UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
FACULTY OF HISTORY
Easter Term 2014
Sessions will take place at 5pm and, unless otherwise stated, will be in the Boys
Smith Room, St. John’s College. Directions are below.
Date
Thursday
24 April
Panel Discussion: Diplomatic History Across Two World Wars
Melanie Sheffield (St. Catharine’s College) – ‘Kaiser Wilhelm II and
the British Foreign Office’
Joshua Crowther (St. John’s College) – ‘Britain and the Evolution of
Australian Diplomacy, 1920-1923’
Perica Hadzi-Jovanovic (Wolfson College) – 'The economy as a tool
of diplomacy in the thirties: the case-study of Yugoslavia'
Chair: Jerome Greenfield (St. Catharine’s College)
Tuesday
29 April
Florence Largilliere (Trinity Hall)
‘Discourses of Fascist Italian “Jews” Faced by the Racial Laws of
1938: Narratives of a Successful National Integration?’
Dirac Room, St. John’s College
Thursday
1 May
Guest Lecture: Dr. William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall)
Thursday
8 May
Panel Discussion: Life under the Fascist Dictatorships
Tiia Sahrakorpi (Clare College) – ‘Nazi boyhood heroism in Hitler
Youth magazines, 1933-1938’
Konstantin Wertelecki (Wolfson College) – ‘Anglo-Florentines in
Mussolini's Italy, 1935-1940’
Chair: Adam Storring (St. John’s College)
Thursday
15 May
Joint Panel Discussion with Early Modern Workshop: BritishHapsburg Relations in the Long Eighteenth Century
Philip Hitchings (Sidney Sussex College) – ‘British Relations with
the Spanish Hapsburgs during the War of the Spanish Succession’
Daniel Robinson (Peterhouse) – ‘Anglo-American Views of Maria
Theresa’
Roland Nathaniel (Magdalene College) – ‘Anglo-Austrian Relations,
1813-1815’
Chair: Adam Storring (St. John’s College)
There will be formal hall afterwards at Magdalene College. Please
contact Roland Nathaniel (rn344) to reserve a ticket.
Tuesday
20 May
Emma Pauncefort (University College, London)
‘Paris or London? Fougeroux and Muralt on English Civilisation and
Progress in the 1720s Travelogue’
Arthur Quiller Couch Room, Divinity School, St. John’s College
Thursday
29 May
Panel Discussion: Central Europe and the lure of Asia:
perspectives from the 18th and 19th centuries
Meike Fellinger (University of Warwick) – ‘Private Enterprise and
Flexible Citizenship: Merchants and Mariners of the China Trade, c.
1720-1750’
Moritz von Brescius (St. Catherine’s College/European University
Institute) – ‘Overseas Exploration and the German Colonial
(Imagi)nation in the 19th Century’
Chair: Daniel Robinson (Peterhouse)
There will be formal hall afterwards at St. John’s College. Please
contact Adam Storring (als51) to reserve a ticket.
Thursday
5 June
James Harriman-Smith (Peterhouse)
‘"He who has given all countries and all ages the manners of his
own": Shakespeare and Edmond Malone’
Directions: The Boys Smith and Dirac Rooms are in the Fisher Building, in the
western half of St. John’s College. Anyone entering the college from the main
gate should cross the Bridge of Sighs, and turn right through New Court.
The Arthur Quiller Couch Room is in the Divinity School, across the street from
the main gate of St. John’s.
Convenors: Niamh Gallagher (nag31@cam.ac.uk), Jerome Greenfield
(jg657@cam.ac.uk), Daniel Robinson (dhr23@cam.ac.uk) and Adam Storring
(als51@cam.ac.uk).