar RepublicDr Laurie Marhoefer is Associate Professor, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and affiliate of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. She is the author of Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (Toronto, 2015), which re-examines the gay and trans rights movements of the 1920s, which were the world's first. She has been published in the American Historical Review and a range of international media. Dr Marhoefer is currently completing two books: the first, Empire of Queer Love: How Magnus Hirschfeld Made the Modern Homosexual, examines how ideas about racism, imperialism, disability, and antisemitism created gay rights as we know it. That story is told by way of a recounting of the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld's 1930-2 lecture tour of the American and British Empires in the company of the Chinese student Li Shiu Tong. The second, tentatively Crimes Against Nature and Crimes Against Humanity, is a history of queer and/or transgender people in Nazi Germany and Austria and Nazi-occupied Europe that considers women as well as men and trans as well as cis people and centrally analyzes racism as a vector of persecution. Register in advance for this webinar: Passcode: 175882 Date: Thursday 29 October 2020 Time: 5:00 PM |
| 3 November |
 Race to the Center: the US, Japan and Early Global PolarisationSteffen Rimner is Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs and Ad Astra Fellow and joined UCD in 2020. His teaching and research focuses on the Asia Pacific region and its global connections from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with special interests in East Asian transnationalism and international regimes. He studied at the University of Konstanz (B.A.), Yale University and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.). Previously he was affiliated, amongst others, with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, International Security Studies at Yale, the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda, the Institute for the Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control (Harvard University Press, 2018). Other publications have a appeared in the Journal of Global History, in Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan), in the Journal of the British Academy and in Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020). Date: Tuesday 3 November 2020 Time: 4:00PM
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| 4 November |
Western Europe’s Democratic AgeVirtual Book Launch & Discussion of Oxford historian Martin Conway’s new book Western Europe’s Democratic Age (Princeton University Press, 2020), with Robert Gerwarth (UCD), Ludivine Broch (U. Westminister), Pieter Lagrou (Brussels), Marc Mulholland (Oxford), Peter Romijn (Amsterdam), Mary Vincent (Sheffield). Date: Wednesday 4 November 2020 Time: 5:00PM
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| 12 November |
 Monarchism and British Mobilization in the First World WarProfessor Heather Jones is Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History at University College London. Professor Jones works on war cultures 1880-1945. Her main research expertise is on the First World War. She is a particular specialist in prisoner of war studies; her first monograph, Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War in Britain, France and Germany 1914-1920 was published with Cambridge University Press (hardback 2011; paperback 2013). She has co-edited two books, three special journal editions and two sections of Cambridge University Press's 2014 History of the First World War, 3 vols (editor-in-chief Jay Winter), and published over 29 scholarly articles and chapters on the First World War. Her forthcoming monograph is on the British monarchy and the First World War and is due to be published with Cambridge University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a major study on the impact of blockade during the global First World War. She has also published on her two other areas of expertise: the history of Ireland in revolution and war 1912-1923 and the history of Weimar Germany. Date: Thursday 12 November 2020 Time: 4:00PM
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| 26 November |
 The Global BourgeoisieDavid Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War (Harvard University Press, 2014), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize, and the editor of Islam and the European Empires (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is currently working on a comparative history of the European empires in the era of the long Second World War, 1935–1948, tentatively entitled Global War, for Penguin (Allen Lane). A graduate of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po, and the Sorbonne. In 2018, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. Date: Thursday 26 November 2020 Time: 5:00PM |
| 3 December |
No Man Twice Before Every Man Once’: War Culture and Mobilisation in New Zealand in the Second World WarDr Jonathan Fennell is a Reader in Modern History at King’s College London. After completing a Doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, Jonathan worked in management consultancy in the City before joining King’s in 2009. Prior to this he was awarded a joint honours History and Politics Degree at University College Dublin. He also studied History as an Erasmus Scholar at Université Lumière Lyon II. Jonathan is the prize winning author of two books on the military and social history of Britain and the Commonwealth. His most recent book, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2019) won the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2020, the Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal for the History of the British Army 2020, the silver medal in the Military History Matters Book of the Year 2020 (a prize decided by public vote) and is currently shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year 2020. Jonathan is Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, Co-Founder and President of the international scholarly society, the Second World War Research Group, a member of the National Army Museum Research and Collections Advisory Panel and a Councillor of the Army Records Society. Date: Thursday 3 December 2020 Time: 5:00PM |