McMicken College of Arts & Sciences
European Studies
Graduate Studies
For graduate students ES offers a year-long seminar consisting of one quarter of bi-weekly workshops (fall), a two-sequence graduate seminar (winter & spring), and a student conference as a capstone experience for the participating students.
Examples of the year-long topics that have fueled the intellectual exchange among graduate students and faculty are:
- Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
- Migration and Diaspora
- Cultural Exchange: The Movement of Peoples and Ideas
- Europe Old and New: Inclusions and Exclusions
- Europe: Traditions and Revolutions
- Visualizing Europe
Fall Workshop Series
During fall quarter 2007 graduate students and faculty from interested departments will come together on six Friday afternoons (3-5 for the first five Fridays, 3-6 for the last Friday) to discuss readings on the topic of “Jews in European Culture, Past and Present.” We have five engaging speakers from four departments lined up to facilitate the workshops. Refreshments will also be provided.
| 28 September | Introduction |
| 5 October | Professor Maura O’Connor, History “European Jews and the London Stock Exchange in the Nineteenth Century.”
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| 19 October | Professor Willard Sunderland, History “Jews and Modernity: The Russian Experience”
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| 2 November | Professor Gila Safran Naveh, Judaic Studies “The Holocaust: Current Historical and Filmic Interpretations.”
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| 16 November | Professor Maria Romagnoli, English and Comparative Literature, “Jewish Writers in Twentieth-Century Italy between Assimilation and Anti-Semitism.”
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| 30 November | Professor Katharina Gerstenberger, German Studies, “Jewish Berlin – Fantasy and Realities of the 1990s.”
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These workshops offer a unique possibility for graduate students and faculty from diverse departments and colleges to interact. The basis for discussion is typically a set of readings. Students write a short paper on each of these sets of readings (5) and a final, comparative paper at the end. If you have any questions, please contact the director of ES, Professor Willard Sunderland (Willard.Sunderland@uc.edu).
Graduate Seminar
The graduate seminar will be taught by Professor Sigrun Haude (History) during the winter and fall quarters of 2007/08.
Course Title: “War and Peace in Early Modern Europe” (EUST 711/712; HIST 711/717)
The roots of modern Europe lie in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The sixteenth century brought momentous changes in religion, politics, economics, culture, and science, but society did not come to terms with these new dynamics until the seventeenth century, when it finally made some fundamental choices about the future course of Europe. During this period, we see both the vitality that comes with new ideas and possibilities as well as the anxiety that they unleashed. The decision process over the future course of Europe was accompanied by a great unsettledness that is reflected in the wars, in the visual arts, and in literature. This course wants to explore the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the first European war, concepts of peace, and the emergence of a new Europe. We will examine a range of aspects that had an impact on war and peace in Europe: the complex system of communication, the military revolution, the religious landscape, the political dynamic, as well as literary and artistic voices. We will furthermore explore how people dealt with war and peace. These various aspects will be studied in an interdisciplinary framework.
The course consists of two sequences. During the first quarter, we will be reading secondary and primary literature pertinent to the various aspects mentioned above. During the second quarter, students will work on their research paper. During several meetings as a group and one-on-one with the professor, the student will develop a project and a research paper.
Time
M 3-5:20 p.m.
For Information, please contact
Professor Sigrun Haude
Department of History
University of Cincinnati
ML 0373
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
Phone: (513) 556-2196
European Studies Graduate Student Conference
During the second quarter of the graduate seminar in European Studies, students will write a research paper. They will then have the opportunity of presenting their work at the ES graduate student conference, which will also feature a prominent expert on the seminar’s subject.
For Information, please contact
Professor Sigrun Haude
Department of History
University of Cincinnati
ML 0373
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
Phone: (513) 556-2196
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