The Modern Europe Workshop (MEW) is a workshop series for Princeton students and faculty interested in the study of modern European, Russian, and Eurasian history. The series provides current Princeton University graduate students and outside scholars an opportunity to present their research and discuss problems and trends in modern European history broadly construed.
During the 2023-24 academic year, the Modern Europe Workshop is generously co-sponsored by:
Upcoming Events
Lost Fatherland: Europeans Between Empire and Nation-States, 1867 – 1939
Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 210
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
Joint MEW Workshop: Nick Barone and Diego Benning Wang
Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 12:00 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 210
Virtual Location
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton UniversityPresentation"John Martin, Historical Time, and the Visual Grammar of Catastrophe, 1810 – 1852"
- AffiliationPrinceton UniversityPresentation"Sovietizing a Proto-Renaissance: The Immortalization of a Medieval Georgian Epic Poem and Its Mysterious Author"
Anti-Jewish Violence in Tsarist Russia: Religion, Politics, and Society at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 211
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
Swarthmore College
Planetary Catholicism: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Science, and the Spirituality of the United Nations
Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 211
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
University of Notre Dame
Joint MEW Workshop: Philip Decker and Austen Van Burns
Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 210
Virtual Location
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton UniversityPresentation"Stakhanovite Guests of the Fascist Menace: Soviet Visitors to Nazi Germany and Vice Versa, 1939 – 1941"
- AffiliationPrinceton UniversityPresentation"Barbed Wire Empirics: Knowledge Production in WWII Internment Camps and Ghettos"