DUBLIN RESEARCH SEMINAR IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Michaelmas Term 2008
All seminars begin at 4.30 pm. Seminars hosted by TCD will take place in the IIIS seminar
room on level 6 of the Arts Building, Trinity College. Those hosted by UCD will take place at
the same time and details will be posted in the UCD History Department concerning the precise
venue. As ever, everyone is welcome.
16 October
(UCD)
Stephan Malinowski (Freie Universität Berlin) ‘Europeanisation through
Violence: Trans-national Perspectives on Colonialism and War in the 20th
century’.
Dr. Malinowski has published widely in 20th century European history.
Alongside many articles, he is the author of Vom König zum Führer: Sozialer
Niedergang und politische Radikalisierung im deutschen Adel zwischen
Kaiserreich und NS-Staat. (Berlin, 2003)
6 November
(TCD)
Eunan O’Halpin (TCD) ‘Afghanistan and the belligerents in the Second World
World War: opportunities and problems arising from new kinds of evidence’.
Eunan O’Halpin is Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College
and has published extensively in modern Irish and British history, international
relations and intelligence history. His most recent book, Spying on Ireland:
British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the second world war, was
published earlier this year by Oxford University Press.
20 November Roger Chickering (Georgetown University) ‘Total War and Total History: the
(TCD)
Historiographical Charm of the Great War.’
Roger Chickering is Professor of History at Georgetown University and a visiting
scholar at the E.U.I. Florence. He has written and edited many books and articles
on modern German history and on the social and cultural history of 20 th century
warfare. His most recent monograph, The Great War and Urban Life in
Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 has just been translated into German and a
collection of essays on the inter-war years, edited with Stig Förster, The Shadows
of Total War will appear next year.
21 November Nicholas Stargardt (Oxford) ‘Why the Germans fought until the bitter end:
(UCD)
morale and motivations in the German Wehrmacht in 1945’.
Dr Stargardt's interests lie in the social history of Nazi Germany including the
Holocaust and the history of childhood. Among other books and articles he has
published Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis (New York, 2005).
N. B. This seminar takes place on Friday.
28 November Daniel Kowalsky (Queen’s University, Belfast) ‘Stalin Goes to Spain: The
(TCD)
Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.’
Dr. Kowalsky’s research focusses on 20th century Spain, interwar diplomacy and
the cinema. Alongside numerous essays and articles on these subjects, his first
monograph, Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, was published in 2004 while his
next book, which will be published by Manchester University Press next year,
addresses the legacy of the Spanish Civil War across Europe.
N. B. This seminar takes place on Friday.
4 December
(UCD)
Christoph Dieckmann (Keele) ‘Hitler’s Empire: Comparative Perspectives on
the German Occupation of Europe’.
Dr. Dieckmann’s research revolves around the German occupation of Eastern
Europe, with a particular focus on Lithuania, during the Second World War. He
has edited several collections of essays and published numerous articles on
diverse aspects of this research.
Seminars in UCD will be followed by drinks in the UCD Common Room; those in TCD by
dinner on Commons. If you would like to join us on Commons please contact me by 4.00 pm on
the evening before the seminar. The contribution towards the cost of dinner is €12.
Joseph Clarke
joseph.clarke@tcd.ie